Seed Cores
Compact long-life power units reserved for systems that must not go dark for centuries: deep-archive timekeeping, identity anchors, sealed warnings. They use exotic conversion methods that current craft cannot reproduce cleanly and can barely service without risk. The difference between a dead ruin and a ruin that still watches you is a functioning seed core.
Key traits
- Reserved for continuity systems that require unbroken power over generational timescales, not for general infrastructure.
- Exotic conversion methods implied by surviving Iru People Iru The progenitors, and the only naturally evolved people of Elshore. records cannot be reproduced by current craft and can barely be serviced without triggering failure.
- Rare, controlled, and feared; the few that remain in active use are treated as irreplaceable anchors of the systems they feed.
- When they fail, the result is either silence or a contamination event that poisons everything tied to the line.
- Sustain the watching quality of old Iru structures: sensors, identity-check gates, and sealed-warning broadcasts that have run continuously since before the Chaos Event The Chaos The Chaos was a continent-wide civilisation-collapse spanning approximately ninety-eight years, beginning around year 1700 of the Inarin Calendar when the Iru Parliament of the....