Usually the mana that existed on a world would affect the inhabitants based on their environment, giving them advantages over whatever the overarching theme of their world was.

Desert worlds had an abundance of water mages, inhabitants of water worlds mostly specialized in wind magic, and those who lived on barren worlds commonly had increased vitality and physical abilities such as endurance and enhanced senses to ensure they could survive. These were just to name a few, but just because a world specialized in a certain type of magic didn’t mean everyone was affected by the mana in the same way.

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Transcript of memory geist, Star Captain Rashlar Swiftcurrent after the Battle at Grace of Meria colony, colloquially called “Battle at Binary Star.”

The fourth fleet jumped into the system and straight into chaos. We’d been diverted from the war front with the Humans to intercept a new threat far worse than the despicable Humans and their heretical cybernetic implantation.

A new race had arrived from Dark Space, a collective consciousness of machines. Soul-less and hostile they had already eradicated three of our outer colonies before they found one of our jewels. A Gaia world, to use a Human term. The enemy already had three fleet elements in the system, and our local citadel was starting to feel the strain when we managed to pull their attention to us.

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