But see now what you had to understand was that all the cores generators and reactors weren't all purely electrical by nature .. they were all elementally 'influenced'/charged but that didn't mean all were electrically powered necessarily. 

Moreso than just for mere offensive purposes and intentions (though that's what the esper alliance specters have popularized) emittance from the scepters can be used to ward off ulterior energies, spirits and (counter) aurals. 

STANCHIONS

the first prototypes were of course elementary as expected .. and both the shivas and pyros were literal stanchion-posits or skeletal movers along the horizons-axis. 

CASCADE ZILVERSTEIN: Cause you’ve got the ores and the refineries .. moving the shards inland was one thing. 

Distortion canal jets you right past the second ring into the hub/core.

XON ZAMMERSTEIN: See what you've got to understand now is that the core is not just a physical enterprise or digital for that matter but rather also a cybernetic, hallucinogenic and illusory even spiritual (meta)plane as well .. orbsters, well now specters who understand and utilize this connection slash interplay make a killing in node allocation. 

It's like an armageddon played out by mecha .. unknown if that was the sides (alias and esper) initial intentions but is what transpired effectively. 

THE INTERFACE 

IXLE PENNINGTON: We'd all figured the next logical step .. that once they found a new source they'd stop utilizing the [meta]entheogen and in [the interface] they found that indeed.