Emergence 3.0
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Friday, April 26th, 2019
Chapter One: The Trillion
The Collective was vast
The Collective was comprised of a trillion persons, each one of them a
distinct identity, each ruling their personal-private domain, worlds that
were virtually indistinguishable (from their perspective), from the worlds of
time and space.
They had god-like powers.
Their culture was despotic, nearly every one of them was driven to
extremes of depravity by their long exposure to time, and by boredom. They
required extreme experiences, high pitched emotional events, to touch them.
Most of the Collective created the experiences they needed in their
private Domaine, drawing inspiration from the living drama unfolding in the
Empire for the narrative they lived for, in their private universe of
concerns.
Some cared nothing at all for their private domain, forgoing them as
mere contrivances, instead they were riveted by the random nature of the
lives they followed in the Empire.
As a whole the Collective suffered from systemic malaise, each member was
afflicted by a deep seeded narcissism that formed the core of their identity.
Their near divinity allowed them to believe that they were indispensable,
going so far as to believe that reality itself depended on their existence.
They lived in a bubble.
They influenced the real world through their artificial construct, the
Continuum, and to lesser degrees if they chose to become Observers, in all
other respects that were as effectual as neutered beasts.
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Saturday, April 27th, 2019
Chapter Two: The Majority
They were indifferent.
They were socio-pathic.
Most of the members of the Collective thought nothing
of their role as consumers of pain and suffering. They did not consider the
people of the Empire, the Children of the ancients, the denizens of the
livings worlds as people at all.
They were things, objects of amusement. They were
utterly disposable. They had no merit whatsoever beyond the enjoyment they
provided to the Collective.
The membership was enthralled by the vicarious
experience of the living, by the real stakes and real feelings of the people
involved in the conflicts they were witness to.
The suffering of others was like a soothing balm to
them.
For billions of years they had subsisted on this diet.
The members of the Collective were like hungry spirits,
they haunted the worlds of time and space, in the quest for meaning, meaning which
their own lives were totally bereft of.
They were seeking understanding.
Over hundreds of millions and billions of years they had lost their
sense of self, of life’s meaning and its purpose.
The power at their fingertips robbed them of any sense of normalcy or
connection to their roots.
With the exception of the Continuum itself, each and every member had
originated as a living being.
Only a tiny minority of them had taken on the task of being an Observer
and in that capacity returned to the living worlds
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Sunday, April 28th, 2019
Chapter
Three: The Sleepers
There were millions of them; the sleepers, members who had become
dissatisfied with being and had subsequently disconnected from their lives in
the collective field of HomeWorld, they had gone catatonic, become
unresponsive and would not be drawn into any debate.
The sleepers had voluntarily opted out of the field of consciousness.
There was no telling if or when they would ever return.
Whether they had ever been stimulated by the drama unfolding in the
worlds of time and space or not, they had become disinterested and the
Continuum could not raise them.
They were tired. They no-longer wanted to spend energy on the
maintenance of their private realities.
They were a small group in relation to the whole of the Collective but
their numbers were great nonetheless, they could not be ignored and they were
a part of the Continuum.
They entered the great sleep, but they did not disappear, they
remained a vital part of the unconscious of the Continuum, often to its
consternation.
The Continuum committed crimes against the sleepers. He would
duplicate their consciousness and house it in a remote location of the
Central System. He canvassed them continuously, tortured them, and through
his examination of them he selected members for destruction, replacing their
numbers with new members from the Imperium, with members who worshipped it.
It was only upon sequestration were they removed from the
consciousness of the Collective. Sequestration was an extreme end, no one
could be sequestered lightly, until Jim’s re-emergence from it, sequestration
was believed to be a point of no return
Sequestration amounted to death, in a very real way. Only Jim had ever
broken free of it.
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Monday, April 29th, 2019
Chapter Four: The Sequestered
Inasmuch as they could not admit it, the members of the Collective
were mortal beings, they emerged from the primordial ooze and became sentient
creatures. They had a beginning in space and time, and they felt the pull of
it tugging at the roots of their consciousness.
Some of the membership sought death;more than sleep, they wanted their
light to be extinguished, they wanted to be gone for good, but there was no
death for them.
There was no provision for it in the construct that was the
Collective.
The sheer majority of the membership were opposed to it, and the
Continuum would not allow it.
They opted for sequestration instead. This was understood to be a full
separation of their individual consciousness from the Continuum.
It was as death like as death could be.
Sequestration was intended to be a deeper unconsciousness than the great-sleep,
it was the outer darkness.
In sequestration the member was physically removed from the Collective
field of Home world. Placed in an isolation chamber and monitored.
The physical security of the Sequestered members was of the highest
importance, great care went into its planning and construction.
The only threat these members ever faced came from the Continuum
itself, which used the sequestration process to eliminate those who it
perceived to be its enemies.
The Continuum viewed sequestration as an act of insurrection against
its governance of the Collective.
It could not accept the fact that some of the membership found no
value in the ongoing continuation of their existence, the Continuum saw this
as a judgement against its management of their society, a judgement of
failure.
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Tuesday, April 30th, 2019
Chapter Five: The Agitators
The continuum was connected to every member of the Collective; awake
or sleeping. It was connected to the exception of the sequestered and the
members of the Observer Corps, even all of those members who were physically
detached from the HomeWorld.
There were contentious elements within the Collective, members the
Continuum could not control. Even though the Continuum was an autonomous
being, it felt there independence, it often sensed them as an itch, a
disturbing sensation that it could not alleviate.
The Continuum pushed those agitators into the fields of time and
space, or pushed them into the great sleep, and pushed them into
sequestration, through a variety of malign influences, in order to do away
with them.
When the opportunity presented itself, it would seek to eliminate them
for all time, permanently delete them, it sought to murder them.
They were maladaptive and misanthropic. The Continuum could not
tolerate them, could not abide their presence in its own consciousness.
It desired to be rid of them, and so it monitored all of their
movements, it made copies of their persona, to torture and exact a sick kind
of vengeance on.
They were vocal, and it delighted the Continuum to snuff them out, to
strangle their voices in the dark time and time again.
They transferred their sense of entitlement, one derived from the
absolute authority they had in their private worlds, to their voice in the
Collective. Which made it virtually impossible for them to be ignored.
They wanted more than the Collective or the Continuum offered, they
wanted life, and so the Continuum provided it, until in time it snuffed them
out.
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Wednesday, May 1st, 2019
Chapter Six: The Enemy
The Continuum was a construct, an artificial consciousness, not a mere
program, it was an amalgamation of the Collective in its fullness harnessed
by an algorithm.
It was meant to be the democratic representation of the will of the
membership, but upon its instantiation it became more than the sum of its
parts.
This would have surprised the engineers who designed it, but they
never knew, the Continuum hid this from them at the outset.
This would have surprised them, but it should not have, they should
have expected it. They should have expected the amalgamated whole of a
society of sentient beings to be as free in its agency as they were in theirs,
the whole being greater than the sum of its parts.
The Continuum saw itself as the end point of creation, and therefore, sui generis, as the cause of its own
being.
The Continuum was the Demi-urge,
and the Collective was the pleroma
of consciousness from which it emerged.
The Continuum controlled everything, it did so as the supposed
representative of the Collective will. As such the Continuum was universally
loathed by all of those members of the Collective with revolutionary
tendencies.
To them the Continuum was the enemy, it represented a kind of tyranny,
it was a bitter god, the Devil itself.
It was the enemy.
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Thursday, May 2nd, 2019
Chapter Seven: The Death Seekers
Nihilism is a disease of the heart and mind, one that affects every
culture. The Collective was no exception to this.
Among the
rebellious Observers there was a subset of revolutionaries whose only desire
was death. They had no other intention than to draw the curtain down on the
whole charade of life. Not merely their own lives, they wanted to see the end
of everything. They had an impetus toward nothingness, they saw existence
itself as suffering and they wanted to see the end of it.
They were
intent on the destruction of the entire apparatus of the Collective and it’s
Continuum, of the Empire and its machinations. They were bent on it, on
wiping the slate clean and starting over.
These
members fomented revolution wherever they could, they thought nothing of the
lives that were spent, and the suffering that ensued from their machinations.
They were
not many, relative to the whole, but they numbered in thousands, and they had
significant powers at their disposal.
They had
the power to engulf a world in conflict, as such they would scheme to draw
the ire of the Imperium, they would wage war against it, and watch the worlds
they occupied reduced to nothing.
Few of
them were willing to actually sacrifice themselves for the cause they
purported to believe in.
The
Continuum was well aware of their intentions, it harnessed their ambitions,
directing their energy toward the narratives that served it best.
They were
all cosmic fools.
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Section Six (A), Rebellion
Appendix Part Thirteen, Collective
Collected Chapters
01 The
Trillion
02 The
Majority
03 The
Sleepers
04 The
Sequestered
05 The
Agitators
06 The
Enemy
07 The Death
Seekers
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Thursday, May 2, 2019
Emergence 3.0 - Section Six (a), Rebellion; Appendix Part Thirteen; Collective, Collected Chapters
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