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Role in the story
Dawn
Encountered by Part 1 · WombRescuers, captors, and gene traders
The Oankali preserve human life and repair Earth, yet treat biological exchange as a necessity they are entitled to organize.
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The Oankali
A spacefaring species that rescues endangered life, studies genetic possibility, and proposes biological exchange as the basis of continued survival.
This public dossier identifies the entity without exposing its outcome. Story-specific roles and relationships unlock from your reading progress.
Story function
Rescuers, captors, and gene traders
From Part 1 · Womb
The Oankali
Gene-trading species
Ideas illuminated
Planetary ecosystem engineering