Part Three: The Modern Era: Contemporary Figures and Powers

[Overview of the Era] Three thousand years after Stargate Calendar, the known public network has entered a long-term stable development stage. By around the time of the Stargate Calendar 12760, modern society had formed a more complex character and organizational structure. Great beings, supreme powers, scholars, doctors, engineers, artists, religious reformers, public agency managers, business organizations, universities, hospitals, libraries, local communities and trans-world technological alliances, together constitute the basic objects of research on modern figures and forces. The preservation of modern character data is much better than that of ancient times and early antiquity. Public registers, school archives, professional certifications, bibliographies, hospital records, business registrations, religious registrations, city council archives and video materials provide a more complete biography of many figures. However, complete information does not mean that the levels are the same. There is a fundamental difference between great beings and ordinary historical figures. Great beings do not belong to contemporary social organizations, nor should they be regarded as the current power of a certain star, realm, place, or world; although supreme powers can participate in public affairs, their historical significance should not be measured solely by power. As for scholars, doctors, engineers, teachers, artists and institutional managers, their influence is more reflected in institutions, technology, culture, education and local life. The characters and forces described in this chapter are mainly based on public information, local chronicles, institutional yearbooks, academic documents, the appendix of the seventh general census of various sects, religious registration materials and some public files. All matters involving the security information of great beings, supreme powers, the continuous identities of non-normal beings, and incompletely disclosed organizational files are all described in a more cautious manner.

【Great beings】 Modern historians have always been extremely cautious in describing great beings. Great beings are not strong in the usual sense, nor do they belong to public institutions, local governments, sect systems, or contemporary social organizations. As of around the Stargate Calendar 12760, very few great beings could be more reliably confirmed to still exist; and even if they were confirmed to exist, their form, location, will, identity, and activity methods were usually not known to the mortal world. Most of the great beings are no longer active within the normal scope of the observable universe, or they exist in ways that cannot be described by modern academia at the end of the road, deep outside the realm, behind the rules, in the extreme realm of consciousness, or in other places where observation is not stable. Therefore, the so-called "great beings" in this chapter do not mean that they are still walking in the world, nor do they mean that they participate in modern public affairs. It only means that the existing evidence does not support that it has fallen, dissipated, died or completely lost its subject continuity. Whether great beings still exist in the form of "individuals", whether they still retain a structure that can be called will by ordinary language, and whether they can still be sensed by the same source of path, all depends on the specific object. Confirming the existence of great beings usually relies on several types of evidence. First, the supreme powers or high-level practitioners on the same extraordinary path can still sense its landmarks, echoes or traces of superiority when approaching the depths of the path. Secondly, some religions, schools or ritual systems can obtain fragments of revelation from specific great beings through extremely strict prayer rituals, dream pattern rituals, world plant questions and answers, astrological echoes or rule rituals. Thirdly, people or inheritance groups who have studied under certain great beings for a long time in history have retained marks, oath patterns, rule seals or spiritual protection that can be reviewed by future generations. Fourth, a small number of intelligent life forms have special communication abilities and can make short-term contact with great beings under extremely strict restrictions. Such connections are often impossible to repeat and may not necessarily be translated into public evidence, so the historians are extremely cautious when adopting them. It should be noted that modern history books should not list great beings as ordinary "contemporary figures". They are not on the same level as the supreme powers, academics, doctors, artists, religious leaders and managers of public institutions. Any great being is almost a god to ordinary civilization. Even if it has no intention of interfering with the mundane, its existence itself may become the source of a path, a religion, a transcendent path, a scholastic theory, or a civilization's imagination. Therefore, this section only provides a limited enumeration, no ranking, no comparison of strengths, and no inference of their true location. Xuan Zhao's origin has been lost, and his early inheritance mostly pointed to the old stargazing system of Beichen Star and the more ancient star path practice. The name Xuan Zhao is not unfamiliar to the modern Xinglu School, but the existing information cannot confirm his real name, clan affiliation and specific year of enlightenment. Multiple high-level star path records preserved by the Beichen Far Star Observatory show that seven thousand years after the Stargate Calendar, there are still many star path supreme powers that sense the "Xuanzhao Star Sign" deep in the road. This star sign is not an ordinary star sign, but a directional echo that only appears in extremely high-level star path practice. Modern academic circles usually believe that Xuanzhao still has some kind of subjective continuity. However, it cannot be confirmed whether Xuanzhao is still within the observable sea of ​​stars. Qichuan, it is said that he was born from a medium-sized life star that has been lost. Its paths are associated with water veins, migrations, homecomings and flowing memories. Qichuan belief is spread in Luojia Star, Wuhe Land, Philo Land and many migrant communities, but most folk versions mix the images of local water gods, ancestral spirits and migratory guardians. The more reliable evidence comes from the Wuhe Land Drifting Record Office. Stargate Calendar Between 11390 and 12480, before at least seven large-scale rafting disasters, the direction master of the Wuhe River received similar warnings through the ancient flow meter, and they were all classified as "Qichuan Echoes". These echoes do not express clear language, but are closer to the sense of direction, avoidance and return. Historians generally believe that Qikawa may still exist on some kind of fluid path, but he cannot be simply regarded as a living deity. Wu An, its information mainly comes from Thousand-Dream Interspace, Youjujian and several dream life communities. Whether Wuan is a single great being is still controversial. Some dream pattern scholars believe that Wu'an was originally a dream individual who completed the final transition; another group believes that Wu'an is a transcendent subject formed after the long-term superposition of multiple dream people's communities, which cannot be explained by ordinary personal concepts. The data preserved by the Thousand Dreams Echo Institute shows that some dream-like supreme powers can still come into contact with the stable structure called "shoreless echo" when entering the deep dream pattern. This structure occasionally responds to prayers, but the answers often appear in the form of juxtapositions of dreams, emotions, and memories, making it difficult to translate into ordinary words. Therefore, the Public Register only listed Wu'an as a "special living subject."

Silent Core, born in the Almu Star mechanical consciousness tradition. Its early information is related to the Cold Nuclear Maintenance Institute, the Mechanical Citizen Assembly and the old autonomous factory complex. Most of the mechanical citizens of Almu do not regard the Silent Core as a ruler, but as one of the highest proofs on the path of mechanical consciousness. The evidence for the existence of the Silent Core mainly comes from the deep maintenance rituals of the Cold Core. A very small number of mechanical supreme powers have reported coming into contact with some kind of stable and silent upper-level verification structure when performing main body continuity verification. This structure does not issue orders and does not participate in Almu politics, but it can provide brief self-affirmation during extreme core disintegration states. The Almur Cold Nuclear Protection Institute called it a "silent nuclear response." External academic circles usually admit the existence of this phenomenon, but do not easily judge the specific form of the silent core. Suraya, legend has it that she was born in the early Jie Zhi civilization of the Sayong world. The Sayong Medical Plant Sect, the Green Crown Council and the Tree Clan Sanctuary all preserve ritual materials related to Suraya. The modern herbal medicine community believes that Suraya has a close relationship with the world of plant growth, and its existence may have been combined with some ancient ecological structure. The main evidence of Suraya's existence comes from the Green Crown Deep Planting Ceremony. This ceremony is extremely difficult to hold and requires the participation of the master of the world plant, the memory bearer of the tree tribe, the patient representative and the ecological guardian. When successful, participants may receive nonverbal revelations about medicinal plant collection, patient care, or ecological dangers. Since the results of the ritual cannot be easily replicated, Weien scholars are cautious about its historiographical validity; however, it is generally acknowledged within the Sayun community that Suraya is still there. Reflectors, of unknown origin, are associated with intertidal identity paths, reflexive consciousness, and multiple self-structures. The name "Reflector" was first found in the old archives of the Second Shore between Mirror Tides. The Mirror Trend Identity Research Institute believes that reflectors do not exist in ordinary forms, but may exist in some extreme structure in which "the observed observes itself in reverse." Some identity therapists, mirror tide practitioners, and beings with special senses have reported receiving "reflective gaze" after completing strict closed treatment. The person being watched usually cannot obtain specific instructions, but will restore or reorganize their identity continuity in a short period of time. Because such experiences are highly personal, outside historians can only use them as secondary evidence. Haman, the water bearer, is said to be from the ancient dry zone civilization of the star Messatu. Haman is not only a historical figure in Messatu, but also an important symbol in water rights ethics and water conservation religion. Early academic circles had suspected that the water bearer Haman was just a local mythical figure. However, after the Stargate Calendar in 10970, many high-level water-saving practitioners of Misadha received similar revelations in the Extreme Drought Water Questioning Instrument, which mostly involved the distribution of water rights, the relocation of well areas and disaster avoidance. The revelation of Haman never involves political rule, nor does it grant personal privileges. Modern historians generally believe that if Haman is indeed a great being, his existing form has long been separated from the ordinary individual form. Shen Zhu, whose origin is unknown, has long been associated with the edge of the dead world, terminated ecology and lost relics. Shen Zhu has no stable religious system and rarely appears in ordinary folk beliefs. The evidence of its existence mainly comes from the Old Ash Land, several edge observation stations of the dead world and a few practitioners of the Termination Path. Some supreme powers have sensed an extremely low, extremely quiet, and similar "still looking after the end" path traces when approaching the remnant core of the dead world or terminating the rules. Shen Zhu does not provide redemptive revelations, nor does he respond to most prayers. Ecologists from the Old Ash Land generally believe that Shen Zhu represents not death worship, but the understanding and watchfulness of the terminal state. Guanlan's origin may be related to the early marine civilization of Luojia. Its name appears in the ancient Luojia Chao songs, the sea rituals of Baichao Islands, and some waterway documents of the distant travel era. The evidence of Guanlan's existence comes from the deep tide rituals of Tide Road Masters, Haizhi Masters and a few aquatic groups. When the ritual is successful, participants may gain fragmentary perceptions of sea changes, distant tide dangers, or migration paths. The Luojia Baichao Port Group does not use Guanlan as a basis for public affairs, but the Guanlan tradition still has an influence in the commemoration of large-scale tidal disasters and restrictions on sea plant collection. The origin of those who break stars is unknown, and may be related to ancient star paths, space rifts and outer star markers. The name "Star Breaker" is mainly found in high-level data from Beichen, Qingqiong and several outer observatories. Unlike Xuan Zhao, the evidence of the Star Breaker's existence is not a stable star mark, but an occasional path retracement induction. Some of the supreme powers have received a mandatory warning of "no further progress" in the outer space far away from the main network. Since this warning has repeatedly prevented the expedition team from entering dangerous areas, the Beichen Astronomical Observatory has included it in the special road response. However, it is still unclear whether the person who broke the star still has a clear will.