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"The veins and muscles that hold our galaxies together."

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– Paul Stamets, 2256 ("Context Is for Kings")

The mycelial network was a discrete subspace domain containing the mycelium,
or roots, of the fungus Prototaxites stellaviatori. The network could be
conceptualized as a vast microscopic web, an intergalactic ecosystem, or an
infinite number of roads leading everywhere. It spanned the entire multiverse that The mycelial network.

included the known universe and all other quantum realities. (DIS: "Choose Your
Pain", "Despite Yourself")

Its matter inside the network was different from that in normal space. The JahSepp
were a species that specialized in breaking down all matter that entered the Inside the mycelial network
mycelial network to make it useful in new ways. (DIS: "Saints of Imperfection")

The intersection between the mycelial network and normal space was called the mycelial barrier. A ship utilizing
spore drive existed inside the mycelial network for a few miliseconds during a jump. A partial jump on a
predetermined course with no set end point could leave the ship half in, half out of the network, the ship functioning
as a doorstop. While inside the network, mycelia would attack and decompose the ship, although it took some time
to eat through tritanium. (DIS: "Saints of Imperfection")

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Applications Edit

The network could be accessed via the mycelium spores of P. stellaviatori. At least two technologies were based on

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it, the Terran Empire's super-mycelial reactor, and Starfleet's

JokeyPsych Spore drive. Additionally, lifeforms such as the
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"tardigrade" could travel through the network naturally. (DIS: "Choose Your Pain", "What's Past Is Prologue")
GalaxyQuest

Those traveling along the network might find themselves near-instantaneously transported over long distances, or
to the same coordinates in a different universe. While traveling to another universe, there was a risk of
"overshooting" and arriving months later than intended. (DIS: "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry",
"Despite Yourself", "What's Past Is Prologue")

The multiverse Edit

While experimenting with spore drive, USS Discovery found pockets of negative mass within the data it
accumulated. The crew theorized that these could indicate alternative parallel universes connected to the mycelial
network. However, the exact coordinates of some of these more esoteric destinations eluded the ship, until Lorca
managed to fill in these gaps using a highly complex jump pattern. With these coordinates, Discovery attained the
ability to cross into the Mirror universe. (DIS: "Into the Forest I Go", "Despite Yourself")

2250s threat Edit

"They have created a super-mycelial reactor on the Charon, and it's destroying the network."
– Paul Stamets, 2257 ("What's Past Is Prologue")

In the Mirror universe, Paul Stamets utilized the mycelial network in order to build a super-mycelial reactor.
However, the technology had a major flaw: its orb element pulled power directly out of the network in a way that
prevented it from regenerating itself, and in fact poisoned it, spreading infection
back up into the mycelial system.
This caused the network to deteriorate across the entire multiverse, in a manner
which might eventually have proven irreversible. Effects of the corruption included
The mycelial network on the the dying of Prototaxites stellaviatori. If the damage was allowed to continue, life
viewscreen as Discovery travels as we know it across all universes might have ceased. (DIS: "The War Without,
along it.
The War Within", "What's Past Is Prologue")

The crisis was seemingly averted when the USS Discovery managed an attack on the ISS Charon, the ship on
which the super-mycelial reactor was installed, and severed its orb from the network. The network began
regenerating immediately. (DIS: "What's Past Is Prologue")

Native species Edit

JahSepp
Prototaxites stellaviatori
yeel tree

See also Edit

Mycelial plane

Spore drive
basidiosac rupture • black alert • bloom failure • excess energy cavitation • Hawking radiation firewall • mycelial network • mycelial
plane • mycelial barrier • mycelium spore • prototaxites stellaviatori • reaction cube • speirin • spore chamber

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