Nutrient-Gel Energy Loops
The circulatory energy distribution system of Meir People Meir The only people of Elshore not born of it. hullcraft, routing power and status information through living walls and conduit housings using conductive gels. They embody the Meir biological-engineering approach: systems that flow, self-seal, and adapt rather than running on hard-wired conduit. The catalytic compounds the gel chemistry depends on were stockpiled before the Great Flight Event The Great Flight The Great Flight was the Iru civilisation's deliberate collective retreat into hibernation, initiated in the ninety-eighth year of the Chaos by Ilissir, the last Serton of Inarin. and cannot be replaced from anything Elshore can supply.
Key traits
- Carry both power and status signal through the same gel channel, enabling rapid rerouting around damage and self-sealing distribution.
- Run through living walls and conduit housings, an architecture that integrates energy flow into the structural biology of the hullcraft rather than running it alongside.
- Depend on rare catalytic compounds that were stockpiled and are being consumed; war posture accelerates consumption and raises contamination levels.
- Contamination events are a failure mode distinct from depletion, contaminated loops must be isolated or they corrupt adjacent sections.
- Cannot be rebuilt from Elshore materials; their irreplaceable chemistry places them in the same strategic constraint as ark-core cells Technology Ark-Core Cells Dense, sealed power organs that output stable high-grade energy without combustion, designed to last a generation-ship lifetime. and resonance stacks Technology Resonance Stacks Layered harmonic converters that turn vibration and pressure differentials into usable power and control signal, sustaining the living interior environment of Meir hullcraft..