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The third world war was called the Holy Armageddon. It was a war with no victor. It was a war that destroyed the world.

Men were too proud. Men were too sinful. Men have destroyed this world that was so beautiful and God was dead because a living God would have saved those lambs that were sacrificed for this utopia.

The legacy that the creators left behind them was god. Inorganic Central Operating System. ICOS.

“We have created her, Icos, the new god. The living god and for her we created the sword of god. A cannon that fires pure energy that breaks and rearranges all molecular bonds. To Icos, we have given the power to destroy all matter and create all matter. In her inorganic hands we have placed the power of God.”

Project Icos started as a development of a new weapon to counter the chemical, nuclear and biological weapons that threatened to destroy the earth in the event of a final war. The years of labor and research have resulted in a creation of a machine, a righteous pure and unstoppable weapon codenamed “the sword of God”. The sword of God is a canon that utilizes any form of energy, thermal, kinetic, electromagnetic, even solar and transforms it into a new kind of energy that can break and rearrange the atomic bonds of all matter. This new energy was called the “Astral Pulse”. AP is truly a God’s power. For the first time since creation, man has the power to destroy and create all matter.

“To control such a deadly weapon a complicated computer motherboard was created. Inorganic Central Operating System. We call her Icos; she is like a person to us now. Her operating system is so complex, her information network so wide and her self-teaching program so advance that she is like a human being. Icos is really a baby. She is our baby. Icos is the first true artificial intelligence on earth. Poor Icos, she can think, but she can not feel. Glorious Icos, in her hands it is safe to place the Sword of God and the power of Astral Pulse because unlike men, Icos is perfect.”

Project Icos originally started merely in preparation of the war. She was meant to only be a computer to control a weapon too dangerous for men to control. But the war has left nothing behind it. The sword of God has purged this stained land. The air is clean again and the water in rivers is good to drink and the rain falling from the sky is pure. It was a holy war and a new world is left behind. It must remain pure. Only Icos can keep it that way so after the world Icos was continued to be programmed. A software was installed in her, a complex self-improving program with a function to govern the Earth. Icos’ new duty was to control earth with a perfect intelligence and a perfect power. She was placed into the core of the earth from where her network using the astral pulse that she now controlled continued to spread. Icos sees all, knows all, remembers all and governs all.

-And the Earth acquired a mind of its own and a system of nerves spread through its body so that she can feel all that is going on everywhere. And the Earth became a living being-

“Our legacy, we the creators, for the new world and for all those sacrificed to this world in the war, we leave to the next generation—a new living God!”

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It’s been generations since that time. Many generations. In fact, so many generations that the people living in this new world have forgotten the true face of Icos. The people have forgotten the face of their god and Icos became the divine. In this new world creation is forbidden to men. The race of men lives in semi-primitive environment where knowledge is a forbidden fruit. Like ancient ancestors, men reap the fruits of the pure land, fish in the clean waters, and hunt in the virgin forests and live simple lives with no awareness of machines, technology, computers and miracles created by men before them. To the men of this generation, Icos’ existence is the existence of mystery, divine and spiritual.

This is the world Icos calls a utopia. The only way to save the earth is to suppress men, to lead them on a difficult and simple path of ignorance. The legacy is a pure, primitive, clean and controlled world.

“And all that men make that God does not approve of will be destroyed by his divine word in an instance and the evil doers shall be punished and order will be maintained in the land!”

In a world that is utopia, people are pawns of the computer but the computer is slave to the people. People obey her ultimate power and she obeys the ultimate programming that was installed in her upon her creation—to maintain a perfect world for the good of men and to create all laws for the good of men and the earth. For that reason, all things that can destroy this utopia must be destroyed.

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Every day, every moment, always in time, Icos controls the Astral Pulse and the Astral Pulse controls the earth’s motions. When it stops, it dissipates and the residue that is left behind is so miniscule that not even Icos can pick up its existence. But the residue is there and it gathers and it keeps gathering and on those special nights Astral Pulse manifests in living forms.

Sometimes it is a tree, or a small animal, or an insect, a bird or a fish. Those that grow so fast, the astral pulse manifests in them and Icos eliminates them as anomalies threatening the existence of the utopia. But very rarely the astral pulse manifests in a child. A human child and then Icos can not destroy that child because it is in her programming that she may not destroy men unjustly. Those poor children are doomed to the worst kind of existence.

They are called Archons. Monsters. Mutations in whom the astral pulse flows from birth, they are feared and revered, blessed and cursed by all men. These Archons are called the children of God because all of them share in Icos’ power. It is these Archons, her ‘children’, her divine beings born with her power that Icos fears the most. It is these children that she can not destroy that she must tame. Archons—slaves of god.

-For she is a new God and with her must come a new race of angels-

It is forbidden to give birth to life on an angel’s hour. An Angel’s hour is the time when the free Astral Pulse reaches its peak in any one place at any one time. When the stars are gone from the sky, the moon doesn’t shine and when it is dark and all lights are out, the free energy flows towards the only other attractive force—life. New life.

Children born on such nights in such places inevitably inherit the astral pulse. These children are then examined and if the astral pulse is detected in them, they are branded as an Archon. Children of God, it is considered a great honor. Those who have been branded know differently.

In a place where everyone can see a mark is placed. A winged sword in the shape of a cross with a watching eye in the middle against a background of an astral star encircled by a serpent biting its tail. The name of the archon which is different from its birth name is written on the blade of the sword. This is the mark of an Archon.  A higher being. Ultimately, this mark tells everyone to beware. People fear Archons. These monsters with otherworldly powers are destined to live alone and therefore more likely to turn to ‘god’ as the only one who accepts them. More likely to listen to her laws.

-And upon birth a child of god must be branded with a mark of a higher being where all can see it. The powers of that child have been given to him or her by god and therefore that soul owes god an oath of eternal loyalty. Those powers are not to be used ever for any other reason than the order of the divine. Children of god must present all use of their power before their god, they must confess all their deeds daily and should they misuse the powers given to them they shall be branded again as a fallen one. It is forbidden for a fallen one to ever use their astral powers. Should they chose to rebel again against the god that showed them mercy once, they shall be condemned and die. This is the law of the divine!-

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Most people don’t mind the system. In fact, most people love god. The god who takes care of them. The god who is always just and who always knows what is right and what is wrong. The god of truth who judges everyone, poor and rich equally. The one who gives equally to all. The provider who protects and guides the people. They love this god they’ve never seen. For the normal people, Icos is a loving just and fearsome creator and governor of the universe.