"Looks ordinary enough..."
He-El gave his assessment of Kolon Novo's memories.
He-El had thought he could find information about the Monitors in Kolon Novo's memories.
But unexpectedly, the most comprehensive information he found came from books Kolon Novo had read in the library.
Throughout Kolon Novo's long life, He-El did not see what he was looking for.
This included the origins, society, realm, and other aspects of the Monitors.
He-El had not even seen how the Monitors were "born."
Kolon Novo's memories contained nothing about how he himself had reproduced.
He-El found the Monitors rather fascinating. They seemed unlike the ordinary sexual and asexual reproduction of living beings.
They were also unlike plant propagation methods such as cuttings, sowing, asexual reproduction, division, layering, sexual reproduction, grafting, spore propagation, vegetative propagation, leaf cuttings, cross-pollination, apomixis, artificial propagation, separation propagation, parthenogenesis, semi-hardwood cuttings, adventitious embryogenesis, self-incompatibility, meristem propagation, tree pollination, and so on.
The Monitors seemed to be a self-contained system entirely apart from the life forms of the universe, transcending the reproductive methods of cosmic life.
What was even more remarkable was that Ciri's genetic research on Koken Novo, the previous cleanser of the Monitors, had concluded that the Monitors actually possessed more than ninety-three methods of reproduction to produce offspring.
In other words, after descending into a lower dimension, members of the Monitors could choose to combine with energy to produce a new generation themselves, or they could reproduce sexually with any ordinary life form in the universe to produce a new generation.
However, descendants born to the Monitors after descending into a lower dimension could no longer be considered pure members of the Monitors.
He-El estimated that the Monitors themselves would not acknowledge children born in a lower dimension who carried Monitor blood.
"Doctor Manhattan, what do you think?"