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The society of Humane Methods, like any other society, relies on energy supplies in order to remain functional. In the world of Humane Methods this energy is collected by industrial robots from particular types of fungi that are born in the soil but then later merge with human bodies. The Kernel is where the energy extraction process takes place.

The Kernel is divided in two rooms, the Engine room and the Children room. The Engine room hosts an industrial robot that, directed by the Overseer, harvest energy by picking a living fungus. It is not clear whether the Overseer has maintained any human feature from the Old World. It is believed that the Overseer was installed into the Engine room, physically and sensorially linked to the robotic arm soon after the Event, which marked the end of the Old World. This may have been the last attempt by the people of the Old World to savage their technologies, which, in their techno-fanatic culture were equal to salvation from any incident.

While the automated harvesting process is highly effective, some rhizomes of the fungus may sometime escape the cutting tip of the robot arm. The salvaged rhizome are then moved to the Children room. Here they are allowed to grow and mature. As they grow, their bodies become increasingly similar to human ones, and yet, their sensorial, cognitive and world experience remains that of a fungus.

The people of the Humane Methods world have gathered information that show that this phenomena may be due to the influence of the Oracle, whose transformative power, as it is well known, radiates well beyond the four walls within the δISSOLUTION room, where it resides.