Souls

Souls are animi, or incorporeal forms capable of haunting objects and granting them new powers.
Souls are the most prolific form of incorporeal form, along with ghosts. 
== Dalmer Souls ==
=== Feeding ===
Souls must latch themselves to an object in order to maintain integrity. If a soul doesn’t haunt an object, it will eventually fade away. 
=== Powers ===
A Dalmer soul can haunt items to give them new properties. Souls are capable of leaving electronic and physical messages but are completely mute.
Haunting is seen to be a form of tactile telekinesis. when haunted, an object can be manipulated in a 3D environment without regard for the objects weight, mass or sizes. 
== Other race souls ==
Since the other races have been seen to enchant their weapons and armor, it is assumed that they have access to souls. 
Souls tend to permanently inhabit whatever they died with (armor, clothes, weapons, vehicles, etc). And are released when these items are damaged, burned or otherwise destroyed. 
A soul can be broken into 60 pieces, a soul is worth between 600 and 12 000 Rubble. 
= Soul Mechanics =
Main article: Animi Mechanics
There are 18 different kinds of energy, known as types. Multiple types of energy can be found in a single soul’s reservoir simultaneously. The type of energy is determined by the source it was acquired from. Different species are better suited to acquiring different types of energy. A soul constantly emits trace amounts of energy. This radiation is known as an aura, and changes depending on the state of the soul emitting it.
== Creation ==
When a being’s bond between its soul and physical form is broken, typically from damage or degradation to the physical form, it ceases to be alive. A soul can continue to exist so long as its reservoir of energy sustains it. Under normal circumstances, a bond between a soul and a physical form cannot be created.
When a being is first created, its soul receives a relatively small amount of energy that makes up their reservoir. For beings that are not evolutionary in their lifetime by nature, this is as much energy as their soul will ever have. Creatures that evolve spontaneously in their lifetimes, however, are able to use their physical forms to acquire energy from the physical world and store it as energy within their reservoir. This reservoir of energy is the resource that spontaneous evolutionary creatures (SEC) use to do seemingly extraordinary things, such as perform attacks, change forms, or evolve. In doing so, they convert this energy back into some physical manifestation.
A soul’s reservoir can only hold a finite amount of energy, though in specific situations a soul can leverage an external energy source to perform feats normally beyond the limits of its finite capacity.
A soul’s body plan defines how its physical form is structured, and how it can be further improved through the application of energy. A body plan is composed of factors, which can fall into either of two categories: Species Factors and Individual Factors.
Individual factors cannot be passed to offspring and include the size of a particular SEC, whether it is shiny, and whether it can gigantamax. These factors are largely influenced by the consciousness of an individual soul.
Species factors can be passed to offspring during reproduction, and include how permanent changes to the physical form will be made, such as evolution, regional forms, and gender differences. These factors are only minorly influenced by the consciousness of an individual soul.
A new soul is created whenever beings reproduce. The fundamental elements of the beings are used to shape the fundamental elements of the new soul.
Ramifications of soul theory:
With Soul Theory detailed, now we can attempt to use it to understand how many seemingly extraordinary phenomena of the world work within its structure.
Infinity Energy, as it has been branded, is actually energy that has been extracted from the souls of beings.
Artificially created SEC must have souls like every other SEC, and the body plan within that soul provides the means for reproduction despite an apparent lack of a biological mechanism for doing so. This ties into the cells and DNA that many SEC have, but others apparently do not. These biological structures are the result of the soul’s body plan, rather than dictators of how the body is structured.
The existence of free will, and dreams being sustenance providing / technologically manipulatable things, is explained by the consciousness portion of a soul.
Mega Stones must provide an external reservoir of energy beyond what a soul can store on its own, allowing a SEC that can leverage that composition of energy to temporarily achieve a superior form. The body plan for this new form is contained in the mega stone, which is how the same individual can mega evolve into different forms depending only on which stone is used. If the body plan was instead some latent aspect of an SEC’s soul, it will always mega evolve into the same form.
SEC Reproduction is actually just two souls creating a new soul. This explains how wildly different species can produce offspring together. Biology isn’t really a factor. A SEC Egg is just an extremely simple physical form. This minimizes the energy required from the parents to create this new being. Because the egg is a physical form, it provides the new soul the means to gather energy from its surroundings. After it has gathered sufficient energy it can use this to “hatch” into a more capable form, which is really more like SEC evolution than the hatching of an animal’s egg.
It’s possible that the “bond between a trainer and a SEC” is actually some sort of tangible link between their souls via their auras. As the aura contains information about the state of the soul, this could provide a nonverbal means of communication about thoughts and emotions. It’s easy to see how this would make the duo more competent in battle.
Similarly, sensing of auras and manipulation of the energy emitted from souls makes sense. This would allow certain SEC’s to sense emotions and thoughts and identities, and provide the substance for moves like Aura Sphere.
The increase of an SEC’s strength with their level, seems to just be an abstraction of a SEC’s accumulation of energy as they mature. The level cap is analogous to the maximum capacity of a soul’s energy reservoir. Gaining experience from battle can be seen as the extraction of energy from the soul of defeated opponents.
Evolution: An SEC evolving as its level increases is representative of an individual's gradual accumulation of energy in their reservoir eventually being sufficient to achieve a superior form. The numerous other, more exotic, evolution methods all give the evolving SEC access to some new energy source or material that must be essential to the construction of their next form.
Move powering: As all energy is one of 18 discrete varieties, ie the types, a species’ type(s) is just which varieties of energy predominantly fill their reservoir. The type of a move is the variety of energy that is used to perform it. It seems probable that reservoirs can contain more than two types of energy.
Storage devices convert an SEC’s physical form into energy (the reverse of when a SEC evolves, converting energy into a physical form) preserving this alongside its soul to eject later. Since the warp charge, and subsequently the Public Storage System, are actually storing the sum total of an SEC’s being and consciousness,hence why various technologies are able to glean so much information about Mechanimals while they’re in this state.
SEC’s that seem to be multiple creatures, such as Exeggcute or Falinks, must actually be single souls with a consciousness that contains multiple identities and a discontinuous physical form.
Items: SEC’s who seem to have “items” such as stones or clothing as part of their body are also cases of discontinuous form. There is no reason SEC’s body plans need to be entirely “biological” in nature, as evidenced by entirely mechanical SEC,
Ghost SEC’s are often described as possessing other objects and beings, or being reincarnations of spirits. It seems probable that this is actually a ghost SEC’s soul consuming the soul of another being, but preserving at least part of its consciousness (as in Yamask having human memories) or simply integrating an object into its physical form (Banette).
How is a souls' power determined?
It is supposed that not all brain scanning or anima extraction devices are capable of successfully creating power sources. For instance, we assume that anima have a 10% chance of manifesting which explains why harvesting is hazardous for all parties involved. This doesn't explain power levels.
Perhaps memory and knowledge is a factor, more knowledgeable and cognisant individuals would provide more power. No, narratively it means that intellectuals are at constant risk of kidnapping by Bleakers.
Quality of the energy based on its origin is a good counter to soul harvesting, since it could explain why other races or even animal brain scans are less efficient than brain scanning a Dalmer. By ranking, the quality of a soul gem as a power source is Dalmer, other race, non sapient organisms.
* Tangent: some people have trouble being in sync with the aether web, this requires the usage of Synchrozine, a drug that corrects any discrepancies between what the cyborg perceives and reality.
* Tangent: the curse of UC's is to have to sift through their memories and pick and choose what memories they have on them due to memory capacity issues. The memories are not deleted, but it implies personality changes based on what memories are kept. This means that, when connected, they have all their past and present memories, perfectly preserved from their point of view, this is a blessing and a curse.
** Tangent of Tangent: Memory fabricators are a risk in UC communities, and are hunted down actively. These fabricators can control people who don't have effective enough firewalls to keep out the hackers. Memory fabrication naturally doesn't work on biologicals but can on cyborgs and software using individuals.
* Tangent: How does the sale of memories work? Is the permanent deletion of memories permitted?
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