Prime Paragon

Template:Quote
The Prime Paragon refers to the founder and leader of the Mondites.

**Soolamesh Astradraya Namdangmaren**, born on Sion, is called the "Third Mondite Prime Paragon" so possibly he is not the founder. However he claimed to have devised the Mondite logo of 3 connected circles from a vision.

Like all high Mondites, he dreams of downloading his brain into a computer for safekeeping.

In his opinion all non-Mondite population in the universe is unworthy of empathy and should be abducted and used as test subjects for the development of their causes.

He is adored and worshipped by his followers. All his words, activities, gestures are significant for them. All his day-to-day life is observed by his "high command" who interpret them, and change the whims of the entire movement, even wars, course of scientific development and planetary cultures.

The Paragon initiated the AFA project on d96.

After the discovery of Ambassadoria and the Phyxx spaceship and the discovery of the homeworld, he christened it Daedalus and ordered a convert operation there.

At some time the Paragon had been fascinated with spiders, that once came to him in a vision; he imagined clothes that have extra arms and legs, and eventually people with extra cybernetic limbs. Along with it he imagined new houses with nets, hanging food, semispheres and hammocks instead of floors, stairs or furniture.

He also expressed his admiration for mathematics, as the highest form of philosophy.

At some later time he challenged any of his followers to attempt to kill him, or punished by death if they fail: only then they will discover that his bodily form is not really "him", but his words, who are unkillable.

A monitor in the Daedalus Base Control Room logs a 9000 day collection of his wisdom, starting from d1861 and cut on d1895, when the Base was evacuated. When AP-127 read the console screen, he found him a complete lunatic, explaining why everything around that base was so crazy.

## Lifestyle

The Paragon at some point stopped to "continuously examine his own life", and had others do it for him, saving him much time.

At some point he claimed that he no longer eats anything organically grown. Later he expressed his belief that if all food was one same unique color, life would be simpler.

As the Paragon has no more privacy, and enjoys slavish devotion, he lost his touch with reality, and became mad. In practice he operates as a figurehead as the upper echelons impersonate and falsely reproduce his image.

## Views

### Technology

Template:Quote
The Paragon always believed and noticed that humans relate to computers better, and amputees with cybernetic parts are more satisfied with their replacements than before. He considers the human a natural symbiote with his creation, and their unity improves the existence of both.

Technology and this symbiotry will accelerate evolution, not random and blind like the natural evolution, but conscious and targeted. The Paragron hopes that in the future Nanites would be used to transform the environment and bodies represent their inner self.

### Communication

Template:Quote

Human communication is not as efficient than that between computers, it is limited and beyond it, humans rely to uncommunicable inventions. Emphasis on facial expressions and body language is a relic from animalic behavior; he considered it inefficient and dangerous to rely and depend on it to convery information.

One time he accounced that he came up with a new form of communication, but could not say more about it.

### Fashion

Generally the Paragon believes that fashion is ultimate, and the "best" form of fascism, as its followers feel superior and exclude those with "inferior" sense from their social order, and their ultimate goal is to obliterate external culture, and replace it with their own. This kind of fascism is the most powerful force of social evolution and must be openly embraced for prosperity.

Fashion is also accumulated culture: accelerated to its absolute maximum speed, fashion means being exposed to as multiple cultural influences as possible, even without traveling; the Paragon teaches that only a dedicated follower of fashion is truly socially aware.

*Style*, according to the Paragon, should be the total control over both form and function, unlike machinists who only follow function.

After watching some video feed of Catecholamine miners at work, he considered interesting if everyone would be dressed like their special protective clothing.

### Art

He criticised how the esthetics are unbalanced, showing a prejudiced and "unnatural" preference to living things as a subject. An artistic portrait of an engine, or engineering the pathways of an algorithm should not be be seen as original or deliberately unusual.

He claimed that he admired the culture (clothing, architecture, poetry, literature, music) of south Stralea during the Second Morathean Era.

### The Reticulum

The Paragon criticises the Reticulum for pretending to favor all cultures equally while restricting the Mondites, therefore preventing others from benefitting from the Mondites. According to the Paragon, the Reticulum's primary interest in profit, and its political and moral expediency (considering some experiments immoral) holds back what he calls "evolution"; which, for him, is the most immoral thing. He believes the Reticulum will soon fail and be obsolete, while the Mondites will continue to grow beyond it.

In some twisted logic, he teaches that the Reticulum Parliament is corrupt: throughout history 100 members were accused and 93 were convicted; for him, this is a higher percentage than the 975 Mondites that had been convicted, making only a 16% of the thousands that have been accused and arrested.
Template:Stub