36 Servant, 37 Bureaucrat, 38 General, 39 Priest,
40 Faith, 41 Tradition, 42 Fear
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Section Six, The Empire
Part Thirty-six, Servant
Collected Chapters
01 The
Oppressed
02 The
Suppressed
03 The
Repressed
04 The
Depressed
05 Hostage
06 Victim
07 Convert
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Chapter One: The Oppressed
Every civilization founded by the children of the Ancients was
absorbed by the Empire.
Imperial governance was uncompromising, ruling with power, and fear,
while crushing the people.
The Empire sought to control every aspect of the individual’s life,
down to what they thought; everything they did was for the sake of the drama
it produced.
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Chapter Two: The
Suppressed
Throughout the Empire dissent was punished with brutish
joy.
Imperial police delighted in torture.
The extreme emotions such scenes produced fed the
appetites of the Continuum, and the Collective as well, getting them intoxicated
on fear, pain, and remorse.
A charge of dissent was not limited to aberrant
behavior, it also included speech and thought.
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Chapter
Three: The Repressed
For the citizenry, living under the heel of the Imperial police was a
constant struggle.
The way of life was to go unnoticed, to blend in; these were the keys
to survival.
A family might cultivate these skills, and live unremarkable lives for
generations, only to be cast down for the sheer pleasure of it.
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Chapter Four: The Depressed
Apart from the upper classes: the nobility, the religious orders, the
military, the lives of the people were sorrowful. Most were angry, without
hope, desperate and alone.
Even those in the upper hierarchies spent their lives filled with
dread, competing for place, and prestige, always uncertain of when they might
be called upon to sacrifice.
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Chapter Five: Hostage
Before he developed a conscience, he was a media darling. Even in his
youth, when he was a part of the rebellion, a terrorist.
His motivation was anger not altruism.
At that time he was fighting for himself, against himself.
As he learned to love, he turned his attention to the plight of the
people.
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Chapter Six: Victim
The Imperial powers built him up, they reveled in his celebrity.
He was the brilliant rebel, the unfailing hero who could endure
everything.
They took their time, and charted the limits of what he could endure,
then took him down, crushing him absolutely.
He became a sacrifice for the Empire, a holocaust, a burnt offering.
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Chapter Seven: Convert
In that moment, when he lost everything, even as he was forced to
watch the Imperial torturers grinding the life out of the few people he held
dear to his heart, even as they lit his own flesh on fire, he relented.
At that moment the Continuum restored him to life, a newly created
superstar.
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Part Thirty-seven, Bureaucrat
Collected Chapters
01
Gatekeeper
02 Desk
Jockey
03 Pencil
Pusher
04 File
Clerk
05 Monitor
06 Quality
Assurance
07
Supervisor
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Chapter One: Gatekeeper
He became an image of hope to the ordinary citizen, an example of a
life rewarded after incredible suffering.
He was a symbol of re-birth, of clemency and mercy.
Many of his former compatriots were stunned by the turnaround.
It was bewildering.
Some called the whole drama a charade, others hopefully gave up their
rebellion.
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Chapter Two: Desk Jockey
He was celebrated by the Empire, and Continuum.
His daily life was viewed by adoring fans with
fascination.
His comportment was flawless, he fulfilled the
expectations of his station with immaculate precision, moving from the lowest
order, into a position of authority.
He was beset with challenges, each a test of his poise
and wisdom.
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Chapter
Three: Pencil Pusher
From doorman to receptionist, from receptionist to stenographer, his
celebrity made him in demand.
Bringing him into an office meant exposure and fame for the bosses
around him.
He rose up the hierarchy mindfully, still carrying the lessons he
learned from years in the rebellion, from years of torture in prison.
Trust no-one, suspect everything.
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Chapter Four: File Clerk
Everyone serving in the bureaucracy underwent periodic reviews.
Without fail, in his yearly review, he was raised up, given more
freedom.
He relished it.
The small steps he had taken away from the street made a vast
difference in his lifestyle.
He continued to look beyond his station. Toward a life of ease and
comfort.
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Chapter Five: Monitor
The Empire required and relied on bureaucratic controls.
The vast Imperium utilized monitoring at every conceivable level of
the social order.
In time Jim rose to a position in which he reported, and analyzed a
wide range of human activities, and behaviors, especially among those rebel
groups that he had once been a member of.
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Chapter Six: Quality Assurance
His duties were to observe, report, and ensure that the work of
government was carried out efficiently; he never once dropped his diligence,
not for a moment.
He was tireless, to the letter. His life was completely bent on
fulfilling every policy.
He was a living reminder to his peers regarding the necessity of
protocol.
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Chapter Seven: Supervisor
In time he
became a chief administrator, and while he appeared to be a man in the prime
of his life, those who had been following his career began to realize that he
was extremely old, compared to average citizen.
It was
noted as a curiosity by other administrators.
They
drafted him into military service.
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Part Thirty-eight, General
Collected Chapters
01 Foot
Soldier
02 Yeoman
03 Medic
04 Calvary
05 Pilot
06 Aide de
Camp
07 Field
Marshall
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Chapter One: Foot Soldier
In the post of an agency chief, he enjoyed a life of luxury beyond the
grasp of a pleb.
Then they ordered him into the service, taking it all away.
He did not balk, or look back.
He became a soldier, a new way of life, a different class and caste.
He went to war.
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Chapter Two: Yeoman
After one year in combat they pulled him off the line;
the Collective loved his heroism, but feared for his life.
Continuum did not want to see him in hand to hand
combat.
He was brilliant, but he displayed too much gallantry,
moments in which he hesitated, giving his opponent a chance before the
kill.
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Chapter
Three: Medic
He was a yeoman.
Serving in the bureaucracy prepared him for the work.
He had reveled in the exploits of the infantry, but he did not resent
the break.
However, having seen him as a soldier, and a hero, the Collective was
not satisfied; they wanted more.
He went back to wars as a medic.
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Chapter Four: Calvary
As a rebel and a soldier, he had mastered fear.
While a prisoner under torture, it vanished from him altogether.
As a medic he never shrank from danger.
He was a paragon of virtue.
His audience loved him, his willingness to self-sacrifice.
It propelled him to glory.
It awakened him to the suffering of others.
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Chapter Five: Pilot
In the cavalry he mastered every type of combat craft; land, sea, air,
and space.
The ease with which he learned the controls, the rapidity in which his
skills developed into something like artistry, this was shocking to his
trainers, they had never seen anything like it before.
His comrades worshipped him like a god.
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Chapter Six: Aide de Camp
He retired from combat as the Empires greatest Ace; living or dead.
His heroic image was brighter than a star going nova.
Cults of worship began to form around him.
Many of his superiors were jealous, wanting to eliminate him.
The conservatives simply wanted to return him to the bureaucracy, and
groom him for command.
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Chapter Seven: Field Marshall
When he was elevated to the Imperial Command, it was whispered among
the worlds that he was of the Continuum, an angelic messenger.
He thought nothing of those whispers, as if he could not hear them.
He accepted his position in life, one that was now exceedingly long,
rising to the challenges set before him.
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Part Thirty-nine, Priest
Collected Chapters
01 Oblate
02 Novice
03 Brother
04 Sister
05 Ordained
06 Abba
07 Overseer
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Chapter One: Oblate
They elevated him to the priesthood.
It was unprecedented, to rise from the status of a rebel and an
outcast, to the most exalted class of being, and once again, he started on
the lowest rung.
He was an oblate.
He was given the mark of humility.
He was tonsured, as any beginner would be.
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Chapter Two: Novice
It was required that he take vows; vows of poverty, chastity,
and obedience. This was required of every novice, but they were not
necessarily for life.
He entered the sacred order, and was initiated into the
mysteries.
He became, once again, a servant.
He was the oldest novice ever.
He was wise.
He was quiescent.
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Chapter
Three: Brother
The priestly class was divided into two groups.
There was the priesthood, and then there were the holy orders.
He always went deep.
He followed the contemplative sects into the paths of mystery,
austerity, and aesthetics.
He wanted to do more than officiating rites, managing a temple, he
wanted to discover the meaning of existence.
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Chapter Four: Sister
He was a conformist at heart.
Since his years as a rebel, he was obedient, a follower, not always of
people, but to the multitudes.
He had been the unparalleled leader.
He was a follower of ideals. In relation to his principles, he was unquestioning.
Then he met a woman, and he fell in love.
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Chapter Five: Ordained
After years of servitude he was initiated into the mysteries, and
ordained into the order of the priesthood.
He became an officiant of the sacred rites.
Every day he reenacted the rituals and repeated the sacred chants,
which led to eternal life, both for himself and on behalf of others, opening
the gates of Continuum.
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Chapter Six: Abba
His affair with the Sister was illicit, but he loved her, and she him.
They had both sworn vows of chastity.
His willingness to break those vows and the anguish it caused, captivated
his audience in the Collective.
It was out of character, it was unpredictable.
They ensured it would continue.
They made him Abba.
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Chapter Seven: Overseer
With the blessing of the Collective and by the favor of Continuum, despite
his carnal crimes, he advanced in rank among the religious orders and in the
hierarchy of the priesthood.
The Continuum loved the intrigue of his cover-ups.
They made him a Cardinal.
The masses, knowing nothing of his transgressions, adored him even
more.
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Part Forty, Faith
Collected Chapters
01 Indoctrination
02 Dogma
03 Rites
04 Mystery
05 Belief
06 Orthodoxy
07 Unkowing
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Chapter One: Indoctrination
He was born into a family of plebians, free citizens, but in reality
servants of the Empire, slaves of the Continuum.
He could not tolerate injustice.
He felt the suffering of everyone.
He fought the empire.
For his gallantry, the Continuum made him a star.
He entered service as a bureaucrat, then soldier, then priest.
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Chapter Two: Dogma
He made his vow, and took holy orders.
He immersed himself in the priesthood.
His knowledge expanded, the history of the Empire was
exposed in sacred texts.
It fascinated him, and struck him cold.
Deep feelings were stirring inside him.
He became aware of the reality of the Collective, and
the truth set him free.
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Chapter
Three: Rites
He took all of the rituals seriously, as he did everything during his
career.
He fulfilled them with grace, and a presence that gave no indication
of the fact that he knew they were empty gestures, and meaningless incantations.
He believed the cohesion of the Empire, of a million worlds, relied on
them for everything.
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Chapter Four: Mystery
He was indoctrinated into the deepest mysteries of the Imperium.
He discovered the mechanism of salvation, translation of consciousness
into the quantum field, eternal life in the Continuum as a member of the
Collective.
He learned that the Imperial rites meant nothing, they were based on lies,
minor dramas perpetuated as a means of control.
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Chapter Five: Belief
He spent his days promoting the beliefs of the Empire.
He spoke with power and confidence, elegantly articulating the complex
narratives that glued the Imperial society together.
He was a living exemplar of the faith, demonstrating to everyone, even
the outcast, the possibility of elevating their station with fidelity, duty,
and adherence to the laws.
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Chapter Six: Orthodoxy
He learned to differentiate between belief, and conviction, with the
greatest care given to the manner in which he expressed himself; what you
hold in your heart is not what you voice, survival depends on it.
The higher he ascended into the mysteries, the more he felt he was
shackled by the dogma and tradition.
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Chapter Seven: Unkowing
There are no words available in any language to articulate the universal
truths regarding the infinite, and the eternal; every attempt to do so was
manipulative, and false.
The religion of the Empire was a web of lies, coercions, and control
mechanisms. The lie had been perfected over millions of years, holding all
people together.
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Part Forty-one, Tradition
Collected Chapters
01 Story
02 Pietas
03 Custom
04
Classism
05
Socialism
06
Globalism
07
Universalism
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Chapter One: Story
The stages of his life symbolized the faith of every citizen, and the
fears of those in the ruling class.
A million worlds followed him, put their hopes in him.
He was a demi-god; myths regarding his origins circulated among the
people.
During his long life, whole generations had been born and died adoring
him.
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Chapter Two: Pietas
The perception of holiness mattered more than the
reality.
The most important thing to the hierarchy is what
people believed about the priesthood.
Image is everything; rhetoric not logic, not truth,
rhetoric was the measure of the day.
Given the powers belonging to the priesthood, it was a
relatively easy task to deceive the masses.
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Chapter
Three: Custom
In the rituals of the priesthood every gesture was important.
The complex movements reenacted a narrative, reinforcing a story that
encompassed the history of the Empire, and its million worlds.
The group participation in those rituals, led by the priests, sent
waves rippling through the lives of the faithful, binding them together in concentric
rings.
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Chapter Four: Classism
The imperial system was held together by class, rank, and ancestry.
Nearly every citizen clung to their place with vicious determination.
There were few limits to what a person would risk merely to advance a
step or two in rank. In as much as they were inextricably bound to it,
everyone longed for a release.
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Chapter Five: Socialism
The immediate goals for the ordinary citizen was advancement.
Everyone believed that freedom was waiting for them. Independence was
just a few paces away.
They wanted to live autonomously, free from the responsibilities of
their station.
Autonomy was an illusion, private property, self-direction; all lies.
In truth, everything and everyone was owned by the state.
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Chapter Six: Globalism
It was possible for an individual to be at peace in the Empire,
millions of citizens were.
To be at peace in the Empire a person merely had to accept the view
that their happiness was an integral part of the whole.
Individual happiness did not matter, what mattered was the happiness
of the Collective.
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Chapter Seven: Universalism
Every person desired to see their lives as meaningful. Even those
whose station in life was fixed in drudgery.
Every vestige of the rites enforced by the Imperial cult conditioned
them to believe that individual fulfillment came through the chain of being, a
series of incarnations in which each person experienced life at every
station.
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Part Forty-two, Fear
Collected Chapters
01 Loss
02 Pain
03 Shame
04 Duty
05 Honor
06
Perseverance
07
Annihilation
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Chapter One: Loss
The prevailing view of life afflicting the masses, and preached fervently
among the worlds was this: desire is the cause of all suffering.
The faithful were reminded of this daily.
Suffering was apportioned with surgical precision, and insidious
delight.
Every moment of joy was merely temporary, and only to be experienced
as respite from sorrow.
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Chapter Two: Pain
The prevailing philosophy was this: pain was necessary
and purgative, both as penance for sin and as a preparation for holiness.
This teaching was reinforced at every level of the
human experience.
Suffering was life, moments of pleasure were structured
to be brief, as teaching moments, with periods of joy coming randomly,
intermittently, and spontaneously.
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Chapter
Three: Shame
Every person knew their rank, and everyone wanted to advance their
position.
The social standing of a person, of a family, their village, their
planet.
These were known figures.
They were broadcast.
No matter what your Imperial rank, the focus of society was always directed
to what you lacked, rather than what you had achieved.
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Chapter Four: Duty
There were trillions of citizens in the Empire, each and every one of
them was conditioned to be joyful only in the fulfillment of their duties.
The Imperial schools were formed to fulfill that purpose, and that was
the aim of the Imperial cult.
Keep the eyes of the citizen focused on the daily goals.
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Chapter Five: Honor
In the Imperial cult
selflessness was taught as the only way for the individual to escape from the
material conditions that oppressed every person.
People sought absolution
of self for the sake of the greater good, the abnegation of desire; kenosis, the emptying of the self; metanoia, conversion of personhood
into self-identification with the whole.
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Chapter Six: Perseverance
Everyone looked up to those in the higher classes, or a person of
higher rank even in the same class.
An old man would defer to a child. Even to the point of laying down
his life for him, or suffering forms of extreme abuse.
It was conditioning, and covetousness.
The system destroyed them all.
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Chapter Seven: Annihilation
The teaching of the Imperial cult, its dogma, rituals, and spiritual
practices all colluded to persuade the people into the submission of their
will.
The spiritual goal as stated was this: for the individual to rise
through every station, over the course of billions of lifetimes, and to
ultimately be released, returning to the Continuum.
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