magnetize

Extending a hand from the XV8’s right arm, Farsight detached one of the seismic fibrillators and placed it on a hard shelf of rock, mag-spiking it to the iron ore of the underlying mineral structure with a controlled pulse of electromagnetic energy. It was an earth caste technique he had once had O’Vesa describe to him, but down here, there were none to disapprove of it.

Farsight: Empire of Lies