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'''<center>Commentary</center>'''
Many changes, too, had been shaping the [[human]] [[races]]
over this last crucial few hundred thousand years in their development.
The demands of survival and the challenging climatic conditions had triggered the mutations required to cope with a wide variety of difficult circumstances.
Diets changed as more efficient weapons made hunting larger animals possible,
and this in tum contributed the protein needed for bigger brains and stronger bodies.
Whole nomadic populations became trapped on the great northern continent as the ice receded.
Sea levels rose behind them, forcing them to adapt to frigid new conditions.
By this time groups of [[Neanderthals]] had developed remarkably large brains,
and yet isolated from the innovations introduced by the [[Prince's Staff]],
they had not progressed much beyond living in caves and using simple stone implements.
In the more temperate regions, a ero-Magnon subspecies
had emerged from the proto-human line as the dominant mutation.
It was from this group that the Prince's Staff, in their heyday, chose those [[individual]]s to educate and then send back to their own people to share all they had learned.
Complex [[language]]s had started to emerge, which both deepened relationships
and made the transmission of [[knowledge]] between generations more effective.
With all this new knowledge came [[power]] and confidence,
which in turn led to elaborate social [[hierarchies]] replete with kings, standing armies, [[aristocracies]], accumulated wealth and the traditions of [[priestcraft]].
Almost all the closely-held [[mettalurgy|metallurgical]] secrets brought by the Prince's Staff had been lost in the destruction of their city.
The Staff had always made sure to keep the sophisticated [[technology]] they used
for constructing their [[antigravity]] vehicles well out of the sight of curious natives.
Inevitably, this had led to their craft being [[worship|worshipped]] as [[divine]] apparitions
on the rare occasions they had been seen.
Most of these skills had melted away, however, when the bitter conflict between the staff
had driven them apart. Then, as the waves swept over their city and the remnants fled,
the highest technical culture the world had yet seen passed into [[legend]].
In the ensuing millennia of chaos, unsuccessful attempts had been made to work with tin,
or copper, when it could be found in natural outcroppings, but the art of alloying
these metals to cast into [[bronze]] implements had to be rediscovered much later.
After the long, slow rhythms of the early [[evolution|evolutionary]] [[process]],
Noe was fascinated to watch how rapidly matters were developing all around hir.
The hunting and gathering of nomadic tribes was rapidly becoming replaced
by an agricultural [[economy]] centered around small villages and market towns.
Memories of a legendary city, or perhaps simply the natural tendency
for human beings to congregate in the same place,
drove yet another era of city-building on every continent that the humans had reached.
[[Civilization]]s rose, flowered briefly and then collapsed under their own weight
or were overrun by another warlike horde.
In this bewildering panorama of shifting cultures Noe found it next to impossible to decide
on how, or where, or with whom, sHe should consummate hir mission.
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Helianx_Proposition/page_64 Previous Page]
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Helianx_Proposition/page_66 Next Page]
[[Category: The Helianx Proposition]]
[[Image:Helianx65.jpg|center|frame]]
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'''<center>Commentary</center>'''
Many changes, too, had been shaping the [[human]] [[races]]
over this last crucial few hundred thousand years in their development.
The demands of survival and the challenging climatic conditions had triggered the mutations required to cope with a wide variety of difficult circumstances.
Diets changed as more efficient weapons made hunting larger animals possible,
and this in tum contributed the protein needed for bigger brains and stronger bodies.
Whole nomadic populations became trapped on the great northern continent as the ice receded.
Sea levels rose behind them, forcing them to adapt to frigid new conditions.
By this time groups of [[Neanderthals]] had developed remarkably large brains,
and yet isolated from the innovations introduced by the [[Prince's Staff]],
they had not progressed much beyond living in caves and using simple stone implements.
In the more temperate regions, a ero-Magnon subspecies
had emerged from the proto-human line as the dominant mutation.
It was from this group that the Prince's Staff, in their heyday, chose those [[individual]]s to educate and then send back to their own people to share all they had learned.
Complex [[language]]s had started to emerge, which both deepened relationships
and made the transmission of [[knowledge]] between generations more effective.
With all this new knowledge came [[power]] and confidence,
which in turn led to elaborate social [[hierarchies]] replete with kings, standing armies, [[aristocracies]], accumulated wealth and the traditions of [[priestcraft]].
Almost all the closely-held [[mettalurgy|metallurgical]] secrets brought by the Prince's Staff had been lost in the destruction of their city.
The Staff had always made sure to keep the sophisticated [[technology]] they used
for constructing their [[antigravity]] vehicles well out of the sight of curious natives.
Inevitably, this had led to their craft being [[worship|worshipped]] as [[divine]] apparitions
on the rare occasions they had been seen.
Most of these skills had melted away, however, when the bitter conflict between the staff
had driven them apart. Then, as the waves swept over their city and the remnants fled,
the highest technical culture the world had yet seen passed into [[legend]].
In the ensuing millennia of chaos, unsuccessful attempts had been made to work with tin,
or copper, when it could be found in natural outcroppings, but the art of alloying
these metals to cast into [[bronze]] implements had to be rediscovered much later.
After the long, slow rhythms of the early [[evolution|evolutionary]] [[process]],
Noe was fascinated to watch how rapidly matters were developing all around hir.
The hunting and gathering of nomadic tribes was rapidly becoming replaced
by an agricultural [[economy]] centered around small villages and market towns.
Memories of a legendary city, or perhaps simply the natural tendency
for human beings to congregate in the same place,
drove yet another era of city-building on every continent that the humans had reached.
[[Civilization]]s rose, flowered briefly and then collapsed under their own weight
or were overrun by another warlike horde.
In this bewildering panorama of shifting cultures Noe found it next to impossible to decide
on how, or where, or with whom, sHe should consummate hir mission.
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Helianx_Proposition/page_64 Previous Page]
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Helianx_Proposition/page_66 Next Page]
[[Category: The Helianx Proposition]]
