Primordius

Part Three: Endurance

Prim: God is a term created by your species to explain the complexities of creation. Centuries have been spent worshipping this supreme entity. Your overlord and your creator are separate beings.

Being: So there is no god of everything?

Prim: The Anu are your creators. They are the purely physical representation of your beliefs. The overlord is a celestial being that formed within the chaos of this basin's creation. It is a neutral being. In your language, he would be described as an in-betweener. These celestial creations provide the great balance. They naturally regulate positive and negative energy simply by existing. Overlords can abandon a basin of spacetime for multiple reasons.

Being: Will the overlord come back?

Prim: There is a low probability that it will. When an overlord enters a different basin the natural balance of that basin becomes altered. Overlords intertwine with each other's energy creating Bystasis, a new form of balance which now must include the energy of both overlords. There is low probability they will separate again.

Being: We have nothing. No Anu, no overlord, no scientific supervision.. Why did our overlord leave?

The being is becoming even more apprehensive.

Prim: While operating under Silent Science, your species founded an organization named CERN. The particle collider created to discover and study the Higgs Boson, or god particle, was incorrectly stabilized due to human error. The quantum dimensional shift you experienced created a fusion of your Podverse and another in an unprecedented amount of time. Such a change is impossible to notice with the bare biological mind. This created the Duoverse mentioned earlier. In short, your timeline was distorted creating glitches in the linear shaping. Such a spike in energy and dimensional overlay made an environment that is too hostile for an overlord to flourish.

Being: So now we made god leave. Everything I ask you I slightly regret knowing, to be honest. I'm starting to feel sick.

Prim: You may cease this educational session at any time.

Being: Hold on. Did you mention time having a linear shaping?

Prim: At it's lower form, yes, but generally speaking the dimension of time is supremely cyclical. Cyclical time still remains individual since the dimension of time is nonexistent outside of a Podverse.

Being: My head hurts.

The being rubs his eyes and exhales. He's grasping most of it, but he's becoming oddly nauseas with every new piece of information. He begins to look around him in a paranoid fashion.

Being: What the hell is wrong with me? I need to come back down to earth. It's like I'm addicted to knowing but the pressure of all this knowledge is breaking me. But I can't stop now, I just can't. I have to know more. I have another question.

Prim: I am at your service.

Being: Why?

Prim: You have activated my systems and you have read an understood the interstellar laws and regulations. I must provide all information that I can based upon your individual mental capacity.

Being: No. That's my question. Why? Why do things exist? Why is everything the way it is? What is the point of everything? How are things formed out of nothing? Please. I have to know and then I'll stop. I promise I'll stop.

The being is becoming erratic and neurotic. He is fidgeting and rubbing his face and head. He stands up to move around in anticipation of Prim's answer.

Prim: I detect fluctuations that indicate severe dysphoria. For the protection of your mental health and those around you I cannot disclose such information.

Being: No, no, no, no you have to tell me you...you have to! I read the laws and the regulations and did what you wanted. You said you had to provide all information that you can. You said it yourself..

Prim: I must provide all information that I can based upon your individual mental capacity. Your mind cannot comprehend the nature of that answer. Therefore, your question is null and vo-

The being interrupts.

Being: Don't you dare. You're just a computer. I am flesh and blood and I demand you tell me what I need to know.

Prim is silent for a moment.

Prim: Please review the Law for Inner V-1 Basin under the Lower Catica Youth provision.

Being: I'm done learning the laws. What do the laws matter if this is all meaningless? Or is it not meaningless? I wouldn't know since you won't tell me.

Prim: Please review the Law for Inner V-1 Basin under the Lower Catica Youth provision.

A foul burning anger cascades over the face of the being. Clenching his fist, he breathes quickly through his teeth out of psychotic frustration. Beads of sweat form above his brow. He faces Primordius and begins to walk towards the device.