Most of these crystals send their information and power down specially-designed conduits, but some of them, especially the ones for connecting the device to other devices, simply send information through the aether instead.
Computers are literally magic.
No, really. There's a few power crystals feeding energy into an array of memory crystals, which transfer information to and from a control crystal, which uses a limited sort of intelligence to tell all the other crystals what to do. There's one physically large array of crystals that show the user what the apparatus is doing, and a few crystals that send and receive information from other assemblages of crystals that act as a way for a user to control the system.
It turns out that the first time a human visits a new planet, they are automatically changed into the resident sapient race. It turns out that Dragons are originally from Mars, and the first manned mission is about to land.
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Music is all about repetition, but this piece takes it to the extreme without being annoying. The main driving force is a four-bar melody from the strings, the percussion doesn't change much, and the main melody is an occasionally-repeated slow brass line only six bars long. Very little changes between repetitions, yet Uematsu manages to make this an _interesting_ feature, not a boring one.
It's a fascinating technique.
Assault of the Silver Dragons
Final Fantasy IX
Nobuo Uematsu
One of the finest pieces of Final Fantasy music, this plays as you approach a particular story boss in IX, even replacing the battle music for encounters in this period.
While percussion does keep the beat, the forward momentum mainly comes from a repeating four-bar melodic phrase in the strings section, while the brass plays a slow, dignified melody.
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