1. Has technology ever actually been called Machina in-game or are you just lifting this from FFX? I did a quick google and the only website to even use the word in relation to ARR is a fan wiki, and only that one wiki. I thought technology (specifically technology of Garlean origin) was collectively referred to as Magitek in this setting.
2. I had assumed Ceruleum was not aether condensed into crystal form, but the opposite, aether extracted from crystals and condensed/processe/refined into a more useable form (I figured it was a sort of powder).
3. Other than that, I don't really understand where you or Titor are getting the 'aetheric geometry' or 'programming' ideas. It feels like you guys are trying to make something complex out of something simple. Aether is the life energy of the world and all the living things on it, when you die your aether returns to the planet and any excess remains to become crystals/mist/whatever, crystals and random environmental concentrations of aether are absorbed/used by magic/technology and the cycle continues.
2. I had assumed Ceruleum was not aether condensed into crystal form, but the opposite, aether extracted from crystals and condensed/processe/refined into a more useable form (I figured it was a sort of powder).
3. Other than that, I don't really understand where you or Titor are getting the 'aetheric geometry' or 'programming' ideas. It feels like you guys are trying to make something complex out of something simple. Aether is the life energy of the world and all the living things on it, when you die your aether returns to the planet and any excess remains to become crystals/mist/whatever, crystals and random environmental concentrations of aether are absorbed/used by magic/technology and the cycle continues.
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