Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Sunday, February 3rd, 2019
Chapter
Three: Intention
He set his mind on a single goal, the complete destruction of the
Collective and the Continuum, seeking absolution in their annihilation.
He could not admit it, but he wanted the universe to forgive him, both
for his own crimes and for all of the crimes the Collective had committed against
the Children of the Ancients.
He felt responsible, though he was not.
Like all members of the Continuum his own sense of self was magnified
beyond the pale of reality. His own ego could not let him see himself in any
other role that the role of both villain and hero.
The crimes belonged to him, as did the responsibility for redressing
them,
He could not let anything hinder his progress.
He committed more crimes in the fulfillment of his purpose, sacrificing individuals,
tribes.
The outcome he desired was to harness the technologies of the Collective
in order to liberate the Children of the Ancients, to free them from the grip
of the Continuum and of the Imperium the Continuum had foisted on them.
He was a utilitarian to the core.
He was looking to achieve the greatest good for the greatest number, as
he understood the good to be. He plan and schemed and allow nothing to stand in
his way.
He would sacrifice the well-being of an entire planet, offer it up for
destruction, just as a feint, as a means of distracting the Continuum and the
Collective from his own ambitions, to hide what he was looking for from their
omnipresent watching.
He did it without remorse.
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