Well hello there.
How're you doing? You actually come to see me?
Well, pull up a chair there sparky. I don't get too many visitors down here aside from the guy who services my tank. I'm pretty sure they pay him NOT to talk to me.
So what can I do you for?
You're kidding. Right?
A book? My cold dead ass! Who put you up to this?
You're serious. Well...Okay, I got time to lay out my theory. Hell, I got nothing but time. Do me a favor, though. you see that button on my console marked "Nicotine" with the little sign overtop that sez "Do not press."
Press it.
Press it.
Oh yeah....That's the stuff.
O.K. So you want to know about Telluric energy. Some geek from Triton send you down here for some off-the-books R&D? Hey, don't look all shocked. I know what goes on around here. More than people think. I got nothing better to do than hack the encrypted transmissions. You'd be shocked to your toenails at some of the stuff going on around here.
O.K. So you want to know about Telluric energy. Some geek from Triton send you down here for some off-the-books R&D? Hey, don't look all shocked. I know what goes on around here. More than people think. I got nothing better to do than hack the encrypted transmissions. You'd be shocked to your toenails at some of the stuff going on around here.
Never mind. Anyway...You happen to be speaking to the third greatest expert on Telluric energy in the world. It's why they kept me alive like this. If you call this living, which I don't, and I can't believe I let Mercer talk me into this.I don't suggest you try this. Not at all...
Where was I? Oh Yeah. Telluric energy. I get the occasional guy down here spouting off about Quantum this and Quantum that. What subatomic particle do I think is responsible for Zero point energy and so on... These guys. Buncha chowderheads, if you ask me. Telluric Energy is so very basic to the fabric of the universe that I doubt that we'll ever find it and isolate it.
See it's like this. The Universe is a basically hostile environment. every moment of every day you live it's trying to kill you in some way. Death is inevitable because eventually, your cells break down from the constant onslaught. This is true of all life forms everywhere. Life is not welcome here. Troll around the cold reaches of space if you need convincing.
See it's like this. The Universe is a basically hostile environment. every moment of every day you live it's trying to kill you in some way. Death is inevitable because eventually, your cells break down from the constant onslaught. This is true of all life forms everywhere. Life is not welcome here. Troll around the cold reaches of space if you need convincing.
Well, it just so happens I have, kid.
In my opinion, Telluric energy is the basic form of energy that combats this inherent hostility. It enables life forms to grow, flourish, and evolve. Without it, this world would be a sterile ball of wet rock in space.
Yeah, I know there's Telluric energy in space...Wait a damn second, will you? This theory is holistic. I'll get to it.
Life forms need a certain amount of balance in their environment. Too much water or not enough and we die. Too close to the sun or too far away and we die....And so on and so forth. If beings are exposed to too much Telluric energy it warps and destroys them. Imagine your entire body becoming a tumor because of too much exposure.
Telluric energy comes from deep within the earth and from space as well. Those "Cosmic Rays"? Well, most of it is hard radiation which will kill ya. But not all of it. No, sir. We are shielded from 95.3 to 98.2 percent of the ambient Telluric energy by the earth's crust and the upper atmosphere. If it wasn't for this. We'd all be goners or tore-up freaks like Divis Mal.
Life forms need a certain amount of balance in their environment. Too much water or not enough and we die. Too close to the sun or too far away and we die....And so on and so forth. If beings are exposed to too much Telluric energy it warps and destroys them. Imagine your entire body becoming a tumor because of too much exposure.
Telluric energy comes from deep within the earth and from space as well. Those "Cosmic Rays"? Well, most of it is hard radiation which will kill ya. But not all of it. No, sir. We are shielded from 95.3 to 98.2 percent of the ambient Telluric energy by the earth's crust and the upper atmosphere. If it wasn't for this. We'd all be goners or tore-up freaks like Divis Mal.
Yeah. I know all about him. He and I have history. Prick.
Telluric energy has an effect on people. it makes them capable of breaking the universe's rules. All you have to do is look at history. Every culture has its heroes and gods. I'm just speculating but it's probably due to Z-rays. Down through history, you've got sorcerers, and monsters, and psychics and other weirdness. All probably linkable to Z-rays.
I honestly think that the Chinese were way ahead of us on this. They came up with Alchemy, and geomancy, and feng shui, and Chi manipulation. Chinese folklore has more than it's share of heroes and villains, and gods, and Martial arts masters and what not. They finally figured out what the ley lines were doing. There used to be this guy called the Mandarin...Who...Well, He knew a lot about this stuff. I never met him but I heard tales that he was over 400 years old. After what I've seen. I don't doubt it....And Hong Kong is a rat's nest of Ley Lines.
I honestly think that the Chinese were way ahead of us on this. They came up with Alchemy, and geomancy, and feng shui, and Chi manipulation. Chinese folklore has more than it's share of heroes and villains, and gods, and Martial arts masters and what not. They finally figured out what the ley lines were doing. There used to be this guy called the Mandarin...Who...Well, He knew a lot about this stuff. I never met him but I heard tales that he was over 400 years old. After what I've seen. I don't doubt it....And Hong Kong is a rat's nest of Ley Lines.
Am I making you uncomfortable with this parapsychology talk? Ley lines are the keys to Telluric energy, as are waterways. Telluric energy runs in these places like water in a shallow creek until it cycles through. You know, in MY day, Scientists weren't so fricking scared of things they didn't exactly understand. Just because it doesn't LOOK like science, doesn't necessarily mean that Science isn't going on.
See that's what people don't seem to get is that telluric energy runs in cycles from low to high. Cultures in places where Z-rays are high tend to be wild and lawless. Cultures in places where Z-rays are low tend to be lackluster, unimaginative and fairly fatalistic. Like say, Cleveland.
At times, The lines shift or change in frequency, The line may be there but it might pump out huge amounts of Z-rays or barely enough to preserve life. Most of the time this is directly attributable to tectonic shift or to man-made problems like dams, bad feng shui, or underground nuclear testing. Which is why we had to stop that stuff. The Society had to lean hard with all it's scientific and political might on that one.
Let me give you a case in point: You're a fairly young guy...Did you ever hear of a place called the Bermuda triangle? No? There used to be a place where ships and aircraft would go missing and people didn't know why. Turns out there was this island where the telluric energy ran so high that lizards and tree frogs morphed into dinosaurs. People who went there rarely came back. if they did. they almost always had wild stories to tell...and they almost always came back changed.
In this modern age, of course, there ain't much room for such mysteries. The Society came in when it was discovered that the big lizards were dying off. I'm betting some of them are crated up back in the back. Oh yeah, When I say life forms. I don't just mean Humans. I got to be pretty good friends with a sentient gorilla and I knew a guy who had a dog who was smarter than he was. Z-rays don't discriminate by numbers of chromosome pairs. Makes me wonder about societies at the bottom of the seas that we don't know about yet...
So anyway, In 1923 there was this guy named Hammersmith who was only about half bright. he got this neat idea that there was energy at the center of the earth so he said, "Hey let's tap it and find out what we can use it for." He was just damn lucky we all weren't instantly killed. Imagine jobbing a water hose into the stream of a fire hose and you've got a pretty good idea of what it was like. He created a catastrophic event in the Telluric Ecosphere. which I'll call the Tellurosphere for short. This basically caused all sorts of ruckus.
It affected people worldwide. Evolution went a little crazy for a while there. When it happened, we managed to figure out that there were 3 basic types of evolutionary leaps. Inspired people, who were a sort of evolutionary middle step, Novas, and Psions, There doesn't appear to be any overlap between the evolutionary paths but here's the thing: That may not be all of them. Theoretically, there could be more paths and we just don't know about them yet.
Press my button again will ya?
Jeez... it just ain't the same as a lucky strike is it? L.S.M.F.T. Know what I mean?
People who are triggered like this change in certain fundamental ways. Their brain architecture changes slightly, and they develop more mitochondria to better help them to extract the ambient telluric energy in the air. Yeah. That's what that's all about. Didn't you know that?
As it was, we discovered like most ecological systems, if we just left it alone it would fix itself. Which it did. Hammersmith's incident affected at least 2 generations of people before the Z-rays went back down to much more normal levels.
And everything was fine. The Society decided that maybe this was an accident that didn't need to be repeated. They combed as much of the lint of Inspired behavior as they could out of the fabric of the world. and allowed ordinary people to roll over and go back to sleep if they wanted. The Society went so far as expunge a large number of records relating to those wild times. But at least one person didn't forget.
You guys probably know by now that it was Divis Mal who caused Galatea to go boom. I'd been saying it for years but nobody listened to me. A Telluric event caused from space? and no Inspired people or Psion arising from it? Only Novas?
Yeah. Right. This was an engineered accident deliberately weighted to create Novas and not the other types. oh and he succeeded alright but he underestimated the amount of telluric energy he would be releasing. Not to mention all of the hard radiation as well. And that my little friend is why there is Taint. I'm not even sure that nutjob didn't know the risks and went ahead anyway. I'm convinced that the only reason he waited as long as he did is because he needed the hole in the ozone layer.
Now they're gone off into space where they can just bathe in Z-rays and hard radiation. But kid. Just remember. it's like Nietzsche said, "Whatever doesn't kill you. makes you stronger." Whenever I see that vid of Divis Mal saying "We'll be back." I shudder. Even though I'm just a brain floating in a tank.
As it was, we discovered like most ecological systems, if we just left it alone it would fix itself. Which it did. Hammersmith's incident affected at least 2 generations of people before the Z-rays went back down to much more normal levels.
And everything was fine. The Society decided that maybe this was an accident that didn't need to be repeated. They combed as much of the lint of Inspired behavior as they could out of the fabric of the world. and allowed ordinary people to roll over and go back to sleep if they wanted. The Society went so far as expunge a large number of records relating to those wild times. But at least one person didn't forget.
You guys probably know by now that it was Divis Mal who caused Galatea to go boom. I'd been saying it for years but nobody listened to me. A Telluric event caused from space? and no Inspired people or Psion arising from it? Only Novas?
Yeah. Right. This was an engineered accident deliberately weighted to create Novas and not the other types. oh and he succeeded alright but he underestimated the amount of telluric energy he would be releasing. Not to mention all of the hard radiation as well. And that my little friend is why there is Taint. I'm not even sure that nutjob didn't know the risks and went ahead anyway. I'm convinced that the only reason he waited as long as he did is because he needed the hole in the ozone layer.
Now they're gone off into space where they can just bathe in Z-rays and hard radiation. But kid. Just remember. it's like Nietzsche said, "Whatever doesn't kill you. makes you stronger." Whenever I see that vid of Divis Mal saying "We'll be back." I shudder. Even though I'm just a brain floating in a tank.
I shudder inside.
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