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(((They))) tried that with the Protoss, but you see their individual apexation and hypercompetence led to separation and belligerence, so they rebelled and then struck out against each other. In order to continue the experiments, (((They))) moved on to create creatures whose very existence was intrinsically tied to the survival and supremacy of genetic evolution as a very concept, the apex not of individual but collective fitness... and in the end, it was not the Protoss' genome that would be integrated to continue the cycle of life in the galaxy.