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I was just thinking to myself earlier, why is one of the resources you mine, Crystals?
And what would they be used for when constructing anything?
Seems like an odd resource to choose heh
The canon doesn't give any indication as to the importance of crystal. Seeing as crystal costs are highest for technologies and advanced units and structures, we can presume it has something to do with high-tech equipment.
not really when you consider that silicate (a huge componet is electronics) is a crystal. There are many other uses of crystals in manufactering and research. Pharmasticals use crystals in their research and manufacturing just to name one.
I think somewhere in the lore section it mentions that advent use the crystals as a source of their psionic powers, and one of the reasons they're on their crusade is because their sources of crystal are running dry.
crystals have been a popular choice among alot of games that have you "mine" resources to make things. crystals are supposed to represent those "precious resources" that one would need to use to create those advanced items
Hmm nice, thanks for the insight
It'd make sense if it was an energy source, as it seems to be part of buildings/infrastructure, as well as ships.
Me I can easily see crystals as the main componets to technologie and ellectronis. Kinda like in Stargate, The Gouahoul, Asgards, Ancients and the Torri use crystals to power and control all of their advance technologies.
Problem with the "energy source" theory is this wouldn't explain why scouts and light frigates cost no crystal.
I think it goes back to StarCraft where you mined crystals and gas. The crystals looked pretty on a map, as opposed, say, to piles of elephant poop. The gas geysers blew out attractive green gusts to be visually pleasing also.
Scouts and light frigates cost no crystal probably because low end SC units required no gas, thus giving you a bit of time to get gas mining going and take care of more important matters such as rushing. Here it is initial colonizing and perhaps fending off pirates.
They were called "minerals", and were the standard resource used to construct everything, so I think they're more analogous to metal in Sins.
From a gameplay perspect, gas is equivalent to crystal in Sins, and minerals are equivalent to metal.
Because how would the Advent strap giant crystals to their Capitals if they didn't have ludicrous quantities of it? 
Perhaps crystals have some sort of connection with the use of phase space.
The Undying. 
They could be martian marshmallows or venusian vines, or plutonian petit-pois and you would still have to harvest them and pay the resource cost of your stuff. makes no difference.
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Hmmm, does sound like the Marza is trying to use 'The Voice'. Doesn't work though...
that's because the Marza has not been trained in the Bene Gesserit Way. And it's just 'Voice', not 'The Voice'. Trust me, I'm a Dune fanatic.
yes... because Sins is a total rip off of Star Craft.... Fail!
Its crystal because crystal is what is used in advanced electronics and technology. To research things you need lots of crystal (because experimentation is just a fancy way of saying educated trial and error), whereas to build you need less, but you still need it so it can be incorporated into the design, (like testing silicon chips by using silicon then selling the completed silicon chips without silicon...). Crystal also has structures and formations within itself, its like a natural hard drive, if you can map the inside of the crystal, you can then access and write data directly to and from the material of the shard.
by the way, this is total science fiction and in no way, shape or form factual.
Why Crystal? because it sounds Science Fiction-y =P
yes... because Sins is a total rip off of Star Craft.... Fail!
Its crystal because crystal is what is used in advanced electronics and technology. To research things you need lots of crystal (because experimentation is just a fancy way of saying educated trial and error), whereas to build you need less, but you still need it so it can be incorporated into the design, (like testing silicon chips by using silicon then selling the completed silicon chips without silicon...). Crystal also has structures and formations within itself, its like a natural hard drive, if you can map the inside of the crystal, you can then access and write data directly to and from the material of the shard.
by the way, this is total science fiction and in no way, shape or form factual.
Why Crystal? because it sounds Science Fiction-y =P
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