Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Day 254, Tuesday
September 11th, 2018
Chapter Two: Origins
Genetic mutations are a normal response to varying
conditions of radiation, atmospheric gasses, gravity, available proteins, nutrients,
and other environmental factors, all of which differ from world to world.
In his role as an Observer he had sought permission from
the Collective to bifurcate his consciousness, allowing him to live two lives
at the same time, one as an embodied being leading the team of archeologists,
planetologists, and sociologists who were always busy cataloging the recently
discovered civilizations, dead or alive, that they were drawing into the
Imperial fold. His consciousness was also active and present in the form of a
mechanoid, hurtling through the galaxy tracking every lead he could discover to
the paths the Children of the Ancients took.
The Continuum had been against this allowance, but once
again it was overruled by the Collective, which was fascinated by the work he
was doing in uncovering their history.
To a person the Collective was fascinated by the process
of discovery, for the wide range of insight and drama that ensued, for the
narratives that were unraveled which fueled the stories they constructed for
their private worlds.
The Observer followed the tiniest strands of every thread
to the last outpost of the Ancient Explorers.
He followed those threads to a small, young, yellow star,
in the far reaches of one of the galaxy’s spiral arms, to a little blue green
planet that its people came to know as Earth.
Of all the mutations that had been discovered in his
sojourn, the mutations that occurred on Earth were the most sublime.
Earth produced something unique emerging from an
interaction of the population with its magnetosphere, with the balance of
metals, with the tiniest nano-particles fused into the cerebral functions of
the human brain, altering the quantum mechanics of the thought process, opening
it to new possibilities.
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