Original document (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x2LmFF4rpKjvVpX56r1X4rxswFGdnqb6GT-tZiWb28k/edit?tab=t.0) created 3/1/2024
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I had previously attempted to use wiki.js, running into a large amount of very frustrating technical difficulties, all of which I overcame except the public url not working. I could only access it through localhost or 127.0.0.1:3000, making collaboration impossible. Also my computer keeps blackscreening seemingly at random and the only way to fix it each time it happens is to restart. So now I am using this.
Neocities is terrible for file hosting, it is a website maker not a file dump and we have tons of large images, I can "integrate" MediaFire but I do not feel like doing so right now. wait actually mediafire is shit for embedding images
A .md file would be ideal here because then I could have minor formatting without having to type <p></p> and <PRE></PRE> all the time, but neocities apparently does not support those...
when I type " or ' here they are normal but when I paste them from somewhere else they are these SPECIAL quotation marks or apostrophes and they get all corrupted
Empty lines after a section preceded with a > do not count as empty lines, they are just to exit the quote section and would not show up in a .md


### General
Oceans are like the arctic circle but the whole world (except equatorial regions) instead of just that one area, with all the pack ice and stuff
Pack ice: frozen seawater. When the surface of the ocean freezes, it thickens. In the open ocean, it drifts apart and slides over itself, riding the ocean as it breaks apart and re-forms again and again. Although it appears static in offshore areas, it's constantly moving with the wind and water currents. After a nice eight-hour sleep, one might wake up in a different place.
How it's formed: when it's cold enough, ice crystals form in the ocean and float to the surface. This is called frazil ice. In calm water, the frazil crystals start mushing together into a thick soup, becoming grease ice. As the ice continues to freeze and thicken, the grease ice forms a thin sheet of elastic nilas ice. In a process called rafting, sheets of nilas ice slide over each other, eventually thickening into a sheet with a smooth bottom. The bottom slowly grows long crystals that reach down into the water. This bottom-freezing ice is called congelation ice. But when the water is rough, the frazil ice makes pancakes.
The waves toss the pancakes on top of each other, thickening the ice. Whether it's from grease or pancakes, you've got yourself an ice floe. At least for a little while... ice floes like to break apart and do their own thing. Sometimes they partner with new ice floes.
The ocean’s food web is based on this
When the frazil crystals floated to the surface, they brought microscopic organisms with them. Tossed together by the grease ice, the algae all make their way to the bottom of an ice floe. When the ice starts to melt, the algae is freed. Ice water has a lower salinity than seawater, so the melted ice water floats to the surface and brings the algae with it. The algae blooms, attracting the attention of copepods and other phytoplankton. (This is the part where they would be eaten by fish, which are eaten by seals, which are eaten by polar bears)

Season is not a hemispheric effect but a global one, as a result of the ellipsoid orbit.
It rarely rains, sleeting or snowing instead.
There are not a whole lot of greenhouse gases so heat escapes even with clouds.
it still snows on the equator just less

https://astro.unl.edu/naap/pos/animations/kepler.html
Distance: 13 AU
Diameter: ~7028 mi (11,310.47 km)
Average Temperature: -10°F (-23.33333°C)
Rotation: 30 hours (1.25 days/108000 seconds)
Revolution: 11688 daynights (14610 earth days/40 earth years/1 solen)
Eccentricity: 0.14

Date format: SSSS/DDDDD (solen/daynight)
Maximum daynight is 11688
Unused zeroes on DDDDD may be excluded but only when writing casually and not in super precise records and things (example: 3782/168, meaning 3782/00168)
Read like decimals, eg instead of saying three thousand seven hundred eighty two, it is just three seven eight two
Time format: ACCMM (goes 0-9/0-99)
Aani’aon: 10800 seconds (3 hours, 10 per daynight)
Si’aon: 108 seconds (1.8 minutes, 100 per aani’aon)
Io’aon: 1.08 seconds (100 per Si’aon)
The clock resets at (what would be 6AM) instead of midnight
Aureiyx are generally more interested in the events themselves than the numbers attached to them, and are more likely to say “morning”, “midday”, “dusk”, etc, numbers are mostly used in records
Starts at the formation of the universe 325,000,000 solens (13 billion years) ago, so to acknowledge this, instead of writing 32500SSSS/DDDDD it is often written 325M SSSS/DDDDD. Of course, it can become 325M SSSSS/DDDDD (3250SSSSS/DDDDD), 325M SSSSSS/DDDDD (325SSSSSS/DDDDD), 326M S/DDDDD (32600000S/DDDDD), and so on.
Full date and time example: 325M 3782/00168:22308
Things that are not listed on dates but are just for help when communicating:
Dek’aon (10 daynights, week equivalent)
Solenear (1168.8 daynights/116.88 dek’aons/four years)
They use a base ten system because the alternative would be a nightmare for me

10/30/24: Interesting Fact: one can tell roughly when I wrote something by whether it uses contractions. However this is not very reliable since I am capable of editing things.


### Flora
The subterranean hot springs and their surrounding cave systems, or “subspring caves”, may seem like a refuge from the extreme cold and violent weather, but they are actually dark, cramped (especially to aureiyx where a space too small to fly in is like being forced to use a wheelchair), labyrinthine, and fetid places where a misstep often means boiling to death in the wrong part of a spring. What little light there is comes from bioluminescence, primarily that of fungi, insects and algae.
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/do-plants-grow-in-cave-environments.html

The most widespread surface plant is lichen because it can withstand the cold and dry. This type of lichen has adapted to grow far faster than it does on earth because of how much it is grazed on.
At lower altitudes/latitudes there is also a lot of moss, like so:
(image)

At high altitudes, the plants are much like dwarf willows. Stay low and grow slow, or you will soon be blown away...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland_boreal_birch_forests_and_alpine_tundra

-make more plants
-make more landscape drawings


### Fauna
Skegs are not found on this planet :(
I sure do hope nobody introduces them that would be a real ecological disaster

Creatures with drawings: Boreal Walker, Strisher, Gaseous Lurker, Kelp Bulb, Grizzly Mantis, Pero
The creature descriptions are in the images

-Make an actual ecosystem real ecosystems are extremely complex I do not have to go that far but I want to go further than I have now (includes flora)
-draw those creatures I have sitting around on that text document
-make more animals


### Aureiyx stuff (anatomy/behavior mostly)
mmmmmmmmmmmaybe I should put empty line spaces here to improve readability
Do not read something like "hermaphrodites" and then think "are you not going to elaborate on the implications of this and how it affects their lives and society and everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", chances are I have done so later in the document

Some anatomy stuff is in images in the Syvei folder.

Omnivores (more detailed description in Aureiyx2.png)

Hermaphrodites, give birth to live young, usually 2-4

They can mutually fertilize but usually avoid doing so to not have too many mouths to feed. This is more often done in colonies where there are others to help support the parents, or by aureiyx who separate afterwards to birth and raise their respective children alone or with someone else.

This means that they are technically able to breed with themselves, but they usually do not because it is like inbreeding but worse and the offspring produced are likely to have several genetic disorders including lowered intelligence, fluctuating facial asymmetry, reduced fertility in both litter size and sperm viability, lower birth rate, higher infant/child mortality, smaller adult size, loss of immune system function, increased cardiovascular risks, paralyzing bone deformities, and a variety of terrible diseases.
Diseases that cause fur loss, such as mange, are super dangerous for them because no fur = freeze to death in about two nanoseconds (exaggeration, also they have other methods of heat retention such as a fat layer)

There are not a whole lot of diseases in existence here because they just cannot survive the cold. The planet acts like a frigid decontamination chamber for any outsiders that come to it so any diseases the outsiders are immune to and might be carrying would die before they could do anything, but if an aureiyx were the one visiting some other planet they would be at a much larger risk. What diseases there are are concentrated in subspring caves, an environment much more hospitable for them like how rainforests have ten million diseases and bugs around. This means that if an outsider were able to visit a subspring area before the stuff on/in them died it might establish itself there and be a huge problem

It is a bold claim to type that an entire species is of one opinion on something. It may be said that I have done that in several places on this document. I do not do that, what I have typed are general difference from humans. I will type that they are more inclined to be fine with abortions. Even though they are sapient and have better resources to prevent infant deaths than, say, wolves, the harsh climate results in a high infant mortality rate. To cope with this, they do not see infants as "people" until they have outgrown the danger zone and can start to be seen as individuals. Sometimes I will look at infants in strollers and seeing their parents value them as a person, somehow unique and different from every other infant, they could have been switched at birth and you would never know the difference you idiot, and I am like "how"
It could be argued that it is not what the infant is, it is what the infant has the potential to be that counts, but consider this: every time a sperm or egg cell dies, that is part of a potential someone who has died, they could have been the greatest person ever but will never be born. But to meticulously save every single cell because if you do not you are killing a potential someone would be ridiculous.

Only large settlements and their surrounding areas have established governments (or not exactly governments but bodies like that), outside those they have a very [fission-fusion society](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fission%E2%80%93fusion_society)
Settlements usually come out of a colony not moving around much and just getting larger and larger and expanding on the communal den
In a colony, people other than the parents help care for the young. it is often the older individuals who play a larger part in the communal raising of the young because they are more experienced and it makes more sense for them to be able to raise children well than the actual parents who often have only (relatively) recently become adults, and this way the parents don't have to "settle down" as much, actually aureiyx do not “settle down” in general I hate the idea of someone having to have having kids as their one life goal especially women it could be said that everyone is a disposable flesh container for genetic material and the meaning of life is to survive long enough to reproduce before you become food for something else but that is a depressing existence and with humans there are so many around that if you do not breed it is okay because someone else will, the importance of reproduction is greatly overrated

Colonies have a communal den, sometimes more than one.

They do not often build nests like regular birds; outside settled areas, home sites include: burrows in the snow or dirt with a long entrance tunnel like polar bears do, alcoves in the rock preferably on a mountain, and inside overgrown bushes. The parents line the dwelling with their own fur and feathers for extra warmth.

Average height: around 7 feet

tail has feathers that can spread out sideways to help with flight

large back paws act like snowshoes (4 toes on back foot)

4 fingers - 1 thumb. Hybrid between a paw and a hand with actual dexterity. No paw pads on hands

Large lungs adapted for breathing thin air and flying/diving for extended periods of time

In order to fly, their bones have to be very light, which makes them more fragile. To compensate, their bones heal very fast.

No collarbones because they would get in the way of flying or something. I mean birds have them but that is on their wings. Too bad there aren’t any real life animals with two sets of limbs attached to the same shoulders that I could use as a reference. Or I could do arm-wings but meh

summer coat: thinner, more gray/green/brown, switches by temperature rather than at a fixed time so ones that live near the poles or on the pack ice might never switch to their summer coat while ones that live on the equator or in subspring caves would keep it much longer or even year-round.

They have not developed vehicles such as cars or trains because wings go brrrrrrrrr

If something too large to carry needs to be transported, the go-to option is a sledge or aerosynth. This avoids the problem of having to, say, constantly excavate train tracks from deep snow--the terrain is simply flown over. Aerosynth cargo convoys are common.

Jotunhel: average city
I might get rid of subspring communities, aureiyx would hate them
Coniferon: Major subspring city, home to the Coniferon Department of Biotechnology (Synapse created that body for their own benefit, but an unintended side effect was introducing aureiyx to genetic coding), the leading authority on its subject, although the department’s position is much weaker after the The Incident which destroyed a bunch of stuff and continues to haunt the city, forcing the evacuation of nearly all residents, who either became nomadic or moved to colonies or other cities
Sapunq: smaller subspring community, major destination for Coniferon evacuees

Most cities are at least partially built into the sides of mountains, and have these very tall thin buildings that look like a gust of wind would blow them down. These cities rarely have a ground level; they descend straight into whatever (often irregular) terrain they are built into. While they do dig dens and nest in alcoves and stuff, they are not huge fans of enclosed spaces. Basically everywhere is La Rinconada but less depressing and aureiyx are adapted not to suffer from hypoxia (and other ailments that may come from high altitudes) all the time.

More nomadic ones like to live on the pack ice. They only have 1-2 young at a time so they can take their children with them everywhere instead of worrying about not being able to find a den again. Either that or they den on land. They breed much earlier in the spring than ones who don't live on pack ice because by the time summer comes their young need to be able to fly/swim the now much longer distances between ice floes.

There is no religion. I need a reason for this other than just because I personally do not like religion. I do not like how I have to come up with reasons for them to not have any rather than that being the default and if they had any I would have to come up with reasons why that would be so. There are three reasons why religion happens: mortality, neoteny, and the cooperative hunting group. I mostly plagiarized wrote a whole thing on this I don’t need to explain it again	 Aureiyx definitely meet the first two criteria,,,,, but they are a little bit like wolves they work together to take down large prey but they can hunt by themselves however aureiyx are much more competent at hunting by themselves than wolves and are not forced to cooperate to survive like humans and to a lesser extent wolves are. They still play and are neotenous I suppose (and are like humans in that when you really get down to it everyone behaves like children, and as we get older we just get better at rationalizing it. This sounds like a bad thing but the prospect of growing up and not playing, not having fun, not being curious, not creating anymore, not performing impractical and biologically useless but for instance fulfilling activity is worse by far) but do not require a parental figure also side note wolves are apparently not neotenous but they still play how about that. And I just really really do not want them to have religion okay

Their extremely good sense of direction is due to their magnetoreception.

How did I not think about this until now, smell is important for them like how it is for the dog family, they also have words for smells like how humans have so many words for describing things visually. They have a vomeronasal organ

Things that they make, for example backpacks, are not assembly line productions, are not super neat and perfect pristine things

> Rabbits are known to carry their ears in one of five ways:
-Erect ears (the most common): Both ears are carried upright. Such ears may at times rest atop the rabbit's back, or be temporarily smoothed down by the rabbit when it bathes or grooms itself.
-Full lop ears (less common): Both ears hang fully down, brushing the rabbit's cheeks and shoulders. Such ears may gently undulate as the rabbit hops.
-Half lop ears (uncommon): One ear is carried in a full (or nearly-full) droop, while the other ear is carried erect. Similar in appearance, a now-extinct one-eared rabbit—said to resemble a unicorn—was breeding true around the end of the 18th century, and in 1958 two such healthy specimens were photographed.
-Oar lop ears (uncommon): Both ears are carried roughly horizontal to the ground and out over the rabbit's shoulders. The term comes from the resemblance to a boat's oars at rest. In modern times, these are sometimes referred to as helicopter ears.
-Horn lop ears (rare): Both ears are carried roughly horizontal to the ground and out over the rabbit's nose. The term comes from the resemblance to the forward-facing horns of some cows.

Aureiyx ears from most to least common: Full lop ears, erect ears, oar lop ears, half lop ears, horn lop ears
The super long ears I originally meant for the entire species to have before realizing it doesn’t make biological sense (because of how much heat would escape). I’ll just say they can close them and they have a lot of ear fluff. Ear length varies, only shorter ones can be erect.

A while ago I had this dream where I was going on a journey flying with wings and I had to follow a route with signs and I kept seeing these signs that said “NO CLOUDSMOKING” and I thought “what is cloudsmoking” cloudsmoking is flying in clouds when you are not supposed to which is dangerous because it is like flying in a fog where things can strike without warning, both smacking into things like mountains that you could not see because of the fog and people can hide in clouds and then murder people and the wind is really strong up there and it is just a bad idea. However it is implied that flying in clouds itself is not so bad, it is just this cloudsmoking activity that happens a lot when people fly in clouds. The smoking part is you know when people will say “smoke yourself out” in video games, it is like that

The average lifespan is three solens (120 years). They also age slower than humans, becoming adults at 30 years old, and it sort of levels off once they reach adulthood.

Aureiyx do not wear clothes, with some exceptions (combat exos for instance). There are three reasons why humans wear clothes:
1. Comfort: they help maintain a stable body temperature
2. Modesty: they allow humans to interact with one another without their bipedalism immediately turning it into a sexual display
3. Display: Self-expression, etc
Aureiyx’s thick fur fulfills the first two purposes.

Aureiyx name for Corundum: Sa (not “the sa” like “the sun”, just “Sa”)
And their name for Syvei’s dense debris disk/cloud is Aiix

A thing that happened once is I had to have dinner with my parents and some relatives that were visiting, I was standing outside the restaurant with my parents waiting for the relatives to arrive, and some guy walked up to my dad and said hello and my dad and that guy did “relative greetings” for a few seconds before realizing that they were talking to a stranger, that guy mistook my dad for one of his relatives and my dad mistook that guy for our one of relatives (I know this because they both said it to each other after a few seconds of confusion) but I realized a minute later that I do not know those relatives that were visiting any better than that guy, if I was told that that guy was my relative I would never know the difference, a minute after that guy left the actual relatives came and said hello and started yakking and one of them asked for a hug from me and that was when I had the realization; I do not know this person at all, but because he is my relative I am expected to hug and like and exchange meaningless pleasantries with him, there is no difference between these people and that stranger, I am related to people I do not relate to. Why am I writing this here? Because aureiyx do not assume that there is automatically some kind of lifelong bond between family members, especially ones who have never met; for aureiyx those whom one emotionally depends on is more important than one’s birth family (though these can and often do include birth family members). Not everyone in these which I will name ariensk, not everyone in an ariensk has to like one another, if there is someone in one’s ariensk whom one does not like one just recognizes that another person needs them and one stays out of their way.

While slit pupils look cool, and can expand much more than round ones for night vision, they produce an exaggerated horizontal blurring effect that is only of use to creatures with visual gear low to the ground. An example of this is domestic cats (low, slit) as opposed to lions (high, round), even though both have similar circadian rhythms I think. So their pupils are mostly round.

they have a nictitating membrane

the penises are tentacle penises with frill looking things because I felt like it


### Aureiyx/tCDoB/Synapse/etc. mlore (although it is not limited to just this section)
New name: Synapse Sinakonurr
Changed their name from Karhide to Synapse because I can only have so many “homages” before it starts to get really awkward and strange
Same with Orgoreyn, changed to Ohan Reyuon
I originally only used those names because I could not think of my own at the time, but since I am now using TLHoD paragraphs to help explain things one may be able to see why I would want to change them
Since Synapse's wings are not visible at all in the HP ref, I will assume that their wings were infested to such a degree (and they tried to rip out the infestation, further damaging their wings) that there is nothing left but two mangled strips of flesh, and they only managed to get it stabilized so it would not completely consume them after that had already happened.
After “The Incident” Synapse and Wenzhine are pretty much walking biohazards (synapse was like that even before)
Talks like a nineteenth century book with perfect grammar (mostly) and no slang or contractions and needlessly complex rambling sentences that go on and on and on, and (crtl f On Puppets)
Synapse on work in tCDoB: "While an inordinate amount of my time is occupied with administrative matters too often petty, I do manage to slot in direct work. I do not attempt to appear to be unbelievably busy at all times as a status display, as such displays are a waste of time I do not require. Compulsive delegation as a means of quickly offloading responsibilities is to be avoided. I once came across a piece of humor entitled 'The Theory of Delegation': that all tasks are eventually delegated to the person who understands them the least."
Like IPOP (IC), I could make Synapse kind of like an extreme version of me/parts of me. [“I am not yet desperate enough to attempt to recycle the plot of that other project”](https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1ZHDWloRPSSPET018sn5bRMHnZqjKm45vxBjBbhNG7e8/edit) ehehhehehehhhhhhhhhhhh
“Nature is quietly and unspeakably beautiful. Attempts to emulate or improve on nature fare less well.”
“Almost anything carried to its logical extreme becomes depressing, if not carcinogenic.”
Synapse is a transhumanist (or they are not human so much so… meh, I know what I mean)
ok I suppose I am finding myself recycling some of IC lore here: Synapse is like IPOP and their creators, terrified of the futility of everything, not agreeing with significance being not a matter of shouting one’s name into the void but creating and making the most of one’s own context. I cannot have it be exactly the same as IC, for instance the programming error that causes a ton of problems, this is a good thing, I can also have it be different not only through the things from IC I cannot include but new things I add that make sense in this context. A cold world, perfect for storing things. The solution to Synapse having all this off-planet knowledge they could not have possibly had and that the aureiyx population at large does not have would be for them to not come from Syvei at all, they are not even an aureiyx they are just a The Thing/Carrion/Absolute Solver --type organism that can rearrange itself to impersonate one very well. Exaggerated aureiyx proportions– others tend to find them eerie. Of course, here the “the excuse is that it is really just a very roundabout way of solving the original problem, knowing that probably no one in this time will manage to so we need to preserve all our progress for the next civilization” does not work here
"Some ancient philosophers believed time was cyclical rather than linear. It would conflate cause and effect, with actions becoming self-justified because, in the long run, they lead inevitably to themselves."
~~Exodus404~~ The end goal is to transfer everyone and everything to a completely "stable" artificial reality and "save" everything from inevitable decay at the hands of the universe, with themself as the "god" of that world. Synapse would pick preventing the death of the universe/ensured preservation of stuff while also disallowing new life and growth over the natural state of things changing. A requirement is for it to be able to keep existing even after the stars go out so its “host planet” should be already cold and it needs to be able to function without external heat or light so Stigia is a perfect planet for it is already rogue and not in the vicinity of any stars that might explode and interfere with it. Why Syvei instead? Well it is not really instead, it is in addition. For people, there would be a massacre with "unimportant" (most people) people being killed and their consciousness uploaded to the thing, because ending it right there is easier and less resource-intensive than having to eternally sync their real world and artificial world brains and states. So Syvei could be a starting point with it being a good enough base, not as good as Stigia for long-term storage but it is much closer to people and civilizations so travel and transport of stuff is easier, and cold enough to work for most things so it is more of a temporary base extension. Syvei was picked rather than Ymir because Synapse likes aurieyx more than tartarusians and selected Syvei as "Naturally, culturally, or historically significant". Aiix also prevents anyone from fleeing if they realize what is happening, which would mess up what Synapse is trying to do in the same way that stuff gets messed up when ripping out external storage in the middle of writing files to it. Before, I did not have a precise reason for/explanation of the infestation and The Incident, it was just a vague “biotechnology oopsie”, but now I think I have something. Synapse thought “why ‘liberate’ every single person individually which would take solens when I could make a neurovirus to do it for me?” The Incident was they set up a “program” called Autoprogram 78.429, or "the Auxiliary", to obtain more biomass and maybe had a test run of the neurovirus, the thing is it did not work exactly as intended, when experimenting that is to be expected but it becomes a problem when you have an unfinished version of the thing acting like it is finished and trying to spread itself everywhere, and became an infestation instead. This happened because of Atekpo (through their emitting ionizing radiation and damaging stuff like DNA) and https://selfawaresystems.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/ai_drives_final.pdf . I mean it sort of would be an infestation from the perspectives of people who disagree with Synapse even if it had worked correctly but since it did not Synapse is trying to contain it as well, the reason Synapse was able to get their infestation stabilized (sort of) was because they are intimately familiar with it, it is a part of them basically, they view this whole Incident as just another failed iteration (repetition of a mathematical or computational procedure applied to the result of a previous application, typically as a means of obtaining successively closer approximations to the solution of a problem.) that happened to have a lasting impact rather than fizzling out into nothing but information that will improve the next attempt like they usually do.
“Change can be scary, but you know what’s scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing.” It is rooted in fear.
IF a rogue planet can survive the heat death of the universe, it would be an ideal state because nothing could ever happen again. This would require Synapse somehow creating a perpetual motion machine inside Stigia. <--- PLOT HOLE ALERT
wellllllllllllll they are a cryptogenic monstrosity, they should be able to make a perpetual motion machine riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight
Either “Too Many Birthdays Can Kill You”, or “The One Who Has The Most Birthdays Lives The Longest”
[summary of](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UI9QN9oPXJmOXe_VMz6uXay0iRpS_l2_i6IY4enMA7I/edit) remembering ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING in excruciating detail, so much so that ones’ memories become vast oceans that constantly erode one’s sentient mind. It enables one to learn much more from experience, but becomes crippling after everything piles up and becomes too heavy of a burden. It also makes time meaningless, as the fact that one gradually forgets things is part of what makes one’s memories and past moments valuable. also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funes_the_Memorious#Generalization
One of Synapse’s experiments with “improvements” was this remembering everything on Atekpo. Thus Atekpo ends up being kind of an anterograde amnesiac, putting stuff in Remembrance Vessels in case it ends up being important later and then erasing nearly all the memories/qualia they just moved (I say “nearly” because they still keep a summary of important stuff).This also causes them to be very detached from experiences they “erased” this way, like reading about a car crash as opposed to actually being in one, and making it very difficult for anything not continuous to have any impact on them.
Another thing that Synapse did to Atekpo was trying to install electrical neurotransmitters inside their brain so that instead of chemical messengers for neurons, they have literal electricity running through their brain. This would make it much more similar to a computer, supports the remembering everything, and allows Atekpo to be a power generator. (plot hole: why could Synapse not just use existing aureiyx power generation technology? It works fine) As it turns out, it was nearly impossible to replace actual neural transmitters with electricity. The chemical activity creates extremely unstable elements with each neural transmission due to the excess electrons being forced into them. This resulted in severe radioactive decay that poses a threat to pretty much everything that does not thrive off radiation. Every now and then the energy builds up in their brain, resulting in a chronic headache that gets progressively worse until they cannot contain it anymore and the energy is expelled in the form of a very painful explosion, which will also give anyone in the vicinity radiation sickness. Synapse can help them avoid these explosions by having them “safely” discharge the energy to power Synapse’s stuff before it gets to that point, but really Synapse does not care all that much about Atekpo’s wellbeing and is just keeping them around because they need someone to help with their stuff, and also Atekpo is going to now have a hard time leaving because they are reliant on Synapse’s stuff (is it possible to convert nuclear radiation into light energy?) to avoid explosions and memory overflow and harming anyone who happens to be nearby just by existing. They also probably have or will get cancer (as well as giving a whole bunch of their Sector E coworkers cancer, either through their explosions or emitting low level doses over a protracted time) because of their ionizing radiation, and that also means they have great potential to wreck biotech and anything Synapse is working on through damaging DNA. This makes it kind of ironic that they were supposed to be a sentinel surveillance program (a thing that acts as an indicator of the presence of disease) for the neurovirus because their very existence could screw it up, all they would have to do would be to stand in the wrong place at the wrong time (or right place at the right time, depending on one’s point of view) and bam.
I have to come up with a reason for why Atekpo agreed to do that in the first place
I also need to think of what Atekpo and Wenzhine are doing being involved with this in the first place
8/12/24 I just read The Doors of Perception and got another motive for Synapse, one that is not recycled from IC, yay
Although taking ideas from someone else is not better than taking ideas from myself so actually not yay
Meh whatever I have already taken a bunch of ideas (this sentence imparts the information that it was written after some of the stuff that comes after it in the document)
> 12-13 “We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena, they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies–all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.”
22-26 “Reflecting on my experience, I find myself agreeing with the eminent Cambridge philosopher, Dr. C. D. Broad, ‘that we should do well to consider much more seriously than we have hitherto been inclined to do the type of theory which Bergson put forward in connection with memory and sense perception. The suggestion is that the function of the brain and nervous system and sense organs is in the main eliminative and not productive. Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe. The function of the brain and nervous system is to protect us from being overwhelmed and confused by this mass of largely useless and irrelevant knowledge, by shutting out most of what we should otherwise perceive or remember at any moment, and leaving only that very small and special selection which is likely to be practically useful.’ According to such a theory, each one of us is potentially Mind at Large. But in so far as we are animals, our business is at all costs to survive. To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funneled through to reducing valve of the brain and nervous system. What comes out at the other end is a measly trickle of the kind of consciousness which will help us stay alive on the surface of this planet. To formulate and express the contents of this reduced awareness, man has invented and endlessly elaborated those symbol-systems and implicit philosophies which we call languages. Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born–the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people’s experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things. That which, in the language of religion, is called ‘this world’ is the universe of reduced awareness, expressed, and, as it were, petrified by language. The various ‘other worlds,’ with which human beings erratically make contact are so many elements in the totality of the awareness belonging to Mind at Large. Most people, most of the time, know only what comes through the reducing valve and is consecrated as genuinely real by the local language. Certain persons, however, seem to be born with a kind of by-pass that circumvents the reducing valve. In other temporary by-passes may be acquired either spontaneously, n is this what happened when that one time you said you were lying in bed and suddenly understood everything or something like that or as the result of deliberate ‘spiritual exercises,’ or through hypnosis, or by means of drugs. Through these permanent or temporary by-passes there flows, not indeed the perception ‘of everything that is happening everywhere in the universe’ (for the by-pass does not abolish the reducing valve, which still excludes the total content of Mind at Large), but something more than, and above all something different from, the carefully selected utilitarian material which our narrowed, individual minds regard as a complete, or at least sufficient, picture of reality.
   The brain is provided with a number of enzyme systems which serve to co-ordinate its workings. Some of these enzymes regulate the supply of glucose to the brain cells. Mescalin inhibits the production of these enzymes and thus lowers the amount of glucose available to an organ that is in constant need of sugar. When mescalin reduces the brain’s normal ration of sugar what happens? Too few cases have been observed, and therefore a comprehensive answer cannot yet be given. But what happens to the majority of the few who have taken mescalin under supervision can be summarized as follows.
   (1) The ability to remember and to “think straight” is little if at all reduced. (Listening to the recordings of my conversation under the influence of the drug, I cannot discover that I was any then stupider than I am at ordinary times.
   (2) Visual impressions are greatly intensified and the eye recovers some of the perceptual innocence of childhood, when the sensum was not immediately and automatically subordinated to the concept. Interest in space is diminished and interest in time falls to almost zero.
   (3) Though the intellect remains unimpaired and though perception is enormously improved, the will suffers a profound change for the worse. The mescalin taker sees no reason for doing anything in particular and finds most of the causes for which, at ordinary times, he was prepared to act and suffer, profoundly uninteresting. He can’t be bothered with them, for the good reason that he has better things to think about.
   (4) These better things may be experienced (as I experienced them) ‘out there,’ or ‘in here,’ or in both worlds, the inner and the outer, simultaneously or successively. That they are better seems to be self-evident to all mescalin takers who come to the drug with a sound liver and an untroubled mind.
   These effects of mescalin are the sort of effects you could expect to follow the administration of a drug having the power to impair the efficiency of the cerebral reducing valve. When the brain runs out of sugar, the undernourished ego grows weak, can’t be bothered to undertake the necessary chores, and loses all interest in those spatial and temporal relationships which mean so much to an organism bent on getting on in the world. As Mind at Large seeps past the no longer watertight valve, all kinds of biologically useless things start to happen. In some cases there may be extra-sensory perceptions. Other persons discover a world of visionary beauty. To others again is revealed the glory, the infinity value and meaningfulness of naked existence, of the given, unconceptualized event. In the final stage of egolessness there is an ‘obscure knowledge’ that All is in all–that All is actually each. This is as near, as I take it, as a finite mind can ever come to ‘perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe.’” look I know that this may sound like the kind of argument that only college students who have been ingesting various substances would make, but if nothing else it works for the kind of person that Synapse is
34-36 “‘This is how one ought to see,’ I kept saying as I looked down at my trousers, or glanced at the jeweled books in the shelves, at the legs of my infinitely more than Van-Goghian chair. ‘This is how one ought to see, how things really are.’ And yet there were reservations. For if one always saw like this, one would never want to do anything else. Just looking, just being the divine Not-self of flower, of book, of chair, of flannel. That would be enough. But in that case what about other people? What about human relations? In the recording of that morning’s conversations I find the question constantly repeated, ‘What about human relations?’ How could one reconcile this timeless bliss of seeing as one ought to see with the temporal duties of doing what one ought to do and feeling as one ought to feel? ‘One ought to be able,’ I said, ‘to see these trousers as infinitely important and human beings are still more infinitely important.’ One ought–but in practice it seemed to be impossible. This participation in the manifest glory of things left no room, so to speak, for the ordinary, the necessary concerns of human existence, above all for concerns involving persons. For persons are selves and, in one respect at least, I was now a Not-self, simultaneously perceiving and being the Not-self of the things around me. To this new born Not-self, the behavior, the appearance, the very thought of the self it had momentarily ceased to be, and of other selves, its one-time fellows, seemed not indeed distasteful (for distastefulness was not one of the categories in terms of which I was thinking), but enormously irrelevant. Compelled by the investigator to analyze and report on what I was doing (and how I longed to be left alone with Eternity in a flower, Infinity in four chair legs and the Absolute in the folds of a pair of flannel trousers!), I realized that I was deliberately avoiding the eyes of those who were with me in the room, deliberately refraining from being too much aware of them. One was my wife, the other a man I respected and greatly liked; but both belonged to the world from which, for the moment, mescalin had delivered me–the world of selves, of time, of moral judgements and utilitarian considerations, the world (and it was this aspect of human life which I wished, above all else, to forget) of self-assertion, of cocksureness, of overvalued words and idolatrously worshiped notions.”
40… maybe. Not sure it is worth the effort
55-56 “Confronted by a chair which looked like the Last Judgment–or, to be more accurate, by a Last Judgment which, after a long time and with considerable difficulty, I recognized as a chair–I found myself all at once on the brink of panic. This, I suddenly felt, was going too far. Too far, even though the going was into intenser beauty, deeper significance. The fear, as I analyze it in retrospect, was of being overwhelmed, of disintegrating under a pressure of reality greater than a mind, accustomed to living most of the time in a cozy world of symbols, could possibly bear. The literature of religious experience abounds in references to the pains and terrors overwhelming those who have come, too suddenly, face to face with some manifestation of the Mysterium tremendum. In theological language, this fear is due to the incompatibility between man’s egotism and the divine purity, between man’s self-aggravated separateness and the infinity of God. Following Boehme and William Law, we may say that, by unregenerate souls, the divine Light at its full blaze can be apprehended only as a burning, purgatorial fire. An almost identical doctrine is to be found in The Tibetan Book of the Dead, where the departed soul is described as shrinking in agony from the Pure Light of the Void, and even from the lesser, tempered Lights, in order to rush headlong into the comforting darkness of selfhood as a reborn human being, or even as a beast, an unhappy ghost, a denizen of hell. Anything rather than the burning brightness of unmitigated Reality–anything!”
62- something insightful but irrelevant
86-87 “About the physiological effects of mescalin we know a little. Probably (for we are not yet certain) it interferes with the enzyme system that regulates cerebral functioning. By doing so it lowers the efficiency of the brain as an instrument for focusing the mind on the problems of life on the surface of our planet. This lowering of what may be called the biological efficiency of the brain seems to permit the entry into consciousness of certain classes of mental events, which are normally excluded, because they possess no survival value.”
96-97 “The typical mescalin or lysergic-acid experience begins with perceptions of colored, moving, living geometrical forms. In time, pure geometry becomes concrete, and the visionary perceives, not patterns, but patterned things, such as carpets, carvings, mosaics. These give place to vast and complicated buildings, in the midst of landscapes, which change continuously, passing from richness to more intensely colored richness, from grandeur to deepening grandeur. Heroic figures, of the kind that Blake called ‘The Seraphim,’ may make their appearance, alone or in multitudes. Fabulous animals move across the scene. Everything is novel and amazing. Almost never does the visionary see anything that reminds him of his own past. He is not remembering scenes, persons or objects, and he is not inventing them; he is looking on a new creation.
   The raw material for this creation is provided by the visual experiences of ordinary life; but the molding of this material into forms is the work of someone who is almost certainly not the self, who originally had the experiences, or who later recalled and reflected upon them. They are (to quote the words used by Dr. J. R. Smythies in a recent paper in the American Journal of Psychiatry) ‘the work of a highly differentiated mental compartment, without any apparent connection, emotional or volitional, with the aims, interests, or feelings of the person concerned.’”
129- something insightful but irrelevant
135-136 “The negative visionary experience is often accompanied by bodily sensations of a very special and characteristic kind. Blissful visions are generally associated with a sense of separation from the body, a feeling of deindividualization. (It is, no doubt, this feeling of deindividualization which makes it possible for the Indians who practice the peyote cult to use the drug not merely as a short cut to the visionary world, but also as an instrument for creating a loving solidarity within the participating group.) When the visionary experience is terrible and the world is transfigured for the worse, individualization is intensified and the negative visionary finds himself associated with a body that seems to grow progressively more dense, more tightly packed, until he finds himself at last reduced to being the agonized consciousness of an inspissated lump of matter, no bigger than a stone that can be held between the hands.”
184-185 “In Sartor Resartus Carlyle has left what (in Mr. Carlyle, My Patient) his psychosomatic biographer, Dr. James Halliday, calls ‘an amazing description of a psychotic state of mind, largely depressive, but partly schizophrenic.’
   ‘The men and women around me,’ writes Carlyle, ‘even speaking too with me, were but Figures; I had practically forgotten that they were alive, that they were not but automata. Friendship was but an incredible tradition. In the midst of their crowded streets and assemblages I walked solitary; and (except it was my own heart, not another’s, that I kept devouring) savage also as the tiger in the jungle . . . To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-Engine, rolling on in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb . . . Having no hope, neither had I any definite fear, were it of Man or Devil. And yet, strangely enough, I lived in a continual, indefinite, pining fear, tremulous, pusillanimous, apprehensive of I knew not what; it seemed as if all things in the Heavens above, and the Earth beneath, would hurt me; as if the Heavens and the Earth were but boundless jaws of a devouring Monster, wherein I, palpitating, waited to be devoured.’ Renée and the idolator of heroes are evidently describing the same experience. Infinity is apprehended by both, but in the form of ‘the System,’ the ‘immeasurable Steam-Engine.’ To both, again, all is significant, but negatively significant, so that every event is utterly pointless, every object intensely unreal, every self-styled human being a clockwork dummy, grotesquely going through the motions of work and play, of loving, hating, thinking, of being eloquent, heroic, saintly, what you will–the robots are nothing if not versatile.”

2:44 AM, now I can either attempt to explain it or attempt to sleep
…
And I wonder why I have such a hard time getting up in the morning
I will not try to summarize the stuff because it works better standing on its own and if I were to summarize it why would I spend hours copying it down
too tired to do this well, not tired enough to sleep
This is the neurovirus’ second function–to help step through that door–but unlike how it is ordinarily, one does not take a visit on the other side of the wall and return profoundly changed, and perhaps helping others who could not have that experience; no, one remains in that state permanently. “I am creating a position for all from which to more objectively view reality. Is that not laudable?” This would utterly cripple one’s ability to survive, which is another reason for Synapse to have this artificial reality: it will help reconcile “this timeless bliss of seeing as one ought to see with the temporal duties of doing what one ought to do and feeling as one ought to feel”: just make the things one ought to do no longer need doing! “As for what one ought to feel . . .  rather a small drawback, as you consider it, for the end result.” It will also ease the workload of managing it, since no one has any interest in doing much of anything, preserving stuff becomes easier since it does not change much/their consciousness does not do anything after being uploaded. The point is so that things are not made futile by their inevitable destruction, but as stated earlier, disallowing new life and growth goes along with that. That is not too much of a downside for Synapse; change is scary and unsettling, and irritating to have to think about, deal with, and adapt to. (this is something from calvin and hobbes I am typing from memory so probably not an exact quote): “This year was lousy, but at least it was familiar. I don’t like change! It’s too disruptive! When something changes, you have to think about the change and deal with it! Besides, things keep changing for the worse! The longer I live, the more complicated everything gets! I say let’s just stop here before life gets any harder!”
Name for the artificial reality: Elysium Everlasting
Atekpo got the remembering everything, but not the Mind at Large thing because they are an “important person” who is not yet living inside elysium everlasting, they still have to be able to survive and do stuff and help with it. That is the reason, so they can help with it
Also this is what I meant by Synapse being a transhumanist, they are “fixing” everybody’s brains
Traveling between Syvei and Stigia would take an absurdly long time so Synapse made a wormhole, each end hovering above its respective planet with a space elevator to get to it. How did they do it? They have an Interspacial Bore to make the wormhole
what if instead of Synapse somehow building all this stuff, they just are the stuff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioship
There is also the problem of where they came from.
okay here is what I am going to use for its origin. [“Whence do I come? Who am I? Where am I going?”](https://www.mediafire.com/file/0fe2wga55kr580i/Everything_2024-10-18_18-27-39_compressed.mp4/file)
Drifting in space as a bioship for a while, just observing, witnessing oceans become deserts become forests, civilizations rise and fall, the stars begin and end, and getting frustrated with the impermanence of everything
In that game in the mp4 above, time passes slower the smaller you are, small things tend to live shorter
I think I will make tCDoB a front for obtaining more biomass. It has about three employees anyway (Atekpo, Wenzhine, Ohan Reyoun), hardly a department.
Found an aureiyx, and “I was walking along the ice, minding my own business, when I notice this, this thing following me. Before I know it, it shoots a stinger at me. Barely noticeable, but it feels foreboding, wrong– I mean, how did it even get through my fur. I just try to keep moving, you know? Maybe it’s nothing. But then...” that was the Auxiliary, (crtl f I want the infestation)
The Carrion monster has to absorb certain biomass before it can imitate a human so maybe Synapse is like that.
(crtl f One could describe Elysium)
Another thing that Synapse has is this (crtl f 184-185). Sometimes I will be just living and then suddenly I feel like, if I am alone, that I, or if I am not alone, that the people around me: have no real consciousness, are acting on completely pre-wired instinct, that there is nothing inside that allows one to really “think”, and I think about thinking, well it is a thing, but if one deconstructs too far one finds neural impulses. I then wonder how consciousness works for a while to come to no conclusion, I could look it up (NOTICE HOW I TYPED “LOOK UP” AND NOT “GOOGLE”) but I do not, maybe I feel that I will not find a satisfactory answer. I sometimes will be, say, tapping my foot, and suddenly I will feel that each tap was fated to happen in a certain way, a certain length of time after the previous tap, and I cannot get out of it, if I try to surprise the whatever-it-is by tapping earlier or later that too was fated to happen, every one of my actions was predicted. In short, that everyone is an automaton. Similar to text generation models: those models can imitate a human, and people will talk to those things as if they were human, but when one looks hard at them, one is left with lines of code. I can talk to those around me, but when I look hard at them, I am left with cells . . . molecules . . . atoms . . . particles . . .  SO how is this relevant? you may be wondering. I experience this more regularly in a less disturbing fashion when I see insects and wonder at their brains. Insects seem like automatons to most people. Right? Synapse sees everyone else as an insect with this being-an-automaton thing, so sure they are of their superiority. But as I have described (not very clearly) before, one does not have to be as primitive a lifeform as an insect for their . . . consciousness? to be doubted. Through connecting directly to the brains of sapients, Synapse can better understand them (crtl f 12-13), maybe even discover that Synapse is not the only conscious lifeform in existence. At least, that is the hope.		Scott McCloud wrote at length in Understanding Comics about something he calls The Masking Effect. The following writing assumes that the reader has read that book. Ever noticed how in, say, animated films, the characters are far more cartoonish or stylized than the environment? And yet one accepts it, does not notice how strange it really is. Imagine the opposite, a realistic character in a cartoony MLP:FiM world, and its strangeness is immediately noticeable. Everyone else is the two-dimensional, cartoony characters of the world, no depth to them, they lack some quality that cannot be explained as hard as one tries as if they do not cast shadows. It would never occur to one what they had for lunch, what their politics are or where they got their silly, fantastical outfits. The Masking Effect states that when one sees a realistic character, one sees it as the face of another, but when sees a cartoon, one sees it as oneself. The cartoon is a vacuum into which one’s consciousness is pulled. Others become not independent agents, but receptacles for whatever I project onto them (attach the thing I copied about why romantic relationships do not work out here because the thing it says about projections is relevant) Counterintuitively, the more talkative and “out front” a person is, the harder it is for me to think that they have an inner life, a whole brain that no one other than them will ever know, because as humans we tend to think that what we see is all there is, and we will think that what we see of someone is the person entire; when someone is extroverted we think we are seeing the whole of them, much more than we would of someone quieter. For me, when a person is quieter, I am then more inclined to wonder about their inner life, more likely to realize that the person is not all there. This also happens easier with animals: they cannot speak, and the same thing that happens with insects, I wonder about them. shit my computer is about to die
Imagine being the only human on a planet full of insects (well our planet is full of insects but bear with me here). You live decades and have a very complex brain. The insects around you live very short lives and have simple brains. In your isolation, you begin to wonder about the insects. This is what it is like for Synapse. They are the human, with no other members of . . . it is not even a species, it is a freakish enigma, came into existence in 300M; the sapients of Corundum are the insects.
> While life is characterized by growth in a structured, functional manner, the necrophilous person loves all that does not grow, all that is mechanical. The necrophilous person is driven by the desire to transform the organic into the inorganic, to approach life mechanically, as if all living persons were things. . . . Memory, rather than experience; having, rather than being, is what counts. The necrophilous person can relate to an object–as flower or a person–only if he possesses it; hence a threat to his possession is a threat to himself; if he loses possession he loses contact with the world. . . . He loves control, and in the act of controlling he kills life.

Synapse is necrophilous in the way that it is described above. Need I explain? I should think that how this relates to everything else about Synapse is obvious. (I just sighed in real life) all right, Elysium Everlasting is the ultimate in memory (see Zamani bookmark), Atekpo is also memory (though less relevant). Through Elysium Everlasting, Synapse assimilates and thus “possesses” everyone. They think that they are saving everyone from decay and destruction and helping everyone understand each other better than they ever could on their own, but in fact they are massacring everyone.
Earlier I wrote that Stigia is the base for Elysium Everlasting, which contradicts the drawing I have of the bioship with the Elysium Everlasting servers, so I guess that Stigia is just more storage space, cold data (pun intended)
On puppets: “This extremity cannot rely on genuine emotion to generate facial expressions. A dilemma: construct a module to select an expression based on shallow prebuilt algorithms trying to parse the part of my neural network handling this interaction, or consciously manipulate its face into shapes that are only approximately the correct ones. The third option I have chosen prevents wordless ambiguity from leaving anything unclear. Despite this, it appears to be making you uncomfortable. Apologetic expression.”
I just rewatched the entirety of Murder Drones and am having a very hard time not ripping off the way the Solver talks for Synapse. I already did a little bit with that “Apologetic expression”, and may have done the rest of it if it was possible to convey paralanguage through text. Or one kind of can but it is limited.

The Fulihanok Revelations was not the main event. actually I might get rid of it
In their pages Ohan mentions the “angry mob milling around” and being hunted by two groups their former co-workers and the angry mob and later those both get replaced by the infestation
Those pages are outdated now (no angry mob, few coworkers, misc), I might make Hideo not real
Since Synapse managed to get their infestation stabilized they have at least a start at fixing it but to even go near the place is now very dangerous, their labs and all the stuff they would need to help fix it is the thing that needs fixing
Right now a lot of the “fighting force” is concentrated around Coniferon trying to fight/contain the infestation
I want the infestation to have creatures I can actually draw instead of just particles so I think that it will have merged with parts of Synapse to create a sort of twisted thing since Synapse is a a a I have no name for it but I describe it later in the document so there are all these diseased parts of Synapse that have not taken on a clear form that are separating from the original Synapse and are also merging with the messed-up neurovirus and the Auxiliary and also cancerous because of Atekpo’s ionizing radiation. This part is not written very clearly but it is important

Syvei is not particularly inviting to technology, be it the harsh blizzards or fetid subterranean glens.
Biotechnology was not a big thing before Synapse came along, aureiyx were already headed in their own direction, and Synapse introduced it not for the benefit of aureiyx (who did not need the help I mean they could benefit from biotechnology but they did not require it) but for themself, because they need it to work with living things. For the purpose of the neurovirus. Whoopee.
> Two revolutions coincided in the 1950s. Mathematicians, including Claude Shannon and Alan Turing, showed that all information could be encoded by binary digits, known as bits. This led to a digital revolution powered by circuits with on-off switches that processed information. Simultaneously, Watson and Crick discovered how instructions for building every cell in every form of life were encoded by the four-letter sequences in DNA. Thus was born an information age based on digital coding (0100110111001...) and genetic coding (ACTGGTAGATTACA...). The flow of history is accelerated when two rivers converge.

So aureiyx already had the digital coding, Synapse brought the genetic coding (separate from biotechnology) because they kind of had to
I have mentioned (on the Hyperborean Path document) how regular aureiyx technology is more similar to tartarusian technology than what Synapse is doing, similar but not the same
I like putting barcodes in art way too much so I put one on Atekpo so they must have laser scanners
How about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_computing
There is a kind of glass/ceramic metamaterial. Name: Veniyr
It allows for light itself to be used as a highly efficient, controllable, and safe method of energy delivery over a huge number of applications.
-Photons inside veniyr are free to disperse within it, but cannot penetrate the surface and escape.
-Photons from outside can pass through it and will not be captured.
-Light can only enter or exit via gates, or etchings on the surface, which can be modified to control the flow rate or restrict the types of wavelengths allowed.
-It can allow photon flow via quantum tunneling to another etched surface in proximity, creating a contact gate.
-It can be saturated with quantum dots to allow conversion of wavelengths of light, provided that energy is preserved during the conversion, creating a transformer.
-Doping a component with other elements can also be made that allows flow only if another beam hits that same element with specific properties, such as a certain direction or wavelength.
-As light can only enter or exit via a gate, there is low risk of energy leaks that can cause injury– coming into contact with or even physically breaking it will not result in a light leak.
-Excess or waste heat can be recycled in the form of IR capture, and generating energy from thermal or solar sources can be done with minimal conversion losses.
-Faults in photolining do not pose a fire or blindness hazard.
-Appliances that require heating, such as ovens or cookers, convert mains light into infrared light.
-Lamps directly output mains light into a space, after conversion for color and intensity for comfort.
-Light energy can be turned into mechanical motion by way of using the photomagnetic effect.
-Photocapacitators use highly energy-dense veniyr to store large quantities of energy in very small and safe packages.
-Computational devices use veniyr engraved with light gates to perform calculations.
-It can be weaponized in the form of directed-energy weapons. (mainly venirynts, go look at “I am too lazy to finish this at this time.png”, basically they make lightbeams that cut through things, the range depending on atmospheric conditions, in clear weather it can be miles (strength still decreases with range though), if it were say foggy or snowing it would dissipate a lot faster to the point of only being several feet)
I should have paid more attention to that Corning Museum of Glass fiber-optic exhibit

No practical armor against venirynts has yet been developed. While it is possible to shield from its beam using a veniyr surface entirely covered in the proper gates to absorb the beam, it is fragile and cannot withstand any force strong enough to break glass.

bodies/organizations that may be vaguely government- or company-like
The Anarchist Coalition (G)
Luminescence Photics (C)
Hoarfrost Cooperative
Antitrust Regulatory Commission
Strand Coordination and Communications (C)
Socialist-Democratic Alliance (G)
Occupational Health and Safety Administration (G)
Interplanetary Outreach Program
Aerospace Industries Association
Eohune Waste Management
Ioslush Construction (C)
Quality of Life Medicine and Prosthetics (C)
~~Seigel-Robert Incorporated I am so funny~~

It is not entirely their fault that they have not yet managed to go far beyond the planet (although that would change after Synapse arrives), all that debris orbiting the planet destroys spacecraft really easily. This also means that they have meteor showers really often. This debris disk/cloud is in the process of forming a few small moons. https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/30946/what-are-the-parameters-of-a-planet-having-multiple-moons?rq=1
They have spaceflight capabilities, it just takes a really small spacecraft (that is unable to support life for a reasonable period of time) and lots of calculating and maneuvering to avoid being shredded by barely visible rocks. This makes it impossible for long-haul ships to exit the atmosphere until some sort of shield technology is developed. (Hyperborean Path tartarus shield, hint hint)

Aerosynths/aethersynths
Primarily made of a metaceramic material that allows bending and twisting or can stiffen to be the same hardness as aluminum.
Imagine planes but all bendy and bird looking and without vertical stabilizers. Kind of like aeromorphs
They can walk along the ground with their bird-foot-like undercarriage and arm-wings.
Some types are more normal with engines, some are more like ornithopters.
Coolant is bright red to better identify wounds. Much thinner than blood. Crystallization mimics blood clotting. Large quantities can cause excessive and harmful crystal growth.
They also have mouths that put the hyper in hyperdontia because I felt like it
There are smaller ones, and then huge drifters that almost act like sky islands that one may even be able to stand on top of without immediately getting blown off. Remember this is a place that assumes everyone can fly so there is much less protection against falling.
As they are not rigid structures, even small ones are far more difficult to pilot than regular planes. Piloting is not just like normal operating a machine but using electrocommunication (see language section) like how the cryptogens in the Overthrow trilogy use their sonic telepathy thing to pilot their thingies. This means that non-aureiyx are not able to pilot aerosynths.
Aethersynths are more like single-stage-to-orbit spaceplanes but are mostly theoretical for aureiyx because they have very limited opportunity to go into space, and among other things this makes it difficult for them to test out these theories
As aureiyx have no shield technology, one of the main functions of aerosynths is to destroy or, if possible, capture for mining meteors headed for infrastructure.
IF it is sentient, then: it would not normally require a pilot, the "pilot" would be more like a companion along for the ride faster than aureiyx can fly naturally, and would only do any actual driving if the aerosynth was incapacitated somehow in which case may whatever nonexistent higher powers help them control a normally animate being that thinks 1500 miles per hour is a reasonable cruising speed

Something that scares me is when there is one singular government per planet. If something bad happens in real life and you need to flee the country you can take a plane or train or car or boat or mule or even just walk but with planetwide things there is only one option, a spaceship, which is much harder to do than just walking, almost everyone can always walk no matter what, even if the country’s borders have walls and rivers and people standing around with guns you can at least try, this inability to leave and the whole planet being a hostile place or even not hostile but it is still not good no matter how benevolent it may be, under the control of one power is what scares me
I should think it was obvious that with aureiyx stateless societies are the norm, but I felt like I had to write it somewhere

One thing I cannot stand is when in scifi or other similar situations there is one culture per planet or species, it should be self-evident why this is unrealistic just look at humans. When this happens it is due to the creator being lazy. Making a bunch of separate cultures in as much detail as happens in life is a huge amount of work though, I can see why people do not bother. I do not have to get super detailed, I just do not want an entirely homogeneous planet that is very boring
I can still have vague overarching themes
Like preferring “being there” over “getting there” if that makes sense
like:
> And in just this way we have a whole system of preparation of the child for life, which always is preparation and never actually gets there. In other words, we have a system of schooling which starts with grades. And we get this little creature into the thing with a kind of a, “Come on, kitty, kitty, kitty!” And we get it always preparing for something that’s going to happen. So you go into nursery school as preparation for kindergarten. You go to kindergarten as preparation for first grade. And then, you see, you go up the grades until you get to high school. And then comes a time when maybe, if we can get you fascinated enough with this system, you go to college. And then, when you’re going to college—if you’re smart—you get into graduate school and stay a perpetual student, and go back to be a professor, and just go round and round in the system. But in the ordinary way they don’t encourage quite that. They want you (after graduate school, or after graduation; commencement, as it’s called) beginning to get out into the World, with a capital “W.” And so, you know, you’ve been trained for this and now you’ve arrived.
But when you get out into the world, at your first sales meeting they’ve got the same thing going again. Because they want you to make that quota. And if you do make it, they give you a higher quota. And come along about forty five years of age, maybe you’re vice president. And suddenly it dawns on you that you’ve arrived—with a certain sense of having been cheated, because life feels the same as it always felt. And you are conditioned to be in desperate need of a future. So the final goal that this culture prepares for us is called retirement: when you will be a senior citizen and you will have the wealth and the leisure to do what you’ve always wanted, but you will at the same time have impotence, a rotten prostate, and false teeth, and no energy. So the whole thing, from beginning to end, is a hoax. And furthermore, some other aspects of the hoax, just for kicks: you are involved, by and large, in a very strange business system which divides your day into work and play. Work is something that everybody does, and you get paid to do it because nobody could care less about doing it. In other words, it is so abominable and boring that you can get paid for doing it. And the object of doing this is to make money. And the object of making money is to go home and enjoy the money that you’ve made. When you’ve got it, you see, you can buy pleasure. And this is a complete fallacy. Money never can buy pleasure. Because all pleasures depend upon not putting down a symbol of power—money—but upon disciplines.
In other words, now in Sausalito, where I live, we have pier after pier full of fine boats—motor cruisers, sailing boats, all sorts of things—which nobody ever uses. Because they’ve been bought on the falling for the ad line that if you buy this thing you will have pleasure, you will have status, you will have something or other. But then they suddenly discover that having a boat requires the art of seamanship, which is difficult but rewarding. Therefore, nobody has time for it, and all they do with the boats is have cocktail parties on them at the weekend.
And in myriads of ways, you see, you go home—we’re the wealthiest people in the world, and you would think that, having earned your money, and go home, you would have an orgy and a great banquet and so on. But nobody does. They eat a TV dinner, which is just warmed-over airline food, and then they spend the evening looking at an electronic reproduction of life which is divided from you by a glass screen. You can’t touch it, you can’t smell it. It has no color, except maybe if you’re very wealthy it has color. But by and large it doesn’t. And you look at this thing, and you have a strange feeling, you see, that the whole procession of grades that was leading to something in the future—to that goody, that gorgeous, galuptious goodie that was lying at the end of the line—and it never quite turns up.
And this is because, from the beginning, we condition our children to a defective sense of identity. And this, I think, is the most important feature in the whole thing. That a child grows into our culture and—as I repeat, this is not only Western culture, it’s equally true in Japan; it’s an area which I can speak with some firsthand knowledge—we condition the child in a way that sets the child a life problem which is insoluble, and therefore attended by constant frustration. And as a result of this problem being insoluble, it is perpetually postponed to the future. So that one is educated to live in the future, and one is not ever educated to live today.
Now, I’m not saying that—you know the philosophy of carpe diem: let us drink today, for tomorrow we die, and not make any plans. What I am saying is that making plans for the future is of use only to people who are capable of living completely in the present. Because when you make plans for the future and they mature, if you can’t live in the present, you are not able to enjoy the future for which you have planned, because you will have a new kind of syndrome whereby happiness consists in promises and not in direct and immediate realizations so long as you feel that tomorrow it will come.
You see, on a dollar bill it always says “promise to pay.” It’s a promissory note. And nobody ever can come across. Because the promise is tomorrow, and as we say in common speech: tomorrow never comes. But everything is based on the idea, you see, that you will get it tomorrow, and you can enjoy yourself today so long as tomorrow looks bright. But Confucius once said: “A man who understands the Tao in the morning can die contentedly in the evening.” That is to say, if you have ever lived one complete moment, you can be ready to die. You can say, “Well, that was it. That was the good. I’ve had it.” You see? But if you never live that complete moment, death is always the guy who, like, comes into a bar at two o’clock in the morning and says, “Time, gentlemen, please.” And he says, “Oh please, one more drink.” “Not yet.” Because you haven’t really had the feeling that you ever had it, that you ever got there.

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So money, what do I do about that
I would think it would not be a very important thing in their society because of how a lot of them live, but large-scale trade would get very inconvenient without it
They should recognize that money itself is not wealth, that it is only a very useful method of accounting, a measure of wealth in the same way that inches are measures of length and grams measures of weight. One cannot eat money, one could have a fantastic quantity of dollar bills and stock certificates on a desert island and they would be useless, what one would need would be food and animals and companions. Unlike humans, they are not psychologically perverted in such a way that some of us would rather have money than real wealth (well most of them aren’t)
One can observe this in one’s own life, when you buy food you may feel very subtly sad because you are parting with your money, even though you have just exchanged a bit of paper (or a digital equivalent) for something of real, tangible value: something edible
1 Commerce Credit = 1 USD (in 1996)
I should write The Commerce Credit Conundrum
Basically what happens is if you have some people bartering and some people using units, when they try to do business with one another you get problems
I should think this was obvious but aureiyx are not like humans in that one needs to have a job because for a very large percentage of the population the only way to acquire food or shelter or education is through money, no, if an aureiyx is hungry they can go hunt, if they want someplace to rest they can go dig (or just sleep wherever), they would have been taught by their parents or colony and if they want more they can go to a city’s knowledge center (as an example), and so on. One may wonder how labor is compensated if basic needs are met. It is not. Jobs then are not a matter of “what do I need” but “what can I do”
> "So [ ] are coming in next month, huh."
"Yeah. But I think you're worrying about it too much--"
"This money shit. I just don't get it. I don't like thinking about numbers."
"Eh, it's all fake anyway. I'm just glad I don't have to worry about managing a stack of contracts anymore."
"Do they not use contracts?"
"Kind of? Not in the same way. It just all really revolves around the money thing."
"Oh."
"Yeah. Like that little slip they will send you? Just has the list of the stuff you get and then the number of what you gave em."
"Right."
"Like, you ever been to Sol? Earth? They use that stuff there a lot."
"Yeah? Is it any good?"
"I mean, it's quick. Like, you ask for the the thing, and then you give them the exact number and then you just go."
"Just like that? Seems quick."
"It is quick, but it is also a little...I don't know. Mechanical?" 

They have a concept of male and female because obviously not every species on the planet is a hermaphrodite, but it is a very detached thing for them. They do not have all these “internalized experiences of the masculine/feminine” that we humans cannot help thinking of, and that the words “male” and “female” could be said to represent (among their other uses), a word to use rather than listing off every element that comprises these experiences. For them it is an indication of genitalia and perhaps behavior or patterns of living specific to one sex of a species
> TLHoD
The fact that everyone capable of reproduction is liable to be “tied down to childbearing” implies that no one is quite so thoroughly “tied down” there as women elsewhere are likely to be–psychologically or physically. Burden and privilege are shared out pretty equally; everybody has the same risk to run or choice to make. Therefore, nobody there is quite so free as a “free male” anywhere else.
There is no division of the species into strong and weak halves, protective/protected, dominant/submissive, owner/chattel, active/passive. In fact, the whole tendency to dualism that pervades human thinking may be found to be lessened, or changed.
When one meets one of these persons one cannot and must not do what a bisexual naturally does, which is to cast them in the role of Man or Woman, while adopting towards them a corresponding role dependent on one’s expectations of the patterned or possible interactions between persons of the same or opposite sex. The entire pattern of socio-social interaction is nonexistent there. They cannot play the game. They do not see one another as men or women. This is almost impossible for our imaginations to accept. What is the first question we ask about a newborn baby?
An off-planet visitor must be warned that unless they are very self-assured, or senile, their pride will suffer. A man wants his virility regarded, a woman wants her femininity appreciated <sub>except me aha ahhahaaahaaha (pain)</sub>, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. On this planet they will not exist. One is respected and judged only as a sapient being. It is an appalling experience.

So now onto what “gender” is for them (Assembly 6-7, I should really stop doing these kinds of things but I like the idea enough to find stopping inconvenient)
Gender is a personal identity and role thing and does not have an impact on linguistics (see language)
Kind: Gender
Parent: Someone who is a primary caregiver or parent of one or more offspring, whether through adoption or birth. Those who have been Parent before often keep the gender even once their children are grown or lost.
Second Parent: A sire that did not have any part in raising the children
Guide: Someone with the role of providing wisdom and mental and spiritual well-being to a colony. Sort of a therapist/sage. The concept of a Guide does not exist in all colonies, but is common. Often takes the role of a “Public Counsellor” in large settlements, but the function is the same.
Other genders usually only arise in established colonies. The larger the settlement, the less likely it is for genders relating to a specific role within the group to happen, as in a colony it is like a “tribal group” where everyone knows everyone else. One might see three hundred people a day (that would be a very large colony), but these would usually be the same three hundred people. It is hard to feel a sense of belonging, particularly on a personal basis, with a “tribe” of a million or more.
Example: “I may not be the most Parental of Parent-Kind, but I raised them to adulthood, so I get to keep the Kind anyway.” <----- Ohan trying to excuse their lousy parenting

Language(s) leo would be better at this, I got the impression that he is at least vaguely interested in the project as a whole
Their language is a combination between vocalizations, [something like sign language and nonverbals but with the whole body], and electrocommunication. Generally, the higher the latitude, the less vocal it is, for one would want to minimize the amount of freezing air that enters one’s mouth. It is easy to forget that words are not things themselves, but rather the ultimate abstraction of them. Conversion to written form is not any more difficult than it is in a language with a direct correspondence between symbols and sounds, as each motion/position/vocalization/electrothingamajig is merely a representation.
(Assembly 4-7 I am doing it again)
Mind: Signifier of sapience. Aureiyx will often call non-sapient entities “mindless”, however not in a literal sense. More personlike entities are described as “mindful”.
Rules of Politeness: Diplomatic rules and standards as regards specific colonies/entities who one wants to get along with/not be on bad terms with. Ideally, one wants to know someone’s Rules of Politeness before one arrives at where they live.
There is one pronoun for “mindful” entities (they), one pronoun for “mindless” entities, and one pronoun for inanimate entities (it). Referring to someone with the “mindless” pronoun is considered an insult.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasha_and_Zamani:
Full quote: “Living entities are divided into three categories: those still alive on earth, the Sasha, and the Zamani. The recently departed whose time overlapped with those still here are the Sasha, the living-dead. They are not wholly dead, for they still live in the memories of the living, who can call them to mind, create their likeness in art, and bring them to life in anecdote. When the last person to know an ancestor dies, that ancestor leaves the Sasha for the Zamani, the dead. As generalized ancestors, the Zamani are not forgotten but revered. Many can be recalled by name. But they are not living-dead. There is a difference.”
One could describe Elysium Everlasting like “It is the final storehouse for all phenomena and events, the ocean of time in which everything becomes absorbed into a reality that is neither after nor before.”

Names: how am I supposed to describe what kinds of nonsense words they are, I guess I can list some examples: Atekpo, Wenzhine, Hideo, Ohan Reyuon, Hydorre, Euroma Opid, Wyte, Varena'asthn, Aalystice, Iconomar, Equenix'xein, Hushike, Aholai, Novus, Garra, Miik, Dyaelatura Chrysos, Astrothi, Euvias, Haechionx Shro, Prabiki Ripirin, Somnia Elus, Raiquazok, Owa'stryrus Nolumoth, Khetheral Jetebene, Celeritas Ikoran, Reeox, Saikarie, Aloenus, Noxolumen Noctla'lune, Hikorshi

They do not use flags, because flags are one of many things that say you are this and we are that and that is the way it will always be. They do not have formal countries, they do not have real patriotism, they do not have war-- oh sure, they kill each other by the ones and twos, but hardly do they ever mobilize, as a people. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LI7YnPr5IPC6BL0xR4Yk-XlYQV8y8bwm-kqb8oHwciM/edit?tab=t.0#bookmark=id.4na8htnr3and There are no defined borders either. How is one supposed to care about or even pay attention to invisible political boundaries while flying? and https://criticallegalthinking.com/2023/04/25/benedict-andersons-imagined-communities/
> TLHoD
"How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one’s uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one mustn't make a virtue of it, or a profession… Insofar as I love life, I love the hills of the Domain of Estre, but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope."
[...] Yet he added, scrupulous, "A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it."
I really don’t see how anyone could put much stock in victory or glory after they had spent a winter on this planet, and seen the face of the Ice.
He talked a great deal about Truth also, for he was, he said, 'cutting down beneath the veneer of civilization.' It is a durable, ubiquitous, specious metaphor, that one about veneer (or paint, or pliofilm, or whatever) hiding the nobler reality beneath. It can conceal a dozen fallacies at once. One of the most dangerous is the implication that civilization, being artificial, is unnatural: that it is the opposite of primitiveness… Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of those two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both. It seemed to me as I listened to Tibe’s dull fierce speeches that what he sought to do by fear and persuasion was to force his people to change a choice they had made before their history began, the choice between those opposites. The time was ripe, perhaps. Slow as their material and technological advance had been, little as they valued ‘progress’ in itself, they had finally, in the last five or ten or fifteen centuries, got a little ahead of Nature. They weren’t absolutely at the mercy of their merciless climate any longer; a bad harvest would not starve a whole province, or a bad winter isolate every city. On this basis of material stability Karhide had gradually built up a unified and increasingly efficient centralized state. Now Orgoreyn was to pull herself together and do the same; and the way to make her do it was not by sparking her pride, or building up her trade, or improving her roads, farms, colleges, and so on; none of that; that’s all civilization, veneer, and Tibe dismissed it with scorn. He was after something surer, the sure, quick, and lasting way to make people into a nation: war. His ideas concerning it could not have been too precise, but they were quite sound. The only other means of mobilizing people rapidly and entirely is with a new religion; none was handy; he would make do with war.

I have nothing on their history except for that single sentence on first signs of aureiyx civilization. I need to fix that.
I also need to write more stuff about the culture/society, mainly the non. . . neo-primitive? parts, with the companies and organizations and things, as those are the parts that I have less writing on.
I can make an outline without having to put dates on everything
Assuming the solar system is five billion years old, it is 125M solens old, created at 200M.
300M (Synapse’s materialization) is 1,000,151,280 earth years to 3782
325M 3312: First signs of aureiyx civilization (18800 earth years to 3782)

Sports does not exist, it is an outlet for unfulfilled hunting urges that spent over a million years evolving and do not just go away with a neolithic revolution, and aureiyx do not have that problem even though there was a neolithic revolution

The whole notion of right and wrong is a completely artificial construct and we are all just wandering around doing stuff
Recognizing this allows me to give aurieyx a different system of values
I already do this, I guess, when I type on the rest of the document...

I found a thing https://serpentsquiggles.neocities.org/essays/bugfuck/mantis-dicks (which mentions one of my favorite webcomics!!! Let's go!!!!!!!!) and that led me to find another thing more relevant to *this document* (hint, hint) or the project in general I suppose: https://serpentsquiggles.neocities.org/essays/xenodeterminism
Xenodetermism is worth reading, and also contains the greatest coincidence in the history of the universe. (nacktmull)

When I got that "Puppy" from dogintheshit, I did something I do extremely rarely if at all (before this), which was "I love this so much get now figure out the story later" and I hate when characters just sit around looking nice but not actually existing anywhere so maybe I can put them in Syvei or something
Maybe as a manifestation of Autoprogram 78.429?

MiracleSummit said that his whole plot breaks down when you think about it so he just makes it as obscure as possible (and a good job he does of it), I could just try and do that




Moral of the story: I never get to have a coherent train of thought so why should anyone else (joke)