Star Railway: Building a Foundation from the Beginning

[Archive?-010]

In the depths of the Foundation's secrecy, in an underground fortress unknown to outsiders, is the true location of the Overseer Council.

This is the heart and mind of the Foundation.

The whole building is secretive, safe, and safe, and more secure than the underground fortress of the great American chief.

The main body of the building is made of reinforced concrete, embedded with lead plates, and each sector has its own energy, air, water and carbon circulation systems.

And the conference room, as the only place where the O5 will be fully present, its protection is the top priority.

Not only have the above protection levels been improved, but there are Mobile Task Force agents stationed outside the door, and even the gate is equipped with composite armor that has not yet become widespread in the world today.

Above the door, the Foundation logo is inscribed, and the initials Control Containment Protection - S C P.

"Click, click, click!"

The ceiling lights in the meeting room are lit up one by one, illuminating everything in the room.

The furnishings in the room are simple -

In the center is a large round table, surrounded by thirteen high-backed chairs, the back of which is engraved with Roman numerals from one to thirteen.

Other than that, there is nothing else.

At this moment, the door of the alloy slowly opened, and an old man walked in slowly on crutches and sat on a chair facing the door.

On the back of the chair, inscribed - I.

Not much.

The remaining twelve O5 councillors, either alone or in groups of three, entered through the open door.

Everyone wore a black gown, with a delicate and meticulous cut, and the tie on the chest was also dark and intricate.

Their eyes were deep, and they were silent with each other, and from time to time they met their eyes, and they were about to part.

But in this short moment, the exchange of information has ended, and so has the division of camps.

Thirteen O5 councillors, thirteen masters of the anomalous world, and thirteen emperors of the underworld gathered here.

Wait until the last person is seated in his place, straighten his collar, pull his tie, take the papers and stationery out of the folder, and then take the pen out of his breast pocket and set it aside.

O5-1 pulls out his pocket watch, clicks it open, and sees the second hand jump to exactly 12.

"Without further ado, let's get straight to the point. "

Hearing this, most of the O5890s looked slightly solemn.

O5-7 is the only one who has only calm in his eyes - the kind of eyes that are often seen by diviners, the unfazed of those who have foreseen the future and watched the end.

O5-1 didn't care about this, and continued with the meeting:

"Today, 13 of us have gathered here for a meeting for three main purposes:"

"Discuss the nature of Containment-Laplace;"

"The aftermath of the war;"

"And—"

He picked up the pen with the cap pointed at O5-7.

"Hold O5-7, Professor Fermi, accountable for the containment breach of Containment-8260-EX. "

In other words, purge the parliament of traitors. "

With that, he pulled out the cap of his pen and ticked a few ticks on the letter paper in front of him.

Hearing this, the eleven people except No. 1 and No. 7 were shocked in their hearts.

Purge an O5! This is the first time since the Foundation was founded! and the first time that an O5 will leave the field in such an undignified way!

Prior to today, there were only a few ways for the O5 to exit:

Find a good successor, abdicate and make way for Xian, and completely withdraw from the power field of the Foundation;

or after abdication, it will turn into a deeper power game;

Death by suicide or accident;

Died in O5.

Either way, at least when the number is removed from the Overseer's Council, it is decent.

Even if he made an unforgivable mistake in office, it would end with the disappearance of the numbers on him.

The other O5 councillors would not delve deeper, not against the family he came from, not at the forces he had cultivated.

It's an unwritten rule.

- Generally speaking, it's the silent, unwritten, and profoundly subtle rules that are the bottom line for the O5 Councillors to each other.

And like today.

The O5-1 set the tone, and the public was challenged to convict an O5 councillor by voting, an ancient method of adjudication inherited from ancient Greece.

This is an unprecedented first.

It's also a very undignified one.

O5-7 didn't show much of an expression, just a calm look in his eyes, either puzzled or curious or mocking or calm.

And outside the archives.

As the internal meeting of the Foundation's highest decision-making body unfolded in front of the audience, everyone's heartbeat couldn't help but quicken, and some even forgot to breathe.

"I'm going, is this going to play really?"

"It's not normal to do otherwise, O5-7 is questioning one of the Foundation's roots, and if O5-7 is not defeated head-on, the other O5 councillors will more or less wonder if there is something wrong with the Foundation. "

"They're all O5 councillors, they're equal in terms of position, and accountability and execution have to at least go through a formality, a process, although I think the outcome has been decided. "

"The old saying is true – small things have a meeting, big things have a small meeting. "

"By the way, haven't you all noticed that there are no Administrators here?

"Ah, did you just react?"

......

Blacktower Space Station.

"That's how the company's top management seems to make decisions. "

Esta looked at the increasingly tense O5 Council and saw a different form of the company's board of directors.

If the Foundation of this universe does not reappear, the board of directors of the company can be approximately equivalent to the O5 Council.

"Well, in the end, it's because there are no rules that can bind the rule-makers, whether it's a conflict between O5 members or a company's directors. "

"The existing handling rules will be invalid, and what can resolve the contradiction is either a more in-depth exchange of interests, the abandonment of interests, or one party admits defeat...... Or, to be expelled, exterminated. "

And to do this, the only way that can be used on the surface is that people with equal status, one person, one vote, vote to decide the result. "

She was also curious about how O5-7 would break the game, how the Chaos Insurgency would be born, and who would emerge victorious, the Foundation or the Chaos Insurgency.

......

O5-1 looked up at his deviant colleague and smiled leisurely, a little teasing in his tone:

"Anyway, we should move on to the first two agendas first, so I'd like to ask O5-7 to speak first. "

"If you have anything to argue, you can also say it together. "

"Should I thank you for graciously giving me the opportunity to speak?" O5-7 said with a sneer.

His gaze swept over everyone present in turn, and he looked like the one sitting in the judge's seat.

O5-1 just smiled faintly, and seemed confident that he could control everything, and that no matter how O5-7 performed here, nothing would change the outcome.

O5-2 looked dismissive, as if he had nothing to say about the traitor.

O5-3's face was calm, but his eyebrows furrowed slightly, and the occasional tugging of the corners of his mouth revealed his confusion and confusion.

O5-4 didn't have much to say, it was an ally and accomplice of O5-7.

O5-5 was furious.

O5-6 raised an eyebrow, as if to ask -7 with his eyes, "What is the reason for you to do this"?

O5-8 has a soft complexion, with no apparent objection.

O5-9 held his head high, and almost pointed his nostrils at O5-7 (chae).

O5-10 shook his head slightly, sighing inaudibly.

O5-11 and O5-12, who had already communicated with him and O5-4, were already considered the leadership of the Chaos Insurgency.

As for O5-13, as the only member of the Thirteen to be considered a full number of councillors, it didn't matter what he thought about it.

Taking the attitude of the crowd into account, O5-7 put away his previous expression:

"Well, all in all, let's fulfill our obligations first. "

Obviously, the outcome of this trial is already sealed, and the only thing that can be done is to seek some more allies that may exist.

He picked up the document in front of him:

"I'm sure you've all seen the report of the Emergence. If not, I'll briefly say it here once - "

"The conclusion is clear: Containment Object-Laplace does not exist. "

"Although there are less than two months left before the scheduled date of sending the letter - at least for now, the war has passed and will not break out again anytime soon. "

"Everybody saw it – nothing happened. "

"At the root of it all is just that there is something that wants us to use the world war to intervene and control the development of humanity. "

"We've been moving forward step by step in its trap. "[]

O5-1 slammed his cane on the floor, a little impatient:

"I don't want to hear you repeat the same old tune. Just say it, what's that?"

"A word that you and I are familiar with – normalcy. "

"I've seen it, Professor. O5-3 spread his hands, "But I don't think your findings are even worth discussing. "

Apparently, the MP did not endorse the report of the Emergent Project team.

"As we all know, the Foundation has been defining its work in accordance with the Normalcy Document. "

"The Normalcy Document is being revised all the time, most recently - Professor, it was you who caused the incident. "

"We've put the whole of nuclear physics in the Normalcy Document, and now any small country on Earth can destroy all of humanity if they want to. "

"We acknowledge that your actions may have contributed to the end of the World War, and that the containment breach of Containment-8260-EX may be an important prerequisite for us to receive the Article 18 paradox insurance. "

"But can normalcy go back to the past?"

"We've all graciously done this - Seven, take a good look. "

"If normalcy really is something that is self-contained, will it be indifferent to the damage we have done so much to it?"

The more O5-3 spoke, the more agitated he became.

If it had been another place, he would have been standing on the table, pointing at O5-7 and berating.

O5-7 sat in his seat, silently listening to the question.

The other O5s apparently misunderstood him, misinterpreting his work as something else, believing that he was simply sabotaging and annihilating the status quo.

But he didn't care.

"Don't be so arrogant, Three. "

"There's something that's holding back uncertainty, it's drawing boundaries for normalcy, and there's no doubt that it's not the Foundation. "

O5-3 frowned, thoughtful as he listened.

O5-7 looked into the other's eyes with a serious expression:

"I'm just asking one question. "

"What would the Foundation do if—I'm just saying that in our timeline, all of humanity is ascended to God?"

"Contain them. "

"Why don't we revise the Normalcy Document?"

O5-3 became more and more confused, feeling that O5-7 was telling a joke, and couldn't help but ask:

"Is it something that can be considered a normal event?"

O5-7 nodded, understanding that he took it for granted, but where most of the O5's incomprehensible places were.

He looked at O5-3 first, then at the crowd again:

"When all human beings ascend to God, can God still be counted as an anomaly?"

"Every one of us here has evolved from single-celled organisms......"

"Until the Mesozoic Era, our ancestors were the size of rats. "

"For them, we can move mountains and reclaim the sea, we can change the climate, we can break out of the shackles of the earth. "

"Aren't all the abilities we have now like gods?"

"If all human beings can be counted as anomalies after they ascend to the gods, why aren't we anomalies now?"

O5-7 paused, signaling for O5-3 to ask questions and retort.

"You should know that the Ascendant needs to use the High Parasites, right?"

O5-3 felt like he was talking to a fool.

"How can such a thing, even with divinity, be part of the norm?"

"If the use of anomalous means to ascend to the gods counts as an anomaly," O5-7 immediately replied without hesitation, "then why is the use of colchicine to mutate a living being an anomaly?"

"Why isn't gene editing abnormal?"

"What is God? God is nothing but a higher form of life, with abilities that other creatures do not have. "

"The use of the Supreme Celestial Parasite to ascend to the gods and the use of colchicine to create polyploidy are not fundamentally different, right?"

"Don't do that, Seven. O5-1 raised his hand to interrupt wave after wave of O5-7.

He paused, turning the pen in his hand.

"Ascending to God is something beyond the laws of our science, but evolution is not, and neither is gene editing. "

"There's no point in arguing about this. "。