"Oh, no, that was just two people, sorry is I wasn't clear. Sparks..." She sighed a bit. Why was no one here from home? Well, except the reindeer, her dingbots, and her weasel...

"Sparks are people like me. And among other things.. out voice harmonics enter what are known as command ranges. Honestly, Tarvek studied this more than I have, all things considered. Actually when he's done dying, I'd kind of love to see his notes, given what Avenka managed toi do my duplicating the command harmonics in my voice. Anyway, all Sparks have a command range, but how strong it is, and how wide depends on the Spark. When working in command ranges, it's easier to get people to obey you. Of course, there are whole fields of study on what makes someone more or less likely to obey a given Spark, or at all. Most often, Sparks are immune to command ranges of other Sparks, but... not always. It's actually a fascinating field for anyone interested in biology, new discoveries are being made constantly. I've always been a bit more focused mechanically, but having seen command harmonics utilized by a a clank body... I have to wonder about the applications in clanks where the original software was not actually a living mind. But that also requires Tarvek's notes, since it's not like Avenka is likely to let me reverse engineer her..."