Trance is the first of her kind to come to Inisfree; she is an ultra-ancient humanoid manifestation of an actual star like the Sun.
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Table of Contents:
- Spec’s
- Family
- Chronological and General Info
- Biography
- Memorable Quotes
- Alternate History
- Colors
- Mysterious Abilities
- Trance & Auz
- 2021 Revelation
- On TV
- Dressing for Auz
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Spec’s:
- Alias: The Purple Princess
- Gender: Genderless (appears female)
- Species: Solar Avatar of Tarn Vedra
- Height: 5’6″
- Weight: 120s
- Body: perfect feminine form; “Coke-bottle body”
- Breasts: perky C-cups
- Hair: redhead
- Eyes: appear brown at a distance, golden up close
- Skin: lavender/purple, pale/untanned
- Date of Birth: billions of years ago
- Ship Position: Arms Master Officer (emergency position), Medic, many other positions
- Status: Alive
Family
- Sister: Many other Avatars
- Brother: Many other Avatars
Chronological and General Info
- Affiliation: New Systems Commonwealth, Lambent Kith Nebula
- Enemy: Spirit of the Abyss
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Biography:
Her first appearance on the show is as a young, bubbly, purple-skinned alien of an unknown origin with a prehensile tail (somewhat resembling the Marvel comics’ X-Man “Nightcrawler”). She is somehow representing a cartoony archetype of the animal-like, sweet, sensitive, and funny fantasy creature, and serves as a comic relief. Her way of thinking is somehow “out of this world” and innocent. For example, her report on Dylan Hunt’s rescue was, “I wondered where you were, found you, and brought you back.”
She was the last member to join the crew of the Eureka Maru before they rescued the Andromeda Ascendant and its Captain, Dylan Hunt, from a Black Hole. On the Andromeda, she serves as their environmentalist and life-support officer, xenobiologist, botanist, and physician, and is consequently often found in the ship’s hydroponic garden or medical deck.
She is mysterious about her true nature, but has made accurate guesswork that saved the crew of the Andromeda on many occasions. This ability has also helped her in gambling games, espionage, and thievery when she and the crew needed it.
At the start of Season 2 in Last Call at the Broken Hammer, Trance loses her tail during a firefight and expresses her longing for its return in several subsequent episodes.
Later in Ouroboros, Trance undergoes a physical transformation via the effects of a Tesseract machine, which folds space and time. She changes places with a being that tells her that she is an older version of herself. The “new” Trance is still played by Laura Bertram and has the same facial features, but has a very different personality, dropping the pretext that she was “just along for the ride”, revealing that she has an agenda of her own in If the Wheel is Fixed. The “new” Trance also has a golden skin-tone instead of the purple skin-tone her younger version possessed.
Trance is the Avatar of the original Vedran sun, which was born to destroy the Spirit of the Abyss and has special powers and abilities. For instance, she can transform herself into a model of her sun and go supernova at will.
She plays a critical role during the Nietzschean Secession, in which the crew of the Andromeda fought with former crew member Tyr Anasazi to obtain passage to the Route of Ages.
When the crew was in Seefra, Trance was in her sun state known as the Core creature. Once she was in her humanoid form, she had no recollection of who she was or what she was capable of. On Seefra-2, she met a man named Ione who was really the missing Moon of Tarn-Vedra. Later, the Nebula sealed her into Methus-2, the artificial sun of the Seefra system, but thanks to Dylan and Rhade, she was rescued.
Unfortunately, she found out that her people (the Lambent Kith Nebula) were under the spell of the Abyss, but she used her sun to destroy it.
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Memorable Quotes:
“The lifetime of a human is infinitely smaller compared to that of a star, but a star is born created from dust, just like a human, with life and fire breathed into it. It shines. But eventually the star grows old, and it hunches and winks out. Maybe it even goes out with a bang, and that is life. But just because there are so many of them, Beka, don’t think that it’s not valuable or that it doesn’t make a difference. It does.” (“Slipfighter The Dogs of War”)
“I am the avatar of a sun, a star. All things come from me. You are elements of the sun. As I make you, I am able to destroy you. As I destroy you, I am able to create. Awareness is where we travel. No path, I am all gravity, and we exist in all universes and those in-between. What destroys you in this universe will deliver you to the next.” (“The World Turns All Around Her”)
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Alternate History:
In Robert Hewitt Wolfe’s original plan for Andromeda, Trance’s people (still solar avatars) would have been the Lightbringers, or Lucifers, who fought a war in “Heaven” (the original state of the universe as a small perfect space with all matter and energy pressed tightly together) resulting in the Big Bang. The Spirit of the Abyss would have been an embodiment of Love (the twisted stalker kind of Love, or gravity) trying to crush the universe back in on itself. Rather than being the Vedran sun, Trance Gemini would have been, “a sun in the Gemini constellation dreaming it’s a person”, hence the name. The original vision was lost when Wolfe was replaced as head writer/producer by Bob Engels, but was released as a 20 page online story entitled “Coda”.
The difference between the storylines makes understanding about Trance can be deemed “accurate” difficult. Upon reading “Coda”, it becomes very obvious as to the multitude of hints dropped in the first two seasons of the series, such as in Pitiless as the Sun, when Trance closes her meeting with Professor Logitch with an exchange where Logitch observes that “You enjoy the chaos, don’t you?…According to our greatest spiritual texts, chaos is just a manifestation of evil,” to which Trance responds, “Are you implying I’m some sort of devil?” It’s the mix of this along with the actual observations about Trance, or rather the implied observations made by Harper in Into the Labyrinth about a “naked purple girl being worshiped” that makes it difficult to determine what should apply, and what should not. Of course the conversation with Logitch and others like it can be simply written off as idle theory on the part of the characters, but it certainly wastes a lot of space coming to the same conclusion. It is generally accepted to simply “write off” most of Trance’s character development in the first two seasons for this reason.
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Colors:
Multiple times, “golden Trance” is asked why she changed from purple to golden. In Dance of the Mayflies, Beka is given 10 tries to find out; however, after the first wrong guess (“Because you are a totally different person?”), they are interrupted. The reason lies in the visible spectrum, purple/violet being a short wavelength color (380–450 nanometre), golden (570–590 nanometre) close to orange (590–620 nanometre) having a longer wavelength.
Another likely explanation is that Trance’s colors represent her evolution as a star. Trance first appears as a blue and purple humanoid girl with a youthful personality, purple and blue like a newly formed star. When she “changes places” with her older and more experienced self she becomes more golden much like an older, middle aged star.
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Mysterious Abilities:
As a solar Avatar, Trance possess a myriad of multidimensional powers that are shown but not thoroughly explained or elaborated on in the series. Trance’s most obvious and important power is the control of her sun as well as her physical Avatar’s ability to transform into a supernova.
During several episodes Trance is implied to be a precognitive being, which is a function of her ability to jump between various universes and points in time. However her future sight extends to more than predictions, but rather to an understanding of the universe outside of temporal restrictions. An example of this would be the “accidental” transportation to the Battle of Witchhead the Andromeda experienced while Trance was being taught slipstream navigation. Due to the fact that slipstream navigation is not controlled by maps or charts but the will of the pilot, allowing the helmsman to chart a destination by merely envisioning it, Trance likely sees reality in a way devoid of time.
Trance also has the ability to manipulate time using her strange, special plants she grows by clipping them. Since Trance herself is a sun, we can infer that the relationship between Gemini and her plants to a certain extent mimics the natural connection between flora and sunlight. Just as a plant is influenced by light through photosynthesis, Trance’s plants may also absorb and store her own cosmic energy so that when they are pruned this energy is released from its bonds in a controlled fashion to cause temporal distortion. Trance also seems to use the plants as a focus, the branches, stems, and leaves mirroring the possibilities of different time and universes.
In the episode “Ouroboros” Trance trades places with a “future” version of herself, marking the last appearance of the purple hued Trance Gemini and the unveiling of the more mature gold/orange version of the character. This could be another potential ability, however it is also possible she merely used the opportunity created by Harper’s experimental tesseract machine, which at the time was causing all manner of chaos on board the ship.
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Trance & Auz:
During Inisfree’s rapid exploration and mapping of the Megaverse, Trance was one of the first worthy beings beyond the Milky Way which Inisfreean Star Fleet personnel encountered and connected with their leader. She was amazed at how they, too, thought and sensed things in a way like hers; beyond the concepts of time that Earth humans are used to. Traveling with them through one of their limbs-weave group-portals back to their home galaxy and planet, she met Auz and knew right away that she was meant to marry him.
Trance needed little schooling or training to understand the Inisfreean Way, or to join its Universal Congress. In fact, she helped arrange its final details, perfecting its plan prior to the 1st session. Auz’s natural effects on her, like all other hot females, made her endlessly horny and eagerly submissive for him, though she knew she would have been anyway, and caused her gender to be truly female, not just in outward appearances. Once that process was complete, she went straight up and down to Inisfree’s highest levels in both senses of the term; she volunteered for the Spire Temple’s cum baptism, and wing-suited not from the Avalanche Wall –or even the balconies of Cloud City II— but the Crow’s Nest position, honeymooning with Auz not on one of the mega-yachts of the lake nearby their beach landing strip, but in the Rape Caves so she could show off how many ‘XXXenos’ and other beings (such as vore pods, wall mounts, and giant D-P slugs) she could share hyper-pleasure with at once, treating her new and greatest lover –Auz—to the beastiality showoff of his life.
She confirmed with her abilities, and her connection to others of her kind, that Auz’s adolescence dreams of stars communicating to him through love-brightened sigil formations in the night sky of the astral plane… meant he had in fact been contacted and deeply loved by her kind, who believed in and watched over him ever since they’d taken notice. Now the contact was in the physical plane, and they (the star-people) and Norns had lovingly and wisely seen to it that the sexiest star of all came incarnate to him, pun not intended. Trance now communicates regularly with them, translating and interpreting between them and Auz, and representing all her kind in the ongoing Congress sessions in Inisfree.
Later looking back on her previous forms, it became apparent that her golden form was that of an ignited star, and her purple form was that of a semi-luminescent hyper-giant.
* Trance came into contact with the Inisfreeans during the mid-2200s; this was during their push out from Earth to map all of Outer Space in one mega-campaign and intergalactic (even inter-dimensional) expedition. It wasn’t until 5159 AD that she interacted with the crew from the Andromeda series. Details here. This means that while she was in Inisfree that first time, she was always purple; it wasn’t until the 5160s that she evolved into her golden stage, and when that happened she returned to Auz & Inisfree to show him her new appearance and nova power, fucking him ten times more than before.
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2021 Revelation:
Trance may be one of the stars Varda created, and she automatically knows and senses the locations of millions of Arch Angels (stars; her siblings), while each Arch Angel can only sense the location of similar stars and its own angel children (plus, of course, the location of its parent-star, whether it/she is in her star-form or another –like how Polarians can become any size/shape/thing). She does not sense the locations of the angels, as she has not created children of her own yet. This means that Trance is a “middle/moderately-aged” star.
She does not need a sexual partner (or impregnation or gestation or even mammalian birthing) to reproduce; like the Polarians and other ancient beings, she can simply hold a thought/vision long enough to cause a version/subset of herself to have a body of its own. Her female body-parts are for many things, not (just) birthing or breastfeeding. Having a mate can help her hold a vision more easily, though, and allows her to create not only a version of herself, but a combination of herself and her mate –always resulting in an offspring with the level of beauty equal to the form-perfection (spherical-ness) of her race (the stars).
Every time any Angel, such as Alice, Divinity, Eleanor, and Zerachiel, are around her, they smile, feeling like they are around their mother or aunt; Angels feel that way about the stars. When Kara and other Kryptonians are around her, they bask in her radiance/radiation/warmth, loving it like they do their favorite type/color of stars. Trance always feels and is glowy, no matter how far out in Deep Space she flies or roams, as it is just in a star’s nature to shine no matter what.
When Auz makes love, all his Inisfreeans (the ICVs) feel and love it, pausing and sighing, as if they are feeling some unfelt breeze others can’t perceive, or basking in sunlight only they can see and feel. When he makes love to Varda, all the Valar/Polarian women feel and enjoy it the same way, for they are that connected; it’s just a normal aspect of their era/race. When he makes love to Trance, all the stars her age and younger feel and enjoy it. When he makes love to an Angel, only other Angels made from the same star she was made from… feel it (and of course enjoy it).
Though Inisfree’s won’t be moving to and into any stars for many millennia (see its Relocations Schedule for details), Auz has become a god called not only around his birth-world, but out and into the stars, as well. He goes first, and then others, and eventually Inisfree, follow. By the time he gets to fly his city and people in there, 1) many of the ICVs will have already been welcomed into the stars to use them for faster, easier, more reliable travel, and 2) he and Trance will have been lovers sharing knowledge and secrets with each other for thousands of Earth-years, and she’ll be delighted to treat his city-flight into the Sun and other stars… as one of their latest exciting dates, ensuring he and all his people/city are safe, comfortable, and happily excited the whole time!
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Further details here.
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On TV:
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Dressing for Auz:
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