The Consortium

The Consortium does not consider itself oppressive. It considers itself administrative. Its objective is not welfare. Its objective is predictability — the management of all variables within its territory toward outcomes its behavioral models can anticipate, process, and file. For three centuries this system has functioned without significant deviation. Conquered civilizations have been absorbed. Useful biological traits have been repurposed. Anomalies have been corrected before they could propagate. The system has never encountered a variable it could not resolve. Until now.