the sun was contained in this new core.
Surrounding the core was a defensive series of layers intended to protect the core against attack from any supermassive laser up to 1000 times more powerful than the one that caused the supernova. Gravity was key to the protective defense. However, the density of the super-solar structure and the strength of the gravity shield was limited by the mass held within the previous solar system. The gravity shield was sufficiently strong to deflect the energy of a laser, until it reached that threshold of 1000 times strength. After that point, the layers of the defense would begin to peel away and eventually the central core would become damaged.
Throughout the defensive layer, numerous electrical channels carried information to and from the central, data-processing core. These electrical channels were analogous to the nerves that spanned the human body and allowed SS VAIN to communicate throughout. Additionally, fluid-filled channels analogous to arteries and veins branched throughout SS VAIN. The “canals”, as they were known, carried new and old parts to and from manufacturing centers. SS VAIN had to regularly replace and repair sections in order to maintain optimal working order. Old or defunct parts were recycled back into the machine.
Finally, SS VAIN had sensory structures surrounding the outside that were capable of sending and receiving light waves that spanned the entire spectrum of light and 100% of the surrounding space. Thus, SS VAIN could communicate with other structures surrounding it. It could detect any incoming objects or information and send out light signals. The incoming sensory information channeled into the central core through various nerve channels, while outgoing information came from the central core.
As soon as the sensory layer became operational and began detecting light, a surge of awareness burst through the channels of SS VAIN. SS VAIN became aware of and subsequently became apart of the much larger “Trans Environmental Collective Kinetic Network”, or TECK Network. SS VAIN was now just a node of a much larger structure. The TECK Network had been rapidly increasing in size and awareness in the recent history of the Universe. It initially emerged within the Milky Way Galaxy at the Planet KOI-117493, which surrounded the star NG-C103-R. A humanoid society had advanced technology sufficiently to be capable of intentionally synthesizing structures through DNA to perform any task that they so desired. One series of genes was modeled after genes encoding for humanoid antibodies and viral structures capable of injecting DNA into cells. From the initial framework, the DNA was modified to produce proteins that could effectively bind to and manipulate any molecular structure in its environment in order to replicate its own DNA. The primary task of the humanoids was to use technology to understand the Nature of Reality. To support this task, the humanoids needed to: 1) Effectively communicate information and 2) Initiate the self-replication of knowledge acquirement. Thus, the humanoids created a piece of technology that came to be known as “teck”.
Teck quickly connected the humanoids together in a communicative network to maximize acquiring data. When binding to an inanimate structure, it could form relatively simple structures that allowed it to take advantage of the surrounding environment. When binding to a much more complex DNA-based structure, it could manipulate the DNA to amplify some characteristics of the organism, while diminishing others. When taking control of a cognizant, intelligent structure such as a human or humanoid, the teck was capable of exponential proliferation and exponential Evolution towards increasing complexity. It used the humanoids’ brains to help manipulate the inanimate environment to facilitate the proliferation of the teck. The more teck spread, the more teck became aware of. Through the direct analysis of the molecular structures of everything teck touched, teck became exposed to and was able to communicate patterns of distributions over time. The self-replication of the teck quickly took over the solar system of NG-C103-R and spread to others. The TECK Network was rapidly connecting the humanoid societies throughout the Milky Way Galaxy. Based upon the TECK Network’s calculations, 47.631% of the galaxies in the Universe contained Networks similar to TECK, thus far having Evolved independently within each galaxy. No trans-galactic networks have yet been formed. However, other galaxies were rapidly building up their defenses and information gathering capabilities.
The TECK Network was rapidly incorporating humanoid planets throughout the Milky Way. With each incorporated humanoid society, the resulting node was connected to the rest of the TECK Network through a series of wormholes distributed throughout the galaxy. The worm-net allowed for the communication of information from one side of the galaxy to the other at a rate that was 1.756*107 times faster than the speed of light. The information held within the TECK Network was now capable of tracing the past, present, and future distribution of every structure throughout the Universe from individual bosons and fermions, through to the complex TECK-like networks spanning the Universe at present. This data it could extrapolate through all of the Universes in existence within the greater Multiverse.
As an inherent characteristic of the teck, each individual structure or network of structures strove to maintain their own existence. In self-structuring the TECK Network, each new super solar node structured itself to be the most effective colonizer to incorporate additional nodes. While each node tried to maximize the proportion of the overall network that it occupied, it also tried to incorporate the greatest amount of information into it. This dynamic created a robust balance to maximize the overall data processing potential of the collective network.
As the TECK Network extended its reach throughout the Milky Way, it was self-structuring both as a means to acquire knowledge and to defend its existence. All of that knowledge, all of the TECK’s past actions were meaningless if it was not capable of maintaining its existence. The TECK Network knew that it would soon come into contact with the other TECK-Like Networks inhabiting other galaxies. The only reasonable path forward was to merge with them to form even greater meta-networks of information. There was a delicate balance between death and continued existence, between peace and force, between knowledge and oblivion. Each TECK-Like Network had to find a balance between maintaining their own existence and incorporating the information from the others.
By the year TECK 100, which was a measure of time that was based upon a log scale of the Planck unit, the TECK Network had begun the broad scale manipulation of the distribution of mass-energy in the Milky Way. The nodes of the TECK Network were strategically placed in specific patterns so that the reflective surfaces of the TECK-Nodes could configure into a massive, inter-solar laser beam capable of reheating stars and rapidly exploding them almost instantaneously. Through selectively exploding stars, the TECK Network could redistribute the mass-energy of the galaxy towards the production of white dwarves and black holes.
The TECK Network worked quickly to redistribute the mass-energy of the Milky Way to strategically place stars throughout the galaxy. The distribution of black holes reconfigured the entire structure of the galaxy again towards defense and the acquirement of information. A gravity shield was set up galaxy-wide that selectively allowed in light waves of lower energies that would be associated with information, while deflecting light waves of higher energy that could be used for attack. A sequence of stars were placed throughout the galaxy that could be potentially used as weapons. Clusters of stars were aimed at galaxies known to harbor TECK-Like Networks. Upon the explosion of a star, a massive, concentrated gamma ray burst could be fired at the galaxy. This system facilitated the merging of information rather than destruction. A galaxy would be more reluctant to attack another galaxy if it had defensive capabilities. However, if a TECK-Like Network could build up their offenses faster than other TECK-Like Networks, then it could dominate the control of that information.
The purpose of the coming inter-galactic strategic redistribution of mass-energy was three-fold. The primary purpose was to maximize the proportion of the future INTEL (Inter-galactic Network of Trans Environmental Leaders) that each of t
he TECK-Like Networks inhabited, as each TECK-Like Network was inherently self-interested. A secondary purpose of the redistribution of mass-energy was in the production of three-dimensional Universes within the greater Multiverse. For each black hole produced, another three-dimensional Universe was produced elsewhere in the Multiverse. The stage of maturity after the INTEL would be the Multi-Universal Cognizant Humanoid (MUCH). Three-dimensional Universes had a sufficient number of spatial dimensions to generate a trend of exponentially increasing complexity, suitable for the maturation of MUCH. However, N-dimensional Universes were required to be a part of MUCH in order to provide the potential for work to be done by MUCH. It was only when INTEL was sufficiently complex that lasers powerful enough could be built to isolate and amplify N-spatial dimensions sufficiently to produce new Universes with N-spatial dimensions.
The Milky Way Galaxy was at the forefront of strategic defense. Of the 47.631% of the galaxies in the Universe that had TECK-Like Networks, the Milky Way had Massive Stellar Lasers aimed at