Physiology
Kimera physiology is unknown, though in his initial form, Ha'Gel appears to be a Taelon-like energy being. The Kimera possess chameleon-like abilities, allowing them to impersonate other creatures, and apparently to take on their memories.
The Kimera also have the shaqarava (pronounced ), an organ that the Taelons once had, and that the Jaridians who appear later seem to use.
The Taelons variously claim that the Kimera are their evolutionary ancestors, that the Kimera conquered the Taelons in a war of genetic assimilation, and that the Kimera saved the Taelon species at some unspecified point in the past.
The Kimera are capable of touching the Taelon Commonality, a sacred psychic link between all Taelons. This may have been due to the shaqarava.
Whereas the Taelons are confirmed as asexual, seeming to have only one parent each, the Kimera seem to require two individuals to mate for reproduction.
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