The origin of Voidtech is an artifact that was found in the depths of the Voidrunners home planet and enabled them to do things such as slow down time, generate energy weapons and travel near black holes in, rather flimsy looking, suits. Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The Starseed and Voidtech in general are this.Future Spandex: The suit Rei wears and the ones she gathers over the course of the game certainly give this impression but seem to make up for it with Deflector Shields of some kind.Fragile Speedster: Rei can only take up to five hits before it's game over. If Rei chooses to destroy the Starseed, Echo is able to restore her to her old self. If the Starseed is activated, this will be the conclusion of the loop before the events of the game repeat anew. Face–Monster Turn: Regardless of if she chooses to activate the Starseed, Rei transforms into a towering monster after succumbing to despair upon learning that the Starseed will only cause her to relive the destruction of her planet.Bright Is Not Good: Don't be fooled by the bright, vibrant green of the water in the Mirrorsea.She wakes from the experience heartbroken and ashamed, but willing to move on. Bittersweet Ending: Rei ultimately destroys the Starseed after realizing she can never use it to save her world, and following an "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight, she's restored to her whole self.Benevolent A.I.: C.Y.D., or Centralized Yottabyte Database, throughout the entire game is nothing but helpful and decently upbeat, even as bleak situations unfold.Beautiful Void: The inside of the Ultravoid is a colorful landscape of islands floating in blue-green clouds or otherwise suspended mid-air by the Ultravoid's weird sense of gravity.Badass Cape: Rei sports a long, translucent purple cloak.Rather than destroying the Ultravoid, all it does is reverse time to just before the destruction of Rei's planet, forcing Rei to relive the death of her homeworld every time she reactivates it. Artifact of Doom: The Starseed, in a sense.Interestingly enough, it's possible to actually survive entry into the Ultravoid. Apocalypse How: Class X, with planets getting sucked into and torn apart by the Ultravoid.Apocalyptic Log: Rei encounters several examples of this, from the Voidrunner logs to the writings and recordings of people from previously subsumed planets.Also, Rei learns from Echo that the blue-green ashen clouds of the Ultravoid are the remains of her own planet. But there is a silver lining in the fact that a sizable group of her planet's people, although insubstantial compared to the amounts that were on her planet when it exploded ouside of the Ultravoid, are still out in spaceships exploring their vast galaxies and charting it. Unfortunately for Rei, this also applies to her homeworld.
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