Stasis

Utility

There are several types of stasis in wide use.

Medical Stasis

By far the most painless form of stasis is that used for serious medical procedures, such as surgeries, where it serves as a form of anesthesia. It is also used to aid recovery by ensuring the patient gets the required amount of rest in order to heal properly. It is most akin to sleep, although it is not always restful (a lot of energy goes into recovery, after all).

Trophy Stasis

Another form of stasis widely in use is for the preservation of certain hunting trophies, such as those obtained during the Leadership Challenge.

[The human trophies] are held in stasis, in our trophy chambers, on the cusp between life and death.
— T'zim-Sha, The Woman Who Fell to Earth

Those who have been let out describe it as a physically painful and disorienting experience. (Note: Although this has been derided as leaving people "to rot", stasis technology as known does not allow for such a thing.)

Prison Stasis

Related to stasis for trophies, stasis as a prison serves to keep an individual in one place for an extended period of time. It is only reserved for highly dangerous creatures, such as the Stone Menace. There are rumors that if a live "Space Brother" is ever found, it will be imprisoned this way, as well.

On Trapping Civilizations

Some Stenza (including Blue Period T'zim-Sha) advocate for the trapping of entire civilizations, sometimes as a point of pride (akin to pearls on a necklace) and other times as a means of expediting this whole conquering business. It should be noted that the only known method that came close tends to purge the target planet of all life before shrinking it down to fit into a convenient trophy case. It should also be noted that this is a subject of heated debate.

Social Impact

Besides medical science and its relationship to trophy hunting, prison/containment, etc. (see above), stasis has also revolutionized the storing of food, dramatically altering the food-hunting landscape and contributing to the changing relationship between mortal Stenza and the Snow Pup Hunter, and all but making famines a thing of the pre-Unification past.

Children Technologies

Food Preservation

Inventor(s)

The Stenza

Discovery

Stasis was kind of a mistake, actually. We were looking for a way to break through whatever kept it from moving so we could kill it.
— Ta'zhen

Stasis was discovered in the year -2, after many failed attempts to destroy or contain the Stone Menace. Certain such devices had been used as food storage in a pinch, and were found to be astonishingly effective at the task. Scientists began to speculate that anything could be contained in this manner, and set to work finding a large enough crystal to hold the Stone Creature, although the ultimate hope of killing it remained elusive.

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