Of course, while the Silver Chip recorded the data, the youth also took a brief look at the Warp Engine and Fireseed designs.
Then he froze slightly.
"Eh, as expected, it follows the same design philosophy as the Aether Furnace Core."
The Aether Furnace Core and the True Aether Furnace indeed shared the same design philosophy. Both used ultra-high-purity—indeed, outright 100% absolute-purity—Origin Matter to create an aether bubble independent of the Nature Psionics field, naturally drawing in the surrounding Nature Psionics.
To put it another way, if the universe's Nature Psionics field was a membrane spread roughly evenly across all space and time, then an Aether Furnace Core was a deep 'well' dug into that membrane.
The mouth of the well would naturally gather the surrounding Nature Psionics, inexhaustible and ever-flowing. The difference between an Aether Furnace and a True Aether Furnace was that the former had flaws in its design. Its aether bubble was unstable; when absorbing Nature Psionics, it placed strain on both the furnace core and the machine itself. It required a constant influx of resources to sustain it and could not maintain the bubble for long.
The latter, however, not only required no such support, but could even transfer the burden of Nature Psionics onto the perfect aether bubble itself—using nature's power to bear nature's own burden. That was why it could accumulate power almost infinitely.
Compared to the Apocalypse Armament's True Aether Furnace, the Fireseed Furnace Core was not actually all that different.
It was simply able to exert greater influence over the 'aether bubble,' thereby constructing extraordinary capabilities such as 'Zero-Inertia Maneuver,' 'Phase-Shift Shield,' and 'Hyperspace Communications.'
And, most importantly—
'Warp Travel.'
Yes, Warp Travel was precisely the technology the Obra Civilization had derived by using the colossal amount of Nature Psionics accumulated within