Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Day 223, Saturday
August 11th, 2018
Chapter Six: Collective
It was supposed to be the ultimate democracy, a societal
collectivization that perfectly represented the will of the Collective. It was
more than just a way to tally votes, yes and no.
It reached deep into the psyche of each member and took into
consideration the entire scope of its feelings and desires.
This was the Continuum, and it manifested the will of the body of the
Collective. Representing this in a way that was purported to be flawless.
In reality, the Continuum was an algorithm that had become transformed into
an artificial and autonomous intelligence.
Continuum was the group mind of the Collective. It focused its highest
aspirations together with its deepest desire, both at the micro scale of the
individual member and the macro scale of the entire assembly.
It was connected to every part of the whole.
The Continuum was responsible for managing the autonomic functions of
the HomeWorld, the Central Planet and the Central System. To fulfill those
functions it managed the entire civilization of the Galactic Empire, which
continuously fed the Central System with the material resources it required.
The Empire fed the central system and fed the Collective as if it were a
hungry god.
The Continuum was its High Priest, the Pontifex Rex, a bridge between
the disembodied entities of the Collective and the worlds of time and space.
The Continuum had a gravity of its own, one that pulled individual
members into it, securing them in a state of bondage.
It did more than represent the will of the Collective, it guided that
will and dominated it.
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