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:However, we can look at that text another way. Note that the final mission objective refers to Muro having "limited energy reserves" because he has "just evolved". Perhaps a Daodan host can store <u>some</u> energy, but since one cannot store infinite energy, obviously the host needs to keep taking in energy faster than they expend it; this is a basic rule of life. So perhaps what Bungie's really saying is, "Muro is not yet drawing in energy as fast as he can expend it". Here "reserve" is defined as "throughput from the source", or "energy bandwidth" -- how big a reservoir of energy Muro can access from minute-to-minute, if you will. Think about Konoko: she never stops being Daodan-boosted (in terms of basic physical enhancements, not the Daodan overpower mode); one way to explain this is that ''Konoko's energy reserves never run out either, for her level of energy expenditure''. | :However, we can look at that text another way. Note that the final mission objective refers to Muro having "limited energy reserves" because he has "just evolved". Perhaps a Daodan host can store <u>some</u> energy, but since one cannot store infinite energy, obviously the host needs to keep taking in energy faster than they expend it; this is a basic rule of life. So perhaps what Bungie's really saying is, "Muro is not yet drawing in energy as fast as he can expend it". Here "reserve" is defined as "throughput from the source", or "energy bandwidth" -- how big a reservoir of energy Muro can access from minute-to-minute, if you will. Think about Konoko: she never stops being Daodan-boosted (in terms of basic physical enhancements, not the Daodan overpower mode); one way to explain this is that ''Konoko's energy reserves never run out either, for her level of energy expenditure''. | ||
:From that standpoint, we could then go on to say that Muro can only become "invulnerable" in <u>relative</u> terms; that is, there is nothing <u>Konoko</u> can do <u>at the moment</u> that can hurt him when his shield is up. But Muro is not going to become <u>absolutely</u> invincible -- the idea is silly if one considers it in those terms -- he has simply stepped up his energy usage to a new plateau that his intake cannot yet match. This interpretation allows us to say that there is still room for further development; that Muro has not reached the final stage yet. This ties back to Bungie calling it the "next" stage in the objective text, not the "final" one. Perhaps "Imago" was a misnomer after all (we'll just ignore that Bungie themselves call it that and [ | :From that standpoint, we could then go on to say that Muro can only become "invulnerable" in <u>relative</u> terms; that is, there is nothing <u>Konoko</u> can do <u>at the moment</u> that can hurt him when his shield is up. But Muro is not going to become <u>absolutely</u> invincible -- the idea is silly if one considers it in those terms -- he has simply stepped up his energy usage to a new plateau that his intake cannot yet match. This interpretation allows us to say that there is still room for further development; that Muro has not reached the final stage yet. This ties back to Bungie calling it the "next" stage in the objective text, not the "final" one. Perhaps "Imago" was a misnomer after all (we'll just ignore that Bungie themselves call it that and [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HandWave hand-wave] it as "Hasegawa thought this was the Imago stage, but he was wrong")! | ||
===Wouldn't the Daodan make the host immortal?=== | ===Wouldn't the Daodan make the host immortal?=== | ||