Seastars

Seastar Communication
Seastar communication or starcomm for short or SC for shorter still, is a device used by hunter's association as a means to communicate between users, regardless of distance, instantly. It is made from a separated limb of Kriptca, the corrupted loa of the seastar. When the hunter's association was asked for help in cleansing the undersea cave, they found out that Kriptca was able to communicate between its pieces telepathically. After Kriptca was subjugated, the hunter's association bargained with other parties involved to spare Kriptca in order to be used as a research material. After much discussion an agreement was achieved. With the help of the crows to maintain control in undersea cave and salamanders to do the research, a communication device was invented using Kriptca's telepathic communication.

SC is grown from pieces of Kriptca's limbs that is grown in a controlled manner by the salamanders. This process produces a distinct SC that everyone can communicate to given the person calling know the identity of the target's SC. To call a distinct SC, a person only needed to press a specific sequence of nubs on the back of the seastar and waited for the recipient to push the central mouth of the seastar to answer the call. The central mouth of the seastar emits sound while one of the limb receive sound that's transmitted to the recipient.

SC can also be grown from a distinct SC by cutting its limbs and wait for each limb to grow into a full seastar. SC grown this way is called copy SC and can't be communicated to by other distinct SC while the original distinct SC that the copy SC was grown from can function as usual while also communicate with its copies. Copy SCs is primarily used by a hunting party to be able to communicate efficiently during a hunt and it's also easier to use because one only needed to press the center nub of the copy SC once to allow it to receive and emit sound from other copies and another press to disable its function. Using this copy principle, one can also tap into other people's conversation using distinct SCs if somehow that person managed to make an SC from the original Kriptca himself.