His Divine Shadow

“I passed my essence, my soul, my intelligence, my everything into a human host. As the last surviving Insect, I knew that I would never be able to defeat the humans. But if I possessed a human body, I thought perhaps I could use humans to defeat themselves. I became His Divine Shadow, the most powerful ruler in the two universes. My power over humanity grew as I passed my essence down through generation after generation. My Insect body also grew in strength; fed by human flesh gathered from 20,000 unsuspecting planets all unknowingly enslaved to their enemy.

But my order was destroyed by Kai, the last of the Brunnen G. My prematurely reborn body was killed by the LEXX, the most powerful weapon of destruction ever built.

Kai crushed the brain of my last human host, but he did not kill me, as I still live on. But he does not know that I live… through him.”

Okay, this is quoted from the horse’s mouth; from the insect essence itself, speaking at the beginning of “Mantrid.” It clearly says ‘order.’ And, it clearly refers to the human host that was HDS. So, I’m thinking we’re splitting hairs on this. It was clearly the last insect that burrowed into that planetoid. It passed its essence into Rock Hound. HDS comes about and the essence is passed down. Now, I have to ponder this: Kai can’t take the key to the Lexx because a living key must pass to a living host. But, the essence can pass to the nonliving? Or, is what’s left of Kai’s brain enough for it to survive? Then, again, this essence isn’t actually a ‘living’ thing, like humans, plants, or aliens, is it? Because, I believe it also said at one point that it passed ‘some’ of its essence. Wouldn’t that imply it could piecemeal its essence around? Clearly this essence inhabited both the GigaShadow and Kai, at the same time! Kai picked up some of the essence when he smushed the brain and the GigaShadow got some of the essence from Yottskry. So, this obviously convoluted reasoning leaves me with the Order destroyed, HDS killed(body and brain), and the essence…? Mutated when Vigo did the transfer of Mantrid’s life force into the vessel? Perhaps, part of it still on the planetoid? Either way, the planetoid was destroyed when the Light Universe was destroyed and Xev stomped on what was left of the Mantrid-vessel. So, unless the Beans pull a Bug Ex Machina, no more Divine Shadow. Bummer. [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/frown.gif[/img]

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“Time begins then time ends, and then time begins once again.”

[This message has been edited by BlackCloud (edited 01-22-2001).]