As a result of this cloak of invisibility, the Helianx came to be thought of as [[cosmic]] eavesdroppers, and by some even as agents of [[espionage]], as they flitted delicately through the astral realms of the worlds that interested them. The fascination that drove them on to explore inhabited planets was their race's obsession with bardic [[poetry]]: they reveled in discovering how the myriad sentient species accounted for themselves; their belief systems and [[creation myth]]s; their arts and [[Philosophy|philosophies]], and most of all, their senses of [[humor]]. | As a result of this cloak of invisibility, the Helianx came to be thought of as [[cosmic]] eavesdroppers, and by some even as agents of [[espionage]], as they flitted delicately through the astral realms of the worlds that interested them. The fascination that drove them on to explore inhabited planets was their race's obsession with bardic [[poetry]]: they reveled in discovering how the myriad sentient species accounted for themselves; their belief systems and [[creation myth]]s; their arts and [[Philosophy|philosophies]], and most of all, their senses of [[humor]]. |