Part I: The Evolumber
The sleeping was finally over, or close to it.
They could rise from their tomb of dreaming and face the reality with fresh new eyes. Eyes free from stereotypes, free from prejudice, and free from their alternate realities created by their keepers. In effect, they were being born again from a life immersed in a created alternative reality, since physical birth, and now after thousands of years and hundreds of generations to their journey to mental awakening as a species. Hopefully evolved; reborn from an apocalypse of their ancestors making.
Every human being on the face of the planet, from the richest country to the poorest were kept in underground housings, much like gigantic lava tunnels beneath the surface. These structures were gothic cyclopean tombs that housed entire populations. The interior of these structures resembled honeycombs that were layered atop one another. Each tube of the honey comb had a diameter of thousands of feet. In the tubes the homo sapiens would are fixed to the tubes, the surface area of the body as one with an exo-skeleton body suits completely wrapped head to toe.
In these suits a human would spend their entire life in. The suit regulated all oxygen, body fluids, temperature, and exersice, because without a healthy body a person dosn’t have a working mind. Each suit a collection of tubes was then connected to the main artery which was placed on the bottom of the tube network to a master conduits; thus these honeychombs housed entire nations and cultures. The civilization locked from evolution, until the time was right for evolution.
The people were all linked into a virtual reality, a reality much like our own, and these people lived their entire lives in this reality. The reality was regulated by quantum-computers to keep fidelity intact with the physical brain to the etherial void that has yet to be fully understood. The underground honeycombs, some smaller, and others larger, it all depended on the size of the nation, when their ancestors went underground to survive the millenia while the earths surface repaired itself. All of the sub-nodes were then connected to the main quantum-server, that served the sub-nodes back with detailed programs and routines. Personalities were packaged into self running applications to keep individuality connected by invisable, strands to the quantum real. The QS regulated what information would go from one node to the other. Plus, if it became neccsary to erase a nation because it became a deadly virus which would become cancerous to the QS nations. The QS applications had to deal with warfare in most cases. The sub-nodes did the same thing, but with each individual app instead.
Part II: Keepers
Keepers, as was defined before they became, were no longer human, they had evolved into another species. By using genetic modification and nanotechnology, each outfitted for immortality. Sexual reproduction had atrophied, ovaries and testicles over time disappeared. Pussies dried and sealed, penises shriveled and absorbed. The basis of a keeper was the biological hatred of their form and the multitude of identities in their minds. A keeper was species unto themselves. The self reinforced hatred of each new keeper species, and the waring identities in their minds created a oscillating incomplete fusion, and thus a steady state.
The original seed human of a keeper; now an entire species unto themselves as they watched over the millions of humans over hundreds of generations as sentinels. The self loathing and hatred at one another, yet without eachother they would would all perish since each one was part of the whole, each one bound to eachother and their quantum souls. The human need to blame the “other” now fully contained into one individual, a species, with hundreds of personalities in the single individual. Entire generations of personality and identity being born and dying inside the mind of each one. Thousands over millennia caught in a perpetual hell of immortality without an identity or being, but yet full of seperate identities and beings. Each keeper, a species, not allowed to die nor evolve because the human minds evolution as a whole arrested into its development after the apocalypse. The human brain in each species stuck at the apocalypse time period. Destined for an immortality of being.
Part III: Architects
The concept of evolution was transmuted after the death of the earth. The architects of human salvation were cruel in their compassion, viscous in their logic, pure
hatred in their love to spare the species from its self-inflicted suicide. Why?
Originally started in the ~2010’s, I added to it last year because the concept of identity was part of my healing process for some reason. I plan on expanding it to more chapters. This written work of fiction is the sole property of the author. Any use of this story, parts of this story will be considered unauthorized. All rights reserved. ©Jacob Pickard. 2025
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