A fictional research paper explaining a concept in a fantasy world in which a story of mine, in fact all of the stories posted here, take place. They are all practice for a single one that I cannot write down yet.

The Von Alennoe Report

Section 1

95 years ago, Jeremy Alegoise proposed that some sort of energy made life possible, "God's greatest creation". Alegoise's Reaction, better known as Life Energy, is the "driving force" of all living things. All forms of life are endowed with life energy, and this life energy allows the animation and consciousness of living things, depending on amounts.

Insects, for example, are barely conscious and are basically driven by instinct. It was though that because their forms are generally so small, they cannot hold enough life energy to become conscious. However, our research has proven this wrong. Life energy differs from life form to life form, because the species has warped the life force from the raw form it originally existed in when the life form was born.

A life form begins creating its own life energy as soon as it becomes independent from its mother, who had before donated their life energy to it. Therefore, the most theoretically transferable kind of life energy is that of those who are not fully grown, as their life energy is not refined enough to make it difficult to transfer to species other than themselves, since at its rawest form, life energy is universally transferrable.

The theory that raw energy is universally transferrable is the main step in creating the Life Creator, which is our primary project. We aspire to create a machine that extracts raw energy from a life form and can project it upon something else to give it life, or to increase its liveliness. In time, we discovered we could extract life energy from organisms in the soil, water, even in the air. There are two, simple steps to transferring life energy with the Life Creator.
1: Extract and concentrate life energy (the Life Creator does this in a part called the Synthesis Globe, which uses pressure to compact the extracted life energy into a form so highly compacted it is visible. It is interesting to note that Life Energy is colored a very pale, almost white green)
2: Project the concentrated life energy onto the object(s) in the Absorption Chamber. (The subject is exposed to concentrated life energy very briefly, as life energy quickly disperses and therefore would have no effect on the subject.

Section 2

The experiment was a failure, at the least. In creating the machine, we may have doomed all life. I'm terrified, and so is everybody else. We were able to create a life form we call ACE-LEE (Artificial Consciousness Entity Life Energy Entity) to control and guard the Life Creator...no, not the Life Creator. It is now the Apocalypse Engine, because if it were running for any longer, all life would have ceased to exist. We sealed the laboratory and buried it under bedrock, dirt, and forest. If ACE-LEE fails, we will all die, all of us. It is crucial that ACE-LEE is not damaged or that the Apocalypse Engine is not disturbed, or else the world will end.

The remainder of this report will explain what we have found out about Life Energy through the development of the Apocalypse Engine. Life Energy is not to be tampered with through machines. People die, and some things are not meant to be living. The Apocalypse Engine is our punishment manifest for not realizing this.

Every life form has, at maximum, 100% life energy. Any more, and a new, negative energy we have named Anti develops, which consumes life force, only discharging it after leaving the life form and exiting into a being or area of lower Life Energy concentration. The Apocalypse Engine had a high 100% mark, but it does not have a function to stop producing Life Energy, as all other life forms do. It created over 100%, and did not stop. It is all Anti now, tons compressed upon tons of it. The amounts of Anti ever created in nature are infinitesimal compared to life energy. The amount of Anti stored in the synthesis globe now is enough to spread over the entire planet and kill all life, and this world will become devoid of life.

There are people called Puppet Masters in this world. They are few, and this is because they control animated objects, which is exactly what we were trying to create. We do not know how the true Masters, which only two of we know to exist, create their runes and enable life force to be sealed into puppets. We do know that Puppets do not eliminate their life force in the same manner as others. Instead, they concentrate it and contain it in entities inside but separate of them, so that they never exceed one hundred percent. This may give new clues on how to create the machine we had aspired to make, but I recommend highly against it. The Apocalypse Engine is made, and nothing can be done about it. Tampering with God's Greatest Creation after these events may be disastrous, which is why the Apocalypse Engine now lies sealed forever within the world.