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[cloakand_danger]

[Today on the network, there is a man with long blue hair. Ordinarily a grouchy fellow, today he looks calm and thoughtful.]

...So. We're all told when we get here that we're needed in order to provide power for a world in crisis, a world that can't survive any other way. We're drawn here from many worlds, across time and space, for that purpose: in order to keep this world alive until such time as it can sustain itself.

My question to you is this: what does your world use as power? My world has a great tree which produces energy known as mana, upon which all things rely to live. And indeed, we've only recently managed to end a prolonged crisis regarding the death of that tree and the need to sprout a new one. The actions that we took in the interim, to keep our world alive, could only have been regarded as desperate.

Have any of you faced similar crises in your own homes? What happened, and if it has been resolved, how?

And one other thing.

[Here, he narrows his eyes, and his tone grows colder.]

Why haven't the maintainers of Saeng Seong asked you about it, to gain from any potential knowledge you might have, rather than merely using you as a battery?

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[sunshine_maiden]

We use whatever's near to hand. Electricity, mostly, though there are a few things that use magic, and some other arcane energies few understand, and fewer can wield.

As for crises... yes. My world is at war, after a meteorite struck it seventeen years ago and damaged or destroyed large parts of the planet. The few resources that remain are being fought over by the remaining factions, while everyone looks to space, and space looks back with heavy weapons to encourage us not to leave. So no, things haven't been resolved.

Oh, and I've spoken to a scientist working for the city already - they're making a few last-minute preparations before they're willing to bring us in to work on the energy issues, or so I was told.

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[cruxified]

Are you suggesting they could want to take something-- perhaps a seed of mana-- from one of our worlds in order to solve their crisis? There is no guarantee that what we have struggled to achieve would be helpful to these people in any way. In fact, I'm surprised that whatever energy this city runs on doesn't react violently to the differing energies of the people living here.

[I feel like there should be some desk slapping here. Alas, wrong canon. We are not lawyers.]

Isn't it possible that there are cities besides this one? The city doesn't have the feel of being the last bastion of humanity, so there must be another reason why there is no communication from other parts of the world.

[dontthesunlookgoodtoday]

Electricity, mostly. [nooooot going into how that's produced, since given they're disconnected from all the original sources who the hell knows.]

You think that'd turn out well?

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[feetarestrange]

My people live in the ocean, and we use a moonstone and its light to keep away anything that might attack us from deeper waters.

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[redcladidealist]

[Well, Yuan already knows what Lloyd's world uses for mana, and more than what Lloyd knows about how their crisis worked out (will work out?), so Lloyd focuses on an entirely different aspect in Yuan's question.]

What's a battery?

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[guiding_starlight]

Perhaps they should have sent emissaries to our worlds, to make their pleas known or bargain for the information needed to fix their problems. [ She lets that comment sink in as if in answer to his question. Her expression was kind at first but shifted to something more skeptical in nature as the pause came to an end. ]

I fear then, that if such an opportunity was available and they did not take it, that the problems of this world run deeper than that.

[little_girl_lost]

Mostly, the sun.

Lots of other stuff if we have to travel through space and stuff.

But on Earth, everything comes from the sun in some way or other.