Having now established a secure perimeter, we have made ourselves
relatively safe from enemy incursions. But against the seemingly
random attacks by Planet's native life only our array of warning
sensors can help us, for the Mind Worms infiltrate through every crevice
and chew through anything softer than plasmasteel.
-- Lady Deirdre Skye,
"The Early Years"
relatively safe from enemy incursions. But against the seemingly
random attacks by Planet's native life only our array of warning
sensors can help us, for the Mind Worms infiltrate through every crevice
and chew through anything softer than plasmasteel.
-- Lady Deirdre Skye,
"The Early Years"
Related:
- As the writhing, teeming mass of Mind Worms swarmed over the outer
perimeter,
we saw the defenders recoil in horror. "Stay calm!... - Symbols are the key to telepathy. The mind wraps its
secrets in symbols;
when we discover the symbols that shape our enemy's... - The fungus has been Planet's dominant lifeform since about
the time of the Lower Paleozoic on Earth.
But when, once every hundred million years or so, the... - Although Planet's native life is based, like Earth's,
on right-handed DNA, and codes for all the same amino... - Eternity lies ahead of us, and behind.
Have you drunk your fill?
Lady Deirdre Skye, "Conversations with... - I believe Planet will talk to us if we are willing
to listen.
These fungal stalks behave as multistate relays: taken... - The prevalence of anoxic environments rich in organic material,
combined with the presence of nitrated compounds has... - No longer mere earthbeings and planetbeings are we,
but bright children of the stars! And together we shall... - In the great commons at Gaia's Landing we have a tall and particularly
beautiful stand of white pine,
planted at the time of the first colonies. It represents...
From the same category:
- This unusual specimen is not so much a classic particle as a
connector-
a kind of string attaching two particles. As distance... - I loved my chosen. How then to face the day when she left me?
So I took from her body a single cell, perhaps to love... - Human behavior is economic behavior. The particulars may vary,
but competition for limited resources remains a constant... - The Morgans fear what may not be purchased, for a trader cannot
comprehend a thing that is priceless.
Sister Miriam Godwinson, "The Collected... - You are orphans, earthdeirdre, your homeworld already buried
so young among the aeons.
Yet now you fill the skies where we watched a million...
