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| <center>'''Commentary'''</center> | | <center>'''Commentary'''</center> |
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− | Life for the Helianx in the course of their long joumey on the Great Ship | + | Life for the [[Helianx]] in the course of their long joumey on the Great Ship |
− | through the vastness of the superuniverse had become increasingly easygoing, | + | through the vastness of the [[superuniverse]] had become increasingly easygoing, |
− | as the persistent reverberations of the explosive exodus | + | as the persistent reverberations of the explosive [[exodus]] |
− | from their planetary home gradually diminished in their collective memory. | + | from their planetary [[home]] gradually diminished in their collective [[memory]]. |
| Unfortunately, old habits started to reassert themselves as the enormous creatures | | Unfortunately, old habits started to reassert themselves as the enormous creatures |
| lazed away the galactic night in the dreaming chambers on the ship. | | lazed away the galactic night in the dreaming chambers on the ship. |
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| The Helianx soon found that their sheer physical size, | | The Helianx soon found that their sheer physical size, |
− | which was not an issue when they were traveling in an out-of-the-body state, | + | which was not an issue when they were traveling in an [[out-of-the-body]] state, |
| was so vastly different from almost all the species they met in their travels | | was so vastly different from almost all the species they met in their travels |
| that it tended to make communication somewhat unrewarding. | | that it tended to make communication somewhat unrewarding. |
− | The very size of the Great Ship was enough to inhibit all but the most urbane of planetary envoys | + | The very size of the Great Ship was enough to inhibit all but the most urbane of planetary [[envoy]]s |
| and there was little the Helianx could do to disguise their own appearance. | | and there was little the Helianx could do to disguise their own appearance. |
− | The ship's translation devices, by reducing the volume and bandwidth | + | The ship's [[translation]] devices, by reducing the volume and bandwidth |
| used by the Helianx in non-telepathic mode, | | used by the Helianx in non-telepathic mode, |
| made sure that their complex soundings could be heard and understood | | made sure that their complex soundings could be heard and understood |
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| After a few unfortunate encounters they repressed even more firmly | | After a few unfortunate encounters they repressed even more firmly |
| the intensity of their desire to understand what had happened to their world, | | the intensity of their desire to understand what had happened to their world, |
− | and how, in a benign Creation, such a thing might have been permitted to occur. | + | and how, in a benign [[Creation]], such a thing might have been permitted to occur. |
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− | They immersed themselves in the subtleties of those cosmologies | + | They immersed themselves in the subtleties of those [[cosmology|cosmologies]] |
| that particularly intrigued them, giving themselves so selflessly to the task | | that particularly intrigued them, giving themselves so selflessly to the task |
| that their very sense of themselves--always somewhat tenuous, | | that their very sense of themselves--always somewhat tenuous, |
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| Without quite realizing how it had taken place | | Without quite realizing how it had taken place |
| they found themselves less and less inclined to continue their explorations. | | they found themselves less and less inclined to continue their explorations. |
− | The songs that issued from the computers had become increasingly mournful over time | + | The songs that issued from the computers had become increasingly mournful over [[time]] |
| as the shape-of-things-to-come slowly formed within their prodigal circuitry. | | as the shape-of-things-to-come slowly formed within their prodigal circuitry. |
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| had allowed themselves to become increasingly reliant on their sophisticated tools. | | had allowed themselves to become increasingly reliant on their sophisticated tools. |
| So different from their simple lives on Womb Planet, this unfortunate dependence had led, | | So different from their simple lives on Womb Planet, this unfortunate dependence had led, |
− | in turn, to a further weakening in the life-force of the creatures. | + | in turn, to a further weakening in the [[life-force]] of the creatures. |
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| All of which made it even more shocking when their computers | | All of which made it even more shocking when their computers |
| finally predicted that their gelatinous bodies would not be able to survive | | finally predicted that their gelatinous bodies would not be able to survive |
− | the gravitational stresses of such a massive reversal in the space/time continuum. | + | the gravitational stresses of such a massive reversal in the [[space/time continuum]]. |
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