Orbal Stafflant
The Time Dimension found in the legend of Karuha and Helia has long been the subject of debate as to its existence, along with Time Buddys themselves. While the expedition has not found conclusive evidence of the latter, they are proud to announce the discovery of a dimension that looks exactly as the legend described- full of purple, quartz-like pillars. Even more surprising to the expedition however was the fact that the purple crystal sand that fills certain areas seems to be able to support some kind of plant life.
The crew was excited at the discovery and speculated, from the similarity of the plant to one of the Queen's scepters, that perhaps this was not a completely unknown dimension, and in fact had been known to be real all along and even used as a foraging ground. These speculations have been submitted to the Queen for review. The machine operators back at the palace state they had a "good feeling" about the dimensional coordinates they sent the team to, and the team suspects there may be more information to uncover yet.
The Orbal Stafflant bears a fruit with a shiny, pearl-like sheen. The fruit is quite hard, but shavings from it can be used to give sweetness and a pearly sheen to tea. It does not melt on its own, but is harmless and ingested, much like edible gold. Tests on the rest of the plant revealed little to no discernable taste in the stem and leaves, but the roots appear to be rather bitter. The younger specimens do have slightly sweet stems and the roots have not yet gone bitter, but are about as tasteless as the mature plants' stem and leaves are.
Due to its similarity to one of the Queen's scepters, hypotheses abound about what sort of properties the plant may have. The running theory is that the fruit has a high concentration of Ultiminium, and may be a key source for the Ultimate Tea if tests can give the theory more credence.
Another theory states that the plant may be the key to manipulating matter and energy in JI as the Queen can, and some tests of wavelengths given off by the fruit do seem to indicate it may have properties conducive to such a goal. The team plans to submit a full report of their findings and hopes to get some answers as to the nature of the dimension, the plant itself, and what connection these may bear to the Queen's abilities.
