Attrition (Term)

The point where a sime has used up all the selyn, the life energy, that the sime had taken from a Gen the month before. If not able to obtain selyn before they are depleted, the sime will die.
The state a sime reaches when near or at death from having consumed all the selyn (life energy) in his system.
From: House of Zeor, Ch 3  'A very slow death as the Sime body used irreplaceable reserves of selyn.'
(Source:  Index Card file, labeled SIME DICTIONARY) The complete and fatal exhaustion of selyn in a Sime's body, analagous to death by starvation in a Gen or Ancient.
(Source:  Index card file, Sime Surgeon -- http://www.simegen.com/sgfandom/rimonslibrary/surgeon/SURGEON1.html an early draft of Unto Zeor, Forever)  The last stages of need before death.  Digen Farris suffers psycho-attrition, brought on by prolonged stimulation of his Need by Hayashi and Imrahan.
Characterized by pre-attritional metabolic shutdown and falling temperature, no (or reduced) salivation, hugh excesses of ronaplin being produced.
(Source:  Index card file, Unto Zeor, Forever) Eyes dilated in last stages.  Selyn shutdown: "cold, dead, black inside." body shut down, dropped all selyn use to basal level and below.  Muscles clenched against each other in spasms of shivering.  Internal balance disintegrated -- primary system didn't have strength (low in selyn) to control the harmonics bursting loose in the secondary system, and the vibration wracked Digen trautholo -- Imrahan (a/k/a  Im) pulled him into Tecton rhythm.
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