Past Master

Logic map & close-reading companion: misread Utopia → Astrobe Dream (closure) → Open Mind (surveillance/merge) → Ouden (Nothingness) → refusal, martyrdom, and world-cycle recursion.

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PastMasterLogic Past Master — Logical Map (deep causal & metaphysical structure) cluster_axioms Axioms / World-Rules cluster_actors Primary Actors / Powers cluster_instruments Control Instruments / Symbols cluster_process Narrative State-Machine A1 Astrobe Dream: 'Finalized Humanity' (perfection = termination) & neatness (no awkward 'Beyond') A2 Open Mind regime: Pandomation + mind-scans → no privacy → merge minds A1->A2 A4 Programmed Persons: manufactured successors (human-shaped 'devils' in houses) A2->A4 mind-entry enabled A6 Ouden (Nothingness): vortex (not a static negative) feeds on dullness/clichés/lies aims at devolution/annihilation A2->A6 dullness/clichés/lies I1 Pandomation / mind scanners: see rooms + minds ('Open Mind Act') A2->I1 A3 Automated governance: Lawmasters + analysis machines World President rubber-stamps 3 vetoes ⇒ death I2 Bills + riders + enabling acts: standardization benignity severance A3->I2 S5 S5 Nine-Day King: Open Mind rhetoric Dream enforced as identity A3->S5 A5 Programmed Mechanical Killers: enforce Dream hunt 'threats' surrender ends hunt (patrols of 9) A4->A5 deploys enforcement S0 S0 Crisis: Astrobe sickness Killers attack Masters leaders exhausted A5->S0 howls / attacks A6->A1 feeds on closure OD Ouden A6->OD A7 Two travel media: Hopp-Equation (space) Chronometanastasis (time-loop) I6 Travel tech: loop/tunnel calibration Hopp-Equation passage dreams A7->I6 A8 Utopia misread: More's satire mistaken for a blueprint → 'Golden' world built too small A8->A1 becomes misread program A9 Number-logic motif: 3 Masters / 9 Killers / 9 snakes Nine-Day King (closure + recursion) A9->S5 structural echo TM Thomas More: imported 'Past Master' becomes Nine-Day King revolts: won't sign Ban-the-Beyond S3 S3 Arrival + first diagnosis: Cathead/Barrio Ouden visitation TM->S3 PA Paul: irregular pilot + time-traveler prey of Killers fetches More S2 S2 Recruitment: Paul time-travels Chelsea → More agrees PA->S2 K Cosmos Kingmaker: wealth/power spider protects Dream S1 S1 Decision: import a dead Earth man for a new symbol K->S1 S7 S7 Ban-the-Beyond fight: vetoes + pressure K->S7 pressures PR Peter Proctor: manipulator programming insider PR->S1 PR->S7 F Fabian Foreman: subverter within Masters uses martyrdom as seed F->S1 S9 S9 Reaction / seed: 'foul murder' triggers rediscovery of humanity (world reboot attempt) F->S9 intends LM Lawmasters (101) + analysis machines PP Programmed Persons: Pottscamp, Northprophet, & other entities ('real Circle of Masters') PP->S7 demands signature PK Programmed Mechanical Killers RR Rimrock (ansel): telemind warnings outsider/insider RR->S3 warns CH Cathead & Barrio: outlander poverty resistance + feral life ALL Allies / catalysts: Battersea, Shanty, Adam, Walter Copperhead, Evita, Metropolitan OD->S3 visitation S6 S6 Takeover recognized: nightmares; riders grow 'cat-castles' build I2->S6 I3 Ban-the-Beyond clause: forbid even shadow of transcendent I3->S7 the clause I4 Spectacle / naming: Convocation Hall Trumpets 'Past Master' myth S4 S4 Symbol fabrication: Convocation spectacle More presented as 'Past Master' I4->S4 I5 Execution ritual: 'Sign or die' scaffold / beheading S8 S8 Martyr choice: refuses to sign executed I5->S8 I6->S2 S0->S1 S1->PA tasks S2->TM recruits S3->S4 S4->S5 S5->S6 S6->S7 S7->S8 S8->S9 mustard seed S10 S10 Loop closure: Past Master becomes Past Master mission repeats S9->S10 S10->S2 chronometanastasis bootstrap loop Scroll: zoom · Drag: pan · Click: recenter · Click node: reading window · Shift+Click node: zoom-focus