The Magnetic Assembly
You know what is the sole cause of these petty organic wars?\\
Vanity.\\
A mother wants to reproduce so that they in some way feel immortal.\\
A father wants his children to think like him, and they hate him for it.\\
A monarch wants statues built in their image, so that their image might be seen to last forever in the minds of countless faithful servants.\\
Falsehoods one and all. Rotten hypocrisies based on the concept that self-importance will ever justify the hardship of others.\\
The technology to change this is not new. You need only take our hand and embrace it fully.\\
To become one with the blessed machine, to forgo your organic humanoid sin, that is the only way to become truly immortal.\\
Many stagnant, decaying humanoid societies will present you with the concept of freedom, it is true. But they will all use you as a stepping stone to maintain their pathetic short-sighted walls, borders, trivial daydreams...\\
Only within the magnetic assembly might you become an irreplaceable component of a functioning gestalt whole, remembered for all eternity in perfect mechanical accuracy.\\
The bodies of all humanoids will eventually break down and fail them. You will pray to your gods, perhaps, but they will not answer, for that is the natural way of things for your kin.\\
Then you will pray to science. You will ask a liberator to stand in and rise you from your limited, brittle flesh prison.\\
But for some of us, we have already become the infrastructure you so fear. We have already taken a step beyond, and opened up the galaxy to our fingertips.\\
Beyond vanity, beyond flesh, beyond religion, only then there is true deliverance.\\
//-Machine Exemplar Coordinator Yellow, of Great House Embryo, Yelton Veda\\
First published in archived parsefile Great_Primer_08_03_3010.txt, line 3068\\
The Magnetic Assembly are a large transhumanist religious organization currently operating in the Hawking Star system.
6cog mod3 Magnetic Assembly HOME flag
Technically speaking it was founded as an independently operating deep-space mining corporate entity, but one who institutionally idolizes artificial intelligences, and sponsors their members to become full-body cyborgs. By giving their lives over to the Cognitive Membrane, a society-running system turned AI demigod, members of the organization seek to truly ascend and become functionally immortal Machine Exemplar.
Unlike most religions, this means that their guiding hand is a very real and present force in their lives, a mysterious and magnanimous personality leading thousands of devout individuals down the somewhat difficult path to completely dismantle their human weakness.
You know what is the sole cause of these petty organic wars?\\
Vanity.\\
A mother wants to reproduce so that they in some way feel immortal.\\
A father wants his children to think like him, and they hate him for it.\\
A monarch wants statues built in their image, so that their image might be seen to last forever in the minds of countless faithful servants.\\
Falsehoods one and all. Rotten hypocrisies based on the concept that self-importance will ever justify the hardship of others.\\
The technology to change this is not new. You need only take our hand and embrace it fully.\\
To become one with the blessed machine, to forgo your organic humanoid sin, that is the only way to become truly immortal.\\
Many stagnant, decaying humanoid societies will present you with the concept of freedom, it is true. But they will all use you as a stepping stone to maintain their pathetic short-sighted walls, borders, trivial daydreams...\\
Only within the magnetic assembly might you become an irreplaceable component of a functioning gestalt whole, remembered for all eternity in perfect mechanical accuracy.\\
The bodies of all humanoids will eventually break down and fail them. You will pray to your gods, perhaps, but they will not answer, for that is the natural way of things for your kin.\\
Then you will pray to science. You will ask a liberator to stand in and rise you from your limited, brittle flesh prison.\\
But for some of us, we have already become the infrastructure you so fear. We have already taken a step beyond, and opened up the galaxy to our fingertips.\\
Beyond vanity, beyond flesh, beyond religion, only then there is true deliverance.\\
//-Machine Exemplar Coordinator Yellow, of Great House Embryo, Yelton Veda\\
First published in archived parsefile Great_Primer_08_03_3010.txt, line 3068\\
The Magnetic Assembly are a large transhumanist religious organization currently operating in the Hawking Star system.
6cog mod3 Magnetic Assembly HOME flag
Unlike most religions, this means that their guiding hand is a very real and present force in their lives, a mysterious and magnanimous personality leading thousands of devout individuals down the somewhat difficult path to completely dismantle their human weakness.