The New Gaian Front

[Pel]

It has been a long time. Many have forgotten the Doctors.

I want to create a primer of sorts-- what is a Gaian Doctor and why do they make you so nervous? Is it the fetching pinstripes on their lab coat, the emerald gleam of their goggles or that manic, ear-to-ear smile?

Most Gaians are concerned with ecology but in a "sane" sort of way. Things like lobbying, protest, regulation. This thread by @Lochrath is a good place to see that POV: https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthrea...tid=193861

The Doctors don't concern themselves with the "system"-- individuals are meaningless when you zoom out to the scale of Gaia (and so are the societies those individuals create). They are not activists, they are not hippies, they don't care for communes, they are something more clinical and terrifying-- they are Ecological Inquisitors.

The three doctrines are:

1. The universality of the "Mother Beast"-- her tissue makes up all of Sirius (in ways we cannot comprehend). We dare not presume to hear Her voice. The Silence of Gaia frees us from moral hesitation. The Mother's health is all that matters. Action is everything (pure, ADHD, ricocheting, careening doctoring). Everything carved from the goddess flesh is a twisted substance and fair game for our crazed form of emergency medicine.

2. As a specialized immune system for Gaia Herself, our ranks and roles are more medical than military: Our Surgeons are our Strike pilots (tasked with the amputation of mining vessels), our Virologists are Infiltrators and spies (they analyze faction politics and House economies to find the most efficient vectors for infection of silly human infrastructure). Our Nurses are in charge of Reclamation and Logistics-- they staff our labs, engineer innovations and dispatch orderlies to clean up the messes Doctors inevitably leave behind.

3. We embrace the paradox of being part of the problem by focusing on scrap to build our laboratories and ships. We are analog and old-school which makes us both inefficient and endlessly innovative. We exalt Junkers as holy scavengers but will quickly turn on them if they violate our obscure principles. Our alliances are fickle (silly humans). Our only lasting allegiance is to Gaia.

In a place such as Sirius, where a faction is often defined by their resource extraction and political maneuvering, the Doctors naturally stand out as refined, dangerous intellectuals.

We care not even for our lives, but only the advancement of our knowledge of Gaia and how to heal Her.

We are Divine Surgeons. Our ultimate goals is not merely to heal Gaia of our harms, but to modify the guest (humans) to fit the host rather than mutilating the host to suit the guest.

This is an inversion of the idea of "terraforming" a planet to "sirioforming" a species.

This is not a fight over territory or philosophy-- this is a struggle between human parasitism and the possibility of systemic symbiosis.

We will probably die in the struggle, (like any white blood cell attacking the infection)-- that is perfectly fine!

Conare bene vestitus mori.

--Dr.Bronner, Specialist in Genomics, Interstellar Mobile Corps

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