F-090: Spanial (Hyperspace to Mundo Zargo), Common Area

Oliver has a clear sense that there’s tension between Kort and Karmen; the rest of the crew (except Lia, who seems entranced with the vid) are looking to Karmen to take a lead on this development.  However, she’s playing her cards close, so no-one is saying anything.

When Oliver pauses the image, whether through his skill with such things or happenstance, he catches it framed clearly on the Yarg.

Imagine a dodecahedron, a d12, with heavily rounded corners.  Now stick on twelve silvery tentacles so that the root of each one neatly covers one of the twelve faces.  Make each tentacle about twice as long as the diameter of the dodecahedron.  Note that the silver tentacles shimmer with colours like mother-of-pearl.  Make the central mass about 3/4 a meter in diameter, so that, if it were fully extended with tentacles out, the Yarg would fill a sphere about 3.75m in diameter, though the one on the screen is much smaller than that, its tentacles being mostly bent and close to the centre.

Over each tentacle, put a metal ring, with several more of decreasing diameter along the tentacle length.  Join them up with a clear transparent film, like tough cling-wrap, so that the Yarg looks like it’s in a plastic bag confined by metal rings.  Fill the bag with clear liquid.  Now imagine a series of electrical arcs between the Yarg and the metal deck, the arcs lighting the scene with a hard blue-white light.  Attach to some of the metal rings various devices, at least one of which is some sort of weapon, and you have some idea of what is shown on the screen.