08 The Body, 09 The Ancients, 10 The Hunger, 11 The
Observers, 12 The Empire
13 The Revolutionary, 14 The Collapse
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Emergence:
Section Two, The Continuum
Part Eight, The Body
Collected Chapters
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Section 02, The Continuum
Part 08, The Body
Chapters
01 The
Whole
02
Perception
03 The
Parts
04
Personhood
05
Belonging
06 Freedom
07 Control
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The Body; Part Eight,
Chapter One: The Whole
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Pt. 08,
Ch. 01
The Continuum had a place in time and space; a HomeWorld, but
Continuum was a field of consciousness. It was energy.
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The Body; Part Eight,
Chapter Two: Perception
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Pt. 08, Ch. 02
Continuum claimed that it was a unique, and singular
consciousness. Jim knew that this was lie. It was an algorithm.
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The Body; Part Eight,
Chapter Three: The Parts
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Pt. 08, Ch. 03
A trillion beings formed the Continuum. Or more; each a distinct
entity carrying the whole compressed within itself.
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The Body; Part Eight,
Chapter Four: Personhood
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Pt. 08, Ch. 04
There is more to being a person than having a distinct-identity. A
person must be free; having autonomy and purpose.
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The Body; Part Eight,
Chapter Five: Belonging
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Pt. 08, Ch. 05
There are many forms of belonging; free or by compulsion; and then
there is metaphysical belonging, because you are.
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The Body; Part Eight,
Chapter Six: Freedom
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Pt. 08, Pt. 06
In the Continuum there was no want; though it was understood
vicariously, and remembered. everything belonged to it.
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The Body; Part Eight,
Chapter Seven: Control
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Pt. 08,
Ch. 07
The majority of the Continuum never leave Home World. They had
abandoned their bodies; uniqueness, a total illusion.
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Emergence:
Section Two, The Continuum
Part Nine, The Ancients
Collected Chapters
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Section 02, The Continuum
Part 09, The Ancients
Chapters
01 History
1st
02 History
2nd
03 History
3rd
04 History
4th
05 History
5th
06 History
6th
07 History
7th
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The Ancients; Part Nine,
Chapter One: History 1st
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Pt. 09,
Ch. 01
The Continuum came from animals; bipeds with hemispheric brains; who
found immortality in the magic of the electron.
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The Ancients; Part Nine,
Chapter Two: History 2nd
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Pt. 09, Ch. 02
For billions of years the Continuum evolved; emerging
from water, reaching beyond their world, and out to the stars.
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The Ancients; Part Nine,
Chapter Three: History 3rd
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Pt. 09, Ch. 03
The Continuum found a way to the stars; colonizing planets; launching
ships, planetoids, living vessels in the dark.
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The Ancients; Part Nine,
Chapter Four: History 4th
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Pt. 09, Ch. 04
Over billions of years millions of worlds were populated by the
Ancients; establishing the foundation of the Empire.
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The Ancients; Part Nine,
Chapter Five: History 5th
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Pt. 09, Ch. 05
The children of the ancients spawned civilizations that flourished,
and died; while in the center Continuum emerged.
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The Ancients; Part Nine,
Chapter Six: History 6th
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Pt. 09, Pt. 06
Continuum was the undoing of Death, allowing a person to upload their
consciousness into a field of perpetual being.
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The Ancients; Part Nine,
Chapter Seven: History 7th
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Pt. 09,
Ch. 07
Death would not be cheated by the Continuum. None of its members
talked of this. The Continuum was a trap, a miasma.
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Emergence:
Section One, Jim and Kathy
Part Three, Loss and Discovery,
Collected Chapters
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Section 01, Jim and Kathy
Part 03, Loss and Discovery
Chapters
01
Watching
02
Connected
03
Portents
04
Unrequited
05 Impression
06 Finding
07 True
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The Hunger; Part Ten,
Chapter One: Malaise
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Pt. 10,
Ch. 01
There are silences in the Continuum that span eons; as the members are
quiet, observant, consumed by time’s passage.
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The Hunger; Part Ten,
Chapter Two: Fascination
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Pt. 10, Ch. 02
There is a pervasive curiosity in the Continuum;
concerning the culture of their offspring; a consumptive curiosity.
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The Hunger; Part Ten,
Chapter Three: Apathy
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Pt. 10, Ch. 03
The Continuum had no sense of time, or its place among the stars. They
did not consider that anyone could harm them.
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The Hunger; Part Ten,
Chapter Four: Control
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Pt. 10, Ch. 04
The Continuum left nothing chance. It ruled an empire, it filled the
galaxy like a hungry God devouring experiences.
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The Hunger; Part Ten,
Chapter Five: Taboo
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Pt. 10, Ch. 05
For the Continuum all experiences were fodder for its need to feel and
be something. Intervention was the one taboo.
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The Hunger; Part Ten,
Chapter Six: Domination
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Pt. 10, Pt. 06
The Continuum feared that its progeny would find a path to their own
immortality. This potential was always crushed.
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The Hunger; Part Ten,
Chapter Seven: Addiction
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Pt. 10,
Ch. 07
The Continuum was a psychic vampire, living vicariously; feeding off
the lives, and tragedies of billions of worlds.
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Emergence:
Section Two, The Continuum
Part Eleven, The Observers
Collected Chapters
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Section 02, The Continuum
Part 11, The Observers
Chapters
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Identification
02
Assignment
03 Mission
04
Incorporation
05
Watching
06
Indifference
07
Reporting
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The Observers; Part Eleven,
Chapter One: Identification
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Pt. 11,
Ch. 01
The Continuum selected Observers from its members who had returned to
consciousness after falling into deep silence.
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The Observers; Part Eleven,
Chapter Two: Assignment
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Pt. 11, Ch. 02
Sending a person to the Observer Corp removed their
influence from the Continuum, providing relief to the suffering.
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The Observers; Part Eleven,
Chapter Three: Mission
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Pt. 11, Ch. 03
Observers lived with the people, and in the collective consciousness,
feeding triumphs and tragedy to the Continuum.
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The Observers; Part Eleven,
Chapter Four: Incorporation
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Pt. 11, Ch. 04
Being an Observer meant having a body. Organic on the observed world,
mechanical on Home World; it was a life apart.
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The Observers; Part Eleven,
Chapter Five: Watching
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Pt. 11, Ch. 05
There are many forms of observation; satellite imaging, audio
recording. The primary method was to live with people.
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The Observers; Part Eleven,
Chapter Six: Indifference
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Pt. 11, Pt. 06
Emotional capacities were engineered out of the Observer’s body. They
complicated the work; disrupted the Continuum.
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The Observers; Part Eleven,
Chapter Seven: Reporting
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Pt. 11,
Ch. 07
The regimen was for the Observer to return to Continuum; upload the
content of their experiences, for it to consume.
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Emergence:
Section Two, The Continuum
Part Twelve, The Empire
Collected Chapters
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Section 02, The Continuum
Part 12, The Empire
Chapters
01 The
Lost
02 The
Search
03 The
Homecoming
04 The
Magisterium
05 The
Missions
06 The
Billion Worlds
07 The
Emperor
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The Empire; Part Twelve,
Chapter One: The Lost
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Pt. 12,
Ch. 01
Before the Continuum; the first people launched themselves into the
galaxy; on ships, and planetoids, into the dark.
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The Empire; Part Twelve,
Chapter Two: The Search
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Pt. 12, Ch. 02
In time a search began; to discover what happened to
those explorers, the adventurers and extra planetary colonists.
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The Empire; Part Twelve,
Chapter Three: The Homecoming
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Pt. 12, Ch. 03
The lost peoples were found in time. Few remembered their origins.
Those who did fell to worship when they returned.
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The Empire; Part Twelve,
Chapter Four: The
Magisterium
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Pt. 12, Ch. 04
From the civilizations founded by the Ancients the Priesthood emerged;
creating the ritual devotions for the Empire.
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The Empire; Part Twelve,
Chapter Five: The Missions
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Pt. 12, Ch. 05
Star by star, missionaries recovered the lost, founding an empire from
the remnants; offering them to the Continuum.
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The Empire; Part Twelve,
Chapter Six: The Billion
Worlds
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Pt. 12, Pt. 06
The many lives, cultures, ways of being; the Empire collected them,
through ritual, and the promise of eternal life.
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The Empire; Part Twelve,
Chapter Seven: The Emperor
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Pt. 12,
Ch. 07
He was the focal point, the sword tip. that imagined ruling the lives
of countless people; the bridge, Pontifex Rex.
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Emergence:
Section Two, The Continuum
Part Thirteen, The Revolutionary
Collected Chapters
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Section 02, The Continuum
Part 13, The Revolutionary
Chapters
01
Ordinary
02
Eruption
03 Family
04 Tribes
05 Love
06 Music
07 Purpose
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The Revolutionary; Part Thirteen,
Chapter One: Ordinary
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Pt. 13,
Ch. 01
Jim was an Observer, he spent ages on Earth; watching the culture
emerge from the children of the ancient explorers.
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The Revolutionary; Part Thirteen,
Chapter Two: Eruption
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Pt. 13, Ch. 02
Earth had fallen; from spacefarer to hunter. Continuum
was fascinated. Then the volcano nearly wiped everything out.
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The Revolutionary; Part Thirteen,
Chapter Three: Family
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Pt. 13, Ch. 03
The Observer bonded with a family; led them in the dark time. He gave
them a virus that changed them in subtle ways.
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The Revolutionary; Part Thirteen,
Chapter Four: Tribes
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Pt. 13, Ch. 04
Strong-new tribes formed. Jim mingled with different ones in each
generation; differentiating them from one another.
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The Revolutionary; Part Thirteen,
Chapter Five: Love
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Pt. 13, Ch. 05
Love was manufactured in humans with a retro-virus, a parasite
blending utility, compassion, and desire. It was art.
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The Revolutionary; Part Thirteen,
Chapter Six: Music
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Pt. 13, Pt. 06
It began with rhythm, a code fixed in the genes; uniting humanity. It
was the drum beat. The Continuum was obsessed.
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The Revolutionary; Part Thirteen,
Chapter Seven: Purpose
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Pt. 13,
Ch. 07
Jim knew that it was only a matter of time before the next cataclysm
and he deeply desired to save humanity from it.
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Emergence:
Section Two, The Continuum
Part Fourteen, The Collapse
Collected Chapters
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Section 02, The Continuum
Part 14, The Collapse
Chapters
01 Shock
02 Pain
03 Shame
04
Sympatico
05
Paralysis
06
Corruption
07 Fuge
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The Collapse; Part Fourteen,
Chapter One: Shock
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Pt. 14,
Ch. 01
Continuum was not prepared for the dying anguish of a whole planet.
Until that moment emotions had merely been data.
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The Collapse; Part Fourteen,
Chapter Two: Pain
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Pt. 14, Ch. 02
Fear followed shock; like a chasm, open beneath
Continuum, and a white hot pulse of agony, pushing it over the edge.
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The Collapse; Part Fourteen,
Chapter Three: Shame
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Pt. 14, Ch. 03
Wildlife sensed it first; fleeing in droves. Then seismographs told
the tale, but disbelief crept into the analysis.
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The Collapse; Part Fourteen,
Chapter Four: Sympatico
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Pt. 14, Ch. 04
Every living thing heard the explosion. Chaos followed quick upon the
sound wave, with prayer rising up to greet it.
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The Collapse; Part Fourteen,
Chapter Five: Paralysis
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Pt. 14, Ch. 05
Over six hundred thousand years the pressure was building. When the
Yellowstone Cauldera blew, Earth’s axis shifted.
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The Collapse; Part Fourteen,
Chapter Six: Corruption
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Pt. 14, Pt. 06
Ash buried North America, while clouds of fine particles, and
poisonous gases covered the world; blocking all light.
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The Collapse; Part Fourteen,
Chapter Seven: Fuge
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Pt. 14,
Ch. 07
It was a crucible. Half of the world perished within days of the
blast; most of the rest in the month that followed.
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