Was there ever a follow-up to these guys in the trilogy? It seemed like a giant "NOTICE NOW/SAVE FOR LATER" in the middle of that book, and I'm wondering if I just misread it. Were they meant to be a red herring for the evolved form of the other lost Caeliar group (prior to the big Borg reveal), or was that a seed for something in the future?
Just a narrative detour that might or might not be revisited if/when a story takes us back to that part of the Delta Quadrant...
I thought the appearance of the Children of the Storm also served as a gleam of hope, a reminder that the Borg aren't invulnerable.
They were a civilization which destroyed the Borg. It also appeared they had unusual ships possibly using thought to go to warp if I correctly call. They also recommend the Federation leave the area immediately.
Do you remember which page of Mere Mortals this appearance starts on? Now i'm curious . I really need to re-read the trilogy soon!
To add to the previous description, they had evolved in the atmosphere of a gas giant. I imagined them as telepathic jellyfish, much like a picture in Carl Sagan's Cosmos.
Too much surface area for a jovian atmosphere. I was thinking specifically of the painting here that accompanies a lengthy article on the lifeforms that Sagan and Edwin Salpeter speculated could have evolved in a Jovian atmosphere. There's another image here, about halfway down the page of a zeppelin-like creature that could float in a Jovian atmosphere. Their original article is here.