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What this means, ultimately, is remarkable: just as they have influenced culture & behavior in the Lowest Sectors, so too these particles have become a voice in their own identification, inserted into a heuristic process that deduces itself.

What’s more, in a fascinating quirk of scientific process, these curious masses eventually received formal designation as Elsie Particles, alluding to their causal relationship with the eponymous slang.

They cling to the skin and induce bio-reactions in the bearer, typically intense connection to beings, entities, and surrounding environments.

Commonly, this manifests as feelings of admiration, love, appreciation, begetting a gentle demeanor, but other fringe reactions have also been documented.

Over time, languages smoothed— as did the meaning of the word, which broadened, and rounded out to refer to the kindness and empathy that citizens of the Lowest Sectors are known for.

This assumption is based in truth, due to a widely-known class of particle local to those portions of the galaxy.

Circa the era of its popularity, L-Se was commonly used in synecdoche, to refer to the loosely-defined sectors as well as their inhabitants, interchangeably.

For example:

“Are you from the L-Se?”

“What’s up with this guy, is he some kinda L-Se?”

This excerpt from Lake S. Pier’s “Space Romeo/Space Juliet,” is one of the most iconic documented examples of the Lowest Sectors’ cultural-etymological diaspora.

The word originates from a now-retrograde designation for the Lowest Sectors: L-Se, pronounced (ell-see).

His allegiance lies not among the citizens of Krale. Rather, he buckles dutifully under the weight of his myriad interests, squalid political dealings, that line his pockets and tentpole his reproachful attempts at relevance. “

— Ochre Pram,

Tetra-Cyclical Address to the Populace of Crisle.

currently decoded from Old-World servers.

Efforts are ongoing to restore this extreme wealth of digital-vestigial knowledge remaining from the old worlds.

Highly debated is the presence of the seemingly unnecessary adverb, “not,” in the second sentence.

Leaders in the common tongue theorize it may have split off from a larger word over time.

There is little-to-no evidence that this was the case, due to the lack of accurate etymological data—

Dually, the intended portmanteau of “Seed” and “Drone” is commonly misinterpreted as a result.

Many urban-dwellers, who do not subsist on farming, typically think of the machines as See-Drones, incorrectly concluding that the name follows from their remarkable ability to “See” small insects.

including the making of Gömböc cakes, which are filled with sweet or savory pastes, molded into the eponymous shape.

It is the busiest period of cycle for Camborian Monasteries, whose kitchens utilize byzons-old techniques for processing local flora and fauna into many thousands of pastries.