Lyell Background and Disorganized Chapters of Science Fiction Book Idea

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Background of Lyell

"Lyell" is a science fiction novel set in a distant star system where a young boy named Benjamin Torpey hails from the planet Lyell (Proxima Centauri b). On Lyell, a devastating apocalypse caused by celestial events led to the discovery of dangerous manifestations within the minds of its inhabitants. In the wake of this catastrophe, Benjamin mysteriously manifests his life into Earth and disappears from Lyell.

Origins of Lyell and what Lyell is to Present-day Earth

The closest planet to Earth that is outside of our solar system is known as Proxima Centauri b. This planet orbits the Star Proxima Centauri, which is the closest star to our solar system. Being a red dwarf star, it cannot be seen in our sky with a naked eye.

The names that our scientists have given this star and its planet reflects the geocentricity of our egocentric existence on Earth; “Proxima” comes from the Latin word for “near” and “Centaurus” is the arbitrary chunk of stars (constellation) that our ancient people thought looked like a centaur. I often wonder what drugs Ptolemy was on when he saw a horse human thing when he looked at the night sky, but I digress.

Proxima Centauri is part of a trinary star system (there are three stars) and it orbits around a binary star (two stars that orbit around a common center) which includes Alpha Centauri A and B. Proxima Centauri is about a fifth of a light year away from the binary star but it is gravitationally connected to it and therefore part of their solar system.

Proxima Centauri b is considered to be a “Goldilocks Planet”, meaning the distance from its star allows for the potential to support life; the planet might have an atmosphere and water. The planet has slightly more mass than Earth and it might be rocky. Being 4.85 billion years old, it is only slightly older than Earth, which is 4.54 billions years old.

So the real (fictional) name for Proxima Centauri is called Ra and the planet that revolves around it is called Lyell by those who inhabit it. Ra is actually part of a trinary star system that includes the binary stars we call Alpha Centauri A and B. The former is really called Utu and the latter is called Inanna.

Ra is a red dwarf star and a small fraction of the size of the Sun. However, Lyell is only about four million miles from Ra and Earth is about ninety-two million miles from the Sun. Ra therefore appears to Lyellians as the same size that the Sun appears to Earthlings. Utu and Inanna are a little older than the Sun and of very similar size. Utu is slightly larger than the Sun and is the same type of star as the Sun: a yellow dwarf. Inanna is slightly smaller than the Sun and is classified as an orange dwarf star, which emits less ultra violet light than a yellow dwarf and has constant appearance resembling an orange setting Sun.

Utu and Inanna orbit around a shared barycenter, or center of mass, with a distance between them varying from the distance between the Sun and Saturn to the distance between the Sun and Pluto. However, Lyell and Ra are a fifth of a light year away from Utu and Inanna, which is equivalent to about 430 times the distance Neptune travels around the sun.

They are visible to Lyell during six of the eleven days of its orbit. During these six days Utu and Inanna rise in the north of Lyell and set in the South. They appear to be about ten times the size of a star in Earth’s night sky and are the only stars Lyellians have ever seen.

The combination of Lyell’s rotation and orbit and their effect on the visibility of Utu and Inanna have shaped their concept of time, which occurs during six of the eleven Earth days it takes Lyell to orbit Ra. During the other five days, Ra eclipses Utu and Inanna.

Lyell is tidally locked to Ra, which means one side of Lyell is always facing Ra. That being said, one half of Lyell is perpetually experiencing daytime. The entire human population of Lyell lives on the side of the planet that faces Ra, due to the presumed inhabitability of its dark side. Their are two continents on the light side of Lyell and one on the dark side.

Since there is neither night nor a moon, Lyellians understand time much differently than we do. Lyell orbits the closest star, Ra, every eleven Earth days, and spins on its axis every eighty-three Earth days.

Due to the rapid orbit rate and slow rotation rate (which had been unnoticeable until modern Lyell history due to the planet being tidally locked), Lyellians do not sleep.

On Earth, the need for sleep is required by biological temporal rhythms that oscillate to the twenty-four hour rotation cycle of the Earth; these are called Circadian Rhythms. The rapid shift from day to night on Earth has shaped the human biology around the planet’s light cycles. In the human brain, the Pineal Gland and its reactions to light or lack-there-of is responsible for Earthling’s wake/sleep cycles.

During the daytime, light activates the Pineal Gland and stimulates the production of serotonin: a neurotransmitter responsible for healthy energy and mood levels. During nighttime, the absence of light signals the Pineal Gland to synthesize serotonin into melatonin, which signals the body to fall asleep.

Earth also experiences drastic seasonal and therefore temperature changes throughout what we call a year (one spin around the Sun). Seasonal and temperature disparities further necessitate the Earthling humans to sleep due to the oxidative stress caused by the human body’s constant metabolic restructuring to fit the planet’s temperate cycle.

Human Lyellians have the same mammalian brain as human Earthlings, but the Pineal Glands in the brains of the former never produce melatonin due to perpetual starlight (we call this sunlight) and therefore are never entrained into the tired state we call sleep.

Temperature and climate is constant on Lyell and therefore, Lyellians are not affected by the oxidative stress Earthlings experience. Humans, therefore sleep due to both the production of melatonin and its function to redux oxidative stress incurred by Earth’s constantly changing environment across days, months, and years. Lyellians are free from the curse of time.

Time is truly an illusion, but crafted by our own curse. Each moment of our life on Earth is governed by the entropy that our bodies experience during our planet’s movement through space. During each day that shifts into night, we are dependent on the energy we wake with until it begins to die in the darkness. Throughout each month, both males’ and females’ hormones are tormented by the shifting phases of the moon. Throughout each season, our bodies are subject to drastic changes in weather and climate that require us to drastically change our behaviors. Every year our bodies are restructured around the stress of revolving in a disproportionate orbit around a star that can only feed half the living things on its planet a day, as the tilted axis of the planet makes its light nearly useless for months.

We are therefore slaves to the entropy of time that we have created on Earth in order to explain our lives as a progressive movement towards death. Death through time is our curse.

My Plans for Telling this as a Story

My current developed story spans three epochs of Lyellian life, spanning over 100 years (basically the same amount of time as Earth years). The first epoch takes place before, during and after a major cataclysmic event (100 years prior to present day). Lyell was similar to Earth before this first event, but the event drastically changes the biology and ecology of Lyell.

The second epoch is immediately before, during, and after a second cataclysmic event that drastically changes the biology and reality of Lyellians.

The third epoch of the developed story is an introduction to the main character, or present day Lyell, which is a world that was intentinonally manipulated through craft to prevent the aforementioned cataclysmic event from ever happening again.

I plan to tell future untold story lines unfold across three distinct parts: the protagonist's life on Lyell before manifesting to Earth, his adventures on Earth as he encounters new characters, and the intriguing aftermath of Alister Pendragon's plan to suppress manifestations in post-apocalyptic Lyell. The narrative delves deep into the rich history of Lyell, its planetary system, and the tragic events of the apocalypses.

Lyellian society evolves drastically as it transitions from a civilization ravaged by celestial turmoil to a meticulously engineered manifestation-inhibiting society. The novel explores themes of identity, memory, power, and the consequences of suppressing creativity and imagination.

As Benjamin embarks on a journey of self-discovery, he uncovers secrets that challenge the foundation of his world. With a unique concept of dialectical resonance enabling him to comprehend Earth languages effortlessly, Benjamin interacts with Earth characters who play crucial roles in his adventure.

Amidst a thoughtfully crafted world, "Lyell" weaves an enthralling tale of mystery, exploration, and human potential, inviting readers to ponder the boundaries of their own imaginations and the essence of being truly alive.

Present Day Lyell

Lyell is a captivating planet located in the Proxima Centauri star system. Its unique geography is defined by vast crystalline plains, towering luminous mountains, and sprawling bioluminescent forests. The planet's surface is perpetually bathed in the warm, radiant light of its three stars – Ra (Proxima Centauri), Utu (Alpha Centauri), and Inanna (Beta Centauri) – forming a trinary star system that shapes the very essence of Lyell's existence.

Society on Lyell is organized into distinct regions, each demarcated by intricate networks of electromagnetic barriers known as "demarcations." These demarcations serve to separate regions and regulate the flow of resources and information between them. Lyellians live within their designated demarcations, and crossing these barriers is strictly controlled and monitored.

The names of Lyell's different regions hold significant cultural and historical meaning. The central region, known as "Solasphere," is where the capital city lies, and it serves as the political and administrative hub of the planet. Surrounding Solasphere are the "Luminora Fields," vast expanses of glowing plains that shimmer like a sea of stars.

To the south lies the "Crystalline Reach," a majestic region dominated by sparkling crystal formations that reflect the light of the stars, creating breathtaking visual displays. In contrast, the northern region, known as the "Obsidian Abyss," is a mysterious area shrouded in darkness, where ancient caverns hide untold secrets.

The "Verdant Canopy" covers the eastern region, where bioluminescent forests flourish, filled with unique flora and fauna that emit mesmerizing glows. The western region is called the "Aurelian Peaks," characterized by majestic mountains that touch the sky, crowned with golden hues during the celestial alignment of Ra, Utu, and Inanna.

Each region has its own distinct culture, customs, and societal norms, while the demarcations maintain order and balance across the planet. Lyellians traverse these regions with ease, utilizing advanced transportation systems that operate through electromagnetic tunnels beneath the surface.

In this enchanting and stratified world of Lyell, a young boy named Benjamin embarks on an extraordinary journey, discovering hidden truths about his planet, its history, and the power of manifestation. As he ventures forth to new frontiers, he will uncover the mysteries of his own existence and the profound connection between Lyell and Earth.

On Lyell, time is a unique and fascinating concept, intricately tied to the movements of the celestial bodies in their trinary star system. The Lyellians have developed a sophisticated way to measure and track time based on the positions of their three stars: Ra, Utu, and Inanna.

A year on Lyell is defined as four rotations of the planet around its axis, which is equivalent to approximately 332 days in Earth time. The planet is tidally locked to Ra, their primary star, resulting in perpetual daylight on one side and perpetual darkness on the other.

Lyell is populated with living things including humans. The flora and fauna is very much similar to Earth’s, except they still have dodo birds, which actually taste disgusting.

There are three continents on Lyell but only two of them are inhabited by the five hundred and fifty-five million humans that reside on Lyell. The two inhabited continents are those that face Ra while the third is on the dark side of the planet.

Everyone on Lyell speaks the same language, but are capable of understanding and speaking any language (unbeknownst to them since they only know one language) through a capability called “dialectical resonance”. This capability will be important later in the story, while also for the story as any word or name they speak can be translated into the listener's own language in their head. (It is explained how and why later on)

On Earth, humans evolved in isolated groups around the globe and developed unique cultures and languages shaped by the environment. Since all Lyellians recently developed on the same hemisphere in close proximity to each other, culture is ubiquitous across the globe.

On Earth, we are split into what people think are called countries, but are really known as nation-states. These areas that are delineated as territories and established by governing bodies have been shaped throughout Earth’s history by war. Essentially, our lives on Earth are products of the cultures created by the outcomes of violent war.

We are taught in our early American education a very useless and biased overview of the history of why the United States is a thing. This “education” is really a way to indoctrinate our unwitting youth into an unconscious state of patriotism. This little game of “us” and “them” does not exist on Lyell and their education systems are centered around a much more practical yet, intense, paradigm.

Although Lyellians do not have the same time schedule that we do, they do however have a concept of “age” very similar to our own. On Lyell, they consider what we would define as a “year” to be four of Lyell’s rotations. Since it is difficult to notice rotation due to perpetual daylight, Lyellians have learned that every 332 days, Utu and Inanna align and create a beautiful yellow sun with a small orange sun set inside of it. Lyellian astronomers have discovered that this is due to the tidally-locked rotation of Lyell to Ra. Every eighty-three days, Lyell rotates on its axis and with each rotation, Utu and Inanna’s position in the sky is shifted slightly. After they align after four rotations, they diverge for two rotations, and then converge for two rotations. The period of convergence is called Contrara while the divergence is Dialara. The day on which Utu and Inanna are one is called Pupilra, which is the planet’s most jubilant holiday that involves extravagant celebratory ceremonies.

This alignment is how Lyellians define the age of an individual, for babies on Lyell are only born on this day. Age is defined, therefore, by how many alignments an individual has experienced; we’ll call them years for the purpose of convenience.

From ages three through thirteen Lyellians attend elementary school for what they call a week. This period is marked by the presence of Utu and Inanna in the sky, which lasts the equivalent of six Earth days. Again, since they do not sleep, they attend school for the entirety of this time.

Following age thirteen, Lyellians attend auxiliary school through the end of age twenty. After auxiliary school, students are matriculated into an occupational field which they will participate in until the rest of their life...an end which will be discussed later.

Lyellians learn in a much different way than humans do. On Lyell, a particular facet of their lives regulates the aim of their social lives, which has forced them to use an education system that teaches individuals how to use their brain much differently than Earthlings.

For example, everyone on Lyell learns in their second year of elementary school how to compartmentalize their actions into dialectical and visual behaviors. They learn how to focus on both words and images simultaneously, but separately across the hemispheres of their body. Students are taught to absorb any auditory information pertaining to visualization (images and scenery) into their left ear, and absorb all auditory information pertaining to symbolization (words and facts) into their right ear.

They are taught to think of information as bits and multibits (an image and a word are the bits to the multibits of scenes and facts). Once they learn how to parse through the data, they are taught to react to the different types of data simultaneously with each half of their body. This is a particularly useful skill, as Lyellians can write words and facts with one hand, while simultaneously drawing images and scenes with their other hand. Despite this keen ability to absorb multiple types of information and then reproduce it thoughtlessly, Lyellians are nearly incapable of producing words or images that have not already been absorbed.

The total number of bits and multibits in the memory of a Lyellian is called a “Lexicon.” Any bit or multibit that a Lyellian does not know, but already exists in an other’s Lexicon, is known as Unprocessed Information. Any bit or multibit that does not yet exist in another’s mind is known as Imaginative Information. It is illegal in all parts of Lyell for unauthorized personnel to possess Imaginative Information in their Lexicon.

On Lyell, cognition is split into two rudimentary functions: Recollection and Imagination. Recollection is the use of the brain to withdraw bits and multibits from one’s own Lexicon. Lyellians only have a long-term memory and therefore have access to any and all of the information ever absorbed by their tactile senses.

Humans, on the other hand, are reliant on the reabsorption of information into their short-term memory in order to transfer it into long-term memory. We need to rewrite notes over and over again by using our short term-memory so they to drill information into the long-term memory. Anything new we do or learn that is not repeated in our short-term memory is unlikely to be remembered (except traumatic experiences which is a really terrible evolutionary trait).

Lyellians’ long-term memories, like humans, are split into two categories: Implicit and Explicit memory. Implicit memory, also known as procedural memory, are those memories (or in Lyellians’ case, bits and multibits) that do not require conscious thought. For example, after humans learn to drive, unconscious behaviors take place (putting a seat belt on, checking mirrors, using a turn signal, turning the wheel, etc) due to the procedural memory. Humans do not need to consciously think “I now need to stop at the red light” once they are used to driving; we just do it, or else everyone would be approaching red lights as if they were a new phenomenon.

Explicit memories are more interesting (In my useless opinion). Explicit memories, also known as declarative memories, are those memories stored in the long-term memory that require conscious thought. In other words, these are memories that require focus to produce an idea of something that someone has stored in their long-term memory. This could include factual information (what is the definition of “hyperbole”), or sensory information (what does Grandma’s wig look, smell, sound, feel, or taste like)...If you have ever tasted a grandparent’s wig, you are henceforth forbidden from reading this book.

Explicit memory is interesting due to the fact that it requires the brain to use its capacity to subtly re-experience a no-longer existing stimulus. We, as humans, do not yet know how the brain is capable of allowing us to “see” images from our memories.

From early childhood education, Lyellians are instructed to develop their ability to recall factual information by writing down information they hear while simultaneously drawing what they hear. Due to the repetitive pairing of factual information with visual information, their recollection of information has become entirely implicit, or automatic. They do not have to consciously think to either declare Information or initiate a procedure associated with such information.

That being said, with each piece of information they have absorbed, they have simultaneous absorbed a physical image associated with it. For example, each vocabulary word they know is associated with an image, and not even just nouns.

Each Lyellian automatically recalls the same image of a woman jogging when they are told to define “jog.”

Each Lyellian recalls the same image of a man widening the space between his hands that are held at pelvic-level when they are asked to define “hyperbole.”

Every single bit of information in their Lexicon has both a procedural meaning to it (a pear is a fruit and here is some information about pears) and a declarative meaning to it (this is what a pear looks like).

Although this may seem like a brilliant superpower, Lyellians are more or less organic encyclopedias. Although they can recall any bit of information they have ever experienced, they have been forced to translate each of their experiences into algebraic formulas. They have been deprived of the ability to use what we call “imagination” due to the interlacing of declarative memory into procedural memory.

Although Lyellians know how to react appropriately in any given situation exactly the way they were taught to, they cannot create new ways to do anything.

Due to the suppression of declarative memory, Lyellians do not get lost in their head searching for something they cannot think of, or lost perceiving the external world differently than the ways in which they were forced to define and draw it.

Their cognizance of reality has been purposively and strictly limited to the one that already exists, due to the dangerous potential of a Lyellian's imagination.

The curse of the Lyellian is not their lack of creativity, but the potential consequences of its existence. The reason why Lyellians are taught to suppress their imagination is the fact that anything imagined by a Lyellian immediately manifests into reality.

The Lyellian astronomers have observed that every 332 days, there is a special alignment of their stars Utu and Inanna, creating a breathtaking yellow sun with a smaller orange one within. This alignment serves as a crucial marker for the Lyellians as it signifies the birth of new life, and babies are only born on this special day.

Age is measured by the number of alignments an individual has experienced, marking their journey through life. Lyellians progress through different phases of education, starting from ages three to thirteen, attending elementary school, and then moving to auxiliary school until age twenty.

Their education system is unique, teaching them to compartmentalize their actions into dialectical and visual behaviors. Lyellians can absorb auditory information related to visualization and symbolization separately, using their left and right ears respectively. This skill enables them to think of information as "bits" and "multibits," facilitating their ability to recall and react to different types of data simultaneously.

The concept of timekeeping is further enriched by the fact that Lyellians do not need to sleep. They remain awake throughout the cycles of their stars, allowing them to utilize every moment for learning and exploration. As a result, their cognition and memory differ from humans, with information being stored in multibits associated with physical images.

In summary, time on Lyell is a precise blend of astronomical observations and the unique cognitive abilities of its inhabitants. The alignment of their stars serves as a guiding force in their societal structures, education system, and the way they perceive the passage of time.

First Apocalypse (over 100-years prior to the aforementioned present)

Before the first apocalypse on Lyell and before any of the strange current customs were ever even imagined by any living thing, the planet's solar system functioned with Ra as the sole star, like Earth's Sun. Lyell experienced conventional day and night cycles, fostering diverse ecosystems and civilizations. The Lyellians flourished under a single, stable sun, and their society thrived with abundant resources.

Before the first apocalypse on Lyell, the planet orbited its primary star, Ra, in a relatively stable manner. The Lyellians enjoyed a balanced environment, with both daylight and darkness cycling evenly across the planet's surface. Their society thrived, and they lived in harmony with the rhythms of their planet and the singular star system that graced their skies.

However, everything changed when Ra entered the gravitational field of the binary stars, Utu and Inanna. This cosmic encounter caused Lyell to become tidally locked to Ra, resulting in one side of the planet experiencing perpetual daylight, while the other plunged into eternal darkness. The abrupt change disrupted the planet's gravitational field, leading to catastrophic consequences for its inhabitants.

During the first apocalypse, the Lyellians faced unimaginable challenges. The erratic shifts in the planet's gravitational field caused havoc, with people floating up into the sky, unable to control their movements. The entire society was thrown into chaos as they grappled with the perilous effects of the tidal locking and gravitational disturbances.

The entrance into the orbit of the binary star altered both angular momentum of Lyell’s orbit and rotation. In laymen’s terms, Lyell was now in the orbit of two powerful gravitational forces. As Utu and Inanna’s gravitational pull slowed down its rotation rate from once every twenty-four hours to once every eighty-three days, while also increasing its orbit rate around Ra from once every three hundred and sixty five days to once every eleven days.

This drastic shift in Lyell’s torque created an equilibrium between the gravitational effects of the binary star and Ra, thus tidally locking Lyell to Ra. This is the same reason our Moon is tidally locked to Earth; the Earth holds the Moon close in its orbit while the Moon is simultaneously orbiting the Sun. When a satellite is in the orbit of a body that is orbiting a larger and farther body, it may become tidally locked to the body it is a satellite of.

When Lyell became tidally locked to Ra, the Lyellians nearly suffered extinction in the apocalyptic results of such a drastic shift in the planet’s movement. The half of the planet that lived on the side that faced away from Ra were the first to die. This accounted for about four billion people, as this was the most developed region of the planet with the most advanced social and technological systems. Within ten days, all four billion had froze to death.

On the other side of the planet, tsunamis destroyed hundreds of miles of shorelines and volcanoes erupted across the globe.

Only those who lived towards the center of one of the continents on the side facing Ra survived due to their distance from both the oceans and tectonic plate convergences.

For the first ten years after entering Utu and Inanna’s orbit, Lyell’s gravitational pull was unstable, leaving Lyellians to experience sudden lapses or surges in gravity, about four times a year. When gravity lapsed, those outside floated into the sky, seen only again plummeting to the ground when gravity stabilized. When gravity surged, Lyellians became far heavier than the musculature of their bodies could easily withstand; movement was difficult and legs were often crushed during the sudden onset of increased gravity.

This erratic electromagnetic field created violent thunderstorms and perpetual rainfall, which increased the ocean levels and gradually decreased the size of the continents on the side of the planet facing Ra.

Those who lived in a city were dependent on strict teamwork to survive the gruesome decade of a Apocalypse. About 10,000 people remained on Lyell after gravity had stabilized, eleven years after entering Utu and Inanna’s orbit.

During this time, surviving Lyellians were unaware of what had happened and did not really discuss it due to the need to focus on surviving what seemed to be hell. Most Lyellians were blaming their equivalent of the devil, while others believed it was simply the end of the world.

It wasn’t until the unbelievably remarkable outcomes of the apocalypse manifested did the Lyellians begin to realize what had happened and what it means.

After the catastrophic events ceased, the survivors on Lyell experienced what we would consider paradise. During the eleven year storm, Lyellians still felt the need to sleep. After, however, they experienced perpetual daylight at steady temperatures equivalent to what we feel to be 70 to 80 degrees Fahrenheit. They began to lose the need to sleep and felt energized and focused all of the time.

Their cities had been reduced to the rubble they had lived beneath for more than a decade, and when they could emerge from the debris and remain in fresh air, the surviving Lyellians worked tirelessly (literally) to recreate their lives.

It only took the Lyellians a hundred years to not only return to their state of life prior to the apocalyptic event, but surpass it. In a hundred years, a nearly extinct population of Lyellians left with almost no infrastructure were living in a society equivalent to that of the United States in the 1970s.

The Lyellians has retained their pre-catastrophic time schedules and used the same time schedule that Earth humans use. They became dependent on clocks to know the time, as they no longer had night. Children continued to go to school around eight in the morning and leave around three in the afternoon, and parents worked on average from about nine in the morning to five in the afternoon.

The only difference between Lyellians and Earthlings at this time (despite not sleeping and having constant daylight) was that Lyellians no longer felt a need to believe in religion as they, for some reason, no longer believed in the stories of the past. They became eager to learn and focus on developing technology.

Lyellians, like Earthlings, had television, airplanes, automobiles, pharmaceutical medicine, advanced education systems, and any technology that existed on Earth in the 1970s. Their automobiles , however, used magnets to hover above magnetized roads, which is just about the only difference.

After the First

Politics were similar to the 1970s American model, although there were no foreign nations and there no international relations; there were no wars on foreign enemies. There were, however, many internal power struggles that manifested through insurgent and guerilla warfare.

The population of Lyell had rose from 10,000 a hundred years prior to a billion. The lack of the need to sleep had a very productive effect on Lyellians, including a hyper-sexualization of their libido. Due to this rapid burst in the population, social class also rapidly diversified. The haves and the have-nots were stratified into multiple different levels of wealth; the higher echelons, unsurprisingly, monopolized both political and economic power.

Economically, the government on Lyell at the time created a currency called “quanta.” The government regulated the quantity of currency traded in any currency-based transaction, including income and cost of goods. That being said, the government essentially owned every working person and every good produced on the planet.

Each occupation was designated a field and each field was granted a number of quanta to be distributed amongst those employed in the field. Each good was granted a category and each category was granted a cost depending on demand. Higher demand items costed less quanta than lower demand items.

This system is what Americans in the 1970s would have conflated with “socialism”. This system was actually based on the capitalistic model of capitalizing on the production of goods for specified profit through the law of value. Socialist paradigms require the termination of the law of value, such that the social surplus is redistributed to the working class. The opposite was taking place on Lyell, just as it was on Earth.

Alongside the terrible social system revolving around the fixed prices of goods and labor, many laws created by those fixing the prices began to infuriate the lower echelons.

One law was established requiring that individuals must register with the state before conceiving a child, and often times, the lower echelons were denied the right to bare a child.

Public funding for education, health care and infrastructure was unevenly distributed through various policies despite proportionate and income-based tax rates.

Revolution insidiously loomed in the minds of the oppressed, and manifested in rallies against the government. Guerilla insurgents attempted an assault against the government’s capital, but they were powerless. The government’s military had developed advanced weaponry and crowd-control techniques. The majority of the Lyellian population was apathetic to change as well due to the legitimization of the current system through television. The small minority of people willing to fight the growing oppressors was passionate, but spread thin and powerless against the government’s heavily funded military.

Once a hundred years had passed following the apocalyptic events, however, another history-shaping event took place which forever remodeled the course of Lyellian life. A politician by the name of Pendragon Alistar was covertly operating for an insurgent group called Antiquanta. This was the primary and most active political organization operating against the government.

This apocalyptic period lasted for 11 long years, during which the Lyellians had to adapt to the constant daylight on one side and the unfathomable darkness on the other. The constant fluctuations in gravity made survival a daily struggle, and the once stable society was on the brink of collapse.

However, after enduring this harrowing period, the Lyellians finally emerged on the other side with their planet's electromagnetic field stabilized and their bodies accustomed to the perpetual daylight. In the aftermath of the first apocalypse, they embarked on a journey of rapid development, making progress at an unprecedented rate.

Over the course of 100 years following the first apocalypse, the Lyellians rebuilt their society, taking lessons from their traumatic past. Alister Pendragon, a visionary leader, played a pivotal role during this time, awakening the Lyellians from a frozen state and guiding them towards a new path of growth and harmony.

In summary, the first apocalypse on Lyell was a catastrophic event triggered by the tidal locking of their planet to the primary star, Ra, and the subsequent disruption of the gravitational field. It caused 11 years of turmoil, but after enduring the darkness and chaos, the Lyellians emerged stronger, ready to embrace a new era of development and discovery.

The Second Apocalypse (about 20-30 years before the aforementioned present day)

The second apocalypse on Lyell was a momentous event that occurred 100 years after the first. During this time, Lyellians unexpectedly developed the ability to manifest, a power that allowed them to bring their thoughts and imagination into reality. However, this newfound ability proved to be highly dangerous, leading to catastrophic events and widespread destruction.

The first person known to demonstrate manifestation was Alister Pendragon.

Pendragon Alistar was the very first Lyellian to demonstrate this mutation when he imagined a paradigm shift amongst his fellow politicians.

Alistar was essentially a spy and his goal was to influence the government in order to create a fairer system of life; all of his efforts had been futile until the hundredth anniversary of Lyell’s entrance into Utu and Inanna’s orbit.

On that day, Alistar felt the need to make a very scandalous and revealing service announcement on a a government controlled media outlet called the Lyellian Central News Station (LCNS). He deified the actions of the government and revealed himself to be a member of Antiquanta. He was immediately arrested and detained by the government and scheduled to be interrogated.

During his interrogation, something novel occurred. He was asked by the Secretary of Correctional Affairs—who is the departmental head of the government’s police force—why he decided that day to reveal himself. Alistar responded “I felt that is because I imagined today to be the day when those working for the government, like me, realized the systemic oppression pressed upon our people and felt the need to make a change.”

Immediately after he said this, the Secretary stared at him with a sudden nauseous look of shock and said: “You’re right.”

Baffled by the sudden shift in the Secretary’s mindset, Alistar watched him cautiously and awaited further torture-based interrogation. Instead, the Secretary let him go.

Soon after, the Secretary appeared on the LCNS and vocalized his distaste for the government. Alistar watched this at home in disbelief, and watched as not only the audience, but also other government officials in the background, applaud in validation. Alistar’s dream literally became reality the moment he imagined it while being interrogated by the Secretary.

This moment marked a new era of Lyellian history, for it was the moment in which Lyellians’ imaginations became nuclear weapons; a curse disguised a blessing.

Due to his legitimate desire and ability to imagine a brighter future, that very future became his immediate present. Others who spontaneously demonstrated this new ability were not as fortunate.

Hell broke loose on this hundredth anniversary of the original catastrophe as the thoughts of imaginations began manifesting. Lyellians, like Earthlings, were not always using their imaginations, so the onset of the manifestations was both gradual and spontaneous.

The Lyellian government had been a highly covert and obscure body of relatively independent compartmentalized bureaucracies with little to no public oversight. The sudden sporadic behavior of their politicians on televisions and the strange interactions with Antiquanta members shook the stupefied public.

The inhabited continents of Lyell, Kulagina, and Geller were partitioned by a federal system of government into smaller local governments. On Lyell, legally everyone was considered to be a Lyellian, rather than being defined by the area on which they reside. Both Kulagina and Geller had distinct ways of life.

As the manifestations increased, chaos spread across Geller, the continent of politicians, while Kulagina, the continent of workers, remained in their day-to-day routines. The manifestations were deadly and disturbing, eliminating a significant portion of the population.

What Lyell Looked Like Immediately Before and During the Onset of The Second Apocalypse

Like the United States and Russia, the remaining habitable continents of Lyell, Kulagina and Geller, were partitioned by a federal system of government into smaller local governments. We call these “states” but don’t use the word “state” right in the U.S., since the U.S. is actually the state. The Soviet Union called them “soviets”.

On Lyell, legally everyone was considered to be a Lyellian, rather than being defined by the area on which they reside. Both of the inhabited continents were governed by the same federal government, but each had a much different way of life to it. The capital of Lyell sat on the continent Geller, where 200,000 of the planet’s approximate one billion population resided. Geller was split into five local governments (we call them states but Lyellians call them demarcations), each of which being the home of the entire planet’s politicians.

One of these demarcations is the capital of Lyell—or the place where laws are created—called Polyop. This is where elected officials pretend they were elected and create policies that heavily favor the continent with the influx of quanta. The second demarcation is a tiny portion of the continent called SVineyard, where executive government officials pretend to do things whilst getting drunk on wine on yachts. The third demarcation is called Judicature, and is the home of the Lyellian court system, where people from Kulagina are sent when they violate the laws created on Polyop. Lyellians can also go to Judicature to pretend to challenge the law when it seems unfair and be told that they the citizens are the reason the laws exist and to basically fuck off.

The fourth demarcation on Geller is known on Geller as Penance and known as Penis on Kulagina. Citizens are sent to Penis to basically get raped in prison after being caught smoking cannabis.

The fifth demarcation on Geller is known as Kryptos, where intelligence agencies develop ways for the policy makers to manipulate the production of goods and services and the lifestyles of those who produce them.

Every good and service produced on Lyell is produced on the content of Kulagina. Kulagina has two demarcations. The first of which is called Porter and the second is called Oganesson. The entirety of Lyell’s service industry exist in Porter. This includes the healthcare industry, artisans, mechanics, engineers, the food service industry, entertainment, etc. Anyone that can be hired to do something lives in Porter.

Any manufactured or produced good that exists in Lyell originated in Oganesson. Farmers, lumberjacks, construction workers, metallurgists, and anyone else that produces raw materials resided there.

Essentially, Kulagina was home to both white-collar and blue collar workers. The laws regulating their lives were created on and by those who live on Geller.

Following Alister’s interrogation and the televised statement made by his interrogator, those in Kulagina continued daily life as it always had been, just with the added spicy news about the strange behavior of the now-anti-government politicians.

Those living on Geller, on the other hand, immediately transcended into an altered state of mind. Every politician in Lyell resided on Geller, and each of them instantaneously became disgusted with their own work.

Those legislators on Polyop sat in the capital building infuriated by the the very walls around them. The lazy bourgeoise on SVineyard barfed out their Beaujolais over the starboards of their yachts in nauseated self-disgust. Wigs and cloaks were burned like witches in Judicature by the judges who sat in court. In Penance, prisoners were released by the police who no longer believed in what they once considered crime.

On Kryptos, however, the employees of the intelligence agencies watched their own television networks in disgust, as the very fabric of their work crumbled into oblivion. The government employees who they had primed with operant entrainment immediately rejected their programming.

As Geller entered chaos as a continental pity-party, Kulagina entered chaos as a continental shitty-party (more about that later, stay-tuned.)

Those on Geller did not quite experience the true nature of the new Lyellian mutation as rapidly as those on Kulagina, due to their new found focus on hating themselves and all they do. In Kryptos, the intelligence community was hyper focused on analyzing what was going on with the government officials and employees.

In Kulagina, on the other hand, life remained in the day-to-day routine of doing things for money. Anyone who understands the life of working to survive can understand the possibility of creative thoughts that pop up during the day; imagination is often an escape-mechanism from routine. Now imagine any myriad of creative thoughts that occur in stressed-out day-dreaming humans, and explode it since they now become reality.

Imagine a child being tucked in at night asking his mother to check under his bed for monsters. The mother would play along and pretend to find what could not possibly be there in order to calm his over-imaginative child. Although Lyellians no longer slept, whatever lurked in the imaginations of a child crawled out from their horrified heads.

Any thought that a Lyellian had that required conscious and focused use of imagination conjured itself into reality. The occurrence of conscious and focused imagination, like on Earth, had not been all too common. That being said, the manifestation of imaginings occurred quite subtly, but exponentially increased in frequency with each manifestation.

A few months after the manifestations began, children and adults alike started to wield this new ability. Manifestations of both positive and negative imaginations appeared, leading to transformations, fantastical creatures, and horrifying outcomes.

The science of manifestation revealed that Lyellian brains had become akin to the Oculary’s radio nanotech, printing thoughts into reality through nuclear force. Alister discovered this and tried to comprehend the nature of the catastrophe.

Amidst the chaos and growing fear, a boy named Alex from current Lyell discovered his unusual gift. Struggling with his identity and feeling trapped in the body assigned to him, he imagined himself into the minds of every female on the planet. Every female suddenly felt his presence in her head.

Frightened by the strange sensations, Alex inadvertently transported himself to Planet Earth. He disappeared from Lyell, leaving behind confusion and wonder among the few who remained awake. On Earth, Alex's new journey began as he tried to understand his newfound power and the implications of his actions on his home planet.

Alister had become aware of what was happening, and the moment he did, he imagined everyone on the planet asleep.

Immediately everyone except him fell into slumber. Once everyone had fallen asleep, the calamity of manifestations ended and Alister began to devise a course of action.

He had imagined everyone asleep while he was on Kryptos, where he was summoned by the director of the Research and Reconnaissance Oculary, which was the one and only Lyellian Intelligence agency. The director, Nathan Lumis, had been nearly driven mad during the three months of manifestations. The Oculary had not only been dumbfounded by the sudden self-hatred amongst the politicians in Geller, but were also confused by the strange occurrences in Kulagina.

Although Lyell did not have cell phones, they did have very advanced communications networks that utilized radio signals to transmit various forms of media. Oculary had first designed radio as a means of transmitting what they wanted Lyellians to consider news on a daily bases, which quickly lead to the television. Oculary built radomes around Lyell to transmit and develop these signals to carry different types media on the signals. Their most recent development was the transmission of nanoparticles as scattered frequency to be reconstructed as physical objects at the sight of a receiver; basically a radio-powered 3D printer. This was first used to allow Lyellians to send holographic images to each other, but soon evolved into what Oculary currently uses it for: transplanting nanotech into homes that build hidden recon devices into each home to have visual and auditory access to all life on Lyell.

Director Lumis and his subordinates had been spending the past few months watching the homes of Lyellians to amylose the strange events taking place. They could not find any cause, pattern, or similarity between each strange event and those in the Oculary were becoming insane trying to decrypt the impossible code of what was going on.

Alister was asked to join the Oculary’s research into the homes of Lyellians where he had been for a month before putting everyone to sleep. The moment before he put everyone to sleep, he had decided to take a look at the electromagnetic radiation on the planet, which no analyst had yet decided to do.

While sitting alone in the room he was given at the Oculary, he replayed recorded manifestations with a scalar lens, which allowed him to observe the behavior of subatomic particles in a video. He picked a video of a typical girl sitting at home who suddenly had a pet unicorn. Gazing through the video in victorious disbelief, he discovered that the girls brain was transmitting photons that carried some sort of nuclear force, which constructed the atoms in the energy into the unicorn.

After repeating this process on other videos and finding the same results, Alister became certain that the brains of Lyellians started to operate like Oculary’s radio nanotech: they were 3D Printing thoughts out of thin air.

At first, Alister believe that somehow the Lyellians’ brains were interacting with the frequency of the Oculary’s radomes and the manifestations were built by the nanotechnology. This theory was promptly disproven by his further speculation. First, nanotech cannot create organic material; it cannot neither build unicorns nor remove and replace genitalia. Second, their was no receiver for the transmissions coming from the Lyellian brains; the Oculary had covertly installed nanotech receivers into the homes and facilities of the Lyellian public. Alister was aware of this, but did not quite know how they did this. Third and last, Alister discovered that the Lyellians brains were perpetually absorbing photons from Ra, while also binding protons and electrons in their brains, which explained the nuclear force.

He decided to wake a few members of woke a few of his trustworthy academic peers, and told them what was going on. He proved it by imagining a a bouquet of flowers before their eyes.

To his dismay, they applauded as if he were a magician trying out a new act. To one of his peers’ dismay, Crowley Bletchley, he responded to Alister’s show by asking “What, are you going to pull a rabbit out of my ass now?”

For some reason, Bletchley was vividly imagining his words as he said them, and a rabbit manifested in his asshole, which Alister had to painfully remove. The rabbit was equally disgruntled as Bletch and the onlookers by being suddenly born into butthole.

“Any other ideas, fellas, or do you believe me now?” Alister spat.

“Wait a tic,” said the voice of Helena Spade as she gazed at the rabbit intently. The rabbit was then suddenly sporting a small green waistcoat with a watch dangling by a gold chain from its pocket.

“Ok I believe you now,” Spade announced with a curious and puzzled look.

As manifestations began to wreak havoc across Lyell, Alister Pendragon, the visionary leader from the peaceful days the followed 100 years after the first apocalypse, took on the responsibility of understanding and resolving this crisis. He recognized the potential dangers of uncontrolled manifestations and realized that the society he had helped build needed to adapt once again.

Alister, with the help of his peers, embarked on a journey of frozen time, where they forced everyone on Lyell to fall asleep, giving them the opportunity to study and analyze the phenomenon of manifestation. During this period of deep contemplation and research, Alister discovered that the manifestations were caused by a random mutation, not a superpower, and that they had catastrophic potential if left unchecked.

Armed with this knowledge, Alister devised a plan to inhibit the manifestations and protect Lyell from further destruction. Upon waking everyone back up, he introduced a new society designed to suppress the ability to manifest. Lyellians were required to live in a controlled environment, unaware of their latent power, and taught to focus solely on recollection and existing knowledge.

Alister's carefully crafted society aimed to limit the Lyellians' cognizance of reality to the one that already existed, preventing them from exploring their imagination and inadvertently causing chaos. This meant that they could efficiently recall information and respond to any situation without the risk of unintentional manifestations.

Through Alister Pendragon's leadership and foresight, Lyellians successfully adapted to their newfound reality. They lived in a society where manifestations were deliberately suppressed, ensuring their safety and the stability of their planet. The lessons learned from the second apocalypse shaped Lyell into a society focused on rationality and creativity while avoiding the perils of unchecked manifestations.

This cosmic upheaval marked the onset of the First Apocalypse, an era of tumult and upheaval that lasted for 11 long years. As Ra's gravitational pull fluctuated within the trinary embrace, the very fabric of Lyell's existence was thrust into uncertainty. Unpredictable gravitational fields wrought havoc upon the planet, and Lyellians grappled with the inexplicable phenomenon.

In the face of such cosmic turmoil, the Lyellians, they stood resolute against the chaotic tides.

During those harrowing years, as they confronted the mysteries of their transformed world, the Lyellians harnessed their collective intelligence and wisdom to overcome adversities. Slowly, they adapted to the new reality : they will always be awake and have plenty of time to recreate.

While they Were Manifested into Sleep

In the aftermath of the First Apocalypse and the Second Apocolypse, Lyell emerged from the crucible of cosmic turmoil, forever changed by the celestial forces that shaped its destiny. The Lyellians, resolute and resilient, weathered the storm.

Years passed, and the Lyellians focused on rebuilding their society in the light of perpetual daylight. The stability of their planet had returned, and with it, a newfound era of rapid development and progress. As they channeled their energies into understanding the mysteries of the cosmos.

Amidst this quest for knowledge, a pivotal event occurred – the Second Apocalypse. The celestial dance of Utu, Inanna, and Ra once again heralded a momentous transformation. As the stars aligned in a cosmic symphony, the gravitational forces surged, pulsating through the very core of Lyell.

In this epoch of uncertainty, the Lyellians experienced an awakening. The dormant seeds of manifestation began to stir. At first, it was a subtle spark, a glimmer of untapped potential. But with each passing moment, the Lyellians sensed a surge of power flowing within them.

Among them, a figure emerged, Alister Pendragon, a revolutionary anti-government sage whose profound knowledge and unyielding determination made him a beacon of hope. Alister, with a heart attuned to the cosmic rhythms, realized that frozen time held the key to unlocking the mysteries of manifestation.

In his pursuit of truth, Alister Pendragon delved into the intricacies of the Lyellian mind, studying the enigmatic interplay of recollection and imagination. Through countless cycles of frozen time, Alister sought to decipher the elusive connection between the Lyellians' unique cognition and the dormant powers of manifestation.

As he traversed the vast expanse of frozen moments, Alister made a groundbreaking discovery. In the depths of Lyellian consciousness, he unearthed the profound significance of nuclear force – a force that transcended the confines of physical reality and delved into the realms of pure creation.

The nuclear force, harnessed through the power of cognition and imagination, could reshape reality itself. It was a force beyond comprehension, a symphony of energy that connected them to the very fabric of the cosmos.

With newfound understanding, Alister Pendragon returned from the depths of frozen time, bearing the wisdom of ages past. He stood before his fellow Lyellians, his gaze unwavering, and spoke of the revelation that awaited them.

And so, under Alister's guidance, the Lyellians embarked on a transformative journey to prevent the disasters that took place during manifestation. They delved into the recesses of their consciousness, embracing the nuclear force within their cognition and imagination. With each passing moment, and a newfound sense of unity permeated their society.

In this age of profound transformation, Lyell stood at the precipice of a new era, where the powers of manifestation would shape destinies and forge a path to the stars. The mysteries of the cosmos were unraveling before their eyes, and they prepared to embrace the wonders that awaited them beyond the veil of their planetary abode.

Chapter Veil of Suppression

As Alister Pendragon roused the Lyellians from their slumber after 11 years, he stood at the helm of a society meticulously designed to inhibit manifestations. His vision for Lyell was one of order, control, and conformity – a response to the cataclysmic events of the past. The manifestation abilities that had once caused devastation were to be suppressed, buried beneath the foundations of a new world.

The Lyellians awoke to a structured existence, guided by a set of rules designed to prevent the inadvertent release of their dormant powers. Alister and his peers knew the peril of manifestations and the potential for untold chaos. They believed that by shaping a society in which manifestations were inconceivable, they could safeguard Lyell from another catastrophe.

As the Lyellians stirred from their deep slumber, guided back to consciousness by Alister Pendragon's calculated awakening, they entered a world meticulously designed to suppress the cataclysmic power that had once torn their planet apart. The knowledge of manifestations was carefully hidden, buried beneath layers of collective forgetfulness. Alister's carefully crafted society operated under the guise of stability and safety, shielding its inhabitants from the perilous truth that lay dormant within them.

The memories of the First Apocalypse were intentionally veiled, their edges blurred by the passage of time and a society that was conditioned to shun any deviation from the norm. The Lyellians were taught to fear the unknown, and so they embraced a life of conformity and rigid structure. The spark of imagination that once ignited their world was now locked away, concealed within the confines of their minds.

Alister's plan revolved around maintaining a delicate balance between order and ignorance. The Lyellians were led to believe that the manifestations were nothing more than a tragic anomaly, a random mutation that had led to catastrophic events. Oblivious to their true potential, they were required to live in a society that discouraged any exploration of the suppressed power.

The education system further ensured the preservation of ignorance. Lyellian minds were molded into repositories of factual information, void of any connection to creativity. The separation of recollection and imagination became deeply ingrained, preventing the possibility of tapping into the hidden well of power that lay within them.

For generations, the Lyellians followed this carefully orchestrated dance, their lives revolving around prescribed routines and predictable paths. They learned to repress any inkling of creativity, fearing the consequences of awakening the suppressed abilities that had once brought devastation to their world.

Among them, however, a subtle undercurrent of dissent began to emerge. Whispers of the past, half-forgotten dreams, and lingering sensations of unfulfilled potential haunted a select few. Benjamin Torpey was one of those individuals who couldn't shake the feeling that there was more to their existence than the society led them to believe.

As Benjamin delved deeper into his own mind, he sensed a veiled world beyond the confines of his consciousness. It was as if a gossamer curtain separated him from a realm of unt

The core of Alister's society lay in the intricate education system he had meticulously crafted. From the tender age of three, Lyellians were conditioned to think in ways that blocked the paths to manifestation. Their minds were honed to recall information mechanically, without the spark of creativity or imaginative exploration.

In Lyellian classrooms, students learned the art of compartmentalization, a technique that separated the brain's halves to process information with methodical precision. They absorbed facts and images as isolated fragments, never weaving them together into new possibilities. This education system stifled the connection between recollection and imagination, leaving Lyellians as walking encyclopedias, devoid of creative thought.

Alister knew that the suppression of declarative memory was paramount to his vision. Every bit and multibit of information was to be stored as procedural knowledge, never to be reimagined or linked to something novel. The price of avoiding manifestations was the sacrifice of imagination.

In this structured society, Lyellians followed strict routines, their lives guided by predictable patterns and predefined roles. Free will and spontaneous thought were considered dangerous, for they could lead to the uncontrolled release of latent powers. Innovation and creativity were sacrificed for the sake of stability and order.

As years passed, the memories of the First Apocalypse faded from the collective consciousness of the Lyellians. They were taught to fear their own minds, to repress any inkling of imaginative thought. The devastation of the past was buried deep within the annals of history, veiled by a veneer of conformity.

Yet, despite their suppression, whispers of the past lingered beneath the surface. Some Lyellians felt an inexplicable yearning for something beyond the structured society they inhabited. They felt a faint echo of a power they could not comprehend, a potential that lay dormant within.

Benjamin Torpey, a young Lyellian on the cusp of adulthood, was one such soul. Beneath the façade of conformity, he sensed a spark within himself

Chapter The Suppressed Spark

As Alister Pendragon awoke the Lyellians from their prolonged slumber, he believed he had found the key to prevent further catastrophes. The society he had meticulously crafted served a singular purpose – to inhibit the manifestations that had once brought chaos and devastation to their world. It was not a superpower to be harnessed but rather a random mutation that had caused untold suffering.

With the electromagnetic field of Lyell stabilized and the memory of the First Apocalypse fading, Alister's society emerged from the shadows of tragedy. It was a world of structure and control, carefully engineered to suppress any possibility of manifestations. The Lyellians lived their lives adhering to strict rules, their minds conditioned to perceive reality in the most predictable and unimaginative ways.

Lyellians were trained from an early age to think in a manner that blocked any inkling of the dormant power within them. Education revolved around a compartmentalization process, where facts and images were treated as isolated fragments. Recollection and imagination were purposefully kept separate, preventing the blending of the two realms that might lead to manifestations.

Alister's education system ensured that the Lyellians' long-term memory was filled with purely procedural knowledge. They became walking encyclopedias, recalling information without any inclination to reimagine or connect it to something new. The sacrifice of imagination became the price to pay for a stable and controlled society.

As the years passed, memories of the chaotic past were buried deep within the collective consciousness. The Lyellians learned to fear their own minds and suppress any signs of creative thought. The potential for manifestations was kept at bay by a society that promoted conformity and restricted individuality.

However, beneath the surface of the structured society, some Lyellians felt a subtle stirring within them. Benjamin Torpey, on the brink of adulthood, was one of those souls. Though the knowledge of manifestations had been deliberately hidden from them, he couldn't help but sense a spark of something extraordinary within himself.

Chapter

After the restoration of Lyell's society by Alister Pendragon, the memory of the manifestations was deliberately erased from the collective consciousness. The cataclysmic power that once wreaked havoc on their planet became a forbidden secret, buried in the annals of history. Alister and his peers worked tirelessly to construct a society that would inhibit any resurgence of the dangerous mutations.

The Lyellians, now reawakened, were kept blissfully unaware of their latent potential. They lived their lives in an intricately woven web of rules and regulations, ignorant of the immense power they carried within. The generations that followed were taught to fear any notion of manifesting, conditioned to suppress even the slightest hint of imaginative thought.

Alister's carefully crafted society instilled a deep-rooted aversion to anything that deviated from the prescribed norms. Conformity was celebrated, while any form of creativity was deemed dangerous and subversive. The separation of recollection and imagination became an impenetrable wall, with the Lyellians unable to even fathom the existence of the suppressed power.

With the passing of time, the true nature of the manifestations faded into obscurity. The First Apocalypse became a distant and unsettling memory, its impact dulled by the mists of time. The current Lyellians had no inkling of the world that once was, their perception of reality carefully constructed by Alister's society.

Despite the carefully orchestrated suppression, there were whispers of dissent among a select few. Benjamin Torpey, now grown into a young man, couldn't shake the feeling that there was more to their existence than what they were led to believe. A flicker of curiosity burned within him, a persistent yearning to explore the hidden recesses of his mind.

As Benjamin delved deeper into his own thoughts, he sensed an elusive truth beckoning from beyond the veil of ignorance. Vague fragments of memories, half-formed ideas, and fleeting images danced at the edges of his consciousness. He felt a powerful force within, one that defied the society's teachings, urging him to seek answers to questions he couldn't articulate.

However, the fear instilled by the society he lived in was a formidable barrier. The consequences of questioning the established order were severe, and Benjamin knew that even entertaining the idea of manifestation could spell disaster for him and those he cared about.

But the allure of the forbidden knowledge was irresistible. Guided by an inner compass he didn't fully understand, Benjamin began to tread carefully, seeking traces of the past that had been meticulously erased. He stumbled upon fragments of forgotten texts, cryptic references to the Second Apocalypse, and vague allusions to the truth buried deep within the minds of the ancient Lyellians.

As Benjamin gathered these scattered pieces, he realized that the manifestations were not a superpower, but a random mutation that caused the catastrophic events of the past. The society's suppression was not to control an ability but to prevent a tragedy.

After the devastating Second Apocalypse, Alister Pendragon and his peers were faced with the formidable task of rebuilding their shattered world into the crystalline one in which Benjamin now resides. The cataclysmic events that had unfolded during the tidal locking of Lyell to the binary stars Utu and Inanna had left an indelible mark on their civilization. Determined to prevent such tragedy from ever happening again, they embarked on a mission to construct a society that would suppress the dangerous manifestations.

The first few years after the awakening were spent in profound contemplation and analysis. Alister and his peers meticulously combed through the remnants of the past, seeking to understand the true nature of the manifestations and the catastrophic events that had unfolded. They studied ancient texts, deciphered cryptic messages, and consulted the wisest minds of their time.

During this period of discovery, they learned of the immense capabilities that had led to the uncontrolled manifestations, and it became evident that such potential could not be allowed to resurface.

Armed with this knowledge, Alister and his peers began to devise a comprehensive plan to inhibit the manifestations. They understood that the key to preventing a resurgence lay in suppressing the very essence of creativity and imagination that had once driven their society.

The first step was to establish a new educational system that would condition the minds of the Lyellians to think in a controlled and structured manner. The separation of recollection and imagination was essential, as it would prevent the spontaneous emergence of manifestations. They designed a rigorous curriculum that emphasized rote memorization of factual information while discouraging any form of creative expression.

Next, they introduced strict societal norms and regulations that discouraged deviation from the established norms. Conformity was celebrated, while any form of imaginative thought was met with suspicion and scorn. The Lyellians were encouraged to suppress their individuality, and the society reinforced a collective mentality that discouraged any questioning of the established order.

To ensure that the manifestations remained dormant, Alister and his peers implemented a system of surveillance and monitoring. They devised technology that could detect any signs of potential manifestations, enabling them to swiftly intervene and prevent any untoward incidents.

The society they crafted was carefully engineered to operate on the principle of fear and control. The Lyellians were conditioned to fear the consequences of even entertaining the notion of manifestations, and the penalties for disobedience were severe. The threat of isolation and banishment loomed over anyone who dared to challenge the societal norms.

As the years passed, the new manifestation-inhibiting society took root and began to shape the lives of the Lyellians. They lived in a world where creativity and imagination were suppressed, and conformity was prized above all else.

For eleven long years, Alister and his peers worked tirelessly to ensure the success of their vision. They made difficult decisions, faced unforeseen challenges, and encountered resistance from those who clung to the remnants of the old ways.

But their determination never wavered. They knew that the survival of their civilization depended on their ability to control the power within their minds. The memory of the First Apocalypse served as a constant reminder of the consequences of unrestrained manifestations, and they were resolved to prevent history from repeating itself.

And so, as Lyellians awakened to their meticulously crafted society, they had no inkling of the truth that lay buried within their subconscious. The memory of the manifestations was erased, their potential suppressed, and the world they inhabited was governed by the carefully orchestrated design of Alister Pendragon and his peers.

In the shadows of this seemingly perfect society, however, a flicker of curiosity and discontent began to stir. Benjamin Torpey, among others, felt an inexplicable yearning to uncover the forgotten legacy of their past. Little did they know that their journey would lead them to the brink of uncovering the suppressed power that had once shaped their world.

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