Talisman

Religious symbol, artifact

TSDA04 Dawn Arrives/15, 16; COASA01 Rogue Operator/01, 2

When Bethany Anne came to Earth to rescue Michael, she found that Yuko, Akio and Michael were in the process of unearthing the 16 crates of a Kurtherian Space Ship left on Earth by one of the Seven Clans who had visited earlier. It had been guarded in Asia, mostly China, by a Chinese Sacred Clan. In unpacking the crates, Giles came across a very peculiar disc, which didn't seem to fit into the parts. He thought it might have been of special significance, so borrowed it to study further. It was, and its adventure is told in another book.

It was discovered that the talismans had certain… magical properties. All things have a power to them. A property, like entropy. Or temperature. Some objects, or places, or people, have more of this power than others. Some places have a ground energy, too, meaning that it is easier to manifest certain things in that place than others. Estaria has a slightly higher power than most planets, and that’s why they have such a high incidence of their ancestors having been able to ascend and realm-walk. And sometimes objects have so much power that someone who is attuned can pull energy from it, and use it to move things around in this realm - making things happen, or transmuting matter or energy into one form of another.” It’s kind of like this. Your brain emits certain frequencies, depending on the thoughts you think. But for those who have total control and awareness of the frequencies they have, they can use this to resonate with, and affect, matter in the physical world. Some people just prefer to call it magic.

So, (Giles said) when we started putting all this data together I started wondering if there were other talismans, like the one I’d found on the ship (The Second Dark Ages ). And the six sections on it looked awfully like constellations as seen from areas like Earth, Estaria and the original planet of the Zhyn Empire - Zhyn.” That, together with the uncanny DNA similarities between the Estarians and the Zhyn made me wonder if there weren’t some other association between them. Then there is the nursery rhyme about the Moons of Orn (See Miscellaneous,Nursery Rhyme, Moons of Orn). It got me wondering if that was where the Zhyn talisman might be hiding, and when Arlene checked the constellations on the talisman - taking into account the 100,000-year lag time - it looked like that could very well have been the constellations looking from the Moons of Orn, back into space as seen from Earth, in the Pan Galaxy, pointing back in the direction of this spot.

They want to look for a talisman that may well tell us more about the Zhyn/Estarian collective heritage.