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<td valign="top" background="images/design/red/surround_title_s.gif"><span class="sectiontext"><font color="#FF6600"><a href="alien.html" class="sectionlink">Kharaa
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Data</a> :: <a href="alien_species.html" class="sectionlink">Species</a>:
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Evolutions</font></span></td>
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<p><b>Summary:</b> the Kharaa can travel up their
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own family tree, changing their "race",
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and evolving extraordinary abilities. Evolutions
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are broken down into three categories – <a href="alien_evolutions_d.html">Defensive</a>,
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<a href="alien_evolutions_m.html">Movement</a>,
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and <a href="alien_evolutions_s.html">Sensory</a>.
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<p> <img src="images/images/10red_data.gif" width="13" height="10">
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When it was first noticed that the aliens seemed
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to be modifying themselves over the course of
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a prolonged engagement – growing more resistant
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to gunfire, or becoming utterly silent – it was
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assumed that they were reacting to our actions,
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and developing immunities much like a virus does.
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The truth is more complex.</p>
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<p>Just as a marine structure contains coded information
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that allows a ship or base's nanotech to perform
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new, military grade, functions, so do the aliens
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begin with base-level resources, and construct
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structures to increase their combat abilities.
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The difference is, a Kharaa defensive tower (for
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instance) is less like a computer, and more like
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a time capsule. It contains information similar
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to a Hive's, but more specific – this information
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describes variations of creatures from the Kharaa's
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history: a genetic family tree. When a Kharaa
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gains a new ability, it is evolving from its base
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form, down some specialized branch of that tree:
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growing more sophisticated, and without fail,
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deadlier. This fast-forward evolution allows for
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dozens of variations of alien: each supposedly
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suited to some environment, lost in the Kharaa's
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past. Similar to Earth species that may have arctic,
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desert and jungle variants, that while all the
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same kind of animal, have evolved into unique
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sub-species. </p>
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<p>Multiple chambers appear to also offer more and
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more information, improving the effectiveness
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of each evolution. Once more than three chambers
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are active, this improvement plateaus.</p>
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<p>Since the Kharaa have probably never seen man-made
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environments like ours, and since humans don't
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always attack the same way twice, they don't choose
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just one variation. They tend to evolve a wide
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range of species types – ranging from brawlers,
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with increased speed and armor, to assassins,
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with silent movement and enhanced senses.</p>
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<p align="center"><b><a href="alien_evolutions_d.html">Defensive<br>
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<img src="images/evolutions/d.gif" width="64" height="64" border="0"></a></b></p>
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<div align="center"><b><a href="alien_evolutions_s.html">Sensory<br>
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<div align="center"><b><a href="alien_evolutions_m.html">Movement<br>
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