[Susan sounds genuinely interested when she asks,] What is unusual about the bio-scanner in comparison to the technology that you're familiar with?
[For the most part, the Time Lords avoid the regions of space-time controlled by the Spacing Guild. It is known, in the way that all things to do with time are known to 'the Time Lords' as a people, but few of their number are actually well-versed in the details of the era and locale. Susan is not one of those few.]
[Susan sets the coordinates, murmuring absently about "eight legs" as she does so, and the grinding hum begins again as the crystalline cylinder atop the control column rises and falls in a steady rhythm. One of the display screens, showing the environment outside of the ship, fades into a kaleidoscopic swirl of color and light. She points to that screen and says,] That is the Time Vortex. Or rather, how the TARDIS's sensors can translate the Vortex to be understood by our eyes.
It is a pathway forged by the Time Lords to travel to anywhere and anywhen, and how our TARDISes move in time and space. It is infinite strands of energy neither separated from nor connected to all of space-time, criss-crossing in a recursive fractal pattern that cannot be held within a fifth-dimensional mind.
[Susan winks.] And I think it's quite pretty to look at, don't you?
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Date: 2022-09-17 09:27 pm (UTC)[For the most part, the Time Lords avoid the regions of space-time controlled by the Spacing Guild. It is known, in the way that all things to do with time are known to 'the Time Lords' as a people, but few of their number are actually well-versed in the details of the era and locale. Susan is not one of those few.]
[Susan sets the coordinates, murmuring absently about "eight legs" as she does so, and the grinding hum begins again as the crystalline cylinder atop the control column rises and falls in a steady rhythm. One of the display screens, showing the environment outside of the ship, fades into a kaleidoscopic swirl of color and light. She points to that screen and says,] That is the Time Vortex. Or rather, how the TARDIS's sensors can translate the Vortex to be understood by our eyes.
It is a pathway forged by the Time Lords to travel to anywhere and anywhen, and how our TARDISes move in time and space. It is infinite strands of energy neither separated from nor connected to all of space-time, criss-crossing in a recursive fractal pattern that cannot be held within a fifth-dimensional mind.
[Susan winks.] And I think it's quite pretty to look at, don't you?