Emergence 3.0 - Section Five (a), Jim; Appendix Part Five, Spymaster, Collected Chapters

Emergence 3.0 A Novel – In One Page Per Day Friday, March 1st, 2019 Chapter One: Spinning Jim could not be everywhere. Through the agency of his cadre of replicants, Jim worked tirelessly. Even with his network of dopplegangers he frequently encountered the limits of what was possible for him to do. The human population grew quickly, spreading throughout the world. Jim guided them to establish their villages in areas where the electromagnetic fields were optimal for his research, where there was access to water, and where they would develop for the greatest length of time independent from one another.   Jim required autonomous population growth and cultural development to test his hypotheses. He used his agency to establish networks around the world. He cultivated spies, informants, and confessors in every tribe. The people called them priest, shaman, witch-doctor, prophet and oracle. They were the officiants of the sacred rights.   They were his eyes and ears among the people. They listened to and recorded everything the people said and did, keeping a special ear out for incidences of the paranormal and psychic intrusion. They were indispensable to him. #Emergence #SuperShortFiction #365SciFi #OnePagePerDay Like it, Follow it, Share it!

Emergence 3.0 A Novel – In One Page Per Day Saturday, March 2nd, 2019 Chapter Two: The Web Jim built a global network of interlocking cells. Each web of spies served their own community first. They were tribalistic in the extreme, and conditioned to be xenophobic. This type of conditioning was what the Continuum prescribed. Each and every independent cell held allegiances to the people of their own tribe first, but at the highest levels they underwent initiations that opened-up their broader purpose. They were initiated into the sacred mysteries which gave them a glimpse of the galaxy, of the Empire and the great Collective Consciousness and the Continuum, the demi-urge at its heart. In the shadows Jim cultivated a secret cabal, hostile to the Continuum, people who were conditioned to believe that their sacred mission was to prepare the world for the inevitable encroachment of the Empire. Unity would be required of the people of Earth if they were to survive an encounter with the Empire, and to that end they set aside their tribalism, shared information and cooperated together. There was nothing more important than this, the fate of humanity depended on it. Jim was extremely selective about who he chose to promote into these ranks. He deliberately chose men and women who had a weak connection to the cynergenic field. Into their genetic profile he engineered capacities for psychic resistance. He never perfected these, but his most trusted spies were unreadable to ordinary psychics. They were indoctrinated into the secret societies after careful consideration and vetting, every one was interconnected by their sense of duty and loyalty, to humanity itself, and to Jim. They were absolutely trustworthy and their presence allowed Jim the freedom to roam about the world. #Emergence #SuperShortFiction #365SciFi #OnePagePerDay Like it, Follow it, Share it!

Emergence 3.0 A Novel – In One Page Per Day Sunday, March 3rd, 2019 Chapter Three: Cloak Secrecy was everything. Jim had to be able to conceal his work from the Continuum. He had to be able to endure its scrutiny at each and every cycle in which he was required to report back to HomeWorld, exposing himself to the Continuum and sharing his first-hand experience with his brothers and sisters in the Collective. This task was filled by a replicant, a version of himself who was completely committed to the mission Jim had claimed for them all. To pass through the ordeal Jim had restricted the experiences of this replicant, controlled them, making it so that he had precious few secrets to hide at the moment his consciousness was exposed to the powerful examination of the Continuum. He had to conceal his movements and machinations from the mechana of spycraft that the Continuum had required him to position all around the world; satellites with powerful tools for audio and visual surveillance. He had to be even more careful in consideration of the living spies he knew the Continuum had sent to Earth, his fellow members of the Observer Corps who were sent to watch over him and report back to the Continuum covertly. When Earth entered the digital age, he had to be even more mindful of his actions because he knew the Continuum and its spies had penetrated the information technologies of nations states, and could use their technological resources to sort massive amounts of data at incredible speeds, thereby increasing the likelihood that he would be discovered.  Jim orchestrated the development of his international organizations, personally managing the traditions that would allow it to progress, pulling the cloak of secrecy over it, and stretching its shadowy tendrils into every facet of human society; the Templars, the Hashishim, the Jesuits, the Illuminati, they all belonged to him, served his bidding, fulfilled his purpose, operating in the shadows, well beneath the notice of the Observers. #Emergence #SuperShortFiction #365SciFi #OnePagePerDay Like it, Follow it, Share it!

Emergence 3.0 A Novel – In One Page Per Day Monday, March 4th, 2019 Chapter Four: Secrets Jim continued the meditative practices that he had developed, practices which allowed him to partition his mind and thoughts from the Continuum and his fellow members of the Collective. He exercised his ability to keep secrets. He did so while probing the mysteries of Earth’s Cynergenic field. It was unlike that artificial construction on HomeWorld in distinct ways, it did not have the smooth-predictable channels of energy, the linear circuitry, and other structural features that were the product of design and intention. It was organic, it was messy. In the crucial moment to come he would be exposed, he would have to keep everything he had been planning partitioned behind a wall of sheer will, until the moment when the disaster struck and then he would have to let it go. The tension of the timing would be fraught with danger. He had to keep secrets even from himself, shrouding all of his intentions in mystery, he had to trust that his replicants also trusted him, because like him, they were essentially free creatures. He would know it if they did, but they could turn away from their mission at any time. He utilized the institutions he had developed to test and augment his theories, both concerning his own liabilities and concerning the hidden mysteries of Earth. He was Prime, and he watched over his Seconds with systematic scrutiny. These dopplegangers had to be kept out of the information loop for hundreds of cycles, fulfilling the regular functions of the Observer, responsible for reporting to the Central Planet, hiding from the Collective only the things Jim had always kept hidden, and ignorant of the details of the unfolding mission.  #Emergence #SuperShortFiction #365SciFi #OnePagePerDay Like it, Follow it, Share it!

Emergence 3.0 A Novel – In One Page Per Day Tuesday, March 5th, 2019 Chapter Five: Language Jim busied himself with work that served a dual purpose, tasks that advanced his personal mission, which also fit within the assignment he had undertaken for the Continuum He seemed to be devoted to the type of work the Continuum expected him to do; archiving, preserving, recording the history of this world. Through his international network Jim kept alive the ancient languages that informed disparate groups and tribes of their essential unity, even the original language that the colonists spoke when they crashed on this planet so many eons ago. He kept them alive through his secret societies, using them as a vehicle for initiation as the members ascended through the various hierarchies. He hid codes within the prevailing tongues, echoes of those ancient forms of speech, that rang out like a bell, or an alarm to the initiate when they heard it. He created auto-hypnotic tropes which they could not resist once their indoctrination was complete. He moved freely through the circles of power with the use of them.   He could not rely on his machinery to help him construct this network, the risk of its being hacked by the Continuum was too great. Instead he relied on the ancient methods of oral tradition, of complex mnemonics to achieve those ends. Secrecy was the path to survival. Discovery would put the Earth in jeopardy, and he might not know it until the warships appeared in the sky above the tiny blue green planet, Imperial juggernauts large enough to blot out the sun. Jim bided his time. #Emergence #SuperShortFiction #365SciFi #OnePagePerDay Like it, Follow it, Share it!

Emergence 3.0 A Novel – In One Page Per Day Wednesday, March 6th, 2019 Chapter Six: State Jim layered into the consciousness of the living weapon he was forming an implicit acceptance of cyclical nature of revolution, the rise and fall of governments. The individual that emerged from his work would have to be able to see the destruction that he or she was wrecking on the Collective in a contextual structure that seemed natural. Jim utilized his network of spies to form political states, to build Empires and dynasties, turning slaves in to royalty, making great armies out of herdsmen and nomads or bandits into Kings, only to tear them down at the apex of their power, as if in a natural cycle of growth, death, and rebirth. This satisfied his ambition, and it satisfied the hunger of the Collective as well. His was the unseen hand behind the powers and principalities, he was the invisible whisperer that conditioned the policies of the most powerful people in the world. He would point and they would go, taking credit for the movement to themselves, never realizing the deep influence they were subjected to. The rulers of Earth never fully suspected how they were being manipulated. He exercised his power in a variety of ways, overtly and covertly, with stealth and might. He was a strategist, and none of the tools of statecraft were out of reach for him: gold, sex, power, fear, he employed them like an artist would his brush, or a sculptor his chisel and hammer. The actors on the stage rarely knew what was happening in the grand scheme of things. He guided them with the lightest of touches, planting seeds inside their heads when they were children, reaping the fruit he had sewn when it was ripe. Everything was cultivated and he was the master planter, the invisible gardener tending to everything that grew within his sight. #Emergence #SuperShortFiction #365SciFi #OnePagePerDay Like it, Follow it, Share it!

Emergence 3.0 A Novel – In One Page Per Day Thursday, March 7th, 2019 Chapter Seven: Nation Jim pushed and pushed, ever-so-subtly to bring coherence to human government, binding them through language systems, tribal allegiances, and systems of fealty. As time progressed he allowed for the emergence of Empires, he formed city states into nations, and principalities into kingdoms. He implemented different governmental systems to stand in tension with one another, hierarchical systems of governance from the top down, which articulated the divine right of the rulers to rule, of the nobility to inherit. Against these hierarchies, he developed systems of government based on mutuality and common bonds, developed from the implicit understanding that the right to rule stemmed from the consent of the governed. These were not developments that the Continuum desired, but the drama it produced when civilizations clashed was utterly tantalizing to the Collective.   He wrote the laws that governed the great powers of the world, and he established the ministries which those governments revolved around, relied upon. Within those organizations he planted replicants of himself, and the human cadre of followers who were utterly committed to serving his ideals. They worked together hand in glove to orchestrate global conflict and its resolution. All in the service of Jim’s mission. He took extraordinary pains to mask his work, keeping it secret from the Continuum against impossible odds, while keeping the human societies that he manipulated in the dark at one and the same time.   He did not conceal it all, there rumors abounded of secret societies and secret powers, but nothing was ever substantiated, to link the rumors to the reality. #Emergence #SuperShortFiction #365SciFi #55Words Like it, Follow it, Share it!

Emergence: 3.0 Section Five (a), Jim Appendix Part Five, Spymaster Collected Chapters 01 Spinning 02 The Web 03 Cloak 04 Secrets 05 Language 06 State 07 Nation #Emergence #SuperShortFiction #365SciFi #OnePagePerDay Like it, Follow it, Share it!