Emergence 3.0
A Novel – One Page Per Day
Day 006, Saturday
January 6th, 2018
Prolog: Part Six – Role
There are many reasons given by members of the Collective
for their desire to leave the embrace of the Continuum. Some members seek the
thrill of actual embodiment, others crave the simple life of an organic being.
Be mindful! There is nothing simple about it.
The Observer’s role is difficult, challenging. It will
test the limits of your endurance, your intellect, your emotional state.
The vast powers you have access too as members of the Collective
are truncated in a physical body.
Your bodies will be prepared in a such a way that you
will be stronger, faster, smarter, more stable than those of the population you
live with. Nevertheless, you will constantly face the limitations of the flesh.
These limitations are the primary reason that candidates fall
out of the Observer Corps.
The Observer must resist the urge to influence their
subjects, to become entangled in the dramatic narratives of their lives.
As a participant in the events that you immerse yourself
in, you must at all times maintain an epistemic distance, you must not love
them, you must always regard them as objects.
The worlds you visit and the people you encounter their
entire history and their possible future belong to the Continuum, they are commodities.
Their lives and their cultures are meaningful only
insofar as they are witnessed by, and absorbed into the Continuum.
Without the Continuum they would live and die in the
emptiness of space, only to be consumed by their mother star, become nothing at
all.
This is the future that awaits every world, and every
being if they are not brought into the Continuum.
The Observer must be present to provide the vehicle by
which those worlds can be remembered.
~ The Field Manual, Observer
Corps
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