Wherefrom Invisible Strings are Pulled

A hardhearted Ha'dar Salomi Queen, named Ussa Shein Romanalaet, was giving her underling yet another daily briefing. The Ha'dar are an extra dimensional race of beings that manipulate reality at human levels. Our world, to them, is a hologram. An echo of the proceedings of a “realer” world. As if a person living in a three dimensional world decided to fuck with some two dimensional beings.

Nashkandel: “My liege, you requested my presence?”

Ussa: “Indeed. Regarding ways of making the Zilm more interesting, is the weapon ready?”

Carter: “Yes. And my name happens to be Nashkhandel, .”

Ussa: ”While you’re in my presence Carter, your name is Carter.”

Nashkhandel: “Is that necessary, my Queen?”

Ussa: “Indeed.”

Carter: “Very well. So yes, the prototype passed its tests and the real deal is ready to initiate. Have you selected a destination, leige?”

Ussa: “I have, in fact.”

Ussa pulls up a map of the Milky Way Galaxy, which is known to the Ha'dar as Banthoon.

A large bird caws overhead,

Ussa:”So way out here on this arm is a planet on which they have sown chaos, and are ready to reap! You see, there are two technologically sophisticated races. They will be called Borg and Grob by these Earthlings. ”

Carter: “Earthlings, highness?”

Ussa: “I’ll get there, Carter! So the Borg and Grob were at each other's’ throat for a few centuries after meeting one another. This is because the systems are nearly exact opposites in their underlying ideology.”

Carter:”How so?”

Ussa:”Well, the Borg believe authority should be distributed primarily top down. From those capable of making decisions down to those capable of enacting them. In truth, they have all together lost their individuality. Each individual organism, and they do vary, identifies with the group.”

Carter: “I don’t really follow, Lord.”

Ussa: ”You’ve heard of three persons, one God?”

Carter: “Yes.”

Ussa: “Well, its many organisms; but only one entity. The Borg Collective. All Borg consciousness is connected.”

Carter: “And the Grob?”

Ussa: ”Much the opposite. Authority runs both ways effectively, but primarily from the bottom up. If ordered to fight a war they disagree with, a Grob member need only make their will clear and their duties to the conflict are absolved.”

Carter: “That’s looney!”

Ussa: “Well their argument is that; deciding whether or not to go to war, is such a complicated question that it should best be left to individuals to make. You see, the strength of Grob lie in the individual members of its collective. Not just in the group as a whole.”