The smell of mako
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Erotic Materia
[CONFUSED SCREAMING]
I was under the impression that the lifestream IS mako. Besides, the "processing" is just churning out electricity, as far as I can tell.
Obsidian Fire
Ahk Morn!
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- The Engineer
My take on it has always been that the Lifestream is made out of mako like the Ocean is made out of water.
Given that Mako Reactors "use up" mako, they can't just be something like a dam that generates electricity without majorly effecting the water that runs through it. The reason why Mako Reactors are bad is because they take mako out of the Lifestream and don't replace it. That they are called "reactors" seems to be a deliberate parallel to nuclear reactors. My take on Mako Reactors is that they "use up" mako along the lines of how a nuclear reactor "uses up" whatever radioactive element it runs off of; namely, a fundamental part of the process is that the fuel gets turned into something else. Mako goes into a reactor and... it doesn't come out.
Given that Mako Reactors "use up" mako, they can't just be something like a dam that generates electricity without majorly effecting the water that runs through it. The reason why Mako Reactors are bad is because they take mako out of the Lifestream and don't replace it. That they are called "reactors" seems to be a deliberate parallel to nuclear reactors. My take on Mako Reactors is that they "use up" mako along the lines of how a nuclear reactor "uses up" whatever radioactive element it runs off of; namely, a fundamental part of the process is that the fuel gets turned into something else. Mako goes into a reactor and... it doesn't come out.
The Twilight Mexican
Ex-SeeD-ingly good
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- TresDias
I've always thought of mako as the mostly liquidy state of spirit energy, just as water is the liquid state of its respective elemental constituents. Materia is then comparable to ice, being spirit energy's solid state with a crystalline/highly ordered microscopic structure.
Clement Rage
Pro Adventurer
I was operating under the assumption that the 'mako' smell came from the fumes that come out of the reactors, and lifestream was something else. Coal smells different from smoke.
LicoriceAllsorts
Donator
The smell gets stronger as they get closer to the pool or holding tank of mako at the bottom of the reactor.
So here's a question. In order to heal its wound, the Planet concentrated a huge quantity of Lifestream at the Knowlespole, and as a result the region is permanently shrouded in snow and ice.
Midgar likewise contains a huge concentration of mako, and is turning into a desert. Does that mean it's the presence of too much mako in the area that is killing everything, rather than its depletion?
So here's a question. In order to heal its wound, the Planet concentrated a huge quantity of Lifestream at the Knowlespole, and as a result the region is permanently shrouded in snow and ice.
Midgar likewise contains a huge concentration of mako, and is turning into a desert. Does that mean it's the presence of too much mako in the area that is killing everything, rather than its depletion?
ForceStealer
Double Growth
I gathered that the desolate pole was because the energy was being concentrated specifically at the crater, and being drawn from that land, and that's what withered it.
Likewise, Midgar is surrounded by wasteland because the reactors are sucking up the local spirit energy. Presumably it was originally a very verdant and life-rich area, hence why they chose to build it there (and how overgrown it becomes later).
Likewise, Midgar is surrounded by wasteland because the reactors are sucking up the local spirit energy. Presumably it was originally a very verdant and life-rich area, hence why they chose to build it there (and how overgrown it becomes later).
Obsidian Fire
Ahk Morn!
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- The Engineer
Ironically, it sounds like the Planet itself was using up mako/Lifestream in a similar way to how the Reactors do. The reason the Planet wanted the Cetra at the Northern Crater to begin with was to "cultivate the land" so that more mako/Lifestream would be there... because there wasn't a lot of mako/Lifestream there after the Planet started fixing itself. To put it how Ilfana did... "the energy that was needed to heal the Planet withered away the land".
If we're just going from the OG, here's what Ifana says about the Northern Crater if you put everything in the order it most likely happens in...
1) "something fell from the sky making a large wound"
2) "the Cetra, heard the cries of the Planet; The first ones to discover the Planet's wound were the Cetra at the Knowlespole"
3) "the Cetra then began a Planet-reading"
4) "thousands of Cetra pulled together, trying to heal the Planet"
5)"the energy that was needed to heal the Planet withered away the land"
6) "the Cetra tried desperately to cultivate the land so as not to diminish the needed energy"
7) "due to the severity of the wound, it (the Planet) was only able to heal itself, over many years"
8) "the Planet tried to persuade the Cetra to leave the Knowlespole"
9) "When the Cetra... were preparing to part with the land they loved... That's when it (Jenova) appeared!"
So it seems that the Cetra were trying to help the Planet make more efficient use of the energy it would take to heal the wound at the North Pole... but they never finished it healing it due to Jenova. So the wound has constantly been a drain on the mako/Lifestream in that area as the Planet keeps trying to fix it.
One of the NPCs in Cosmo Canyon actually goes more into what the Cetra did for the Planet, and it's very interesting how it's put.
This neatly dovetails with the description given of Ancients in the Crisis Core Keyword section which is even more direct about what the Cetra were capable of.
If we're just going from the OG, here's what Ifana says about the Northern Crater if you put everything in the order it most likely happens in...
1) "something fell from the sky making a large wound"
2) "the Cetra, heard the cries of the Planet; The first ones to discover the Planet's wound were the Cetra at the Knowlespole"
3) "the Cetra then began a Planet-reading"
4) "thousands of Cetra pulled together, trying to heal the Planet"
5)"the energy that was needed to heal the Planet withered away the land"
6) "the Cetra tried desperately to cultivate the land so as not to diminish the needed energy"
7) "due to the severity of the wound, it (the Planet) was only able to heal itself, over many years"
8) "the Planet tried to persuade the Cetra to leave the Knowlespole"
9) "When the Cetra... were preparing to part with the land they loved... That's when it (Jenova) appeared!"
So it seems that the Cetra were trying to help the Planet make more efficient use of the energy it would take to heal the wound at the North Pole... but they never finished it healing it due to Jenova. So the wound has constantly been a drain on the mako/Lifestream in that area as the Planet keeps trying to fix it.
One of the NPCs in Cosmo Canyon actually goes more into what the Cetra did for the Planet, and it's very interesting how it's put.
So the idea that the Cetra could control the Lifestream/mako was already established in the OG.
This neatly dovetails with the description given of Ancients in the Crisis Core Keyword section which is even more direct about what the Cetra were capable of.
So you have the Cetra being the ones making the Planet more fertile... which seems to be how more mako/Lifestream is made in the long run. Which would have been desperatly needed on the Northern Crater while the Planet was healing the wound their. Seemingly with parts of itself somehow if it's using up mako.
LicoriceAllsorts
Donator
They add a smell to natural gas so that people can tell when there's a gas leak in their home.
Erotic Materia
[CONFUSED SCREAMING]
Huh. I honestly did not know that.
LicoriceAllsorts
Donator
Natural gas by nature has no smell and no colour. Apparently the chemical they add is called mercaptan. "It is one of the chemicals responsible for the foul smell of bad breath and flatulence."
They added it for safety reasons. Before they added it, people would blow up their own houses accidentally by striking a match when there had been a gas leak.
They added it for safety reasons. Before they added it, people would blow up their own houses accidentally by striking a match when there had been a gas leak.