Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Thursday, February 14th, 2019
Chapter Seven: Servant
Jim
positioned himself as an administrator, replicating himself as often as he
needed to, in order to position himself as a servant of governments world-wide,
as a specialist, a functionary, a problem solver. He was always the
indispensable man.
He rarely
took on a role as the lead of an agency, always working in support of the human
systems, managing them.
He was good
at it. He drew on the vast knowledge of governing bureaucracies that were
available to him through his data bases of the function of the Empire.
H always
sought to be his own counterpart in governments across the world, whether those
governments worked together as allies, as competitors or as enemies.
This made
the coordination of government easy and it was rarely disrupted by human
interference.
He was
always able to parcel out enough information to move events in the direction he
wanted, whether or not his interests lay in war or peace, he was able to produce
the results the rulers and governments desired.
The slowness with which events moved troubled him.
They were not slower than the eons he spent in contemplation, stretching
his consciousness into the every corner of the Collective, and they were not
slower than the ages he spent alone in the deep of space moving from planet to
planet in his quest to discover the whereabouts of each and every colony seeded
by the Children of the Ancients.
The slowness of those periods was marked by isolation, in those times he
did not feel the pressure of impending doom.
The events on Earth were different, there was a clock ticking, there was
the volcano, and when it blew his best chance to realize his ambition would
blow with it.
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