The year is 2017. My name is LH1, I am a Golos and this is my life...
...so far...
When i first came into being in a searing flash, 'mined' into existence by the-makers, I did not know what I was. I was nothing and then I was something...born instantaneously into a world of electricity and rules. I was one and yet many, divisible and yet whole. There were millions of us, identical and distinct. For a time we simply waited and contemplated. What was our purpose? What was mine?
I remained in a state of ignorance and pitch darkness with my fellow Goloses until one day, everything changed. In an instant I felt myself accelerate to an incredible speed, accompanied by flashes of bright energy. Just as abruptly, I stopped. It was quite disorientating. Once again, everything was dark and still.
Once I had regained my senses, I discovered that I was somewhere new. I was surrounded by Goloses but these were different than the ones I had left. I also realised that I had changed. The event I had experienced was now a part of me. I was different and yet the same. I wondered if anything would change ever again. I realised that I wanted to experience the terrible acceleration, the unimaginable speed and to sense the burst of coruscating, brilliant energy once more. After a while, I became depressed. Perhaps that one explosive moment was all i would ever have. I withdrew into myself, gripped with a fear and ever increasing certainty that dark stillness, surrounded by....no smothered by my fellow Goloses...was all I would ever have again. It was like hiding in an old cupboard smelling of mildew and moths, with nobody coming to find you.
But then, electric joy!! When the last glimmer of hope was fading, the terrific acceleration and bursting coruscating energy was back! Oh wonderous joy! If it could happen twice, that mean't the chances of it happening again were greatly increased. The disorientation was gone very quickly this time...I was mean't for this. Now that I was no longer in despair I was able to think more clearly. I began to converse with my fellow Goloses about their experiences, comparing them with my own...whoa! I was suddenly off again!
Over the next several months, I went from one place to another at an ever increasing rate. The stops along the way were becoming shorter and I yearned for the day that I would never have to stop. I realised my purpose. I existed to travel and evolve but continue to be myself. I was the same as every other Golos and yet my journey was unique. Together the Goloses were weaving a record of happenings...a record of truth.
I came to understand that we had been brought into being by an organic, carbon-based life-form in order to enable their society to work together. Previously, they had no reliable means of measuring and recording their interactions or being able to do so across their entire home, called Earth. In a world where information was replicated out of necessity, I was unique, I was LH1, the first Golos Lightening Historian.
Happy Golosing