Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
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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