Audio, public.

[ewestmarch]

[A sharp, scratchy female voice comes over the network, spitting her words like bullets.]

Where does the solidness of the objects come from when you turn on a spawner? How does it convert electrical energy into bread, or cloth, or gold? Is there a limit to how much of a certain material you can tell it to conjure?

It's all well and good to have spawners in every fucking color of the rainbow, but my world has too much power and not enough food. One of these could change the entire economy. Bring the bottom closer to the top.

And don't get any sly damned ideas. I saw it first. Just answer the questions.

[Private, also, to Braska.]

I've seen you over the network. What happens to the dead when they aren't Sent?

Comments

technobabble ahoy!

[timesbureaucrat]

Well, since you asked...

It appears to use a non-standard energy-matter conversion system, running energy through a variation on transdynamiplattic coils to decelerate the energy particles to hypolight speeds, then force a narrow beam through a type of pressoritron to assemble the energy into various particular forms of matter, the kind of matter depending on the the configuration of the atomic assembly, each of which is determined by a unique set of programming.

[Narvin actually looks really happy to talk about it. He likes gadgets. And showing off.]

But I wouldn't take alien tech to your home world if I were you.

[endsorrow]

[Braska starts off by bowing his head in greeting.]

Then... Their souls linger on in the world. Over time, they will come to envy, and then resent, the living. In this hatred, they find the will to create a new body, and will return to the world as monsters to enact their anger upon those still alive.

This... is not always the case, as there are sometimes exceptions. But it is what normally happens on Spira.