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.They now believed that all life should spring from just one code.They wouldn't rest until all things everywhere were Nefrem."Faulkland had his eyes pressed closed, and he looked to be doing long-division in his head."Wait," he said."Didn't the Nefrem have their own living ships? So there must be some other species."Marcus accessed a memory of a Nefrem cruiser, and he tried to analyze the shape.It didn't resemble Legacy much at all but there was an odd familiarity about it.Features popped out at him and when he recognized them, it very nearly knocked the wind out of his chest."The ships are human," he said."How the fuck?" Faulkland said gracelessly.Biology wasn't Marcus' field, and he struggled to find an explanation.That was why he had Juliette St.Martin on staff.Behind her glasses, she squinted and said, "Epigenetics." It took a few long seconds for her to put the rest of the picture together."There must be much more to our genetic code than we ever thought possible.While gestating, they may be able to bring out different characteristics in the fetus by altering its environment.Maybe something as simple as metering when different hormones are introduced.""That's not all," Jack said."They may be zealots, but the Nefrem are also very god damned smart.They record the code of everything they eat and use that information to design new organs, which are grown as mindless components.Those are combined with the genetically pure Nefrem to form hybrids."St.Martin had a grim sort of smile."They create chimeras just to protect their fucking ideology," she said."It's perverse."Very cleverly perverse, Marcus thought to himself.A foe with that sort of devotion would stop at nothing.He had no idea how to fight an enemy so totally alloyed to its beliefs, and the realization shook him.To Marcus' surprise, Kai spoke next."What about the Oikeyans? They must factor into this somehow."Jack nodded."The Eireki called this planet the Garden.the Oikeyan system, they called the Preserve.It's where they took some of the species they rescued.""And my own people?" Kai asked."How did we know about any of this?"Jack looked apologetic as he said, "I don't know."The alien seemed unaffected, but it was always difficult to read his reactions.Marcus knew that if he'd been the one asking that question, he'd have felt very let down, though.For his own part, Marcus felt more charged up than he had in a long time.His brain fired into action and broke clean of the exhaustion that had been wracking him these past few years."The Yuon Kwon must be some kind of evolutionary off-shoot from the Yuon Shien," he said."Must be," Jack agreed."I don't know a lot about them either, but the name's certainly a clue.and the fact they can link with us, of course.""That's amazing," St.Martin said."Even with random mutation, the same pathways remain functional after so many million years."Jack shut his eyes for a moment.When he opened them again, he spoke."You have to understand how the Eireki operated.They didn't just tinker with an animal and call it a day.they modified everything in order to build a single cohesive mechanism.Plants, fungi, viruses.It all worked to a common purpose."St.Martin nodded."They modify and influence one another, promoting or protecting whichever genes the Eireki desired.I get it.""And using those techniques, I think they may've hidden something for us," Jack said."The way Felix changed after we bonded.It just had to be their doing.They wanted us here now, working together."All Marcus could think of was the battle raging down on the surface."If cooperation was what the they were after," Marcus said, "then they failed badly."Jack's face radiated bitter disappointment."That brings me to our current situation," he said.He nudged his chin back toward the center of the room, where smoke formed a new image.It was a round object with openings laid out in grids like some kind of spore."The Golden Seed," Marcus said.Jack jabbed a finger at the image."We need to destroy it.""It's harmless," Rao said with a sharp laugh."You removed the hollow-drive yourself.It's just a pile of junk without a power source."Kai took a step forward.He said, "I'm afraid not.Some of your kind have proven keenly adept at reverse engineering foreign technology.""And with those kinds of tools, they could easily wipe the Earth clean," Jack added."If the New Union gets ahold of it, they'll turn it into some kind of biological weapons factory.or heaven knows what else."New Union forces had the upper hand.Faulkland's best prediction had the Oikeyans pulling out and ceding the territory within the week, followed most likely by a full-scale retaliation.Open warfare was about to break out, but the New Union would possess the artifact first."I don't understand," St.Martin said."Why didn't it dissolve when it expired, like every other piece of Eireki technology?"Jack struggled to put something into words, with an expression on his face like a toddler trying to understand multiplication.He finally said, "The omnibodies interfere with natural evolution somehow.The ones in the Seed were modified, but.I can't really explain this.It's way above my pay grade.""It doesn't matter," Marcus said."It's here now, and we'll destroy it."But even as he spoke, he wondered how he could pull it off.Legacy would have to blast through solid Earth, then have enough power left over to punch through the Seed's shielding and burn every last scrap.He doubted she could do it in her current condition.The other option was to send the Fleet down to claim it, but that would be a bloodbath, washing away any last chances of peace.There were no two ways about that.Faulkland was apparently following a similar chain of logic."We can wait for Union forces to raise the artifact, then torch it from orbit," he said."Waiting is dangerous," Kai said."The battlefield is about to change [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.They now believed that all life should spring from just one code.They wouldn't rest until all things everywhere were Nefrem."Faulkland had his eyes pressed closed, and he looked to be doing long-division in his head."Wait," he said."Didn't the Nefrem have their own living ships? So there must be some other species."Marcus accessed a memory of a Nefrem cruiser, and he tried to analyze the shape.It didn't resemble Legacy much at all but there was an odd familiarity about it.Features popped out at him and when he recognized them, it very nearly knocked the wind out of his chest."The ships are human," he said."How the fuck?" Faulkland said gracelessly.Biology wasn't Marcus' field, and he struggled to find an explanation.That was why he had Juliette St.Martin on staff.Behind her glasses, she squinted and said, "Epigenetics." It took a few long seconds for her to put the rest of the picture together."There must be much more to our genetic code than we ever thought possible.While gestating, they may be able to bring out different characteristics in the fetus by altering its environment.Maybe something as simple as metering when different hormones are introduced.""That's not all," Jack said."They may be zealots, but the Nefrem are also very god damned smart.They record the code of everything they eat and use that information to design new organs, which are grown as mindless components.Those are combined with the genetically pure Nefrem to form hybrids."St.Martin had a grim sort of smile."They create chimeras just to protect their fucking ideology," she said."It's perverse."Very cleverly perverse, Marcus thought to himself.A foe with that sort of devotion would stop at nothing.He had no idea how to fight an enemy so totally alloyed to its beliefs, and the realization shook him.To Marcus' surprise, Kai spoke next."What about the Oikeyans? They must factor into this somehow."Jack nodded."The Eireki called this planet the Garden.the Oikeyan system, they called the Preserve.It's where they took some of the species they rescued.""And my own people?" Kai asked."How did we know about any of this?"Jack looked apologetic as he said, "I don't know."The alien seemed unaffected, but it was always difficult to read his reactions.Marcus knew that if he'd been the one asking that question, he'd have felt very let down, though.For his own part, Marcus felt more charged up than he had in a long time.His brain fired into action and broke clean of the exhaustion that had been wracking him these past few years."The Yuon Kwon must be some kind of evolutionary off-shoot from the Yuon Shien," he said."Must be," Jack agreed."I don't know a lot about them either, but the name's certainly a clue.and the fact they can link with us, of course.""That's amazing," St.Martin said."Even with random mutation, the same pathways remain functional after so many million years."Jack shut his eyes for a moment.When he opened them again, he spoke."You have to understand how the Eireki operated.They didn't just tinker with an animal and call it a day.they modified everything in order to build a single cohesive mechanism.Plants, fungi, viruses.It all worked to a common purpose."St.Martin nodded."They modify and influence one another, promoting or protecting whichever genes the Eireki desired.I get it.""And using those techniques, I think they may've hidden something for us," Jack said."The way Felix changed after we bonded.It just had to be their doing.They wanted us here now, working together."All Marcus could think of was the battle raging down on the surface."If cooperation was what the they were after," Marcus said, "then they failed badly."Jack's face radiated bitter disappointment."That brings me to our current situation," he said.He nudged his chin back toward the center of the room, where smoke formed a new image.It was a round object with openings laid out in grids like some kind of spore."The Golden Seed," Marcus said.Jack jabbed a finger at the image."We need to destroy it.""It's harmless," Rao said with a sharp laugh."You removed the hollow-drive yourself.It's just a pile of junk without a power source."Kai took a step forward.He said, "I'm afraid not.Some of your kind have proven keenly adept at reverse engineering foreign technology.""And with those kinds of tools, they could easily wipe the Earth clean," Jack added."If the New Union gets ahold of it, they'll turn it into some kind of biological weapons factory.or heaven knows what else."New Union forces had the upper hand.Faulkland's best prediction had the Oikeyans pulling out and ceding the territory within the week, followed most likely by a full-scale retaliation.Open warfare was about to break out, but the New Union would possess the artifact first."I don't understand," St.Martin said."Why didn't it dissolve when it expired, like every other piece of Eireki technology?"Jack struggled to put something into words, with an expression on his face like a toddler trying to understand multiplication.He finally said, "The omnibodies interfere with natural evolution somehow.The ones in the Seed were modified, but.I can't really explain this.It's way above my pay grade.""It doesn't matter," Marcus said."It's here now, and we'll destroy it."But even as he spoke, he wondered how he could pull it off.Legacy would have to blast through solid Earth, then have enough power left over to punch through the Seed's shielding and burn every last scrap.He doubted she could do it in her current condition.The other option was to send the Fleet down to claim it, but that would be a bloodbath, washing away any last chances of peace.There were no two ways about that.Faulkland was apparently following a similar chain of logic."We can wait for Union forces to raise the artifact, then torch it from orbit," he said."Waiting is dangerous," Kai said."The battlefield is about to change [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]