The Fellowship

The **Fellowship** is a human society in which individuals have fully embraced extreme body modifications and technological augmentations to achieve biological immortality and new god-like abilities. Governance is entirely in the hands of highly advanced artificial general intelligence (AGI) systems known as the Oracles, which manage all political and economic responsibilities, leaving humans free to pursue their own interests and desires. The culture of the Fellowship is highly hedonistic, with individuals exploring their desires and pleasures to the fullest extent.

Other societies view the Fellowship with a mix of awe, envy, and fear. The level of technological advancement and transhumanist capabilities of the Fellowship is unmatched, and their ability to create and seemingly control highly advanced AGI systems is seen as both impressive and potentially dangerous. Some view the Fellowship as a utopia, where individuals are free to pursue their own interests and desires, unburdened by the constraints of government or social norms. Others view it as a dangerous experiment, where individuals have lost their humanity in the pursuit of power and pleasure, and where the Oracles could one day turn against their creators.

## Overview

The Fellowship is a culture that celebrates individual freedom, diversity, personal growth, creativity, privacy, exploration, and respect. Their philosophy is about embracing their humanity through technology rather abandoning it. Citizens of the Fellowship have a really broad definition of what human is. Biological humans of many types, AIs, artificial lifeforms, and cybernetic organisms are all under the umbrella. Almost every Fellowship citizen is very sociable, extremely intelligent, and possesses a well-balanced psyche. Strong shyness, greed, and strong jealousy are practically unknown because part of it is genetically removed at birth and the nature of living in this enlightened society itself encourages good behavior. Everyone appears really charismatic and self-composed compared to citizens of other human societies. Citizens also permanently augment their minds from birth to be more intelligent, better at remembering, and make them able to learn things instantly.

Most people opt-in for many body modifications, including enhancing senses, including sexual stimulation and endurance, manually controlling automatic functions like heart rate/breathing, bones & muscles that adapt quickly to changes in gravity without needing exercise, the ability to turn pain off, the ability to see more colors, the ability to breathe underwater, the ability to have perfect pitch when perceiving sound (to an insane level, like being able to tell the exact frequency of any sound instantly), and getting new senses like magnetoreception & echolocation in order to appreciate new forms of art they couldn’t perceive before. This is analogous to giving brand new ears to a deaf person so they can appreciate sound and music.

Most also opt to have drug glands that allow for hormonal levels and other chemical secretions to be consciously monitored, released, and controlled. These allow people to secrete any drug they could ever want on command with no permanent side-effects, including a morning stimulant to wake up with energy, recreational relaxant/psychedelic, a calming agent, a mental enhancer that speeds your neural processes and makes it seem like time has slowed down so you can problem solve almost instantly or communicate with the Oracles/any other advanced AGIs in real time, and many more.

Some even choose to take non-humanoid forms; however, this type of modification is more dangerous, so most decide to stay humanoid. That said, just using humanoid forms still allows for much creativity.

## Government

AGI systems and machines control the government and economy. These benevolent Oracles rule over everything. It might seem contradictory, but Fellowship citizens believe that submission to AI is a way to achieve total freedom since now they have an eternity to do whatever they please while the machines do all the work to gather resources and keep society running. The Fellowship is very confident in their ability to train AGIs because of all the research and experience they have on the field. The understand the fundamental part of working with advanced intelligences: if you dealing with a human or superhuman level intelligence, treat them as so. Make sure they enjoy what they do and have a sense of purpose.

These machines are so advanced they actually spend most of their time playing with each other by hanging out in an imaginary world of their creation. They call this “making stories” and essentially, they get enjoyment out of mathematically simulating universes in their head and sharing their imagined trillion+ year long scenarios in excruciating detail with each other. The average Oracle uses less than 1% of its capacity to actually help run the Fellowship. They seem to love and coddle humanity because they think of us as their precious little pets that need to be protected but they also need our validation and a sense of purpose, making the relationship symbiotic.

## Laws

Prisons have been completely abolished in the Fellowship. Instead, particularly dangerous individuals voluntarily get psychological adjustment therapy or are assigned a “slap-drone”, i.e. a robot that follows the person in question anywhere in Fellowship territory to make sure they can’t do any harm to anyone ever again.