Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In
One Page Per Day
Day 161, Sunday
June 10th,
2018
Prolog: Part Seven – Schizophrenia
The Collective collapsed, it was lost, and with it the
Continuum.
The primal forces that had shaped a society of sentience that
spread throughout the galaxy, it imploded.
It were gone.
Those few members of the Collective who were able to retain
their sense of self, they retreated from everything, seeking refuge in the
comfort of isolation. They went looking for access to their private realities.
They found themselves alone, in the cold and dark.
Jim had directed all of the energy of the HomeWorld
toward breaking up the bindings of consciousness that united them, preventing
them from acting in anything that resembled unity.
As soon as they realized that coherent action was
impossible, they fled. They sought to put as much distance between themselves
and any other being as possible.
As individuals, they erected mental barriers to shield
themselves from the faint din of voices that represented the last vestiges of
the Collective, each of them became a quantum singularity in the field of
consciousness.
It was relatively easy for Jim to lure them into a
structure with the promise of safety and relief which they expected to find in
their private world’s, and sequester them there.
Those who could not do this dissolved in chaos.
It required incredible powers of concentration to manage
the physical structures of the HomeWorld’s energy systems, at the same time as
he was scrubbing the quantum matrix of the Collective.
He was engaged in the greatest act of genocide that had
ever been conceived.
He scrubbed and he swept and he pushed every minute echo
of what had been the Collective into storage vehicles that were physically
isolated from the cynergenic field of the HomeWorld, then he launched those
vehicles into space, where they would travel until they found there final destination
in the dense-dark-heart of a Black Hole.
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