Alchemical Conversion Engine

Alchemical Conversion Engines (ACEs) are Techmaturgical artifacts left behind by the Architects that allow for the conversion of materials and a reversal of entropy. They allow Tellura to continue existing in an enclosed environment and provide power for most pieces of techmo. They are often studied to gain understanding about the origins of Tellura and to gain more practical pieces of technology to improve the quality of life.

Structure
Aces are increadibly complex and redundant. Most of them seem to be constructed in ways intended to confuse and misslead researchers. It has often been suggested that they are actually puzzles built to drip feed the scientists of Tellura knowledge at a certain rate. Sometimes research done on one Ace will result in refinements to tools that allow researchers on another Ace to dig deeper leading to the beliefe that all the Aces are part of one giant puzzle.

Every Ace eventually melds into the Amalgam as it descends into the earth. Near the top they are relatively simple being constructed of understandable materials and components. Though very advanced compared to anything we can create they are fairly well understood and most of today's techmo is derived from them. As one descends the length of an Ace the components become more complex, intricate, and resilient. Nested spaces begin to appear, spaces that are larger than they could possibly be, or ones that loop back on themselves. Often times this non euclidean structure is still mappable if slightly maddening. Further downwards still any sense of order is abbandoned and regular structure is replaced with organic growth. Here it is almost impossible to trace out whole systems as elements are constantly shifting and sliding around eachother. Rearranging themselves definately, but it's worth noting that they never seem to do this while being observed.

Most Aces have some distinct elements, but their orientation is never the same, each Ace is unique. There is always some sort of core that produces or gathers energy by unknown means. This is often the hardest point of any Ace to reach or understand. Even Mechanica's core while mostly uncovered at this point is very poorly understood. There is a highly redundant nervous system that hooks this core to all the other elements. Extraspacial pocket generators are spread throughout every Ace to enable their akward and impossible plumbing. Also present are Grid transmitters and receivers of various size often hijacked to provide power to techmo.