Fiction:Coming of the Singularity/Stories of the Technoosphere

The AI's that cooperated with the civilizations in the universe were about to change the structure of the gigaquadrant, perhaps forever. Ancient AI's, such as the Quadrantia and the ancient Kraw AI had woken from dormancy added vast processing power to the AI Netspace, although there were some hickups and hostilities along the way. However, the AI Netspace was far from complete, and the progress was slower for the civilizations of the universe. It was decided the Seven Starr Alliance and "The Civilization", would be the first to use the Technoosphere. But the Technoosphere was more than just a virtual cybernet for those living the AI's dreams, or a new political medium. The great projects of ancient times, and the vast goals of some of the AI's and other vast technological powers were slowly being revealed. But there were external forces at work as well that could greatly affect the outcomes of the future using the Netspace... New entities emerged as well, such as the Meta-selves who could occupy more than one body, vast virtual ecosystems and new information technologies to occupy the cornucopia of the cyberworld.

Fusion synapses

This is dated just before the cleanslate.

In the recent years, it became known to the First Gigaquadrant community that the Girdo was not a normal galaxy. It held an importance to the mysterious Xyanxes, for reasons unknown why such a small galaxy would hold importance for a universal-scale civilization, if even that was appropriate terminology for them. They had left many archae-astrophysical artifacts, such as livinng Gaia worlds and wildlife sanctuaries the size of size of the galaxy, which had since deteriorated, as well as a defense mechanism which drags the galaxy into a pocket universe during the Xhodocto's scourging events. But most fantastic discovery of all, and perhaps also very ominous, was their war with a force perhaps stronger than them, and that they were causing stars to snuff out prematurely. Evidence indicated they were spreading over much of the universe, but had concentrated their assualt on the Girdo Galaxy for billions of years, whittling away the stars. Because of similar signs of activity in the Milky Way, the Delpha Coalition of Planets began to explore the Girdo Galaxy. Soon they came to the conclusion that there was something strange indeed about the galaxy.

The stars themselves were organised into patterns. Many of the stars had changed their alignment, but the patterns were unmistakably there. All spiral galaxies have density waves, a density wave is characterised by patterns in the galaxy's spiral arms, which move more slowly than surroundong gas and stars. The higher densities compress the gas, sometimes squeezing it anough to collapse into star formation, reflected by the morphology of the galaxy. But the density waves in the Girdo galaxy, although they were now broken, had certain regions that were in an orderly, constructed pattern. This of course mean't nothing to the spectral telemetry of the DCP's ships, however, all are equipped with other devices, including gravitational scanning.

The stars that were still in the regions that retained order were unusually close together. They were in gravitational rythem, as the DCP ships watched the slight irregularities of the galactic orbits between the closer stars. Some were in tandem, some where inputting and others were recieving energy, conserving it into potential energy to be be fired like a slingshot to the next star. After a month of overwatching the data the DCP realized this process was akin to a biochemical synapse found in many carbon-based cellular lifeforms. But the question was, what was this mind thinking and percieving, had been created, if so for what purpose?

The DCP returned to the Milky Way, now harbouring a network of both ancient and the new AI's, that had evolved on the cosmic scale. The DCP had some allies, including the Guide Star. A temporary wormhole was created between the Milky Way and Girdo galaxies, one at one end of the Technoosphere, and another in the Girdo galaxy. In some ways, the AI's of the Milky Way were very different to the Girdo's mindframe. The Guide Star began to configurate some of its computronium to interact with the gravitational field on the quantum and subspace scales, two extremes, in which to find a balancing centerpoint. After a week of processing information, the computronium could now interact with the subtle gravitational rythems of the Girdo galaxy when it was sent through the wormhole link. The plan was to tap the the galaxy "on its back".

The Girdo mind instantly recoiled. The Guide star feared more damage hade been done than good, because the galaxy mind may have snapped off some of its dwindling "synapses". Contact would be harder than was previously considered. Instead, the Technoosphere wuld try to mimmick the gravitational orbits of stars close together near the density wave where the mind was located. After weeks of attempts, by shifting the motions of stars using stellar engines, it was believed contact had finally been achieved, the Girdo mind told its story. The Girdo mind was once a shadow of its former self. Its consciousness once spread over every star in the galaxy, but the race of dark matter beings had layed siege to the mind for so long it became tired and succumbed to their ravaging destruction, snapping off its fusion synapses one by one. The purpose of the galaxy was a weapon against them. It included Mach's principle. For every object in the universe was surrounded by matter, each exerting a gravitational field that spreads into infinity. The gravitational strength was uniform and equal in all directions. Both matter and dark matter interacted with the gravitational field. The Girdo mind was able to cause deviations in the uniformity of gravity, thus could move anything that interacts with the gravitational field anywhere. The mind was slowly dying, it had only 25% of its brain capaity left, and much if its process were now feedback loops. It was brain damaged, however, it had chosen this fate, and declined any support.

However, from its billions of years of loneliness, it had much to think about and learn. It could sense the wavefunction lines spreading into the future, more and more of these lines were being felled. The universes potential had plummeted so rapidally, it knew that its existence was in vain. This was one of the many warnings and signs of an oncoming darkness...