#crystalline entity
The Crystalline Entity was a massive crystal-like life-form encountered by Starfleet and responsible for the destruction of at least thirteen Class-M planets including all colonies and indigenous life.
FIRST CONTACT
Though evidence of its existence became evident through the study of ten prior attack sites, the first encounter with the Crystalline Entity in which a surviving Federation witness or recovery of uncorrupted and intact record instrumentation occurred on stardate 41242.4 in the *Omicron Theta* System by the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard.
OBSERVABLE CHARACTERISTICS
Formidable in size, the creature was capable of warp speed velocities as it traveled through space in search of sources of material it could convert into energy- specifically, organic matter.
Functioning as a giant electromagnetic collector, a composite matter consisting of bitrious, hydrocarbon, lanthandies and nitrate were deposited in the Entity’s wake.
As it was discovered the Entity lacked the ability to penetrate rock comprising of both kelbonite and fistrium, the crew of the Enterprise was able to incorporate the refractive properties of these materials with the ship’s shields to create a defense from the creature’s absorption power.
DELIBERATE DESTRUCTION
This defense allowed Xenologist Doctor Kila Marr and Lt. Commander Data to devise a technique to communicate with the Entity by emitting graviton pulses at ten per second. However, In an act of vengeance, Marr intentionally increased the pulse rate with a continuous graviton emission which drove the Entity into resonance shattering the creature.
Little is known of the origins Crystalline Entity or whether others exist elsewhere. Based on trajectory extrapolated by the Enterprise, it is believed the Entity originated from outside the Milky Way Galaxy
FIRST CONTACT
Though evidence of its existence became evident through the study of ten prior attack sites, the first encounter with the Crystalline Entity in which a surviving Federation witness or recovery of uncorrupted and intact record instrumentation occurred on stardate 41242.4 in the *Omicron Theta* System by the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard.
OBSERVABLE CHARACTERISTICS
Formidable in size, the creature was capable of warp speed velocities as it traveled through space in search of sources of material it could convert into energy- specifically, organic matter.
Functioning as a giant electromagnetic collector, a composite matter consisting of bitrious, hydrocarbon, lanthandies and nitrate were deposited in the Entity’s wake.
As it was discovered the Entity lacked the ability to penetrate rock comprising of both kelbonite and fistrium, the crew of the Enterprise was able to incorporate the refractive properties of these materials with the ship’s shields to create a defense from the creature’s absorption power.
DELIBERATE DESTRUCTION
This defense allowed Xenologist Doctor Kila Marr and Lt. Commander Data to devise a technique to communicate with the Entity by emitting graviton pulses at ten per second. However, In an act of vengeance, Marr intentionally increased the pulse rate with a continuous graviton emission which drove the Entity into resonance shattering the creature.
Little is known of the origins Crystalline Entity or whether others exist elsewhere. Based on trajectory extrapolated by the Enterprise, it is believed the Entity originated from outside the Milky Way Galaxy
