THE APPENDIX

PART B

TRANSFORMATION AND EVOLUTION

According to the text, Reign of Rulers, Transformation and Evolution occurs many times. But according to the information given it would seem best to go further into detail about the process of living with a mutation. First thing to understand is the meaning to the terms mutation and transformation. Transformation is a overall affect that occurs when the body of a subject is changed due to weight, injury, make-belief, internal sources, external sources, religious beliefs, chemistry, physics, and simple myths. Mutation id a form a transformation, but which has a harmful affect against the person. To note harmful affects does not include pain, pain is actually the process of life, other harmful affects does not count are acts of God. If you are transformed by an act of God, then we call that epistemological transformation.

The Curse Swamp Evolution is very selective on the persons personality, if the persons personality is destructive they would become hideous looking, scarred, rotting flesh, diseased, orc-like. For example of the Prophecy who entered the Cursed Swamp they all became unique due to the fact that they were purely light and most became fish due to their diseases like asthma. As for the other mutations, they are questionable. There is no knowing what you will become if you go through the Cursed Swamp. As we know the only way not to be infected with the curse is not to eat or drink from the swamp, but due to its deep puddles, mud slicks and small ponds the possibility not to drink from the Cursed Swamp is virtually impossible. Some of the mutations the Prophecy underwent were becoming Numenorian and becoming fish. A possible explanation to the Cursed Swamp was that it was created by the Witch-King of Angmar in order to protect his northern wasteland. It worked, for even Asron himself not venture into this formidable land. Below are a few selected transformation characteristics of the Prophecy:

Fins:

Fins are a unique transformation due to the fact the most of the Prophecy developed them, but what may not be known that there were two types of fin-types, the fins of Kathren and the fins of regular aquatic species. The only difference is that the fins of Kathren were mostly on Kathren Mira, for Kathren Mira was Kathren at the selected time, as for Delenn, Senna, Delenn II, Delenn III, and Delenn David Mir they were developing the aquatic-like fins.

The processes is called Fining, sort of like teething, but more painful due to the fact that bones and skin are pushing up through the tissue from the main bone in the arm, spine, or legs. The process strangely enough does not cause bleeding, but does make the skin surrounding the transforming area become hard and scaly-like. The fins are characteristic of being many shades of color and can camouflage into their surrounding environment. Kathren Mira's fins appear to be clay white to flesh color, the process of growing fin for Kathren Mira is like watching a cancer spread throughout her body. The fins and what creates the scales, but on the contrary to Kathren Mira's hands, they transform first. Flesh grows up to the last joint and can be folded with free movement of the hand and fingers. As for the Prophecy, their fins are mostly sea green, unlike Kathren Mira where her hands remain flesh covered, the Prophecies hands are all covered in green scales. Like Kathren Mira, their fins grow just below the pinky and extend to the elbows. These green scales will completely cover their body leaving flesh below the eyes, lips, and inner ear.

Scales:

Are quite possibly one of the Prophecies greatest advancement, the chemistry of three DNA's created a hard scale cover where when they went into battle, most sword could not puncture them. Scales on both Kathren Mira, and the Prophecy are usually dark colored, but the Prophecies scales are more like armor plates making average turns difficult, thus is the reason for the production of mucus to lubricate the scales so they can be more mobile. The scales on Kathren Mira are not as thick, and are smaller alluding small amount of mucus to be needed for protection of the scales. Kathren Mira's scales are also a bluish-green in sun light, this makes her look turquoise, but in darkness they become dark like the Prophecy. One other place they alter color is underwater, they turn clear, invisible, they also can be made invisible if so desired by the host. The scales on Kathren Mira, unlike the scales on the Prophecy, do not shed away, if a scale was to fracture, that scale would dry off and a new one would take its place.

Gills:

Are one of the Prophecies most secretive reformation, first, the only one to have external gills is Delenn David Mir, but there is only three slits that make up those gill, the make her neck seem swollen, but there is no discomfort with the gills, only embarrassment, but there is also no one who is normal anyone, so the live in public with your gills showing so not as disturbing as if you were in the past and were among normal's. Gills are actually used for many purposes, one is to breathe under water as common with most fish, but the gills of the Prophecy also allows them to breathe poisonous fumes and gasses. Overall the gills like the tentacles and fins can be hidden, the host can close the gills on their neck and only a minor slit would be seen.

Tentacles:

Are possibly one of the Prophecies most disgusting feature due to the relationship that they are reproductive organs in this case. Delenn does not state that two species she knows who has both male and female sex organs, and those were the Centauri of Centauri Prime. The other was the race called Asmaraqua's, the possess both male and female organs, but can not bear children by themselves, they only creature that is able to bear offspring asexually is the Vorlon's who's sexual characteristics have tentacles in what appears to be their anus, just like the Earth species, squid. The Vorlon's can use their tentacles to feed, to read minds, and to reproduce. Their tentacles are average to a human arm. The only downside to having tentacles is the first time they emerge, unlike fins and scales, the tentacle emerge in more of a forceful way, ripping the flesh causing severe bleeding, also emerging tentacles like that of the Universal Breeder as soaked in mucus, same for the two tentacles in the mouth.

Unnatural Pregnancy and Unnatural Life forms of the Children of the Universal Breeders:

In regards to the story, Reign of Rulers, the story was reviewed by those who wanted to read it and stated that the ability for an average Human, or Human-Minbari Hybrid to be pregnant, even if male and then in one month deliver a nine year old, male/or female child of the mothers genetic is genetically and physically impossible, but with careful attention to writing that section of the book, with reviewing Human anatomy and reviewing Minbari anatomy, I came up with a basis of logic that you can make a Human-Minbari Hybrid pregnant and with careful transformation can have that individual in one day have their first day carry a child full term.

For the next six day while the child is in the womb, thus the idea that the child is aging a half-a-year old each day is very science fictional, but with considerations that because the host has undergone transformation, it is logical to conceive that as stated before the pregnancy, the mothers/or fathers womb and reproductive system had mutated to the custom of a fish. It is logically known that even some marine vertebrates can bear child half their size like the Whale or Dolphin, it can become fact, but the host would become horribly uncomfortable, an thus with the weight gain and pressure due to gravity, the mother/or father would be forced either to move to a zero gravity atmosphere or to move to an environment where gravity does not depend on weight, but instead on pressure...thus the oceans.

According to the story, this is what the Universal Breeders did to keep them comfortable, for six months they lived a life of a aquatic species and the other six while not pregnant as a terrestrial species. This makes since why their bodies did not reform back into their regular Human-Minbari Hybrid form, they could survive, but they would not live long due to stress caused by gravity. So once in the water, the disgusting event as noted under the section labeled, tentacles would begin.

Due to the fact that the universe is dying, the average mother can take care of seven to eight children at a time, but the outcome would not be good, and there is a possibility that four out of seven children will be horribly diseased and two out of seven will not survive. So in contrast to this problem, and also with such a low number of species going through the Spectral Rift Zone, the universe devised up a biologic combination of the species main DNA and with the same DNA it gave to another species with the arrival of the ancient enemy, the Liberator's. The species added to the Universal Breeder to have a high, and plentyful birth were called the Vorlon's. So in all regards, the universe can affect our lives and can unbalance the norms we've been so set in.

Another question that comes up is, with all regards to the structure of the Universal Breeder's body, but would these quick mutations cause disease and horrible side affects? Actually not, once again this transformation was not done by the hands of any organic or semi-organic species, it was created by the universe.

Another focus is the children of the Universal Breeder, with quick age progression, would this cause the child to age unnaturally while outside of the womb? No, not really, the second part of life within the tentacles is complicated to explain, but in understandable explanations, the tentacle a child grows in is created with organic fluid that causes the cells to age quicker, once out of the influence of the tentacle, the child is born health, except for the parents disease, and is as bright as its mother. The child can also help the mother coop with the pain of being a Universal Breeder, although not known to the mother, the child has a better understanding to what the universe is and can relieve the pain of pregnancy.

With characteristics, the child possesses no ability of being asexual, for the universe wants diversity to prevent the creation of a super disease. One gift is that the child lives an unnatural long life and the first child of the Universal Breeder has the ability of rebirth their mother/or father for the next generation.

Are we doomed to become like this?:

With the way diseases are making our bodies mutate, we are slowly transforming by generation into a super species, although I doubt Minbari or any other stereotypical alien that Hollywood creates, we can not that our Human bodies will not remain as we known them in about 2000 more years. (Read further in the final conclusion at the end of the appendix).