Aurora

The Aurora is the field of ELAN Energy that pervades much of the Sol System, and allows for the Bright to focus energies from it and channel abilities depending on their chosen Resonance. What a Bright can do with the Aurora is determined by a mixture of their personal skill, experience, and strength of connection with the Aurora - known as their Glow - and the strength of the Aurora as it exists where they are. Most of the explored and settled worlds of the Sol System have a presence of the Aurora of varying strength; generally, the Core Worlds have substantial Auroras present, whereas it is far thinner in the Mighty Worlds; dropping to nearly zero in the Worlds Afar, with only a minimal presence on Poseidon and its moons. This in particular means that traversing the Sednan Domain is particularly dangerous for the Bright, as they are barely more powerful than a baseline human without the powers that they often take for granted.

In reality, the Aurora is the collective remaining "soulstuff" of humanity that had existed throughout the Sol System before the Shattering; although the Bright have no stronger souls individually than any others, the pooled energies of the billions killed in the Midnight Protocol are what makes up the Aurora that they draw from. Similarly, it is also why the Aurora seems to only pervade some of the worlds of the Sol System, and why it peters out to zero towards the edge of explored space.

Those who use the Aurora will channel it in different ways, often dependent on the personality or spirit of the Bright. Although there are a myriad of these so-called resonances, four of them are near-ubiquitous amongst the Bright:


 * BREATH, representing the aspects of movement and manipulation.
 * LENS, representing the aspects of vision and clarity.
 * PULSE, representing the aspects of energy and flow.
 * HEART, representing the aspects of bonds and vitality.