Kirael: The Sisters (Space, Time & Aliens #3)
Channel: Kirael doAni
Date: 01/06/2016

Since a long time back in human history, when the other sentient races began to watch you and study and see you approach sentience, they have been here. They began to make you aware they existed. In paintings from the Middle Ages, in hieroglyphs in Egypt, in carved stones in Meso-America, you can see mysterious flying craft.

It is not in their nature to come and save you from destroying yourselves. They won't interfere. They consider you a not yet sentient race, and they are right. The earliest sentience happens when the second mind comes online, not the first, and at that time warfar becomes impossible. Many races in the unity live a very long time. They know that real awareness and passion can't be made. The best you can do is till the soil, and allow it to slowly grow in a species. Within these races, there is a lot of variety.

If the Sisters landed among you and walked your planet today, they would evoke terror, because they look like a giant grasshopper or praying mantis. Triangular heads and about three meters tall, moving around on six legs. They are slightly iridescent, beautiful. You will almost never see them in groups, and you'll never see their younger forms. They're a very private people. They, if they spoke, did so with a rustling of wings.

They don't take part in great galactic debates or participate actively in the bureaucracy. They radiate such a great sense of calm, peace, of the heart, that everyone just goes quiet. They make a vast effort to communicate as much as possible in the smallest amount. They are monks, creatures of vast beauty and heart and wisdom. Think of the human St. Francis, the Dalai Lama, or the plasmid species sometimes referred to as space whales.

There is a race that lives on a jungle place, that live in trees, all of them blue skinned and furred, maybe a meter tall or less. When humans meet them, they may refer to them as ewoks or teddybear people. They are some of the most childish and playful creatures that you are likely to meet in the unity. They have acquired all the basic technologies that all space traveling species have, but they almost never use them. They like the simple. When this race first met the Sisters, they were at first terrified, and then awed. They first created the corecept that later many of the other races used: it would translate to something like "Terrifying beautiful bug monks".

A long time ago, the elders realised that their integration of the second mind was incomplete, and in a massive working that took the lives of all of them, adjusted it in their species. It is part of the reason the Sisters still travel and watch the younger races. Their analysis of the math of probabilities tells them that some day, they will meet someone who will awaken in them the transition, so that one of them will once again reach that stage and show the others. They tend to reincarnate into their own race, like the Ewok species, and hesitate to join the younger races, but it is said that when a species is at that sacred moment when they are ready to join the realm of the heart and begin to be mature enough to be welcomed as an apprentice member in the unity, sometimes one of the older or wiser of them will sacrifice their life and take a body in this awakening world, so that they may be part of it from within. True understanding of a species can never be reached by studying them. One must actually be born and raised among them. The Sisters do this, so that one day they may rediscover some of the wisdom and deep understanding their race once had. There are some of them in this world, at this time, now.

You cannot overstate the power and beauty and importance of this race. Of all the races out there, these are in many ways the most sacred and spiritual that most will ever encounter.

Angel, 2015-04-25