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The Viewers of the Sacred Vacuum

The Viewers emerged during the late first federation as advances in the physics of vacuum engineering revolutionized interstellar society. Inspired by the great topological synthesis of the Grand Fourteen they saw vacuum as the true source of reality, the underlying bedrock that makes up existence. It is eternal and all-encompassing, with matter and energy as the merest ripples on its simplest facets. While the Viewers have often been said to view the vacuum as God, they hold that such a concept implies a level of individuality that is too limiting to refer to the truth of vacuum. Their position is to some extent pantheistic, viewing the experienced universe as merely an aspect of the underlying divine nature.

Viewers contemplate the Vacuum, often exploiting gnostic nets and other tools to link to hyperturing supported insight into its structure. Since matter and energy are merely results of the vacuum and even the observer is in the end vacuum, this corresponds to the vacuum locally experiencing and contemplating itself. Viewers strive for a level of understanding where they constantly experience their nature as a localized fluctuation in the vacuum.

While the Viewers emerged as a spontaneous philosophical movement and largely lack organised structure, they have always held strong links with some theoretical physics movements. Uelo Olmhaim Red, one of the Grand Fourteen, has made no secret of eir allegiance to the Viewers. Many Viewers also find employment in vacuum engineering or physics, seeing it as a sacred task to interact intimately with the vacuum.

Anders Sandberg

villain vs. victim

An infection strategy common to many meme-complexes, placing the potential host in the role of Victim and playing on their insecurity, as in: "the hyperturings are oppressing the near--baselines". Often dangerously toxic to host and society in general. Also known as the "Us-and-Them" strategy. (See UTism.)

Glenn Grant

Virginis Combine

Early interstellar Empire established during the Late First Federation and Early Expansion periods from Pacifica (Beta Virginis IV) including the sparsely populated red dwarf systems Luyten 901-10: (7 light-years distance from Beta Virginis) , BD +0°2989: (9 light-years), Ross 948 (10.5 light-years), BD +9°2636 and Wolf 437 (12 light-years), Wolf 461, DT Virginis, and Gliese 403 (13 light-years), and Ross 695 (14 Light-years); the white dwarfs Eggen/Greenstein (11 LY) and McCook & Sion (12 LY), the M'Buto Confederacy (K class star BD -9°3413, 10.7 light-years), and the young bright A class star Denebola (8 light-years) which became an important amat-farm center for the Combine until the famous Denebola Collapse..