His Divine Shadow
They came out of nowhere in the Neoproterozoic Period of planet Earth. Nothing on the planet was that complex, that organized, that devoted to the perpetuation of their existence. Their ravaging of the primæval biome brought about the dawn of the Paleozoic Era. For over a hundred thousand millennia they dominated the land, the seas, and the air. Though their reign was ended by the development of prochordates into vertibrate forms, they live on, outnumbering any other phylum of terrestrial life. They are the insects.
But in the Light Zone, the Insects fared much better. Their domination was on an interplanetary scale.
They harnessed the power of nanotechnology to grow to massive sizes and live for thousands of years. The fluid that coursed through their veins was the same proto-blood that reanimated Kai and Yottskry. They could exist outside their chitinous forms, and transfer their essence to new bodies adapted for different tasks. They could bend the very fabric of time-space to find new worlds to subgigate.
But when they opened a fractal core to a new and uncertain universe, they opened Pandora’s box. For a new race existed in the Dark Zone, one equally experienced in space travel and with an even greater lust for conquest: the humans.
Led by a warrior sub-race known as the Brunnen-G, humanity brutally slaughtered the Insect civilization, colonizing their worlds and stealing their technology. When the Great Insect War was over, not a single Insect could be seen traversing the stars.
But one lived on. He had seen his race, his planet, and everything he held dear torn to pieces by the alien race.
The humans must die.
His Divine Shadow is the only truly menacing villain in the whole of “Lexx,” and everything points to him still being alive. To quote the exact words of the Time Prophet: “As you know, time has a beginning, and an end, and then time begins again, and I have seen that in the future-past the power of the Divine Order will destroy Brunnis-2, but the last Divine Shadow will die at the hands of a Brunnen-G. It has happened before, it will happen again.” The prophecy specifically states that the LAST Divine Shadow will be killed by a Brunnen-G (presumably Kai), so, regardless of what Kai and Stanley and Zev thought in “Lexx 1.1,” and “1.4” it remains unfulfilled. That was NOT the last. Here is a list of the Divine Shadows and their vanquishers:
His Divine Shadow-Kai
The Yottskry Shadow-Spontaneously disjointed
The Giga Shadow-Squish
The Kai Shadow-Spontaneously disjointed
The Larval Shadow-Vigo
The Mantrid Shadow-Zev
So, unless the prophecy is flawed, the last Divine Shadow is something we haven’t seen yet. The essence of His Shadow must have disjointed from Mantrid before Zev crushed the box. Besides, Lex Gigeroff himself said after the end of season 2 that the Insects are not extinct, and it would be a bad move to eliminate the enemy character. The essence is still somewhere, waiting. As I see it, there are three logical possibilities.
1. The essence stayed in the Light Zone, and in the 4,333 years since its big crunch it has initiated a big bang and now rules a newly created universe.
2. The essence possessed the Lexx, and is still there gaining strength. Or, the most likely scenerio…
3. The essence found a host on Fire, and is the unseen King of a new Divine Order on the planet, planning to destroy the Lexx crew before taking over the universe.
The butterfly in “The End of the Universe” is only symbolic. Life goes on.
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Lee P. Sherman, code name DalekTek790
Whovian, Froudian, Lexxian, etc.