Aycharaych regards death as a completion so maybe he regards Chereionite history as complete and thinks that it would be inappropriate to revive it? Some people dislike sequels. Maybe he wants to keep the appreciation of the Chereionite heritage to himself? Imagine someone who has preserved the complete works of Shakespeare and who loves rereading them but does not want to share them with anyone else. Maybe cloned Chereionites would not live up to their heritage, in his opinion? These are plausible scenarios.
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Kaor, Paul!
It does seem odd, once Stirling made his suggestion, why Aycharaych apparently did not try to prevent his race from becoming extinct thru cloning himself. Or did he thing there was no point in doing that if there were no FEMALE Chereionites to enable the race to survive by the ordinary means of sexual reproduction? But it seems likely there would be genetic material from females of his race that would be available for Aycharaych to use.
All of your suggestions here seem plausible to me.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
But surely a clone from a male organism can be altered to make it female?
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
I don't know, but I don't think it would be that easy, off the top of my head.
Ad astra! Sean
The level of genetic technology available would make recreating complete organisms from the (surely abundant) stored genetic records quite simple.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
If, of course, there was stored genetic material of the Chereionites. That granted, I am sure there was an ample supply of female Chereionite genetic material.
Ad astra! Sean
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