Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One page Per Day
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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