Several years ago, I received some reports from Anney Fersoni about the Interventionist agents who have recently worked on Earth to prepare humans for First Contact with aliens. And when I say "recently", I mean in the Buld Reality, just before the end of time travel, when Space Energy Missions was preparing Earth for the arrival of the Buld.
Dark Nora
Most recently, Yōd has been sharing information with me that comes from her replicoid in the Hierion Domain. According to Yōd, Betty is a tryp'At who thinks of herself as Nora.
I was previously informed that Betty was an artificial lifeform. At that time, I assumed that Betty was a femtobot. Now I must reconcile the ability of Betty to morph her physical structure with the fact that she was tryp'At. Zeta has been trying to convince me that there is no reason to view a tryp'At composed of hierions as a contradiction. As Zeta put it, "Biological cells composed of atoms or biological cells composed of femtobots... what difference does it make?"
Seeing tryp'At
If the tryp'At are artificial life forms that we Earthlings can never distinguish from true, biological (composed of mainly hadrons; non-hierion structure except for Phari endosymbionts) humans then we must wonder: which residents of Earth have been (or still are) tryp'At?
While discussing the issue of "hidden tryp'At" with Zeta and Yōd, the unusual case of Carl Sagan popped into my head. Apparently Sagan was constructed and inserted into the timeline of Earth.
Originally, Gohrlay tried to work within the confines of the temporal inertia system that had been put into place "on" Earth by the positronic robots of Eternity. When the Huaoshy "caught up" with Gohrlay and developed their own time travel technology, the Time Travel War began. Because of their overall superiority in sedron-based technologies and zeptites, the Huaoshy were able to force Gohrlay into a compromise: the Trysta-Grean Pact. I've never seen a written description of the Pact, so there is a large amount of guess work and speculation concerning the terms of the Pact.
Yōd's Report from the Hierion Domain
Under the terms of the Trysta-Grean Pact, the Huaoshy required that human behavior be constrained by a Bimanoid Interface. Gohrlay accepted that, as long as humans were free to spread between the stars and explore the galaxy. This fundamental conflict between the Huaohy demand that humans be under restraint and Gohrlay's wish that humans not be forced into the Sedronic Domain was a major challenge for Grean. According to Yōd, it was Grean who discovered the "tryp'At solution".
The tryp'At Solution
The tryp'At have a dual nature. The tryp'At cannot be distinguished from normal humans using tools available to we Earthlings. However, the tryp'At have a fully functional Bimanoid Interface. Yōd believes that the behavior of every tryp'At individual can ultimately be controlled by the Huaoshy. A small group of tryp'At have been "installed" as Earth Overseers.
Apparently Betty played a key role in establishing tryp'At control over Observer Base. When the Buld spaceship arrived at Earth, Betty was "sacrificed" to the old Overseers and taken to Observer Base. When the old Overseers "stepped down", Betty was there, positioned to take control of Observer Base and install the tryp'At as the new Earth Overseers.
Strangely, it was discovered that a stable Final Reality could only exist if the people of Earth were informed of the fact that the tryp'At Overseers were at work, monitoring the technological development of Earth. Within the confines of the Rules of Intervention, there was only one way to inform the people of Earth about their situation: the story of the Secret History of Humanity would have to be told as a fictional account. Apparently, doing so will allow humans to "function" successfully as space-faring hadronic creatures under the terms of the Pact.
Gohrlay's Twist
According to the information that Yōd has received from Eternity, Gohrlay was very concerned that the tryp'At would become "the new Prelands" and eventually replace the humans of Earth. Thus, the tryp'At had to be designed with a special limitation: while they are indistinguishable from normal humans, that are not able to reproduce... they can only be "constructed". Yōd does not seem to know what it would mean to construct a tryp'At, but I suspect that there must be a process that can convert a normal human into a new tryp'At. It would be interesting to know who has the ability to make new tryp'At.
In any case, I cannot escape the suspicion that Sagan may have been tryp'At. Yōd insists that, if true, there would be implications of this that are hard to reconcile with history. I suspect that I previously knew more about how the life of Sagan had been designed and constructed -and for what purpose-. That knowledge may have been taken from me when I made my choice to remain here on Earth.
Yōd claims that research by her replicoid points to a set stories that were published in the Ekcolir Reality and which hint at a woman who might have been used as genetic "stock" for creating Sagan in the Buld Reality.
Miller's stories concerned the Grendels and their ability to alter the chromosomes of humans. Zeta suspects that Miller's analogue here in the Final Reality is Georgia Myrle Miller.
In the Ekcolir Reality Scully and Mulder star in UFO 2015
There will be new X-Files episodes in 2016, so is it time to refresh our memories of the 1990s? I've previously described The X-Files as a being a non-invasion science fiction story in which the aliens should win an award for their incompetence. I'm reminded of another example of ineffective Hollywood aliens, from before The X-Files, so let's go even further back in Time...even into Deep Time.
(alternate)Reality TV
When I was a kid, the British TV show UFO brought an endlessly incompetent alien invasion to television. In typical Hollywood alien antagonist fashion, through each and every week of the television season, the invading aliens sent just enough spaceships to Earth to keep SHADO in business.
All new episodes of UFO 2015 !
I recently blogged about my fantasies for an X-Files reboot. Gohrlay informed me that in the Ekcolir Reality, when it came time to reboot The Δ-Files, it was re-imagined as a spin-off of the long-running UFO.
I have a low tolerance for horror, so much of the original X-Files does not appeal to me because of its mindless violence. However, I have a long history of re-imagining The X-Files as the type of science fiction that I enjoy.
Rather than select and comment on old episodes of The X-Files, I'm going to invent some new episodes of an X-Files spin-off television series as they should have existed in a previous Reality.
So, if you like, go ahead and picture Scully with purple hair and Mulder as a blond and off we go into Deep Time to experience some episodes of UFO 2015 !
R. Gohrlaay's efforts, what became known as the "Tesla Intervention", led to a catastrophic nuclear war. Eventually, the replicoid of Nikola Tesla was taken across the temporal divide into the Ekcolir Reality.
The Ekcolir Reality
Tesla was Time's "Man of the Future" in 2285
(Etruscan calendar; Ekcolir Reality)
In the Ekcolir Reality, operating from R. Gohrlay's secret base of operations within the Hierion Domain, Tesla's replicoid passed knowledge of advanced hierion-based technology to several Earthlings. Could alternative sources of energy be found that would put an end to Earth's voracious fossil fuel use and slow the rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels? Working towards that goal and playing an important role in UFO 2015 was Luri Tamari, CEO of Space Energy Missions.
The main objective of the "Tesla Intervention" was to prepare Earth for First Contact with the Fru'wu. Tesla's replicoid provided Luri with advanced nanotechnology in an attempt to help the primitive Earthlings to not be intimidated by the alien Fru'wu. [fake Time covers]
The back-story of UFO 2015 was shaped by the on-going Time Travel War. R. Gohrlay was trying to create a Reality in which Earth would avoid technological disasters and the human species would have a long future of spreading through outer space and colonizing distant Earth-like planets.
During this time, Grean was trying to prepare for the Final Reality. It was convenient for her to allow the Tesla Intervention to proceed, with an occasional adjustment or tweak.
Tesla's replicoid had worked through the entire 20th century to develop a secret cadre of scientists who were to be positioned on Earth and ready to collaborate with the alien Fru'wu to solve Earth's global warming crisis. In UFO 2015, Dr. Diocio Flower and Dr. Verzor Kemnerun are the lead scientists for development of the Space Energy Missions hierion antennae array.
Episode 1: Fru'wu First Contact
Space Energy Missions - Long Valley Plant #3.
The first episode of UFO 2015 told the story of the arrival of a Fru'wu spaceship on Earth. In the teaser, radar operators at a military base track an asteroid as it penetrates Earth's atmosphere and causes a dramatic impact event in Death Valley.
Scene 1. We see that the asteroid was used as "cover" for the arrival of the Fru'wu spaceship on Earth. Just before impact of the asteroid, the spaceship pulls away and lands at the Space Energy Missions geothermal energy plant located in the Long Valley Caldera.
The Fru'wu spaceship parks inside a large dome at the airfield of Long Valley Geothermal Plant #3. The aliens meet Luri and the executive team for Space Energy Missions, who they have long been in contact with. When with anyone but Luri, the Fru'wu have the appearance of normal humans and they pass themselves off as a team of Chinese engineers.
Meeting privately with Luri, the Fru'wu transform into their alien form and provide a quick introduction to advanced particle physics, explaining the existence of fundamental particles that can move through additional spatial dimensions beyond the three that are available to hadrons.
Luri is already familiar with the existence of hierions because of her contact with Tesla's replicoid. However, she is surprised to hear about sedrons as an additional family of particles. The Fru'wu explain that sedrons are required for their ability to travel through space at faster-than-light speeds. Hierions have 6 spatial dimensions available to them while sedrons are able to move through 9 dimensions.
Scene 2. Scully and Mulder are driving through Owens Valley in California, tracking rumors of UFO sightings. Scully argues that a fragment of the asteroid broke off the main body and shot over the Owens Valley, resulting in UFO reports. They talk to an eyewitness who seems reliable. Mulder lectures Scully about how the descriptions of the UFO provided by the eyewitnesses suggest a dark object that blotted out the stars, not a bright asteroid fragment.
Scully and Mulder visit a 911 call center where they are given access to recorded phone calls about UFO sightings. Scully grows tired of the monotonously repetitious phone calls and goes to spend the night in a hotel. She stays up late reading a science fiction novel.
Mulder stays at the call center all night, listening to recorded phone calls from people describing the UFO. In the morning, Mulder leaves his number with the 911 operator and asks her to let him know if there are any additional calls about UFOs.
"Sam Jacky" is the writing team of
Samantha Mulder and Jackie Vance.
Scene 3. Luri establishes contact with Tesla's replicoid using the Bimanoid Interface. He instructs Luri on the importance of obtaining as much information as possible from the Fru'wu and he tells Luri to set up a surveillance team to receive a data feed from inside the Fru'wu spaceship. Tesla's replicoid tells Luri that her nanite probes will be able to slip into the Fu'wu spaceship and transmit data to Luri.
Tesla's replicoid also warns Luri that Mulder will soon arrive. Luri is familiar with Samantha and Fox Mulder because they are (like her) part of the Ekcolir Lineage and able to use the Bimanoid Interface. However, Samantha is being used by Grean as part of her effort to develop the science fiction genre.
Scene 4. To distract the Fru'wu and get them all out of their spaceship, Luri invites the Fru'wu to a reception held at her home. Meanwhile, one of Luri's top executives (Plant Director Bess Kane) has assembled a team of Space Energy Missions technical staff members and they begin to receive video and audio from inside the Fru'wu spaceship.
The Fru'wu spaceship disguised as an airplane.
Following their instructions, the Space Energy Missions techs establish and test a communications system that will both automatically record the data and relay the video images to Luri's house, and then they leave the equipment running unattended. They don't understand where the signal that they are receiving originates from (from the outside, the Fru'wu spaceship looks like a commercial VTOL aircraft). Later, having left a piece of equipment behind, one of the tech staff (Jeff Thorn) returns to the reception/recording room and is amazed by what he now sees inside the Fru'wu spaceship: an alien who seems to be performing some kind of bizarre experiments on two human test subjects. The episode ends with Mulder receiving a frantic phone call from a man who is shouting hysterically about an alien.
In the teaser, Luri watches the video feed and sees the alien Fru'wu who stayed behind in the spaceship while all the others went to the reception at Luri's mansion. The Space Energy Missions technician who also saw the Fru'wu calls 911. The local 911 operator, tired of fielding crank calls about UFOs, connects the caller to Mulder.
Scene 1. Scully and Mulder are again driving their rental car. Today, Scully is driving and Mulder tells her to slow down. She says that she wants to get their work done so that they can fly back to Washington on a red eye out of Las Vegas. Scully is pulled over after speeding through a radar speed tap. She sweet talks the police out of giving her a speeding ticket.
They arrive at Long Valley Geothermal Plant #3. where Mulder conducts a frustrating interview with the Space Energy Missions employee (Thorn) who spoke to him on the phone. Luri and Bess have concocted a story about having a costume party at Luri's house with one of the "Chinese" visitors coming dressed as a space alien. Thorn can't seem to remember calling Mulder.
While Mulder interviews Thorn, Scully prowls around the Plant's airfield and gets a glimpse of the VTOL airplane in the domed hanger.
Fru'wu disguised as a human disguised as an alien.
Scully and Mulder ask to meet the visitors from China. The Fru'wu (now using human form) all pretend that they can't speak English very well and one of them puts on an ET costume and waves a toy "ray gun".
After meeting with the "Chinese", Mulder and Scully again separate. Scully can sense that Bess wants to say more than she is being allowed to say and tells her, "Call me if you think of anything else."
Mulder is rather dazzled and smitten by Luri. He tags along after her, when she wishes that she could get rid of him and go into the video room to check on the data feed from inside the Fru'wu spaceship. Standing in the hallway near the secret room, Mulder asks her why the company is called "Space Energy Missions" if they are in the geothermal energy business. Luri explains that the company is involved in developing technologies related to exploiting many alternative energy sources, but their ultimate goal is to obtain energy for Earth from orbital solar energy collectors.
An enigmatic poster seen by Mulder at Long Valley Geothermal Plant #3.
Scully finds Mulder and tells him that it is late and they should call it a day. Mulder tells Luri that they'll have to continue talking the next day. Luri makes a sarcastic comment about how the FBI should have better things to do.
On the way out of the Plant, Scully nags Mulder for dogging Luri's footsteps and following her around.
Mulder: (he hands Scully his smart phone) Luri Tamari: director of Space Energy Missions. Age 62.
Scully: (looks at the phone's display) So she has a great plastic surgeon.
Mulder: I think she warrants further investigation.
Scully: (sarcastically) She's in great shape at age 62, so she must be a space alien?
Mulder: There is nothing known about her family. She just appears out of nowhere and earns a Ph.D. in engineering from Georgia Tech then sets up the world's first alternative energy company. Fastest zero-to-billion dollar corporation in history.
As they get back in their rental car, Scully mutters something under her breath about Mulder's attraction to fast women.
Scene 2. Scully and Mulder are at the end of another long day, having dinner and still arguing about whether it is worth spending any more time investigated the UFO reports. Scully describes the odd-looking airplane that she saw in the hanger. Mulder reflects on Thorn's odd loss of memory. Scully takes a call from Bess who asks to meet with them. In the lobby of the hotel, Bess arrives with Thorn.
Prompted by Bess, Thorn gives a confusing account the physical appearance of the alien Fru'wu, but he sounds like he is describing something that he saw in a television show. Mulder and Scully, both dismayed by the incoherent Thorn, try to say goodnight to Bess. She asks them if they are going to do anything about the alien spaceship. Mulder asks her where the spaceship is, but Bess does not know. See tells Mulder and Scully about the secret room at the Plant with the mysterious video feed. Mulder assures Bess that they will investigate further.
After Bess and Thorn depart, Scully asks Mulder why he is paying any attention to Thorn and Bess. He says that he's puzzled by their odd behavior and that of the "Chinese". He calls Luri and arranges to meet her in the morning so that he can get back into the Plant (he wants to investigate the secret room). Just before ending the call, he asks her about Jeff Thorn's work history.
Luri asks Mulder, "Why do you ask?"
Mulder explains, "He claims that he saw an alien last night; I'm wondering if he has a history of odd behavior."
Luri laughs, "When we built the Plant back in the eighties, the locals thought we were constructing a secret rocket launch site for the Strategic Defense Initiative. Thorn was one of the locals who tried to block our geothermal operation. Eventually, after the Plant opened, he came to us for employment."
Mulder: "I'd like to review his employment records tomorrow. Do you do psychological screening?"
Luri: "I'm afraid I can't disclose health records of our employees."
Mulder: "Okay, I'll ask him directly."
Luri: "I don't want you badgering our workers and creating a scene. The Chinese are trying to buy into Space Energy Missions. I don't want you scaring them off and ruining the deal."
Scully goes to bed, but Mulder gets back in their rental car and drives around the area. He finds Thorn's house, but nobody is home. He breaks in and finds nothing except evidence that Thorn's family packed quickly and departed.
Scene 3. Mulder sees bright lights, just across the boarder in Nevada. He stops in at the run-down gambling house/bordello and talks to some of the locals about UFOs. One woman tells him that she thinks an odd-sounding military plane flew over the valley on the night of the asteroid impact, headed in the direction of the Space Energy Missions geothermal power station.
Mulder checks an app (it says MUFONET at the top) on his phone that maps the locations for all of the recent UFO sightings. They roughly form a line between Death Valley and Long Valley Geothermal Plant #3. Mulder gets back to the hotel just as Scully is going out to get breakfast. Mulder, looking bedraggled, says he'll crash in his room until she's ready to hit the road. Scully asks what he was doing all night and he just mutters about following leads. He asks her to put the police to the task of searching for Thorn's family. Scully teases him and asks if they were abducted by aliens.
Episode 3: Radar Dark
In the teaser, Mulder is trying to sleep while Scully drives. As they again approach the radar speed trap, Mulder tells Scully to slow down and stop. While Scully waits in the car, puzzled, Mulder talks to the police. A police officer opens up the trunk of the police car and hands an object to Mulder. Mulder comes back to the car with a radar gun.
Scully: What are you going to do with that?
Mulder: We have to stop here on the way back so I can return this to the police.
Scully: That will take us out of the way for getting to Las Vegas. Why do you need a radar gun?
Mulder: I find them useful when dealing with fast women.
Scene 1. Scully and Mulder arrive at the geothermal energy plant. Mulder tells Scully to hurry to their appointment and ask Luri for details about the impending financial deal with the Chinese.
Mulder goes to the airfield, trying to hide the radar gun inside his jacket. He sneaks into the hanger and points the radar gun at the VTOL airplane.
Meanwhile, Scully meets with Luri. At first Luri evades all questions about the Chinese. Then Luri asks Scully to sign an intellectual property non-disclosure agreement. After handing the signed agreement form to a lawyer, Luri takes Scully to the secret room.
Luri activates a videophone conference call. A Chinese woman and Samantha Mulder appear on the video screen. Luri introduces the Chinese woman as the director of a film that is in production called Space Power. Luri and Samantha explain to Scully that the visitors from China are part of a secret project to produce a science fiction film about orbital solar energy collectors. Luri says that Space Energy Missions is planning to go public and start selling stock. To create interest among investors, the film will depict a future world in which solar energy collected in space and sent to Earth solves the greenhouse gas problem.
Scully is surprised to find that Fox's sister is involved with Space Energy Missions. Samantha says that she has long published science fiction under the pseudonym "Sam Jacky".
Scully: Why do you keep your life hidden from Fox? He obsesses over your disappearance."
Samantha: I contacted Fox many years ago. He had some kind of genetic testing done and he concluded that I'm not really his sister.
Just then, Luri takes a call on her phone. After the short call, she says goodbye to Samantha and cuts off the video conference call. Luri and Scully go to the main lobby where Fox is with two Space Energy Missions security guards who report to Luri that they found Mulder sneaking around the airport's hanger. They hand Luri the radar gun.
Luri says that if the FBI has further questions then they need to get a search warrant. She turns to go, but Mulder asks for the gun. Luri tosses it to him and orders the Plant security officers to escort the FBI agents out.
Mulder asks Luri, "What's the Mercury Project?"
She replies, "If the FBI has further questions, please contact our marketing and legal departments." She turns and walks away.
Mulder and Scully are escorted back to their rental car and then they drive away from the Plant.
Scene 2. Scully and Mulder are in a roadside diner with the local policeman who let Mulder use the radar gun. Mulder explains that the "Chinese" VTOL aircraft does not reflect radar. He suggests that the police get a search warrant and investigate the strange vehicle.
Scully: Mulder, are you saying that we should go before a judge and say that there is an alien spaceship in that hanger?
Mulder: Its either that, or secret Chinese stealth technology.
The police officer expresses skepticism. Scully changes the topic to Samantha (Sam Jacky). Fox insists that she forget about her.
Mulder: That's not my sister. She some crank who came to me years ago wanting to make a movie about UFOs. I think she ghost wrote that ridiculous Delta Files Trilogy that you have been reading.
Scully: It can't be a coincidence that she turns up now at Space Energy Missions.
Mulder: Did you see her? At the Plant?
Scully: No. It was a video conference call. I think she's in China working on Space Power.
Mulder and Scully continue to argue. The police officer eats his lunch, pays his bill and departs.
Scully: Let's go Mulder. We can catch the last flight from Las Vegas to Washington.
Scene 3. Inside the Fru'wu spaceship, the two humans (seen previously) are shown as the subjects of a strange ritual. The humans are laid out on a platform and the Fru'wu place two large, glowing crystals next to their heads. Some glowing clouds move from the crystals into the heads of the two humans. The ritual concludes and the two humans walk out of the spaceship, speaking in the Fru'wu language to each other.
Luri again contacts Tesla's replicoid. She says that Drs. Flower and Kemnerun have successfully taken on their Fru'wu endosymbionts and are now ready to start crafting the Hierion Receiver. Luri expresses distrust of Flower and Kemnerun now that they carry Fru'wu endosymbionts inside their bodies.
Tesla's replicoid says that they have no choice and must trust Flower and Kemnerun, although he suggests that they could transfer one of the Fru'wu endosymbionts into Luri "so she can verify its mission objectives". The replicoid says that their larger problem is that Mulder has interested the local police in the "Chinese" aircraft.
Luri says that the "Chinese" are scheduled to depart from Earth that night.
Late in the afternoon, the police arrive with a search warrant and say they are authorized to search the Plant for illegally imported foreign technology. They go right to the hanger and ask to search inside the VTOL aircraft. Luri arrives and says that the Chinese are in Las Vegas for the day, as tourists and that the police should come back the next day.
The police order the airport crew to open the hatch of the VTOL craft. A technician opens the hatch and the police go inside. Luri orders the airport staff to go back to their work and they all leave the hanger. Luri enters the Fru'wu spaceship and the hatch closes behind her.
Inside the Fru'wu spaceship, the Fru'wu "zap" the police and put them on the platform with the crystals. After adjusting their equipment and after some jerking reactions of the police officers' bodies, some glowing clouds come out of their heads and into the crystals. The police get up off the platform and walking in a daze away from the platform to where Luri stands watching.
The scene cuts to Mulder and Scully on an airplane flying out of Las Vegas. Scully is reading a science fiction novel by Sam Jacky and Mulder is using his smart phone to track a new batch of UFO sightings that are coming in from near the geothermal energy plant.
The scene returns to the Fru'wu spaceship which lands in the middle of a desert area. The two police officesr, acting dazed and disoriented, are led out of the spaceship by Luri. Then the Fru'wu spaceship takes off, first using its propellers while still in the form of the VTOL aircraft then transforming into the shape of the Fru'wu sleek spaceship (seen in episode 1) and then silently continuing to rise higher into the night sky. Luri leads the police through the desert to a nearby SUV.
They get into the SUV and Luri drives off into the night, soon reaching a highway. She starts narrating a "cover story" about what the search of the VTOL aircraft revealed (nothing note-worthy), while the two police officers listen attentively.
_________________________________ Next: the Twin Paradox.
Immortality is a popular topic for many science fiction story writers. In the case of Jack Vance, his first novel (published in 1956), To Live Forever, was about immortality. During the rest of Vance's long and prolific career as a writer, characters who had a desire for longer life showed up in additional Vance stories.
For example, in The Killing Machine, Demon Prince Kokkor Hekkus had found a way to extend his life. On the "lost world" of Thamber, Hekkus could play out his fantasies, living many different lives of adventure and romance over the course of hundreds of years.
At the end of his writing career, Vance published Ports of Call in which the aging Dame Hester's quest for a fountain of youth becomes the driving force for launching Myron's space travel adventures and visits to distant space ports scattered across the Gaean Reach.
I've never read To Live Forever, but according to Jonathan Goodwin, the protagonist of that story, Gavin Waylock, is another one of Vance's "rebellious heroes" (and another of Vance's "G heroes"). Gavin had reached the apex of his society and had been granted immortality, but then his whole life, and, subsequently, his whole culture, began to unravel.
A common theme in stories about immortality is that attaining the ability to live forever is a kind of trap. Mortals might strive for immortality, but once achieved, immortality can have its own problems.
One of the first novels that I ever read (The City and the Stars) depicted Arthur Clarke's version of an imagined future society where humans had achieved immortality. Clarke imagined a rather static society of immortals who were among the last few remaining residents of Earth. They had completely abandoned the use of space travel technology, then, finally, after many millions of years of stagnation on Earth, a new human was brought into existence and he grew up to become the "rebel" who could knock the immortals of Earth out of their rut and make a return to space travel.
Luri was able to use Fru'wu
technology to achieve immortality.
Until this current blog post, I only had one previous post with the label "immortality". That old blog post was about a woman who was possibly just the second (who was 1st?) Earthling to attain immortality, Luri. She was born "too early", so Luri had to wait around a couple of thousand years for the Buld spaceship to arrive at Earth.
The advanced technology that was used to give Luri immortality was not developed by humans. It was provided to Luri by Interventionist agents. The alien Fru'wu, a much more ancient species than we humans, used advanced nanotechnology to immortalize Luri. That was back when time travel was still possible, and Luri's role in First Contact could be known thousands of years in advance.
My favorite kind of science fiction story is one that involves alien beings from distant planets who are much more technologically advanced than we primitive Earthlings. I like stories that explore the implications of immortal aliens coming in contact with mortal humans.
However, I despise stories that involve alien beings who "feed" off of human "life forces". I'm not sure which is more annoying, science fiction plots that involve aliens traveling to Earth across vast interstellar distance to take our gold or plots that suggest aliens would in some way eat humans or collect some "elixir of life" from human bodies, a magic potion that would give the aliens eternal life.
Jupiter Ascending
I've never seen the film Jupiter Ascending and I don't feel like I've stumbled upon an unbiased account of the film and the aliens that are portrayed in it, so what follows, below, is my best-guess understanding of the film based on what I've read. The rest of this blog post is similar in nature to the most popular post of this blog, in which I tried to make sense of the film Prometheus. Are there any interesting space aliens in Jupiter Ascending?
Jupiter Jones is taken away from Earth and given a tour of the galaxy. Even before being taken away from Earth by space-traveling humans from another planet, she gets to meet some "space aliens". I put "space aliens" in quotes because it is not clear exactly what the odd creatures are that show up near the start of Jupiter Ascending and start altering Ms. Jone's life on Earth.
This is not a science fiction story about space aliens. In fact, the whole story could have been told on Earth with no mention of space travel. Humans are the dominant critter of this particular fictional universe. According to this wiki, which tries to give a coherent account of Jupiter Ascending, the human species is very ancient and evolved on a distant planet called Orous.
Caine was engineered to have a huge, ahem, gun.
During their long existence on Orous, humans used genetic engineering to create many different types of creatures who have mixtures of human genes and genes from other species. These genetically-engineered hybrids are called "splices".
Size matters.
Urban Fantasy: Caine's bootie call at the UPS store.
Ms. Jones has an insta-romance with Caine, who was genetically engineered to be part wolf, part bird and part whatever came to Lana or Andy in a moment of "inspiration". Ms. Jones likes dogs and Caine has cool gravity boots, so, of course, she instantly wants to grab his huge gun.
RegeneX you're the one You make bath time so much fun
RegeneX A major concern of the residents of Orous is acquiring RegeneX. RegeneX can extend a person's life, but the only source of RegeneX is "harvested" bodies of primitive humans such as Earthlings. Supposedly the only reason that
there are humans on Earth is because we have been "planted" here and it is our fate to be "harvested" and processed so as to provide a supply of RegeneX for the human "royalty" who live on other planets like Orous.
"I am not Seraphi."
Okay, so if we grant this highly implausible backstory, we are also asked to believe that one particular Earthling (Ms. Jones) is genetically identical to a recently deceased human royal family member (Seraphi) from the planet Orous. This freak genetic concordance thrusts Ms. Jones, who works as a cleaning lady, into the center of an incoherent transgalactic plot with the fate of all we Earthlings hanging in the balance.
This "new" science fiction story sounds like the result of some Hollywood script-writing hack's rushed effort to mash together plot ideas from old Sci Fi stories like Dune and Soylent Green. But then, why should we expect anything better from writers who were college drop-outs and who got their start writing for comic books such as Hellraiser?
We are told that in the fictional universe of Jupiter Ascending, humans discovered Earth about 65,000,000 yeas ago, at a time when it was dominated by Sargorns. The Sargorns were eliminated from Earth, but some were genetically modified and kept around as servants on Orous for the House of Abrasax, the family that "owns" Earth and uses it as their cattle human ranch. The presumed "space aliens" of Jupiter Ascending (shown in the image to the right) serve the royal humans of Orous as "Keepers". These Keepers make sure that the humans of Earth remain ignorant and unaware of their lowly status as livestock.
Princess Jupiter
Members of the House of Abrasax take turns trying to capture or kill or endlessly chase after Ms. Jones because (listen carefully!) she is genetically identical to the former and recently deceased head of the royal family. Ms. Jones eventually gains legal title as the new "owner" of Earth. Yes, this is a fantasy Princess movie.
Based on what I've read about the "Keepers", I'm disappointed in the limited role that aliens play in Jupiter Ascending. I guess the Keepers just do dirty work for royal dicks like Balem Abrasax. But the point of the movie is not to reveal something interesting about space aliens. There is nothing interesting "out there", at all: after eons of human existence there is only a bunch of royal jerks who want to own Earth and process Earthlings into RegeneX so that they continue living their long decadent lives as "royalty".
I was motivated to investigate Jupiter Ascending when I learned that it uses some of the same types of Sci Fi plot elements that are in my current writing obsession, the Exode Trilogy. However, as is usual for Hollywood science fiction, this flick seems full of absurd science. I'd hoped that there might be some interesting aliens in Jupiter Ascending, but the only supposed "aliens" (the "Keepers") might not actually be aliens. As far as I can tell, they could just as well be one of the many comic book human variants in this flick that are the result of genetic engineering.
"Look, the flick makes no sense
so just make sure that everyone
screams really loud."
In the fictional universe of Jupiter Ascending, the Keepers use super advanced technology to keep we primitive Earthlings trapped in a "Matrix" of ignorance and believing that humans evolved on Earth. This could be interesting, but we must ask: if there are all these fantastic technologies available to the people of Orous, then why do they need to obtain their precious RegeneX from the bodies of Earthlings? That defies logic and ruins the entire Jupiter Ascending story.
Jupiter Ascending has been nominated for an award in the 2015 Search for Interesting Hollywood Aliens. The award category is "silliest solution to the Fermi Paradox". There are beings who live on other planets, but we don't know that they exist because the Keepers constantly reprogram our memories. We must be kept ignorant because (listen carefully!) the beings who live on other planets (who are very ancient and have super advanced technology including sophisticated genetic engineering) need to grow billions of humans on Earth as the raw material from which they extract a rare maguffin elixir of youth. This makes no sense, but as they say, "That's Hollywood".
