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occurring on your planet over the last few cent of your male population to work with, years of your time is that this is the last notwithstanding health, age, etc. There is a chance for our race—and other races of _ very special, shall I say, 'X-factor' which ETs with problems similar to ours—to must be brought into this equation, which interact with you as arace before you _ in fact brings only about one per cent of change to a form that will no longer be of _ this already small group into our calcula- use tous. Yes, it is that close! My own _ tions—that is, if we should require a male surrogate mother was of your time and to help us. The fact that we are not of the race..." same vibrational plane is the major prob- "We could go further back in time, but it lem. This is part of that X-factor, and is is this now that we need. I will not compli- _ related to health and disease resistance, cate matters by trying to explain that; we _ biological balance in relation to birth loca- would be here for many more days. My _ tion, previous adaptability tests, and so on race still has a problem to overcome. We and so on. must breed a race with stronger limbs and "I cannot begin to explain the complica- oxygen-processing units." tions we have had. It has stretched our "Lungs?" I enquired again. technology to its limits and beyond. The "Yes. We have been using a mixture of _ end result is what you see before you now. your species' DNA and chromosomes, _ I may look good to you, but I still could not along with our own. Our blood used to be _ live on your planet without our technology very similar to yours—and still is, with a to help me constantly. The bottom line is little modification—although we really _ that the process has been too slow, and up only have one type as you would know it; to now has not done the job. At the present well, two, but they are both very much like _ rate, it may take more time than we have to your A-negative. We can modify most _ spare on our crippled planet! We now need things, but what it adds up to is that we are _ to start taking some risks to speed up the not going to go looking for problems—we process." already have enough of them. . "We have approximately only five per Continued on page 94 leaps and be aware of where you have gone. You will be very surprised, I think. It is a place not far from there that you will find us. "We basically come from your future. It does not matter if it is six minutes into your future or six years; if you can get to one, you can get to the other. But, for us, it is not as simple as that, for we also come from another dimension; not quite the one you will shift into, but close. So we are what you would call dimensional time-trav- ellers. Sounds like a good movie, does it not? Your Mr Spielberg would love it!" Thad to laugh at that one. "We—myself and others like me—are in fact a whole new race, or, to be more accu- rate, a newly reconstituted race. Further modifications are still required before we can achieve our goals as a people. This is one of the reasons for our travel to your time zone, and, indeed, the reason for oth- ers being here who are also experimenting with their biological make-up, although they have far different goals behind their experimentation than we do. "The reason behind so many abductions NEXUS - 93 — CoEvolution: An Interplanetary Adventure — Continued from page 64 Continued on page 94 FEBRUARY - MARCH 1997