Never read Trimegistus, so I don’t know properly to judge. But your story is nice and shiny, and very robotically existential, I like that ScienceMaster Gore is reading alchemical books, especially with the whole life from nothing Prometheus angle.
Didn’t really follow the logic, but I totally dug the scene and the feel of the interaction. The whole scene feels portentious…which I’m likely both misspelling and misuing. Nonetheless, I shall leave it.
I, similarly, got confused as soon as I saw letters and numbers in the same word :P But I love the drama. Even without understanding the exact details of the interaction and of what Gore is saying, the gravitas is obvious and it’s clear that this is something new and monumental and utterly gorgeous.