The Jellyfish Effect by Ufuk Özden

Author:Ufuk Özden [Özden, Ufuk]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789529431243
Publisher: UO Books
Published: 2020-04-26T04:00:00+00:00

The Beautiful Cosmos

S o, I travelled on my holidays,” Baco says. “But I always made sure that I was back home before my next shift began.” He travelled across the galaxies, in fitting forms to respect the local etiquette about which he seems to be sensitive. He witnessed galaxies being born, watched swollen stars swallowing their solar system, and couldn’t help but feel sad when untamed neutron stars or gamma ray bursts destroyed random planets filled with life.

He saw civilisations that were able to build small planets by bending time and space to speed up the process. They even had a contest in which the contestants had fifty-six earthly years to terraform their moon sized planet and start life on it. And the one with the most advanced civilisation on their planet would win. Each year the contestants would draw a random card with random bonuses or debuffs as the human gaming community would call it.

“The best card anyone could hope to draw,” Baco says, “is The Technocrat Prophet. It is almost a game-breaking card. A wise figure with blueprints for previously unthinkable technologies and spreadsheets to end all common issues such as the satisfactory distribution of resources and efficient management of available assets. I believe humans are not familiar with the term.”

I tell him that we most definitely are not familiar with the term. Our prophets were so worried that we would enjoy life and try to make the best out of it. Science didn’t really help their cause.

“Once they declared the winner,” Baco continues, “they would fry up all living beings on the planets to prepare for the new season. One of the species created for the show even developed a faith system similar to your religions,” he says. “They were wiped off while they were working on their primitive rocket propeller systems to launch a satellite into their orbit. They were quite a peaceful folk compared to humans, which I believe contributed to their success.”

Baco says that he saw a pattern after having been everywhere and having seen it all. “No matter how incompetent or simple things are, they just want to be,” he says. “And they would always want more provided that their instincts or imagination demanded it. Once they got there, they would feel dissatisfied. It’s a pendulum between suffering and boredom, as some of your thinkers have also noted it.”

So, what did Baco Bobonts’ seven times grand ancestor do? It headed to the nearest planet scheduled for The Trip in his breaktime, but not without leaving a note for the next clone. The newborn clone only knew that the previous one had left to do The Trip somewhere in the universe. More and more clones decided to do the same. “They had no obligation to repeat the cycle,” Baco explains. “But the limits of their imagination had been widened which would explain the overwhelming sense of boredom that they had.”

Having experienced the overwhelming sense of boredom firsthand, this Baco Bobonts decided to travel to

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