>>18608760Demiurge put the theory to the test. He removed another unicellular organism from the liquid area, redesigned it for the gaseous environment, but with one significant change. The new animals would be somewhat smaller, but would require the ingestion of other animals for nourishment. This would solve the problem of overpopulation of animals, and at the same time would create good quantities of usable Loosh during each conflict-struggle, and more when the new class of animal terminates the lifespan another. Demiurge would be able to transmit to Somewhere practical amounts of reasonably pure Loosh. Thus it was that the Rule of the Prime Catalyst came into being. Conflict among carbon-oxygen cycle units brings forth consistent emanations of Loosh. It was as simple as that. Satisfied that he had found the formula, Demiurge prepared the Fourth Crop.
He knew now that the dinosaurs and other large animals were too large and too long in life span to be ultimately practical. If grown in large numbers, the entire Garden would have to be expanded and enlarged. There was not space enough to grow such massive single units and the proportionate leafy Second Crops to support them. Also, he reasoned correctly that more rapid and increased mobility would expand the Conflict factor, with a resultant higher Loosh output. In one single motion, Demiurge exterminated the dinosaurs and other large animals. Creating new life forms out of the original unicellular organism, he modified and expanded them into a multitude of shapes and sizes, gave them complex structures of high mobility. He designed into them a pattern of balance. There were those that ate only plants as an energy source, and there were others, very highly mobile, who required for energy the ingestion of other animals. The completed circuit operated quite satisfactorily.
