Just starting DMing Starfinder for a friend who bought the book (may or may not play with the whole group after testing it out) and had a couple of fluff questions.
1) I may be misunderstanding the fluff but solarion are supposed to embrace the cycle of life and death that stars follow, which is why your penalized for not keeping your Grav & Photon powers equal, So why are you forced to choose Photon or Grav for your weapon/armor at Lvl 1...shouldnt it change color based on your attunement?
2) How does pure energy deal physical damage and not well energy damage?
Just curious what people think...primarily from a fluff perspective but feel free to give a mechanical reason as well.
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Since stars do collapse into black holes, it is just like choosing which form/point in the cycle you are if you were the star itself. While you have the understanding and potential for all of the abilities, you yourself are a fixed concept. I see it as more of a personality thing, just like how you can have all of the same emotions as me, yet people tend to relate one to you more since that tends to be how you regularly seem in your usual state. As for the pure energy doing physical damage, just think of hard light like a Green Lantern. Sure they can change shapes and whatnot but it still forms into a solid base before anything else.