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“My lord, genetics is complicated. There's only so much room; this gene changes the construction of the brainstem and spine... We'd lose our third limb and much of our ability to climb, some of our natural agility, in exchange for a depth of insight that no normal Jaxtian has ever achieved. Except, perhaps, for Cijan.”
<span class="mu-b">”A Jaxtian without a tail is a slave, Maktana. It would never fly.”</span>
“According to who? You are the Supreme Ruler, my lord. All obey you. The culture will change as necessity demands. When every position is filled by tail-less geniuses, proud and stuck up Jaxitans will view those tails as a sign of lesser thinking at that point. It's all relative to the culture. But, of course, that is not my place to say nor my position to decide. It is your descision. For this, I differ to you. Choose wisely my lord.”
With the destruction of their homeworld of Swalli currently ongoing, and even their Hazaar-hybrids too small in number to keep up a stable population in the HVS- all that remains of the Swall will be gone. In a way, it's a shame. You studied their fighting techniques. Fighting with coral-tipped spears, on ground and in the water, where even a grazing blow can cause incredible pain. Where the object of a battle is not to even kill your foe, but make him bleed and then leave him so a wild predator can smell the blood and come to finish him off; taking the blame and weight of killing a person off of the warrior's own concious. It's a fitting, perfect analogy for their way of life. In a strange way, this genetic project will preserve some small part of the Swall in a place where it will live on <span class="mu-i">forever</span>; right down to the bones of all future Jaxtians.
But the question is; which permanent gene upgrade will you choose?
>Egg Gene
>Inner Ear
>Brain Development
