По ощущениям, это был большой текст. До завершения перевода, конечно. :)
Как обычно, квадратными скобками выделены термины, в которых я не уверен, а текст проверен чтением и некоторыми Web-сервисами, которые висят на первой странице в «Гугле». Впрочем, лучше не упоминать их здесь, чтобы увеличить точность дальнейшей проверки.
Далее, если у кого-то есть идеи по замене этой формулировки на более адекватную, это будет замечательно: "to change the nature of the imperfect mind to what it needs to be".
Project «Sunrise»
Time period: Began on the 1-1 a.t., simultaneously with the establishment of the organization, although the preparation itself began much earlier.
Status: The goals were met, results are continuously being adapted for ways of thinking of the other intelligent species.
Goal: Improvement of the fundamental traits of human consciousness and subconsciousness for building the perfect world.
Every now and again, in all the known universes, humanity tried to create a utopia, even if just in theory. It was rarely possible, regardless of the correctness and the popularity of the ideas. The great majority of the cultures were absolutely opposite. In successful cases, there emerged only an illusion of the perfect civilization, or a secluded «elf country», rapidly decomposing due to the misunderstanding of the real world by its creators. All the time, there were a few failure scenarios:
- Chaos, caused by a serious catastrophe
- Inability to stand up for themselves in a conflict or a failed fraud, which government itself was causing
- The most widespread case — disguised dystopia leading to the revolution.
Quite often, diadrome A-1 met such negative events too; even so, with the ideas of the First Strategist, the situation changed drastically.
By strengthening his own mind, the future founder of the Alliance was able to analyze the history comprehensively. His conclusions were disappointing: the human factor stood in the way of good intentions. Issues were laying down in the very basis of the human thinking. Such flaw of the evolution could be amended only by the complete reconstruction of the mind and building the new one literally from scratch. Even the most rigorous optimization was powerless against the old instincts, failing at the worst possible moment. Since Earth still had to be recreated from the dead remains, the First Strategist decided to act radically, to rule out the very chance of repeating the past mistakes so familiar to everyone that no one paid enough attention for centuries to these. All the necessary tools, required for such action existed since long ago, so he only had to use them wisely.
The very idea of the «Sunrise» project is simple — to change the nature of the imperfect mind to what it needs to be. To make things better, you need to teach person to think logically, stop the chase for the momentary desires, which are harming the future and make the person always find peaceful solutions of the emerging problems. This way, person will make further work on one's own, and by his own conscious desire, not because some kind of indoctrination or fear of punishment. Every civilized being has such traits, so you just need to change priorities, setting these things higher, than inefficient subconscious programs. Upgrade itself includes the [moral codex] and [integration levels]. First one clarifies the rules of optimal behavior, and the latter show the quality of the personal adjustment in addition to the actual improvements. This system was developed to accommodate the further change of epochs, saving the vital elements, which set its actual meaning.
Nearly all the existing arsenal for operations on the mentality was used while building the [converter]: from the unnoticeable hypnosis to the synisthical preparations. At the beginning, scientists and philosophers had to work without changing the very structure of the brain, because there were no technology suitable for the global application at the time; such technology appeared much later.
The memetics brought the greatest benefit, even though it was being recovered from remaining pieces of the knowledge — with the aid of it, researchers were able to overcome the disadvantages of their own thinking successfully to complete such an important job faster. The result of a decade of their work was eight powerful memagents of the different types, which are gathering in the subconsciousness in arbitrary combination of four or more elements, gradually changing one's vital values, or, in order to be more precise, one is being forced to look at the events around at the desired angle, having means for that.
Despite that memagent could be used even on the person without some sense organs, it was hard to distribute these. Either way, invisibility remained as one of the main criteria of such process — any person, who knows of the actual influence could disturb the process, becoming almost immune to it. Even worse, one was able to disturb current and further programs of such type, instilling a paranoid state of the society. For that reason it was necessary to act with extreme caution, splitting each [memeting agent] on the several ordinary images, which created a certain [converter] component by gathering. Half of the effort of the developers was spent on making such system stably triggered, regardless of third party ideas, which could easily braid into the structure of the memetic complex and change it beyond any recognition.
The very look of The Alliance was set according to the particular method of this tool's use, including the secret societies standing behind its creation. There were many options proposed to the First Strategist, then, in the A-1 world, the company, which invents and builds innovative technologies with the prospect of becoming a mega corporation was chosen. Not only such variant provided a way to give the Humanity new abilities and distribute the memagents with the branded gadgets, it simplified the further tasks of the «Sunrise» project with amending of the remaining problems.
Initially, the city-state of [Ermalle] was considered as the place for opening of the first branch, but then it was reconsidered without any activity there, because the population of the Andivion had more appropiate mentality. Results of the process become obvious after five years, but until the 12 a.t., organization kept its cause and a number of other acts in secret to prevent any disturbances in the process.
In order to make an explaination for the psychological changes, which became necessary quite soon, organization made up a legend about the natural evolutionary process, which accelerated a lot thanks to the emergence of the worldwide web, a prototype of the modern [Net], which is similar to the networks previously available only in a pair of transhumanist communities. The rapid development of science helped this process a lot, bringing the technological singularity closer: only outstanding scientists were able to understand the nature of many phenomena actively used, so it was quite enough to throw the citizens a dozen of plausible articles on the possible causes of their moral improvement. In the end of the 14 a.t., memetics reached the level, which allowed to avoid the use of such gimmicks, so Alliance started to conduct the correction openly. A bit before, this project was used on the other intelligent species for the first time. These times, such means are being used in the allied worlds for building utopias there.
