World Seed

A World Seed is a intelligent, sentient asteroid or comet bearing the basic genetic material necessary to give rise to sentient life on a world. It is a vital part of the Second Genesis. Prior to the sundering of Solverse into it's Empirical and Empyrean Verses, sentient life could arise on virtually any world. Due to the general disconnection of the material world from the realm of true consciousness, however, it was necessary for the Shaeloah to take an active role in the formation of life on each world in order to give rise to sentience.
Therefore, World Seeds were created. Any world that currently bears life can give rise to evolved sentience through the addition of a World Seed. The Seed is created within the realm of Lei'El and transported to a system via a Jump Gate, and then travels through normal space to the life-bearing world. 
Upon impact, the World Seed transforms the world and for a brief period of time, two types of life exists on the world until the native life sufficiently interbreeds with the life brought by the Seed. The unified life creates a sufficiently diverse genetic basis - as well as the addition of consciousness from the Seed - to give rise to sentient life.
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