The theory that even in seemingly random chaos, on some level, there was order to be found.


Ordered Chaos. Almost an inconceivable oxymoron as a homosexual Wayist.


But even where mathematical fact allowed for one and not the other there was an underlying notion that perception played quite a bit in what stood for reality and what stood for chaos.


And if those "threads".... if that order could be identified and manipulated according to a specific design, then the resulting tapestry... the resulting perception would be such that even an oxymoron could achieve the status of reality.


It was amusing to think that mathematical theory could be applied to the apparent random attacks on the Empire. The axioms of figuring out the underlying order (in the case of the terrorists) consisting of identifying the purposes behind said 'random acts' as well as determining the almost serial pathological mindset of the crumbs left behind by said acts.


And yet, to carry the mathematics even further in Kaine's mind... to push the envelope of applying those theories to proactive acts instead of merely the reactive appealed greatly.


And so, if one could find order in one set of random acts, could not other displays of order be found in seeming random effects?


Since, of course, both acts and their effects made up that which is seen as random data?


For example:

Doctor Ivenste, the lead scientist that worked on the development of the high instensity beam that allowed Tol Sivron, the designer of the original Death Star, to answer the need of Grand Moff Tarkin. He was interred in the Empire's highest security psychiatric centers.

Doctor Vellis, the scientist, used by the then nationalized corporation of Sienar Systems, that helped engineer the introduction of starship sized gravity well generators and the creation of the Interdiction Cruiser. Also a resident of the same psychaitric ward.

Professor Montre, the Old Republic's and later the Empire's leading


Doctor Sanis, the original designer of the Ion Cannon, a non-lethal alternative to the destructive turbolaser. A resident of the psychiatric ward.

Gelden Marro, a criminal Wayist activist convicted of murdering several medical doctors for abortions (both alien and human) at the early part of the Empire's inseption. He was ruled insane and interred.



These were but a few. There were other residents of suffering the effects of their actions, or perhaps suffering the consequences of their actions. Most, as in the doctor's cases, were ruled by guilt. Their crossing the 'ignorance threshold' as some like to call it where they were confronted with the realities of how their scientific research and discoveries were put into practical application. The fundamentalist also was ruled by guilt but not the same kind.




Humans and aliens alike. Rendered useless by their own minds. Rendered ineffective as their brilliance, their drive, those inborn qualities that they tapped into were engines at idle.


Simon Kaine was not one for letting such potential remain idle for long. And there was much potential as he scanned other bios of the residents of a facility that did not exist located in an area unknown.


The theory was straightforward. Find underlying order in apparent random data. But what if there were series of ordered patterns? Different ways at viewing order?


Kaine's eyes narrowed.


What if one invented the order?

What if one invented the perception that, in turn, allowed others to see an apparent order and act on that premise?


Then such potential could be put to practical use. But it relied on the other's recognizing the pattern. It relied on them accepting the apparent reality of order amid their chaotic thoughts.


To create order even out of insanity.


Not even the Republics or their sucessors were capable of anything more than coddling those considered insane or mentally unstable. Drug them and leave them to their weeping.


Kaine thought back to Moff Khendon's belief in Wayism and how it was destroyed by the Empire's active belief in it's evolution and everything that belief implied.


And yet, in evolution, even religionists have their place.


One of the misconceptions of an evolutionary government was the total and complete separation of church and state. Such a deciding separation, however, only served to split the power of the government by creating a competitor. A competitor that could not, by law, be dealt with if it spit out treasonous ideas or precepts.


A reality of life, no matter the Leadership's evolutionary views to their private policies, was that there would always be religionists. Religionists and views that seemed, on the surface, to contradict evolution.


This was where perception (and INS) came in.


The meek would inherit the earth. But what earth they do inherit would be at the pleasure of the Imperial Government, Kaine grinned.


To keep the balance and the religionists in check, the government would need to keep with the same policy as it did with the aliens. A private policy to be sure. It needed to extend it's monitoring and control procedures even further.


The last battlefield in the war to achieve the New Order.


And yet another responsibility in the growing scope of the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order.


And so he looked at the list of those insane from some sort of guilt and the goal that he wanted to achieve.


What if their guilt were to be.... absolved?


Simon Kaine drummed his fingers and thought about the operations in place and those that were unfolding.


What if the Empire created a state religion?