Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Day 260, Monday
September 17th, 2018
Chapter One: The Oppressed
Every civilization founded by the children of the Ancients was absorbed
by the Empire. Either they came willingly, they came by coercion or they were
destroyed.
Imperial governance was uncompromising. The Empire ruled with power and
fear, crushing the people, pitting them against one another; class versus
class, rank over station.
The Empire put stars systems into conflict with one another, and the
worlds within a given system at odds with each other. It was planet versus
planet, clan versus clan, and family versus family.
The Empire sought to control every aspect of the individual’s life, down
to what they thought. Everything they did was for the sake of the drama it
produced, and fed to the Collective.
The interpersonal drama, conflict and strife, hope and fear, love and
desire, these were the things the Collective craved, the Continuum cultivated,
and the Empire delivered, like a sacred offering on a holy altar.
Every moment of an individual’s life was recorded and preserved for the
consumption of the Collective.
The citizens of the Empire knew they were being watched, but they did
not know the details, and the full extent of the scrutiny they were subject
too. Only the Observers knew the scope of the information that was collected.
There was no freedom in the Empire, even among those who believed they
were free.
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