[NetBehaviour] The Stillness Protocol

[Zak Qlikman]

The sky above the floating Welcome Habitat hums softly, as it always does.
It's not a real sky, of course, but no one remembers what the real sky
looked like. Overhead, vast holographic clouds drift lazily, shifting in
patterns that suggest movement but never quite reach it. Below, in the
center of the Welcome Habitat, a sloth lounges on a gravity platform.



The sloth’s fur, a gradient of dark brown and green moss, clings to their
body in slow-motion ripples as s/he adjusts their position by a single
inch. Their clawed hand hangs over the edge of the platform, which tilts
ever so slightly to accommodate the new weight distribution. The sloth
doesn’t notice.

The entire Welcome Habitat has been designed to be perfectly still. It’s
the apex of human evolution, or so they say: a society built to embrace
doing nothing. The Stillness Protocol governs everything, a whispering AI
embedded into every structure and mind. The protocol ensures there is no
action without purpose, and most purposes have been optimized into
obsolescence.

The sloth is perfect here.

-- 

https://thevisitors.jeron.org

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