Chapter 878: Those Who Carry On

Chapter 878: Those Who Carry On

TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS

So I says to Maybelle, I says...

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HAT WEARING AUNTIE

Hang on, Trea.

Did anyone see the data out of the Lanaktallan worlds?

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GREAT GESTALT OF GREAT LANAKTALLAN GREAT THOUGHTS AND GREAT MEMES!

Which data?

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HAT WEARING AUNTIE

The phasic shockwave seems to have had an effect upon a large percentage of your species.

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GREAT GESTALT OF GREAT LANAKTALLAN GREAT THOUGHTS AND GREAT MEMES!

What percentage?

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HAT WEARING AUNTIE

Well, roughly 22%.

High ranking females.

It appears that any female of rank of at least Twentieth Most High has been seriously affected by the phasic burst.

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GREAT GESTALT OF GREAT LANAKTALLAN GREAT THOUGHTS AND GREAT MEMES!

How so?

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HAT WEARING AUNTIE

First, comatose. Some minor cerebral bleeding. Mostly microstrokes around certain areas.

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TELKAN FORGE WORLDS

That's terrible.

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HAT WEARING AUNTIE

That's just the beginning.

Doctors find heavy duty phasic blocks and gamma scalpel surgical work on the neurological tissue of the victims.

Repairs have proven, well...

...interesting.

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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS

How so?

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HAT WEARING AUNTIE

It appears that it was a deliberate process done to any high ranking female.

From females who had family members who rose up to Twentieth Most High and those who were born into such families.

Data mining of the data taken from the Unified Council by The Jed back when we attacked the Core Worlds of the Unified Council has shown that this was a common medical practice that took place during "Social Management Training" given to all female Lanaktallan of that rank and above.

We've checked, and the origins are so far back that data miners and analysts believe that this is from the "Post-Precursor War" period that Lanaktallan historians use to explain how they came out onto the galactic stage with so many planets, colonies, and advanced technology.

Which means, this procedure has been being carried out for over a hundred and ten million years.

If you look at the data and adjust the metrics so that each generation is every hundred-ten years, that means that a milliongenerations of Lanaktallan have undergone this procedure.

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AKLTAK SOARING WORLDS

What does the procedure do?

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BIOLOGICAL ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE SYSTEMS

According to our examinations and simulations...

...it's beyond gentling.

It's the deliberate adjustment of the subjects mind to lower their mental quotient scores by a signifigant degree.

Using the single metric of Intellectual Processing Quotient, those who are subjected to the procedure suffer enough damage to lower their intellect to approximately the 60-75 score range.

Putting them at the equivalent of a child.

Their Emotional Processing Quotient is also damaged, making them unable to feel or process certain emotions, especially those caused by outside stimuli.Fôllôw new stories at novelhall.com

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Broodcarriers have the smaller males, who go out hunting and depend on speed, agility, and fierceness. Primordial gene samples, thanks to the Jed and the defecting scientists and what recovered since the end of the war, state that male Telkan were vicious little things. The females used to be about 15-25% more mass, heavier innate defenses, and locking jaws. You get three or four old genetic line females on a predator, it looks like they went for the legs, grabbed them, and all yanked at once, ripping legs off.

Broodcarriers themselves are fluffy, which helps deflect attacks, and are quite fast and nimble. Even when pregnant, on all four, they're fast. That's why the podlings hold onto them for so long. A pregnant broodcarrier is actually faster on all fours than a male or female Telkan.

Additionally, the low level psychic ability of the broodcarriers allow them to alert the entire fluffle of Telkan that they are in danger up to a mile radius. If a broodcarrier is killed or incapacitated, immature or infant broodcarriers will begin broadcasting a distress signal. During the rescue efforts during First Telkan, kittykitty and goodboi rescue units were able to home in broodcarrier signals from infants as young as a few hours old from up to two hundred meters away.

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TELKAN FORGE WORLDS

Huh. I never knew that.

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BASS>Facepalms

Anyway, getting back to the Lanaktallan.

As I stated, this is a deliberate impairment of intellectual and emotional capability in the affected subjects. This means that a female Lanaktallan subjected to this treatment is literally incapable of anger. Their pattern recognition suffers, and this is a species that suffers from pattern recognition deficiencies due to their herd makeup.

The phasic burst seems to have damaged those phasic and radiation surgical procedures.

While many have gotten psychic surgery, some appear to come out of it without outside intervention.

Now, here is where things get interesting.

While roughly 42.872% suffer trauma induced amnesia for the period between surgical adjustment and post-burst, with over 80% of the rest suffering degrees of memory impairment, there has been a significant change.

In approximately 0.00023% of cases, and remember there are trillions of Lanaktallan and roughly 8 billion 20th Most High females, the females immediate have limbic and hormonal changes start. From initial reports and examinations, we're seeing the following:

Stimulation of growth plates previous sealed

Increase of muscle mass

Increase in folds and ridges of cerebral tissue

Increased bone density

Increase in phasic activity to the point it can be seen on phasic monitors

Empathic linkages to nearby Lanaktallan

Pain soothing

Emotional trauma soothing

Phasic protection from outside sources including Herd Stallion phasic projection

That's a quick rundown of the most common.

HAT WEARING AUNTIE

So, wait, you're telling me that there's nearly 18,500 Herd Matrons appearing.

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BIOLOGICAL ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE SYSTEMS

Yes.

Additionally, it appears that the presence of a Herd Matron causes physiological changes in some males.

They begin undergoing a physical and mental change.

Into Herd Stallions.

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HAT WEARING AUNTIE

Well, that just Hirosaki'd the chat.

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CONFED

What affect will this have on their society and culture.

They were pretty seriously culture cracked.

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HAT WEARING AUNTIE

According to what we've seen, and the gold mantids have witnessed, it's providing a stabilizing factor.

Our analysis and projections believe that the Lanaktallan will avoid a species-wide internal conflict. Individual Lanaktallan will gravitate toward the Herd Matrons and Herd Stallions that most embody their beliefs, ethics, and ethos.

For a while, it will be somewhat tribal, even with the advanced technology and infrastructure.

The Lanaktallan are facing another culture-cracking. Only this time, there will be stabilizing influences through the society to keep a cultural and social explosion from happening.

Think of it as the difference between what happened to my people after the Queens were finally removed and what happened to the Treana'ad, who still had the leadership caste. A leadership caste smart enough to embrace and guide the changes rather than try to stop the changes or eliminate the force of change.

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GREAT GESTALT OF GREAT LANAKTALLAN GREAT THOUGHTS AND GREAT MEMES!

It seems to have calmed down what some people on GalNet are referring to as "Best Girl War".

There's been actual lethal mutual combat between factions on some worlds.

Now, it appears that methods other than violence are being used to solve the disagreement.

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CONFED

Best Girl Wars.

Best Girls Wars Never Change.

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HAT WEARING AUNTIE