Elara stood in the observation room overlooking the shielded chamber on Eden Prime. The walls were thick with dampening fields, and the monitors showed steady green lines for now. Veyra had pushed for this calibration trial after the latest Echo Seed data came in.
Minor harmonic drift was showing up in the long-term stabilizer arrays on three remote stations. Not critical yet, but it would compound over months if left unchecked.
"Low-level personal resonance linking," Veyra had explained in the briefing. "It forces alignment at the neural level. We'll keep it controlled."
Elara approved a test group of four. Veyra led it. Sira, the adaptive biology expert, paired naturally with her. Kael handled the technical calibration feeds. Mara monitored security and endurance.
The chamber was set up with four reinforced seats arranged in a tight square, electrodes already attached to temples, spines, and palms. Monitoring arrays covered every vital sign.
