Cultured pearl Cultured pearl A cultured pearl is a pearl created by an oyster farmer under controlled conditions. Cultured pearls can be farmed using two very different groups of bivalve mollusk: the freshwater river mussels, and the saltwater pearl oysters. A pearl is formed when the mantle tissue is injured by a parasite, an attack of a fish or another event that damages the external fragile rim of the shell of a mollusk shell bivalve or gastropod. In response, the mantle tissue of the mollusk secretes nacre into the pearl sac, a cyst that forms during the healing process. Chemically speaking, this
The Pearl Saga V'ornn. The one thing they fear. They inflicted a punishing defeat upon the V'ornn fleet at Hellespennn 250 years previous, in revenge for the V'ornn invasion of their world 300 years prior to that. Their weapons utilize a Goron particle beam. The novels revolve around these items and the quest to find them. Van Lustbader has stated that due to the popularity of the Bourne Series, the Pearl Saga was put on hold. He says the series is expected to run to 6 or 7 novels. The Pearl Saga The Pearl Saga is the name of the incomplete series of