A bloom failure was one potential scenario in which maneuvering using a spore drive could go catastrophically wrong.
Upon being informed that the entire crew of the USS Glenn had been lost during an incident using spore drive, Paul Stamets initially wondered if a bloom failure might have been responsible. (DIS: "Context Is for Kings")
| Displacement-activated spore hub drive |
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| 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 |