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manufactured entirely within the supercomputing entity VISAR, which supported
the Thuriens' interstellar civilization. (See Giants' Star.)

The Jevelense leaders believed the deception and capitulated, after which the
world of Jevlen was placed under Ganymean and Terran administration while a
reformed system of government was being worked out. Because of the autonomy
and privacy to run their own affairs that the Jevlenese had always insisted
on, this was the first opportunity for outsiders to look closely into what had
been going on there. What they found was even stranger than anything that had
gone before.

Obsession for conquest and fixation on the irrational ideas that had been
imported to Earth was not a general trait common to all Jevelenese. They
stemmed from a small, disaffected but influential group within the race that
had appeared suddenly. Something about their deeper psychology seemed to set
them apart from the majority of Jevlenese. They were the source of the beliefs
in magic and supernatural powers that defied all experience and had never
arisen among the Ganymeans or Lunarians, yet sprang from inner convictions
that were unshakable. It was as if their instincts about the nature of the
world and the forces operating in it had been shaped by a different reality.

And it turned out that this was indeed exactly the case. For the "Ents"тАФfrom
"Entoverse," or "Universe Within," as the unique realm where they originated
came to be namedтАФwere not products of the familiar world of space, time,
matter, and physics at all. In setting up their own planetary administration,
the Jevlenese had created an independent computing complex, JEVEX, to serve a
comparable purpose to that of the Thuriens' VISAR. In a peculiar concurrence
of circumstances, information quanta took on a role analogous to that of
material particles, interacting and combining to form structures in the
dataspace continuum that corresponded to molecules and more complex
configurations in physical space. A complete phenomenological "universe"
resulted, eventually producing self-organizing entities that were sufficiently
complex to become aware of their own existence and perceive themselves as
inhabitants of a world. But the "forces" that guided the unfolding of events
in that world derived not from the physics of the universe outside, but from
the underlying internal rules imposed by the system programmers.

Following Thurien practice, the primary method for interfacing with JEVEX was
by direct neural coupling to the mental processes of the user. Some of the
Ents discovered that they could interact with the data streams flowing through
their world, and from them they extracted perceptions of a "higher space"
beyond the one that they existed in, where superior beings lived and
impossible things happened. Adepts among the Ents learned to project their
psyches into these "currents" and transfer themselves into this world
"beyond," where they became occupiers of hosts who had literally been
possessed. So the aberrant element among the Jevlenese were not deviants who
had acquired their aggressions, insecurities, and strange notions of causality
in the same world of experience that had molded the minds of Ganymeans,
Lunarians, and Terrans; they were victims of a form of alien invasion more
weird than science fiction had ever conceived. (See Entoverse.)