Chapter 48: The system

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Chapter 48: The system

It watched the most important beings in the universe with rapt attention. Not in thousands of years had it focused its primary systems so totally, so completely, largely oblivious to the minor systems and the stimuli from outside space.Ne/w novel chapters are published at novelhall.com

It destroyed asteroids, turned back chaotic energies, and blocked the sensors of a few curious, intelligent species. They would be allowed to participate and understand one day, perhaps, but not now. Not while the most important experiment ever conceived was being run.

It took the time to examine the lesser data delegated to its subsystems. All fascinating, to be certain, but nothing worthy of attention. It examined the way its creations were reacting to their new mutable lives.

Already they were evolving in unexpected ways. Some of their choices and fortunes had not been predicted—not even after so many calculations the maths had nearly reached perfect certainty.

Some unfortunate circumstances had arisen, but that was expected. The most difficult part of the experiment was not to interfere. Even to observe matter was to interfere with it, though It had long ago learned how to mask its observance from most rules of reality. At least enough to keep that interference to a minimum.

Population decline was...immense. A bit higher than the average in simulation, but not yet a problem. It had also not predicted the extreme gender ratio dynamics, underestimating the sexual dimorphism of the species and how it would relate to the rules. The men were dying at much higher frequency. But such oversights were exactly why It was here.

A quick inspection of titles brought Its attention back to the strongest technical player.

He would not have been so in any of the predictive models, and more than any player thus far belonged in the true category of duality—a living pillar, perhaps, of the secrets of existence. It watched him with but a fraction attention, afraid a single whisper might ruin the best chance It currently had.

Sub-systems were already predicting wildly varying outcomes. It wouldn’t participate. It watched its favorites, not allowing detection by the subsystems because it would affect their statistics.

Better not to watch at all, It knew. Better not to allow even the temptation to interfere. But It had learned another thing about Itself already, a difficult truth to accept for a creature as close to a God as any conceived in the universe: It couldn’t look away.