The Divine Sedition [Complete]

Chapter 30 Keila’s Dilemma

A few weeks later, Keila was sitting in a couch looking at the vastness of space outside, through a sizeable fortified panorama window. When she stared straight ahead, she could see Eden. It seemed vast from her perspective, despite being a small world. Its surface was mostly brownish yellow with some green and blue patches where there were farms and water reservoirs. Eden’s atmosphere looked intensely blue from her perspective. This was because the atmosphere was tightly packed with air. The atmosphere on Eden only stretched a kilometre up to the electrified nanotechnology protective layer that kept the atmosphere in and the cosmic radiation out, and yet the surface air pressure was like that on Earth.  To achieve this, the air concentration was a lot higher on Eden than on Earth. Hence its atmosphere was a lot bluer when viewed from space.

Keila looked on a control panel; she saw that all the systems that kept Eden liveable was working like clockwork and now that peace was restored, the people could live excellent and safe lives and in abundance, down on the surface.

The potential for good living conditions on Eden was the root of Keila’s dilemma.  She needed to choose between what was good for the people she was governing and what was good for most of the population in the solar system that was oppressed by the tyranny of the Terran Council.  She had initially planned to use Eden as her secret base of operations to make covert strikes on Terran Council ships and mining stations. This was still her plan, but after getting to know the people on Eden better, she felt reluctant to go through with this cruel project. The people on Eden had nothing to do with her fight with the Terran Council, and she could not inspire them to fight a battle that wasn’t theirs willingly, without deceiving them. Deceiving them would be easy, but if she chose that path, she would be no better than her enemies who had been using false promises and divide & conquer tactics to dominate the solar system for the past six centuries.

Another issue she was wrestling with was the freedom of her people in Eden. Initially, after defeating Adina, Keila had intended to free all her subjects through surgically removing all their divine technology human microchips from their brains. Metatron had staunchly opposed this idea which had initially upset Keila, but she had come around and realised that he was right. Metatron had argued that the people of Eden were happy with being mere subjects and part of something bigger than themselves. To force everyone out of the community by removing their divine technology microchips was a far bigger crime than controlling people that wanted to be controlled. Keila had admitted that forcing atheism was not more freedom than forcing religion or theism, so she had left the people with the choice to remain connected, or to have their chip removed. A few weeks later, no one had opted to get out, due to the fear of the great unknown that was beyond Eden, the only world that they ever knew.   

Keila connected to Metatron to see what he was doing. He was counselling some villagers on Eden after the death of their grandfather. Keila was moved when she watched Metatron counsel the villagers. He treated them with a level of compassion and love that she just could not muster. It seemed like Metatron personally cared for all his subjects and Keila could only imagine how much pain it would have caused him to carry out all the atrocities that Abraham had ordered in the past. Keila disconnected from Metatron. She leaned back in her couch, looking forward to seeing him in the Divine Dimension later. The timelessness of that place made their encounters so much more pleasant and blessed. After that, she fell asleep, filled with pleasant dreams for the first time in four years.