998. Maxima opera, 7
(Rose)
Nightmare’s Demiourgos would begin building its temporary towers, using the architectural knowledge from a very distant past.
Anima’s hypostases would require bodies and sanctuaries to hold solidly their reality and aptitudes.
However the entire Al’Arsh was incredibly bigger than what was required for just them.
Because like flesh for a fruit or brain for a body, everything else in materials was meant to become the world’s changing embryo.
So against intuition of a human like me, Demiourgos wouldn’t build walls, a sprawling city or a megalomaniac palace, fitting to be a renewed Al’Arsh.
On the contrary.
It would gradually consume its materials, to manufacture and spread the vectors of upcoming planetary change and the precursors of widespread life. Meaning the overly alien and technological landscape of the landing site would not spread, but rapidly diminish instead.
The Anima Mundi of Nightmare would keep Demiourgos as the prime actor of transformation onward. It would make all the investments from everything they had brought, for the future she wanted to see dawn someday.
Nous and Soul would begin slumber, leaving the stage to Deimourgos. They would remain slowly active, in supporting roles now.
Towers mixing the best technologies would insure the stabilities and efficiencies for each of them in their duties. A fourth one might be erected for Monad, once it would be recovered as well.
And beside these overseeing spires, the flesh of the little moon would gradually but entirely be converted to catalytic reactors to put the planet on genesis tracks.
Strange golems would scatter. Strange structures would appear and disperse, bearing her engineering marks.
First they would chemically turn the land, air, fluids and grounds into early groundworks for later self-organising chemistry in abiogenesis.
This would take an entire age.
Spiralling and coiling structures with odd shapes and glittering lenses would sparkle all over the world. They would be designed to combine lenticular sunlight convectors and selected chemical catalysts.
The gas and fluids would change state passing by them. The solids would be dissolved. Wind would scatter their reactive dusts. It would appear insignificant at first. But over time...
The Al’Arsh would erode into seemingly animated insectoid entities, odd golems that don’t need to look like biology to accomplish their mechanical duty. These abstract structures that can walk, swim or be carried by winds would spread all over the world, and transform into these hollow tetrahedral spires. Once activated, they become static machineries that very slowly affect the chemical equilibriums of their environment.
Over the course of the following thousands of years maybe, they would slowly decompose the ground below them and the rocks hitting them, in the increased acidity and reactivity of the air or fluids inside of them.
These tetrahedral structures would cause the chemical reactions gradually accumulating all the acids required for the future into the air and liquids.
All so to gradually melt and break down the top layer of rocks making the surface of the planet.
It would hasten by millions of years a possible breakdown of carbonates and silicates to release their oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen. She probably could find other pathways to boot abiogenesis from different atoms more easily available like silicon and aluminium if needs to be, but if possible she would likely have sought an environment with the potential to mimic Earth’s resources generally.
What she wouldn’t have brought enough with her from space, she would find chemical pathways to create from the ground. Although unlikely, even if takes nuclear powers to process. Demiourgos would have that capacity too initially.
I could see structures of immense convex mirrors being erected to focus sunlight into beams regularly hitting lenses, and turning spots around the capital spire into furnaces, allowing other differentiations and breaking down of materials.
But I think she wouldn’t go for mechanisms that complex to build and maintain, even if impressive. She would seek efficiency, and she has better powers to use.
She has Supremacy. She would have had plenty of time with Nous to unlock its principles and its reproductive abilities.
With a minimal wearing off technological core inside Deimourgos’ tower, she would engineer and release everything needed to slowly but steadily change the world.
The tetrahedral hollow structures would act as general catalysts and be spread all over the world.
And then these mechanical butterflies would scatter by the millions, working in a hive swarm to buzz around these structures, optimising their yields and outputs as they change the chemical composition of the atmosphere and oceans, consuming the bedrock.
The little factories would refine what Demiourgos would require to balance its costs and outputs mechanically wise. But most of the work would be to turn each of the hollow sculptures into the core pestle or small geological reactor. Turning rocks into precursors for air and water.
Fumes would sprout from the thousands of little factories. Working to the best of their efficiencies, not blindly. When the weather is bad, the metallic butterflies would hide along the tetrahedrons.
All over the thousands of years that ensued, the ground would be eroded chemically, consumed to release colossal amounts of gazes and as huge amounts of new mineral materials. Sands that crystallised and became gradually a vivid layer of dust worldwide.
This would continue until the atmosphere would become rich enough in gazes and obscured enough by minerals, cooling down some temperatures the most extremes.
This would become harsh weather on the spires for a while, with more mechanical abrasion from the sands, but a necessary erosion.
Because then... Once the atmosphere would be thick enough with varied chemical compounds and solid mineral dusts flowing all over the world, then; Anima would release some of her greatest work.
By then, millennia after the landing and vanishing of Al’Arsh, all the tetrahedrons and the butterflies would have eventually ceased to function. They would probably continue to remain until degradation and seeding of the environment.
But then, Demiourgos would unleash the pinnacle of Nightmare’s philosophical pearls.
Translucent droplets, with simple aims and just enough a collection of catalysts to be the more absolute version of what Supremacy was. Machines that are chemically able to self-replicate, so long their environment contains the appropriate elements.
A cloud of archaea would be released, with the grand design to replicate by consuming the acids of the atmosphere and oceans, to release the right chemicals in order for wastes.
Over the generation, this would complete the global chemical reaction of releasing all the oxygen required.
When this strain would go extinct, reaching its chemical reaction’s end; Demiourgos would move on to the next step in the designed pathway for global transformation.
Oxygen. Water. Ammonia. Then aminoacids. The entire planetary landscape and overall chemistries changing entirely.
As the composition of the atmosphere changes, Anima’s towers are getting more and more eroded and frail.
Monad perhaps had yet to be recovered, its tracks lost somewhere in the planet’s mantle as it floats along magma.
Soul still asleep, for another era yet to come.
While for perhaps a million years, the intelligent design made an impossible fate for a planet turn back, and correct its path toward another sort of manifest destiny.
A dead world would eventually bear life.
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