82. Anti-Emu

82. Anti-Emu

The Great Adventure of Meter
First Cycle: The Leap from Violet
Episode 14

Subtitle

— Those Who Broke Memory, and Those Who Seek to Complete It

Synopsis

Aporiana Perigaul has completed a life spanning eighty-one years.
Yet her death was not a full stop.
It was the signal that dormant structures had begun to move once more.
The intuition of Investigator Hannis Izal,
combined with the plastic, adaptive logic of the thinking entity Meter,
brings to light one distortion after another
within the hidden architecture of temporal design
long concealed among the planetary systems.
The report brought back by the archivist Hugh Donack,
following his investigation of the Earth Sphere,
overturns conventional theories of temporal prediction at their core.
It is not merely a forecast of the future.
It is the discovery that time itself possesses a structure
by which it blooms in accordance with a will.
This truth silences Lambda Griss,
once the leading authority on Temporal Current Theory,
and at the same time reveals a startling fact:
that Berry Perigaul had already grasped this structure
at a practical, operational level.
At the center of it all lies the key—
the being that once destroyed the Galactic Record Order: Emu.

Episode 14

Now, from the exact opposite direction,
a group has begun to intervene in history.
They call themselves Anti-Emu.
Their purpose is not destruction.
It is the completion of the Record Plan
that was once left unfinished.
Events gradually converge
toward an understanding of the
Radiant Cube
and the Anti-Quantum Law (the Anti-Probabilistic Interference Principle).
In the process, Hannis learns that his own name
derives from the ancient preservationist thinker
Calvin Archivio,
a name meaning “one who guards memory.”
This, too, was no coincidence.
Hannis resolves that he will no longer remain a mere observer
of Orin Barr’s Archive Redesign Project,
but will face it as a direct participant.
Thus begins his journey abroad.
Yet whether he will succeed in making contact with
the Record Collective Consuriuüm,
and the still-unnamed Third Observation Group,
remains uncertain.
His journalist’s instinct leads him
to the coastal city Dora Wave on the planet Ios.
Reunited with Dora, he is told
what the next decisive move must be,
and of the subterranean advance of Anti-Emu
now unfolding beneath the surface of galactic history.
They have already infiltrated
the Heimian society of planet Lilinas,
introducing delay and fluctuation
into the decision-making of the Record Collective.
At that moment, Hannis understands.
— The galaxy is being rewoven once again.
Is this the will of Dora’s League Leader?
Or is it an inevitability chosen by time itself?
A cold shiver runs down Hannis’s spine.

Dialogue Section (Excerpt / Reconstructed)
Dora
“The Leader has instructed me:
considering the role you are destined to play,
the core truths must not be concealed.”
“The Record Collective Consuriuüm,
at the same time as your own archival activities,
entered a deviation phase
from what was once its most stable era—
the age of the Chief Tuners.”
“There is only one reason for this.
You remember it as well.”
“When we drew up Aporiana’s deep-layer records
from Meter’s memory strata,
it was confirmed that a group known as Anti-Emu
had begun operating within
Lilinas’s Heimian society.”
Hannis
“Anti-Emu…?”
Dora
“Yes.
The current Chief Tuner, Stilber Purpura,
has begun to consciously recognize them as well.”
“He understood that the Century of Stability had ended,
and that after the final deviation phase,
a sudden Galactic Reorganization Period would arrive.”
“And it is not an extension
of conventional Temporal Current Theory.”
“It is a deepened form—
the future derived from
Chrono-Flower Theory.”
“Using the Radiant Cube,
he identified the approach of the
Final Deviation: Blue Phase.”
“The name Anti-Emu is symbolic.”
“Once, Emu
collapsed the Record Plan.”
“They seek, in reverse,
to complete that very same plan.”
“Only now
have they finally stepped onto
the public stage of history—
that is who they are.”
“The first to notice were
Hugh Donack,
and Berry Perigaul.”
“Everything has reached its final stage.”
“Your role is to support Meter
and to construct the foundation
of this vast stage.”
“The government’s agitation
stems from the same cause.”
“Aporiana
prepared everything.”
“And now—
the people of planet Helios
are finally beginning to move.”
“The moment has arrived
when violet shines together with yellow.”

To be continued . . .