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 ===== Look and Feel =====
-A low, pulsing roar of steam resonates through the chamber as Ralar’s distant rumble underscores every breath. Golden lamplight glints off braided superalloy pipes, and warm mist clings to polished concrete floors. Technicians in heat-shielded gear trace laser-sharp readouts on control mirrors, steam valves hissing in their wake. The scent of sulfur and ozone mixes with hot metal tang, while outside the scorched ravine walls, a faint glow of molten fissures hints at the volcano’s power. Even as conduits hum with gigawatt pulses, a hush descends before each ignition sequence—an electric heartbeat felt in every capacitor bank.
+The ERN feels raw and industrial, more like a worksite than a facility. Steam roars through exposed pipes with a violent, uneven rhythm, rattling container walls and making the wooden walkways tremble underfoot. Condensation drips constantly, freezing along edges before melting again in waves of geothermal heat. The air smells of sulfur, wet metal, and scorched insulation.
+Inside the charging halls, harsh amber work lights and blinking status lamps cast long shadows across steel floors stained with mineral residue. Technicians move deliberately in heavy, heat-shielded gear, shouting to be heard over the hiss of valves and the thudding pulse of energy discharges. Control panels are scarred and patched, their readouts etched with handwritten notes and warning marks from years of continuous operation.
+Outside, the wilderness presses close. Ice-crusted ash swirls between containers, Hoos stamp and snort at the covered loading bay, and the distant glow of Ralar Volcano flickers against the ravine walls. The ERN does not feel powerful so much as stubborn — a brutal machine forcing order and energy out of a hostile world that never stops pushing back.
 ===== Roles and Responsibilities =====