Young Writers Society

Chapter 1: Choices from culture and belief

Sapion- “We are protectors of life.”

Sina- “You are the preservers of death. You allow unadvanced sentient beings experience a slow and painful rot until death. We introduce the choice and abilities to allow continuation of life.”

Leuthid- “In doing so you destroy culture and history.”

Pygmalio - “Past history are often irrelevant. Coincidences and the unlighten actions of the masses, and the one are not things to be revered. The ancient cultures of the past can be forgotten and lost. Beyond these points, factually, your limited minds can’t comprehend most of your past cultures. The small inkling of the past in your unaugmented minds is negligible.”

Aequus discreetly to Pygmalio though his neuron implant- “Use more tact. This will not go well if you don’t.”

Agal- “We do record and preserve history, we just don't stay in it. The cultures of species we uplift usually would have taken eons to reach the technological level to control their own biological fate. The cultural transformation over this time period will have their past culture phased out of existence. Time and the Confederacy would have them die. We give them the choice to live.”

Eguanid- “The savages you intend to ‘uplift’ next are are homicidal dunces. They near abundance and they rape, pillage and murder. They are too short sighted. Their minds will taint all of space civilization.”

Leuta- “We police our own. As we always have. The transitory period will be difficult with this species, but we do not treat this as a burden”

Leuthid- “I have seen them bloat their guts and dirty the land, sea, and air. They have in recent times they pollute space with their garbage. The know we could exist and they don’t care to show concern.”

Nanomorph- “They will learn as we have learn. The cure for their selfishness and disregard will lay in our tools of alteration and production abilities.”

Gunchrolutes- “The Humans have been given enough history to show us that is not true.”

Pygmalio- “New minds will be civilized.”

Glab- “We don’t trust this can always happen. These mixings bring unfamiliarity.”

Agal- “We know our capabilities better than you. We will continue with the upliftings and continue to earth. We believe that the uplifting is the moral choice. We will voyage toward earth”

Pygmalio- “Then talks are dismissed.”

Chapter 2: The Uplifting

As the talks ended, ships departed the space station. The ships heading toward earth united and plunged past stars beyond light and empty space. The trip was short in time but. All that was to be done was planned in sundry and numerous scenarios. Seemingly countless to certain minds.

When the amalgamation ship arrived the ship separated only to complete its task. The ships twirled around earth at speeds the most advanced human tools could pick up. Green beams then blanketed the planet.

Human bodies and human machines seemed to be frozen in time, but human minds continued to think. Humans were stopped in their activities to listen. Some were dying in hospital beds. Some have even taken their last breath moments ago to be suddenly awakened. Some were eye to eye sending bullets into one another’s flesh. All were stopped.

Trans-civilization Union delved into every human mind to introduce themselves, “Sentient beings descended from the Terran planet, you have been indoctrinated in a culture of death acceptance. This message is from Trans-civilization Union. You lack the ability not to die. The Union is giving each sentient being a choice. The choice is being uplifted into us where you can be incorporated into the Trans-Civilization Union and receive the ability and the knowledge to control the processes that create death.

Humans around the world made a choice. To join the Trans-Civilization Union and given the capability to be transformed. They could advance themselves physically and mentally. They could not resign to death.

Chapter 3: The Conversation

Eguanid- They give us a choice now, but when they surpass us beyond to where we are near nothing compared to them will they allow us to continue?

Sapion- Don’t they give themselves choice too? The beings who have individuality in the Trans-civilization Union are allowed to self terminate.

Glab- The Trans-Civilization Union copy minds and memories. Their minds become AIs and their AIs become flesh. If ideas lead to war they have a huge advantage because of how they mold body and consciousness. Ability is ubiquitous among them. Rank is assigned by number, not by merit because merit because merit is just as ubiquitous as ability within them. One general falls the next in line is just as capable.

Gunchrolutes- We may have our own kind of crafts we are willing to expend, but they are mixed in with theirs. They are their crafts. They are their colossus and the minds. They are not limited to blood, but into fabric of their choosing.

Sapion- That shows it is madness to attack them.

Glab- We may lose but the preservation of this way of life could end.

Sapion- There is no chance. It will end of your species. This will be the undoing of the Spacefaring Species Confederacy.

Eguanid- Then we will die trying to preserve our ways.

Chapter 4: Outcomes

War was never declared but the Spacefaring Species Confederacy attacked the Trans-Civilization Union worlds. They attacked what they believed to be the weakest point. The species who were most like them, the Lequus. They were the only species in the Union who stayed mostly how they were before they were uplifted. Many of their colonies were obliterated, but they were prepared for this. Their neural implants took copies of their brain and uploaded them across space. Their digital copies enacted much scorn and physcial vengeance. The Lequus was mostly destroyed but their digital minds melded with other minds in the Union. With their old physial bodies abdcent they had no problem with drastic changes. The union was ready to enable full force now.

The war was total. The Trans-Civilization Union had no mercy in war with Spacefaring Species Confederacy. Factually the Union believed that these species were not as much killed, but had their small lifespans shorten. It is more of a tragedy to kill a mind that has not resigned to die.

Humans newly introduced to the Union had little part in the war. Most humans choose not to join, but over generations were inclined to join. Humans, or what they evolved into spread across the galaxy and then the universe.

The war did not dissuade Trans-Civilization Union from continuing upliftings. As the Trans-Civilization Union spread across the universe they found more planets with conscious life. As their reach extended to the edges of the universe they had a pull on all matter. They woke up the universe and from that point they saw something more.