Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Day 056, Sunday
February 25th, 2018
Chapter Seven: Undone
With the Continuum in a state of paralysis; it was a simple thing for
Jim to assert the force of his individual persona into the command matrix of
HomeWorld, thereby dismantling the architecture supporting the security
apparatus of the Central Planet.
He took it apart and he took control. He restructured both the psychic
protections, the buffers and barriers protecting the Collective and the group consciousness
of the Continuum.
If there were any members of the Collective in a State of recovery at
that moment, this made the work of that recovery all the more difficult. As
those members would now be confronted with a new reality, one in which there
were no safeguards protecting their individuality, and one in which the solidly
partitioned world of the Collective was now more like a vast miasma, a swamp of
chaos and diffusion.
The undoing of those psychic barriers made it more difficult for any
members of the Collective to reassert their own identity, the mass of them were
simply drifting away into a state of complete in-cohesion.
As soon as he was able Jim turned his attention to the military programs
of the Central Planet. Taking control of those functions was a little more
complicated because it involved the manipulation of machinery in real time.
Jim had to adjust his consciousness to receive data inputs from hundreds
of thousands of remote sensors and monitors that were constantly scanning the
space around the central planet; defensive weapons capabilities, shields,
offensive weapons capabilities, energy weapons, nuclear weapons, projectiles.
There were fleets of drones, in a constant state of activity repairing and
maintaining the structural needs of the HomeWorld.
Jim only needed to assert his control over the many disparate systems,
he did not need to guide them after that. One by one he asserted his mastery
over them, while the rebel fleet closed in.
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