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As much as you'd like to give the worms a taste of their own medicine, it may be better to approach this with a bit more tact.
<span class="mu-g">"Why, exactly, do you want to speak with the Supreme Ruler? I thought our species was <span class="mu-i">blacklisted</span>."</span>
<span class="mu-r">"No no, this is about the future of the Hegemony! It's place in the cosmos! Let me convince him to join us again- I can convince the others to reverse the blacklist- I don't want to be cast out into the light! Let me live!"</span>
What a pathetic creature. It seems that, once the inside of the whale was exposed to enough sunlight, it killed all of the parasites inside of it. This larval was the <span class="mu-i">last</span> of what remained inside the whale's gut.
<span class="mu-b">"It is alright. Bring him to me."</span>
As far as your research and understanding goes, it seems that the <span class="mu-i">adult Aannel</span> live within the bodies of these whales. Their offspring grow and feed on the whale's body before eventually entering hyperspace, using the food and energy they stole from the large creature, and then enter into "presences" they stumble across in Hyperspace. This may have once been only whales, but it turns out spaceships with their hyperspace computers are similar enough to a whale that the Aannel end up inside them too; explaining how they sometimes appear inside ships.
Once the worm is contained, you finish your survey of the Drakas system. Kimnan observes the proceedings with little interest, having more interest in the cosmic entity before you.
<span class="mu-g">"It really is a lovely thing you know. Now with its pain gone, I can feel its soft mind- unchanged by language or abstract thought. Something that simply is and lives as it wills. It is a beautiful soul. Pure experience. Eons and eons it has lived. It does not dread or fear the future, it just is..."</span>
