Tuesday, November 9, 2010

I Dreamed This

This is a story about a city of people. The lives of it's citizens were totally regimented by central planners. All the children were named by the government. Their first initial was determined by their class, and they were not allowed to move from the section of their city assigned to their class. The lower on the alphabet that their first initial was, the higher up they were on the class structure. The ruling class had numbers before their names. The people's humanity was forgotten and out of mind, and their level of existence was reduced to that of of machines. Efficiency and the survival of the present structure was the law of the land. People died when was most efficient, and they were born when was most efficient according to the central planners.
This city was shut off from the rest of the outside world. In fact by using highly advanced technology, they opened up a portal and settled their population in a hidden dimension in space. The city was the only reality in this dimension, with no sky and no planets, it was only the city on a circular area encased in void.
A man named Alexander was sent by a secret policing force to investigate this city and to help the people to overthrow the tyranny. So Alexander was sent through a highly advanced machine that warped him into the other dimension. He was there and was able to sneak in.
He started in the area of the lowest class of citizens. He was able to get connected with the people underground and they supported his mission. He was able to go undetected by the ruling power because they didn't feel it was important to pay close attention to the most outer class. These people were kept down by lack of education and were only there because it was more efficient to let them fend for themselves than to remove them. They were seen as totally valueless to the central power, but neither helped or threatened their order, so it was most efficient to not pay heed to their existence.
After getting some support with the underground, Alexander tried to sneak into the next level. He snuck through the network and spoke to different people about the idea of breaking free from the order and reclaiming their humanity. As he got further in to the center of the city, people were less and less accepting of his idea of humanity. Eventually the people could not even grasp the concept of being more human than they were. This was all they knew, and all they had ever seen because they were not exposed to the outer level where the humanity of the people had not been totally programmed out of their minds and lives.
Then he got to the I class of people. He realized that the central power were aware of his presence and his actions. He tried to go under the radar but they found him. He was instantly transported suddenly to the Y area near the outside of the city. Alexander realized that this was his only chance to stop the machine. He tried to get as many people as he could to run with him towards the capital and attempt to get more people to march and people to join and break from the established order all at once. All of the people from the Y and Z district joined him. They marched on to the X district, but much to his disappointment the X citizens followed the prompt from the central command center to repel the people. Many of the people from the X district that were repelling the marchers were once supporting Alexander in his cause, but they had to do as the rest of the X citizens were doing for fear of the consequences for breaking the order. The borders between the X district and the Y district were equipped with energy force fields. As soon as the marchers were repelled behind the border, that section of the force field was activated and they could no longer push forward in that direction. Many X citizens were trapped on the other side. Eventually the Y district was totally cut off from the rest of the city, and the people were all crowded together looking. The commotion stopped and they all stared towards the center. A huge blast of red light came from the capital building into the sky. It arched up and started to come down, heading towards the Y and Z districts. As soon as the beam of light came close, it spread out and the entire district was saturated with the red light. In a moment of time, the light blinked off and only darkness was left. The Y and Z districts had been ejected from the dimension and into non existence, a long with all of the people that were there.

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