Foreword
Yes! IDUBLOG must have gone mad, gone bonkers! A science fiction article?!!
Are
non-fiction practical self-help articles that unpopular these days? (for those
who are familiar with our work, that is all we publish – mainly educational
self-help methods)
Well,
sometimes, fiction can speak more volume than reality.
And
so, here we are.
There
are plenty of good ideas that is difficult or awkward to write about in a
formal article, without rolling eyes, thinking that we may belong to some
asylum.
Thus,
we undertake this opportunity to present many of these ideas in this short,
one-shot sci-fi story.
Here
goes:
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A short sci fi story prequeling Book 4 of the “Systems Series”- "The Fall of the Indifferent"
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Senator Thanas Hatch from planet M2perfetu-1971 stares listlessly at the
distant skyline - where a ferocious galactic battle is taking place in real
time, alternating waves of gigantic fleets blazing power lasers at each other,
the first war in almost one million years.
A fierce
battle for survival indeed, for the consequence of loss is eternal extinction.
No small matter, as it is Extinction for the entire cosmos.
Not a flinch
of emotion on display, for he belongs to a renowned ancient warrior class of extreme
discipline, he quickly runs two handfuls
of simulations off the AI - a massive hoard of a machine named the Deity of all
Machines- the summation of all known cosmic AIs. He then presses the intercom
to summon his most secretive personal
probe bot Zi-Zen, last summoned on field some 2000 years ago.
Peace reigned
for almost a million years, since the end
of the Early Ancient War in the middle rim. That war erupted due to the emergence
of a group of mysterious conspirators, that was later probed to be not from
any known world, a rare mystery up to this day, A rarity of peace followed,
rare indeed even amid the most extreme discount of statistical anomaly, for
this cosmos though evolved, is a massive
cosmos of over 220 systems in the Known world, each system averaging 15 million
planets each. Not that there wasn’t
conflicts in those years, but all
managed away delicately by its relatively flat hierarchy of the 16 Mezzanine-
and its necessary 1500 Levels of Department- to prevent internal corruption and
outside infuriating, architect like a massive self audit, cross compartmental
spy network. This architecture has gone through two billion years of reorganization
and tuning, weeding out the most minute
of errors and risk; it is certainly at an impeccable stage, if not perfect.
The
cosmos is at its most evolved stage than ever been, governed by democracy, more
technologically advanced than any previous historical period, with population highly educated and living
standard content level way above average, and most tolerant with multi varied cultures
of over 30,000 races spread harmoniously over some 35,000 planets. At the
highest level, the cosmos is run by the Most Democratic Counselors of some 40 Masters,
a good enough number for statistical diversification of opinions under the scenario of voting disagreement, though this is rare, as most
decisions were reached unanimously since all were highly educated, analytical,
with intelligence of the highest caliber,
all capable of analyzing multitude of possibility
paths, all reaching similar conclusion most
times.
There was little bewilderment in those 1 million years of
peace.
But here we are, bewildered
indeed!
War
just erupted only 5 hours ago, strings
of Systems with their AIs subjugated within the first few seconds of the breakout. The enemy remains unknown, with zero
communication tracked, no trace of data located. Almost like the enemy never exist.
The
enemy decimated our 2 billion year old defense system as if it was nothing.
The enemy seems formidable, impossible to defeat, with the life of the cosmos hinging
close to oblivion.
So at this
very moment, why does Senator Hatch think he is the only person that
can stop this crisis?
Hmm…
For he
is not a senator- his true identification is the leader of the known world, the
implicit Leader, acknowledged by the rest of 39 Masters.
He has
been playing the role of Senator of planet M3perfetu as part of
his duty for the cross compartmental anti-corruption network; a duty played by
many others throughout the cosmos.
Less
than a handful knows of his true identity, and one of them is the youthful
Admiral Waehlee, the most interesting
and favorite among his personal recruits- who at times come across with careless,
weird comments that upon second thought, appear way beyond his years.
One
often wonders where he got his ideas.
11 hours
ago, or 6 hours after the war erupted, Admiral Waehlee walked briskly into his
office and lay the document on his table with a grain of tactful ease, and said
only two words before leaving hastily; the two words that summarize the immediate solution needed to
end the war at hand.
“It’s
time.”
What
Waehlee suggested as antidote is this 98 page document, a petition first filed to the Most Democratic Council for
review some 6 years ago, but was never passed.
Yes,
Hatch has reviewed this same 98 page document more than a dozen times in the
past 6 years, the issues within the petition hotly debated, creating much
division within the Council, votes far from consensus, with him on the opposing
side. Some of the issues within the
petition were debated and contented well past a good half a million years.
These
issues were never passed based on political reasons, diverging opinions, and affiliation
risks of admitting past mistakes, possibly overlapping and overturning other laws,
much like a house of cards.
All the
issues in the petition concern Perfection, for the culture of the cosmos
remains one that is constantly striving towards Perfection, forever improving
and correcting the tiniest of mistakes. That is what an evolved society is about.
So why now, why this petition?
At this dire time of war?
At the
stroke of a pen, Hatch could bring victory to the good and end the war at hand?
What makes this petition so powerful, to
the extent of capitulating an invincible enemy of unknown property?
As he turns to the first page for another review, he was interrupted through intercom by Lieutenant Thres Elders of Research Intelligence, wanting to update him on the latest findings of the enemy. He quickly permissions his entry, a weary Lieutenant Elders walks meekly into his office as if he has not slept for days. Hatch quickly pardons his salute, offers hot beverage, but swiftly refused by Elders, who then impatiently blurts out his findings amid his thunderous voice.
In summary, there
is still zero concrete evidence, the enemy remains invisible, traceless and
without communication signal. One could
only piece together the truth through hints and possibilities sewn into place by
the Supreme Paths Machine, a powerful AI used for deciphering the truth when
information and data is lacking.
What
comes next is a bit of a surprise. Through simulations and extrapolations, the
Machine suggested the enemy emerges from the Unknown.
The Unknown. Yet again.
There
was rampant speculation back at the end of the Ancient war on the Unknown, to
the origin of the enemies, but was met with incredibility and was quickly waved
aside. For without doubt,
acknowledgement of its existence is difficult amid an evolved, technological
advanced cosmos who considers everything is decipherable and nothing stays
hidden. In the eyes of science, the Unknown is not a noun, it is considered nonexistent.
One could only speculate and pray that it remains nonexistent.
The
Machine further speculated that the enemy is a race of elusive origin, with a
weightless, invisible body property, with advanced and unique abilities,
possibly a shape shifter, where a
single being may transit into multiple different
properties, or split into many fractions.
The
Machine further interpolated the below based on certain victims’ narrative:
"They
could read thoughts by nano of a second, their body is gaseous like, cannot be injured
or killed by any weapon, and are known to kill by entering victims’ bodies by simulating
and forming invisible small and big
weapons. Their multiple ways of killing include using pressure, piercing, or
squeezes. They are impeccable actors or
impersonators of any character or personality.
They are extremely malleable, able
to pick up the smallest of nuances and could impersonate or improv personalities
flawlessly within seconds of meeting any person of any property make up. Some
were known to split and act out two or
more characters all at once."
"Some were known to talk with their victims in
their head, play with their minds, having
the victim play a guessing game every second on their true identity, erasing victim’s
memories, absorbing the victim’s spirit, and injuring their blood veins, bones, and joints."
So how
could such weightless invisible beings be powerful enough to kill? Surely one would
need certain mass to inflict injury.
"These beings have a special software attached to their body- and yes, the software is invisible as well- and once the being settled within the victim, will activate their software. This software is capable of creating/sewing a multitude of weapons, all invisible objects, off the victim’s own body’s energy."
"The software when fully charged off the
victim’s energy are highly destructive and dangerous; it could sew small sharp
objects out of victim’s own tears to blind eyes, manufacture stuffy liquid objects out of victim’s nose juice to cram
nose breathing- these objects sewn could
be so heavy with many protective layers making them difficult to destroy- and craft
spears
for cramming key Chakras points of the victim."
"The software
could also cram invisible objects of various weights into any body parts. These
objects are heavy enough to hurt and cause serious injury."
Hatch sat in his chair, still in movement, as he absorbs Lieutenant Elder’s voice thunder, not showing any signs of concern or movement, even when Elder’s flying saliva hits him squarely on his forehead. Hatch nods his head at times, as if suggesting :
All these
sound familiar.
Elder,
pauses for two seconds, catches his breath, and rambles on:
“Other
dangerous objects sewed included:
Hooks
(use to irritate and cause pain when place on a certain bone connection joint such
as nose to eye, or mouth to nose),
Clippers
(shaped like tight paper clips to clip onto victim’s veins),
Chains
(a string of Clippers, to connect from one point to another to create excruciating
pain across the strung surface),
Octopus
Balls (lively balls sucking or releasing pressure on body parts such as stomach
to cause pain through rapid pressure change),
Helmet
– an invisible helmet placed on victim’s head to suck their active head energy
for the software. The helmet acts as Vessel for the software as head is where most of the energy
is needed to maintain software. Attachments to the Helmet could further be
sewn to harm various parts of the head.
Mask
(a mask covering the eyes, nose, and mouth so to charge to harm those
parts) "
"The Helmet
and Mask or related attached objects are usually locked onto the head or body
through Buttons (a one touch on-off release button) usually found at a
convex-contour part of the head or body for ease to locate. The Buttons are considered Attachments as well."
"If
fully charged, the software can also activate a full inner and outer Body Suits
(much like armor) with sole purpose to inflict pain by hatching Clippers at any
point of the suit."
"The
software is also used to press and merge various Nerve Lines of a victim’s head
to exaggerate the real physical pain or to create an illusive feeling of pain.
The key nerve lines are Feel line (to feel pain), sleep line, dream line (when
one is in a sleep and dream stage, all feelings of pain feels real and exaggerated)
and Yi Shi line(sub conscious Line)."
"It was
found that the software operates mainly off the Focus line, sucking off Focus
energy (an energy difficult to detect). The focus energy is stored into the
Vessel of the software at the helmet level.
That is main reason the software is constantly trying to engage the
victim focus line by constantly chatting with the victim on a nonstop basis,
much like a chatterbox mimicking voices of all kinds imaginable ; children’s voice, monster’s voice, cartoon’s
voice."
"The
software also subjugates the Thought line to prevent proper logical thinking".
"It
also manipulates the Lines of the 5 senses to create illusions of sight, smell,
taste, noise, feel."
"And it
could adjust the Belief Line to make the victim over-confident and erroneously
assumes a certain viewpoint so to force errors of judgement."
"It
could also manipulate the anger and pride Line to create anger, or the Perfectionist
line to create superstition and obsessive repetitious behaviors."
"The
fear line could also be pressed to create excessive uncontrollable fear and
make a coward out of anyone no matter how originally courageous."
"More
surprisingly, it could also manipulate dreams, by pressing the Dream Line to
infuse thoughts, desires and images."
"It could create any sophiscated instrument of any size, such as a focus energy Diffuser, to be placed in one’s forehead to prevent victim from thinking or focusing clearly. Similar large or small objects could be placed at the throat chest, nose, stomach to prevent proper breathing and flow of chi."
"Large objects
of any size or form (sharp, skinny, minute) could be sewn and maintained by victim’s
own energy, and as long as victim stays alive, the encrypted software stays
alive. These objects can be wrapped around ribs, spine, knees, ankles, bones,
intestines, sexual parts, bowel, shoulders, neck, throat, eyeballs , within
either inner or outer body, and be
activated through pressing sewn Levers repeatedly to cause excruciating pain."
“What
is truly devious is that all weapons are made out of pure invisible energy of
the victim, making it difficult to trace."
As
Elders catches his breath off his wide heavy chest, Hatch in disbelief stopped
him and asks,
“ Are
you sure our Machine extrapolated all that off zero evidence?!”
“Positive,
Senator!” Elders swiftly rambles back
without waiting for Hatch to finish his sentence.
A
killer weapon operated with the victim’s own energy.
Hideous
indeed.
The Invisible
could indeed kill the Visible!
Elders
turns his pages and continued:
"And to
complicate thing more, the enemy is fast at teleporting and expert in painting illusions,
utilizing a unique form of virtual
reality that is difficult to discern truth from illusions, as the images projected matches the enemy’s property."
"To obfuscate, they are good at teleporting themselves
in and out of the same space repeatedly- they are also able to commute between
alternate spaces, which makes it difficult for us to fight, capture, nor locate
them."
"The Machine
predicts that at times, they are hiding in the transport Medium of the
alternates, which escapes our universal Scanners, since hiding in that medium has
never been known possible."
"The
Machine suggested a possibility, though
a remote one, that some of our Ais may be subjugated, and if that is truly happening, all our war strategies
will be moot."
"It is also
suggested that the enemy has been operating among us for over ten thousand
years and has avoided detection from our Scanners. How they can bypass our impeccable scanners
and nanobot hoards, on top of our undercovers of the highest caliber, and stay
undetected for so long remains a mystery."
"They remain
undetectable through elusive killing off
our ranks , replacing and impersonating, slowly subjugating through our ranks."
"The AI
interpolated that they started their colonization effort by headquartering
on the most complex planets in the outer
rim, whose citizens have dual
properties: both spiritual and physical properties, and excessive conflicting
emotions- so to efficiently hide in disguise from our Scanners. They then
slowly penetrated their hierarchy through subjugating the local galactic police and
elite special forces for the purpose of playing multiple identities, secret or otherwise,
creating conflicts among the victims, overturning
balance and accumulating power
with minimal effort."
"And
the Machine coined a name for the enemy, Beyonders2 - for Beyonders1 were the
mysterious beings from the Unknown region coined from the Ancient War.
"We
were certainly aware of different races of extraordinary abilities of all kinds
in the cosmos, but nothing comes close to the Beyonders2.
"And through some scant audio pickup, the Machine relayed that
they have a leader, named the Programmer or a variation of the title."
“End of Report.”
Elders
finished the Report, and steadfastly left while Hatch swiveled his chair, uncomfortably,
maintaining zero emotions.
Yes,
he must focus calmly and act with swift. He shall turn his attention to the 98
page petition. He flips to page 10 of
the document that summarizes the whole 98 page document into less than a dozen of paragraphs.
The petition
consists of 4 main issues to be approved. These 4 issues have origins dating back billions of years, never passed, either due to its complexity, affiliation risk
(loyalty to various factions) or divisive opinions. These four issues have great
symbolism as these are the last four remaining issues blocking the cosmos towards
Perfection - a true Perfect society.
Summary of the Petition:
1. “Issue 1 - A new law of Transparency that discloses all hidden universal laws to the public.
And full disclosure of all research of the Unknown.
Including those guarded solely by the highest level, to be shared publicly to ensure transparency and mitigation of corruption at the top.”
Yes, with the outbreak of this mysterious war, research of the unknown would become a pertinent, debated issue. However, sharing such knowledge of the unknown publicly clearly has its danger, for the enemy could have our research, especially for a far more superior enemy.
Perhaps, research of the highest security threat should be voted by consensus to qualify as shareable. However, this was argued previously as paranoia simply because everyone in the cosmos knows the way the cosmos is structured, where every iota of existence is constantly being scanned by myriad layers of nanobots for risk and verification, as any form of evil actions will be immediately exposed and the guilty arrested within seconds.
Proponents also argued that risks of the Unknown could be minimized, if knowledge shared and worked upon.
Maybe it would have prevented this war?
The issue of disclosing all hidden structural laws of the universe is a easier pass for votes. These were laws simply tucked away in cloaks of secrecy due to the affiliation problem, strictly to preserve power and balance among the top. And for a world striving from an evolved maturity stage towards perfection is simply unacceptable.
One of these hidden structural laws recently exposed 4 years ago was that anyone, regardless of what system or planet one is from can request the great sentinel Tribunal, on any grievance large or small. Anyone, even an insect or plant, as long as it has enough rational thinking ability, could access the great sentinel Tribunal - for any matter on justice. This law was birthed since the origin of the cosmos, was quietly hidden and only known to a handful of privileged. This revelation was exposed by the great Tribunal himself, to the surprise of everyone, during an Injustice case at the lower level courts where the victim ran out of recourse after going through 6 retrials. An unlikely event indeed as Tribunal by history does not comment on lower level cases, unless triggering some very strict protocol.
Not revealing Hidden Structural laws also creates public confusion and risk of danger. For example, in a recent accident related to a fire in a sporting complex reported by 2046 Broadcast Radio from planet Escapee Horsees 86, a public servant was confused if he should rush into the scene of fire at the risk of his life to rescue the children entrapped, as he thought the cosmic safety nanobots would usually arrive quickly and resolve the fire. The nanobots did arrive eventually, but only after a good two minutes, baffling him enough to file a complaint as 2 minutes could become life threatening. Luckily everyone turned out safe but that is besides the point. There should be clear disclosure on when the nanobots will arrive in such situation, black and white, nothing grayish.
In another incident of civilian argument and fight (very rare, almost non existent in this very evolved cosmos) reported a few years ago by SShivalip Itchy Cosmic Radio from planet Very Ancient Norton, a fight broke out between two parties inside a interstellar cafe. Usually if the fight becomes dangerous either to the participants or the innocent passer-bys, the Galactic Police will usually transport them immediately by teleporting them to their enforcement alternate space by zapping them with an invisible energy beam.
But in this very instance, that did not happened. Leaving a bewildered friend of the involved desperately confused on whether he should intervene to stop the fight as it became very violent. He did not intervene, feeling guilty to this day. One injury to the back of the head of the involved from a heavy spherical iron instrument prompted anger, grievances of Injustice at the top and queries for full disclosures, as to what exact protocols are in place in such situations.
Issue 2 Perfecting the Reincarnation Module.
The issue of Life and Death, and the afterlife, is an interesting and sensitive one.
In a world where there is no death – eternal life- and near zero accidents (the injured is revived to totality using technology), one would think this may be a dull topic. It gained popularity after the Scorpio Four Horseman Radio Station from the Deat Tanos Succeeded Future Planet broadcasted that a very high level AI machine requested full human rights for itself based on the sentience argument.
Separately, another uproar erupted over a renowned science fiction writer Led Allington from planet Earth 998, after he revealed through his heavy research (he refused to reveal source of information to this day) in his book “Catch Me, Really?” that, although remote, it is possible that some evil beings gain control of the reincarnation module via its controller, the Reincarnation Master, and will intentionally die through suicide upon arrest every single time, so that they could quickly reincarnate into some matured being, without the need of birth-growth process, so to avoid imprisonment.
Thus doing evil and inflicting Injustice over and over again, constantly and eternally, without recourse or punishment.
The Reincarnation Module consists of a myriad of issues with the more interesting and prominent ones such as:
What constitutes Life? All beings with rational thoughts or behaviors regardless of body properties ?
Insects? Plants? Algae? Germs? Cancer?
What about the sub of an entity, such as a branch of a tree, or the mini subs like leaves of a branch? Yes, this could get quite complex.
And what about organisms that are currently not rational beings but will evolve into rational? Complex enough? Have these been killed by error of thinking, causing Injustice?
And what about the Detachment dilemma?
This dilemma concerns all Dual entity beings- beings born with both a physical and a spirit.
If Detachment occurs, no longer merged, do we regard the entity as two independent rational beings with equal human rights? Any Injustice done previously?
And on the process of reincarnation, do we reincarnate the evil ones who were wrongly killed? And if so, in what final form?
There are laws forbidding suicide, but do we reincarnate these as well along the motto of championing eternal life with no death?
There are also strict laws forbidding dying just to reincarnate.
The petition requests that ALL beings with rational thoughts constitute life regardless of form, and requests immediate Correction of past mistakes to indemnify grievances and Injustice. This is a monumental task going back billions of years. Tedious, yes, but possible, as nothing is more capable than our hoards of AIs.
What has been blocking this issue in the past was the near impossible process of going backwards and admitting mistakes, accepting blame and asking for forgiveness over events well over a few billion years old. There is however no punishment as new laws will not be retroactive on such, but admitting past mistakes will no doubt taint one’s reputation; anything affecting honor is a thorny one to swallow for the privileged.
Once again, the risk of Affiliation.
2b. And what do we do with the very evil but powerful beings who died, who should never be reincarnated as they retain memory and grow abilities rapidly, and do evil at a very young age? Should the evil ones then remain imprisoned for life, and not given a chance for reincarnation, a new birth?
Do they ever have a chance to become good, due to their vicious, infinite, looping energy of forever doing evil? And if they do enter reincarnation, do we dissect and sub-divide their properties to filter out the very evil portion- is this even proper?!
And if proper, perhaps a mere re-order, a rearrangement of body sub properties, rearranging the subjects with the objects- so the same vicious looping energy can be used for doing good ? This is a hotly debated issue today among the bio-chemistry academics.
Can evil be allowed to commit suicide upon arrest? If evil is killed during arrest by accident, do we restore life? And if we do reincarnate, will the new born be responsible for previous life’s unpaid sins?
Issue 3. Updating the Criminal Correction Facility Module; Educate to eliminate ALL evil.
An ambitious one indeed.
What do we do with the most dangerous criminals, the extreme of extremes? Solving this issue solve the last mile of humanity, thus Perfection.
Think scorpions, vipers, crocodiles from planet Earth3966-2020. Besides imprisonment, what programs can we pursue to educate them for a chance of goodness? Is there any Injustice if we fail?
This is themed “the” outlier issue, a hotly debated topic, one that goes on for millenniums. This topic garners heavy academic attention among scholars as it is perhaps the most important one, because it concerns eliminating all evil, thus
Taking Care of Everyone, hence achieving Perfection.
Without solving this, there is no Perfection.
And here comes the controversial one.
And if we fail Converting them the natural way, should we engage the unnatural way- drugs, biotech,the unorthodox? Is this even proper?
And here comes the one society really likes to debate: Should they be blamed for being born evil- totally out of control? And whose fault is it that they were birthed imbalanced, not wanting to be educated? Who should they voice their grievances and Injustice? Nature? Creator?
The petition suggested a few solutions to cure :
a. Using customized humor tailored to each individual, paired with genuine love and care.
b. Virtual Reality /Augmented Reality Simulation Games: Much has been talked about using customized music to treat extreme compulsive/obsessive behaviors. Equally talked about are behavior release methods through sports. And also through video gaming involving Virtual Reality or AR augmented Reality. What about using all 3 of the above as a combo ?
A VR/AR video game with enough physical movements can be customized with proper music management to each person's brain waves and physiology. Furthermore, a different game can be customized to counter each corresponding behavioral element. The game can be programmed for enough curiosity to explore, and crave for fun and knowledge/education.
This idea may be used for the Counter Approach -techniques to counter the negative behaviors and brain waves.But when all else fail, and as a last resort, one could apply it using the Release Burnt Out Approach- releasing the negative by going along with it, so to create burnout, to cease the negative. Do the same thing enough times and one will get sick of it (extreme reversal burnout), much like doing active sports of repetitive movements. Should be used only as a last resort because it is dangerous to get rid of the bad habit by strategically doing more simulation of the bad habit, much like violent children trying to get over their violent nature by playing violent video games excessively- it may actually worsen it! But with careful, customized programming, this risk may be mitigated and is definitely worth researching.
c. Another issue worth mentioning is Framing.
One can Frame the cause of the Behaviors in a different manner that is productive for elimination. Instead of framing the behavior as someone who was born with it, if one could explain in logical terms in regard to brain wave patterns that is causing their behaviors, it may be easier to understand, and will breed confidence in the provided solution, so to manage and eliminate.
d. With patient's consent, a 24/7 customized drug program coupled with customized music, inspirational pictures, and simple educational life blurbs.
What about sleep drug ? mellow drug?
e. High octane looping energy activities like singing opera or street dancing.
Issue 4. Update Module on level of Free Will, vs Prevention, in the
Education and Legal system.
From child stage to middle stage, then to adult stage, how much freedom should be given at each growth stage to minimize the chance a person evolve into evil?
Should a child be constantly reminded of every possible wrong doing on every little act or thought? Wont that be overly robotic?
The bigger the free will, the bigger the degree and problem of committing wrong doings.
On one extreme, one becomes a robot on no free will.
On the other extreme, one has excessive amount of freedom, which may have a higher chance of deteriorating into doing evil based on law of big numbers.
After millions of simulation through the AI, it is found that anything larger than 55% level of freedom (based on average of big numbers of the whole cosmos) will clearly be subjected to risk of cosmic oblivion on a 100% certainty level. On the other spectrum, 10% level of freedom is considered the threshold of not entering roboticism, where life becomes dull, overly strict and systematic.
20% to 50% freedom level is the current median range for the cosmos depending on location, race, cultures. The petition suggests a strict homogeneous 20% level for the entire cosmos , therefore eliminating all risk of spawning evil, thus perfection.
But what about those who want looser freedom, what is the solution? What constitutes public policy/law and what is merely culture? Should the level be adjusted based on age or maturity?
The urgency on petitioning to pass this as law is due to various court cases where the tried criminals put in a "Creator at Fault" defense appeal, voicing their Injustice at the top of not doing enough on imposing stricter level of freedom when the top are well aware of the risk based on AI simulations.
END OF PETITION
To summarize, these were the last four issues to be passed for the entire cosmos to achieve Perfection for the first time in cosmic history, fulfilling the cosmic motto “Doing the Right Things at all Times”
So why does singing this petition end the war? What does "doing the right things at all times" have to do with ending the war?
You see, the Insight to this question dates back billions of years. Running an entire cosmos of this size requires a great degree of Control and Risk minimization. At times, it is better to lean towards the safety quo of “if it is not broken, don’t fix it”. At other times, the Proper paths were ignored due to affiliation risk of maintaining control and power among the privileged.
So here comes the important part.
It is all about Injustice.
There are a few prominent debaters like Admiral Waehlee who suggested that every time the Right thing is not done, or not corrected immediately, and if the event caused injustice and grievances, a set of negative energy is released naturally to the Negative Zone in the Unknown. Overtime, it builds and accumulates all subsequent addition of more injustice and grievance, to become massive and powerful. This energy builds and gains sentience at one point and gives birth to a new form of beings coined the Negative Beings. After maturity, these Negative Beings, most likely evil, would then be powerful enough to break through the cosmic barrier and tear into the Known world, seeking revenge and justice, causing havoc. They are potentially difficult or impossible to be killed, due to their mysterious malleable (to environment) energy signature designed by the unknown Higher Power (Waehlee’s speculation without proof), so to punish us collectively for not correcting the injustice.
Thus, the hypothesis is doing the wrong things and not repairing mistakes in time will eventually loop back this same negative energy, and haunt us in due time.
So yes, one pays for their collective sins eventually and in totality.
There is no hiding from this fact.
Oh really?
The Hard Science Elite of the Most Democratic Council warns against illusive hypothesis, such as the Unknown, without any scientific evidence, especially those that were coined by some ancient, fairy taled gore obsessed Moralist groups. Not being able to prove the Unknown doesn’t makes its existence factual. In a cosmos controlled and aligned perfectly with hoards and layers of AI, one need not worry about the Unknown. If the Unknown is hidden, it is hidden hopefully for a good reason. Why assume the cosmos is chaotic when it is most organized?
Senator Hatch's highest level Security Intelligence droid floats in from a secret compartment door in the room, relaying him the latest updates and discovery.
“The Beyonders2 property energy signature shares a similar energy signature with the enemy from the Ancient War, suggesting the strong possibility of the Unknown."
"And somewhere deep in the outer rim, our Scanners pick up a strange leakage, a tear, an opening, most likely from the Unknown realm, importing in streams of the same negative energy, verified to have sentience level of a AI !"
How do we not know about this? How could we possibly not with all the Scanners we have? How could we not have been alerted ?
But that’s what the Unknown is all about. Otherwise it would not be termed the Unknown.
The Security Intelligence droid further interpolated that these energy beings have been hidden in the Unknown for at least a billion years, necessary to gain sentience of AI .
Admiral Waehlee must be right. His scientifically unproven instinctive theory comes quickly to his mind on what could be the true origin of these beings. Unless we do the right things at all times, and correct all our past mistakes and sins in a justifiable time frame, indemnifying all the wrongs and injustice, this negative energy of Injustice will come looping back at us, punishing us.
Whoever, during the Ancient days, programs it that way is a mystery – but perhaps to enforce the architecture of eternal Peace : Doing the Right Things at ALL Times.
Connecting the dots now, it all makes sense.
These beings must be bred off those grievances of Injustice! Injustice from all kinds of beings (most likely dead beings) of all properties- evolved or unevolved, robotic AI like or fragile physical like- all accumulated in this realm of the unknown, and over time, form this massive Mother Hive, that breeds offspring in hoards each day.
The Security Intelligence bot coined this Mother Hive the name of Knull – the Mother of all Beyonders2.
But all these doesn’t answer the key question.
How does signing this 98 page petition end the war at hand?
Once again, Waehlee had the answer.
Back then, 5 years ago, when Waehlee was still a Cadet, standing in front of the council, trying to explain his hypothesis on the Unknown phenomenon of the Ancient War, Hatch remembered he listened attentively with heightened surprise, feeling that he had underestimated this new recruit of his.
Waehlee suggested that once the cosmos starts doing the right things at all times and corrects all the past errors, indemnifying all previous mistakes, seeks forgiveness and properly compensates the victims of all injustice, the negative energy will start decreasing in the unknown realm and will automatically be locked out from the Known world by natural forces (much like a programming ) or by unknown Higher forces.
See, this is difficult to swallow.
What Higher forces? What programming?
Our scanners for billions of years did not pick up clues of any Higher forces, locks nor programming.
To start believing in the mystique would be ludicrous for the most evolved council in the whole cosmos. But somehow, Hatch’s instinct knows that Waehlee is right. Hatch’s instinct is rarely wrong, and at this very crucial moment of Life or extinction, instinct is all he has in deciphering the nonscientific. He is the Leader of the 50-member council, and surely have enough pull to persuade enough members for a quick vote to pass on the petition.
Signing the petition will end all injustice, present and past, and put a Lock on this negative realm – much like putting a sick body back on natural self defense mechanism.
After the briefing, Hatch quickly waves off his Security bot, but the bot flew back with an emergency request for a quick communication transmission of the enemy!
A virtual image of a shadowy brown cloth was transmitted. The clothe was constantly floating around displaying the shape of an octopus.
“So you are the Programmer we seek……...state your reason of invasion “ Hatch said calmly in his coarse whiskey voice, suppressing his agitated nerves.
“Reason? No, we kill without reason. And….” The cloth imitates a gigantic 12 feet tall octopus in awe with five tentacles as the virtual transmission readjusts to show the enemy’s full size.
"No, I am not that Programmer you seek. I am a lot more.... I am Ba Dao Sa Niu.. “ said the Octopus loudly and boastfully, its language translated by the Security bot from some cartoonish alien language.
“Oh wait, i forgot” said Ba Dao Sa Niu as one of her clothed tentacle raised Admiral Waehlee from below to her level, with her twirling tentacles layered around Waehlee’s neck to squeeze. Desperately, Waehlee dangles and shivers helplessly from her firming grasp.
The struggle ceases and the gigantic clothe slowly flows down, displaying nothing behind it, before the visual goes dead with the final signature audio of “Hee Hee Hui !”
Hatch calmly summons off his Security bot, pours himself a small shot of Barista espresso (the strongest kind in the whole cosmos, his favorite) to sooth his nerves, then reclines n his chair, composed in thoughts, not looking like someone mourning his most favorite pupil. For he knows something about Waehlee no one else knows. Waehlee belongs to an ancient race Munkeking, from the Planet of a Thousand Blossoms. No, Waehlee is not dead. For the Munkeking race is not capable of dying.
Hatch knows this would not be the last time he sees of Waehlee. Hatch then picks up his pen, a favorite antique 2000 years old fountain, and at the moment of signing the petition, hesitates.
He stretches his body, left the chair, took three steps, pondering heavily. He walks back to the chair, staring at the petition for a few more seconds, and then swiftly opens his drawer, withdraws his Moon Knife Slaber, and quickly exits the room.
Why didn’t he sign it, amid such dire circumstance, when every second counts, when a stroke of a pen will end the war and Solve Everything?
Of course he would not sign it, why would he?
For you see, he is not exactly Senator Hatch, Leader of the known world, but instead the one everyone is seeking.
For he is the Programmer.
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The End ?
The System Series: Book 1 to Book 9
The Elders Irony
Oath of the Horsemen
Return of the Surfer
Fall of the Indifferent
Colonization of the Negative
The Becoming of the Ruleless
Ascension of the Nanoware
Rise of Prince Robot
The Marriage of the Impossible
