Creator, Friend or Foe? -Beginnings, Chapter 3

Chapter 3. Light Bearer

“Just as a catalyst is not the end result, but merely what triggers or brings about the process leading to that result, so light is not the end result, but rather makes it possible to arrive at the goal.” -from “The Book Of Hayat”

The Ancient Warrior knew that others still existed, somewhere. Shrouded in darkness, he had no shape. Else from whence came the various formless deeps, those waters apart from the other waters, where none had dared venture? Odd that this particular form of coagulation of energy, this congealed yet flowing form of energy, seemed to be found in every part of the multiverse ever explored. Of course there were other beings locked away in other universes, perhaps also with water, but none mattered but him. Of this there could be no doubt. Though others existed, nevertheless, there could be no authority beside his. But what to do about the Darkness, this time, and how to deal with those chaotic depths which had wreaked havoc on the last two experiments? Even the two sets of neutral experiment monitors had had to be eliminated when they each in turn arrogantly decided to contradict his plan to create sentient creatures, not unlike themselves, that would then live strictly according to the rules of the experiment. How could the experiment monitors disagree with the parameters of an experiment that they were to neutrally monitor? That would not do at all, so of course they had to be removed. Experiments in self-awareness were extremely trying, and it was beginning to become lonely running them all alone. Maybe that last universe, where he had not ventured yet, held some key to all of this. Maybe if he finally gave in and called up the Child of Light, whom he had managed to lock away inside that last unexplored universe, together they could solve the recurring problem of the errant 'sentient beings' experiment. Maybe. Then again, the other one, who was followed by a paradoxical persistent light spectrum which never seemed to dissipate, could be rather annoyingly difficult to control. She insisted on arguing constantly, which was why he was forced to find a way to trick her into entering that unexplored universe in the first place. She was rather trusting, which was useful, and her valiance did come in handy when there was something difficult and unpredictable to be done. She often bravely ventured into spaces where the Ancient Warrior feared to go, which was helpful in exploring other universes, but the arrogance that went along with this caused much disorder. Now though, this new experiment needed a bold hand, and a new way of setting up the parameters so that it would not go as previous experiments had gone. The easiest way would be to get his counterpart to help, but how to get her help while still keeping control of the experimental universe? Perhaps the reflecting light she carried with her could be the key to this new experiment. If he used that light to allow her out of the universe in which she was currently trapped, then her gratitude should allow him to enforce the rules as he saw fit. That would have to do, since he was out of options for running new experiments.

”Let there be Light.” intoned the Ancient Warrior.

“OK, what exactly were you thinking, you Ancient Git,” she swore, “tricking me into going into that unexplored universe with no way to get back except for harsh language and trust in you? Do you know how irritating it is having to fight my way through constant swarms of... oh, that's right, you did not know what was in that universe , or did you? So what do you want me back here for now, then? You had me locked in, so why let me out, what do you want?”

“Remember, I did just let you out of what apparently turned out to be quite an unpleasant place. I should think that the phrase 'Thank you' would be in order. Besides, this will be quite interesting. I need you to help me set up the parameters for a new experiment, but this time in such a way so that I will not end up having to end it and start all over again from scratch. Sentient-being experiments, as we discussed before, but with complete free-will and the ability to create thought-forms.”

“Has so much time alone driven you mad, Ancient One? You did not mention thought-form creation. You know those kinds of experiments are dangerous. What do you think we evolved away from, and why would you want to allow those lower level beings even to find the old thought-forms? And create new ones?! It is more power than they will ever be able to use safely. Speaking of which, where will al of the energy for this experiment come from?”

“I will provide it, Young Creatrix of stories.”

She displayed a short surprised burst of static. His energy flow must truly be unlimited. “What if,” she crackled, “they manage to figure out how to cross out of their universe and create havoc, or into other universes or to make things even worse, jump across the other dimensions, you remember that total of ten dimensions, seven of which they should not even know exist? Chances are that they will eventually find out that those dimensions exist, and how move around them. This sort of experimentation is not productive in the slightest way. Why do you continue to persist in this?”

“This experiment will be different, and as agreed previously, we will share in the setup.”

”No.” The younger being seemed firmly set in her opposition.

“Look, Young One, be reasonable,” argued the Ancient Warrior. “I set you free and now you again owe your existence in this multiverse to me.”

”You tricked me into going in the first place!” she complained.

”Then you clearly have much to learn, don't you, Young One?”

“Well, I cannot deny that, Ancient Trickster,” she admitted, her signal oscillating on the word 'Ancient' for emphasis.

”And see here, Young One,” he spat back on a higher frequency, “this experiment will set the stage for much good that can only be done with what is gained from this experiment. Look how I have raised you up from where you were imprisoned. That bright reflective light you carry with you everywhere was previously your weakness, but it could be turned into your greatest strength. We will use it to create a central set of lights that in the next experiment we can use to facilitate the growth of the new sentient beings as they evolve, and maybe even to gauge their intellectual progress, if they last long enough. That way we will not need any more of those experiment monitors we had so much trouble with. We can still create guardians of some sort, of course, to help with the recording and reporting on data for each piece of the experiment, since there will be a good deal of data to keep track of. We can set up multiple levels of guardians using minimal levels of energy to report on the inert matter and on the non-mobile self-aware experiment subjects as they develop and branch out. Those guardians can report to a collating guardian who will report all progress within the experimental universe to you. Now we will be partners in the creation. You will be the Creatrix, Young Bearer of Light. Without you there will be no day and night, no seasons. No mysterious bodies clustering in the night sky for the sentient beings to observe. Come now, you must say yes.”

The younger being considered the idea, flattening in amplitude, and replied softly:

”I may regret this later, but yes.”

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Creator, Friend or Foe? -Beginnings, Chapter 4

 

Chapter 4. Stages
Cultivating seed, Cultivating a friendship … Sounding the depths -from “The Book Of Hayat”

“Alright, now that we have the four dimensional experimental universe set up inside of a ten dimensional multiverse, to isolate the experimental section, how should we roll the enclosed 4-d universe? Does it matter how we situate them Ancient One?”

 

“Not really.” replied the Ancient Warrior with an air of mystery. “Just as long as the keys are securely converted or locked away in an unconnected universe, none of the experiment subjects should be able to access them.”

 

“I give them three millenia of intelligent observation at the most before someone has those keys,” winked the Light Bearer, displaying one of her characteristic faces against the background of cooling energy, “if records from other civilizations mean anything in this new universe. And these Guardians you propose to make for this experiment, to protect and report back on the corporeal beings? You see no potential problems with them, considering that the last two batches of messengers had to be destroyed?”

 

“No, Young One, there is nothing that would be a serious problem with this group. They will know their place. Let us proceed with this first stage and run it for two billion years, which should be long enough to verify short term effects before moving on to the next stage..”

 

“Such as?” queried the Light Bearer.

 

“Such as some outer galaxy star formation.” replied the Ancient Warrior. “Until some of the energy coagulates into solid matter, we will have no need to worry about setting up guardians for anything, in any case. Once matter begins to cool, then we can set up an automatic procedure for creating a guardian for each inanimate and then moving being, and later we can instantiate the guardian hierarchy for the self-aware beings as they emerge. If they begin to compete amongst themselves, though, we may have to take additional steps to limit their range of abilities.”

 

“Are you sure that only two billion years will be long enough, it does not seem very long, but if you find that acceptable then that will be good. As for the guardian hierarchies,” she commented, “I can imagine them competing already. I am sure it will not be long before even the merest guardian assigned to report on the growth of a single specimen of vegetation will be urging it to grow faster! Just imagine each guardian standing over a single blade of grass whispering 'Grow! Grow!' Suddenly there will be armies of guardians rushing to rip out each others plant specimens and coming to us to clean up the mess.”

 

“Have no fear, Young One, there will be no conflict, and this plan is good.”

 

“Fine then we can proceed with the first stage of corporeal environment setup. But before we do that, it may be expeditious to coin a term to use as a label for this process. I suggest the term “Creation” if that will do, Ancient One.”

 

“It will do. Let us then proceed with the Creation.”

 

Two Billion Years Later

 

“Alright,” began the Light Bearer, “first there is the matter of well, matter, in this universe. At the moment the only stable electromagnetic spectra are yourself, as darkness, and myself, as reflecting variable wavelength light. The earliest stars are already beginning to form in some areas of congealing energy. There is still time to make changes, if you like. The stars seem to be emitting along both of our spectra.”

 

”No, Young One, no need for changes. Let us call that darkness Night and the visible light cycles we can call Day, when we are in this universe, just for simplicity.”

 

“Fine,” the Light Bear concurred, “but how are we going to rotate these light spectra in this universe?” We would have to take turns stepping in and out of the corporeal side unless we use a crystalline structure as the basis for the corporeal beings, and then they could reflect light on any number of wavelengths.”

 

”No, Light Bearer. I prefer carbon based corporeal beings, that way every creature in the experimental universe can have a starting point in common with everything else in this universe, making it easier to start up and just set the clock, so to ´speak´ and observe the development with a minimum of interference.”

 

”Well then we will have to figure out some way,” replied the Light Bearer, wondering how they both know of the Clockmaker thought-form, “to rotate the wavelength cycles that living corporeal beings will need for their sensory and cognitive development. I gather that your previous experiments did not do this automatically? I saw a memory left in another universe of renewing that creation day by day. I imagine that must have been quite draining... ”

 

”Fine, fine,” the Ancient Warrior interrupted, “we will get to that, but first, let us deal with these waters. Let us separate them out into various areas of this universe, if we can contain them all in this corporeal universe. Some will have to go into the lower atmospheres of various planets, and the rest in parts of some galactic singularity. Let us also put the gaseous forms of most of this water in the upper atmospheres of some larger planet-sized coagulation of energy, let's call them the Sky in each of the planets where we put some of this water. Let's make it random, so that if the experiment goes far enough, the subjects will have something interesting to contemplate.”

 

”You really are worried about this water, aren't you, Ancient One, but why?”

 

”Never you mind, just look to the next step, Young One.”

 

”Fine, as you wish, Ancient Grump. The next step would be to do something with the rest of the water on the various planets where we want to put this water. Making the water adhere to the planetary surfaces and crags would require setting a random gravitational constant that will be consistent throughout this universe.”

 

”Do it, and we can call the adherences of surface water Seas. Yes, that will be good. And where did you find that old vibration “grump” in all of this random background noise?”

 

Pointedly ignoring the question, the younger being displayed a face, whiskers appearing first, then eyes, then a furry feline mouth, shaped in a grotesque smile. This ancient thought-form had floated to mind just after the idea of the Ancient Warrior as a “grouch” and seemed to fit, in an amusingly mischievous way.

 

”Fine, then, Ancient, One. So if we start with carbon and let gravity hold water down, then we should see a series of processes after sufficient numbers of planets coagulate and their skies cool down enough to begin building acids and proteins, but how will the day and night cycles come about?”

 

”If it does not happen on its own, then let us, or rather, you, Light Bearer, if you please, set certain stars to brighter intensity levels and judiciously move some of their satellites around just enough to cause the collisions needed to distribute all of the needed elements around the various solar systems and galaxies which will form in this universe.”

 

”Already done,” she reported. “Of course some satellite guardians are already complaining, so perhaps their more frequent appearances will bring them more attention from the sentient beings...”

 

“The day cycle, Young Light Bearer, if you please?” interrupted the Ancient Warrior.

 

“Right,” continued the Light Bearer, displaying a bright blue smirk against a brilliant white background.

 

“I have reset the wavelengths of some sections of the universe to glow more brightly than others so as to provide a diurnal cycle for most planets, assuming that the initial cooling patterns hold as they are now. I may have to do a bit more adjusting, as I was saying,” pointedly modulated the Light Bearer, “since I am getting some negative feedback from the newly forming satellites of a few planets, particularly out on the spiral arms of outer galaxies. I may later need to give those satellites more pull over the tides and inter-solar cycles as compensation. I wonder what sort of mythology this will generate among the intelligent species that develop there, if any. Now we should be able to wait about ten billion years, on average, and by then we should start to see those acids and proteins developing into life forms. With any luck, some planets may develop sentient life of various types fairly soon.”

 

”Fine, then let us check progress at the end of each stage. The guardians can update us between times if more checks are needed.”

 

… Ten Billion Years Later...

 

“The third stage seems to be progressing fairly well, now. The only problem,Ancient One,” switching to a frequency that the galactic guardians could not receive, “ is that parts of the Sky on various planets are not stable. Some delicate intervention may be needed to shore up the atmospheres and interstellar spaces.”

 

“Fear not, Young One, I have seen this before. It is due to the widely differing development of various galaxies. I will set all of the skies, or firmaments, more precisely, so that they are fixed. Continue.”

 

A brightly colored bird displayed, its feathers ruffling wildly, as if caught in a strong wind.

 

“Well, then, we have several planets with Seas where the longer protein chains have begun to form promising combinations, and there are a few planets where those combinations have produced cells which are now able to complete the entire intake, transform, and excrete cycle. These cells have a few offshoots which appear to be starting to self-divide and form new cells on their own. Interestingly enough, two planets in this universe have already formed cells which are reproducing on dry land via a different mechanism than the water-based cells. One planet, Ancient One, seems to be farther ahead in this process, with a simple set of seeds which appear to be surviving and reproducing by pollinating other seeds.”

 

”How is that happening?”

 

”Wind, Ancient One. The guardians on both planets report that this seems to be happening in a similar fashion in both places, which makes sense given the universal gravitational constant and the rotation of the planets around the central star. They are in different galaxies, but this seems to have no effect.”

”Of course, Light Bearer. This universe will show all laws and effects to be the same, and if not, then there will have been some catastrophically erroneous intervention, which the difference will signal to us, and likely the experiment will then have to be stopped and either restarted or completely begun again from scratch.”

 

”Oh. Well, I rather hope that does not become necessary again. One more thing. The water-based guardians on one planet and all of the fish guardians, vegetation sub-guardians and so on in the oceans are reporting that a certain very large proto-species which they are calling Tannin, seems to be consuming an unsustainable level of resources in the seas ranging across the oceans of the entire planet. Have you seen this before, Ancient One?”

 

“Yes, Young One, I have seen this once before. An entire world was devastated by this sort of large sea creature. When sea animals become too large this can happen sometimes. We will have to intervene in some non-intrusive way to have the female removed. That should allow the remaining sea species to recover to sustainable levels. Just to be certain, let us give all of the animal species an extra reproductive boost, a bit more energy, to be sure they keep evolving quickly enough.”

 

… 2.5 Billion Years Later...

 

 

“The third stage seems to be complete now, as we have planets around many stars with fully developed sets of dry-land based vegetable life,” reported the Light Bearer, “including grasses and cereals, larger fruit and nut-bearing plants...”

 

“Let us call those Trees,” he ordered.

 

”Yes, Ancient Interrupter, trees, and other kinds of vegetation. The animal life seems most developed on this planet,” she indicated, “third from its sun on an outer arm of that small barred spiral galaxy.”

 

A dark cloud hid the stars, black lightening bolts casting jagged shadows, before the Ancient Warrior rumbled: ”It Is Good.”

 

…Another Six Hundred Million Years Passed...

 

”The next stages seem to be advancing more rapidly than previous stages, Ancient One, perhaps due to the preparation and self-organization time required in previous stages. These new land and sea-based life-forms have evolved in a large variety of different directions, as you foresaw, and are continuing to branch out in new ways, interestingly enough, despite our having started the entire experiment on the basis of one single element. Well, two if we count water as an essential element in spite of its dual atomic makeup. I still do not understand the connection, nor from where all of this excess water is coming. There may be a leak from one of the other universes into this one, or perhaps you are inadvertently carrying an unclosed portal with you, Ancient One?”

 

”I am not, and do not ask about this again, if you please,” transmitted the Ancient Warrior abruptly. “Shall we go on, and continue with the final stage, ensuring that we get a sentient species on at least one of these planets? After all, Young One, do not forget, this is the entire point of the exercise.”

 

”Right,” the Light Bearer replied. “I imagine that will a bit more time, say, another ten million years or so, self-awareness should evolve in one of the more socially oriented predatory animals on one of these planets. From there it should be a very short step to full intelligent behavior and then we will be able to make more interesting observations.” she wondered why the Ancient Warrior was so touchy about a simple question of an unclosed portal, which she had observed herself upon exiting an unexplored universe, but decided that this was not a favorable time to discuss the issue. It would be brought up again, to be sure.

 

The response of ”It is Good.” from the Ancient Warrior ended the conversation, for now.

 

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