Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Day 044, Tuesday
February 13th, 2018
Chapter Two: HomeWorld
HomeWorld was not home to Jim. He was not born there, nor
in any place like it.
HomeWorld was a vast structure at the center of the
galaxy. It harnessed the incredible energy of the galactic core, a black hole,
to power its machinery, and the machinations of the continuum.
HomeWorld was not a world in the proper sense. It was a
machine; though it could seem like a world. It could appear as any world,
whether real or imagined. It could be anything Jim wanted it to be, as a member
of the collective, the entire structure was there to serve him. It could
fulfill any fantasy, allow him to relive any memory, if he believed it.
There was nothing alive on HomeWorld. Not a scrap of
organic matter, nor a piece of living tissue had ever been there. Biological
life was anathema to it. And this was odd, because there was no life form in
the entire Galaxy that could pose a threat to it, and yet the HomeWorld,
governed as it was by the Continuum, was objectively opposed to the presence of
any living being, scrap of tissue, or bacteria coming to its domain.
It always seemed to Jim like an aberration in its
construct, an irrational fear.
Continuum spent incredible resources preparing to defend
itself against such an incursion, one that never came.
The only thing ever born on the HomeWorld was the
Continuum itself, but that was not a birth in the proper sense, even though it
was a coming of consciousness.
The Continuum was no-one;s child. It was a construct, an
algorithm, it was not born, or hatched. It was activated.
There was nothing alive on the HomeWorld.
It was energy, and circuitry, and consciousness, and
danger.
HomeWorld was the repository of the Collective, it was
the physical location where all of those persons were housed, dwelling as it
were, each within their own world.
HomeWorld was the locus of what the Imperial religion
taught its people to believe was heaven. It was the place their consciousness
would go, if they were able to escape the wheel of life.
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