Their children will be beautiful and brilliant and grow to twice her size, infected with the nanovirus that Portia and the male both carry. Further generations will be larger and brighter and more successful still, one after the other selectively evolving at a virally accelerated rate so that those best able to exploit this new advantage will dominate the gene pool of the future. Portia’s children will inherit the world.
-- Narrator (1: Genesis: 1:2: Brave Little Huntress)

Importance: This quote is important because it establishes the beginning of the biggest conflict in the story after Kern’s crew is betrayed by Sering. Despite his attempt to stop the creation of all other life in the universe, he accidentally created a super race that is arguably much worse than the original monkeys that Kerns wanted to use. This also reveals that this terraformed planet, which Kern believed was inhabitable before she and her crew adapted it to sustain...