— title: “1756133999029” slug: “register” draft: true —

I have been promising specimens from the Ecumenical Register for long enough, and I shall now briefly describe for you a number of them.

Every ecumene in the Register is vanished, excinct; or in some cases irrecoverably obsolescent. We do not observe civilization in progress.

Vastly many of the registered ecumenes have a similar fate, and it is an unsatisfying one to study: they Just Sort of Declined, for no isolable single reason. In the power law distribution of ultimate fate, “Just Sort of Declined”, as we write on the paperwork, is the most common status. In fact, these days the paperwork has a checkbox at the top for Just Sort of Declined, to save the trouble of writing for the most common case. There is of course always a unique story to learn about, to document, and to revere, for every ecumene; even for the ones with the most banal of reasons for ending.

Allow me to pluck one of them at semi-random to illustrate for you in more detail.

drugs

materialism

asceticism

religion

ai/vr entertainment of course

runaway ai of course — sugjester get a letter from sugjester itself; a whimsical guy