A Trip Through the Xenoverse
The Year 4763 T.C. It has been nearly five millennium since mankind abandoned the blue sphere from which it was spawned. Yes, nearly five thousands years since humanity Transcended Christ and began to live amongst the heavens themselves.
“Earth.” A word as forgotten as the circumstances which drove them into the stars and away from their homeland. Legends have been passed down throughout the ages, and all refer fondly to this misplaced paradise now only referred to as Lost Jerusalem…
Humanity has spread itself across the cosmos, inhabiting worlds and galaxies that once seemed so very far away. Posterity will never have to fear extinction from the outside, for the human seed has proliferated so perfectly that no wayward comet or supernova star now threatens the entirety of Man. But he himself is still the great threat. He and his terrifying creations.
Enter Omega-1, the Deus Weapon System. While this creation is by no means God, man could not help but assign it such a fantastic moniker. The weapon to end all weapons. A biological behemoth with enough power to destroy an entire planet with relative ease. Yes, man has spread itself across the universe, but he has gained little wisdom yet.
The Omega-1 system was the greatest achievement of mankind. Comprised of three unique components, Deus was designed to never fail, never die, and never surrender. First, it is powered by the Zohar, a monolithic artifact excavated on Lost Jerusalem a few hundred years before man was forced to leave. Man has never understood this precious device, but over the centuries has learned how to use it as a limitless energy source, and what better to power the weapon to end all weapons. The next component of Deus is the biological computer known as Kadmony. This hyper-advanced system allows Omega-1 to constantly assess its surroundings and create adaptations to maximize efficacy and ensure survivability. A weapon that evolves and repairs; a weapon that can never be destroyed. Lastly, Omega-1 is comprised of the physical body and mind of Deus–the weapon itself.
It is perfect.
It is undeniable.
And it cannot be controlled.
Upon activation Deus went out of control, the power flowing from the mysterious Zohar causing its destructive output to far exceed even the expected results. The colony planet Michtam, and nearly all of its five billion human inhabitants, was completely annihilated. An error of genocidal proportions. Omega-1 is immediately disassembled and scheduled for destruction. The cost already too great…
The survivors from Michtam are loaded onto the large military cruiser which carried Deus to them–the Eldridge. The captain has specific orders to fly into the depths of unknown space and eradicate the greatest weapon ever created before returning with the survivors. He is solemn and so is his crew…their cargo is the most destructive force ever known, and the people left within its wake.
The Eldridge plunges into deep space. Every second pulling Omega-1 farther and farther away from the core planets. The captain secretly wonders if they’ll find Lost Jerusalem in this treacherous black void. All can only hope…
And then it happens.
Deus becomes self-aware. It understands what is happening. They are ferrying it out to die. And this simply cannot be.
A flight officer screams to the captain that Omega-1 is starting up. Words scroll across the screen in large red block letters: “And ye shall be as gods…” She grows more nervous as Deus begins to assimilate the ship’s controls and completely take over their systems. The captain barks orders as his crew desperately attempts to regain command of their ship. Nothing works and in a last ditch effort, the captain orders the crew to blow the physical connections across the ship, hopefully severing Deus’s access to the Eldridge’s mainframe.
But even that fails.
And Deus is angry.
“He” activates the ships hyperdrive and sets his coordinates for mankind’s new capital world: Fifth Jerusalem. Deus is going to eradicate humanity for its insolence. The captain orders everyone to evacuate the ship. He will stay behind and do that which only he can do: initiate the self-destruction of the Eldridge and save humanity from certain doom.
The alarms sound and the crew and their civilian survivors panic. Between the flashes of red light and the piercing sound of the siren, people attempt to find their way to the escape shuttles. Pandemonium. Fear. Chaos. Just as Deus would prefer…
As the shuttles launch, the Eldridge’s guns fire up and destroy each fleeing vessel. Deus is exacting his revenge gleefully, and no human will live this day. One after another, the people try to escape, but each are cut down by the very weapons that once protected them…
And there is a boy. Lost.
Separated from his family, the young child wanders through the ship…desperately seeking salvation and safety. He is all alone and scared. He runs and runs and finds no one, just red lights and loud noise. He soon finds himself in a small hangar, standing before the ancient Zohar. Its pale yellow glows, illuminating his tears and captivating his mind.
And then he hears a soft voice…
Abel looks in every direction, but finds no one. The voice speaks out again…asking him why he is here…why he is so afraid…
The small boy soon realizes that the voice is emanating from the Zohar itself, and he collapses before it frightened. The voice begs for him to not be afraid, but Abel weeps uncontrollably. And with tears running down his cheeks he screams out at the top of his voice, “Mother…!”
Meanwhile, the captain looks out of his deck and sees the endless slaughter of the fleeing passengers. He sits back in his chair calmly and fires up the self-destruct sequence. Opening a locket with his family’s portrait in it, he sighs. Holding it close to his chest, he closes his eyes…and presses the final button to complete the end-game order.
And the Eldridge explodes in a fantastic display of sacrifice and lights. The ship’s remains fall slowly to a barren planet below and rest across its landscape.
Everyone is dead.
Everyone except her. She rises from the ashes of genesis and looks out upon the horizon. She appears as human as anyone, but her mind is anything but. Her name is Mother, and she is a program. A contingency. And her objective is to recreate the body of Deus himself with the flesh of man…man which she will create. She is the ultimate failsafe…a creation of the biological computer Kadmony to spawn enough people to repair the damaged fleshly body of Deus himself so that he can rise again. After a brief moment of humanity, staring off into the horizon, she begins the centuries long process of repairing Omega-1. She gives birth to thirteen men, who will eagerly aid her in her endeavor, as much out of automatonic programming as a base, hungry desire for her beauty. Her first born was to be king of all men, forever, or until there was enough to replenish the flesh of Deus…his name is Cain..
Yes, everyone is dead.
Everyone except him. The small child Abel finds himself alone, again, on this derelict planet. The voice emanating from the Zohar having protected him from the explosion and guided him down to the surface. For Abel has been chosen. The Zohar itself is in actuality a prison, which has trapped a hyper-intelligent and powerful entity within it. We would call it “God.”This entity desires for nothing more than its freedom, but the Zohar must be destroyed for it to return to its home. Abel will be that destroyer. This small child will rise up with the unlimited power of the Zohar flowing through him and defeat Omega-1, freeing this God from its shackles.
The stage is set, and the pieces begin to move.
Cain and his 12 ministers of man, and their Queen–the Mother– are working “tirelessly” to create a kingdom of Man for the reconstruction of Deus, the false God which has created them. While Abel, a scared child all alone, has been chosen by a God from another dimension to free it from its shackles. But there is more…
After the Mother gives birth to her eager help, she herself is split. She gives birth to two females and dies. As what will happen for the rest of eternity, once the Mother dies, a random woman will awaken as the Mother…the programming within her brain activating and the person she was dying–only the goal remains. In this instance, however, it is not random. One of the children she begets is the creation of the entity within the Zohar…a companion for Abel, a companion for all time.
The Zohar, being connected through the Omega-1 system, influenced the Kadmony program and created its own biological servant, which would aid Abel and his future forms in his mission to free it.
Abel wanders the shoreline and sandy beaches and he is completely taken by the sight he beholds: his Mother. He runs to her and hugs her, but she does not hug him as a mother would. She holds him as a lover, for she loves this small boy so passionately that nothing in the world could separate them. Yes, she was created in his Mother’s image, based on Abel’s desire for her in his moment of weakness on the Eldridge, but she will be anything but. Her name is Elyham; it always will be…
The two make a home and the years go by. They fall in love. Abel does not know of his fated role as the liberator of the God within the Zohar, but soon…maybe in this lifetime, or in another…he will. Time has no meaning.
Cain and his followers quickly begin organizing an empire. They soon receive word that there were survivors from Eldridge, humans outside their mode and program. They must be destroyed, as nothing will stand in the way of the resurrection of “God.” Cain hunts Abel down and the two face each other–kings of men, but kings of a different kind. Brothers in power and purpose. The power of Deus’s minions is too much for Abel, as he has not yet discovered his power as the Chosen one, and soon he and Elyham are killed without mercy. Cain…pleasing his God…
But they will live again, endlessly until their mission is complete. They live many lives; many different lives throughout the ages. But they always find each other and fall in love, destined to be together, destined to one day discover their purpose and destroy the impostor of God, who has created a mankind to one day replenish his flesh.
A planet of people created from the womb of a computer. A contingency. Completely unaware of their slavery, of the shackles that bind them. And one day Abel…or Kim…or Lacan…or any of his many incarnations will not only free the God within the Zohar, but by doing so, he will free all of this humanity as well…
And she will be by his side, whenever that time comes…
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January 30th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
i wish i had written this story.