Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Sunday, April 21st, 2019
Chapter
Three: Malcontents
The members
of the Collective who were discontent with their existence on HomeWorld, unsatisfied
in their role as the supreme being of their own private reality, and disinterested
in the narratives that were delivered to them through the Experience of the
living worlds, these malcontents presented a problem for the Continuum.
The
Continuum experienced their contribution to the Collective as an irritant.
Though the
Continuum did not want to admit it, every member was a constitutive elements of
its being. Their passions or dispassions, both were determinants in what the
Continuum could do.
The
Continuum desired nothing more than to remove them from the Collective field,
permanently, and to replace their numbers with Candidates from the Empire who
were steeped in the World view they had received from the Imperial Cult and
through their conditioning in the Imperial schools.
Removing the malcontent from the Collective allowed the Continuum
greater controls. It was like a suspension of their membership. Their voice was
no longer heard, this amounted to a reprieve for the Continuum, which
experienced their influence in a way that outstripped the singular node of their
being.
Sending the malcontents to the worlds of time and space removed them
completely from the Collective, it was preferable to the Great Sleep, or
Sequestration.
The experience of real life helped to keep them passive, it kept them calm,
it satiated many of them.
It was a means of control, and if necessary a member who was a genuine
problem could be eliminated when they were separated from the whole. They could
be assassinated, exterminated, irrevocably destroyed.
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