The Hard Stuff Rules...

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/-/S'pht-Translator-Active/-/ Only I grasped the significance of the dissection of some of the captives. These creatures, repugnant as they are, are sentient, and yet their bodies are not bonded to any mechanisms. They can survive without their armor and their staffs. Until now, sentience had always required cyber-organic symbiosis. All of our science has led to this conclusion. We can even give our pets sentience with cyber-organic implants. Yet, these vile conquerors are sentient without any machinations.

/-/S'pht-Translator-Active/-/ This leads to debate. Perhaps our own sentience is induced by the birthing operation, and that at some time, we were no more sentient than a F'lickta. If such a fundamental assumption of our kind is wrong, then perhaps the myths were true, and we were actual servants of Yrro and Pthia. Perhaps they built us, or we were part of a larger group who came to Lh'owon. Alas, I fear that we will never know these things.

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