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yet. For all they knew the third race never had the chance to evolve into intelligent beings. Nel and humans on the other hand managed to evolve and survive. The brilliance of what Axull Darr did was not lost on Seo-yun. She would often tell Tomas that humanity’s greatest strength was their genetic knowledge, but compared to the father of their race it was nothing. Axull Darr managed to imprint a highly advanced and compressed DNA into a less evolved life forms, to change them and lay out an evolutionary path for them to follow, while he also took into consideration the environment that the organism would evolve in. He made sure that his genetic programing would allow for evolutionary variation, and that was most apparent in the DNA of Nel and humans.
    They were closely related, their foundation was the same, but their home planets shaped them differently. Humans had lost their tails long ago, while Nel tails remained. Human eyes were different than Nel, who could see a lot better at night, their night vision coming on almost instantly when they went from light to dark. Their strange eyes with many small pupils that constantly shifted were in fact secondary eyelids that were highly reflective, giving them their superior night vision. But their vision was overall worse than that of humans. Their eyes had less focus, they didn’t have peripheral vision, and they saw everything in the direction their eyes were turned in at the same clarity. Human eyes on the other hand were much sharper, at least at the point they were focusing on, and able to see a greater range of the visual spectrum.
    Nel were almost color blind, an effect of evolving in the caves of their home planet. And when they finally left their caves they were met with the bleak skies that blocked almost all of their sun’s radiation, resulting in them having pale gray skin. Humanity on the other hand evolved on the world were developing different defenses against solar radiation was a necessity.
    There were other differences of course, Nel claws for example, a leftover from a time when they had to have strong and sharp tools to open hard shelled fruits that grew on their world and hunt smaller animals. Their mentality was also different, humanity was shaped by struggle, and later war. While Nel evolved at the top of their planet’s food chain with no competition. Humanity had to claw its way to the top of the food chain. But none of these differences were so big that they could deny what the sphere and the computer representation of Axull Darr told them. They were the same race, or rather sub races of the original race, the People.
    When they let their people know the truth, it wasn’t as big of a problem as they first anticipated. The people accepted it, once sufficient proof was given. Things changed of course, what it meant to be human didn’t. Religion adapted, it became much more adept at doing that since they left Earth. The hand of God worked through Axull Darr, the core values of different religions stayed the same. People accepted and moved on.
    And the sphere whispered of knowledge unlike anything they could imagine. But the program that kept the knowledge, while in some ways not as advanced as an Ai, and in some far more so, was not stupid. When it came in contact with humans, its higher functions unlocked, as per its programing in the event that the separated races find each other.
    It realized that Nel had found the sphere by accident, and that humans haven’t found the sphere on their home world, nor possessed the technology to hear the sphere’s beacon. So it refused to give them technologies that they didn’t possess, but it did agree to share the knowledge it had on technologies that the Empire already possessed. It broadened and reaffirmed the knowledge they had, which in turn usually led to them inventing new things on their own. In a way Seo-yun preferred it that way. It made their advances more valid somehow. The knowledge wasn’t given