Piper in the space woods

Doctor Henry Harris is debriefing Corporal Westerburg, recently arrived at a major military base from Asteroid Y-3, a primary check-point for ships arriving from deep space to the inner solar system. A report Harris received points out that Westerburg is suffering from a delusion. The interview reveals that Westerburg believes he is a plant. While the delusion seems to involve no physical transformation, Westerburg has abandoned all of his labors and would just sit outside all day. Harris reports his findings to the Base Commander and suggests that he will need another interview.

One evening, Harris asked a robot for directions to Westerburg’s quarters. He finds that Westerburg is asleep and cannot be woken up during the night. He later finds his patient sitting out in the sun. They engage in a more philosophical conversation. Harris challenges the corporal on the necessity of work for a complex society. Westerburg counters that there is really no need for the work, particularly of extraterrestrial exploration. Later, the Base Commander, Cox, reports that more “plants” are arriving from Asteroid Y-3.

Twenty people claiming to be plants have arrived from the asteroid. Some of the patients include high level officers from the base. Harris notices that they are all entirely rational.

Harris shows Commander Cox a video of an interview he had with one of the patients, Robert Bardshaw, the former chief biologist at Asteroid Y-3. In the interview, he explains that he is not a biological plant, yet he has taken on the “psychology of a plant.” He also tells how he learned to become a plant from the “Pipers” that live on the woods of the Asteroid.

Harris travels to Asteroid Y-3. It has an Earth-like gravity thanks to a heavy core and is largely covered by woods, something that is apparently largely gone on Earth. Harris learns of new cases, bringing the total to around 10% of the total garrison. Lawrence Watts, the garrison chief, worries that important tasks are no longer being done at the base, since in this frontier setting everyone has an important job. Harris learns from Watts that there is an indigenous woodland population, apparently related to the Martians, but have a dark, copper color skin. They are considered civilized and cannot be the Pipers.

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