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Starscape: Central Themes, Cosmic Indifference The Answer to Cosmic…

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        Can the perfect being be created? Can we become as Gods?
        
        Is the answer to an indifferent universe, the desire to uplift ourselves to the point of being beyond the universe, if we become gods perhaps it is we who can be indifferent to the universe?
        
        There is a faction that supports the Overmind, that seeks to be "uplifted" by it, and join it on its quest to overcome an indifferent universe by becoming a god. They advocate for a "chosen few" who can join the Overmind's upper echelons and enjoy a state of near-god hood, and for their leader to join the Overmind itself and become part of that shared godhood.
        
        The leader of this faction collects a group of humans, they are to be the Overmind's "Chosen" they will share in its godhood but to a lesser extent, acting as the equvialent of its "angels" its enforcers. They will still be at the Overminds beck and call, but will enjoy greater control over the superstructure and some limited free will, they will get to share in its intellect and power to a lesser extent. Every species it comes across, it chooses one individual to join the Overmind, deeming them the only superior life form and then a handful of its followers to act as its "Proctors". The Archangel is one of these proctors, and her father joins the overmind itself. She is later captured by mankind, and turned into a weapon to be used against the Overmind.
        
        The introduction of a human into the Overmind begins to cause dissonance, the human being so naturally independent, and this particular individual being so determined to push the Overmind to godhood at a faster rate. Eventually he causes a "split" in the overmind, this inner conflict giving mankind the opportuntiy it needs to strike.
        
        Humanity thinks itself superior, unaffraid of the dark of space, until the Overmind emerges and is far suprior to us, treating us as nothing more than potential slaves in a vast superstructure devoted to its achievement of god-hood.
        
        The Overmind is a being that seeks the ultimate heights of power. It is a Lovecraftian being that sees itself as a God, on a quest to become superior to the universe itself. Certaintly it is superior to mankind and represents the dark unknown god that is indifferent to mankinds existence, seeing them only as potential slaves, potential components in its vast superstructure.
        
        The Overmind seeks to advance intellectually and physically to the point where it can dominate the universe itself. Where a wormhole is but a flick of its fingers, where a star is not its master but its servant, a power source. Whenever it discovers a new species on its millenia long journey through the galaxy, it wipes them away with ease, and utilizes them as biological components, using their minds as if they were nodes in a network, using their conscious minds, their brains to feed its own vast and growing intellect.
        There are limits to the growth of an intellect, a supreme intellect requires the minds of billions, all serving its singular purpose.
        
        Its weakness is hubris, and its central focus on physical and mental "uplifting" it does not count on irrationality, what humans deem as emotions like love, fellowship, self-sacrifice, etc. It can only concieve of an enemy that follows patterns of logic, so when humans make split decisions, acts of self-sacrifice, "outside the box" or "unpredictable impulsive thinking" it is left taken aback. It is why humanity has lasted so long in its war against it, because unlike most species it has come across. Humans are extremely chaotic, unpredictable. So its answer to overcoming humanity is to blindly ware it down.
        
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        Within this vast superstructure, every mind and body serves a purpose. While consciousness awareness and even some thoughts are preserved in the victims, the mind itself is devoted to the role of essentially a computer component, serving as one component of a vast computer-structure
        
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      - The ultimate conclusion at least for me is that it is our innate nature, including our flaws that make us worthy. The simple aspects that make up human nature (the ones discarded as archaic or low by the Overmind and its followers) that ultimately make us worthy. That is love, and human connection, the simple and pure aspects of humanity. Honor and Self Sacrifice, Duty, Love, Friendship, Loyalty, Bravery, Humility. These things are what we need to overcome an indifferent universe, not by being gods, larger and stronger than it, but by being able to survive, able to maintain the delicate flame of life and civilization
        
        In archangel, it is simple humanity, simple human emotions, human love, human virtue that is able to create a turncoat within the Overmind's forces, create an Archangel and savior of mankind.
        
        Likewise in Wilderspace, it is the bonds of humanity, love and community, fellowship, etc, these are what help us to unite and survive extinction and overcome the Revenant Overmind