@ Uscari,
Thanks pal, I was a lil schwilly at the end there,
I have a story called: "The Birth of Syzyx", (which I frustratingly hunt and pecked into text on my routinely abused keyboard in the final hours of a recent cyberholic/alcotronic debauch!)
(it's funny how much louder my typing gets the more I drink)
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This story, unfortunatly may have been lost when my last comp died 2 years ago!
I shall continue to scan the box of old hard drives in my basement for a stray copy of this file which took several hours to write. I guess it will eventually turn into my fisrt attempt at novelizing any of my 'far memories'.
If I don't end up recovering this lost data, I can try to rewrite it: If I but re-create this former state of just the right combination of self adminstered ancient medications.
Since I'm too lazy to do this right now, and since you are now may slave anyway, and since you have emboldened me with your considerate praise of my amalgamated and mostly ill-gained literary prowess,.. ( and also to express my gratitude and preliminary elation to you for volunteering yourself into what I assume for you is insurmounable debt, and a lifetime of humble servitude to the tasks which I decide you are best suited to.
XP
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Birth of Syzyx (Synopsis)
(For Uscari)
So on this world (see pronunciation guide below).. you are born from an egg.
In a special pit. The depth (39") and shearness of sides (90 degrees) being of highest importance. You will never know your parents, or anyone but the bl'nanrx that can claim any special connection with you*.... and at the same time EVERYONE can and does claim and consummate this connection with 'your mind' through the hive.
(* Except perhaps some concurrently hatching random neonate upon whose head or body you should happen to step upon or spring from as you execute the essential but limited amount of 'leaps to life'.)
FYI Kr'lgyns* who meet in such a way, w/o killing each other, often become 'close proximates' (besties) and live out thier lives together w/o regard for gender.
So... like someone coming up to you and saying: "I saw your mama deposit you!", or: "I knew your parents!" Never happens, not once in millions of years... And this is not Starwars.
This story is from an epoch in our history that is often dramatized for the education of those who had the fortune of not being able to participate, or remember directly these formative events as it relates to and makes significant in those very minded entities that value the noblilty of the contributions and sacrifices that our group mind of billions made in the cause of advancement of all minded entities! Including individual minded personalities! That means You!
(* Some of these words will be hard for humans to pronounce, see below for a brief tutorial on pronuncing K'ryllgian)
Anywho...
You hatch, you have to jump out, you are only given so much time, or the blarnox eats you.
It's that simple.
Blarnox almost never eat unhatced eggs, and when they do, we take this as signifcator in our "religious" understanding of what motivates the b'lrnxz to act in such a way. (we go ooOOoo and let it happen)
Anywho...Because of our filtration process, we had amost no physical or mental defectives on Gl' tcha. Or so we (as a group mind) thought.
The larger story concerns this:
Being what happened in Kr'rylgy's systems of 100+ planets during those most tumultous times in our history where the individual struggled with hive for mastery and determination, where billions died, and trillions were tried - in the false courtrooms of so called hive justice, then corrupted by dark adepts who perverted our superior forms to suit the enslavement of our trusted friends, this was by far the most heinous crime Syzyx has ever known.
My participation in this is to my everlasting shame, and a lesson to all who confront these same problems of primitive naivite' in the face of devious cosmic intelligence.
Hopefully I can spare someone, somewhere, the agony which a whole galactic sector eventually suffered under.
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If we make our leaps, we find food, and our childminds are slowly and with great precision, guided, tested, and honed untill we stand empowered to our own whetting, then gradually ,
( and what we thought was thourghly) our minds are integrated into the great and amazing group mind of our species.
(Syzyx's larger story, of which this is but a preliminatry introduction, will hopefully be transcribed for the benefit of one or more salvable souls of this current evolutionatry epoch.)
This is a process, and much like the birth pits, must be mastered progressivly. Can you imagine growing up a child in the army all your life? well this is a gross comparison to what we were. we need no cell phone!, no radios! no commanding officers!... we functiond way better than your ants... instantaneous reaction at the 'speed of thought'. think swarming, flocking, or flash mobs with zero time lag.
In our culture, if you can call it that (note: sarcasm), the politics were rather complex,
We were families, but our fierce nature led us to develop the birthing pits, and to qualify all who would advance in any way with the same fierceness that first distinguished our phenotype superior between the hammer and the anvil of our evolutionary forging.
We became, over millions of years, greater than that. we learned telepathy as you call it but a higher form which you have no accurate names for... (oh wait i forgot where i was for a second... The force! duh)
As we mastered our elements and reaped the harvest of liberty from gravitational restraints, we moved out, with a mind to co-operate, like benevolent Borg, moving in the nearby vicinity to our local systems, never more that a ight year or two from K'rylgya.
This presented problems on so many levels.. For groupmind had not concurrently developed as much as we had hoped or speculated egotisticlly. (Because we were so badass, so we just figured that there must be other badasses out there and if you are not badass, then we see this, and feel sorry for you, so we will help you.) This at first seemed just fine. everybody was happy, win - win.
But as the necessities for a focalized representation increased with our outward expansion into a densely inhabited galactic arm, and the increasing requirement to be represented by small groups, or even by single individuals!
A few of our undetectably dark envoys chose DELIBERATELY not to cleanse their private minds of the dark and selfish nature! (The 'reptile mind' of your science. (some of us called it the 'amphibian mind' back then lol.)
These ones, Who learned through the dark arts of individuality (That's what we saw them as at that time) to hide parts of thier minds from us, presumed to make deals with, and offer up a deceptive peace to many of our trusting neighbors.
And then, in a series of heinous thoughtcrimes, and in an act of planetarily fatal betrayal,
They "Condescended to make brutal war upon so many of our unsuspecting allies, and our own peoples"!
Many were those ensnared! Many who had comitted themselves en masse to leave our homeworld, and humbly serve the many wisdom-hungry planets, thereon to dispense a 'superior' wisdom, as to the organising and integration of hive mentality in worlds populated by individuals! The disaterous resulst are still being remediated!
Notwithstanding that we were simultaneously wrestling internally at that time with the great betrayal, the mental tribulations threw the system into chaos, and multitudinous missions and envoys having to do with improving and bolstering the lot of hundreds of planets (as well as our own), were compromised by rampant corruprion, and those who were grateful, but naieve, and mistakenly became dependent on the 'benevovelent friends from K'rylgis' (even if they can't pronounce it.) were decieved and ensnared! Brainwashed by thier superors to purport our supposedly higher ideas and ideals! and alter the natural course of those planets we deemed sufficiently progressed to adopt our ancient and valuably ascendant culture! Mleh.
Our veiled darxide stripped them of the numerous planetary resources that these worlds had held for thousands of years as a sacred trust! Including thier own citizens! And violated binding agreement(s) to their own hard won planetary alliances!
This caused a heap of problems that millions of normally innocent reptoids, living their harmonius, pastoral lives on the many worlds of our system, and constituting the bulk of the 'processing power' of our evolved and normally aggressivly peaceful hive mind got drawn into into and implicated in thoughtcrimes that not only raped the system, it forever destroyed the naive concept that just lending a hand or donating to a particular charity will save you from more powerful darxide forces.
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Krylgians everywhere rallied to the light during the times of the great mental battle that raged within out hive mind for those 10 crucial days. But we of the light eventually rallied, and purged group mind of selfish cells. But this story, and its recalling, and retelling...and the relating of the story to human type (non-hive) minds shall be related in more fullness in due time.
For now it has been my priviledge to elucidate a fragment of the perhaps imaginary story of the "Birth of Syzyx". One chapter in the longer story that would become "The Life of Syzyx" Which would be but one miniscule page in the book of Kr'ylgya , which you are extremely unlikely to know of. If anyone else should have a far-memory of these tumultous times, please contribute.
