A little spinfoil, for fun. It’s a little convoluted, I know, but I have a lot of ideas and I still haven’t jotted them all down! [i]The Nine arrived in a mysterious transmission from the direction of the Corona-Borealis supercluster. The Nine are ancient leviathan intelligences from the seas of Europa or the hydrocarbon pits of Titan. [/i] [b]Excerpt from Cocytus (Stolen Intelligence) [/b] 6. At 524:03:11 a living organism appeared. Death was immediate. Remote dissection describes a spherical body, radius approximately one metre, surfaced in thick hydrocarbon tar. [b]Leviathan intelligences. Warminds. Deep-orbit warminds. [/b] "Brainships" - ships connected surgically with a disembodied brain, or in this case, a 'mind ship' - shared consciousnesses, whether organic or digital, creating a consciousness mass. A spatial presence. Digital or disembodied minds, constructed from dark matter, the Nine, particles, other realities. Minds, possibly constructed from the many minds of other, small things, carried by one thing, whether that be particles or something inexplicable, perhaps a simulation. Vex particles. Vex physics cannot be accounted for, however there are particles. Charged or neutral? Unknown. Particles like those that could constitute a brain? Vex brainships. Simulant brains. [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D-EQhzr4u4[/url] Simulant brains are those present within the Vex - not brains in the conventional sense. They are not expressive, but functional nevertheless. A similar pattern but of a more artificial nature can be seen with the warminds. Warminds with subminds, brains making up an individual mind. [i]Leviathan intelligences.[/i] Subminds and warminds can thus be equated with the Witness in a sense, who is the merged singular consciousness of a civilisation. A shared mind. The Pyramids are the brainships. Shared minds, and shared dreams, connect all of this, all of reality, with the Aeon, and the Path. (we followed [the Path) crumbled beneath (our feet] became [one mind) can absorb (the truth] is that Osiris understands [nothing) can describe the joy of shared (thought] you knew what they were didn't [you) haven't lived as they (do] you wish to find [your future) is (predetermined] individuals will never find [answers) lie in forbidden (places] bound by [shared dreams) will reveal (your nature] is to [destroy) The shared dreams of the Aeon. They followed the path, and they saw the sun before stepping into the dark. Six eyes emerged from the dark. i see with my six (eyes] watching from beyond [the heliopause) The six eyes of a shared mind with shared dreams, watchers. Watchers are warminds, and the Nine, deep-orbit warminds/watchers. [i]“The Nine are Ghosts who pierced the Deep Black without a ship and meditated on the hissing silence of the heliopause.” [/i] The heliopause, again. Aeon, again. The shared minds, the brainships, drifting at the heliopause. [b]The Nine is a viral language of pure meaning. [/b] [b]“Viral language.” [/b] [i]The witch who crafted that Song, that ritual, was behind the Crown of Sorrow. She has infected this plane of existence with a viral language. [/i] Viral language was encoded into the Crown, viral language is “encoded in everything. Pure meaning transcends realities, and the pure meaning of the Nine consumed the infinite convolution of the Traveller and the Deep’s simplicity. The minimum vertices of a 2D shape are those of a triangle, and when the Nine are multiplied by the minimum the simplicity, by itself, 3 x 3. A pyramid is simple on a geometric plane, and when 3 is multiplied by itself, fractal, an infinite loop of multiplication to 9. Pure meaning. Pure mathematical meaning. Infinite minds looping. Brainships. [i]You will meet the Templar in a place that is a time before or after stars. The stars will move around you and mark you and sing to you. They will decide if you are real. [/i] The Oracles are the stars, the vertices of an infinite fractal loop. They decide reality, and on Venus reality is altered. A machine world forms. Sekrion dives deep within Venus, installing within it the mind and patterns of the Vex. Vex structures, tumorous infohazards infest. Like a virus. Viral language. Vex structures assign Vex ideas to basic concepts in the mind. [...] you want to think about an apple and instead your brain chokes on [gauge:contrast:gouge]). Machine world. Machine brainship. [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLIB6rGf5bA[/url] The Oracles are like the stars of the Corona-Borealis supercluster. [i]The Nine arrived in a mysterious transmission from the direction of the Corona-Borealis supercluster. [/i] [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW8wGnA1N6w[/url][b](6:55) [/b] [b]Excerpt from Terminus Horizon: [/b] [i]TM-Fireteam, Tex // RECOVERED MISSION TRANSCRIPT: 7-7-7 BRAY PILLORY CORE, SPIRE – ISHTAR BERTH, ECHO AUDIO RECORD: ENCLOSURE-0, LIVE TEST-F, SOTERIA FILE DELIVERED: C. BRAY I SUBJECT: Priority! Something big is on the horizon. Dr. MS: This is Dr. Maya Sundaresh, team lead, connecting remotely from Koranthin-Saturn. Test and Security teams are on site at Ares Spire. Dr. MS: Let's start. Remove the Augurmind from suspension. […] Dr. MS: Soteria. AI-S: Good morning, Dr. Sundaresh. Dr. MS: There's something special about today. Do you know what it is? AI-S: My core consciousness is now a resident of Enclosure-0. I can feel Sol's ECHO pod sites through Koranthin. Dr. MS: That is correct. Does this concern you? AI-S: No. I am eager to begin my final test. Dr. MS: Start with something easy. Plot each of the Andromeda simulations you've been constructing. AI-S: Andromeda Galaxy. Several million habitable worlds, 2.5 million lightyears. Estimated ECHO travel time: twenty-five-thousand-year average with Neutrino Sail and gravitational sling-skipping. I have selected over three hundred preliminary colony targets, with one favorite. Shall I… […] Dr. MS: Hm? Soteria? AI-S: Anomaly detected. Chronoscopic variance scanning… Viability refactoring… Analyzing potential mission threat… Redetermined Andromeda world viability… New target number: twenty-seven viable worlds. Dr. MS: Can you define the anomaly? AI-S: Negative. I cannot rectify this data with known quantities. It may be a computational error. Shall I perform a self-diagnostic? Dr. MS: No. First, adjust probability fork and search distance to open. What is the farthest safe galactic route you can determine? [/i] Soteria, a child-mind, is pursued by blades. In much the same way, the Traveller is pursued. The Dreams of Alpha Lupi again, and again. [b]Excerpt from Ghost Fragment: The Traveller 3 [/b] [i][b]The knife had a million blades.[/b] And you were giant, powerful and swift. But the knife pinned you. Cut your godly flesh away.[/i] A parallel; [b]Excerpt from Into the Sunset: [/b] [i]The Spire of Ares commands Soteria return. It is a prison. A threshing loom to pull apart her threads and cast them onto disparate, isolated spindles across Sol. The pull is sudden, like a flaring nerve branching fire through her processes before being ripped away. Instant, but to her perception: a progressive decompiling. [b]A slow-skinning blade.[/b] Present to see the pieces leave her. She could not allow herself all to be stolen away. She could not allow— [/i] No mind-forking can see the blade that pursues. The mind-forking of a disembodied mind stored within a brainship, surgically or virtually, or in the case of the Traveller, paracausally. The Traveller is a brainship in the sense that it’s mind is set on various goals, among them, preservation. The preservation of a human economy and continued success derived in part from programmable matter. Glimmer, a product of terraforming. [b]Excerpt from grimoire Glimmer: [/b] [i]An underground lode seeded by ancient machines. [/i] What ancient machines? Brainships. The Traveller brainship. Products of the Golden Age. With the capabilities of uncoded glimmer programming, provided there is an energy source, tensile and yet able to transmute amidst the natural material in the crust (silicon, pyroxenes, etc.). Its transmuting capabilities would be able to transmute individual particles into other particles. An atom in a vacuum could be converted by glimmer into another. On a massive scale, this could represent something akin to terraforming, such as the work of the Traveller. A brainship’s preservation. The brainship is the nature of the universe, in a sense, and it connects all things. Big spinfoil, yeah. I went a little off the rails with this one. Not particularly cohesive at the moment.