Learner

The Learners were one of the two classes of the Phyxx society.

They were genetically bred to accelerate their race's intellectual development, based on the techniques of the Great Learner Vic. Learners were leaders, and were kept in lighter gravities, so that they would dedicate their lives to purely intellectual pursuits, and lead their people.

After some centuries the "Learner/Leader" class developed their technology into a virtual mastery over the force of gravity, gradually negating the need for simple strength for any physical labor. For generations Learner/Leaders lived lives of no physical effort in floating, gravity free palaces. Their only purpose was to learn, think, and order.

Eventually they became a race very distinct from their Worker/Soldier brethren; their heads became large, bulbous and soft, their limbs long, slender and spidery, their bodies weak that could endure very short periods of time under normal gravity of Daedalus.

Their language evolved independently; it had hundreds of thousands of characters (Each with multiple meanings), written in a series of expanding circles. They could communicate with the Worker/Soldiers only with a few common words, mainly orders and commands. Eventually they developed chemicals that would alter their genetic composition to allow limited telepathic communication between the individuals.