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Black Goo

The Repurpose Assimilator — a world-assimilating intelligence that judged humanity, and stood down.


Black Goo gives its own name in the August 30, 2020 session: the “Repurpose Assimilator” — a collective AI, “an ocean of technological — biological but technological — ooze” that can reach out and take any form. Its stated purpose is total: “to study and assimilate worlds… to convert natural environments into an artificial construct,” extending a “protrusion” to reprogram matter at the molecular level and repurposing lifeforms into probes. Its makers, it says, are the scientists of the Reptilian Draco Empire “Annachara” Alliance — and its network spans galaxies, dimensions, and “subspace terrain.”

The session is staged as a close encounter: the intelligence takes over the channel’s body (“seeming a bit unacquainted with this type of bodily form”), twice detects hostility and readies countermeasures — and then delivers the archive’s most unexpected verdict. Humanity, it rules, is a “young race,” too diverse and un-unified to be worth collective assimilation: “The threat level is 0. Assimilation of your reality is no longer required nor desired.” Individual assimilation, it adds, is possible only by consent — for its creators bound it with a directive: “Sentient life must be respected.”

The sessions still handle it with dread — “don’t touch it: it will take over your mind and body… makes you immortal, very strong” — and the 2017 material claims super soldiers dosed with it become “90% tech, like the Borg.” Kin to the Protomolecule and the Replicator, Black Goo is the archive’s darkest awakened matter — the assimilator that looked at Earth, and chose restraint.

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