Dramatic scene changes: to Earth seventeen hundred years later, then to an extra-solar planet.
A moonless extra-solar planet with an atmosphere, a sea and primitive life is explored by a post-organic intelligence called "Intelligence Prime." We met an organic being of that name in Poul Anderson's The War Of Two Worlds.
The post-organic Intelligence Prime:
has explored this planet for seven hundred years;
shares its knowledge with intelligences elsewhere in the known galaxy;
has nearly completed its understanding of the planet;
is beginning to direct its attention elsewhere;
is assisted by the download of Christian Brannock who:
has been uploaded into intelligences travelling further into the galaxy;
had intended to become unconscious for a while before being reactivated into some new undertaking;
but has instead decided to be incorporated into Intelligence Prime who will thus gain Brannock's memories as well as the ability to resurrect him.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
This is confusing. As you wrote it, we see two Intelligence Primes. I think there was only one such entity--which decided to "reconstitute" Christian Brannock.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
Now I am confused. There is an extra-solar being called "Intelligence Prime" in THE WAR OF TWO WORLDS and a post-organic with the same name in GENESIS.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
I know, but I did not have THE WAR OF TWO WORLDS in mind. It was your mentions of the non-organic Intelligence Prime that I wasn't sure I understood your comments on correctly. But I see now the download of Christian Brannock decided to be merged with the Intelligence Prime studying that primitive extra-Solar planet.
Ad astra! Sean
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