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<span class="mu-s">Respect</span> Cijan? Of course your respect Cijan! Not only as your ancestor, but also as an intelligent and powerful member of the Hegemony; not to mention him being the one who came back from the dead, almost a paragon to your people's struggle to overcome entropy. You're glad to have him as a Helper.
As for the Swall, you decide that forcing them into taking the Aristocrat's strange alien improvements would be more trouble then its worth, and undermine some of their racial solidarity and culture. But you can't see the sense in giving the Swall and exception to your Eugenic program. You decide for the soft approach, giving incentives for those families and individuals who are injected and modified. This unfortunately creates a divide among the Swall- those more loyal to the Hegemony and higher-ranking being granted genetic upgrades, while those who refuse become more a part of the individual Swall culture, free from genetic augmentations. While you don't have to worry about too much of the Anti-Social behavior crossing into the genome from the different groups, it does create a bit of an unfortunate divide.
Also, as soon as you start experimenting with Swall eggs, the usage of the Aristocrat's gene bundle become clear. There is a clear, cheap, and obvious path to improve the Swall's natural venomous spit. With just a few modifications, you can make it strongly acidic as well, making this a potent natural weapon.
Still, you're finding this a time of troubles. Having to sabotage your own colonization progress for the Threemind's project, the Swall being divided, the Vetucker's administrator wasting an ocean's worth of valuable water, and now... you found your first gray hair. Can these years get any worse?!
