The last time that Alia stood on Top B with Par-Cell 77 on the screen in the vast fields, it was just before she started her quest for the rainbow road. Alia was angry with Par-Cell but less so than before when she learned the fate of her parents. The visit between the two was very strategic and they finalized Alia’s plans to reset existence without the Ascendant at the start of everything.
“Solse Prab always creates the machine,” Par-Cell said as she spoke earnestly with Alia. “In every memory available to you, he finds a way to access eternity, meaning he has access to the stuff that makes reality possible. The Ascendant do not believe in a knowing creator and only our males factor a knowing creator into complex equations to describe existence as we know it. According to their work, access to eternity, or the entirety of the information that compromises existence, affords access to a knowing creator with the knowledge to easily navigate the four dimensions and provide a fix to the problem that the Ascendant face. Or, access to eternity affords the necessary view and a knowing creator is irrelevant. But, I think male scholars are correct and the leadership of the Ascendant are too patronizing to accept the truth. No war is the solution to our blunder, only ascendant knowledge and understanding can provide that.”
“But what about the Rainbow Road?” Alia asked. She understood the role that Sole Prab would play in everything, but her study with the Kazi of Eel, that covered the Rainbow Road, the Hyperion, and the Alia very extensively, was evidence that Par-Cell 77’s influence had been felt on Eel and the plan to correct the blunder of the Ascendant must involve that as well seeing as it had shaped all of Alia’s life to that point.
“Find it and run it,” Par-Cell said. “The purpose of that is to retain your memories. When your friend Darker died, he went to the destination of this Road the Kazi speak up. It is the location that all souls attain at their final death, it is the location of all materials of this reality once it expires. When Darker’s body was resurrected, his soul was drawn back and reunited with his body, allowing him to retain awareness of the man he was even though his body was destroyed. If you reach the Aeternus Machina and its creator Solse Prab, and your interaction with it causes the reset as I believe that it will, then all souls of this reality that are currently at the place where Darker’s soul was after his death, will retain memories of this reality from before the reset. Since everyone there has died, if they are somehow alive after the reset, they will remember their life, and the subsequent afterlife upon resuming their new life at the point of the reset, complete with memories of the new life formed by the reset. If you get there, you will remember everything in the event that your memories are changed by the reset.”
“But that’s millions of people, right?” Alia asks. “That will be traumatic for them.”
“Not all of them will avoid death in the reset. There is reason to believe that everything will exist as it did before, only the reasons why the present is what it is will be very different. The Ascendant learned the lesson the hard way that we are not gods, we are not capable of directing or manipulating the vast forces that make existence possible. For this reason, it is unlikely that we could have ever succeeded in our mission of slowing the end of this reality, we could only get stuck in the processes as they carried on their natural function. Subtle things will be different because we Ascendant have directly interacted with the physical realm, but this present is largely the nature of this existence at this age.”
“So whoever does manage to be alive again is just fucked because it shouldn’t be that many people?” Alia asked. “That’s the best we can do?”
Par-Cell looked pained and very sympathetic, and she nodded.
“It’s the best we can do. Erasing our blunder will undoubtedly create many lives and lead to new branches of existence that we Ascendant may have curtailed with our presence, so you can focus on the net positive of your action.”
“If you were in my shoes, and someone like you came to you with all of this, would you do it?”
“In a heartbeat,” Par-Cell said without hesitation. “You have to understand that my existence is the culmination of yours. We Ascendant become what are, we know what we know, we dwell in the places we dwell, entertain the wondrous and unbelievable and unknown beings that we know, because we are the product of the intelligent life of our past. Our life in the future is not the same as life in the time you are from. Everything has been explored and the unknown that was left unexplored existed as physical impossibilities to access, until we did and we eagerly jumped at the prospect to experience a new frontier. Alia, if you are successful, you will have seen and survived a phenomena of the universe that even the best minds could not even conceive. You will be an elder of this universe because you will have knowledge of two distinct aeons of the same existence, until they merge at the point when you cause the reset and their futures become one. I very much envy you Alia of Earth and I beg you to somehow find me in the far future and regale me with your amazing works and deeds. I will be there, because you are amazing and you will save the future.”
Alia was eager after her last conversation with Par-Cell. The quest would be difficult. It had to be. She was looking for God. Or god.
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