<div><span style="color: #545353; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Alien space traveling plants... a few ideas.</span></div><span style="color: #545353; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><div><span style="color: #545353; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><br /></span></div>Berthold rays come from Star Trek and of course are amade up radiation. Funny trivia there is actually a company called </span><span style="color: #545353; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Berthold Technologies that specifically deals with radiation protection. </span><div><span style="color: #545353; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #545353; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">So what does this made up radiation do plot wise... well after about one weeks exposure the flesh of an animal begins to break down, it has no effects on plant life. In the series several colony ships and colonies had been sent to a planet and failed for unknown reasons, the planet is a one year trip from Earth btw. Eventually someone figured out </span><span style="color: #545353; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Berthold rays are rare and deadly and so the Enterprise is sent to confirm the latest colonists are all dead too. They never say where this radiation is originating from... I always assumed the sun of that system, but some other natural big space source is possible.</span></div><div><span style="color: #545353; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><br /></span></div><div><font face="Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif" color="#545353"><span style="font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Now of interest is no one is dead except the animal livestock aka lower animal life and it is all because of a plant. In game terms this means the plants only target intelligent species not dumb animals, the plants infect people with spores that cause happiness, harmony, peaceful type emotions, they also improve the physical health of the infected to perfect, body parts even regrow, no sickness. In addition they create a communal group belonging and seem to encourage the infected to spread them so more people can become infected.</span></font></div><div><font face="Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif" color="#545353"><span style="font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><br /></span></font></div><div><font face="Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif" color="#545353"><span style="font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">The plants thrive on </span></font><span style="color: #545353; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Berthold rays and seek that out. Spock and the others seem to know how they spread by drifting through space from </span><span style="color: #545353; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Berthold ray source to the next... I am not sure how intelligent these plants are and control by them is not the same as mindless but more subtle than that. </span></div><div><span style="color: #545353; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #545353; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">The plant’s influences can be fought with anger, agitating stimulus, bad feelings... of not no new progress occurs except what is necessary for the hosts to live, and no children. I did some poking and found a reference that pregnant women when infected give birth to hermaphadite children that might be from a book.</span></div><div><span style="color: #545353; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><br /></span></div><div><font face="Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif" color="#545353"><span style="font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">How this plant survives to spread itself in space, survives planet fall, and what it’s life cycle is is never revealed... </span></font></div><div><font face="Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif" color="#545353"><span style="font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><br /></span></font></div><div><font face="Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif" color="#545353"><span style="font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">The Day Of The Triffids </span></font></div><div><font face="Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif" color="#545353"><span style="font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><br /></span></font></div><div><font face="Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif" color="#545353"><span style="font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">This is a less friendly interplanetary visiting plant... carnivorous it comes in meteorite showers which cause blindness in people, they can walk, are attracted to noise, shoot poison and eat animal life. </span></font></div><div><font face="Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif" color="#545353"><span style="font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><br /></span></font></div><div><font face="Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif" color="#545353"><span style="font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Rainbow Mars</span></font></div><div><font face="Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif" color="#545353"><span style="font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><br /></span></font></div><div><font face="Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif" color="#545353"><span style="font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">A book which is great fun to read if you have read lots of old Mars based novels... basically the tree of life on Mars is a huge alien plant that travels from world to world destroying each planet it lands on, sucking up the resources till it launches itself out into space again... and it is huge. Life can exist in the tree making it to the next planet, but all worlds it feeds on are doomed. </span></font></div><div><font face="Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif" color="#545353"><span style="font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><br /></span></font></div><div><font face="Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif" color="#545353"><span style="font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">The Stage Tree </span></font></div><div><font face="Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif" color="#545353"><span style="font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">From </span></font><span style="color: #545353; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Larry Niven’s </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #545353; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Known Space</span><span style="color: #545353; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"> series. Genetically engineered to be solid-fuel rockets. Beginning their lives as “stage bushes,” when ignited they will blast off and send seeds blowing in every direction! If the stage tree gets to its much larger life cycle it becomes a multi-stage rocket nearly half a mile tall. These rockets will eventually blast off and spread their seeds onto distant worlds capable of supporting life.</span></div><div><span style="color: #545353; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #545353; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">The Little Shop Of Horrors Plant</span></div><div><span style="color: #545353; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #545353; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">An intelligent thinking eating plant from space.</span></div><div><font face="Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif" color="#545353"><span style="font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><br /></span></font></div><div><font face="Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif" color="#545353"><span style="font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Anyway a few ideas to get Space Plants going... </span></font></div><div><font face="Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif" color="#545353"><span style="font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><br /></span></font></div><div><font face="Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif" color="#545353"><span style="font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><br /></span></font></div>
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