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, 22:17, 18 April 2008New page: Image:lighterstill.jpg <center>Image:Helianx20.jpg</center> ---- <center>'''Commentary'''</center> Since the Helianx had come late to externalized technology they ...
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<center>'''Commentary'''</center>
Since the [[Helianx]] had come late to externalized [[technology]]
they tended to create what they needed as they needed it: [[Creation]] as a direct response
to [[necessity]] was how they would have contrasted themselves
to those more purely technological societies that seemed to have a gadget for everything.
The [[space]] gypsies also had the luxury to observe,
in their extensive travels through both the inner and outer worlds of the [[superuniverse]], how different species handled their relationship to technology.
Watching some planetary [[culture]]s struggling with the consequences of thousands of years
of unchecked technological advances, had served to remind the Helianx of their decision
to ensure that any creation of theirs would have to remain well within their control.
Having successfully fashioned the Great Ship
as their only possible response to the impending planetary disaster,
the Helianx became more confident in their ability to construct and materialize [[thoughtforms]].
This served them well as they settled into a very different life
from the one that had been so peaceful back on Womb Planet.
They were still careful to respond only to a real need,
but their [[nomad]]ic [[existence]] had made new demands on their technical ingenuity.
The creation of localized transporters, for example, so necessary for [[teleport|teleporting]] up the ambassadors and diplomats of the [[race]]s they had come to know, had led naturally to the desire for more efficient translating devices.
The need for the Uniscan had emerged when the Helianx
had stumbled upon inhabited worlds they had not previously discovered.
While they were orbiting the planet of interest, the uniscan let them see the level of [[intellectual]] and [[spiritual]] development of the various intelligent species. This had allowed them to avoid belligerent and fearful races and had much simplified their [[analysis]] of [[belief systems]].
Without having to interact directly they were able to observe,
on the enormous screens of the uniscan,
the perennial struggle for survival that dominated life on more [[primitive]] worlds.
Having had no experience of predation back on Womb Planet, the Helianx found themselves particularly fascinated to watch the long process by which true [[intelligence]] climbed out of the instinctual drives that governed the [[animal nature]].
They had to steel themselves from [[time]] to time while they looked on in horror, as different species fought each other to [[extinction]],
only to frequently destroy themselves, along with their planet, when they finally gained dominance.
The endlessly long lifespan of the Helianx frequently gave them the dubious opportunity
to watch this entire sorry process reveal itself in [[realtime]] on their uniscan screens.
As this long last journey had played itself out, the Helianx realized
with a growing sense of foreboding that their computers were urging them to take careful note of the most problematic and challenging [[biosphere]]s they were encountering; and moreover, to pay particular attention to the [[emotion]]al and [[psychology|psychological]] makeup
of those beings who survived their brutal evolutionary rise to [[power]].
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[[Category: The Helianx Proposition]]
<center>[[Image:Helianx20.jpg]]</center>
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<center>'''Commentary'''</center>
Since the [[Helianx]] had come late to externalized [[technology]]
they tended to create what they needed as they needed it: [[Creation]] as a direct response
to [[necessity]] was how they would have contrasted themselves
to those more purely technological societies that seemed to have a gadget for everything.
The [[space]] gypsies also had the luxury to observe,
in their extensive travels through both the inner and outer worlds of the [[superuniverse]], how different species handled their relationship to technology.
Watching some planetary [[culture]]s struggling with the consequences of thousands of years
of unchecked technological advances, had served to remind the Helianx of their decision
to ensure that any creation of theirs would have to remain well within their control.
Having successfully fashioned the Great Ship
as their only possible response to the impending planetary disaster,
the Helianx became more confident in their ability to construct and materialize [[thoughtforms]].
This served them well as they settled into a very different life
from the one that had been so peaceful back on Womb Planet.
They were still careful to respond only to a real need,
but their [[nomad]]ic [[existence]] had made new demands on their technical ingenuity.
The creation of localized transporters, for example, so necessary for [[teleport|teleporting]] up the ambassadors and diplomats of the [[race]]s they had come to know, had led naturally to the desire for more efficient translating devices.
The need for the Uniscan had emerged when the Helianx
had stumbled upon inhabited worlds they had not previously discovered.
While they were orbiting the planet of interest, the uniscan let them see the level of [[intellectual]] and [[spiritual]] development of the various intelligent species. This had allowed them to avoid belligerent and fearful races and had much simplified their [[analysis]] of [[belief systems]].
Without having to interact directly they were able to observe,
on the enormous screens of the uniscan,
the perennial struggle for survival that dominated life on more [[primitive]] worlds.
Having had no experience of predation back on Womb Planet, the Helianx found themselves particularly fascinated to watch the long process by which true [[intelligence]] climbed out of the instinctual drives that governed the [[animal nature]].
They had to steel themselves from [[time]] to time while they looked on in horror, as different species fought each other to [[extinction]],
only to frequently destroy themselves, along with their planet, when they finally gained dominance.
The endlessly long lifespan of the Helianx frequently gave them the dubious opportunity
to watch this entire sorry process reveal itself in [[realtime]] on their uniscan screens.
As this long last journey had played itself out, the Helianx realized
with a growing sense of foreboding that their computers were urging them to take careful note of the most problematic and challenging [[biosphere]]s they were encountering; and moreover, to pay particular attention to the [[emotion]]al and [[psychology|psychological]] makeup
of those beings who survived their brutal evolutionary rise to [[power]].
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Helianx_Proposition/page_19 Previous Page]
[[Category: The Helianx Proposition]]