Lt Vylaa zh'Tisav: Faraday To The Rescue
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Andrew B
May 12, 2026, 11:16:00 AM (22 hours ago) May 12
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((Moss Fields, Gateside Dimension))
Vylaa had tested an idea that thought could affect the local plantlife, then watched Sevo look down, and she didn’t need to be a telepath to know what she was doing. The child-like curiosity of a scientist was on full display here, and it was saying “Oooh, let me try!” And the evidence of her attempt was soon made known when a tiny shoot burst from the ground for a few moments before retreating.
Sevo: Whoo. :: Pant. :: Looks like there’s something to it.
Kairis: Response
Sevo: It took all my concentration to do that. The place may be reacting to our subconscious thoughts.
zh’Tisav: Yeah, I wouldn’t try that much. It gave me a mild headache, you might burst a capillary.
Kairis: Response
Sevo: Maybe there’s an overarching intelligence controlling the place, and it is far too strong to overcome, even locally.
That made sense to Vylaa, sort of. It would explain why she couldn’t fully block the mental intrusions, just like when she visited her Grandshreya’s city under the ice as a child. The first visit had been spent in tears in the presence of thousands of transmitting minds; gradually her control had improved but never as well as a full-blooded Aenar.
Kairis: Response
Ayiana addressed Vylaa.
Sevo: I wonder if your stronger mental powers made it easier for you to affect that sapling? I wonder what would happen if a Vulcan or Betazoid tried.
zh’Tisav: Aren’t Vulcans touch telepaths? It’d be hard to do that with these things on.
She held up a hand encased in it’s clunky, radiation resistant glove.
Kairis: Response
zh’Tisav: I imagine a mind meld would end like what happened to those scientists back at the station. Dead, and very puppet-like.
Sevo: Eh, maybe not. I was thinking more akin to their ordered minds and mental physiology that gives them telepathy. There have been numerous cases of Vulcans being affected by psychic effects without being touched. Maybe that’s enough.
Kairis: Response
Something glinted on the nearest sapling, catching the Andorian’s eye. A small cluster of berries, tiny and black, caught the dim ruddy light. She leaned a bit closer, and the cluster seemed to follow her movement. A wider inspection told Vylaa this wasn’t the only tree with them.
zh’Tisav: Hey, you see these berries?
Sevo: I wouldn’t suggest eating them, if that’s what you’re asking.
Kairis: Response
zh’Tisav: I don’t think they’re berries. I think they’re some sort of eye. Watch.
She waved a hand in front of the nearest cluster. The tiny stem they hung from twisted, following her movement. Ayiana followed suit with a different cluster, getting much the same response before yanking her hand away as if in fear.
Sevo: Okay, that is freaky. But it could be some sort of natural reaction, too.
zh’Tisav: Possibly. Actually, I hope it is, because knowing we’re surrounded by eyes is a bit much, even for me.
Kairis: Response
Sevo: Well, it seems like every life form here is part plant, including the animals. Maybe this…plant uses these berry-looking parts to “see” and it just instinctively moves towards nearby things; kind of like how normal plants in our world move their leaves along with the sun.
zh’Tisav: I’ll take your word for it, I don’t think Andorian plants actually do that...
Kairis: Response
Sevo: ::Shrugging.:: It’s just a hypothesis. There’s no way to know which it could be. We’d better be cautious, just in case something is watching us.
zh’Tisav: Agreed, because we still need to find the freaking gate among all this.
Kairis: Response
Vylaa lifted her tricorder, running some passive scans, having learned from Thea’s attempt at an active scan to keep things simple. She rotated through multiple scans, seeing mostly gibberish, but went back to the EM band when something in her mind clicked.
zh’Tisav: Hmmm, the EM density changes. ::She moved the tricorder , taking a few steps in one direction, the reversing and going in another.:: There’s definitely a pattern, it’s stronger in only one direction.
Sevo / Kairis: Response
zh’Tisav: Well, the plants have a metallic component, just like on the other side. Faraday’s Law states that a changing magnetic flux through a conductor induces an negative flux in the conductor, meaning an EM field creates an equal and opposite EM field. I’d theorize that the gate’s energy field is inducing a field in the nearby plantlife, and those plants are then inducing fields in plants further out, in a decaying pattern.
Sevo / Kairis: Response
zh’Tisav: We could follow the density patterns back to the gate. Even the moss we’re standing on is a plant, it’s like we’re standing on a giant EM antenna.
They couldn’t see it through her helmet, but Vylaa’s own antennae were a-quiver with excitement at the idea.
Sevo / Kairis: Response
Vylaa had tested an idea that thought could affect the local plantlife, then watched Sevo look down, and she didn’t need to be a telepath to know what she was doing. The child-like curiosity of a scientist was on full display here, and it was saying “Oooh, let me try!” And the evidence of her attempt was soon made known when a tiny shoot burst from the ground for a few moments before retreating.
Sevo: Whoo. :: Pant. :: Looks like there’s something to it.
Kairis: Response
Sevo: It took all my concentration to do that. The place may be reacting to our subconscious thoughts.
zh’Tisav: Yeah, I wouldn’t try that much. It gave me a mild headache, you might burst a capillary.
Kairis: Response
Sevo: Maybe there’s an overarching intelligence controlling the place, and it is far too strong to overcome, even locally.
That made sense to Vylaa, sort of. It would explain why she couldn’t fully block the mental intrusions, just like when she visited her Grandshreya’s city under the ice as a child. The first visit had been spent in tears in the presence of thousands of transmitting minds; gradually her control had improved but never as well as a full-blooded Aenar.
Kairis: Response
Ayiana addressed Vylaa.
Sevo: I wonder if your stronger mental powers made it easier for you to affect that sapling? I wonder what would happen if a Vulcan or Betazoid tried.
zh’Tisav: Aren’t Vulcans touch telepaths? It’d be hard to do that with these things on.
She held up a hand encased in it’s clunky, radiation resistant glove.
Kairis: Response
zh’Tisav: I imagine a mind meld would end like what happened to those scientists back at the station. Dead, and very puppet-like.
Sevo: Eh, maybe not. I was thinking more akin to their ordered minds and mental physiology that gives them telepathy. There have been numerous cases of Vulcans being affected by psychic effects without being touched. Maybe that’s enough.
Kairis: Response
Something glinted on the nearest sapling, catching the Andorian’s eye. A small cluster of berries, tiny and black, caught the dim ruddy light. She leaned a bit closer, and the cluster seemed to follow her movement. A wider inspection told Vylaa this wasn’t the only tree with them.
zh’Tisav: Hey, you see these berries?
Sevo: I wouldn’t suggest eating them, if that’s what you’re asking.
Kairis: Response
zh’Tisav: I don’t think they’re berries. I think they’re some sort of eye. Watch.
She waved a hand in front of the nearest cluster. The tiny stem they hung from twisted, following her movement. Ayiana followed suit with a different cluster, getting much the same response before yanking her hand away as if in fear.
Sevo: Okay, that is freaky. But it could be some sort of natural reaction, too.
zh’Tisav: Possibly. Actually, I hope it is, because knowing we’re surrounded by eyes is a bit much, even for me.
Kairis: Response
Sevo: Well, it seems like every life form here is part plant, including the animals. Maybe this…plant uses these berry-looking parts to “see” and it just instinctively moves towards nearby things; kind of like how normal plants in our world move their leaves along with the sun.
zh’Tisav: I’ll take your word for it, I don’t think Andorian plants actually do that...
Kairis: Response
Sevo: ::Shrugging.:: It’s just a hypothesis. There’s no way to know which it could be. We’d better be cautious, just in case something is watching us.
zh’Tisav: Agreed, because we still need to find the freaking gate among all this.
Kairis: Response
Vylaa lifted her tricorder, running some passive scans, having learned from Thea’s attempt at an active scan to keep things simple. She rotated through multiple scans, seeing mostly gibberish, but went back to the EM band when something in her mind clicked.
zh’Tisav: Hmmm, the EM density changes. ::She moved the tricorder , taking a few steps in one direction, the reversing and going in another.:: There’s definitely a pattern, it’s stronger in only one direction.
Sevo / Kairis: Response
zh’Tisav: Well, the plants have a metallic component, just like on the other side. Faraday’s Law states that a changing magnetic flux through a conductor induces an negative flux in the conductor, meaning an EM field creates an equal and opposite EM field. I’d theorize that the gate’s energy field is inducing a field in the nearby plantlife, and those plants are then inducing fields in plants further out, in a decaying pattern.
Sevo / Kairis: Response
zh’Tisav: We could follow the density patterns back to the gate. Even the moss we’re standing on is a plant, it’s like we’re standing on a giant EM antenna.
They couldn’t see it through her helmet, but Vylaa’s own antennae were a-quiver with excitement at the idea.
Sevo / Kairis: Response
Lt Vylaa zh'Tisav
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USS Gorkon
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