Earth - Final Conflict Species: Taelon, Atavus, Jaridian, Kimera (Paperback)

Chapters: Taelon, Atavus, Jaridian, Kimera. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Taelons are a fictional race of humanoid aliens appearing in the Canadian science fiction television series Earth: Final Conflict. The arrival of the Taelons on Earth at first appears to be an unmitigated blessing, with their advanced technology bringing great prosperity. Later it appears that they may have a more complex agenda. The Taelons are an offshoot of another alien race, the Atavus. While there is some debate as to the exact events and their sequence, some members of the Atavus race broke off to devote themselves to the pursuit of spiritual perfection, which eventually led to a state of existence as pure energy. The Taelons started out as a cult in pursuit of immortality. The first Taelon was able to successfully take a significant portion of the life energy of another of his race, greatly increasing his lifespan. Other members of the cult followed this practice, eventually becoming beings of pure energy. Their actions sparked the war between the Taelons and the remaining Atavus. This divergence led to the speciation of the Atavus, producing the Taelons and the warlike Jaridians. Conflict between the two branches of the Atavus family has raged ever since (with the Jaridians largely taking the upper hand). The two species despise one another: the Taelons deride the Jaridians as "bloodthirsty heathens with no respect for life," while the Jaridians consider their more philosophically-minded cousins to be weak, arrogant cowards. The final split between the two is believed to have occurred roughly eight million years prior to the events shown in the series, since that is how long the war has been going on between the two races. At some point, another, separate s...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=89486