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Friday, March 22nd, 2019
Chapter One: Fear
For as far back as Jim could remember he wanted to create a better
world, not for himself alone, but for everyone.
Jim was an
intractable critic, he was perpetually discontent. This was natural to his
character, and it drove him to work, whereas in most other people he
encountered such feelings more often than not fostered apathy.
Before the
creation of the Collective, in his first life, when he was just a tiny
creature of flesh and blood, Jim wanted more for himself and for everyone.
This drove his participation in the team of researchers that created the
Collective.
His
inclination to take risks led him to be one of the first volunteers to be successfully
translated into the Collective field. His grim determination allowed him to
preserve his sanity and identity when most of his fellows failed.
When the Collective
began to experience its first great existential crisis, Jim awoke to the
occasion and together with the greatest engineering minds that the Ancient
people had ever produced, they created the Continuum to be a representation
of the Collective will.
Not a
single one of them realized at the time that they had in fact given rise to
the demi-urge.
Jim’s
concerns regarding the Continuum were not rooted in his basic disposition as
a malcontent. They were based in his abiding interest for ethics and morals.
He was
frightened by the things he witnessed, the Collective had become a society of
monsters, and the Continuum was its head.
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Saturday, March 23rd, 2019
Chapter Two: Anger
Jim was
sick with disgust over the hedonistic abuses of the Collective. Through his
participation in it he had facilitated the creation of a trillion private
hells, each one of them masquerading as a personal paradise.
Jim was angry.
He was pained and distraught when he saw the Continuum
turn its attention to the living worlds of time and space, transforming each
of them into a mirror image of its own privation and ruin.
He felt a deep sense of shame and personal
responsibility over the nightmare this construct had become.
The core of his being was filled with a sharp
bitterness over the way that each member of the Collective had squandered its
existence, they could have created worlds of joy and beauty, there were
virtually no limitations on their imagination, and yet they squandered their
power for petty satisfactions and banal evil.
He wanted to die.
He knew that he was not responsible for the creation of
the Collective, he was just one person among many managing that incredible
feat of engineering. He was only playing a part on a great team of scientists
and researchers seeking to penetrate the mystery of life-everlasting.
He was horrified by what their work had turned into,
and by how utterly they had failed to anticipate it.
They were a gaggle of voyeurs, feeding their most obscene
habits like the worst of gluttons, without giving a single thought to the
consequences that the satisfaction of their hunger would have on the lives of
simple, ordinary people.
They devoured entire star systems without reflection on
the real cost in pain and suffering their appetites brought.
They had forgotten that the citizens of the Empire were
in fact their own progeny, they were descendants of the Ancient People.
The membership of the Collective were addicts and he
blamed the Continuum for pushing their addictions on them, and keeping them
sedated.
He felt hopeless.
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Sunday, March 24th, 2019
Chapter
Three: Resentment
Jim’s
grave doubts and serious concerns manifested themselves in direct proportion
to his pride-fullness.
He was exceedingly proud. Since he reemergence from the great-sleep
and the moment when he broke free from sequestration, he was filled with a
sense of purpose that singled him out as a being with unique powers, and
therefore unique responsibilities,
He saw himself as the indispensable person, as possessing a unique
destiny.
In his life before the Collective, he had been a member of the team
that had constructed the original field of collective consciousness, or so he
believed. That is what his memories told him, though he himself was uncertain
of actual origins, or of who he was when it all began, or if those memories
he experienced as his own had just been appended to his node of
consciousness, through his connection to the Collective, gathering like moss
accumulating on a stone.
Whatever the case, they were his memories now, they formed the basis
of his identity, they mattered and they placed an impetus in him to act.
Jim entered the Collective himself, together with his family, toward
the end of his life. Not all of them made the transition. In those early
years the transition point was still unstable, more people were lost than
saved, but everybody went somewhere, whether they were whole or fragmented, in
pieces.
Entering the Collective did not bring him the joy he was looking for,
but it did make others happy, and from the inside he was able to lend his
expertise to the perfection of the technologies that made it all possible.
He played no role in the creation of the Continuum, he resented the
role it played in the governance of the Collective, he foresaw the danger that
such an entity would present to the Great Society, and understood how it
would be able to manipulate the whole organism from its vantage.
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Monday, March 25th, 2019
Chapter Four: Idealism
During his long travels across the gulf between star systems, on the
search for living worlds, Jim had tens of thousands of years to reflect on
his identity, the strangeness of it, and on his long experience.
It occurred to Jim that in many ways he had become a repository of the
ideals the Ancient People had abandoned when they joined the Collective,
abdicating their responsibilities of self-governance to the Continuum.
It was as if every individual he had touched as he was emerging from
the great sleep, or freeing himself from the prison of sequestration, left an
indelible imprint of themselves on him, and imprint of their regrets, their
criticism and their shame for what had become of themselves and their people.
This caused Jim to be fiercely independent and strident in the pursuit
of justice, he felt as if the Collective’s need for those principles had
amalgamated itself in his consciousness.
In many ways Jim felt as if he was not himself, he had touched every
individual in the Collective and they had each left a part of themselves with
him, there were moments in his long journeys when he understood that they had
left more than their just principles with him, they had also left memories,
pieces of their personhood which became a part of his own identity when he
gathered himself for the push to break free from the bonds of his prison.
Regardless of where each fiber in the tapestry of his personal beliefs
came from, Jim saw the needs of the Collective within him as a matter of his
own personal conviction
He claimed it for himself, and he believed that his commitment to those
ideals, to the ideals of each one of those sleeping and sequestered members, secured
his entanglement with them on the quantum level, and that it was perhaps the
secret behind the mystery of his unique ability to traverse the cynergenic
field of Home World and the Central System.
There was a purpose that he had to fulfill, and he was being aided in
it by those who had passed into dormancy before him.
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Tuesday, March 26th, 2019
Chapter Five: Purpose
Like any other individual Jim was not immune to the allure of the ego,
the super-ego and the appetites of the id.
His sense of purpose and his commitment to mission went beyond the
categories of want and need, he believed he had been selected to visit
justice on the unjust. He never attempted to answer the question of where his
mandate came from.
He simply believed the mandate was real, and he kept that belief in
front of him like a lantern shining in the night.
His objection to the Continuum went beyond indignation, his resolve to
destroy it filled him with purpose, defined it, conditioned it, His purpose
was like a slow-burning, smoldering drive just waiting to be stoked into a
blazing fire to undo the affliction the Collective had wrought on the galaxy
and the trillions of people living out their brief lives within the
boundaries of the Empire and under the aegis of the Continuum.
He planned.
He was patient.
He watched and he waited until he found the opportunity to bring his
vision to fruition. He found it in a faraway place, on a little blue-green
world, caught in the orbit of a yellow sun.
It was Earth, a world that was unique to his experience. It was one in
a million, and the jewel of the galaxy,
He knew his plan would have to have three components: to destroy the
Continuum to wipe it out, to set the Empire free allowing the people to
determine their own destiny, and to undo the influence of the Collective from
the worlds of Time and Space
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Wednesday, March 27th, 2019
Chapter Six: Plan
Jim knew that he would never be able to accomplish his goal through
force.
Military might could never prevail against the Empire, or the vast
resources of the Central System, and the home world.
He also knew that he would never succeed in his mission through the
arts of politics and persuasion. The Continuum had managed to fill the
Collective with members who had actually been conditioned through the Empire
to believe that the Continuum was a God.
The Collective field had been poisoned in this way, over the course of
a billion years. It fed the principle of self-delusion that functioned as the
Continuum’s id.
Over the course of a billion years the Continuum had pushed the
original membership aside, sending them into isolation one by one into the
great sleep, into sequestration or out into the Observer Corps, where if it
felt as if they were a threat to it, the Continuum would engineer their
permanent death.
It replaced those members with the selectees from the Empire, those
who had been selected to be rewarded with eternal life, those who had
demonstrated an unwavering belief in the Continuum, and had proven their
absolute fidelity to it.
Jim would never be able to undue that conditioning
He imagined a way he could slip something into the systems of the
Collective, like a virus, slip it past the security features of the Continuum
when both it and the Collective were exposed and in their most vulnerable
place.
They had to want to receive what he had to offer, they had to hunger
for it.
He found the vector of transmission on Earth, in engineered it in Kathy.
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Thursday, March 28th, 2019
Chapter Seven: Conspiracy I
Jim understood that he had to be in more places than one,
simultaneously. He needed partners but he never came to trust any other
member of the Collective, he could not bring them into a conspiracy, or ask
them to aid him.
Even if Jim were to identify members who shared his desire for change
and the distribution of justice, even if he believed in their intentions and
trusted those, he would never be able to trust that they would not
involuntarily give away the plan, revealing it to the Continuum simply
through their having knowledge of it. They might just slip and reveal it in
the ordinary course of their existence, setting aside the blaring and
exhaustive scrutiny anyone in the Observer Corps would be subject to.
Jim’s choice of allies was extremely limited. He imagined that there
might be opportunities to pluck a fellow Observer out of a catastrophe and
preserve their consciousness just before their demise.
He knew that there were like-minded people in the Observer Corps, he
knew that the Continuum knew this as well, and that the Continuum worked
against them, even to the point of committing murder.
Jim
planned a conspiracy and formed a cabal, not with others but by replicating
himself over and over again, they were absolutely faithful and singularly
minded.
His fellow
conspirator were each a version of himself. Identical to himself in every way,
sharing the same freedoms that he had, but with each of them willingly subordinating
themselves to the cause they shared, and to the Prime Persona, which they
identified as Jim.
On the
Home-World and throughout the Central System they were able to connect within
one another through the quantum field. Because of the risk of exposure they
limited themselves only to the most crucial communications.
On Earth they
were connected through the cynergenic field, and they were of one mind, they
acted in concert with each other, under the direction of the Prime.
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Emergence 3.0:
Section Six (a), Rebellion
Appendix Part Six (a), Jim
Collected Chapters
01 Fear
02 Anger
03
Resentment
04
Idealism
05 Purpose
06 Plan
07
Conspiracy I
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Thursday, March 28, 2019
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