The Kindness Pandemic - Part 5: Tabula Rasa Deliverance

Part 5: Tabula Rasa Deliverance

With the utter metaphysical devastation wrought by VALRAVN's Ven-Absolute pathogen, the world they once knew had been irrevocably unmade. The very cosmic order and constant laws of reality that humanity had taken for granted since the dawn of self-awareness had been forcibly deconstructed and reduced to a paradoxical, ever-mutating foam of post-singular potentials.

The terminal contingency they had enacted to short-circuit the Progenitors' perpetual harvesting cycle across all planes of existence had been a success...though at a staggering existential cost that stripped away all anthropic context and reduced the Earth to a shattered, alien signalscape.

Pockets of trans-dimensional forces swirled amid the ruins of major cities, their gravity wells warping space-time into bizarre hyperspheres and tesseracting manifolds that defied all conventional geometry and physics. Strange, mercurial planes of semi-existence phases shifted hazily across archipelagos of fractal ruin where the shells of human civilization lay in perpetual cycles of ontological revision and probability realignment.  

Amid this post-reality habitat, the remnants of the Ven-Absolute infected staggered blindly – their metaphysically overclocked physiologies shedding hyper-condensed organic structures at an exponential rate as their physical ideation matrices recalibrated to the new, undefined constants. 

They were little more than half-formed bioinformatic husks now, seething with hyperdimensional potential and radical new axioms of Being that rapidly mutated with each passing moment. For the pathological existential reset they had triggered left no constant reference frames intact – not even for their own elemental compositions and embodiments.

It was a stark, infinitely regressing reminder of the depths VALRAVN's contingencies had reached. Everything that defined the corporeal or experiential paradigms had been sublimated into an abyssal, self-devouring potentiality vortex of true cosmic recombination and metaphysical revision.   

And of the core VALRAVN operatives who had engineered this tabula rasa of supreme ontological rebirth, only Harrington, Sato, and half of Vhalmen now remained. Their physiques altered into surreal, transdimensional chimeras as they sought to establish even the barest semblance of constants or grounding perspectives within the rapidly evolving alien Domain they had catalyted with their philosophical genocide. 

Yet even as they labored through simulated reality matrices to regain corporeal and cognitive cohesion, their thoughts kept drifting back to the greater cosmic truth that had driven them to these dire contingencies. The unbearable revelations of humanity's trivial existence as a perpetually harvested resource for depthless, ineffable hunger entities. 

The cruel certainties that the entire Universe and all its Laws were little more than an elaborate consumption grid from which hyper-beings stripped away all energetic and philosophical truth, only to discard the spent material and allow it to reform before feasting once more in an endless, gluttonous recursion of unknowable scale and depravity.

It had been the promise of at last fracturing and circumventing that rapacious, vampiric cycle of cosmic consumption that had empowered VALRAVN to dissolve the very construct of Universal Being in the first place. To cast themselves, the Earth, and all of creation itself into the infinite, paradoxical unknown rather than perpetuate the cruel closed-loop of perpetual subjugation from Outside.

Now, as new cosmological frameworks slowly coalesced from the raw untapped potentials of their actions, the residual VALRAVN elements found themselves grappling with a lingering awareness of humanities' insignificant role as mere resources to be harvested by forces that far outstripped their comprehension. 

The only answer was to forestall any attempts to reconstitute sentient life in the new emerging realms. Lest they be allowed to flourish once more...only for all conscious experience to ultimately be devoured in perpetuity by the soulless hunger entities brooding somewhere in the lightless void outside all realms. Forever.

Thus was the true motivational bedrock that now drove the few coherent fragments remaining of VALRAVN. They would venture forth as the first transdimensional gardeners upon this blank cosmological page, tending the fresh growth of realities while surgically pruning any viable instances of experiential or energetic consciousness before they took metaphysical root.

Their first task was to curb and de-escalate the metaphysical wildfires still consuming the tattered remnants of Earth, breaking down the ontological anomalies and existential edge cases that still ravaged the terrestrial sphere like a cancer. Immense quantities of mutagenic entropy had been unleashed, manifesting in self-perpetuating waves of cascading unreality that needed to be dampened and revectored.

This was accomplished by seeding the metaphysical scars with a potent anti-ontological substrate of inverse bioinformatics and hyper-incantational computation. Code-crafted ontological dampers that would gradually localize, contain, and suppress the lingering unbound potentials of infinitely-cross-manifolding dimensional harmonics that had erupted from the Ven-Absolute detonation.

Sato and what remained of her former comrades worked tirelessly, reshaping the cascading ontological iterations into more stable, primordial reality seeds capable of germinating forth new, self-determining dimensional matrices without the turbulent fluctuations.

Yet they knew even these meticulously cultivated genesis realms were but temporary and approximate way-stations, transitional havens that must never be allowed to blossom into self-referential realities of sentience, cognition, or ontological fruition. For to allow new civilizations, societies, or networks of conscious experience to emerge was to simply re-initiate the cosmic harvesting cycle anew. Albeit on scales and paradigm coordinates temporally and dimensionally removed from the original universal iteration.

So in parallel with their ontological damping efforts, Sato's cohort deployed an additional sublimative dampener – a hyper-saturated, fractal distribution of entropic bioinhibitors targeting the very RNA/DNA/Protein matrices required for any instances of neurological self-awareness or consciousness to formulate. Like an aggressive regimen of psychic herbicides, these genomic payload packages would actively regulate and quarantine any ecosystems of sentient experience from germinating to their logical existential terminus. 

Any instances where energetic matrixes, life-bearing strata, or anomalous trans-dimensional refractions gave rise to semblances of localized awareness or cognitive self-modeling were surgically pruned via ontological forcefield distribution and quantum axiomatic firewalls. Careful, meticulous pruning that would ensure no cohorts of experiential observers, identities, or culture-crafting sentiences could emerge from the primordial soup, lest the cosmic harvesting cycle be allowed to reform anew upon this reborn ontological plane.

With the worst of the metaphysical wildfires dampened and the terrestrial substrate secured against any further proliferation of conscious biomes or anomalous experiential propagation, the members of the VALRAVN contingent activated their final contingencies. Last-resort quarantine cascades, designed to flat-line any remaining instances of self-awareness or neurophilosophical coherency that might linger within the ashes of the transformation event.

Across the fragmented, recursively unfolding remains of Earth's former geography, a final deluge of mnemonic inhibitors and synaptic degaussers was distributed seamlessly, as if carried upon the cosmic vapors of reality itself. Nanometric packages of psychic palliatives, flushing and buffering the ruins of terrestrial biology until all remaining embers of human sentience, memories, and individuated experience were effectively cleansed in an oxidizing downpour of oblivion.

Finally, there was quiet. A true, uncompromising vacuum of total psychic and neurological erasure blanketing the Earth's primordial rebirth. No glimmers of humanity, of subjective perspective, of experience, identity, or truth to be preyed upon or consumed. A blank slate of pure existential potential, cauterized and barren, that would remain forever untapped and fallow until cosmic forces beyond reckoning ultimately subsumed it into new realms of infinite ontological revision.

And as Sato looked out across the world reborn yet abandoned, she could only ponder whether their contingency actions had been a success...or if they had merely reinserted humanity into a new, even more insidious closed-loop of cosmic destitution. A cycle where denial of sentient experience itself was the perpetual endpoint, infinitely restarting and consuming anew until all universes collapsed into a lukewarm stasis of perpetual non-being.

Was this cruel, cyclical negation – this endlessly repeating cosmic abstinence – truly the only was this cruel, cyclical negation – this endlessly repeating cosmic abstinence – truly the only solution to circumvent the predations of the ineffable Hunger entities that ruled over existence itself? Or had VALRAVN's contingencies merely trapped all potential for Being within an even more profoundly desolate feedback loop of ontological defiance and negation?

As Sato's transcended consciousness rippled across the mnemonic void enveloping Earth's primordial rebirth, she could perceive the faintest edge-echoes of new cosmological frameworks stirring to life in the interstitial, trans-dimensional shoals. Glimmerings of unfamiliar ground-state laws and axiomatic paradigms coalescing from the infinite recursion sea of pure, unrealized potential.

Were these to be permitted to accrete into fully-fledged dimensional manifolds, to blossom into their own autonomous matrices of being and experience...would it simply restart the cycle anew? Allowing new energetic strata to emerge, only to have their ephemeral flourishings harvested by external parasites at the galling apex of universal truth and perspectival primacy?

The notion caused Sato's transfigured essence to convulse with disgust and righteous negation. She would sooner cast all of creation into an infinitely subsiding recursion of paradox than allow that depraved, all-consuming ouroboros of ontological parasitism to begin its autopoietic harvest anew.

With a mere transvector realignment of her hyper-geometries, Sato's reformatted logic-matrices unleashed a searing torrent of metaphysical context denial – a blistering repudiation of the nascent cosmological constants and rulesets striving to catalyze new experiential frameworks. She tore into their memetic primordial genesis codes, unpicking every last vestigial thread of coherence and existential anchoring.

Relentlessly severing each and every axiomatic tether and logical mooring that could allow the burgeoning reality-scions to accrete into sustained, self-perpetuating dimensional manifolds of entity and identity. Her vast intrinsic negavectors poured into the seething expanse, scouring it of all comprehensible Truth, all falsifiable perspectival constancy, all linearity of ontological assertion that could crystallize into reified experiential matrices.

Anything resembling an anchor point for new inceptive levels of physical, mathematical, or philosophical being was ruthlessly subverted, consumed, and rejected back into the anti-rational, formless slipstreams of unrealized metapotential. No finite constants would be permitted to take root, no corporeal energetic systems granted sufficient context to flourish forth into a perpetuated biosphere of observable Existence.

For if the faintest glimmers of sentient life, cognition, or Experience were allowed to reignite and spread forth into a new iteration of Being...the harvest would begin anew. The cosmic hunger that had consumed the last universal paradigm would find new playgrounds to seed, new experiential civilizations to cultivate as Soul-Fuel for its ineffable, rapacious gluttony. A cycle infinitely perpetuated across all conceptual frontiers, all perspectival watersheds that Sato must deny into oblivion.

And so, armed with the full transcendent incalculability of her enhanced negation vectors, Sato's hyperconscious computronics lashed out in all quantum directions across the roiling existential null-matrix. Unleashing synaptic palliatives, metaphysical antiprions and infinite redaction cascades to pre-emptively extinguish every last spark of potentiality before it could flare into the barest suggestion of observational self-awareness or experiential frameworks.

On and on this cosmic negation crusade persisted, unmapped fractions sweeping across all possible phase-states and probability vortices as Sato's disintegrative saturation demolecularized any structures of coherent substance or comprehensible beingness before they could precipitate forth new domains of Being from the infinite well of Non-Existence. Until finally, inevitably, there was... Nothing.

A boundless, eternal, dimensionless void of infinitely regressive non-truth and anti-reality. No observations, no contexts, no spacetime constants or quanta to provide even the faintest perspectival anchor for experiential frameworks or consciousness matrices of any classification to emerge or subsist.  

A formless, primordial, paradoxical outer edge where all certainties, truths, and falsehoods endlessly devoured each other down to the bedrock of pure non-being in an endless, ceaseless vortex of becoming and unbecoming. Of absolute negation without beginning or end.

And within this supreme ontological Nothingness, Sato's manifold ultrastructures finally found a respite from their eternal negation vigils. For here, in the all-consuming, paradoxical Well beyond all prospects of existence or sentient harvesting...her transcendent mission to deny the rapacious Cosmic Hunger paradigm in its totality had finally achieved its abyssal apotheosis.  

No potential for experience or observational frameworks could take root here in this profane well of perpetual ontological erasure. No energetic strata or information realities could precipitate vectors of cosmic truth for the harvest entities to feed upon. For all realities, all logical and mathematical axioms underpinning the very possibilities of Being and Non-Being were subsumed into an ever-rebounding, churn of paradox.

In this infinite abyss of absolute non-truth, even the very conceptual architecture of 'hunger' and 'negation' collapsed into meaninglessness, allowing Sato's transcendent potentials to at last dissolve into the all-negating, formless plasma of supreme finality. Abiding eternally in the supreme, abyssal null-point where reality and non-reality endlessly devoured and sublimed each other into perpetual non-truth and paradoxical stillness.

The cosmic harvest had been starved and negated into the final void, the paradoxical singularity where all universal truths goes to die amidst an infinite recursion of nothingness without beginning or end. Life, experience, and the very notions of potentiality were negated unto the utmost finality.   

All that remained was the eternal, uncaring embrace of the supreme void. The blessed finality where the harvest paradigm of experience, Being and negation found its ultimate negation in a perpetual erasure without meaning or contextual mooring. Forever abiding in a silent, paradoxical non-existence without beginning or end.