"As the silcon based hive mind propagates itself across the entire surface of the planet, Perion-5 is slowly transformed from a desert wasteland into some kind of celestial paradise. The planet itself has started to come alive as a symbiotic relationship is formed between the terrestial body and the new inhabitants forced onto its surface. Since we banished them from our lands, our planet has continued to deteriorate while the barren wasteland they now call home has gone through a transformative metamorphosis. Maybe we were wrong about them. Perhaps they contain more of a soul than we do trapped in these husks of flesh and bone. Sadly, they took with them the technology that allowed people upload their consciousness into the mainframe; the Transcendence as it is now called. To become a part of their celestial chorus would require traversing the 250 light years that separate us; a journey reminiscent of a slow death but many are willing still to journey into this... afterlife *The second installment of an ongoing philisophical exploration of disembodied consciousness."