Sola'kraka Blocks
Porous ceramic or mineral blocks soaked in conductive salts and stacked dielectrics, acting as spike sinks and line smoothers that buffer intermittent power sources into brief stable output. Crude by Iru People Iru The progenitors, and the only naturally evolved people of Elshore. standards, but hard to destroy, easy to rebuild if the salt map is known, and the most accessible legacy power technology remaining on Elshore. They are how ruins run seemingly impossible technology: not continuous power, just stolen moments of buffered output.
Key traits
- Buffer intermittent or hand-crank power into brief periods of stable, grid-quality output, typically a few minutes at a time.
- Porous ceramic or mineral body soaked in conductive salts; can be rebuilt by anyone who knows the correct salt map and dielectric layering.
- Crude by Iru standards but nearly indestructible by neglect; humidity swell, salt migration, and channeling are the primary failure modes rather than structural breakdown.
- The most widely rebuildable of all Iru power technologies, making them common wherever legacy systems survive at a basic maintenance level.
- Contamination can convert a buffer into a slow short, gradually consuming the charge it was meant to hold.