(We learn a bit about the genetics in play concerning super operants from Alana who points out that had things gone a planned with Kiri and Karra’s father, I would have never met Karra and these words would never have been written.) 

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Alana: hey, how’s it going Russ?

Russ: good, how’s it going Alana?

Alana: yeah, it’s going great.

Russ: good.

Alana: uh-huh.

Russ: anyway I hope you don’t mind me changing the name of the boat.

(referring to a remote controlled boat I had changed the name from Alana to our daughter's name of Miranda)

Alana: no, not in the slightest.

Russ: I didn’t think you would.

Alana: no.

Russ: well that’s the question I wanted to ask you sweetheart…..

Alana: uh-huh.

Russ: is.......okay with Miranda we came close to having a super operant…..

Alana: uh-huh.

Russ: okay? And now why is it with you and I we came close, with Karra and I it wasn’t as close, we just got healers?

Alana: I don’t know.

Russ: well that’s what I want to find out, what attributes you have and I have that when we mix it together…..

Alana: well I’m not particularly talented in any particular field, I just have four out of the five abilities.

Russ: yeah but which ones do you have that I……let’s see, the four you have…..

Alana: uh-huh.

Russ: would be let’s see, PK….

Alana: uh-huh.

Russ: coercion, telepathy…..

Alana: that’s not one of the major ones.

Russ: not a major one?

Alana: PK, coercion, astral travel and healing.

Russ: right but nothing in any really great quantities.

Alana: no and I have no manifestation.

Russ: that’s why, because I have manifestation.

Alana: uh-huh.

Russ: so I make up the fifth.

Alana: that’s right.

Russ: oh okay and Karra doesn’t have all four.

Alana: that’s right, she only has three.

Russ: right, that’s why together me and you come closer to having a super operant.

Alana: yeah, uh-huh. She has astral travel although she’s a weaky, she has healing which she’s a real heavy in.

Russ: right.

Alana: and what’s the other one, coercion I think?

Russ: coercion.

Alana: yeah, coercion that she’s a little bit more powerful than her astral travel.

Russ: well, so I would say…….

Alana: you see my father had……what did he have?

Russ: dad's loaded.

Alana: yes he……no my father.

(a previous soul mate of Karra's who was killed while serving in the Sirian Defense Force during a mission in the third dimension)

Russ: oh.

Alana: had PK and manifestation.

Russ: oh that’s right, your dad.

Alana: yes, my dad you see?

Russ: oh so you’ve got a recessive manifestation gene.

Alana: that’s right.

Russ: and I’ve got a dominant manifestation gene which I don’t use but it’s still a lot more than yours probably.

Alana: yeah, mom only had, grandmother only had two abilities.

Russ: healing and….

Alana: manifestation I believe.

Russ: yeah.

Alana: yeah. So we had that recessives thrown in so that we didn’t get the full what we should have been.

Russ: I see.

Alana: you see if dad had married, if Tanaxa...

(her grandfather, the president of Sirius and patriarch of the family Tanaka)

Alana: had married somebody that was loaded like he was instead of doing the right thing and going with his heart…..

Russ: right.

Alana: Karra would’ve been a super operant, means I would be a super operant, it means that you two wouldn’t have met.

Russ: hey, I never discount destiny, works for me every time.

Alana: yes super operants marry super operants though......

Russ: right.

Alana: or bond to super operants.

Russ: right, if it was up to me, I mean anything that kept me from meeting Karra is definitely against what I wanted it to be.

Alana: yeah uh-huh.