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another unit of First Crop from the liquid Garden area, redesigned it for the gaseous environment—but with one significant change. The new Mobile would be somewhat smaller, but would require the ingestion of other Mobiles for nourishment. This would solve the problem of overpopulation of Mobiles, and at the same time would create good quantities of usable Loosh during each Conflict-struggle, plus a bonus if the new class of Mobile terminated the life span of the other. Someone would be able to transmit to Somewhere practical amounts of reasonably pure Loosh. Thus it was that the Rule of the Prime Catalyst came into being. Conflict among carbon—-oxygen cycle units brings forth consistent emanations of Loosh. It was as simple as that. another unit of First Crop from the liquid Garden area, | medium and so provided new nourishment for the redesigned it for the gaseous environment—but with one — Stationaries (Modified Second Crop), completing the significant change. The new Mobile would be somewhat circuit. The result was a steady flow of Loosh—from the smaller, but would require the ingestion of other Mobiles __ life-span termination of the Stationaries, from the intense for nourishment. This would solve the problem of — Conflict among the Mobiles to avoid ingestion, and finally overpopulation of Mobiles, and at the same time would from the sudden termination of the life spans of such create good quantities of usable Loosh during each _— Mobiles as the inevitable product of such Conflicts. Conflict-struggle, plus a bonus if the new class of Mobile Turning to another portion of his Garden—the gaseous terminated the life span of the other. Someone would be _ area with a dense-compound base—Someone applied the able to transmit to Somewhere practical amounts of | same techniques with even more advanced reasonably pure Loosh. improvements. He added many varieties of Stationaries Thus it was that the Rule of the Prime Catalyst came (original Second Crop) to provide sufficient and diverse into being. Conflict among carbon-oxygen cycle units nourishment for the new Mobiles he was to create. brings forth consistent emanations of Loosh. It was as As in the other Garden area, he made such Mobiles into simple as that. a balance of two species: those that ingested and drew energy from the Second Crop The Fourth Crop Stationaries, and those that required Satisfied that he had found the other Mobiles for sustenance. He Cop. He kew nov thot the Thidcrop | EAUS it was that the | ee een large yet none Mobiles were too large and too long in Rule of the Prime so large as the Third Crop Mobiles— ife span to be ultimately practical. If . and ingeniously gave each some grown in large numbers, the entire Catalyst ale into appurtenance for conflict. These took Garden would have to be expanded and being. the form of mass, elusive speed, enlarged. There was not space enough deceptive and/or protective coating and © grow such massive single units and colour radiation, wave-action and he proportionate leafy Second Crops Conflict among particle perceptors and detectors, and © support them. Also, he reasoned b | unique higher-density protuberances correctly that more rapid and increased car on—-oxygen cyc e for gouging, grasping and rending mobility would expand the units brings forth during conflict. All of the latter Conflict factor, with a resultant . served neatly to add to and consistent igher Loosh output. prolong the conflict periods, with emanations of Loosh. In one single motion, Someone the resultant increase in Loosh erminated the life spans of all the emanation. umbering Third Crop Mobiles. Going back to the First Crop in the iquid area, he modified and expanded them into a multitude of shapes and sizes. He gave them complex multicellular structures of igh mobility. He designed into The Piece of Someone As a side experiment, Someone designed and created one form o Mobile that was weak and ineffective by the standards of the other Mobiles in the Fourth Crop. hem a pattern of balance. There Yet this experimental Mobile had were those that ingested a Second two distinct advantages. It had the Crop type of carbon-cycle unit (basically immobile) as an ability to ingest and take energy from both the energy source. There were others, very highly mobile, that Stationaries and other Mobiles. Second, Someone pulled required for energy the ingestion of other mobile Modified — forth a Piece of Himself—no other source of such First Crop units. Substance being known or available—to act as an The completed circuit operated quite satisfactorily. The intensive, ultimate trigger to mobility. Following the Rule stationary Second Crop modification in the liquid — of Attraction, Someone knew that such infusion would environment flourished. Small, highly active, liquid- create in this particular Mobile species an unceasing breathing Mobiles took nourishment; they "ate" the — mobility. Always, it would seek to satisfy the attraction Second Crop modification. Larger and/or other active _ this tiny mote of Himself engendered as it sought reunion Mobiles consumed for energy the smaller "plant-eaters". with the infinite Whole. Thus the drive for satisfaction o When any Mobile grew too large and slow, it became an _ energy requirements through ingestion would not be the easy target for the smaller Mobiles, which attacked in — only motivating force. More important, the needs and voracious numbers. The chemical residue from these compulsions created by the Piece of Someone could no ingestive actions settled to the bottom of the liquid be satiated throughout the Garden. Thus the need for It was as simple as that. even Catalyst came into being. Conflict among carbon-oxygen cycle units brings forth consistent that. NEXUS ¢ 59 Thus it was that the Rule of the Prime emanations of Loosh. It was as simple as FEBRUARY - MARCH 2012 www.nexusmagazine.com