Kimera (species)
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In the television series, Earth: Final Conflict, this species played an important, though often undefined role.
The Kimera are first seen in the final episode of the show's first season, where a Kimera named Ha'Gel is recovered by an independent salvage crew from the bottom of the ocean.
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[edit] 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. Some fans have speculated that the energy form may have been the result of Ha'Gel mimicking a Taelon form. The only problem with that theory is that, though Ha'Gel appears as an energy being, there are several distinct and immediately noticeable differences, and since he transforms into an energy cloud on more than one occasion. It is nevertheless possible that Ha'Gel was mimicking an earlier Taelon form, as the duration of his stasis is not revealed.
The Kimera also have the shaqarava (pronounced shah-ka-rah-vah), 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. It has been conjectured by fans that any interactions must have been before the Taelon/Jaridian split, since both of the later species possess the shaqarava.
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 (as far as the word can apply), seeming to have only one parent each (indicating that their reproduction is dissimilar to that of single-celled organisms, since they form highly individual descendants rather than sister organisms), the Kimera seem to require two individuals to mate for reproduction.
[edit] History
The Kimera were supposedly an ancient race of researchers and spiritualists. Long before the Atavus, Taelon or Jaridian species evolved, the Kimera traveled space. At some point millions of years ago, the Kimera somehow interfered with and altered the Taelons/Atavus. At some point, the Taelons/Atavus turned on the Kimera and exterminated most of the species, leaving only Ha'Gel in stasis.
Many of the Kimera voluntarily 'ascended to the next plane', vaguely alluding to transcending to a purely spiritual plane, believing the physical world to be of limited value and interest compared with the worlds of the mind and soul.
Before meeting his end on Earth, Ha'Gel succeeded in producing an offspring, who went by the name Liam Kincaid. Liam, a human/Kimera hybrid, initially struggled with his Kimera side, though with occasional input from his Kimera parent on a spirit plane, and the fact that as time went on, he became more and more human, he overcame many of these difficulties. Liam was highly important in uncovering the hidden truths of the Taelons and worked with the underground resistance, forming a bridge between those two worlds.
[edit] The End and The Future
Fan opinion remained deeply divided over the final season of Earth: Final Conflict. At the end of season 4, Liam tried to help the warring Taelons and Jaridians to find absolution, but the ending was left open. For the majority of season 5, Liam, the last of the Kimera, is assumed to be dead, but makes a deus ex machina return for the finale, leaving Earth forever with a band of assorted aliens and humans.
[edit] Background Information
The Kimera and their involvement with the backstory of Earth: Final Conflict is still a source of significant debate among fans of the series. That the species, its history and their perspective seemed to change several times over the course of the series had led to a great deal of theorised backstory. The Kimera or their abilities were often used as plot devices in the second season, and occasionally thereafter. The constraints of writing deadlines and plot requirements may have led writers to take an approach that was not wholly consistent.
