...I love angst. I love it when fictional characters suffer because ANGST. I love making angst scenarios...and I just made a angst scenario with Krel and Aja from 3Below.
I remembered them and then went down a tales of arcadia rabbit hole and then it bam it came it me! It came to me when I re-educated myself on akiridions!
Angst scenario where Colonel Kubritz actually manages to capture the trio. She interrogates them, using the same methods she used on Tronos on Varvatos, not the twins though. They are children after all, she's not that heartless. But she is...rough. It's mostly to scare them really. "Missed" shots and close calls are enough to keep them in line...at least that's what she thought.
She didn't mean to harm the girl. Really, she had no intention of harming her or her brother. But she had charged instead of flinching as she usually did. The blast hits her but she still follows through and tackles the colonel to the ground. That's when instinct took over and she blasted her point blank in the abdomen.
There was no blood. No gore. Just a surprised look on the girls face before she faded away leaving behind a blue device of sorts with an interesting design.
Once the other two finally calmed down after hours of attacking their cell walls with demands that she give them the device, Aja's core, she learned that the girl was not dead. Her physical form was simply destroyed but they could make her a new one...so they're not organic.
They're not living...they're like aneroids then? How many times can they be brought back? How can they bring her back?
The answer to that is with electricity. Lots of electricity shooting at her core in a large capsule. There's more to it than that but that's all she understood from her scientists explanation.
Her body was made and the girl woke up screaming. Looks like this way is more painful than how they do it on their planet.
Colonel Kurbitz isn't too worried about hurting them now. After all, they're not actually alive, living things can't come back to life like this. Plus as long as their core is intact then they can rebuild them.
They rarely try anything now. According to the boy, Krel, their way of rebuilding their bodies is doing something to them. He doesn't know what but he can feel it and it feels horrible.
And it appears that he's right for when the colonel picks up his core after he had tried to hack into their computers she sees it. Cracks. Tiny ones. All along his core.
So there is a limit to how many times you can rebuild them.