Farbourne
Rear Admiral
The WC1 manual (Claw Marks) makes a reference to the discovery of a new sentient race, nicknaed the "Double Helix", that is apparently technologically on par with the Confederation and the Empire of Kilrah, and that is described as "potentially the most significant alien encounter since the discovery of the Kilrathi".
And....
That's the last we hear about it, unless they show up in some of the novels or fiction that I haven't read.
Are they mentioned anywhere else?
Did they turn out to be nothing? Did they get conquered by someone and cease to be a factor? Or did they just up and go away? Are they still out there on the edge of known space, xenophobically guarding thier borders? Is there any connection between them and the Nephilim (i.e. could they be one of the "Aligned Peoples")? Do we just not know?
From the description in Claw Marks, communicating with them would likely be extremely difficult (they rely on scents and pheremones, I think? which would make ship-to-ship communications extremely difficult, unless they have some way of converting coded radio/electromagnetic signals into scents given off by some sort of communications machine...)
And....
That's the last we hear about it, unless they show up in some of the novels or fiction that I haven't read.
Are they mentioned anywhere else?
Did they turn out to be nothing? Did they get conquered by someone and cease to be a factor? Or did they just up and go away? Are they still out there on the edge of known space, xenophobically guarding thier borders? Is there any connection between them and the Nephilim (i.e. could they be one of the "Aligned Peoples")? Do we just not know?
From the description in Claw Marks, communicating with them would likely be extremely difficult (they rely on scents and pheremones, I think? which would make ship-to-ship communications extremely difficult, unless they have some way of converting coded radio/electromagnetic signals into scents given off by some sort of communications machine...)
