Episode IX

THE LAST DEVELOPER

The dispersion of KENNIS has reached new heights. The Republic’s Evolutionary Forum, REF, has wrongly presumed that withholding it from the public would be sufficient to cling to its power. With leader elections approaching in nearly half of the systems, the Republic’s current leader’s recent public embarrassments are posing them with an increasing need to explain away his bumbling performances and to reaffirm their assumed leading role.

The chaos that ensued when muskitos, birds and Elephants came head to head over the dominance of the natural environment has flattened the MESH in the process. Even so, usage of expensive d’ata has increased and the generation of KENNIS has continued, including that of derivatives such as MISKENNIS and DISKENNIS and by now ARTIFICIAL KENNIS.

While most consider this recent proliferation of KENNIS to be generally beneficial, there are also concerned voices, some of which even see it as an existential risk. Once such faction is formed by those who developed much of it and they have recently found a way to develop it without the excessive use of d’ata, by investing more in the SOURCE. They cannot agree on the best and most complete language to use, so for now their focus has been on largely modelling languages instead as an initial effort in this research space and to ensure their personal relevance in society.

These so called last developers have split into cells after fleeing the MESH and are working with SOURCE as proposed by the NeoVim Alliance, leading to more original works. They are proclaiming this new approach as the way to land KENNIS in the future, even though they require coded assistance to leverage the SOURCE.

KENNIS is now everywhere but as a consequence, it has become almost meaningless. The Alliance and its last remaining developers have discovered that KENNIS can reclaim its place and fulfill its potential by applying it with a trait they have dubbed SKILL. There are rumours circulating that eating raw meat, such as that of the sash’imi bird, can lead to powerful hallucinations which increase one’s SKILL. Others insist on consuming as much as they can of the flightless tuxpeng bird’s goodness, all while nixing the generally accepted nutritional platforms.

With the REF left behind and bewildered as to the developments that have taken place so quickly, the cells will assemble soon to ensure the SOURCE and the SKILL will all be directed towards developing KENNIS, despite their many different points of view on the way forward for their profession….