Mak Taru
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This is an attempt to tie together many of the plotlines of the different books.
What if there was a single organization that was responsible for all of the following:
- Infiltrating the Idiran civilization and pushing them to become more expansionist, and encouraging the Culture to go to war with them
- Giving effector technology to the Empire of Azad in order to try to stop the Culture's attempt to reform their society
- Giving the Affront control of the Pittance Fleet
- Helping the Chelgrians in their attempt to assassinate the Masaq Orbital Hub Mind
- Many other incidents, including acts of terrorism, rebellion, assassination, triggering wars, etc.
The actual name of this group, if it even has one, is unknown, so they are simply known as 'The Conspirators'. They have been around for thousands of years, and their aim is to subvert, sabotage, and destroy the Culture and other Involved civilizations with similar philosophies.
They are not limited to any one race, polity, or area. They have no central hierarchy and operate in countless cells across the galaxy, with agents in every advanced civilization. This makes it very difficult for them to coordinate with each other on large - scale projects, but it also makes them very good at covering their tracks. One of their favored tactics is to plant a type of memetic virus in the minds of their agents, so if they are exposed, their thoughts and memories are rewritten so they believe that they were working alone. In-universe, their existence is considered a myth, much like the Illuminati on modern day Earth.
Any given human, alien, drone, or Mind could be a Conspirator, and there would be no way of knowing until it was too late.
I think a group like this would serve as the ultimate enemy for the Culture. If Iain Banks hadn't died, he could write a book with this premise, where the Conspirators are trying something more audacious and dangerous than they ever have before, and the narrative follows groups of Culture and non-Culture citizens trying to stop them. It would obviously be filled with intrigue, paranoia, backstabbing, and the fate of the galaxy at stake. I'd try to write it as a fanfiction, but I'm not confident in my ability to pull it off.
This is just a rough outline for the concept.
What if there was a single organization that was responsible for all of the following:
- Infiltrating the Idiran civilization and pushing them to become more expansionist, and encouraging the Culture to go to war with them
- Giving effector technology to the Empire of Azad in order to try to stop the Culture's attempt to reform their society
- Giving the Affront control of the Pittance Fleet
- Helping the Chelgrians in their attempt to assassinate the Masaq Orbital Hub Mind
- Many other incidents, including acts of terrorism, rebellion, assassination, triggering wars, etc.
The actual name of this group, if it even has one, is unknown, so they are simply known as 'The Conspirators'. They have been around for thousands of years, and their aim is to subvert, sabotage, and destroy the Culture and other Involved civilizations with similar philosophies.
They are not limited to any one race, polity, or area. They have no central hierarchy and operate in countless cells across the galaxy, with agents in every advanced civilization. This makes it very difficult for them to coordinate with each other on large - scale projects, but it also makes them very good at covering their tracks. One of their favored tactics is to plant a type of memetic virus in the minds of their agents, so if they are exposed, their thoughts and memories are rewritten so they believe that they were working alone. In-universe, their existence is considered a myth, much like the Illuminati on modern day Earth.
Any given human, alien, drone, or Mind could be a Conspirator, and there would be no way of knowing until it was too late.
I think a group like this would serve as the ultimate enemy for the Culture. If Iain Banks hadn't died, he could write a book with this premise, where the Conspirators are trying something more audacious and dangerous than they ever have before, and the narrative follows groups of Culture and non-Culture citizens trying to stop them. It would obviously be filled with intrigue, paranoia, backstabbing, and the fate of the galaxy at stake. I'd try to write it as a fanfiction, but I'm not confident in my ability to pull it off.
This is just a rough outline for the concept.
