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Before I do, you first need to know a bit more about bio-crystalline consciousness. If you have ever seen a crystal grow in a super-saturated solution then you will have seen what a bio-crystalline structure looks like. It branches and bifurcates and forms a complex of relationships dictated by local gravity and an internal logic of opportunity.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1a7cym4M5y
What you need to add to that image of almost magical growth is the concept of cellular growth. The crystals have a biological origin. Most bio-crystalline brains are grown deep in space and in an environment where gravitationed effects are minimized. Hence their structure can be determined more by their function than by accidents.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡksg1dwvwKD
As with so much else, the driving power behind bio-crystalline technology is human emotion. Thus, it was very important to the crystals aboard the Galactica that they achieve their final awareness from contact with Adama. He warmed them. They grew under his light. Bio-crystallism is essentially dynamic and full of potential.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeQ69wkHQru
Allow me to describe myself. If you take my lid off you will find that almost every part of my inner structure is linked by thin white threads. They are like roots that have grown under slate or concrete. They are also like the patterns made by frost on a pane of glass. They are strong like roots. They are patterns like frost. Such is my bio-crystalline consciousness and I am a crude machine. I have only a few crystals, but those few permit me to write this biography and study history. They make me Vulpa.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTQDYJHyP32
Imagine then the Galactica.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMfO1796lFL
When I was describing the inner workings of the Galactica many words ago, I deliberately chose not to describe the bio-crystalline chamber at the heart of the great mercystar. Now I am forced to do so.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYvGoLhwl73
The bio-crystalline brain of the Galactica is divided into two parts of which one brain may be called the master and the second, the sub-master. I will describe the sub-master first. The space between the outer hull and the inner walls of that ship is entirely filled with the bio-crystalline structures. They are like white rope. They are like pink coral. They grow in every corner and angle. These crystals control the vast symbol transformation generators. They grow around the outer part of the ship because they need the maximum available area and they function best in a cold vacuum. In their capacity to be logical and illogical simultaneously, they are nearly a law unto themselves, but their loyalty is to the ship and the master consciousness.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYgd9QOxPon
Connected to the sub-master is the internal brain or master which controls all the alien habitats and all local functions. These crystals are located in one spherical chamber some one hundred maxims below Adama's rooms. I have seen pictures of this chamber. It is like a cave filled with cobwebs. The individual see crystals are white studs set around the wall. Everything grows from them. Nothing moves in this sterile chamber. It is as still as the end of time. And yet in every fiber and tendril there are tides of energy flowing. Here is where the complex working of the mercystar is monitored. Not a toilet flushes or door opens without the fact being noted. It is this brain that talks to Adama and weighs the odds and offers him advice and is finally his servant. The bio-crystalline brain is dependent.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrpr547AKCc
Let us not fool ourselves, though: despite the power and the infinitude of reference, the bio-crystalline brain remains more -crystalline than bio- (in saying this I am aware of my earlier comments regarding my preparedness to accommodate the Guell). Let us never underestimate the importance of the moderator, of that thing of logic and intuition which maintains a balance between anarchy and order and contains both kindness and cruelty and has at its disposal a billion yahrens of wisdom built into its cells----I am speaking (if you haven't already figured out) of the human brain.)196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN59sXBv2s4
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We are coming close. Have you spotted the fatal weakness of bio-crystallism yet?"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsFQcZKs11i
