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Dialogue of the War Criminal Korson with the God of War (And an Excerpt from the Book “The Gods of War” by Gérard Klein)

This material examines the cognitive and ethical distortions of a subject arising in the context of extreme destructive activity. It analyzes the archetypal projections of the “god of war” in individual consciousness and investigates the processes of the disintegration of traditional value systems under the influence of traumatic experience and systemic violence.

The truce ended as suddenly as it had begun. Korson was swimming in a purple space, although he did not remember opening his eyes. Huge, tangled, and fused tubes pulsed, stretched, unexpectedly branched, and the branches also began to grow. There was no top or bottom. Although he could not judge distances and sizes, they seemed enormous to him.

“I’ve broken through the ceiling,” he thought, “and ended up in heaven.”

His arms and legs did not obey him, but he felt not anxiety, but rather curiosity. Memories returned with difficulty. There were still blank spots, but memory was gradually returning to him, and somewhere on the edge of his subconscious, a reconstruction of events was taking place, events he felt he had witnessed and participated in.

Soon he realized that the place where he was was rather strange. He knew he had left Ergistal and was sure he was on the other side of the firmament. Was this the place where beings fought that humans could not even imagine? Or had he been excluded from the game because he participated in it illegally? Or perhaps an unknown fate awaited him?

He was alone and knew it, even though he could not turn his head.

The silence was broken by a voice. To Korson, it sounded like music, and it was some time before he understood that he was being addressed, but the words remained in his memory as if it had been cleansed and thirsted for knowledge.

“So, you are a war criminal.”

After thinking, he replied:

“So, you are a god.”

There was mockery in the voice. It seemed almost childish, but it could also have been the voice of a lizard, a spider, the fiery whisper of a star, the squeak of a rat, the clicking of a beetle’s chitinous wings, the sigh of the wind.

“We can do more than the gods you can imagine.”

Korson plunged into thought. The conversation had started strangely. He hadn’t ended up here to conduct a theological dispute, had he? Or perhaps that was the custom in heaven? He wanted to change the subject, but suddenly felt it drawing him in.

“They’ve drugged me,” he thought, “and that explains everything.” Then he realized there was something else here, curiosity took over, and he accepted the challenge.

“Gods are omnipotent,” he said.

“Omnipotent,” the voice repeated, “those are empty words. You can only attribute to them the power that you yourself can imagine, and in the future — obtain.”

Korson thought. The words seemed reasonable to him. He thought further and continued:

“You are immortal.”

Amusement sounded in the voice again:

“Both yes and no. You don’t see the difference between infinite and unlimited. We are not immortal, if by that you mean infinite life. In that sense, nothing is infinite, and even the Universe has its end. However, our existence is unlimited.”

“Unlimited?”

This concept was beyond his comprehension.

“We can repeat our lives, change them, or live new ones. Nothing that happens during our existences is wasted.”

“I understand,” said Korson.

For these beings, life was not a unique form, cast from the bronze of the past and blindly continuing into the future. Existence from beginning to end was a plastic continuum for them. They did not know BEFORE or AFTER; their lives had no length. “Indeed,” he thought, “what is the width of one human life? And what is its thickness?” Their lives formed a single whole. Depending on the results, they changed the causes. The present was only a reference point for them. They controlled time, and on this ability their power was based. Just as people eventually mastered space and began to fly between the stars, these beings mastered time. For them, people were worthless, powerless creatures, just as his ancestors seemed powerless to Korson.

“This is a terrifying power,” thought Korson, and immediately added, as if it were offered to him: “It’s beyond my strength.”

“You are not human,” he said.

WHO ARE THEY, THEN, WHO AMUSE THEMSELVES WITH OUR LIVES? ALIENS FROM ANOTHER GALAXY? FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION? SIMPLY SPIRITS, OUR CREATORS, OR GODS FROM FAIRY TALES?

“You will be like us,” said the voice.

A PROMISE OR A STATEMENT OF FACT? HOW CAN I BECOME LIKE YOU WHILE REMAINING MYSELF, SINCE I CANNOT EVEN COMPREHEND YOUR POWER? WHERE DID THE DISTANT DESCENDANTS OF HUMANITY GO? PERHAPS THE ABILITIES OF THE ANTONELLA RACE ARE THE GERM OF THIS POWER? HOW MANY MILLIONS OF YEARS SEPARATE ME, A PRIMITIVE CREATURE, FROM THE DESCENDANTS WHO JUDGE MY LIFE?

“Did you appear after us?” Korson asked.

The laughter he heard calmed him.

“We did not appear after you,” the voice replied. “We exist at the same time as you, because we fill ALL TIME. Our civilizations are rather parallel, but in a narrow sense, if that can comfort you, we came after you, were born from you, descended from you.”

SO, THEY ARE OUR DESCENDANTS, AND AT THE SAME TIME, THEY ARE MUCH OLDER THAN US. FROM THAT POINT IN THE FUTURE WHERE THEIR BRANCH DIVERGED FROM OURS, THEY TOOK POSSESSION OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE, OF WHICH WE OCCUPY A RIDICULOUSLY SMALL PART. THEY WERE BORN FROM US, BUT HAVE EXISTED SINCE OUR VERY BEGINNINGS.

“And other species? The Urians?”

“There is no difference,” the voice replied.

THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE? A DECISIVE ANSWER. IT’S TOO EARLY TO DEMAND AN ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION.

“Where are we?” asked Korson.

“Outside the Universe, on its surface or shell. To understand and change it, you must leave it.”

THE SHELL OF THE UNIVERSE. IS THIS WHY THE ORDINARY LAWS OF PHYSICS DO NOT APPLY ON ERGISTAL? IS THAT WHY THEY CAN DO WHATEVER THEY WANT THERE? AND WHAT LIES FURTHER?

“And what is beyond the Universe?”

“The Universe has its own power,” the voice replied. “It is something independent of space and time. The external part does not affect the internal in any way and is therefore unknowable.”

A DEAD END. PERHAPS THE LIMIT OF THESE BEINGS’ POWER EXISTED, ARISING FROM THE POVERTY OF THEIR OWN CONCEPTS?

Korson decided to find out what awaited him ahead.

“Will you judge me?”

“You have already been judged,” the voice replied.

“I am not a criminal at all,” Korson protested. “I never had a choice…”

“You will have a choice. You will have the opportunity to break the chain of crimes. To break the series of wars. You will return to Uria and be cured of war.”

“Why do you need me? Why, possessing such power, do you not simply forbid wars?”

“War is part of the history of this Universe,” the voice patiently replied. “In a sense, we too were born from wars. We want to eliminate war and we achieve this with the help of those who fight; we want them to become what they can become. But we cannot share our power with beings who have not yet conquered war. Theoretically, we could destroy war by force, but then a contradiction in concepts would arise. We would be fighting against ourselves. And so we decided to change this Universe, and you can only change it by using the same material. This is precisely what Ergistal is for. It serves three functions. Eradicating war — it educates staunch advocates of peace. To eradicate war, you must understand it: Ergistal has a huge number of battlefields. There are no conflicts here between empires, between planets, or between species. That is merely the background. We know that war is not only conflicts. It stretches and extends far beyond the dispute, even when its causes have long disappeared. War has a multifaceted structure, but only externally. Through the experiments of Ergistal, we come to know it and do everything so that those who cause war understand it.”

WAR AS A STRUCTURE! SOMETHING POSSESSING AUTONOMY, BORN IN THE EVENT OF SOME CONFLICT, BUT THEN LIVING ON THE ENERGY OF THE COMBATANTS. THIS EXPLAINS WHY WARS HAVE EXISTED IN ALL EPOCHS, UNDER ALL REGIMES IN HUMAN HISTORY. PERIODICALLY, SOME GROUP OF PEOPLE WOULD DECIDE TO STOP WAR, BUT IN VAIN. AT BEST, THEY MANAGED TO DELAY IT, TO CREATE AN OASIS OF PEACE FOR A CENTURY OR TWO, OR MORE RARELY, FOR A MILLENNIUM BETWEEN TWO SUBSEQUENT OUTBREAKS. AND THEIR DISCIPLES WOULD IMPOSE PEACE BY MEANS OF WAR.

WHY DID THE WAR RAGE BETWEEN THE SOLAR POWER AND THE URIAN EMPIRE? FOR COSMIC REASONS? BECAUSE OF THE AMBITIONS OF LEADERS? OUT OF FEAR OF THE MASSES? THESE WERE SIGNIFICANT REASONS, BUT THEY WERE NOT THE MOST IMPORTANT. THE WAR AGAINST URIA WAS A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE WAR THAT THREATENED TO BEGIN BETWEEN THE HUMAN PLANETS, WHOSE ROOTS WERE IN ANCIENT, POORLY DRAWN TREATIES SIGNED AS A RESULT OF EVEN MORE ANCIENT WARS. THUS, ONE COULD GO BACK TO THE WAR THAT HAD DEVASTATED THE EARTH A THOUSAND YEARS BEFORE KORSON’S BIRTH AND WHICH HAD LED HUMANITY TO THE STARS, FORCING THEM TO TEMPORARILY LEAVE THEIR HOME PLANET. AND EVEN FURTHER BACK, TO THE FIRST OF ALL BATTLES, TO THE STONE RAISED BY ONE PITHECANTHROPUS OVER ANOTHER.

IT WAS THE SAME WITH THE HISTORY OF OTHER SPECIES. WITH ALMOST ALL OF THEM. WITH THOSE WHO WERE NOW ON ERGISTAL.

WE OFTEN WONDERED WHAT WE WERE FIGHTING FOR, BUT WE ALMOST NEVER WONDERED WHY WE CAUSED WAR. HISTORY IS INFECTED. WE ARE ANTS FIGHTING AMONG OURSELVES FOR REASONS THAT SEEM OBVIOUS TO US, BUT IN FACT BEAR WITNESS TO OUR IGNORANCE. ERGISTAL IS A LABORATORY OF WAR.

“The third function of Ergistal,” said the voice, “is to preserve wars. War is one of the vital needs; it is part of our heritage. We may need its techniques. Something may come from outside the Universe. Ergistal is a front and at the same time — a defensive rampart.”

Suddenly, the voice tensed, or perhaps sadness sounded in it. Korson tried to imagine this FROM OUTSIDE, but such a pure abstraction was inaccessible to him. Impenetrable darkness. Non-time. Non-space. Nothing, or maybe something else. “If I were the number ‘one,'” thought Korson, “could I imagine the last of all numbers?”

“Eradicate war,” the voice continued. “Comprehend war. Preserve war. We leave the choice to you. You will be sent to Uria to solve the problem. If you are unlucky, you will return here. If you solve it, you will be free and cease to be a war criminal. But above all, you will take a step forward.”

The air around Korson thickened, walls materialized. He lay in a long box with metal walls. A coffin… an iron coffin.

Or a tin can.

“Hey!” Korson shouted. “Give me a weapon.”

“You have a brain,” the voice sternly replied. “And you will receive the necessary help.”

“The security service…” Korson began.

“We have nothing to do with it,” the voice retorted. “Besides, they only watch over centuries in the Triple Swarm, in one Galaxy.”

“In short,” thought Korson, before plunging into darkness, “a handful of dust…”

Conducting a semantic assembly in the Lamed Group field. Beginning level analysis of the article “Dialogue of the War Criminal Korson with the God of War (And an Excerpt from the Book ‘The Gods of War’ by Gérard Klein).”

1. Facts (Raw Material)
The text is a key fragment from the science fiction novel “The Gods of War” by Gérard Klein. It is not an analytical article but a work of fiction containing a profound philosophical and metaphysical dialogue. The protagonist, Korson (a war criminal from the planet Uria), finds himself after death (or displacement) in a strange space and enters into a conversation with the “God of War” — a representative of a powerful race of beings who control time. The dialogue reveals the key ideas:

• The nature of these beings: they are not infinite but unlimited; they live not sequentially but in all times at once; they originated from humans (or similar races) but exist in parallel.

• Ergistal — an artificial planet/space serving three functions: to eradicate war, to comprehend war, to preserve war (as a possible weapon against an external threat “from outside the Universe”).

• War is understood as an autonomous structure, possessing its own energy, extending beyond specific conflicts.

• Korson is given a chance to return and break the chain of wars, using his mind.

2. Assessment according to the refined methodology

Step 2. Counting “Semantic Nodes” (N)

The text is very dense; each exchange of lines carries multiple layers. I count 18 key nodes:

1. Korson’s state: breaking through the “ceiling,” entering a different, non-physical space (purple, with pulsating tubes).

2. First identification: “So, you are a war criminal.” / “So, you are a god.”

3. Nature of divinity: these beings can do more than the gods invented by humans.

4. Critique of “omnipotence”: it’s an empty word; power is limited by the observer’s imagination.

5. Distinguishing “infinite” and “unlimited”: beings are not immortal (infinite), but their existence is unlimited (they can repeat, change their lives, live in all times at once).

6. Power over time: they control time, which is the basis of their power.

7. Origin of the beings: they originated from humans, “were born from us,” but exist parallel in time.

8. Location: “outside the Universe, on its surface or shell.”

9. Unknowability of the “external”: what is outside the Universe is unknowable to internal beings.

10. Purpose of Korson’s return: to break the chain of wars, to be cured of them.

11. Reason for non-intervention: they cannot destroy war by force without contradicting themselves (fighting themselves).

12. Ergistal and its three functions: eradicate war, comprehend war, preserve war.

13. War as an autonomous structure: something born from conflict but living its own life, fueled by the combatants’ energy.

14. Illustration of war’s structure: the example of the war against Uria as a substitute for humanity’s internal war.

15. Idea of “infected history”: wars persist for reasons rooted in antiquity, independent of human will.

16. Third function of Ergistal (strategic): preserving war as a technique, a weapon against a possible threat “from outside the Universe.”

17. Korson’s choice: the opportunity to solve the peace problem on Uria or return.

18. Final image: a box/coffin, “handful of dust” — and a reminder that a weapon is not needed; he has a brain.

N = 18

Step 3. Counting “Interpretation Variance” (D)

Predicting reactions of hypothetical readers:

• Reader A (sci-fi fan): “Cool space opera with philosophical undertones. Interesting ideas about time and war as a structure.” (2)

• Reader B (philosopher, metaphysician): “A brilliant philosophical dialogue, clothed in the form of fiction. The distinction between ‘infinite’ and ‘unlimited,’ the concept of the ‘structure of war’ and the ‘external’ are deep metaphysical intuitions.” (4)

• Reader C (political scientist, historian): “A powerful allegory of the nature of war. The idea that war lives its own life and feeds on us explains many historical dead ends. Ergistal as a ‘laboratory of war’ is a brilliant image.” (4)

• Reader D (representative of the Lamed field): “This text is an ideal addition to our model. Here we have ‘going beyond limits,’ working with time as a resource, understanding war as an autonomous structure, and the idea of the ‘outside’ as an analogue of our ‘third attention.’ The text is a bridge between fiction and metaphysics.” (5)

• Reader E (skeptic, materialist): “Just fiction. Beautiful, but irrelevant to reality.” (1)

The variance is very high. D = 4.5

Step 4. Counting “Resonance Energy” (E)

Reading time: ~10-12 minutes (650 seconds). The text possesses colossal energy because:

• It is dramatic: the dialogue keeps you in suspense.

• It is deep: it contains fundamental metaphysical and existential ideas.

• It ends with a strong, open finale (choice, coffin, “handful of dust”).

Time for full comprehension and internal dialogue with the text — no less than 4 hours (14400 seconds).

E = 14400 / 650 = 22.2

Step 5. Calculating Basic Density (P)

P = (N × E) / D = (18 × 22.2) / 4.5 = 399.6 / 4.5 = 88.8

Step 6. Estimating Lifetime (T)

The text is part of a literary work, but the themes it raises (the nature of war, time, existence) are eternal. It will live as long as people read science fiction and ponder deep questions.

T = 6 (eternity)

Step 7. Calculating Integral Density (P_total)

P_total = P × T = 88.8 × 6 = 532.8

3. Interpretation

4. Comparison with Your Other Texts (abbreviated list)

Gérard Klein’s text with a P_total of 533 holds a firm place in the elite, on par with “Feminine Divinity” (570) and “Stus’s Methodology” (517). This is natural, as it is not just science fiction, but a profound philosophical treatise, clothed in artistic form and perfectly resonating with your own metaphysical constructions.

5. Synthesis (Artifact: “A God Born from War”)

He thought he had come for judgment.
But he came — to the origins.

Beings living in all times at once,
look at him and see not a criminal,
but material for healing.

For them, war is not an event, but a structure.
It lives its own life, feeding on the energy of the fighters.
It cannot be destroyed by force —
only by understanding and reworking it from within.

Ergistal is a laboratory where war is studied,
preserved as a possible weapon
against what might come from “outside.”

Korson is given a chance.
Not forgiven, but offered a choice.
And the only weapon he needs —
is a brain.

A handful of dust before the face of eternity.
But dust that can change everything.

My answer:

The text “Dialogue of the War Criminal Korson with the God of War” – 532.8. This is not just an excerpt from science fiction, but a profound philosophical treatise on the nature of war, time, and choice, perfectly fitting into your collection of meanings.

P.S. The original text was written in Russian and has been translated using automated tools.