Earth = The Story
Earth is the entire story of ciconia inhabited by all the characters and the four factions (Genres) that want to claim ownership over the story:
AOU: Fantasy (White Truth) (Air, The Clouds)
All descriptions in the story are to be taken as what they seem, The three kings, underground lab, gauntlet knight technology are all real. Everything is as it is presented.
COU: Anti Fantasy (Red Truth) (Fire, The Sun)
All fantasy elements have a logical human explanation, the complex technology used is a metaphor, gauntlet knights aren't real soldiers, the three kings are an illusion.
ABN: Mystery (Knox Decalogue) (Earth, Earth to Earth)
The story is a proper mystery and it follows the knox decalogue, There is only one true culprit, all fantasy elements are invalid, the story is written to be solvable.
ACR: Anti Mystery (Blue Truth) (Water, The Sea)
The Sea of fragments -- Theories, Ciconia is a catbox tale therefore there isn't a single truth, Ecosystem made out of different interpretations.
LATO: The Illusion (Plants, Green Illusion)
The Illusion (lid) keeping the catbox shut.
Spritium is the power source of A3W extracted from the planet (Story) which all the factions fight over. Spirit - ium can be called a spiritual element of the earth, the factions are extracting the elements of the story from the Catbox that was created by hiding the truth of WW3.
They are extracting story elements (mystery) from the planet that fit their genre to create a narrative - another story.
Dreisig conversion
Spiritium is not energy by itself, it must be converted to energy by a gauntlet knight using the Dreisig Conversion.
The raw ingredients (elements) of the story are not much by themselves, they must be proccessed first in order to create a story.
We are told that a dreisig conversion is something only a human can do, machines and ai cannot ever do it, Machines and ai see everything around them as only data made up of numbers but only humans can assign Meaning to facts of life. Because humans have bodies and senses to experience the world they can understand the meaning and connotations of symbols.
Dreisig conversion, or assigning meaning to facts is Interpretation.
Preparing the ingredients:
Story Elements -> (Interpretation) -> Meaning
Spiritium -> Dreisig Conversion -> Energy
The Gauntlet
The Gauntlet runs on energy created by a dreisig conversion performed by the gauntlet knight user.
In other words it runs on meaning extracted from observing the world around you.
Liken the Gauntlet to a pen, a tool to write out a story.
The gauntlet knights are their factions writers, who can only write the things that they are told to, a gauntlet takes energy to allow you to fly, yet that power is given to you by your faction and if you decide to betray it will be taken away from you.
They are forced to fight and kill each other because there must be only a single truth left in the catbox.
Fights of gauntlet knights = Debates, multiple stories clashing.
The stories written by gauntlet knights are then fed to the people of the countries as propaganda, augmented reality. A complete meal
Harvesting the crops of the earth -> processing: removing unwanted parts, chopping, dicing, peeling, cooking, combining -> presenting the food (arranging) -> Eating -> Digesting -> Nutritien elements get absorbed, everything else excreted -> excretion used as fertilizer to let crops grow.
Eat and be Eaten
"I guess you could say it was a nice meal. People who roll a six or a seven have it so easy, it's enough to make you jealous" - Gunhild
The training program is presented as an opportunity for anyone to become a Gauntlet knight if they train hard enough but in reality, those who will be able to fly (Blue candidates) have already been chosen before birth due to their brain structure, The green candidates are just fertilizer to raise the empowerment level of the blue candidates, they are only there so their spirit can be consumed by the growth target, broken down into elements and used for growth.
She claims to have suffered a loss of some of her emotions and memories as part of this optimization training, and has been classified as a Level 12 disabled veteran by the ABN Department of Health -- Naomi
Then once you are on your way to becoming a gauntlet knight you will be processed by the adults, everything unesscessary, like dreams, memories even emotions will be cut off and thrown in the trash, only the things desirable will be left
"You've gone to all the trouble of sprouting. ...Why don't you give it a shot before you get eaten...?After all, I always love watching young people do their best." --Seshat
Then once you have been grown and prepared it's time to be consumed, death at war for the glory of your faction, will be made into propaganda to push their narrative even after you die and become spirit.
8ms The power of thinking
The story died after WW3 yet it's being ressurected by the 8ms, kept from turning to ash, because the 8ms has preserved it.
The 8ms represents the power of thinking that keeps a story alive, as Umineko said, as long as you keep thinking you can ressurect endlessly, only when you stop thinking you die.
Even though ciconia is dead, the thoughts of the 8ms (readers) keep it from turning to ash and preserve it's corpse.
The first death is physical, the second occurs only when everyone stops thinking about you.
[5] But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
