tRENOC PRECURSOR SPECIES

The Trenoc of today have come through the better part of four million years of evolution, mirroring a process similar from man’s ascent from the hominids, through home erectus and homo habilis, to modern day homo sapiens, with each step enhancing the nascent facilities of their new sentience.

The first identifiable creatures with which the Trenoc share resemblance to stemmed from a quadruped animal about 4.5 million years ago, this the first of the Trenoc pre-cursor species would be the only surviving member of the family it descended from, as shortly after its emergence, a small asteroid impact pushed the world’s climate into a cataclysmic ice age.

This first step along the Trenoc development, has been called by the biologists, the ‘nascent Trenoc’, and was the last piece in the puzzle of the origins of their own kind, without similar species to compare to, the Trenoc’s notion of evolution from animals came late in their society, as there was little evidence of precursor animals until palaeontological remains were found. This first step had a rather truncated lifecycle, with only the infant and breeder stages found, almost entirely missing the Protector stage that is dominant in today’s society. Evidence has shown that the breeders if the nascent Trenoc quickly senesced after their fertile period, in effect evolution had decided that it was more efficient to have a population of infant producers than of intellect.

After the nascent Trenoc we see three accepted steps towards the modern Trenoc, the next step, the ‘ambulant Trenoc’ gave rise to a new female form that allowed for bipedal locomotion, that allowed the forward limbs to become more sophisticated and dextrous, however in this turn of evolution the males still retain their quadruped habit. The males in Trenoc evolution are viewed as evolutionary stable, there form and design has little changed for hundreds of millions of years, many of the advanced fauna of Trenoret has similarities to the Trenoc male, these resemblances gave rises to early folklore considering males to be earthly beings, from the animals, where as the females were considered to be celestial, and the whole Trenoc lifecycle was considered as the bond between earth and the heavens.

Although the ambulant Trenoc were now free to walk on their hind limbs, and develop their forward hands, they still did not have great deal more intelligence than the nascent Trenoc. They lived in small family based groups, that would develop to form the clans of Trenoc society, and unfortunately possessed the fierce territoriality that would hold back Trenoc civilization by a state of continuous warfare.

The next two developments before the formation of the modern Trenoc consisted of developing the Protector stage, the one that would give the Trenoc their first true intellectual citizens. The first step was taken by the ‘Hajahn Trenoc’ a race some 2 million years old, and like all of the ‘precursor species’ not found alive today. The evidence that was recovered about this stage in Trenoc evolution suggested that rather than rapid senescence and death occurring to an old breeder, it would continue to exist to serve the group by protecting the infants and coordinating with the breeders. This ‘proto-protector’ would continue to evolve more intelligence and strength to compensate for it’s loss in reproductory ability.

The last and final stage in Trenoc evolution, through the species that gave the umbrella term to the later discovered earlier species, the ‘precursor Trenoc’, built upon the newly created Protector, imbuing it with enhanced strength and intelligence, it was at this stage of evolution did protectors finally take the controls of the family groups, with their enhanced intelligence and life long experience, they became the leader stage. This had considerable impact on the infant and breeder stages, their respective lifetimes were reduced, with breeder stage Trenoc being fertile for a shorter period of time.

The modern Trenoc have exaggerated the features of the precursor Trenoc, seeing an increase in brain volume, and extension in lifetime (apart from males, which still remain pretty much the same throughout). There is a great deal of speculation where further development will occur, though in today’s technological age, where machines and skills have replaced some of evolutionary pressures, the next development could be the integration of machine, rather than mutation in genotype, something that is already beginning to be observed.