Right, yeah... you got it. I've never even heard of a Go board,
Neither did American troops, which is why we got the crap kicked out of us in Vietnam. Observe the viewing globe:
10 Minute Go E01Moving on.
The minor point I brought up was that it wasn't just Visser Three who recognized Crayak. Jake sees it as Temrash is dying at the end of The Capture. And since Jake was able to see Temrash's memories in his final moments.
Do we take that as Crayak sizing up Jake, because he knows the Ellimist is about to make a move on Rachel in the next book? Or, is it just as plausible that the Yeerks see Crayak right before their death? That perhaps he is the closes thing they have to a deity. Remember, the Andalites have no concept of Crayak.
They think the Ellimist is one of a race of beings called the Ellimists. Until Elfangor stumbled across it, The Time Matrix existed only in their mythology as an invention of these higher beings. Heck, only Rachel knows that Ellimist is the user name of Toomin. Unless Ellimist also told Elfangor in the moments after his death, but even still, the current races who know of Ellimist are all in the dark about him.
Yeerks don't balance out Andalites.
Lets examine that a little more closely.
Andalites. Once helpless pray animals who fell victim to giant predators. They spoke through sign langauge, had no tail blades, and no concept of rudimentary weapons with which to defend themselves.
The Ellimist tweaks their genetic make up and now the Andalites are technologically superior race, with tail blades, advanced culture and a thirst to explore the universe. There's good and bad among the Andalites, but for the most part they are largely benevolent if not arrogant.
Yeerks. Helpless slugs that were pray to a creater called the Vanarx and probably a dozen or so other predators that existed on their homeworld. Lets face it, the Yeerks were not apex predators. Like the Andalites, they were very much at the bottom of their food chain.
So, Crayak enters the game with an omniscience upgrade and sees that Ellimist has all ready had a hand in messing with the universe,.Crayak sees what he did with Andalites and notices these slugs. He thinks, "lets up the stakes," and gives the Yeerks the ability to infest other creatures, namely the Gedds.
The Yeerks form a governing body like the Andalites, and display such an advanced understanding of their own world that it draws the attention of Seerow. Five years later, the Yeerks are suddenly an equally formidable species that actually pose a threat to the Andalites and all life in the galaxy.
There's good and bad among them as well.
Thus they are a balance to the Andalites, who would otherwise be the most powerful race in the galaxy.