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Okay... so the red birds... these are people who work for the Kings... probably indirectly, they work for people who work for the kings... the Red Birds are given titles like President of corporations... a building in a city like small versions of New World Center... or NWC itself, they are given 1 or 2 or 3 of them... and all they have to do is join the MSD, the Mass Self Discipline... What their job is is to "protect their interests" "protect their investments" - which basically entails making sure the physical structures and the bodies within them are kept safe and untampered with by rebels or natural disasters, organizing them, or, rather, selecting people within them to organize them - those who have totally forgotten about the world outside the building and yet are lucid and conscious - they then communicate with them and teach them how to convice these invididuals that they are, basically, becoming gods... how to shepherd their drones and keep them safe from "demons" when in reality these demons are people like Charles who come in to gradually educate the drones who have the most potential to be freed from the machine. It is a dangerous job from humans as they can fall into the trace even if they are physcially outside of the building. The cross-breeds, like Charles, do not risk the trance as they are mentally immune to it...

After the Venusians were educated, most of them opted to use the Free Web only for minimal communication with humans and for research, and data. Charles and a few others like him use it much more often. Where many humans are just as jacked into it as the drones are jacked into the Machine, the experience of living in the Free Web is uite different from that of the Machine... most of the duties attended to by the drones are done in that 90% of the brain that is not conscious, while the conscious mind is given the most pleasurable, interesting, exiting, colorful array of sensations - always changing - that the trance is inevitable. Regular orgasm is a part of this drone's paradise, as well as many other sensations which are just as pleasurable or more-so. Thus, it is paradise to them and they usually won't ever want anything else, particularly since their physical bodies deteriorate to the point of barley being able to move.

There are no prisons or hospitals. There are drones plugged into the their servers, conducted by manager-gods who serve Red Birds who are appointed by servants of Kings, who are usually cousins of Kings (Emporer Saint George Washington Bush of Angelsey (ESGWBA) for example).

Now Charles not only interacts with the humans more than most other Venusians, he also is the most active in the human resistance to the Machines. In the Free Web, in places like Underground America, the Venusians interact with the Free Humans who opt to have nothing to do with the Machine, for the most part, and they consiter those who fight the machine to be a part of the machine... i.e. the Machine is the essence of the evil nature of the Kings and include the phenomenon of Free Men enraged and trying to destroy them. Charles takes a bit of a different approach, and while he is primarily focused on his Art, that is, his creation and betterment of Worlds - he is also one of those few Venusians who don the black egg and visit the drones often, seeking out the most "unstable" of them, the ones with a seed of real consciousness within them, and he whispers to them.

Once in conversation with a human he grins and explians to him that it is only the humans that seem to require the Free Web for this level of communication with beings not within physical proximity, and he explains that he had created all of his worlds long before he programmed them into the Free Web - just the same, he whispers into the ears of the semi sentient long before he actually visits them in his egg. Thus, when they finally hear his voice as a booming shock, they hear words that have been circulating in their minds for years already, implanted by Charles himself.