DN-005-Glimmer Caps
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Landon and his crew filled the hallways, leading to the lab, with as many plants and controlled living organisms that they could. They were filled from the floor, where the heaviest of species settled, to the ceiling, where they seemed to have forgotten gravity existed. Or maybe gravity just never applied to them at all. The overhead grow lights mixed with the radiating bioluminescence overlaid the dark space with an effervescent mix of colors that all seemed to fade into a purple glow throughout.
The glimmer caps caught my eye first. Because, well how could they not? Each species of varying sizes, colors, and illuminations. The glow throughout each one flowed in and out of a dimmed state, yet they all flowed together in waves. Even the ones that were across from each other in the lab. There was something that kept them connected in communication or reaction. I couldn’t tell, but sometimes with some species it’s never clear no matter how much is communication and how much is a stimulus reaction. Both could be argued very deeply into their opposing direction.
I brought them back to the lab and set them on the table. They are mesmerizing. They are similar to what you would consider to be mushrooms I think on Earth, but from a whole other world… These seem the same but.. Different.. Really different. Maybe only different because of how they were allowed to evolve. A lot of the stelaflora that you see in space is similar to what you would encounter on Earth, but Earth has its limitations in its environment. But where some species see limitations, other species see the opportunity to thrive. It makes you wonder if maybe the plant world itself has its own set of perspectives based on what it knows for survival. Evidence of an embedded evolutional memory? I mean, some of the properties you can’t really see or understand yet with where we are in this period of evolution.
But that’s a tangent… Ok, glimmer caps.
They are these little mushroom-like specimens that internally glow. They are all connected in this intricate delicate network of electrical impulses that travel through the ground. What is really cool about them is the xenodexi that they hold. They have the ability to harness telepathy but they also have the potential to melt your brain as well. An incredibly broad scope of possibilities. So you need to be careful and selective… but mostly very careful.
After my first day of studying them, I realize this is something we definitely need to construct an environment for, in order to continue our studies. There would be no way to figure out their full potential in only one day. And we need to relocate them before they die since they are so fragile.
For each environment, you need to analyze the value of holding the specimens depending on environmental resource allocation. For example, if something requires a lot of sunlight, humidity and power in a large area, it would annihilate our limited resources up here. Maybe even in one day, without scaling the production of energy accordinly. Depending on what that teleflora yielded, it might not be worth it. So we need to analyze every situation.
So I reviewed the glimmer cap properties, xenodexi and resource requirements with Boss, and it was apparent that these were concentrated. Since they are so small, they wouldn’t take up too much space, making whatever energy consumption they would need worth it. So he went ahead and gave me clearance to turn research environment 36 into a sufficient environment to begin with propagations.
With the help of Ziggy and Blip we were able to put the environment together before the end of the day. And let me tell you, when it was all said and done it was beautiful. They glowed together and their glow responded to you speaking to it almost as if it knew what you were saying with a wave of luminous fluctuations. They slowly emit a little of Zepherian gas as well which is just really calming. It almost smells like lavender. I swear I could have stayed there all night. It might be my new favorite growing room.
