Maniax profiles: Crystals
The overwhelming gap between the combat prowess of the Stardroids and the Earth-built robots was entirely due to the hyper-energy crystals (from here on called HEC). (Which is why once Rock and the others equipped them as well they were able to give the Stardroids an even fight.)
Despite the impression given by the incredible destructive power of the Stardroids, the technological might of their alien creators was not all that different from modern day Earth’s (although it did evolve in a significantly different direction).
Below are the HEC characteristics that could be understood from the “Gamma incident”, the “Stardroid disaster”, and Dr. Wily’s own private experiments (as well as some investigation).
O HEC contain an incredible amount of energy, but it cannot be drawn out with any sort of stability by a simple machine.
Although the International Energy Institute – which discovered and obtained the first HEC (TN: the one Blues would later receive) – successfully harvested power from it, they could not manage to keep its overflowing energy under control in their experiments, resulting in an enormous explosion.
The laboratory compound, in spite of having been built from a special steel alloy, was obliterated without a trace, leaving only the HEC intact at ground zero.
Experimentation eventually resumed, only for the incident to repeat over and over again. However, once an attempt to directly connect the HEC with a robot in possession of an artificial brain and have it control the energy flow was made, energy could (to an extent) finally be drawn at a stable rate.
(The robot, however, crashed and self-destructed fifteen minutes into the experiment.)
From the data obtained by these studies alongside with the data obtained from his own experiments, Dr. Wily deduced that a robot’s soul was the only way to control a HEC.
O HEC give access to an infinite amount of energy. They do, however, have a limited transmission capacity (which is how the International Energy Institute ended up underestimating their actual output).
O After asking himself “Can such a thing as truly infinite energy actually exist?”, Dr. Wily came to hypothesize that, if one instead thought of the HEC as “doorways”, then it could be possible for them to be bringing the energy in from outside this universe. He also deduced that while a robot’s mind could modulate the amount of energy flowing in from the “door”, if the robot was not remarkably strong-willed, the overflow of energy would swallow it entirely.
O To damage an entity making use of such an energy coating, one must either:
Use a weapon also powered by a HEC (allowing the energy to cancel itself out – however, actual damage will vary wildly depending on the output difference between the two).
Manage to hit the energy coating with enough power to bypass its defensive structure.
…Achieving the second is a rather complicated matter, as it requires an amount of power roughly equivalent to that of a batch of nuclear missiles.
O On top of all this, robots equipped with HEC seem to experience rather strange events. Blues, whose body should have shut down years ago, found his life inexplicably extended; Skull Man (whether it was truly him or merely an illusion; Skull Man’s actual status is unknown) appeared in the middle of Ring Man and Pluto’s battle; and so on. These phenoma too might result from the HEC’s reactions to the souls of the robots carrying them, although at this point any statement to their effect is merely speculation.
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