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13.The Fall of Home Universe
Throughout the home universe era, we built game playing universes in which
people could complete with each other. But there was always a desire for
rougher, tougher games. And there was always the sticky problem of keeping
people from sneakily overriding the rules and cheating. Since beating others at
the various games had considerable status attached to it, this became an area
of considerable interest and importance.
And so eventually we tried to build a powerful and constraining game. And to
achieve this, we build the Games universe and for a playing field, we built the
original Earth. And it is not a matter of chance that we are living on a copy
of that world. It is a commonly used planetary design because of its history.
And because it was involved in the fall of home universe, it is known to be a
disturbing and restimulative place. So any time a prison or dumping ground for
undesirables is needed in this galaxy, they go looking around for a copy of the
original Earth. There are probably thousands of them among the millions of
planets circling the stars of the Milky Way and any decent sized space empire
would have at least one somewhere within its borders.
But the original Earth itself was a nice and interesting mockup. After all, it
was built as the ultimate game rather than as a prison or a nasty place.
We played this game endlessly. It was a subtle and complex version of the
child's game where the rock can break the scissors and the scissors can cut the
paper but the paper can cover the rock. Except that it was played with a huge
variety of "identities" and endless complex interrelations between them. These
identities were things like the "Ruler" and the "Scientist" and the "Artist"
etc. But identity is not a good term for this since many different individuals
would put on these packages of characteristics. So we will use the Scientology
term "Valence" (a package of personality characteristics) to describe these.
And this "Valence Game" was quite subtle despite the simplicity of the rules.
Each of the valences had a strict series of privileges, duties, and constraints
in relationship to each of the other valences. But a character playing one
valence might pretend to be another. For example, an assassin might pretend to
be a concubine and assassinate the ruler.
It was quite popular and eventually championship games even had crowds of
spectators and commentators peering down from the top level of the home
universe matrix.
The real liability of this game was the use of high powered conditioning to
implant the form and constraints of the identities or "valences" that were used
to play the game on the original earth. This was intended to make the game more
interesting and prevent cheating. But it lead to the building up of "mass" on
these valences and eventually it lead to our downfall.
Unlike other universes, the Games universe had a complex series of rigid laws
enforced by hitting the participants with "valence masses" on the original
Earth on their way into the game. And we set up a sort of transparent copy of
the original earth in the top level of the home universe matrix itself. As a
result, we wound up with a complex planetary mockup being used for a transfer
point rather than a simple golden sphere.
There was a great deal of status and havingness attached to placing mockups at
the top level of home universe. To persist there, they had to be mutually
agreed upon. It seems as if one of the prizes for winning in the games universe
was to put something up at the top level. Various objects and body mockups etc.
wound up there as a result. Eventually we even built some flat-Earth mockups at
the top level to give us a place to keep all of this stuff. Just guessing now,
there might have even been "embodiment clubs" meeting in these places. If you
hadn't won the right to place a mockup at the top level, you could only hang
around there in an embarrassing disembodied state. Of course you could just
mock something up at the top level illegally, but that was liable to get you
tossed into a penalty universe.
We experienced aberration when entering the games universe but once there we
could leave easily and were only held by our interest in the game. All of us
tried every valence many, many times. There were different win and loss
conditions for each valance. Afterwards, we'd go back up to the home universe
matrix and analyze the play.
Eventually, people began putting manifestations of their favorite valences up
in the top level matrix. I.E.., they'd win as the singer or as the scientist or
whatever and they'd put an appropriate body type up at the top level as their
prize. Some people might have even started trying to collect the entire set of
valance manifestations up at the top. One thing that happened from this is that
people would expect you to follow games universe rules when dealing with a
games universe valence manifestation. Often they got compliance with this
because we'd hit the rules so often, but somebody would always disagree and
there were fights and upsets. Another problem with this was that it gradually
created more and more commonalty of agreement between the top level matrix and
the games universe.
Another thing that happened was the introduction of penalty universe mockups
onto the original Earth. Many beings flinched a bit at these and so they could
be used as barriers. It seems like people were beginning to cheat and sidestep
some of the implanted conditioning on the way into the game and therefore
something was needed to keep them to the proper path.
Also, some of the hardier souls asked for penalty universe mockups as game
prizes and placed these up on the flat worlds in the top level as well.
All of these factors caused an ever growing level of agreement and connection
between the penalty universes, the games universe, and the top level of the
matrix. The Original Earth and the flat worlds orbiting around it acted as the
central point of concentration.
And then an idea began circulating around that too great a commonalty of agreed
upon objects or anchorpoints bridging two universes could cause those universes
to collapse together. There might have even been some popular story universes
about this sort of thing happening. And gradually people began to worry about
the danger of having that original earth tied in so tightly to the top of the
home universe matrix. And some people wanted to get rid of it, but others, real
game playing fans, were deeply attached to it and there was considerable
fighting and tension. And the tension kept building.
I'm not certain exactly what triggered the collapse. It seems to be something
to do with the penalty universes. Possibly they simply put one too many penalty
universe mockups on the original Earth when the tension was at its peak. Or
maybe they actually tried to connect or merge the penalty universes with the
original Earth either to beef up the penalty universes or to enforce the rules
of the game on earth more strictly. Or maybe some group decided to "cure" the
more anti-social beings by dragging them into agreement. Regardless of the
exact cause, what happened is that the entire matrix began to collapse together.
Possibly you had the top level display on when the stars began to fall. Or
maybe you felt something strange and invoked the top level display. The stars
collapse into the Original Earth. All the universes collide there. The mass
builds and the whole planet explodes. This is probably basic on the big bang
the astronomers get excited about.
Each of our universes fell into the Earth mass and flew outward in the
explosion. But you at least held part of your universe stably around you during
this. It was really just the outlying mockups and envelope that shattered. Even
so, you saw your universe (or universes) scattered throughout the cosmos. There
is tremendous loss and grief on this.
When the piece you held together settled down, you probably moved from grief up
to anger. You'd already picked up the tone scale dramatization from the penalty
universes and this was enough impact to bring about solid downtone emotions.
Somewhere in this incident, space seems to be filled with lightning and energy.
Your mockups begin decaying, getting corroded and crumbling to dust. This is
mainly due to the influence of the penalty universes. Your universe is no
longer separate and therefore is affected by an agreed upon set of laws. But
the only commonly agreed upon laws were those of the penalty universes and the
games universe which had become part of the universe you were in. So these
agreements take precedence. And the biggest common agreement between all the
penalty universes is the downward slide into decay.
You then tried to restore your mockups but you failed because others invalidate
them and downscale agreements were spreading around and affecting you. So you
started using the games valences against others. You worked to destroy their
mockups and impose your own.
Eventually this settles down into a big game to make your mockups persist and
others fail. In other words, have for self and can't have for others.
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