After demonstrating how Venerable Davia Stark could weaponize her excitement and sadness to produce energy beams with different effects, the test resumed.
She began to repeat the same sequence with different emotions.
[Disgust or contempt.]
This produced a dim, brown laser beam that only inflicted surface damage onto the targeting dummy.
Although Venerable Stark was able to muster up a lot of contempt before she channeled this emotion into her weapon, it did not appear to have done too much.
"I speculate that the luminar circuitry pattern converts the emotion of contempt into a different expression." Harry Kaikkonen said. "If you study the data readings related to the luminar circuitry pattern, you will notice that it exhibits energy activity that is more commensurate with higher activity levels. Yet for the effect to lead to an energy beam of reduced power seems wrong and counterintuitive."
"You think that it is producing another effect?"