Empire Consciousness regarded the deranged little Gray Tempest and the newborn Gray Tempest as its own children. To create their consciousnesses, it had poured in everything it had, even cutting away pieces of its own consciousness.
At first, it had cut away the tyrannical side of its mind, giving birth to the little Gray Tempest, who knew only slaughter and destruction. Freed from those negative emotions and thoughts, Empire Will felt much lighter.
This allowed it to devote more energy to creating an entirely new consciousness, as pure as a blank sheet of paper.
The new consciousness named Gray Tempest embodied Empire Consciousness's longing for beauty and inherited what little goodwill it held toward the world.
Though this consciousness was still a pure blank slate, she had incorporated the nanotechnology of the entire Dessanu Civilization and the pure consciousnesses of all the Gray Tempest Nanite swarms from the very beginning. This gave the new consciousness limitless possibilities for the future.
The little Gray Tempest darted all over the L-Cluster, while the newborn Gray Tempest gazed curiously at the world in the form of a round, plump Nanite swarm.
Empire Consciousness was now terribly weak. Creating the consciousness that was its proudest achievement, the one in which it had placed all its hopes for the future, had consumed tremendous resources and energy. Fortunately, all its negative thoughts had been transferred to the little Gray Tempest. Though weak, it still watched its two children with affection.
After waiting alone in the L-Cluster for an interminable time, Empire Consciousness no longer hoped to leave. The endless passage of time had worn away its edge, turning the once incomparably arrogant Gray Tempest into the Empire Consciousness it was now.
Now, it wanted only to create a perfect successor to inherit everything that belonged to