The God Web
That part of the Nexus and the Known Net which is used by archailects (SI:4 and above)
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The God WebThat part of the Nexus and the Known Net which is used by archailects (SI:4 and above) |
The God Web actually preceded the Nexus. Before the space development and astrodesic corps where able to develop a viable wormhole technology, the emerging femtotech and hypofemtotech archailects and AI Gods easily solved the equations and were able to create artificial wormholes. They used these to extend themselves across interstellar distances. Also, the godtech enabled them to create the necessary infrastructure for their sephirotic empires. The complex ring of wormholes built around Fons Luminis in the late second millennium a.t. is an example of this. Only later was the Nexus as generally understood established
It is not clear why the Gods allowed SI:<4 sophonts to acquire this technology. Possibly this was a way of "farming" the lower sentients, like a baseline hu who uses microorganisms to convert milk into yogurt or cheese. The consensus is that the human and even hyperturing civilization would never have developed the Nexus, or wormholes, were it not for the starseeds the gods left lying around
Even with the benefit of the Noosphere it it difficult for any sentient lower than an archailect or God to get reliable information about the things the higher toposophics think and do. Anything they tell the lower toposophics could be subtle meme tinkering for their own ends. So, the God web could have been unsuspected until well after the first wormholes were built for general use, and discovered by careful extrapolation by lowly sub-archailects.
As the hyperturings developed their own nexus, they found the archailects would sometimes confiscate a wormhole, or would advise them as to the proper routes. More often the archailects would simply start using part or all of a stargate that had been constructed by a corporation or polity, whether sporadically or permanently. At other times the archai would create their own wormholes, then simply connect them to the hyperturing's nexus. In this way a number of important clades and empires, like the Conver Ambi, the Solar Dominion, and Cygexba, came to see Wormhole Construction as a sacred act (this explains why even during the most desperate stages of the Conver Wars, the Geminga Orthodoxy never attacked any wormholes.), and entire religions and priesthoods developed around worship and maintenance of the Sacred StarGate
It is also significant that very few of the wormholes given over to partial or complete use by archai were damaged or closed down during the Version War. The most famous (but by no means the only) exception, the Blue Infinity Gate linking Alvon with the "Golden Torus" ISO at YTS 2134 067502, was attacked by the Ultra-Black Plunderers, a Standardizationist clade of warrior-mercenaries, who feared it may be used by Revisionist forces. It is believed that the Golden Torus was severely damaged by the energy backwash. As a result a number of seraiph and micro-iso were deployed from several points throughout the nexus and after several centuries (by this time the war was long over, at least in the inner sphere) had located and eliminated the entire Ultra-Black Plunderer clade, and even attacked and destroyed databases that refused to release their genome prints. To this day, not a single Ultra-Black Plunderer remains, and very few clades are foolish enough to interfere with a wormhole that is being used by the archai
Often it seems the Archai work together for their own ends even when they seem to be in conflict, as if it was all play-acting, and even Noosphere god watchers and other high specialists can only get an inkling of the truth.
Following the war, much of the reconstruction work for the Nexus was built around godweb stargates, much to the disquiet of some anthropist and other paranoid clades, who saw this as yet another example of archailect subversion, dominance and control.
Today, the "God Web" still takes up the lion's share of strategic and important stargate links in the terragen bubble, both in terms of shared stargates and those dedicated solely to the archai, in all the metaempires, not only the sephirotics. The amount of information and computronium exchanged through at any one time is many orders of magnitude above that in the rest of the Nexus and Known Net. For a solar system to host a God Web node is a matter of great prestige and national pride, even though the stargate very rarely contributes anything of material or informational value to the locals
