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Gaia's ability to store data does away with information technology. It may also be capable of obliterating large sections of matter, though this ability is never discussed by Gaia the Solarians (much more powerful transducers) were capable of destroying objects at least as large as space vessels. Transduction allowed Gaia to provide limited electrical power, move objects as large as starships, or take over the computer control system of a space vessel. Gaia is able to channel the kinetic energy of its matter, a phenomenon Asimov calls transduction. Gaia's influence is spread throughout the Galaxy, through a web of agents who are capable of instantaneous communication via hyperspace with the group mind as a whole. Where Second Foundationers generally required eye contact to alter emotions, Gaia could detect and alter minds without this constraint within a limited range. As a result the entire planet became a super-organism.īecause of the size of the consciousness involved, Gaia's mental powers are significantly greater than those of any other mentalics encountered before in previous books. In its course of settlement, the human beings on Gaia, under robotic guidance, not only evolved their ability to form an ongoing group consciousness, but also extended this consciousness to the fauna and flora of the planet itself, even including inanimate matter. Its axial inclination is 12°, and a Gaian day lasts 0.92 Galactic Standard Days. It orbits a G-4 class star, and has one natural satellite (50 km or 31 miles in diameter). Gaia is located in the Sayshell Sector, about ten parsecs (32 light years) from the system Sayshell itself.