Above the Deeps History: Part ???

The largest campaign carried out by the Empire of Hind was the annexation of the southern land, known to its locals as Pabirk. Though the rulers and scholars of Hind had known of the island for years, due to testimony from Bu surveyors, all previous attempts to make landfall had been thwarted by natural barriers. Though the Bu were perfectly capable of navigating the barriers, none of the natives allowed them to approach enough to attempt communication.

The Brahmin commissioned the creation of tablets depicting elements of the Great History of Hind that had proven most popular with the natives of the islands near Pabirk. The tablets were bas-relief engravings, in which each distinct element was separated from the others. The tablets were then painted over with gold. These proved resistant to the ravages of the sea, and attractive to the natives. Eventually, the Bu were able to win a few over, and each of the two groups, Bu and natives, struggled to learn each other's languages.

A few short years later, the natives had become loyal subjects of Hind, and some of the local Brahmin and Kshatriya expressed interest in bringing civilization to the rest of Pabirk. Surely, such a deed, while tremendous, was their dharma in such a land. In addition, they could not bear the occasional sight of their cousins, dooming themselves to an ignominious fate, by way of ignorance.

Got some stuff coming...

The upcoming post is a cursory examination of a question that few have dared ponder: What would it be like if India had been an expansionist empire that sent sapient octopi, capable of communicating with humans, to Australia, for the purpose of converting the Aborigines to Hinduism?

Random stream of consciousness...

The discrete nature of genes and alleles is just how things are. It could be determined in the nineteenth century, and it can be confirmed now. However... There might be other potential models of heredity, with the slight disadvantage, so far as serious science goes, that I can't think of a physical substrate that would support them.

What I have in mind is much different from the idea of 'blood'. That would be boring and invalidate evolution. Suppose, instead, that allelic information were somehow encoded in the sum resonances of a harmonic oscillator... Every allele would have an 'anti-allele', and they would combine simply by adding wave-functions. Now, it probably wouldn't be good to accumulate high amplitudes in a given component, so I'm visualizing high amplitudes increasing the odds of mutation to a lower amplitude at a higher frequency (this probably doesn't make physical sense, but it's a matter of allowing infinite scope for 'dumping')

Presumably, specific genes would have their own 'carrier wave' frequency, or something like that. Or perhaps, each gene would be physically located within a scaffolding-type structure that aligns genes for addition.

I haven't thought about this too much, and I'm too sleepy to do more, but I think it's good to think about things that don't exist; you can't look up the answer, so you have to sharpen your intellect.