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Due to the lack of predation on Womb Planet, together with their ability to manipulate
their own [[biology]], and the extreme security of their underwater world, [[individual]] Helianx lifespan had steadily increased over the generations, in some cases to as much as two million years.

This massively extended lifetime allowed them the luxury of [[learning]].
Over time they discovered that as they lay on the surface of the ocean they were able to receive
the [[wisdom]] gained from the hard experience of millions of races living on as many worlds.
Their great crystalline bodies resonated with the insights of other [[intelligence|intelligent]] species.
Projected images danced on wavelengths just within their field of [[perception]], acting out the dreams and nightmares of a myriad of species on planets at a thousand different degrees of development.

[[Information]] pouring down to the Helianx was absorbed, pondered, picked over endlessly,
compared with all that was previously known and originally stored
in the virtually limitless [[memory]] banks of the combined [[neural network]] of the Helianx.

Since the Helianx soaked up their life energy, their food,
from the twin suns around which their home planet orbited,
they cannot be regarded as true aquatic creatures.
This factor served them well when they finally realized their ocean
was diminishing in size and depth;
their world was literally drying up.

The Helianx had become the masters of survival on their [[utopia|utopian]] planet.
The only extension to the richness of their [[inner life|inner lives]] that they permitted themselves
were large organic computers that they modeled on their brains
and cultivated from their own [[DNA]] and life plasm.
Their ability to manipulate their internal biology
combined with their [[music|musical]] sensitivities, had allowed them
after thousands of years of experimentation, to use [[sound]] as a tool.
In the denser [[medium]] of [[water]], sound waves become very real and tangible.
Just as another species might use frequency modulated [[radio waves]] to convey [[information]],
so the Helianx used focussed sound waves to form and shape
biological [[matter]] into the complex mechanism of their immense computers.

One of the great challenges to extremely long lifespans is [[memory]].
There is simply too much to remember.
It was this that had first impelled the Helianx to create their computers.
Thus, these elaborate biological mechanisms
stored all that the many generations of Helianx had learned about themselves,
as well as the [[information]] they had accumulated over the millions of years of eavesdropping on the [[Universe Broadcast]] Circuits.

Tragically, it was these computers that were among the first [[artifact]]s to fail
while the temperature of the water gradually heated up and the seas started to evaporate.

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