Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Friday, February 8th, 2019
Chapter One: Guide
Jim took his time on Earth.
He replicated his consciousness in the same ways that he had done on
HomeWorld, creating copies of himself to carry out his mission.
He acquisitioned resources to create multiple orbiting platforms,
vessels that housed the consciousness of each of his dopplegangers them,
there were back-ups to his back-up, and contingencies for contingencies, in
the event that anything ever went amiss.
They guided the orbiting crafts, and they dwelt in the powerful
mechanoid bodies designed for the Observer Corps. They were stationed like
guardians overseeing the human migrations.
They constructed outposts for themselves for retreat, from which they
could influence humanity.
Jim made numerous embodied versions of himself, according to the
bodily mode of all Observers.
They dwelt with the tribes.
He created a unique body for himself, one that would not age, tire, or
suffer harm, and from that time forward he made the Quantum journey through
the wormhole, back to HomeWorld infrequently, only when it was necessary to
oversee the operations of his cadre dwelling within the mechanical systems
and quantum fields of Collective and its Continuum.
On Earth he planted stories in the imagination of the people he lived
with, preparing them generations in advance to go to certain places, to
fulfil his requirements.
There was little room for error, even in the experimental stage, he
planted mnemonic devices in their rituals to lock down their responses to his
commands.
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Saturday, February 9th, 2019
Chapter Two: Counselor
Jim made himself the indispensable counselor to royals,
emperors and priests, both through the ministry of his doppelgangers, and
through his interaction with them in his primary incarnation.
He was the king maker, the seer and the sage, the
principle advisor, the grand vizier.
He wove stories into every culture. Creating narratives
that functioned like auto-hypnosis for his audience, building on and
augmenting the mnemonic tropes he had carefully laid in prior generations.
Through these procedures he had control of all human
government, and with that control he subtly guided them through periods of
strife, and hardship, through war and famine.
His charges could not help but respond to the controls
he put in place, giving him leverage over every government in the world.
He managed those controls invisibly, careful not to
draw attention to his activities, mindful of how the smallest decisions could
ripple outward in concentric rings, creating patterns that could potentially
alert the Continuum to his clandestine activities.
He knew that it had sent other Observers to Earth, to
watch him monitor his work.
This was against protocol, it was evidence of the fact
that the Continuum operated beyond the Control of the Collective, but those
factors were immaterial.
Jim built programs into the social order of humanity
that echoed the norms of the Empire, as if he were preparing them for
inclusion in it at some future point.
To his observers he accomplished those things without violating
the non-interference directive, apparently. Jim masked his work so as to make
it seem like an organic development; the emergence of a caste system, the
organization of the priesthood, the mythological tropes that pointed the
faithful to a hope beyond this world, a hope for themselves and their
families rooted in a belief in reincarnation.
The notion of karmic debt governed every function of
human culture, the cult of sacrifice, and servitude to the invisible gods.
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Sunday, February 10th, 2019
Chapter
Three: Seer
Jim constructed paradigms and mythological tropes, building archetypes
he then translated across the globe.
The same story repeated itself in the hearts and minds of every human
being.
He fashioned a common typology of heroism, which he instilled into
every language and every culture.
Every human child was raised with the aspiration of fulfilling this
model, heroism became a key building block of their identities. Only the most
extreme adverse conditions of poverty, abuse and fear could undermine it, and
even then it could not be eradicated.
Through ritual imagery and narrative he created a guidance system that
would shape the emotional and cognitive foundation of the vessel he was
forming.
Thousands of generations would pass before the singular person emerged
from the masses, when that child did emerge, their fate would be to bear all
the pain and suffering of the human race, to bear it gladly as a willing
victim, they would channel like a weapon straight into the heart of the
Continuum.
He conveyed to the Collective that he was merely interested in
creating a planet with the greatest warriors the Empire had ever seen, so
that in the fullness of time, when the tendrils of the Empire finally reached
Earth, the conflict that ensued would produce a drama like no other.
This played well with the Continuum. The drama was predictable, build them up and tear them down.
The Continuum had no intention of letting Earth throw off the Imperial
yoke. The entire planet would go up in fire first, but it relished the notion
of a great conflict. It allowed the Observer to proceed.
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Monday, February 11th, 2019
Chapter Four: Sage
Jim inserted himself into every mythology; through incarnation after
incarnation. He was ageless Methuselah and Melchezedek of Salem, he was wandering
Mordecai, he was blind Tiresias and far sighted Heimdall, he was Taleisin the
Merlin, he was many more.
He sat in court, he gave advice, he listened, and he played the fool.
He created a role for the wise man, standing apart from the power that
organized the social structures in every society, in every age; a role for the
sage, the seer, and the sibyl.
He wrote the prophetic tracts the guided the destiny of empires.
His efforts held the world together in times of darkness and famine,
he preserved the ancient records for one generation, and destroyed them in
another, so that he could test the cognition of his subjects, proofing their
connection to each other through the cynergenic field.
He was the perpetual advisor, teacher, confessor, tutor.
He whispered in the ear of Manu and Hammurabi, he spoke from a column
of fire, he guided the hand of Ashoka, he wandered the world in robes of
ochre and saffron.
He was a catalyst for change in one moment and the voice of tradition
in another. He pushed and he pulled, he held fast and he set free.
He was the feathered serpent, the voice from the cave, the man in the
tree.
He was often captured in images, riding on the back of a water
buffalo, or as a tiny creature resting at the center of a web.
He was a chameleon and a trickster, both trusted and feared, he was
foe and friend.
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2019
Chapter Five: Scientist
Jim experimented relentlessly; on himself, on the human population and
on the planet. He did so with cool calculation, telling himself that his
motives were pure that the suffering he wrought served a higher utilitarian
purpose.
There were mysteries on Earth that had not been found on any other
world. Those mysteries had to be explored.
He was careful not to let his research advance the state of human
technology too rapidly. He was in a constant state of temptation to just take
over the Governance of the planet and reveal to humanity its true history and
its real purpose.
He wanted to see them benefit from the science he could deliver to
them, but he was forbidden from doing so, it would be a violation of the
Observer’s compact with the Continuum, and it would put all of his planning,
and the planet itself at risk.
If he drew the scrutiny of the Continuum in any measure greater than
he already did, he feared that would lead to his being discovered, and so he spent
more energy at the task of shaping human culture, than at developing its
technological arts.
The Collective thirsted for the stories that came from Earth.
Its drama were brutal and primal, its art and its poetry had a beauty
that were not emulated anywhere else in the Imperium, because the social
elements did not exist anywhere else that could produce it…and there was something
else that neither the Collective nor the Continuum could ascertain, but Jim
knew what it was.
He began to suspect that the world from which the Ancient People had
emerged had similar properties to Earth, not understood in the time of the
Ancient People, but which shaped them, making them who they became.
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2019
Chapter Six: Spymaster
Jim became adept at all the tools of spy-craft, he employed them with
expertise, drawing on the resources of the Collective to augment his
intuition, applying everything he could to the situation on Earth, with what
technologies were available to him in society, as well as the other
technologies he possessed that he was able to keep hidden from the people.
The Continuum was short on resources for monitoring society without
its vast array of remote sensors and communications devices. But Jim augmented
those systems, developing analog variations of them for his use and access.
He established secret societies that monitored every aspect of human
government, every religious institution, and the agents of the Continuum who
came to earth to monitor him, he took great care to keep these hidden.
The confessionals became the primary model by which the people
reported upward all the things he needed to know about the subtle shifts
taking place in the collective experience of humanity
He took measures to protect himself, hiding his assets, constructing
the technological and human vehicles to execute his will. Trusting in his
team of dopplegangers to work tirelessly toward their common goal.
He knew from his spy network, some of the Observers who came to
monitor his work were not dedicated to the Continuum in anyway.
Others were fanatically devoted.
None of them were supposed to be on Earth at all, according to the
Observer’s protocol, but protocol never stopped the Continuum from doing as it
pleased.
Nothing ever stopped Jim.
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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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Emergence 3.0:
Section Five (a), Jim
Appendix Part Two, Society
Collected Chapters
01 Guide
02
Counselor
03 Seer
04 Sage
05
Scientist
06
Spymaster
07 Servant
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