Pulsectors
Friday, October 19, 2018
1:27 AM
Origin story:
Ultimately becomes a core component of Pneumolumia, therefore heavily involved in the events of SHROUD and the Holocataphasia phase.
Pulsectors were created in response to a very early discovery of Project Ghennam: That at extremely high temperatures, Enno destabilizes, causing a collapse of all integrity for nearby EM waves and electric pulses. Therefore, this is primarily exemplified by Lava-Levita: Any unprotected wires even remotely nearby cannot transfer data intact, and EM waves cripple completely. This characteristic was coined "Enno Burn."
The only discovered shield for Enno Burn is to "fight fire with fire" - chill a size-efficient,  strong material (graphene) combined with a self-renewing Enno barrier. Graphene is used because other materials, such as steel or concrete, require an immensely thicker mass of material to resist Enno Burn.
Because the materials used to produce Enno Burn shielding are very expensive and cannot be produced en masse (e.g. to cover a great length of cable), they were instead used primarily in manufacturing Pulsectors: Invented to be portable, floating stores of data and electronic components entirely safe from the effects of Enno Burn.
By the time of PLUME, Pulsectors have been widely repurposed to provide
A day/night cycle to a sun-less world
Light to plants for photosynthesis
Purification for the air of the sheltered world, Ghennam.
Properties:
Light emission: As Enno generates light at low temperatures, so too do Pulsectors.
Limited AI: Pulsectors can house circuits that do not rely on wireless transmissions, such as gyroscopes and accelerometers. Combined with AI, they can perform some primitive maneuvering through the air. However, because of their external Enno shielding they are unable to rely on imaging sensors to observe their environment. They primarily observe nearby temperature, sound, humidity, the chemical composition of the air, and sources of Enno, including the distance and direction of those sources. This is why they react to the Prototype when it nears.
Endogenous: Pulsectors' constant renewal of Enno also fuels their functionalities and constantly keeps a charge in their internal graphene cell.
Diurnal Rhythm (Day/Night Cycling): To ensure nearness to their origin points and rotational alignment, some Pulsectors will periodically return to their "base station," a protected chamber usually located just underneath the ground's surface. If a Pulsector contains newly-gathered data that must be synced or stored elsewhere, it may enter the base station for a period of time to do so safe from the effects of Enno Burn.