Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Day 347, Thursday
December 13th, 2018
Chapter Four: Code
The rebel command structure was a tight cabal.
In their fleet, all the senior commanders were members of the Observer
Corps, all except one, the High Priest, who gave his blessing to the whole
affair. This did not mean that they trusted one another, they did not, but they
knew each other and they shared the same motive.
The rebel Observers planned to use every other commander in their armada
as cannon fodder in their approach to the HomeWorld.
They expected the automated defenses of the Central Planet to be
significant and they made a pact to protect each other.
It pleased them to no end to have the High Priest with them. The hero of
the people and among the most beloved persons ever known to the Continuum and
the Collective. He was a man who had started out his life as a rebel, and was
now returning to it in the end.
They would make him the new Emperor, and bring him into the Collective.
These Observers betrayed the people of the Empire, the Continuum, and
the Collective out of opportunism. They wanted to live, they wanted to live
forever without the rules imposed on them by the Continuum.
To a person, they wanted to expand the Empire to other galaxies, to
govern real worlds as they had governed their private worlds as members of the
Collective.
They had no code, no honor, no nothing
They were striving for their own glory, for personal autonomy.
The High Priest knew that their strategic approach would put the bulk of
the armada at risk, he could not understand the reason, but he allowed it to
happen anyway.
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