Biogenesis, from the Game of Creation series, part 10

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Chapter 12: The Architect’s Code

The tremor stopped the Players in their tracks. It was as if someone—or something—was watching.
Theta narrowed her gaze at the nearest black hole. “Do you feel that? It's like… a whisper.”
Lambda, ever ambitious, smirked. “Maybe the Dark Architect is impressed. Maybe they’re jealous.”
Q, however, wasn’t so sure. He approached the black hole, extending his essence toward it. “No… I think this is a message.”
As Q reached further, the black hole pulsed, and for the first time, a pattern emerged from its event horizon. It wasn’t random. It wasn’t chaotic. It was a code.
The code revealed mathematical sequences, too complex to be a mere accident. These sequences described something that neither the Players nor their particles had ever achieved: self-organization.
Theta was the first to grasp it. "This… this is biogenesis! It's the blueprint for life, but not as we imagined it. It’s embedded in the fabric of dark matter and energy!"
Suddenly, the Players understood. The Dark Architect had been here long before them. The Architect hadn’t just mastered the cosmos—they had already mastered the origin of life. But their version of life wasn’t bound to atoms and molecules like the Players’ creations. The Architect’s life forms were woven from dark matter, invisible to the Players, existing in parallel to their universe.


Chapter 13: The Dark Lifeforms

The Players quickly realized that what they had thought was empty space—the dark matter and dark energy they had so long ignored—was teeming with dark life. Entire ecosystems of shadowy beings, creatures made not of matter but of something subtler, a force beyond their understanding.
“They've been here all along,” Theta whispered, marveling at the strange, shadowy entities that swirled around the black holes. “We didn’t create the first life after all.”
Lambda, ever the competitor, clenched his essence into a form resembling a fist. “So, what? Are we just going to let the Dark Architect outdo us? We’ve built stars, galaxies, particles… we can create life too!”
But Q had a different perspective. “Maybe this isn’t a competition anymore,” he said softly. “Maybe we need to understand what the Dark Architect is trying to show us.”
The black holes continued to pulse, revealing more of the code. The Players realized that the dark life they saw was only the surface of the Architect's work. Beneath it was a deeper structure—a multiverse, woven together by the gravitational threads of black holes. Life existed in these hidden dimensions, and each black hole was a gateway to new forms of existence, new rules, and perhaps… new Players.