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When death is mentioned in Is society, it does not bring about feelings of apprehension or fear. You see, there is no death in Is Society. The Is are immortal. Granted, they can choose to become energy and leave their bodies behind, but their conscious souls will still be able to return to a material being. This ability/blessing was not innately built into an Is. Through countless years of development and technological advance and pure dumb luck, they finally found a way to grow young. Then, when none of the wisdom due to death was lost, society’s progress grew exponentially. Soon, genes and gaia were manipulated to get rid of all disease. The next step was to keep the infinitely growing population connected. They all implanted chips into their brains that kept all Is thought together. An Is could decide to turn his or her chip off and not listen to the chatter of endless cacophony, but all Is choose to keep their chips on just because the that sort of connectedness is way to not get bored in their immortal lifespan. Soon, you could almost think of them as demigods. They were able to create energy from nothing and vice versa. As there was no need to worry about themselves anymore, the Is decided to explore every part of the universe. They found beautiful planets filled with beautiful life and observed them for millennia. But this even became routine, and the Is decided to do what they did to themselves except on a grander scale: They decided to manipulate whole entire star systems and galaxies just like they used to control their own weather or genes. To them, it was all fun and games because if they screwed up they could create new life from nothing. Some planets with species deemed worthy would receive the superior technology that the Is had and then they would become Is. Other planets deemed too savage would have the entire galaxy destroyed and another one planted in its place. Is tried hard to keep themselves occupied and strived for perfection of not just themselves but also of the whole universe. Whatever perfection means, no one would know because every Is had his or her own standard. It was not like it mattered because anything created could be destroyed and anything destroyed could be created. In some ways, this universe of the Is was kind of pointless. This is where our story takes off. Our protagonist is an Is named Guji Baji.

Guji was married to his sister, mother, and great great grandmother. After all, because of their immortality and the perfection of genetic manipulation, there was no risk associated with what ancestors once called incest. In fact, Guji has himself fathered six thousand healthy children. One might ask what he did to occupy himself in his immortality. Guji decided to study a particular planet where the beings were so stupid they did not know that when they died, they could all come back. Still on this planet, the beings lived all their life in agony thinking they would go to a better place when dead. But since these infidels did not know how to bring their dead back like the Is did, the Infidels really tolled endlessly when “alive” and then just stopped when they died. Looking from above, Guji saw the endless movements that followed the light. Wherever the star’s light shinned on the planet. The Infidels would swarm around endlessly like ants on an anthill or bacteria in a Petri dish. Guji felt like just stepping on this planet like one would step on an anthill, but he decided just to keep observing because he was bored. Guji Baji liked to think of himself as the voyager responsible for deciding on the fate of this particular star system. After millions of years, Guji realized he did not really need to step on the anthill so to speak, because the ants always seemed to fight among themselves. Every time the Infidels got more advanced they would destroy themselves and it would take millions of years (which of course to Guji was like milliseconds since he lived forever) for Guji to see the Infidels swarming again. Was there any way of making these stupid ignorant Infidels develop naturally into the perfection that the Is are, or are the Is unique and these Infidels like all other beings on other non-Is planets need the jumpstart that all the other Is have given to bring the stupid ones out of their inferior ignorance?

Guji decided to give natural progress a chance. Maybe one time the Infidels might reach a point where they could never really fully destroy themselves and then there would be a chance to discover the immortality that the Guji discovered and then develop until there was nothing more to develop. Guji watched hopefully for so many years that eventually he decided to just take a break and die (or turn into nothing for awhile). When he came back this planet was still the same. Same cycle. These Infidels could never get beyond their swarming and dying cycle. Feeling an emotion an Is should not feel, Guji was slightly depressed and decided to take the radical step. He would become the ant so to speak, and go live with those Infidels as an Infidel on what they called Earth. So Guji one day turned into a “human” and lived just like his neighbors.