Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Day 331, Tuesday
November 27th, 2018
Chapter Two: Protection
Every member of the Observer Corps was beset by
overwhelming feelings, despite the fact that their bodies had been genetically
engineered to enable them to suppress strong emotions.
Fear drove them, along with a desire to protect the Home
World, and curiosity also.
The majority of the Observers made the choice to return
to the Home World, using the apparatus under the control to transmit their
consciousness through via worm-holes
across the galactic void, into the mechanical circuitry waiting for them.
It was predictable behavior, and they were trapped by it.
Every Observer had a back-up system on or near the world
under their purview. A place that housed a copy of their consciousness, where
they grew their doppelgangers. It was a sanctuary where they felt safe.
They went to their stations, activated their equipment
generating the conduits that would take them home, but the apparatus on the
receiving end, on the Central Planet, it did not function as they had expected,
and they were trapped in the landing port of the receiving station cut off from
the Collective.
They effectively disappeared, millions of them gone.
The worm-holes that they opened transmitted data and
commands in both directions, these were control systems that the Continuum put
in place so that it could manage the Observers. Jim utilized those failsafes to
send destruct signals to those platforms, and they popped in a litany of
explosions throughout the Empire.
It was chaos.
The remaining Observers numbered only in the thousands,
those who held positions of rank and power marshalled their forces to protect
the Central Planet, the Collective and Continuum. They assembled the fleet.
They intended to attack.
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