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Since the [[Helianx]] had traditionally maintained their population
at the relatively small number of 210, and compounded by their immensely long lifespans,
the bonding they experienced as a [[race]] was so intimate and interdependent
that the prospect of being separated from anyone of their number
was perhaps the most difficult challenge they had had to face up to this point.

As the horrors of their planetary [[exodus]], so many millions of years earlier,
dimmed in their collective [[memory]], the Helianx had tended to fall back into their old, easygoing ways of life on Womb Planet.
Their explorations of the [[superuniverse]] had proved it to be essentially unthreatening.
The few belligerent races they had encountered sensibly avoided any confrontation with the mountainous [[space]] gypsies.
Despite the speeds attainable by the Great Ship,
the vastness of the [[interstellar]] distances ensured that the Helianx spent much of their [[time]]
passively suspended in a collective [[meditation]]al trance, broken only when the ship
was placed securely in geosynchronous orbit around one of the planets they were studying.
Then, emerging reluctantly from the warm embrace of Oneness,
they would individuate sufficiently to entertain the visiting diplomats and ambassadors
in the reception chambers of the enormous glider.

The Helianx had learned enough about the nature of the Multiverse by this time to understand how the seven superuniverses were enfolded within the seven primary dimensions of the [[Multiverse]].
Those more metaphysically minded had even started to invoke the need
for the existence of a [[Central Universe]] that lay behind, or, as some suggested,
within the very heart of the [[space/time continuum]]. They understood also that
the first of the seven superuniverses had acted as a guide for the remaining six.
As the [[Multiverse]] aged and the inhabited worlds of the subsequent superuniverses
became settled in [[Light and Life]],
the vibrational frequency of [[matter]] itself slowed down and grew denser.
Consequently, all the species created and seeded throughout
the seventh of these superuniverses were formed of a considerably denser material
than the creatures existing in the earlier creations.

It was this very factor that the computers counseled might be turned to the space gypsies' advantage in the matter of their ultimate survival. For the Helianx to accomplish their purpose they
knew they would have to project the one chosen by their computers
on what was essentially a journey down through the space/time continuum,
to arrive, hopefully, on a world somewhere in the seventh and final superuniverse.

They had little idea of what this [[individual]] Helianx would find
when sHe finally arrived on the designated planet, but they suspected
that it was going to be a lot more demanding than anything they had previously experienced.
It was also next to impossible for the Council of Elders to imagine how the denser medium
of the seventh superuniverse would affect the [[emotional intelligence]] of the beings inhabiting it.
But here again, their computers had reassured them that the challenges
would only serve to strengthen the emotional muscles
of the Helianx for the demanding tasks that lay ahead of hir.

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