Even if kluges had such a thing as genetic memory, it should have had been bred out of Nietzscheans. Survival certainly did not depend on feelings and thoughts of some long dead ancestor being passed on to future generations. Yet he knew it existed. How else would you explain the concept of the Nietzschean messiah? Parents didn't have to teach their children that someday the exact genetic match for Drago Museveni would be born, unite the prides, rule the Nietzscheans. Most men and women he knew were embarrassed even thinking about the story let alone telling it to children. Yet it had persisted from that first generation to now . . . a time when reunification seemed the most unlikely event in the universe.
Telemachus Rhade believed in genetic memory. Every morning when he awoke it was painfully reminded of its existence. Manifesting itself not in thoughts about reunification of his kind; but in a painful erection caused by a full bladder, and the words that would erupt from his mouth as he destroyed its presence. They were not his thoughts. They couldn't be his thoughts. They had to have been passed genetically from his ancestor, Gaheris Rhade. As he roughly pumped the air until his seed burst forth, he would cry "I want my Dylan."