Nuxglass Tiles
Thin dark glass-ceramic plates that act as collector and reservoir in a single unit, designed to be embedded in the walls, floors, and eaves of Iru People Iru The progenitors, and the only naturally evolved people of Elshore. buildings to passively harvest light from Elshore's twin suns. They feed low-draw infrastructure silently for as long as the surface remains clean and the glass sound, which, after centuries, it often is not.
Key traits
- Absorb light when exposed and hold charge in layered dielectrics, a passive, integrated power substrate that requires no active generation.
- Feed corridor guidance, silent sensors, standby locks, and watch systems without any visible power infrastructure.
- Designed to live inside architectural surfaces, walls, floors, eaves, rather than as a separate installed component.
- Failure modes include surface fouling, microcrack lace that raises leakage, and spectral aging where the tile progressively stops absorbing the twin suns' light as efficiently as it once did.
- Still functioning in surviving Iru structures across Elshore, where the ambient light of the binary star system keeps them trickling charge into whatever remains connected.