Soul container

A soul container is a very powerful version of a soul gem, a device designed to contain large numbers of animi. 
Immaterial Undead upon death can be captured into soul containers. A soul container is composed of a gem and a gantry which is composed of all the instruments necessary to capture the soul and use it for the specific application of the container. Despite the name, Soul Containers can capture all sorts of Immaterial Undead (Ghosts, Spirits, Banshees and Specters).
A soul container has a maximum capacity of around 40,000 souls. the reasoning is that should a massive disaster occur and loss of life devastating, the UPF can keep the incorporeal forms in a safe space while they treat the survivors and corporeal forms. This is also to avoid having a mass Banshee/Specter problem after a disaster.
Common examples of usage of animi capturing devices include when souls haunt other race houses. These violators see their item of possession destroyed and are captured by a specialist team who then deliver the animi to the appropriate judicial authorities, most often they face general interest work.
Soul containers are also potent healing devices, power sources and weapons, although these are not its original functions.
== As a healing device ==
Using the container regenerates lost flesh and wounds using the power of the souls contained within the gem and can extend the user's life expectancy by rejuvenating the users cell life. A full regeneration of a being from the point of complete skeletal exposure is 3 800 souls.
== As a power source ==
In its basic form a soul container is a form of battery powered by souls. Generally these are created by extracting the souls of other races via an absorption implosion capable of extracting the necessary number of souls into the container.
== As a weapon ==
Soul containers are sometimes used to create Atomic Fracture weapons. Since the energy expenditure of one soul is equivalent to 160 kilotons of TNT, a fully filled soul container has the power equivalent of 6 400 megatons of TNT (Tsar bomba for reference, unleashes 57 megatons).
Naturally, filling these ultra powerful soul gems in itself is considered creation of a forbidden weapon, and are very rarely actually used by the UPF, who prefer the more conventional soul gems. Using a soul container to capture a Dalmer soul illegally warrants hefty prison time.
Soul containers have transmutative properties as well.
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