Digitally Scanned Image Collection Entry: Geometry of The Infinite Interior
A collection of drawings depicting moments of the Volantran Interior (and exterior) which appears in the Domesdayverse set of stories.
109 images at the time of writing, with more to be scanned in soon!
Textual Literature Entry (accompanied by Imagery):
"Archetypes" By riomoo
Textual Literature Entry: "DOMESDAY" By BG
The following bolded headings title chapters of the first book of an unknown number of narrative
sequels, containing both traditional narrative chapters as well as abstractual and allegorical "poems."
LIMIT:
Regarding an individual working at a Matrioshka Brain (A giant computer that surrounds a star), owned by
the alien Volantran government. Ortus (working name) is employed as a Universal Researcher, and in
boredom decides to simulate a universe from scratch, simply to observe what would occur within. They
notice much death and suffering, and begin recognizing shocking similarities to events that have
occurred in their reality. By chance, the simulation had closed in upon a total state nearly identical
to Ortus’ universe, providing a decent depiction of the whole scope of its future events. In an
effort to stop the pain and sufferings that were predicted to occur, Ortus travels to Earth, to attempt
to alter the course the timeline seems to be taking. Meanwhile, the simulation they started continues to run.
Domesday II:
Two best friends, Seth & Max, travel together, wary within the United States as it nears a civil war in a
divide between Statist and Anarchist ideologies. Seth departs to meet up with an old friend Edith,
gathering supplies from him, and then meeting Max back up at a predetermined place. When he arrives
however, Max's car is abandoned, leading Seth to search for him.
Love Song I:
After the United States collapses following the depletion of oil, the remaining populace splits into a
loose civil war: the Anarchists and the Statists. Love Song is divided into three parts. Part 1 follows
a nomad, Pearson, who decides to pick up and begin to walk East from his small town of Upton, Wyoming
- On his way East, he passes by various interesting places. During his pilgrimage he discovers that
portions of the US have dissolved into post-society after he stumbles upon a small merchant town set
up along an unused highway. This reveals, as well, that highways have fallen into disuse due to the
scarcity of gasoline, and now serve most frequently as roads for pilgrims to walk and bike upon and
thus have developed some self assembled residences, beneath underpasses and in places of relative shelter.
“Baker”:
Following the dissolution of societal structure, there occurs a de-occupation of most chain businesses, so
one young man named Edith seizes an opportunity to overtake the upscale downtown area of a river town
in northern Illinois, where he occupies the historic Baker Hotel and fixes its old decommissioned
underground water wheel to operate independent of the defuncting power grid. In an act of political tact,
he destroys many of the bridges spanning the river, guarding the remainder across which he taxes
wayfarers in food and coin. By the time his reign is established with various archival efforts to
obtain a safekeeping of books and media, only the shops who source local farmer produce have opened back
up under a new bartering system, and currency starts to lose value in the east (The majority of which
is Anarchist occupied land) - Nearby government buildings no longer in use due to the Anarchist
occupation of the area are now dedicated to careful copying and archival of history books, math
textbooks, and science and physics textbooks, as well as any other forms of information which are
gathered from abandoned bookstores and thrift stores.
Love Song II:
A band of Bicycle vagrants travels up from the South and into New Chicago, but one of the vagrants,
Atticus, decides to rest for a while at The Baker. One of the right hand men working with Edith, the man
who took over Baker Hotel, starts getting unsettled from his behavior regarding the taxation of the
bridge crossers and his treatment of the young monks being taught to copy books and seal them in
tombs, so he begins an interior conspiracy (along with Atticus).
Love Song III:
Two bicycle nomads, Ace and Mason, study higher mathematics from antique books while riding north from
Texas. They’re on the verge of a breakthrough regarding the cyclic nature of physical systems, but
cannot realize the solution due to their minds being clouded by repressed romantic feelings for each
other. Mason wants to venture west to the desert in Utah, but Ace refuses, and after a fight they split
up in a mutual sadness.
Illumination:
Mason, a bicycle nomad having made it to the Grand Staircase Escalante in Utah, runs out of water and,
falling to the ground after theorizing a universal equation, carves the equation and graph with fervor
into a stone using a knife, before dying of dehydration under the scorching sun.
“Housing”:
Volantran officials report the breaching of Earth's civilization into spacefaring status, leading to the
Volantran Officials for Colonization And Construction (VOCaC) to delegate Earth as the next target
for expansion of the Volantran Interior, a sprawling geometric structure covering a multitude of
planets under Volantran rule, and interconnected by means of non euclidean spatial geometry. Arriving
sometime after the events of Love Song, Volantran officials confer with Earth officials (vaguely) and
design a temporary measure (a housing grid as described in the chapter “Seven”) to produce workers
and construct the Interior. Backlash occurs, but any instance of the germination of war is quelled by
the superior technology of Volantra, and a majority of humanity is contented with the Volantran
architectural construction (satiated by propaganda, and a promise of a new normalcy to be found after
the many years of war between Anarchists & Statists, and disorder en masse.) Later on in the
construction of the Volantran Interior, workers are produced by genetic programming and accelerated to a
mature state of age, before being placed in a small apartment and left to awaken for the first time
and begin construction and maintenance work, having learned by programming all they need to know for
it. However, in ""Housing,"" the main character's programming fails, and they awake with no knowledge
but language and instinctual and genetic memories.
Free:
Right before finishing up her work on the machine, a scientist developing a rover to construct a colony on
Mars discovers that it is being used to prepare the red planet for human occupation by the elite
classes of society, in order to escape a desolate climate change on Earth, which will be abandoned.
Mortified, she reprograms the craft to appear to have a misfire while above Earth's atmosphere, when in
actuality it shall wait until it is no longer monitored by radio signal, and then land in a desert at
the equator and begin using its colonization preparation apparati to create a more liveable surface
on the hottest section of Earth.
Solution:
A man working as a microbiologist realizes humanity's true effects on Earth's ecosystem, and decides
humanity must fall.
400 Parts Per Million:
A woman known as Rads begins a pilgrimage to Africa with her partners, to ensure her plan involving the
deployment of a colonization rover was successful. Their paths diverge into the nuances of an intercontinental
bridge occupied by variously governed states and cross with a statist man obsessed with hunting anarchist outliers.
SWEEPER:
A street sweeper named Bill Ruthford lives in a Statist portion of the war torn United States. He goes for
a walk after work one day, observing all the details of his town, Lily Hill, until a safety mishap
leads him down a very different path.
“Deer”:
A Statist man living on an inter-continental bridge between Alaska and Russia hunts Anarchists for sport,
before a particularly intriguing individual seeks refuge in his home.
Concatenation:
Concerning events upon a colonization seed ship, jointly occupied by the elite highest bidders and backup
copies of their consciousness: cloning apparati produce continuous generations of servants and upkeep
workers to operate the ship on its way to the new world. When the catastrophic breakdown of a
failsafe mechanism results in the destruction of the rulers’ bodies and duplicated minds, the newly
liberated cloned workers struggle to establish meaning in a perpetuated steel world they are programmed
only to maintain in working order.
Messiah:
Events succeeding the landing sequence of an autonomous colony construction rover in a remote African
region long since ravished by the heat of climate change: A sharp geometric construct of concrete and
rock populated by erroneous cloned homo sapiens containing only addled mind structures copied from
their wealthy benefactors. Upon a central receptacle they scrawled the image of a single, unified
being, a deity whose name has been forgotten.
Domesday I:
A man named Maxwell, living in his car, stumbles upon the catalyst for humanity's sudden jolt into space:
ancient plans of a magnetic messaging device are cobbled together from scrap electronics, and soon
thereafter an autonomous space ship en route to a pivotal space colony crash lands due to the
electric interference.
Seven:
A young boy is living in a standardized grid of right-triangular skyscrapers for housing humans until
suitable for work in spaceborn maintenance jobs, or war efforts. He has a knack for computer systems and
mechanical devices, and sneaks out to collect ancient relics from ruins and caves to study and repair
them. He is building a network of computer infrastructure to allow neighboring incubees to
communicate with him by means of cables through broken windows and wireless mesh networks.
Byronic:
Continued genetic modification by mankind concatenates in various bioengineering endeavors to synthesize
various compounds en masse, co-evolved symbiotic slimes equipped to provide a physically
transformative animalistic state for recreation, and their manufactured cousins sold as living toys,
ancient spores of deep slime molds and sporadic fungal infections all conglomerate into a singular
colony, a new type of prion, a supercancer which itself evolves to grow outwards, and eat anything it touches.
PERPETUUM / THE END OF ELECTRONICS:
Generations of humans evolve to live within a zero gravity environment, inhabiting a free floating concrete
structure whose interior dives only deeper within, containing an untold multitude of unoriented
catacombs. Beyond the labyrinth, an encroaching network of a deeply dreaming superorganism approaches
the absolute. Lineages of cloned humans from an ancient seed ship, with the aid of a colonization
rover, construct a free-floating structure in the vacuum of space, which eventually evolves to contain
the non-euclidean interior of all things operative in the merging realms of meatspace and simulation.
Someway buried beneath rubble of ancient concrete walls, a lost machine had long given up on its
purpose to create livable conditions upon a terrestrial surface. Humankind beats entropy and determines
they are within a simulation. Reduplication exit -> Timeline 2 (Recursive Matrioshka Brain Universe Reduplication Limit)
One:
An individual, guided by a formless voice, peruses endlessly media created by intelligent life in order to
discover the genuine form of One.
Not Much:
Living in the computational age, where all meaningful matter remaining is vacuum, people living within the
simulators can rent a few moments peeking into the nothing above utilizing disused maintenance viewports.