Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Day 272, Saturday
September 29th, 2018
Chapter Six: Quality Assurance
His duties were to observe, report, and ensure that the work of
government was carried out efficiently.
The empire provided service to a million worlds, and trillions of
people.
There was food distribution, medicine, the military, the Imperial
schools, and more important than any other institution, the Imperial Cult to
attend to.
At no time did he ever drop his diligent attention to detail, not for a
moment.
He oversaw the complex allocation of material resources designated as
gifts to the gods. This was a process without end, an unceasing harvest of
energy, of ore and silicates sent to the Central Planet, the home of the Gods, of
the Continuum and the Collective.
He was tireless.
His life was completely bent on fulfilling every policy, to the letter.
In his former life he cared for the miners and the planet harvesters,
people who lived their entire working lives in space, crushing asteroids,
breaking up planets and their satellites, smelting ore and separating the
elements.
They lived short lives, they were prisoners, and outcasts. They came
from every station.
Now, he spent lives as easily as he would spend credits on his dinner.
He let go of all his former closely held morality, that which propelled him as
a revolutionary, he abandoned it in service to the Empire.
He became a living reminder to his peers regarding the necessity of
protocol.
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