"What are runes?"
Ves asked this question many times over the past few hours.
He plunged the depths of his knowledge base and tried to form a coherent answer that made sense.
He also accessed the books and tomes, both real and virtual, for any solid theories and references.
It did not surprise him that the RA and RF's internal databases contained references to runes.
However, any mention of them was scant and shallow. The scientific community was aware of them to an extent, but the prevailing rule that only domain shapers were qualified to work with them heavily limited people's ability to apply runes on a wide scale.
Given how the mention of runes was so conspicuously absent among the academic literature he had access to, he began to suspect that the Red Association secretly maintained a high-level virtual library that could only be accessed by Master Mech Designers and Star Designers.
