THE TAULIANS

The Taul, the indigenous biped lifeform of the prison planet they call ‘Erus’, has been conscripted as cheap labor—second-class citizens, considered as inferior primitives who are treated no better than slaves by the Confederacy.

Passive and subservient by nature, the Taul possesses a startling secret which has eluded everyone—except for Landus. Since the Taul possess an almost hive-like mentality, when Landus speaks to any one of them—he actually speaks with many. The Taul are not terribly articulate.  It’s their broken English that gives the impression that the Taul are ignorant savages.  (The Taul themselves are allegories to the Aborigines that populated Australia at the time of its colonization.)

It is the Taulians’ spiritual devotion to the ancient god—The Immaculate Consciousness, that begins to awaken Scott’s suspicions about the nature of this curious planet.   As the saga of COLONY progresses, Landus will  discover crude glyphs (inTaulian) that will translate as follows:

"In truth, the Liberator will be a slave! Therefore, O Erus, consciousness of immaculate purity; harbor no feelings of anger or disdain; regard not too sternly the errors and crimes of your frail parts but instead-- turn your wrath outward towards the trans-gressions of Flesh."

Taulian spirituality chronicles a close relationship between themselves and the planet. Taulian belief does not place their species apart from or on a higher level than nature itself.