Greetings, people of OA

[Drashner1]

Wait, thinking about it, how much energy do transapients and archailects require, again?

We don't have a hard number of this. Because transaps and archai are machine minds, utilizing tech we don't fully understand, and with 'bodies' that are (usually) swarms of varied (and variable) sized units, it is extremely hard to quantify what they 'require' vs 'whatever they're using in the moment'. Any such number would be largely arbitrary which - while we don't forbid editorial decisions of this sort we generally try to avoid them - and likely subject to either overly simplistic extrapolation (an S1 is 15000x smarter so it must use 15000x as much energy) or constant debate or constant revision on a whim.

So it is a headache we prefer to avoid.

Todd