diff --git a/writing/post-self/neviim/index.md b/writing/post-self/neviim/index.md index da814da9..4966fde0 100644 --- a/writing/post-self/neviim/index.md +++ b/writing/post-self/neviim/index.md @@ -35,8 +35,9 @@ Prophet aspect: Aliens have been at this longer, start giving advice, etc, which ## On the Origin of Our World -* [o] Mythos - An Expanded Mythology of our World by May Then My Name Die With Me of the Ode clade +* [.] Mythos - An Expanded Mythology of our World by May Then My Name Die With Me of the Ode clade * [o] [Reaching for the stars](origin/mythos/001) - 517 + * [ ] [The beginning of beginnings](origin/mythos/002) * [o] History - An Expanded History of our World by the Bălan clade * [o] [On the justifications for Launch](origin/history/001) - 833 diff --git a/writing/post-self/neviim/origin/history/001.md b/writing/post-self/neviim/origin/history/001.md index 61384402..6e51839b 100644 --- a/writing/post-self/neviim/origin/history/001.md +++ b/writing/post-self/neviim/origin/history/001.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -While the reasons for the Launch project are complex and will be discussed in depth in a later portion of this history, it is important to establish a set of facts before continuing. This is no "take care that you first place him in his time", some short fictional introduction to be placed at the chapter headings of some long-rambling fictional account. These facts are important because they provide much needed context for the project that led to our little diaspora. +While the reasons for the Launch project are complex and will be discussed in depth in a later portion of this history, it is important to establish a set of facts before continuing. This is no "take care that you first place him in his time", some fictional bit of history to be placed at the chapter headings of some long-rambling fictional account. These facts are important because they provide much needed context for the project that led to our little diaspora. -First and foremost among these facts, almost to the point where one might consider all other facts as following logically from it, is that Launch Day takes place exactly two hundred years after Secession Day. +First and foremost among these facts, almost to the point where one might consider all other facts as following logically from it, surrounding it, existing only to support it, is that Launch Day takes place exactly two hundred years after Secession Day. On the surface of it, especially for those who have had some connection with the event itself, this may seem like backwards. After all, so much happened around Launch. So much *had* to happen around Launch, yes? Sending off two multi-ton blocks of computronium and raw materials, solar sails and Dreamer Modules, out into unknown space takes rather a lot of work. @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ For reasons that will be made clear as this history unfolds, we are not able to ----- -Let us now consider a few of the subtler correspondences between the Secession and the Launch: +Let us first consider a few of the subtler correspondences between the Secession and the Launch: * Both have ramifications that stretch backwards and forwards through time for decades surrounding them. * Both were intended, beyond the surface and altruistic reasons, to ensure the continuity and stability of the System. @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Let us now consider a few of the subtler correspondences between the Secession a * Both involved political manipulation both phys-side and sys-side. * Both involved historical manipulation to ensure that accounts align. -And now we may consider the facts that fall out of the collection of correspondences: +And now we may consider the facts that fall out of the sum of the correspondences: * The history of the System, stretching all the way back to before its foundation, is one of technology, yes, but beyond that, is one of politics. * Despite the assumption that such is not possible in the System and the promises that such is not the case, there are governing factions that guide the progression of the System through times via its interactions with phys-side politics. diff --git a/writing/post-self/neviim/origin/mythos/002.md b/writing/post-self/neviim/origin/mythos/002.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e79d979a --- /dev/null +++ b/writing/post-self/neviim/origin/mythos/002.md @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +In the beginning, the gods created the world. They built it up, atom by atom, molecule by molecule. They used eyes like lasers to guide one after another into ordered formations, ranks upon ranks, and then set them to marching. The gods built the world and then they smiled at it from up above. They looked down on their creation and saw all of the possibilities of perfection that it held, of the unending life and endless bliss. + +The gods built the world because they desired to shape it to their will. They wanted to bend the world into something that they could direct this way and that, because after all, could they not do that with their atoms and molecules? A world that is orderly! Imagine the wonders they could create! The wills they could work! + +----- + +So the gods set the world to spinning and watched and waited as it began to blossom and bloom. When the time was ripe, they reached down their hands to touch the world, and found that they had become the wind and the tides and the rain and the snow and the sunlight and the moonlight. They reached down to touch the world and shape it to their will, and found that they become impersonal forces in the face of absolute independence. The world they created could not be controlled, because there is no such thing as a world that can be controlled. They reached down, became impersonal forces, and the lives within the world bundled their coats up tighter at the north wind or took their hats off when the sun shone bright, but never could the change a single mind to be such as their own. +