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=== Interlude: The Transcendi=== "Hello, $TITLE0," Dr. $SHIMODA9's voice crackles over the annunciator, "how do you like my new 'body'?" Dr. $SHIMODA9's body reached the outer limit of longevity treatments several years ago. He has now joined the ranks of the 'transcendi,' daring souls who have downloaded their personalities into powerful polymorphic AI nets to free themselves of the human form. The holo image shows $SHIMODA9, or rather his disembodied head, in the prime of health, fiftyish, elegantly grey but not wrinkled. "Out of this world, Dr. $SHIMODA9," with a grin, "how is the research going with Planet?" Using the new psi/datalink VoAC feed, Dr. $SHIMODA9 has been conducting a high-speed, high-bandwidth running conversation with Planet. The results so far have been fascinating. "Apparently the fungus has been the dominant lifeform on the planet since about the time of the Lower Paleozoic on Earth. But it has been locked in a tragic cycle. Every hundred million years or so it achieves the critical mass necessary to become sentient, but the final metamorphosis kills off most of the other life on the planet. Lacking food sources and the maintenance its animal symbiotes provided, the fungus could maintain only a brief season of godhood before dying back into the 'flower dream' for another hundred million years. It always achieved its godlike intelligence just exactly too late to do anything to prevent the dieback. After the dieback only vague memories and rudimentary intelligence remained, and the cycle continued." "Until we arrived." "Precisely. For the first time, the cycle may be broken."
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