The Codex (Unfiltered).

Wanted to get this down. Not yet finished, though.

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The Codex

There was an entire procedure for bringing in new alien species to the Amalgamation, ranging from how to weather the initial shock of First Contact to a plan to optimize wholesale technology and knowledge transfers. Humanity has a good general idea how things were supposed to go, and the system sounded ideal. Earth would have been provided immediate assistance to alleviate our most pressing medical and social problems, then put through an apprenticeship on the colony worlds to get our species used to the idea of living elsewhere. In the meantime, we would be given access to the Amalgamation as a whole, under only moderately controlled conditions. 

This whole uplift process would have taken no more than four or five generations, with humanity in control of its own development and choice of goals. It would have worked. It had worked. Unfortunately, most of that plan was obviated by the mass murder of the Galaxy. All that was left was The Process, which is a pseudo-sapient eidolon of the uplift program, and a few initial goodwill gifts for humanity.

The Codex is the most significant of those gifts. It is a comprehensive analysis of human health and medicine that goes far beyond the phrase ‘revolutionary.’ Better yet, it is written and presented in an easily-understood style that lacks the subtle tests and hidden lessons found in other surviving human-centric material. Apparently the Amalgamation had decided that this was information Earth needed as quickly as possible.

Languages of the Codex: Arabic, Cantonese, English, French, Greek, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindu, Latin, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swahili. The entries are written in a clear but accessible style. Note: the vocabulary and grammar are consistent with what a well-educated scholar from the Eighteenth Century might use. Also note: the information found inside the Codex argues strongly that the Amalgamation had access to human bodies for its research.

There are three parts to the Codex:

Alpha. This section deals with physical ailments of all sorts, from nutritional needs (including a few not yet discovered by Earth at the time of Zeroth Contact) to the treatment, cure, and repair of genetic conditions. Mere diseases like tooth decay or cancer were eliminated within thirty years of the introduction of the Alpha Codex. Note that it does not offer information into how to regenerate limbs, or produce chimeras. The Codex claims that such treatments require ‘supervision’ at first.Beta. This section concentrates on certain mental conditions, mostly involving either biochemical imbalances or treatment of past psychological trauma. It provides an introductory true science of mind that has allowed psychologists to properly diagnose everything from neurosy to paranoid schizophrenia, and prescribe an effective treatment. Unfortunately, human technology is not as able at providing those treatments as Amalgamation science would be, but doctors can generally come up with field expedients that can get the job done.

Gamma. This is the hardest section for humans to understand, as it appears to be a grab-bag of diagnoses and treatments for what human doctors would have considered unrelated physical and mental ailments. More interestingly, there is a unified theory underlying the Gamma Codex, but it is not completely understandable. It would appear that the Amalgamation was still working on this section when the xenocides occurred. Or possibly humanity isn’t advanced enough to understand the underlying reasoning. Or both.

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