dragons

 

General Physiology

The dragon is a homoiothermic reptile. In other words, he is a warm-blooded creature and his body temperature is controlled internally. This characteristic enables him to adapt to the different climates of his very extensive habitat and to maintain his activities both day and night throughout the year, as he is not dependent on the warmth from the sun like the other reptiles. The dragon generally has wings, and his bones are hollow, for lightness. There are dragons, usually ancient survivor from the distant past, with stumpy legs and no wings. These rare survivors of a remote era are intelligent and fairly aggressive and belong to a single species known as "worm of the deep", a species on the verge of extinction. This creature lives for a very long time. There are records of dragons who have lived for five hundred and even a thousand years, but there are no knows cases of dragons who have died from old age. On the other hand, they died from accidents, certain diseases, or as a result of the actions of their most relentless enemy: MAN.

The Muscular system

The dragon's muscular system is one of the most fascinating... and one of the most complicated. We can evaluate the power in the bite of a dragon to put to an average of 2 ton per cm cube (in comparison it could easily gnaw steel).

As a matter of fact, dragons are very powerful. Their leg and "arm" can support great charge without much difficulty but this only applies to the ground movement because in the air, a dragon could not maintain more than half of is weight for a long period of time.

If you have vision keen you probably notice something at the looking of the muscular picture and the skeleton picture... with the observation of the front and the rear paws, I come to the conclusion that dragons COULD NOT run, their muscles of the leg and arm were not developed for this matter. This doesn't mean they could not walk, this only means that they could not reach a great speed at the ground. (Take into consideration that dragons come in so much variety that it could be possible for a dragon to run but not those who have the similar structure of the picture above).

The Skeleton

The dragon is the largest known flying creature. To maintain his enormous bulk in the air, his physical structure has had to be different from that of other reptiles whom many persons inaccurately associate dragon with these.

His wing bones fit on to broad shoulders which support the powerful wing muscles; these require an extraordinary articulator system unknown in other species. The bones were tougher than reinforced concrete and much lighter.

It is important to note that the bones of a dragon are hollow like bird reducing their mass, scientifically: any creature with the physiology of a dragon can flight well and at great speed.

The Scales

The dragon's body is completely covered with tough, shiny scales. Dragon usually doesn't have this scaly armor on the neck or stomach, possibly due to his habit of burrowing underground, not all draconologist are agreed about this. To protect his "soft" abdomen (at least weaker than the rest of his body) the dragon often wears a jeweled breastplate. Using his saliva, which has powerful adhesive properties, and which he secretes on an empty stomach, the dragon often sticks precious stones on his neck and stomach, for protection as well as adornment.

The scales are pentagonal, and shaped like a teardrop, with two long sides and two shorter ones, and a very short fifth side attached to the skin. The dragon can make them stand on end whenever he likes to preen them. Remember, the dragon is a very clean creature and takes great care always to keep his skin and scales clean and immaculate.

In their normal position, the scales overlap very neatly and, thanks to a tiny cavity on the surface, they fit into each other to allow perfect freedom of movement.

If we study a scale closely, we observe the following characteristics: the innermost part is composed of a compact hairy formation firmly rooted in the epidermis. On the hair follicle, there are some tiny glands that secrete a substance that adheres firmly to the skin.

This substance is rich in minerals, which determine the hardness and the color of the dragon's scales. The external surface has a horny, translucent texture, which gives the scales their habitual luster.

CROSS SECTION

The dragon does not need to sloughs off his skin like most other reptiles, as the scales grow, they have renewed automatically, like human nails and hair. They are not shed from the body, except in case of illness.

FRONTAL SECTION

Wings and Flight

The wings of a dragon are based on the principle arm of any animal, i.e. they consist of a thumb and four very lengthened fingers, the whole connected with a membrane as we can observe in the bat. It is significant to understand that the similar structure between the shoulder, the arm, and the hand is homologous with the corresponding structures of the wing for the dragon (see opposite figure). It is also important to understand that the membrane of the wing does not attach close to the shoulder as certain biologically erroneous drawings can sometimes be shown but near the bottom of the back of the dragon close to the thighs.

This is very important since if the wings would be connected in the top of the back, the dragon would fly but it would have a vertical position (head up, posterior & tail down) that would be a serious disadvantage for the speed and also for the maneuvrability. When the wings are connected at the bottom of the back, the dragon can have a horizontal position and thus the head and the tail can be used as rudder and allows a great maneuvrability (at least, definitely higher than the vertical position). This also allows a greater surface for the wings (a critical element in flight).

1. The wings are connected near the shoulder.
This is the most improbable type of wing. The surface is small near the body making the flight and even the gliding difficult, moreover, the rear of the dragon tends to "fall" toward the ground. However, this disposition gives good results if the dragon is hovering.

2. The wings are connected below the chest.
The wings as shown on the complete picture above is somewhat the mix between situations 1 and 3. There is no real mistake here, except that situation 3 is better.

3. The wings are connected near the thighs.
This gives a greater surface for the wings than situations 1 and 2. The long neck and the tail give balance and enable the dragons to quickly gain or lose altitude. This is definitively the most probable type of wings.

Coloring

It is impossible to list the enormous variety of hues that make up the dragon's brilliant coloring, but they can be divided into three broad color groupings:

Blues, ranging from dark blue to silver and mother-of-pearl.
Red, ranging from copper-red to dark red and reddish-black.
Greens, which include every imaginable shade of green and yellow and even dark brown, emerald green and burnished gold.

Although these three principal color groups are not usually mixed, a dragon's coloring is rarely uniform. In general, his scales are several hues from one of the main color categories, with a metallic luster which is hard to define. When the scales have a pale, opaque appearance, it is a sure sign of ill health.

Many dragons are known by their scales, such as Ancalagon the Black, Smaug the Golden and Spars the Green.

Dragons - David or Goliath?:

For many of you, the word "dragon" means huge, enormous or imposing creature but out of any reasonable doubt, the facts are different from the fairy tale. Dragons are probably small creatures (from 1 foot to 10 feet long). For this, we need to look at the fundamental principle of physics called "Physics of Proportion" or more commonly called "Physics of Lilliput".

First, you look at a cube (1cm x 1cm x 1cm) and you decide to double the length and you want to keep the proportion. You will have a bigger cube (2cm x 2 cm x 2cm). The length of the enlarged cube will be multiplied by 2, the surface will be multiplied by 4 and the weight/volume will be multiplied by 8. For example, let say that a bird needs to have a wingspan equal to his body length to fly, enlarge this bird ten times. There will be 100 times more surface... However he will weight 1000 times more and since his wings give him the power to fly and that these rely on the surface and not on the volume, he will be unable to fly for his lack of lift power.

We have proof now that a large creature could have some difficulties to fly, but we haven't proved they cannot exist. The second thing is the structure of the dragon. Some persons send me theories that dragons could have cartilage instead of bones but this could only be possible in the very small creature: The shark, for example, live in water and in the water your apparent weight is much lighter than in air that explains why an animal like this could live with only cartilage. Look at your nose and your ears, these are made in cartilage but as you have surely noticed, this isn't very strong and it's could not support the weight of your entire body. Now if they cannot be made with cartilage, they are obviously made with flesh and bones but the fact with bone is that they rely on the surface (i.e. diameter and not superficial) to be strong and large bone increase the mass and thus make the flight much more difficult.

This is more realistic to say that dragons are small creatures if you consider that they can fly otherwise, they will follow the same principle in the structures of these huge magnificent reptiles: the dinosaurs (in this case their wings would be absolutely useless).

(Summary of the "Physic of Proportion": The rule is simple when you change an object proportionally, the change "A" affect the dimension like this: the length=A, the Surface=A2, and the Volume=A3. Eventually, I will fully detail the effect of this physics principle...

The Dragon's Eyes:

I think this point really needed to be cleared up since artistic representations and sciences occasionally do not mix very well. Dragons eyes are usually shown to be reptilian with a vertical slit for the pupil, while somewhere else you will have a round pupil and if you search hard you may even find dragon with insect-like eyes not to mention the "glow-in-the-dark

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" eyes with no pupil at all.

In all these view about dragons (pun intended), what is possible and what is not, and more importantly: why?

The traditional (vertebrate) dragon eye:

The eyes come in two flavors: with a round pupil or with a vertical slit. This is just a small detail because they both work the same way and they both have much in common with a standard camera. The light first pass through the cornea, the main source of refraction, then it pass through the lens which controls 1/3 of the refraction of light that enters the eye (the cornea, the other 2/3). Located just behind the pupil it allows for changing of focus from distance to near objects by altering its shape. This changing focus is called accommodation. As a person ages the lens hardens and accommodation becomes more difficult. Finally, the lights reach the retina that contains photoreceptors (rods and cones) that change light into sight by converting light into electrical impulses. These electrical messages are sent from the retina to the brain and interpreted as images. Simple heh?

The iris is the colored part of the eye has very fine muscles to control the size of the pupil and thus the intensity of the light (in conjunction with the eyelids). Being able to reduce the pupils to slits rather than tiny circles gives the creature a greater and more accurate control of how much light enters their eyes; this ability is particularly important in bright sunlight. Vertical slits also have an advantage over horizontal slits. When the creature's eyelids close at right angles to the vertical pupil, he can reduce the amount of light even further by bringing its eyelids closer and closer together. This combination of the vertical slits of the pupils and the horizontal slits of the eyelids, allows the creature to make the most delicate adjustments of the light reaching its eye compared to any other animal.

Also, many animals also have an additional structure called the tapetum - a reflective layer that lies under the retina and acts as a mirror, bouncing light back toward the retina a second time. Dogs, cats, horses, and cattle all possess them. This allows them to function under dim lighting better than humans. Cats, for instance, are five times better at detecting light than humans.

This is probably the most plausible situation, while is contain nothing new, this type of eyes has a long history of great functionally and an acceptable field of perception. However, this type of eyes possesses only a 0.02 degree of visual range (i.e. there is only a small point in the picture where everything is clear. As you read this line, the paragraph above is blurred and cannot be read until you move the focus of your eyes on it).

Eyes made from a mosaic of lens (insect-like eyes):

As opposed to the vertebrate eyes, the image is, in fact, many small "independent" units that will together form the image. Each small lens points toward a different direction and thus can view a wide-angle. A vertebrate eye has 0.02 degree of visual range (ie where objects appear clear and sharp) but since each lens of the composite eye is relatively large, this eye has a poor visual acuity. The image is crude but still recognizable. However, the main reason why large creatures do not have composite eyes, it is because this type of eyes generally allows only a short range of vision. Flies and mosquitoes are very near-sighted and can see only a few millimeters in front of them with any degree of resolution. Also, although the insect depth of focus is very short, it is nevertheless very broad. The near-sightedness of insects is so extreme that they see detail where we would need a microscope to see. On the other hand, in the human eye, the fovea, or area of sharpest focus, is only as big as our thumb.

Vertebrates
(humans for example)

Composite eyes
(insects for example)

Each pixel is one of the several hundred lenses of the eye

As shown on the picture above, for a creature with composite eyes, the Earth still look like the old planet we still know but the details are poor. For an insect, the important point is probably to distinguish the flowers from the landscape and your hand (or predator) before you hit him. It is simple and well, it does the work for them but seriously, any large creature would be greatly disadvantaged by this type of eyes.

No slit at all; eyes appearing like a crystal ("crystalline" eyes)?

Think about the premise of dragons. How are they able to see something? In fact, the best explanation is there is no retina but instead the light receptors are distributed homogeneously in the eyes. This means a photoreceptor near the surface can see the object far away and you go deeper into the eyes, the photoreceptors are able to view objects that are closer.

This would also mean that the eyes are always focused no matter the distance of the object (I admit this could seem very strange for most of us, but imagine a photo where the close objects are as sharp and crisp as the objects far away).

However, this does not give the same precision as a retina since the dragon cannot have a dense quantity of receptors without blocking the light; a dense quantity of cells would block the light for the layers deeper in the eye (to some extent, in fact, cells are almost totally transparent).

As said above, the advantage would be to always have the close and far object focused at the same time and having a great deep perception even with a single eye. I explain, for human and some other creatures having a binocular vision, this is extremely useful for evaluating deepness but if your eyes are focussed on every distance all the time and if your brain is able to tell which signals from which "layer" of photoreceptors, then the brain no longer need two eyes to know the "exact" distance between the creature and an object. This would allow the dragon to have his eyes slightly more on the side and have a greater angle of view without sacrificing their ability to determine deepness.

Another advantage would be to increase the angle of the eyes, bird has their eyes on each side and human right in front. We humans with our eyes squarely in the front of our heads can see about 180 degrees, but we need to direct our eyes into the direction of the object to have a clear picture. The crystalline type of eyes would be focused not only for object of all range but also in all directions, this means once you come into their angle of vision, it is like if the dragon was looking directly at you all the time while we cannot describe very well a person standing in the corner of our vision.

The main disadvantage would be their inability to have one point where all their light receptors can be gathered. Owls, for example, have a very dense retina and this allows them to see small creatures (such as mice) even if they are very far from them. In a crystalline eye, this situation cannot exist, they can have a good visual acuity but not as high as the animals that are renown for their vision. Does this mean a dragon with such eyes cannot have a great vision? Absolutely not, again, we humans have a vision angle of 180 degrees and about 140 degrees of binocular overlap. Dragons with crystalline eyes could have an angle of vision around 220 degree (i.e. the eyes slightly on the side) and an overlaps of 110 degree. The object inside the overlapping degrees of both eyes would greatly increase the resolution of the object while the remaining angle of vision would be less defined (but much better defined than the visual acuity of the corner of our eyes). The degree where the vision of the dragon overlap would be equivalent to the area of sharpest focus and would be obviously much greater than our.

Glowing crystalline eyes?

Glowing eyes without a slit are nonsense, I have seen some trying to explain the phenomena but their explanation contains several flaws that make the theory highly questionable. Let face it, this is often used to show good/bad guys in manga and other cartoon but this remains very unrealistic. In fact, if the creature had an iris, it would be the reflection on the iris that would give the impression of glowing eyes. This is where the idea came from but as you all surely noticed, the "glowing" eyes of a cat in the dark do not really glow; it is just a reflection of the light. Now, imagine now that your pupil would glow, you would literally blind yourself by the light emitted but also by the reflection of this light back to you. The best example I can give is at night when you are inside your house, if you look outside with all the lamp turned on, the glass in the window will act as a mirror. In other words, if you need to look outside, it is easier when there is no light inside. The same thing for the eyes, if you have a light source inside the eye, this would 1) blind you by activating the photoreceptors around the light source, and 2) your own cornea would behave like a mirror and reflect you back the light you emitted thus blinding you even more. In a crystalline eye, the light emitted by the "crystalline" liquid would trigger photoreceptors that are surrounding the light source thus completely blinding the creature in the process.

All this to says, that artistically, this gives dragons and fantastic look but scientifically there are so many problems generated by this type of eyes, that it would be a lot of trouble to gain no advantage over the other types of eyes...

Classification and Evolution:

Many can wonder about which class the dragons can be categorized. The dragons cannot be considered as reptiles because they are active and they are warm-blooded, and they cannot either be mammals [because they lay eggs

(Monotrème like "Echiné à bec droit", are the only exception to the rule because it is only the mammals to lay eggs)

and they do not produce milk] and even less be birds (because they have scales and six members). However, the dragons have elements of each of these classes (reptiles, birds, and mammals):

Thus, the dragons would be categorized in their own class... It would be a mistake to consider them in the current class because they do not answer the physical criteria required to belong to one or the other.

For their evolution, I would like first to put something at light: if you believe that the darwinism is only a theory, read this BEFORE contacting me by electronic mail for saying that it is an only theory without good grounds.

Their evolution according to the most plausible assumption goes up with the first primitive reptiles, when those divides to follow different paths of evolution as to become the dinosaurs (which became the actual birds), the mammals and other better adapt reptiles. The dragons separate either from the dinosaurs or right before the mammal junction which gave some kind of reptile with mammal appearance (which looks strangely close to a dragon without wings). With a few tens of a thousand of years of evolution, some beneficial mutations could have given them wings that have helped them to survive. This new branch in the evolution could explain the evolution of the dragons.

Breath Weapon !?

Fire Breather:

The breath weapon of a dragon is not a magical thing that spread out of no-where but had a more scientific explanation. When we eat our body by digesting created a gas know as Methane (CH4), dragon unlike human and other animal store this gas into another kind of "lung" that will serve as a bag/canister to held the gas that will be later mixed with a small amount of phosphor (P4) that has the propriety to ignite in fire at the contact of air. When the dragon wants to breathe fire, the methane is released into the lung and when the gas is in the air, the phosphor ignites and also puts the methane in the fire.

Cold/Frost Breather:

Some dragons breathe a cone of frost, the explanation for this resides also in the food that the dragon ingests. The food is broken down into the stomach primary for nutrition but they remain to bear some chemicals reactions that will give a gas, I suppose to be Nitrogen (N2) (I have not yet found the exact composition of it but I continue to work hard to find the most probable natural refrigeration gas), the gas is compressed by extremely strong muscles, exactly alike the base system of a refrigeration system, the dragon doesn't need to thing for it because it is spontaneous and painless. When a dragon needs to freeze an opponent, the highly compressed nitrogen, that almost reaches the liquid state, is released in the lungs and when the gas comes into air, it uncompresses at an unimaginable speed. That result in the gas absorbs all the heat in is the environment. This cause the temperature in the breath to drop to an average of -50 °C (more test had to be made to know a more exact °T), anyone caught in the path of the breath without heavy heat protection is at least seriously injured and only death remain for the weaker one.
It may have another explanation that can be explained by extremely efficient and fast oxidation-reduction reactions but we will not explain it much (everyone who has done is advanced inorganic chemistry should understand the concept otherwise you should review or have listen your college class)

Acid Breather:

The easiest of them, all organic creature secrete gastric acid to break down the food, dragon who can spit acid have a special organ that produces a powerful acid (probably HCl) that the dragon release when he breathes, the opponent is burned by the acid, even with the best armor usually made of metal that makes bad reaction with acid.
For other breath weapons least know to follow the same principle and don't need much detail about them.
I made one observation during my research: it seems to have a direct link between the breath and the food if a dragon is starving his breath weapon doesn't regenerate. All the incredible system of the dragon makes it the most fascinating creature in the known universe.

Reproduction

The reproductive system of these creatures is internal, it means that at the look of their external physiognomy, it is hard (not to say nearly impossible) to determine if this dragon is a male or a female, only the general behavior and the small change in their color can provide pieces of information about the dragon's gender. Dragons lead egg-like reptiles and bird, eggs are protected by a hard shell that with time will weaken to let the new baby dragon break it more easily. The incubation period of these creatures is mostly unknown; some eggs will hatch in a year other two and some more than five years. The dragons' eggs are rich in calcium and I suppose that the newborn dragons eat is shell to not waste the nutriment in it.

The mating process is known as dragon-slide: the two partners fly high in the sky and after a moment they grab each other and close their wing and make free-fall. Then at less than a hundred feet from the ground, they open their wing and land. The dragons so unusual mating process is mainly because dragons love speed and risk, and add these to the pleasure of love... you have a sensation that human could never enjoy.

Society

There is currently no way to tell what kind of organization or type of society about dragons. Legends and lores often say that dragons tend to be a loner by nature or by obligation. According to these legends, dragons pass much of their time alone in their lair, they, during this time, learn about their environment and how to use it wisely. Because they are alone a great deal of time, most of them enjoy the company of other dragons and even humans as long as they hadn't come in the goal of stealing or conquest. It may be possible that dragons have some sort of council led by an elderly dragon but this yet has to be proven.

Dragons and Mankind

Throughout history dragons and human beings have been unable to live peacefully side by side. As a result, mankind has not been able to benefit from ancient dragon knowledge.

Man's craving for power and religious beliefs have kept Europe engulfed in interminable and bloody struggles. The dragonlords could not understand the reasons for man's self-destructive behavior, and kept well out of the way, retreating to remote hiding places far from all this confusion.

Shrouded in mystery, the dragon's trail remained lost in the obscurity of legend.
However, the dragons secretly pursued their quest for knowledge without completely excluding the human race, since they accepted and taught those few men who sought the essence of truth.

We could wonder what would happen if the dragons reveal themselves to the eyes of humankind... Would we be able to accept another form of intelligence probably far superior to our or would we feel the need to fight those, who at the end, could come to our rescue, and this under the only pretense that these beings make umbrage to us...?

Open your eyes and see. Don't believe only in your wrong history or your scientists or your politicians. Some of them know the truth about various things, but they don't inform the public to avoid confusion and panic. I think your species is not as bad as some of my kind think and it would be a pity to observe your end. That's everything I can say. Go through your world with open eyes and you will see or maybe not.

Art and Jewels

The dragon is a great lover of art, especially of gold and silver, and work, and he loves to hoard treasure. However, he is not renowned for his love of manual work, preferring intellectual activity by far. That is why he does not devote himself to creating jewels, but only to "acquiring them" from human beings through various methods. Robbery, looting, trade, barter, fraud - by any means fair or foul which enables him to come by the jewels and precious stones he covets.

The dragon feels he never has enough jewels and he finds it difficult to part voluntarily with a single one of his treasures. Even though, for example, he gives jewels to the favorites in his family, he does it purely because he knows that the young maidens cannot remove the jewels to the outside world. He is very jealous of his belongings and guards the treasure he has built up over the years in large storerooms. He keeps detailed inventories of all his possessions so that he can be alerted immediately if a single object goes missing.

Jewels serve a specific purpose for the dragon in that he usually sleeps on a bed of gems and luxurious fabrics, such as silks and velvets. For this bed, he never uses soft stones like pearls and emeralds, as they are too fragile.

Another theory says that dragons also hoard "precious" items for reasons other than just simple obsession. At a level we humans are incapable of feeling, different metals and other items "resonate" at certain levels, especially gold and silver. The dragons could use this resonation to their advantage, controlling it, manipulating it. In a nutshell, it enhanced their already remarkable "mystic" powers.

In addition to the enhancing powers, this "resonation" also had the same addictive effect as a "rush" in humans. Hence, the more a dragon acquired, the more he/she wanted. This also allowed their immediate detection of any missing piece.

In writing, this description one should understand the intelligence of Dragons and the Evolution from dinosaurs into dragons and then into biped the use of quantum technology to return to the stars. It is not illusive technology-related to travel the ideas of hoards of precious metals meant that there was a very

Mostly a question of what if Humans were to encounter dragons and some of these opinions all together there were over 14 pages of paper contained comments shaped by everything from a radically religious to a fanatical tendency to welcome contact with a reptilian species. Some of these comments contained stereotypical phrases like "Servants of Hell" or "Species of the Evil One". I don't want to go into any kind of detailed description here since I don't want to pass on further any false and radical realm of thought.

However, one should ask when Draco read these religious and animosity-ridden comments here, what do you think and feel then? Is the relationship between your species and ours really shaped from that kind of total negation?

Answer: Does it amaze you that I am not completely angered by that? I
had fully expected those kinds of extreme reactions. The programming for the utter negation of another species (especially the reptilian species) as in your own case is deeply embedded in each of your own individual consciousnesses. This ancient conditioning stems from the days of your third artificial creation and, biologically speaking, is passed down as an information genome from generation to generation.
The identification of my species with the powers of darkness was the primary intention of the Illojiim, who liked seeing themselves in the role of the powers of light something which in and of itself represents a paradox since that humanoid species was extremely sensitive to your sunlight. In case you were expecting me to act offended, I guess I'll have to partially disappoint you. These obscure intentions are not really your fault; you are simply following for the most part of what you have inherited from your ancestors. It is indeed actually somewhat disappointing that many of you develop no especially strong individual self-conscience, for this would help you to overcome the conditioning. As I already said, we were in direct contact in the last several centuries with some of your more primitive human tribes; these tribes had themselves succeeded in breaking through the old "creation programming;" they were able to meet us without tension, hate and total rejection. Apparently many of your modern civilized individuals are not in a position to think on their own, but rather let themselves be guided by programming and religion (which is also the manifestation of that ancient programming and part and parcel of the plan of the Illojiim). Therefore, comments of that kind I'd sooner regard as amusing than irritating; they simply confirm in large measure for me my suppositions about your defined mode of thinking.

Question: Therefore, you are not the "Species of the Evil One" as was
remarked earlier?

Answer: How am I supposed to answer that? Your people still think
according to a simple and completely inappropriate scheme of
generalizations. Simply put, there are absolutely NO purely evil
species. There exist in every terrestrial and extraterrestrial species
alike both good and evil individuals; it's even true of your own
people; but there is NO such thing as an absolutely evil species. This
conception is really very primitive. You people have believed from
time immemorial what you are supposed to believe what was foreseen for
you to believe by your creators. Every well-known species, even the
more highly developed ones, consists of a great number of individual
consciousnesses (at least a portion of the consciousness is
individual, even though there are connecting fields of consciousness);
these self-sufficient spirits are able to decide freely for themselves
a lifestyle which is either good or evil, according to your own human
standards. It depends again on the respective point of view; your
people are not necessarily in a position to judge whether the deeds of
a much more highly developed species are good or evil because of you
stand at a lower observation point, from which an assessment is not
possible. Your simple words "good" and "evil" are in any case examples
of a tendency towards generalization; in my language there are many
concepts for the various shades of meaning of individual behaviors in
comparison to the norms of a society.

Even those extraterrestrial species which are inclined to act with antagonism towards you are not "Species of the Evil One," even though they operate negatively with respect to your own race. They do this for their own reasons and do not regard themselves as evil; were your structured way of thinking more linear and more focused as theirs is, then you would also behave in such a fashion. The attitude of a
species towards other kinds of existence naturally depends very heavily on its respective structured way of thinking; each species sets its own priorities. To classify that as "good" or "evil" is really quite primitive, for the survival of any species argues for many varieties, among them your own, as well as for even the most varied of the worst or negatively-directed deeds. I won't even exclude my own kind in this regard, for there have been certain occurrences in the past which I don't personally welcome, but about which I would also not like to go into detail. None of these occurrences have happened in the last 200 years of your time scale. But please note the following: there are NO absolutely good and there are NO absolutely bad species because each and every species always consists of individuals.

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