Quick Q & A
Dragonaut -The Resonance- is full of confusing terms and ideas (and not just because it's a terrible series that you shouldn't be watching in the first place). Let's face it, if you want to understand all this rambling about "Resonances" and crap, you're going to have to brush up on your dragonaut knowledge...
What
is a dragon? In Dragonaut a dragon is an alien born from an egg hatched by Thanatos (see
the MUTHA FUCKING SPACE DRAGON below). Dragons are essentially creatures without individual identities or drives, just probes and other lovely things to their dear mother (call intergalactic
child services). When dragons come into contact with a creature from another
species they can perform a Resonance with it. The Resonance process furnishes dragons with emotions and personalities based on what their partner desires most. There are two types of dragons
seen in dragonaut - "Earth born" ones (whipped dragons
from Earth that are owned by humans) and "Original" ones (creatures
sent directly from Thanatos. Superior, but prone to dying).
What
is a Resonance? Some kind of magic voodoo soul-bonding astral plane
shit. Dragons need to Resonate with humans in order to feel human emotion
and take human form. Until they perform a Resonance, dragons are merely an extension of Thanatos - an aspect of her metabrain. The "Communicator" form that a dragon takes is directly linked to
whatever Freudian craziness is going on inside their Master's head at the
time (as dragons take the shape of whatever their human partner needs most).
This explains the abundance of great dragon racks in the series. While a dragon is gifted with human emotions (and a human form) through the Resonance process, whether their emotions are truly their own (or merely artificial) is never made clear.
What
is Thanatos? In Greek mythology you'd know him as the personification
of death. In Dragonaut Thanatos is the GIANT SPACE DRAGON of UNKNOWN
ORIGIN that VAPORISED THE HELL OUT OF PLUTO. Although she is revealed to
be a female (that breeds asexually), Thanatos simply looks like a huge dragon
diorama made by a fourth grader out of nothing but rocks and ear wax. She sends her eggs down to planets in order hatch them before they're generally assimilated back into her hivemind society. Lonely but
very possessive, it's not recommended that you click on her Craigslist ad.
Further terminology
Actualize: A dragon's transformation from Communicator to dragon form.
Communicator: A dragon's human guise.
CSS: An electromagnetic field that weakens dragons. When a CSS field is active, a dragon cannot Actualize.
ISDA: Short for International Solarsystem Development Agency, an amalgamated Earth space agency. Its base is centered around the New Ogasawara (新小笠原) archipelago, though it also has a base on the moon.
Tartarus: An ISDA island facility used for both dragon experimentation and disposal.