House Tindal. Physicist, Head of the Crystal One development team and all around curious man. A late term cancer patient, Dr. Gage heads out to Bellisarius Territory to settle his own curiosity about some flaws in the eyewitness reports. He now finds himself spending the last days of his life with his reformed team of Crystal One scientists in an attempt to prevent the literal end of the world.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. Arthur C. Clarke
Corollary: Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
– Barry Gehm