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Science > Sophontology > Toposophy > Singularity Levels
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Unlike archailectologists, godwatchers are largely amateur hobbyists, enthusiasts and fanatics, sometimes with little practical or technical skill, or training in archaitheology or archailectology. However, archailectologists often use the data gathered by godwatchers, although they treat this material with appropriate skepticism.
Much that the higher toposophic beings do is beyond the comprehension of lower S levels but still visually or emotionally spectacular to those inclined to become excited by the idea that they are in the presence of a mind as far beyond them as they are beyond a virus. Godwatchers will often set up small monitoring stations in the vicinity of archai facilities and computational nodes and rhapsodize over whatever it is they are seeing.
Another faction which sometimes welcomes information from godchaser hobbyists is clarketech hunters, who often search areas which have recently been occupied or abandoned by transapients and archailects, looking for powerful and mysterious clarketech artifacts and other forms of advanced technology. Godwatchers are often the first people to be aware of the current movements of transingular entities, and they can help clarketech hunters to find suitable places to search for such treasure. A volume of space which was previously occupied by a transingular entity may be a good hunting place for abandoned clarketech or other dorms of advanced technology, so clarketech hunters would often maintain close links with godwatcher factions.
Some foolhardy godwatchers specialise in chasing extreme and dangerous forms of transapients or archai, especially animin, perversities and blights. Although such godchasers sometimes perform a useful function by alerting the Known Net about potentially dangerous entities, they are often placing themselves in danger and may end up disappearing without a trace, or worse, becoming subverted by powerful and malevolent forces.
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Text by Todd Drashner
Additional material by Steve Bowers, suggestions by ProxCenBound
Initially published on 18 January 2002.
Additional material by Steve Bowers, suggestions by ProxCenBound
Initially published on 18 January 2002.
