[Coldsaturn]

There's a youtuber I've already talked to you about who does very good meta analysis videos of LADS who covered protofields in her latest video, and talked about these shapes. I can't yet share it with you because it would count as spoilers for World Underneath, but there are a couple of points I can tell you about:

- The flux nexus (the stone thing MC uses twice in the main story to get access to the protocore stored in it) looks ancient.
- Sylus tells MC that despite everyone dating the discovery of protocores to the Chronorift Catastrophe, they existed on Earth long before that moment.
- Can't go in details, but Lemurians are involved somehow
- Sylus and Xavier are the only two LIs who recognized what a Flux Nexus is. Others might know, but canon only gives us those two officially. And both are coming from the future, Xav in particular showing those same markings in the palace. We don't know yet if that's a knowledge that has reached the future in a linear way, or if this is a case of the backtrackers bringing a piece of info with them into the past, thus allowing for that piece of info to exist in the first place and then reach them into the future where they come from.
- Since it's in Wanderers' protofields, I'd say whatever human-made object uses it is only copying/harnessing something they've seen occurring naturally.