>>25202441>>25202441While I think you're on the right track anon, but consider the following:
>Magiana was the first attempt to harness a pokemon's power via a conduit, allowing use for combat or war purposes without having to train them and hope the follow orders>eventually, via exposure to pokemon/life energy, Magiana is given sentience and the project is cancelled because magiana effectively just became a new pokemon rather than a tool to harness a pokemon's power>They keep trying, eventually streamlining the process into a form where pokemon, when weakened, can be converted into pure life energy, and captured in a ball>at first, these attempts are seemingly successful>However, after being stored for too long, the containing unit and the pokemon's life energy became irreversibly fused, and developed sentience of it's own en masse>the modern day pokeball uses a very similar process, but is insulated to keep a pokemon's life energy from mingling with the pokeball itself 