Spoilers for 7.0 Alexandrian life style

[Lady_Silvermoon]

Never said I thought they were destroying souls, but that they have to be getting the souls from somewhere as up to now no one has been able to make new souls. If a regulator is made it either has to have a preloaded soul on it or it must come from somewhere else. They weren't around until they "perfected" it when they preserved the original Sphene's memories or there abouts as prior to that they used the suits Otis was placed in. People can bank extra souls if they do good enough work. So if they're not creating new souls and aren't destroying them except for maybe what Zoraal Ja did or being used to power Living Memory then where are they coming from? Also how I took it is even after a person actually dies while wearing one even their soul goes to get cleaned and stored to get banked by someone else at another time. The only thing released from the cycle being their memories. And when they 1st started using them again assuming that a regulator is made and given a soul before use where would they be getting these souls? If they're not preloaded with a soul then yikes.

The Alexandrians have had the ability to extract souls for four centuries. And keep in mind, they figured this out during a world war. A bunch of people would have been dying on both sides. Some time after that, they figure out the other stuff, regulators, Endless, robo Otis, etc. But the Storm Surge is a war that leaves them the last surviving civilization on their shard. At the very least the last survivors on their continent. So they would have the souls of all those dead in stock. We actually see the stock when Sphene is talking to Zoraal Ja, they have thousands of souls in storage.

I don't understand why you're insisting that the regulators have to come with a soul in them already. You put it on and you buy one. If you put it on and there are no souls in it, then you get all the memory wipes, but you don't get revived after you die, your soul gets stored inside. We actually meet a character with no spare souls, the Arcadion fighter that insults Sphene. He's proof that you can walk around with an empty regulator. I don't understand why you believe otherwise, which is what made me assume you believed the souls were being destroyed.

As for why the system is sustainable, the used souls are stuck in the person who used them until death, which is why regulators are required to keep that person's mind the dominant one. At death the used souls are released back into the aetherial sea, and the unused souls and the wearer's soul are sent to Origenics for processing.

Psychonekrosis does sound very much as to what was happening to us prior to rejoining with Ardbert. I also feel it's not sustainable due to the ability to bank souls. Even before Zoraal ja stole and used up a lot of souls they were in short supply. And afterwards if you talk to one of the workers in the government sector they say that the doling out of souls has backed up a lot due to the attack.

Zoraal Ja not only used up a lot of the supply on himself, his attack on Everkeep meant that a lot of people burned through a lot of souls all at once which would up demand. So yes, due to his actions they are in a state of low supply and high demand, but that doesn't mean it's unsustainable. It means the prices of souls will go up dramatically, which will cause more people to die of accident increasing the supply (and yes, I just realized how dark that is). But it's a system any of them can choose to opt out of whenever they like. No one is forced to wear a regulator.