Mm, back home there was something called Catastrophes. Cities were destroyed because of them, and the land would take time to heal from the destruction. Because of this, they had to shift into something called landships, moving cities, as a means of avoiding the constant destruction.
The problem is predicting them was difficult, and the mineral rain it brought down came with the chance of infecting others with a terminal disease. I hope this isn't that similar.
(not to mention that oripathy slowly and painfully kills those infected with it.)
With the amount of Katalyth that has to be needed to keep the barrier running, one of this scale, we're not finding nearly enough to maintain it. So if it isn't for that, what else can it be for? Their true goal might be something worse.
(it's best they did prepare, if a rebellion takes place, they'll need all the help they might get.)
It didn't seem like some knew, they were more surprised. Not that I'd even be surprised if Patho-Gen hid from the civilians what the barrier is made of.
[ That wouldn't be such a bad idea, actually, if one could be made. The problem is that Karteria's population is so large that she doesn't know that they could make enough of something like that. A shame, too, as it could be feasible. But when there are only so many islands and only so many ways of movement... ]
I don't know that they'd go and touch the Katalyth once it's been in place in the barrier, but perhaps they've had to in order to hide touch-ups. I heard that Katalyth was used on other Augmented when they were captured; likely, some of what we found has ended up in Pneuma.
I wouldn't be surprised at how much the citizenry is in the dark, but presumably they would have seen the construction of the barrier. Some of them, at any rate.
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Date: 2026-02-01 12:55 am (UTC)The problem is predicting them was difficult, and the mineral rain it brought down came with the chance of infecting others with a terminal disease. I hope this isn't that similar.
(not to mention that oripathy slowly and painfully kills those infected with it.)
With the amount of Katalyth that has to be needed to keep the barrier running, one of this scale, we're not finding nearly enough to maintain it. So if it isn't for that, what else can it be for? Their true goal might be something worse.
(it's best they did prepare, if a rebellion takes place, they'll need all the help they might get.)
It didn't seem like some knew, they were more surprised. Not that I'd even be surprised if Patho-Gen hid from the civilians what the barrier is made of.
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Date: 2026-02-01 01:07 am (UTC)I don't know that they'd go and touch the Katalyth once it's been in place in the barrier, but perhaps they've had to in order to hide touch-ups. I heard that Katalyth was used on other Augmented when they were captured; likely, some of what we found has ended up in Pneuma.
I wouldn't be surprised at how much the citizenry is in the dark, but presumably they would have seen the construction of the barrier. Some of them, at any rate.
[ Unless they, too, all died of exposure. ]