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'''<center>Commentary</center>'''
The basic [[biology]] of the [[Helianx]]
has remained something of a mystery to latter-day planetary scientists.
Quite how life evolved in the early [[superuniverse]]s has never been fully understood, since little evidence remains of the species created so many millions of years ago.
That the Helianx were masters of their own biological processes
is clear from the instructions laid out for [[Noe]] by the computers;
but the concept that sHe was to meld hir [[DNA]] with another species entirely
was something the Helianx had never explored, or even considered.
It is thought that in those early days of [[Creation]], the Beings of the Inner Worlds, whose function it was to design and lay down the patterns of evolutionary life,
were experimenting with some very different reproductive strategies.
The essentially [[hermaphrodite|hermaphroditic]] nature of the Helianx, in the sense
that each creature was capable of expressing both [[male]] and [[female]] [[sex|sexual]] organs,
had allowed them a wide measure of control over their biological [[destiny]].
Over [[time]], and through their studied practice of [[eugenics]],
the Helianx had found that there had been periods in their development
when it had been appropriate to procreate by a more normal mixing of [[chromosome]]s
that results from the sexual coupling of two, or more, creatures.
Once they had stabilized their population,
their preferred method of reproduction became internal insemination,
a form of procreation they thought of as auto-cloning.
While this had somewhat reduced the genetic diversity,
they observed that the young ones delivered in this way possessed
the more finely developed [[psychic]] sensitivities required for serial [[reincarnation]].
It was also through this [[spiritual]] [[process]] that the Helianx had first been able to create
their [[telepathy|telepathic]] Web, which subsequently became so central to their lives.
Planetary [[anthropology|anthropologists]] of the [[sacred]] have recently suggested that serial reincarnation was more widely practiced in the earlier eras in the [[evolution]] of intelligent life.
This had the evident advantage of producing extremely [[conservative]] cultures, which then served to stabilize the gradual growth of sentience
in the universes of [[time]] and [[space]].
The downside, however, which the Helianx had the [[cosmos|cosmic]] misfortune to experience so directly,
was that this very conservatism had ill-prepared them for the disaster facing their world.
The stability that had served them so well for many millions of years
in their underwater world suddenly held no [[value]] for them.
A growing panic had rippled endlessly through the Web,
making it almost impossible for any of them to [[focus]] on what was happening to them.
They had lost almost three-quarters of their number in the global [[catastrophe]]
and the survivors, those who had supported the stringent [[eugenics]],
had blamed themselves for so slavishly following the traditions of their ancestors.
This bruising realization had led them to ensure that they would rebuild
their genetic diversity when they were safely established on the Great Ship.
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'''<center>Commentary</center>'''
The basic [[biology]] of the [[Helianx]]
has remained something of a mystery to latter-day planetary scientists.
Quite how life evolved in the early [[superuniverse]]s has never been fully understood, since little evidence remains of the species created so many millions of years ago.
That the Helianx were masters of their own biological processes
is clear from the instructions laid out for [[Noe]] by the computers;
but the concept that sHe was to meld hir [[DNA]] with another species entirely
was something the Helianx had never explored, or even considered.
It is thought that in those early days of [[Creation]], the Beings of the Inner Worlds, whose function it was to design and lay down the patterns of evolutionary life,
were experimenting with some very different reproductive strategies.
The essentially [[hermaphrodite|hermaphroditic]] nature of the Helianx, in the sense
that each creature was capable of expressing both [[male]] and [[female]] [[sex|sexual]] organs,
had allowed them a wide measure of control over their biological [[destiny]].
Over [[time]], and through their studied practice of [[eugenics]],
the Helianx had found that there had been periods in their development
when it had been appropriate to procreate by a more normal mixing of [[chromosome]]s
that results from the sexual coupling of two, or more, creatures.
Once they had stabilized their population,
their preferred method of reproduction became internal insemination,
a form of procreation they thought of as auto-cloning.
While this had somewhat reduced the genetic diversity,
they observed that the young ones delivered in this way possessed
the more finely developed [[psychic]] sensitivities required for serial [[reincarnation]].
It was also through this [[spiritual]] [[process]] that the Helianx had first been able to create
their [[telepathy|telepathic]] Web, which subsequently became so central to their lives.
Planetary [[anthropology|anthropologists]] of the [[sacred]] have recently suggested that serial reincarnation was more widely practiced in the earlier eras in the [[evolution]] of intelligent life.
This had the evident advantage of producing extremely [[conservative]] cultures, which then served to stabilize the gradual growth of sentience
in the universes of [[time]] and [[space]].
The downside, however, which the Helianx had the [[cosmos|cosmic]] misfortune to experience so directly,
was that this very conservatism had ill-prepared them for the disaster facing their world.
The stability that had served them so well for many millions of years
in their underwater world suddenly held no [[value]] for them.
A growing panic had rippled endlessly through the Web,
making it almost impossible for any of them to [[focus]] on what was happening to them.
They had lost almost three-quarters of their number in the global [[catastrophe]]
and the survivors, those who had supported the stringent [[eugenics]],
had blamed themselves for so slavishly following the traditions of their ancestors.
This bruising realization had led them to ensure that they would rebuild
their genetic diversity when they were safely established on the Great Ship.
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