Introduction In Goddess Maker, Conduit Crystals, conceived by one’s critical growth, are grown mechanisms that connect devices in reality to Pocket Dimensions in order to transact an ability based around the Pocket Dimension’s nurtured laws of physics.
Critical GrowthThroughout “Lab of God”, there are various opportunities to witness “Critical Growth” occurring to the various characters, with the “Critical Growth” often representing a literary climax/turning point to one’s character arc that the player invested time in.What differentiates “Critical Growth” from regular growth is that “Critical Growth” is a significant stage of character development, sort of like a human empowerment metamorphosis, while regular growth isn’t as thematically significant of a milestone and more meta-like.In Shōnen Fiction, a good example of Critical Growth is the initial Super Saiyan Transformations, where it’s presented as breaking through one’s limitations and actualizing a new reality for oneself.However, Goddess Maker takes it a step further, and as a result of one reaching “Critical Growth”, their efforts not only empower themselves, but also produce a Super Particle byproduct that is developed into a Conduit Crystal.
Super ParticlesSuper Particles, much like an atom, are the smallest unit of a Conduit Crystal and are what is created as a byproduct of one’s Critical Growth, and functions as a physical bridge between reality and their Pocket Dimension.Note that while multiple Super Particles can result from an individual attaining multiple Critical Growths, it’s redundant in that they all sync to a single Pocket Dimension corresponding to the character.Therefore, for game simplicity’s sake, there’s only the one Super Particle per one Pocket Dimension.Super Particles derive their name from the in-game Super Trait narrative, where there are characters that were conceived through gene-editing and grew up to possess Super Trait abilities like Chad’s “Alpha Reaction Gene” or Alice’s “Wonderland” ability.As “The Lab” is introduced to the super particle phenomenon after witnessing Chad’s Critical Growth Spurt, the association is established with characters with Super Traits possessing the propensity to produce Super Particles.However, it’s a misdirected assessment, as all characters possess the potential to reach Critical Growth and thus produce a Super Particle, but those with super traits like those with psychic abilities have a much easier time establishing a link to their Pocket Dimension.Also, the narrative is biased to favor their “superpower-esque” development over the development of ordinary humans due to the diversity of the Conduit Crystals they ultimately produce.
Conduit CrystallizationTo develop a Character’s Super Particle to a Conduit Crystal has a lot more depth to the process than other manufactured goods.First off, since Conduit Crystallization is treated akin to a reality inflicted with a metaphysical cancer, the nature of the Conduit Crystal is to automatically grow in perpetuity from its initial minuscule Super Particle state to a more manageable and harnessable crystallized state.However, this crystallization process takes a long time, and the result of the “natural” growth is limited due to growth’s willingness to stabilize its entropy. To develop the Super Particle into a more practical and expansive Conduit Crystal, a Crystal Growth Furnace is used to accelerate the pre-pubescent growth from Super Particle to Conduit Crystal.
Conduit Crystal Growth PatienceWhile it takes only one shift to synthesize a Character’s Super Particle into a usable Conduit Crystal, the pubescent Conduit Crystal produced is at its lowest state of power expression in comparison to the potential it could have become if it had left to grow in the Crystal Growth Furnace for longer.A remedy to this is the “Patient Crystal Growth” mechanic, where as the Super Particle undergoes its rapid growth into a Conduit Crystal, the option is available to not halt its critical and accelerated pre-pubescent growth once it has successfully formed into a manageable crystal, but to allow it to sit tight and grow further and bigger in order to manufacture it as a higher level of Conduit Crystal. This utilizes the “Lab of God”’s day-to-day mechanic well, as after the initial manufacturing period, it’s up to the lab representative to decide when it is the right time to pull the Conduit Crystal from off the Crystal Growth Furnace and implement it into a device.Of course, this is a mechanic that takes account of the player’s patience, with a better reward the longer one waits.But there is also an equally important phenomenon on the other end of the spectrum to be mindful of, posing a difficult question concerning whether Conduit Crystal possesses the growth potential to improve indefinitely, then when is the correct time to pull it off the Crystal Growth Furnace?This paranoid hesitation where the player doesn’t know the ideal time to pull the Conduit Crystal from off the Crystal Growth Furnace should become an inner debate of speculation on whether the Conduit Crystal has grown enough to satisfy the player’s scientific growth needs, or if it remains underpowered of its desired potential. But to alleviate a bit of the paranoia, the Conduit Crystal does continue to grow in post-pubescence, albeit exponentially slowly, compared to the linear growth when in pre-pubescence.
Conduit Crystal as a Growing Ability BatteryA good way to consider Conduit Crystals are as batteries to power devices so as to produce an effect.Albeit that these “batteries” have an entire Pocket Dimension at its disposal to draw power from, a power significantly more vast than in opportunity than something like a lithium-ion can emit, like utilizing the space of Pocket Dimension to store and retrieve mass or using its unique laws of physics to influence a phenomenon differently than what would ordinarily happen according to reality’s laws of physics.Additionally, when including that the Conduit Crystal continues to grow post-pubescence, the power emitted only continues to amplify and transact more abundantly, as crystal increasing mass allows for more flow to pass between the Pocket Dimension and Reality.Simply put, a bigger crystal represents a more powerful ability to be used.
Conduit Crystal as a Technological SymbioteWhen a Conduit Crystal is not harnessed as a battery to a piece of technology, it’s just a purposeless growth on reality much akin to the earlier cancer example, so there is a sense of technological symbiosis in play where devices benefit from the Conduit Crystal’s mechanism to harness power and transact ability from a Pocket Dimension, but also the Conduit Crystal benefits in making use of its perpetual growth, and incentivizing the cultivation of its connected Pocket Dimension.Take the Shrink Ray, for example, it derives its compression power from the Penalization Crystal, but by compressing the extra mass, due to mass conservation it is siphoned from reality and placed into the Pocket Dimension, ultimately absorbing it and converting it to usable matter that empowers and expands the Pocket Dimension further.Although the Conduit Crystal limits the amount of flow that a Pocket Dimension can have on reality, the Pocket Dimension on its own merits benefits tremendously by this transaction, going so far as to overflow the dimension’s expanse into reality, amplifying the size of the crystal at the cost of the reality’s native fabric, the lasting result amplifying the Shrink Ray’s ability to compress due to expanded Conduit Crystal being able to handle more mass transaction.In summary, the general rule is that more times a device powered by a Conduit Crystal is utilized, its post-pubescence growth rate increases in pace.
Conduit Crystal as a Malleable MaterialIt goes saying that Conduit Crystals may resemble ordinary IRL crystals, but only in an aesthetic sense, as its smallest unit is a “Super Particle” and not an atom of matter.As a Super Particle superpositions both as a physical and a conduit to an otherwise non-actualized Pocket Dimension, the state of material that a Conduit Crystal exists in is between the imaginary and physical, like how the existence of a Soul alludes us in the material world but remains present in an unexplainable fashion to answer the scientific unknown of what constitutes free will and consciousness in a world that doesn’t conceive these absurdities.And because there is a physical materialistic property to the Conduit Crystal, it possesses the inherent quality to be molded into stuff like other materials, including being broken up into smaller crystal units while not disrupting the conduit to the Pocket Dimension or the total growth of the crystal, but the flow evidently of power is deluded among the pieces. As a result, the potential of technological development is opened a significant degree, for example, Crystal Nanites, a fusion between nanomachine technology and the function of Conduit Crystal to transact mass from a Pocket Dimension in a precise and constructive way, can be utilized to rebuild one’s body to be more powerful and hyper-developed, alas the highest potential of human strength and beauty growth.Conduit Crystals are also used in the manufacturing process when considering special exports to empower the community’s attributes.
Conduit Crystal as an Unique CommodityGiven “Lab of God”’s multi-path timeline structure, when it comes to character interaction and forming relationships, there are limited and missable opportunities when characters can hit their Critical Growths and earn the lab a new Super Particle to evolve.To alleviate this and to experience the otherwise missable Conduit Crystal acquisitions needed to power a wide array of different empowerment apparatuses, the game has a mechanism to deliver these special crystals in a secondary front, purchasing them from the shop.When conditions to invoke a critical growth are well past the feasibility of materializing out of side-consequence, the Conduit Crystals are made available as a purchase made available by a character named Tiff, Susanna’s mole person counterpart who engages in a mineral nutrient and underground treasure business underneath the Local Store.A drawback to this secondary form of acquisition is that the Conduit Crystals have already grown from out of their initial Super Particle state, and are stuck at their lowest power level with a slow post-purchase growth rate.Nevertheless, even though this secondary method of acquiring Conduit Crystals exists, the big motivation in harvesting Conduit Crystals remains the appropriation of others’ Super Trait abilities to be utilized by “The Lab”’s Hyper Growth Technological Development.
Conduit Crystals as Revolutionary ScienceWhen Conduit Crystals appear in the game progression of scientific development, it revolutionizes the growth tech development, as the constraints set by reality’s laws of physics become malleable to the crystal’s transactive ability, opening a playground of opportunity to self-improve the human body beyond natural means.As a refresher, the core growth tech progression occurs in this sequence; Not including “Ascension,” there are four hierarchal categories in “Lab of God”’s growth tech progression: Temporary Growth -> Potent Growth -> Permanent Growth -> Hyper Growth -> Ascension• Temporary Growth: (ex. Coffee, Growth Serums) The 1st progression to establish that attribute growth is possible.• Potent Growth: (ex. Concoctions, Super Serums) The 2nd progression, similar to the 1st, but at a significantly higher degree to establish the potency of the continued attribute growth development.• Permanent Growth: (ex. Coating Capsule, Growth Facilities) The 3rd progression decouples from temporary substance usage to establish permanent attribute growth.• Hyper Growth: (ex. Particle Accelerator - Amplification Beam (powered by Amplification Crystal)) The 4th progression follows successful permanent growth and evolves into a playground of immense attribute growth, and also the wait period prior to meeting the conditions to venture into one of the many ascension routes.• Ascension: (ex. God Serum) - The final progression preps an Ascension Device followed by a Route Change to a Sequential Game Section.
Pocket DimensionsTo understand Pocket Dimensions, one should understand the universe as one, albeit superior in class, but understandably possessing a field that encompasses the laws of physics.Once a Pocket Dimension is established to bleed into reality through a Critical Growth or through another volition, there are various mechanisms an individual can exploit, such as interacting with the Pocket Dimension like a vast storage unit, depositing and extracting matter similar to a bank.For the Pocket Dimension to transact pseudo-magic onto reality through a Conduit Crystal, the laws of physics are made malleable and are manipulated to cause certain things to happen that would otherwise not happen, like transferring mass from a Pocket Dimension to an individual to immediately transform them into a giant.Otherwise, a Pocket Dimension can function as a conversion of energy funnel to fundamentally alter the frequencies channeled by a device’s emissions, like for example, the Particle Accelerator's Amplification Beam harnesses a Pocket Dimension to amplify a subject through an altered particle beam exposed and converted by a different set of physics.Also, as one’s laws of physics come with conflict, the other’s, the Pocket Dimension is in a state of competition with the rest of reality. To the extent that a Pocket Dimension grows to envelop the universe, the former universe is downgraded to the new universe’s Pocket Dimension.Also, it should be kept in mind that Pocket Dimensions are subclassed by the reality’s laws of physics it originated in, and due to this, Conduit Crystals don’t have radically different laws of physics but have mutated incrementally like an evolution, which is why they possess a level of compatibility when interacting with reality’s physics.
The Soul as a Pocket DimensionIn Goddess Maker, the Souls that animate life are treated in the same vein as independent Pocket Dimensions, with humans undoubtedly possessing more grander and complex Pocket Dimensions than the other animals on Earth.And when making reference to a character’s Pocket Dimension like the one their produced Super Particle is connected to, it’s in reference to their Soul, a Soul whose laws of physics were warped by how their Super Traits function.Like when considering Super Traits with overt psychic powers, these psychic powers are sourced from the character’s Soul/Pocket Dimension and emitted from the body.In tune and similar to a produced Conduit Crystal, the human body’s brain, or at least the uppermost core part of it, is a Conduit Crystal of its own right that connects one’s body to their Soul, and increasing the size of the brain evidently allows the human body to harness more power from their Pocket Dimension. The complexity and scale of one’s developed Soul can also be treated as a quality measurement of the spectrum of ascension from human to god, with a higher developed Soul/Pocket Dimension lending more divine power.
Pocket Dimension DevelopmentOtherwise known as Soul Development, as the Soul attribute takes precedence, the development of one’s Pocket Dimension is a key growth category for great success, as in the Lab of God’s game section, it comes with psychic abilities such as free attribute transformation and teleportation.Although the Soul Attribute is the most unorthodox of the 7 growth types, following Height, Intelligence, Strength, Beauty, Breast, and Penis/Pig, it undoubtedly is the one with the most depth throughout Goddess Maker as a whole, given its significant role in one’s ascension to godhood.Pocket Dimensions automatically expand like an universe, but like a battery that needs to be charged, Permanent Soul Growth requires the cultivation of one’s Pocket Dimension to foster power that can be tapped into and harnessed like magic. An example of a highly cultivated Soul would be similar to a fruitful universe with lots of power and activity, blessed by nutrient and matter deposits to circulate a living and growing powerhouse to empower oneself with.Keep in mind that one of the key differences between humans and robots is that humans possess a Soul while robots do not, granting a pseudo-psychic Pocket Dimension advantage over the otherwise more intelligent machinery.It should also be considered that individuals aren’t restricted to having authority to only their own inherent Pocket Dimensions, as with enough psychic power, an individual can hack into another’s Pocket Dimension and restructure it, flow the hacked accumulated power into theirs, transferring their level of ascendence and psychic ability, among other purposes.And of course, individuals with psychic powers can bypass requiring critical growth to open up pathways to their Soul.
New Pocket Dimension CreationPsychic beings can produce Super Particles to interact with their Souls with much ease, but when considering the creation of non-Soul Pocket Dimensions, these are still Pocket Dimensions, specialized ones sourced from an entity that creates them with high psychic output, remarkably similar to a creator god.In the conception of these detached self-contained Pocket Dimensions, an automated metaphysical algorithm establishes them, ergo the manifestation of the laws of physics per that new universe’s function.