Luke walked over and slumped down onto the couch and looked at her, eyes more serious than they'd been yet.
"If you did that, you'd return here. The same as Obi-Wan will. The...ritual...apparently is very specific, and requires the presence of a Shaman, from what we know. I don't know much more than that, it's all secondhand knowledge from people I trust. If you die in battle, fighting, you'll return to life a week later. If you die by...an overload..." easier to say than suicide, "then you'll return here. If you're captured...and sacrificed..."
He trailed off, unable to finish the sentence.
"And as for the bomb? I don't know how it works. I need to talk to some people who saw the schematics, but from what I saw of the one the Malnosso have, it's similar to a primitive thermonuclear bomb. Like...a proton torpedo...that relies on radioactive isotopes for the catalyst and is enhanced by Shifts. Only, the Third Party seems to be using Dark energy instead. It's some sort of magic, for lack of a better word and I've got a list of people to talk to who saw the inner workings."
Another pause...this time to take a deep breath, "If they have the chance to use it on us, they will. But the barrier is supposed to protect us from that, or at least give us a fighting chance. And I have a feeling that the energy they need will make it a prohibitively costly weapon. I don't know if that's true, but if I were to make an educated guess, I'd be inclined to say that it is or they'd have used it on Luceti or the Malnosso's main strongholds already."
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"If you did that, you'd return here. The same as Obi-Wan will. The...ritual...apparently is very specific, and requires the presence of a Shaman, from what we know. I don't know much more than that, it's all secondhand knowledge from people I trust. If you die in battle, fighting, you'll return to life a week later. If you die by...an overload..." easier to say than suicide, "then you'll return here. If you're captured...and sacrificed..."
He trailed off, unable to finish the sentence.
"And as for the bomb? I don't know how it works. I need to talk to some people who saw the schematics, but from what I saw of the one the Malnosso have, it's similar to a primitive thermonuclear bomb. Like...a proton torpedo...that relies on radioactive isotopes for the catalyst and is enhanced by Shifts. Only, the Third Party seems to be using Dark energy instead. It's some sort of magic, for lack of a better word and I've got a list of people to talk to who saw the inner workings."
Another pause...this time to take a deep breath, "If they have the chance to use it on us, they will. But the barrier is supposed to protect us from that, or at least give us a fighting chance. And I have a feeling that the energy they need will make it a prohibitively costly weapon. I don't know if that's true, but if I were to make an educated guess, I'd be inclined to say that it is or they'd have used it on Luceti or the Malnosso's main strongholds already."