Logical reason why this creature saves its digested victims consciousness?
So, there is a monstrous creature called the Tayan. It was created many thousand years ago by a hyper advanced race that created it as a sort of biological torture mechanism.
It's so huge it can swallow a weight class 7B creature (human sized) whole, and digest it without breaking a sweat. If you go down into the main digestion stomach, you will most likely be killed in about 5 years, after much pain and agony.
But some victims are sent to the secondary stomach, were they are paralyzed by neurotoxins and kept in pain for up to 30 years, until the Tayan needs extra energy during spore season. But, unknown to most of the Tayan's victims, a worse fate soon awaits those in the belly of the beast.
While a victim lays paralyzed in the Tayans stomach, the creature slowly leeches away a creatures "neural energy" the energy that contains intelligent creatures memories, thoughts, and personalities. After the leeching is finished, the victim and Tayan become one, and the victims consciousness becomes essentially immortal, living out the rest of the Tayan's 10,000 year lifetime. The entire "˜leeching' process takes a lot of energy, from start to finish, so my question is what is a logical reason why a Tayan would save a victims consciousness?
-The Tayan is an Animal, but it can also photosynthesize.
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I feel like the answer to this one is already in the question.
It was created many thousand years ago by a hyper advanced race that created it as a sort of biological torture mechanism.
You're correct that in evolutionary terms, such an expensive digestion system makes no sense. But since we're dealing with a creature that was genetically-engineered by Sufficiently-Advanced Aliens for the sole purpose of torturing people, that kinda goes out the window.
So the retention of its victims' souls is just another part of the torture. You've endured years of agony being slowly digested in its stomach, you think you've finally been put out of your misery... but now you're part of it, helpless to do anything but watch as others suffer the same fate as you did, over and over again for thousands of years. I dunno about you, but that sounds pretty horrifying to me.
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