Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190617222636/@comment-26006155-20190622133951

Going back to testing Option Three, when I plugged in this hypothesis, I noticed some interesting things.

The waterfall glyphs say it would take an enormous amount of power to take the soul from the living monster, saying that this is theoretically possible.

Ambassador pointed out that the monster population isn't that huge. Sans says "you cleared up a lot of room" if you killed 20 or more monsters in the ending tree ( https://pcy.ulyssis.be/undertale/endings.pdf ) and places like Snowdin only require a little power for the Christmas lights and such.

But The Core is a huge futuristic complex resting in the middle of an active lava field! For generating power, it's massive overkill. This fascility was designed by a mad scientist a generate an unimaginable amount of power.. for a purpose far beyond that of powering Xmas lights.

Then, there are hallways with tons of overlapping lasers, paranoid security compared to the fun puzzles Sans and Papyrus gave us earlier.

There are places where the lasers can only be deactivated by the central command. Alphys has to turn them off to free Frisk. Meanwhile, when the puzzles reactivate, it traps all the monsters working in the Core where they are.

If the purpose of these laser arrays was to stop invaders, why do they cut off the vital movements of workers/defenders inside the Core whenever they're activated? Is this a bug, or a feature?

I'm inclined to this it's very much a feature, deliberately designed by Gaster from the beginning when he designed The Core.

It would take almost all the monster souls to gain the power of the Seventh Human Soul, and break the barrier. But a few monsters would still surive inside the Core, trapped in place by the defenses.

A mad scientist of Gaster's calibur who has already learned to steal monsters souls would certainly know that a human's (or ghost's) powers could be greatly augmented by absorbing monster souls.

Monster souls would make a very interesting/useful study. So rather than wanting to kill ALL the monsters, Gaster would want the few that survived to be subdued for capture and experimentation by the Core's inner defenses. Perhaps to farm a colony of them once he got back to his homeworld.

So the design of the Core seems built not only for generating the massive powerful neccessary for stealing monster souls, but as an automatic prison set to activate and capture the remaining monsters after Option Three wiped out most of them breaking the Barrier.

I've been running these ideas around in my head for years now. And I keep finding little details that seem to support this theory, while not finding evidence that debunks it.

So, until someone can point out something that I'm doing something wrong, I'm inclinded to keep up this area of exploration.