Taelons

The Taelons are one of the oldest species in the universe.

History

One of the earliest ancestors of the race were the Atavus who were barbaric vicious creatures that helped spawn both the Taelons as well as the Jaridians. The Taelons themselves worked hard to remove themselves and evolve from their more primitive roots and even expunged the name of their ancestral race from their language to the point that they had no word that could describe them. The closest analogy they had was the Earth Latin term, Atavus. Through the use of the Shaqarava, the evolved Atavus sculpted their flesh and formed the Taelon Commonality. (Episode: Atavus)

Biology

The appearance of the species was largely adrogynous in the sense that they displayed no characteristics that defined them as male or female. In fact, such a distinction had no meaning to them though sometimes individuals referred to certain Taelons as being a "he" or a "she". (Episode: Decision)

According to Da'an, the Taelons possessed a similar aspect of having genetic memory as the ancient Kimera and their offspring gained full knowledge of their parentage. This meant that a new born offspring contained the full memories of its parents allowing them access to knowledge that their parents were aware of at the time of birth. (Episode The First of its Kind)

The entire race was connected through the Commonality that served as a shared matrix linking the species together. (Episode: Atavus)

Society

Amongst the race, there was no fear of passing on to the next level. (Episode: Decision) Taelons never tempted fate and it was the reason why they had a ban on travelling through the fourth dimension namely time travel. (Episode: A Stitch in Time)