Chapter 11 - Sea of Venus(3) - Spiral of Insanity
[Start of data log 2]
June 3rd, 4610: The emperor is trying to ensure his safety by eliminating all the guns that could harm it. They’re calling it an inquisition. Is this what it feels like to be a father? Ah. This is amazing. I deconstructed the exact cause for the creation of ether. Maybe I’ll be able to deconstruct myself. This might change everything
July 17th, 4987: After many centuries, I have succeeded in turning myself into biological nanomachines. I failed in reconstructing my sentience. I guess my being will slowly break down. This is an incredible experiment. The politics of the outer four are getting spicy. Recently finished the thruster for the Pluto craft. I can’t wait to see it vaporize a moon. This is the last of my ether, future entries will be written by robotic dust.
December 4th, 4987: What makes a human different than other humans. Their memories? Their appearance? What would happen if two identical humans were developed in identical conditions. Would they be identical. This requires some extensive research.
December 4th, 4988: I have concluded that humans are simply pools of ether. There’s nothing special about humans. I’m not human just because I don’t have a pool of ether? That’s bullshit! Everyone is convinced I’m human.
December 4th, 4989: I can clone myself by making my nanomachines self-replicate. Technically, every human is made up of living cells. From the living level, humans are just a large collection of many pools of ether. So, doesn’t that make me the same? Each of my nanomachines contains a trace amount of ether.
December 4th, 4990 [Video recording]
*A man sitting on a chair facing the camera*
Dr.Fritz: “Do you think I’m a human?”
Man: “Mon- st…”
*Static*
*The man slumped on the chair with a hole through his neck. Somehow, no blood is in the recording*
[Corruption detected]
August 12th, 5000: Pluto shot half the remaining Dyson sphere panels. They betrayed me. I must push for perfection. My life’s purpose. *Unintelligible mumbling*
[Data log 2 has been corrupted]
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[End of data log 2]
Gaius looked up at the ceiling as he flipped the stick out of his wristband, “Damn thing is corrupted. Why’d you give me this crap?”
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“Isn’t it funny?”
“Get to the point.”
“Isn’t it funny that a device meant to preserve an image cannot preserve as well as a canvas?”
Gaius turned around towards the voice, “What?”
“If every cell in your body has been replaced, are you still you?”
“What are you… saying?”
Suddenly the voice came out of the other side of the room, “The Ship of Theseus.”
“What?”
Gaius felt a smile from behind him as he spun around to run out the door. A warm sensation ran down his spine. He tried to turn his neck but couldn’t. His body was paralyzed as he heard the drip of some dark red liquid hit the metal floor as it rolled down his arm.
With great effort, he brought his hand up to his face. A hand covered in blood.
A disembodied voice spoke, “It’s time for your treatment. Child.”
*Ktchhh*
“You know, Dr. Fritz was quite fond of you.”
Swish
“And he still is.”
Gaius felt himself bounce on the ground as he rolled to the foot of the door.
“It is said that your brain stays active for 10 seconds after decapitation.”
“Urrhh…”
Gaius saw a red horizontal line on the door along with a silhouette of his body resting an arm on the door handle before it fell backwards with a loud thump. Standing above him was a synth that looked exactly like him.
A black mist appeared next to the synth, “This synth will replace you for the time being. After all, a human is just a collection of memories. What’s the difference between a synth and a human!”
The mist held his head with a materialized metallic hand and walked over to a large tube in the middle of the lab. Blood poured out the bottom of his head. His head was dunked into the tube along with some liquid.
The mist disappeared and materialized in front of the tube with a lever next to the shadow. A young-looking man with bright red hair and a red beard appeared, “It’ll only take a week.”
*Clunk*
Gaius could feel his head dissolve as his head broke apart into specks of dust. However, he could still feel the liquid on his skin, see through the rube, smell the horrid stench of blood. He looked at the figure again and it was only a decrepit old man leaning on an ancient hardwood cane.
Dr. Fritz smiled as blank white eyes looked up into the tube. Gaius saw and heard the veins popping into his eyes. And his blood was… green? Dr. Fritz let out maniacal laughter, “Become… perfect!”
The tank only had blue green liquid remaining. Gaius died.
Inside a spy station in orbit of Venus.
A woman spoke “Why have you returned so early? The pilgrimage isn’t for another fifty years.”
Pluto is moving
A crystal embedded in the woman’s back shined a crimson red for a second, “Since when?”
Forty-three years.
“Target?”
Top Hemisphere
“The Dyson sphere. Hmm. Time?”
Two hundred minimum
“Contact our Wraiths.”
Yes
“Which prediction was true?”
Dr. Fritz
*tap tap tap tap tap* “Put them through the phychic education system. “
Will do
“Grow well my grandson.”
The woman breathed in as she looked out a window onto the same sphere she had stared at for 1450 years.
“Hopefully this is the last time.”
Turning towards her command consol she swiped a few times and brought up some panels.
[Loading data for: Experiment 1 - Emperor Wyrm]
A wyrm that supposedly was born on Ceres. After thousands of years, the wyrm has a wide enough influence to psychically affect every being in this galaxy. Some think that whenever a living organism dies, the emperor wyrm absorbs their ether right before they die. This could potentially explain the initial exponential growth of the emperor wyrm’s power after it was first discovered. Many humans believe this theory to be heresy against the emperor. The wyrm…
[Loading data for: Experiment 0 - Ether Being]
A human born from condensed psychic energy. Not many of us know. The prophecy given to the council by Dr.Fritz states that the emperor will become one with the ether being. Few believe it since Dr.Fritz descended into insanity ove…
[Loading data for: Planetcraft Pluto]
The planet utilizes the theory of ether which states that all forces are a result of ether. As a result, the Pluto project aimed to convert gravity into psychic energy. During the Fracture in 5000, Pluto shot disintegration at the remaining panels on the bottom of the Dyson sphere destroying half of the bottom panels. It is said that the republic sacrificed 9000 psychics for this. Calculations estimate it should be closer to 30000. Gi…
The woman sighed, “I guess I should be a good mother now,” and shut off the consol.
She bent down and opened the golden trimmed black altar in front of her, pulling out a small silver pillow. On top of it was a wyrm shining with bright golden light. She smiled, “It’s time to wake you up-”
Emperor