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'''<center>Commentary</center>'''
The Elders noted that one of the unusual aspects of [[Noe]]'s sly expeditions
into the simulated desert in the hold of the Great Ship, was the enthusiastic way in which
the young [[Helianx]] disconnected hirself from the constant [[telepathy|telepathic]] chatter of the Web.
As with most telepathic species, the Helianx could always act a trifle skittish
around the subject of individuation. It had not come naturally to them.
The planetary trauma, while it was still echoing in the group [[mind]],
had served to discourage all but the youngest amongst them from exploring what it meant to be a singular being.
The Elders would weave their great heads from side to side in gestures of mutual puzzlement,
half-horrified and half-fascinated by Noe's seemingly [[irrational]] behavior.
This concern was only compounded by hir newfound ability to block the Elders' telepathic probings when sHe returned finally from hir lengthy and mysterious visits
to the arid desert hidden away in the hold. Being intensely inquisitive by nature,
a curiosity fueled by their appreciation of the limitless variety of life forms
they had encountered in their journeys, the Elders could only suppress their frustrations
in the light of Noe's evident recalcitrance.
The [[truth]] of this, however, was rather more straightforward than the Elders
might have imagined. Noe had no idea either of quite why sHe was being drawn
so consistently back to the inhospitable wastes.
She had decided simply to follow hir [[intuition]],
or what sHe had come to think of as the clearest of hir inner voices.
This development was something new to hir and had only started to manifest as sHe had
progressively detached from the easy familiarity of the Web and its constant distractions.
Noe, like all adolescent Helianx, had been taught from infancy
about their race's discovery of the [[intelligence]] inherent in [[matter]], and how that [[knowledge]]
had been so vital in allowing the Helianx to fashion their [[biology|biological]] artifacts.
SHe learned for hirself, along with the other young ones and through much trial and error,
how to tickle out the intentions coded into matter on an [[ultimaton|ultimatonic]] level;
and how to work collaboratively with the apparent proclivity of matter to settle
into the natural forms the Helianx observed all around them.
SHe knew, too, how this insight had come to form the basis of their understanding
of [[astrophysics]]. Research consistently revealed that a primal organizing intelligence,
working through matter at its most basic level,
was actively shaping the [[space/time continuum.]]
How else, they reasoned, had the stars become stars; how had their families of planets been
created in all their wonderful variety and, above all, why had so many of these worlds
turned out to be so ideally suited for the [[evolution]] of organic, sentient life?
The Helianx all agreed that there had to be a fundamental purpose to [[Creation]].
What they had not yet deduced, in spite of their extensive travels through the [[astral]] planes,
was what they came much later to understand as the [[celestial]] realms.
At this point in time, and throughout the many millennia of the Helianx diaspora,
the intelligent [[organizing principle]]s, those whose hidden hands lay behind the material [[universe]]s, had continued to remained a complete mystery to them.
[[Category: The Helianx Proposition]]
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'''<center>Commentary</center>'''
The Elders noted that one of the unusual aspects of [[Noe]]'s sly expeditions
into the simulated desert in the hold of the Great Ship, was the enthusiastic way in which
the young [[Helianx]] disconnected hirself from the constant [[telepathy|telepathic]] chatter of the Web.
As with most telepathic species, the Helianx could always act a trifle skittish
around the subject of individuation. It had not come naturally to them.
The planetary trauma, while it was still echoing in the group [[mind]],
had served to discourage all but the youngest amongst them from exploring what it meant to be a singular being.
The Elders would weave their great heads from side to side in gestures of mutual puzzlement,
half-horrified and half-fascinated by Noe's seemingly [[irrational]] behavior.
This concern was only compounded by hir newfound ability to block the Elders' telepathic probings when sHe returned finally from hir lengthy and mysterious visits
to the arid desert hidden away in the hold. Being intensely inquisitive by nature,
a curiosity fueled by their appreciation of the limitless variety of life forms
they had encountered in their journeys, the Elders could only suppress their frustrations
in the light of Noe's evident recalcitrance.
The [[truth]] of this, however, was rather more straightforward than the Elders
might have imagined. Noe had no idea either of quite why sHe was being drawn
so consistently back to the inhospitable wastes.
She had decided simply to follow hir [[intuition]],
or what sHe had come to think of as the clearest of hir inner voices.
This development was something new to hir and had only started to manifest as sHe had
progressively detached from the easy familiarity of the Web and its constant distractions.
Noe, like all adolescent Helianx, had been taught from infancy
about their race's discovery of the [[intelligence]] inherent in [[matter]], and how that [[knowledge]]
had been so vital in allowing the Helianx to fashion their [[biology|biological]] artifacts.
SHe learned for hirself, along with the other young ones and through much trial and error,
how to tickle out the intentions coded into matter on an [[ultimaton|ultimatonic]] level;
and how to work collaboratively with the apparent proclivity of matter to settle
into the natural forms the Helianx observed all around them.
SHe knew, too, how this insight had come to form the basis of their understanding
of [[astrophysics]]. Research consistently revealed that a primal organizing intelligence,
working through matter at its most basic level,
was actively shaping the [[space/time continuum.]]
How else, they reasoned, had the stars become stars; how had their families of planets been
created in all their wonderful variety and, above all, why had so many of these worlds
turned out to be so ideally suited for the [[evolution]] of organic, sentient life?
The Helianx all agreed that there had to be a fundamental purpose to [[Creation]].
What they had not yet deduced, in spite of their extensive travels through the [[astral]] planes,
was what they came much later to understand as the [[celestial]] realms.
At this point in time, and throughout the many millennia of the Helianx diaspora,
the intelligent [[organizing principle]]s, those whose hidden hands lay behind the material [[universe]]s, had continued to remained a complete mystery to them.
[[Category: The Helianx Proposition]]
