The Helianx Proposition/page 7

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Commnentary


The computers predicted a high probability that the immense psychic energies required for the Helianx to project themselves up and out to join their ship would result in the destruction of their planet. A search of their voluminous memory banks revealed that almost nothing was known about high energy transduction on this scale, but it was logical to anticipate that such a violent act would, of necessity, have equally violent repercussions.

After sober consideration of the deteriorating state of their world, by this time a nearly waterless desert, they all felt that the risk was worthwhile. If the worst were to happen, then they would have to concern themselves with that later. Despite the steadily worsening conditions, this was not an easy decision to take, since the Helianx dearly loved their world. It had birthed and nurtured them and they had gratefully thought of it as their collective womb.

Unlike the space-faring species who roamed the pervaded spaces of the superuniverse, the Helianx had been more than happy to stay on their world throughout their long history of sentience. Their ability to travel the inner worlds seemed to satisfy their desire for novelty and they had traditionally considered any idea of heaving their large bodies into space as idiotic--and, besides, it would be well beneath their dignity. But beneath this conservative worldview there had always lurked a deep unease. Granted, their highly developed mental abilities allowed them to travel the Multiverse in out-of-the-body states, but this had also fed a growing frustration. While they were able to move freely through the astral regions of the inhabited worlds of the second superuniverse, they were unable to interact in any way with what they observed. The Helianx were not able, or willing, to attempt to match their vibrational frequency with that of the world they were visiting, and very wisely, too. The sudden appearance in their midst of a two-mile-Iong mountain of embarrassed flesh would be bound to disturb the serenity of even the most sophisticated species. The Helianx chose sensibly to remain firmly in the astral.

As a result of this cloak of invisibility, the Helianx came to be thought of as cosmic eavesdroppers, and by some even as agents of espionage, as they flitted delicately through the astral realms of the worlds that interested them. The fascination that drove them on to explore inhabited planets was their race's obsession with bardic poetry: they reveled in discovering how the myriad sentient species accounted for themselves; their belief systems and creation myths; their arts and philosophies, and most of all, their senses of humor.

The Helianx had tried to make sure their information was of limited value to the few belligerent species who had developed their telepathic abilities sufficiently enough to detect the space gypsies' invisible presence, and had attempted to communicate with them. Unfortunately, their undeservedly dubious reputation had become almost impossible to shake off. It has been said that on some worlds the very mention of the name Helianx was enough to scare children into silence. Yet in their own collective mind these gentle giants had always considered their intentions as benign and utterly harmless.

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