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7/14/2025, 11:47:22 PM
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The idea with the crystals is that they are a very strange thing. No known method can destroy or crack them. Yet, they are found in all kinds of sizes and sometimes can clearly have shapes where they used to be larger but got cracked apart. Crystals are found all over a wide area of space, buried or otherwise but not actively growing.
For FTL it has been discovered than running a huge current through them with some other controls creates an energy field around the crystal which can be used for point-to-point jumping. This makes the crystals valuable as they can't be replicated and are needed for FTL. Crystal reserves form the backing of the major currency in the setting.
But that's all a sideshow. The real deal is that all of the crystals are actually part one single crystal which was blown apart at the moment of the Big Bang. If you get all the pieces reassembled, it creates the opposite of the Big Bang and destroys the universe, leaving the crystal as the one thing left*, but it inevitable explodes again making a universe. There is a being which survives this cycle over and over and it just wants to perfectly create the crystal and keep it from exploding so that there is no universe anymore ever. The being is very tired of material existence. The cyborg controlling big brains are helpers of this being, with the cyborgs at least initially unaware.
That's at least how I conceive of it. This is a very long term background plot which drives a lot of why the cyborgs did certain things during the war, and why there are strange cults now, but I'm hesitant to put and out loredump it in a way that spells out the motivation.
The idea with the crystals is that they are a very strange thing. No known method can destroy or crack them. Yet, they are found in all kinds of sizes and sometimes can clearly have shapes where they used to be larger but got cracked apart. Crystals are found all over a wide area of space, buried or otherwise but not actively growing.
For FTL it has been discovered than running a huge current through them with some other controls creates an energy field around the crystal which can be used for point-to-point jumping. This makes the crystals valuable as they can't be replicated and are needed for FTL. Crystal reserves form the backing of the major currency in the setting.
But that's all a sideshow. The real deal is that all of the crystals are actually part one single crystal which was blown apart at the moment of the Big Bang. If you get all the pieces reassembled, it creates the opposite of the Big Bang and destroys the universe, leaving the crystal as the one thing left*, but it inevitable explodes again making a universe. There is a being which survives this cycle over and over and it just wants to perfectly create the crystal and keep it from exploding so that there is no universe anymore ever. The being is very tired of material existence. The cyborg controlling big brains are helpers of this being, with the cyborgs at least initially unaware.
That's at least how I conceive of it. This is a very long term background plot which drives a lot of why the cyborgs did certain things during the war, and why there are strange cults now, but I'm hesitant to put and out loredump it in a way that spells out the motivation.
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