Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Day 352, Tuesday
December 18th, 2018
Chapter Two: Position
Jim took his position. He allowed his consciousness to simultaneously
occupy the entire field of remote sensors overseeing every part of the fleet,
both from the surface of home world and those positioned throughout the Central
System.
He waited and watched, taking in the beauty of the last
great vestige of military power the galactic Empire would ever put forward
He bifurcated his consciousness, dividing it between the
remote viewing and listening equipment, and the instruments necessary to monitor
the ongoing tumult with the Collective, suppressing it, dominating it.
There was nothing else for him to do, he had to wait, the
fleet and its commanders presented only a small risk to his position of
control, but there was a risk and he had to manage it.
He divided his consciousness further taking up control of
a brigade of drones, the mechanoid bodies that Observers dwelt in while they
were on HomeWorld. Jim intended to meet the landing party in his mechanoid
body, a vehicle with incredible destructive power.
The fleet approached, lighting the space all about them,
a beautiful armada filled with the brave soldiers of the Empire.
These soldiers among all others had exhibited the type of
independence that Jim desired to blossom in the Empire, the fact that they had
joined the rebellion against the hierarchy was proof of that.
They were coming. Jim felt that it was a shame he had to
destroy them, it would have been better to scatter them among the million
worlds.
To arrive at the Central Planet and reach him, they would
have to navigate the weapons fields, they knew it would not be easy.
The Observers in command of the fleet knew this, wanted
to risk it, believing they could predict the firing solution. Only the High
Priest was skeptical of their plan, as he watched, taking it all in, wondering
what the so-called Gods needed an army for, and why the paradise of the
Collective appeared to be located on a lifeless shell.
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