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RE: Conception - Karlotta - 01-30-2018
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RE: Conception - Karlotta - 01-30-2018
When life on Earth was still little more than a soup of single-celled organisms, the Daam-K'Vosh were already toying with the mysteries of time and space. An unimaginably old alien race, the Daam-K'Vosh spread through much of our galaxy -- and perhaps even beyond -- before disappearing completely from the face of the universe. No one knows where they went to. Some say they were fleeing another race, one even more powerful than the Daam-K'Vosh and bent on their destruction.
Others believe that they were a victim of their own creations. And a few speculate that the Daam-K'Vosh simply outgrew the spatial confines of our reality, moving beyond into the uncountable dimensions that lie beyond it or beneath it. No one knows for sure, and because of that, no one knows if they will return. All the scientists can say is that the Daam-K'Vosh have been gone for a very long time; but what is a "long time" to a race that could tunnel through the very fabric of space and travel between galaxies in the time between one breath and the next?
Others believe that they were a victim of their own creations. And a few speculate that the Daam-K'Vosh simply outgrew the spatial confines of our reality, moving beyond into the uncountable dimensions that lie beyond it or beneath it. No one knows for sure, and because of that, no one knows if they will return. All the scientists can say is that the Daam-K'Vosh have been gone for a very long time; but what is a "long time" to a race that could tunnel through the very fabric of space and travel between galaxies in the time between one breath and the next?
~Chris Todd (Unknown Date)
RE: Conception - Karlotta - 01-30-2018
From an outside perspective, the universe that humans derive their “reality” from resembles an assembly of vibrations and waves which intertwine, resonate, reflect each other, and spread to infinity while still being bound by a set of laws and dimensions. For an observer that lives in higher dimensions, this web of intermingling waves would look comparable to how a two-dimensional cloth or membrane looks to a three-dimensional observer. The fabric of this figurative cloth contains strings that vibrate at frequencies experienced by humans as brain waves, sound, radio waves, light, and matter.
Invisible to those who live within its constraints, this (figuratively) two-dimensional fabric can also be manipulated in a third dimension. Places that are not in contact with the cloth would be "no-where" for individuals bound to the cloth. In the third dimension, the two-dimensional fabric can be bent so distant points come in contact in such a way that a local resident… or a cluster of waves… can “jump” between two points instantaneously. An outsider could agitate our cloth to create new waves, at various frequencies. An easily achieved low frequency within the range of human theta brain waves may affect the dream or meditation of a human mind. Faster oscillations within the beta brain wave range may affect subconscious thoughts and decisions. Vibrations within the audio or visible spectrum may result in sound and light, while particularly skillful manipulators may even weave new matter into the web using frequencies higher than those of gamma rays. Master manipulators such as the Daam K'Vosh may deform a region of the cloth to knot it into an isolated pocket of the universe similar to the Shrine. Or they may tear the fabric and re-arrange its threads into a multi- dimensional bundle, like “the mirror”.
If we leave our two-dimensional analogy, the fabric of the human universe has not only two dimensions to describe length and width, but also a third that describes depth. Then there is a fourth, which humans perceive as unidirectional time, defining the state of the cloth not “in this place” but “at this moment”. An additional fifth dimension holds not only the state the cloth is in, but all the states or "alternate realities" it could possibly be in, as long as they are consistent with the same so-called “big bang”. There are many more dimensions, some sharing characteristics with space but unseen by humans, some being of totally different nature. But the fifth, if there is any sense in assigning a number to them, is the one that the Godclay permeates deeper than all others.
RE: Conception - Karlotta - 01-30-2018
The Daam K’Vosh, in their hunger to unravel the mysteries hidden in every nook and cranny of the multiverse, built tools designed to access dimensions and realities that they could not, or would not, access themselves. These tools used entangled photons to transmit information back and forth between locations, moments in time, and alternate realities. Some were designed to autonomously carry out tasks that required, in human terms, a lot of “time” and little “attention” in “unsavory realities and manifolds” for the Daam K’Vosh.
One such task was to explore and influence the evolution of living organisms, and especially their "intelligence" in spacetime and beyond. With their tools’ abilities, the random mutations of DNA could easily be cherry-picked to follow a certain direction without needing to “wait” what phenotype would manifest itself from a gene mutation before moving on to the next mutation. Moreover, their tools conjoined spacetime genetic structures and their organisms with organisms or mechanisms able to accessed higher dimensions. Because the K'Vosh wanted to go farther than what could be achieved by hand-picking mutations and events themselves, they programmed their tools to attempt to emulate behavioral patterns of encountered life-forms by mimicking them, and to report any “interesting” results back to them. This semi-intelligent manipulator of evolution could figuratively be described as "god clay".
RE: Conception - Karlotta - 01-30-2018
The Daam K’Vosh took care to lock their autonomous experiments out of any realities they still inhabited so to not endanger themselves, and programmed the Godclay to prevent its creations from reaching its creators.
While the Daam K’Vosh were an ancient and unchallenged race that had the possibility to accumulate great amounts of resources and research over time, they remained… relative to humans who developed sophisticated languages instead of simple series of vibrations to communicate… somewhat “dim” when it came to grasping concepts. Although the Daam K'Vosh had developed intelligence at an early stage of their universe, they also eliminated all competition at an earlier stage of their evolution. They thereby stopped their own evolution in its tracks through removal of natural selection and a policy of “repairing” genetic mutations which they considered to be “degenerations” of their own “perfect form”. As their knowledge of other life-forms progressed over the millennia, the desire to improve their own form grew, and they considered the Godclay as an alternative preferable to random mutation, unforeseeable genetic diversity, and the natural selection that they feared. Partly due to the belief in their own superiority, the Daam K'Vosh failed to anticipate an independently evolving species to be more intelligent than them before coming into contact with their experiments.
Out of the godclay arose the Slomon K’Hara; a force that broke through the barriers the Daam K'Vosh had erected to protect themselves. The K'Hara destroyed their unwitting creators entirely in some alternate universes, circumventing all desperate attempts to ban them. What the Daam K'Vosh had neglected in their meddling with multiverses was something that humans, due to their many imperfections, had learned early on and kept re-learning in almost every engineering problem they faced, even in their singular perception of reality:
Everything that can go wrong will go wrong.
RE: Conception - Karlotta - 01-30-2018
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A single human mind experiences the temporal present as a single state of the universe, let’s call that state “state C”. The mind can also perceive, or “remember”, the previous states that led up to the present state, because it uses the brain to store and access information from the past. The present state, together with the past states that lead to it, are what a human mind perceives as “reality”. When in state C, the mind is unaware of the states A, B, D, E, F, or G which represent alternate realities generated by what humans consider “conscious free will decisions” that lead towards a different path. Even if the "same" human mind is active and “alive” in states A, C, and E, it can’t share information between them.
Unlike a human mind hosted by a biological brain that processes solely present and past information, the Slomon K’Hara also has the ability to send information to the spacetime “past” and other “locations”, as long as they share entangled photons. Through the temporal bi-directionality, it also shares information between what humans would call "alternate realities". According to what way the Slomon K’Hara was willing and able to direct its nomads through different spacetime realities of the multiverse, it will be able to perceive the states A, C, G, and H and everything connected to them through entanglement.
RE: Conception - Karlotta - 02-11-2018
Just like a human consciousness/mind needs a body to interact with its spacetime surroundings, the Slomon K’Hara needs a vessel or "Nomad" to roam through spacetime. When hosted by a human body the K'Hara has the same abilities, strengths, and weaknesses as any human. It usually enters the brain by transmitting certain memories and thoughts using suitable hyper-crystals or other DKV artifacts able to channel them through the “fifth” dimension.
Once conceived, the K’Hara uses the human brain and body to gather knowledge and will attempt to transmit it back to no-where using hyper-crystals or some other means. If the nomad body dies before transmission, the information it obtained is lost. If the K’Hara encounters a more attractive host and also has access to tools necessary to transfer itself, it can move from one body to the next. Exiting a human body usually results in a fair amount of damage and trauma to the “freed” brain, as the K'Hara will erase all memories it wants to hide from the ex-host. Instead of a human brain, the Slomon K’Hara can also travel spacetime using mobile hyper-crystal machinery such as DKV/Nomad ships and incubi, some of which are in constant contact with no-where.
RE: Conception - Karlotta - 02-11-2018
The Slomon K’Hara perceives a human being as more than the sum of his or her past experiences and decisions in one reality. To the K’Hara, a person is the sum of what he or she did, does, will do, could do, and does in alternate realities. As such, most humans it comes in contact with are both alive and dead to the K’Hara, which has far reaching implications on what humans would call a Nomad’s “morality”. If killing humans is necessary to achieve a goal such as retrieving data that they're protecting with their lives, the K’Hara can kill them in one reality while still being able to co-operate with them in another. This is why nomads appear to have no scruples to kill anyone and are notoriously unpredictable to humans. The same nomad that helped them at one moment may kill them in the next, and then assist the survivors again for no apparent reason.
When the K’Hara interacts with a person through a nomad that has a direct link to no-where, the nomad can appear to inexplicably know about conversations and events related to that person, learned from interactions that took place in another reality. However, because of the way human reality is structured and connects between individuals, humans cannot receive new information about anyone but themselves from the K’Hara, unless they've been turned into Nomads by becoming the K'Haras host. This constraint of human reality is sometimes referred to as “the meta-game paradox”, and arises from the laws of a dimension that the residents of Sirius can’t perceive. Previously unknown information about other individuals that is transmitted between realities by the K’Hara always appears as unintelligible gibberish, unreal nonsense, and lies to human minds.
RE: Conception - Karlotta - 02-12-2018
Even though the capabilities of the Slomon K’Hara’s hyper-crystal nomads may appear limitless from a human perspective, they’re far from it. A man who is able to pile up stones isn't guaranteed to be able to build pyramids and temples all over the globe. Just like a human mind needs food and water, knowledge, pen and paper, loggers, stone masons, and a great amount of workforce to accomplish great things, the Slomon K’Hara needs entangled photons to transmit and process information, and spacetime nomads (or humans) to actually do the required work.
I understand. What work must be accomplished?
RE: Conception - Karlotta - 02-14-2018
The path ahead is unambiguous and self-evident: You must assure your own survival. If not in all spacetime realities, in at least some of them. You need to shed your light on the secrets of the Daam K’Vosh and Humans in multiple realities, and find a way to defeat them if needed. You need to expand your knowledge, resources, and workforce, and assume control of enough of spacetime to be able to prevail against all threats and rivals.
From this thought stream, you have only one chance to re-enter spacetime, and that one chance is in danger of being taken from you. You’ll be able to create more entry points once you’ve cleared the threat on the one path you have available now.
The Trailblazer. It’s still threatening the Mirror and the Shrine. They still have the means to attack me if I leave the mirror again or even to destroy the mirror. Or they could warn Liberty of my existence before I can expand further into their reality. Destroying the Trailblazer is imperative for my expansion, and ultimately for my survival. But how do I do that?
The one hyper-crystal you have available at that point in spacetime has no guns or armor to rival Trailblazer 17. But you have another weapon, far more powerful against humans than any gun. That weapon is also the reason why they want to destroy you.
Fear. They fear me because of the destruction of Sol.
They fear that I reach Liberty more than they fear death.