mother cyst

No surprise this kind of biology would give rise to the mother cysts."

The slime poured from a cracked mother cyst six meters away.

He had just finished excavating his twelfth mother cyst.

I spent dozens of hours in a pressure suit, accompanying my husband across the lava ridges to deep gorges where mother cysts might be found.

Fossil mother cysts were most often buried a few meters below the lip of a gorge, revealed by landslides.

The Cyane Sulci team had finished a larger test dome for the first big experiment with the intact mother cysts.

During one memorable day away from my duties, he showed me a broad canyon in Cyane Sulci chosen for a major mother cyst experiment.

Majumdar spoke to us enthusiastically about the mother cysts and how, in the last twenty years, they had finally shown us more of their varied offspring.

We ate quickly and Schovinski showed us through a shored-up and still-damp tunnel to the lab where fossil mother cysts had once been prepared for experiments in the domes.

I knew little about the mother cysts - single-organism repositories of the post-Tharsis Omega Ecos, a world's life in a patient nutshell, parents of the aqueduct bridges.

A single mother cyst, blessed with proper conditions, could "bloom" and produce well over ten thousand different varieties of offspring, plant-like and animal-like forms together, designed to interact as an ecos.

I picked up my slate and searched for a good picture and yes, there he was, smiling over a mother cyst at Cyane Sulci, and here on the day of our ceremony, uncomfortable in a formal suit.