The Mech Touch

6929  The Astral Mirror

The formation master that already earned the moniker of Farseer possessed amazing capabilities.

She casually demonstrated her ability to observe distant locations by using a mirror made out of high-grade hyper materials to conjure up a view of an ongoing conference of a large industrial company taking place in a meeting room in Sandan down on the surface of New Constantinople VIII!

Ves looked impressed as he looked at what was basically a live feed of a sensitive corporate meeting!

"It even has sound!" He gasped in surprise. "Can you transmit messages through this mirror?"

"No." Andrea Vos shook her head as she maintained her concentration to keep up the 'live feed'. "Scrying is the act of glimpsing events from afar. My Astral Mirror can channel what I am able to sense on a surface that can be watched by others, but I am not able to establish a two-way communication channel. That requires a different set of techniques and spell arrays that I have yet to master."

She maintained the scrying feed for a dozen more seconds before she cut it off. What she had done was technically a violation of privacy laws, but neither of the two cared about this little detail.

Ves thought of all of the implications of having a formation master who specialized in scrying in his crew. The Farseer had immediately demonstrated her value to him. He immediately concluded that he had to secure her allegiance.

Information was power. Being able to spy on unsuspecting people and aliens from afar was a fantastic capability!

Her addition to the Bluejay Fleet alone made up for the absence of a couple of human phase lords.

While those big boys from the Flesh Chopper Phalanx could help the Premier Fleet win battles that it otherwise should have lost, a strong intelligence asset such as the Farseer could help the Larkinsons avoid those costly confrontations in the first place!

The superior intelligence gathering capabilities of a specialized scryer was just what the Premier Fleet needed to navigate the dangerous new frontier!