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Seeds (Spitball)
In order to create the wiki, some aspect of the world had to given name. The name chosen was Seeds. The initial concept is that the seeds are some form of special commodity or currency, giving the word its importance and defining the very first aspect of the world's flavor. The purpose of this page is to present and discuss ideas of how these seeds might specificly be used.

With the preliminary decisions that have been made, Seeds are both artifacts and the housing for the very life force of the population.

Seeds as Artifacts or Other Special Objects
The seeds could be somesort of holy artifacts from a time gone by that maintain cultural significance as well as any other properties they might have. A variation on this might make the seeds some sort of technological object like ancient escape pods from some space ship. Again there would be significance attributed to the seeds other than the market value of the objects. Whitefennec (talk) 18:22, May 30, 2013 (UTC)

Seeds as A Life Force
The seeds are another name for that which holds the essence of "life". The seeds are finite in number and are the core component to a race of artifitial beings. The seeds themselves are very valuable as they can not be reproduced. As that the seeds are the core, the life of the automatons; they are harvested whenever the body of such is destroyed and used to create a "new" being. Another option would be to allow the old automaton to be rebuilt, assuming that his memory components were not destroyed with his body.



Degraded and Black Seeds
Seeds that have sustained repeated traumas or been impacted severely enough to actually damage the internals of the seed begin to lose quality. The personality of the Automaton becomes less pronounced and more robotic. The intelligence and skills of the unit begin to degrade. Such degraded Seeds could be identifiable be physical damage to the Seed. Perhaps there could even be a device to check the integrity of the Seed in order to determine its value. It could even be a Seed registry that notes the overall quality of the Seed since they have serial numbers.

Also I like the idea of Seeds turning "Black". That is, the emotional condition of the personality degrades for whatever reason. Such Seeds would always create Automatons that are mentally unstable or insane. Perhaps this type of degradation would be undetectable and/or misunderstood. This would allow the societies to develop criminals and madmen.

--Whitefennec (talk) 19:11, June 19, 2013 (UTC)