"Point our laser antennas at Vega, Delta Serpentis, and Beta Aquilae," Captain Sova orders. "We have to get this data to the GTVA."

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Serkr and his crew have amazing insight into Shivan activity. I took notes while they discussed Shivan behavior in the Marcus Glaive’s mess hall.

The truth is even more horrifying than we feared.

The Shivans are diversity-maximizers and change-inflictors. That's what they did during the great war: They forced the GTA and the PVN to change, rapidly and expediently. Change is not a gradual process to the Shivans, it’s explosive and violent. Those alien monsters might have been around forever, but they’re certainly not patient.

Prior to the second incursion, the GTVA was too stable. Too comfortable. Too static. Some evidence suggests that Nagari activity may have been partially responsible for triggering the NTF rebellion. When the NTF failed to shake up the alliance, the Shivans took more direct action.

Obviously, we have no idea why the juggernaut swarm triggered an artificial supernova at Capella. But the ensuing chain-reaction of events after the obliteration of Capella did satisfy the Shivan imperative of inflicting change.

This is the future we face: A future where the alliance has to be radically different, on a generation-by-generation basis. It will never the same twice, never repeating, always diverging and coming apart, unfurling and explosively evolving into something new. 

Eliminating N-sensitive individuals is a job not worth doing. Every neural and computational structure in the universe can be accessed through the Nagari network. Yes, even computers, as shown by the logs of the GTC Duke. N-sensitives, through some fluke, just happen to be capable of interpreting and broadcasting those quantum signals. ETAK, an N-sensitive computer, could do the same.

The Shivans are intergalactic terrorists, with infinite resources and unimaginable technology at their disposal. We will never achieve a long-term military victory against them.

Serkr believes the Shivans can detect the hacking of free will from the other side of the universe, literally able to sense dominance, coercion, fear, and propaganda through the Nagari hunting sense. Every tool that a government can use to inflict its will upon others has been compromised by Shivan psi-war.

Let me say that again, in case I was unclear in some way: 

EVERY TOOL THAT A GOVERNMENT CAN USE TO INFLICT ITS WILL UPON OTHERS HAS BEEN COMPROMISED BY SHIVAN PSI-WAR.

Now for the real nightmare: This is the first pattern match for Shivan behavior that we’ve ever had. This isn’t speculative. This isn’t up for debate. There’s no room for interpretation or doubt.

We don’t need to get rid of N-sensitives, we need to get rid of authority. The enforcement of law might explode another star. The practice of taxation flirts with apocalypse. Under threat of imminent extinction, we must shatter the military chain of command, and never look back.

We need to invent, and then transition into, an entirely anti-hierarchical society. Every second we waste in hesitation is another step toward oblivion. Centralized authority is a infection, which if not destroyed by our own action, will definitely be cauterized by the next Shivan onslaught.

Psychologists, sociologists, and economists have their work cut out for them. There is no upper limit to how weird this can get, and we must aim toward infinity.

- Captain Michael Sova, GTCv Arcane 

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Sova finished typing, then immediately stabbed the ‘transmit’ key.

But Alpha Centauri was full of nothing but military bases and weapon testing ranges. The GTVA already locked down Alpha Centauri, because two-way communication with the UEF was possible across such a short interstellar distance.

“Slew the antenna to Delta Serpentis,” Sova ordered, then sent the same message. It would be 14 years before anyone saw it - Delta Serpentis was 14 light-years away. But Delta Serpentis had a civilian population of almost fifteen million. No one would ever succeed in covering that up.

Beam after beam of encoded ultraviolet light flashed toward GTVA systems. He beamed his message to Regulus, Sirius, Ross 128, Adhara, even Beta Aquilae, the seat of power for the GTVA.

“Point the antenna at the Marcus Glaive”

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Admiral Serkr? It’s Sova. I am all-in. One-hundred percent committed to your vision for the alliance. I can never take back what I just transmitted to the entire GTVA. 

Let’s win this war.
