Fiction:Mystys

Mystys is a flowing energy generated by the rotation of Lapida's galactic core. It serves a great variety of uses and functions as vitality for mineral-based life. It is most heavily concentrated near the center of the galaxy, and is only functionally absent at the outer edge.

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Medical
As mystys tends to gather in some crystals and release an electric charge under some conditions, organic races commonly use it for electrotherapy and for makeshift defibrillators.

As mystys serves as vitality for mineral-based life, mineral races commonly use it in life support systems. Minerals that soak up mystys but don't retain it, such as kyanite, are sometimes used to draw mystys out of rock tumors and diseased limbs, preventing them from spreading.

Combat
Mystys-bearing crystals can discharge electricity, which can be weaponized by any race.

Minerals that soak up mystys are often used to create perfect murder weapons to be used against mineral-based races, as stabbing such crystals into their bodies literally sucks the life right out of them.

As a power source
Mystys-bearing crystals that discharge electricity can be used as power sources, literally by harvesting their discharge.

For interstellar flight
Materials that block the flow mystys, such as bronze, can be used to build sails that catch mystys like wind to carry ships between stars at faster-than-light speeds.

A heated kyanite crystal can be used to pull mystys through pipes like water through a steamboat's engine, which can also propel a ship at faster-than-light speeds. Although this is the most effective use of mystys for interstellar flight, it is generally avoided by mineral-based races as they are forced to wear thick bronze armor to do repairs.