Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Day 043, Monday
February 12th, 2018
Chapter One: Concealment
Jim had made the crossing between worlds thousands of times, but never while
carrying a secret such as this.
He had carried secret intentions, he had carefully hidden his plans
within other machinations, but he had never before attempted to arrive on the
HomeWorld while concealing his immediate activities; things he had been doing,
things he would do, things that would harm the Collective, and its Continuum.
Everything he had done in his latest iteration would be exposed to the
Continuum. There was no way to know what would come. He believed he understood
the depths of the Continuum’s self-defenses, but he had no way of knowing for
sure if he would be exposed the moment he arrived, sequestered and eliminated,
or if it would take some time, more importantly, he had no way to know if the
events he had planned for would unfold according to his schedule.
He had been carrying out his plans for seventy millennia, while studying
the unique genetic make-up of the humans of earth, while reporting on the
culture they had produced, their conflicts, their triumphs and their tragedies.
They were the children of the Ancient Race that Jim himself had sprung
from, but that had undergone millions of years of evolution during their
sojourn among the stars, travelling across the galaxy, exploring and
establishing colonies.
They had evolved even more significantly since the time that they came
to Earth, since they crashed here, at the end of the line. Humans still
resembled the other Children of the Ancient Race. They bore the same external
physical features as the inhabitants of nearly every other world in the great
Galactic Empire did, but they were different.
Their world was different, their brains evolved according to those
differences, and so did their consciousness. Their genetic profile changed in
unique ways, in relation to the life already evolving on this small blue world
and the elements active within their environment.
Jim had nudged that evolution along, all the while masking his true
intentions.
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