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The OCS:HTN was part of the Worldweb All Thing, the real-time network which governed Hegemony politics, fed information to tens of billions of data-hungry citizens, and had evolved a form of autonomy and consciousness all its own.†
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The New Bushido Code which governed Colonel Kassad's life had evolved out of the necessity for the military class to survive.†
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As the New Bushido evolved it combined the age-old concepts of honor and individual courage with the need to spare civilians whenever possible.†
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Stories in the Worldweb proliferated: the Ousters would never be a threat to Earthlike worlds because of their three centuries of adaptation to weight-lessness; the Ousters had evolved into something more-or less-than human; the Ousters did not have farcaster technology, would never have it, and thus never would be a threat to FORCE.†
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Suffice it to say that I believe the Ousters have done what Web humanity has not in the past millennia: evolved.†
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Definitions:

(1) (evolve as in: the policy evolved)
to develop (gradually come to exist or change)
(2) (evolve as in: evolved through natural selection)
genetic change of a species over a long period of time through evolution
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
In chemistry, evolve can mean to emit gas or heat.