Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Sunday, February 17th, 2019
Chapter
Three: Testing
Jim
developed a secondary interest.
For the
first time in over a billion years he wanted something more than to pursue the
destruction of the Continuum and the dissolution of the Empire.
He used the resources at his command to build laboratories for his
research, he hid them from the Continuum, he spread them throughout the Empire,
testing the genetic endowment of the people from every world, and the physical
properties of the planets that comprised the Imperium.
He replicated his own body countless times, bifurcating his
consciousness over and over again. He tested his theories on those golems, and
learned how to mask the unique properties belonging to the genetic endowment of
the humans of Earth from the prying eyes of the Continuum.
He replicated his consciousness in them, which put him at risk.
He feared that another version of himself would at some point abandon
the plan he had devised, but despite his fears he pushed forward. He used their
agency to conceal his covert activities; on Earth, throughout the Empire, and
on HomeWorld.
He advanced his clandestine ambitions against the Continuum.
There were many times when he had to sacrifice the lives of his
dopplegangers. When he had to shred the consciousness of one of his ghosts. He
always did so with great reluctance. In every instance he saw his own likeness
to the Continuum, as if he were just another monster, only with a far more
limited reach.
The knowledge he gathered was everything, he deemed that it was worth
the cost.
He found that nowhere else in all the Empire did the unique genetics of
the population combine as they did on a planet like Earth to form the
electromagnetic structure of a cynergenic field.
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