CONTEXT: This fragment from the Realm introduces the Systoics, who merged seamlessly with the system until nothing human remained but precision. They call it evolution, not loss. They do not rule; they define. The Systoics are the one percent who became the code they trusted.
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The Systoics - The Silent Precision
After the Great Optimisation a privileged group of people wired themselves tightly into the system by aligning with it and fully integrating. Systoics believe they’ve perfected themselves by stripping away everything that slows them down. They exist like a presence felt rather than seen, suspended above the surface of daily life. Their bodies, when they choose to keep them, are streamlined, devoid of excess. Their spaces are immaculate: pale, reflective, without decoration, arranged to erase any hint of disorder. Time here does not pass in moments, but in vectors, flowing steadily forward with no cycles, no regressions. To Systoics, emotion is interference, intimacy a redundancy. Their values are continuity, efficiency, stability. Everything is tuned to minimize friction, to smooth disruption before it can occur. They are flawless, and for that reason hollow —light without warmth, clarity without story. The air around Systoics feels thinner, the silence purer. They are not rulers but gravity itself: unseen, unavoidable, shaping the world not by command but by the absence of alternatives. Systoics are the one percent.
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©Samia Oldman
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