In this alternate reality, the magnonauts as they exist here would still be magnetic straw men that look like space explorers, but they would have been based on an actual invention called a N.E.W.MAN. Please enjoy now.
2020
In the year Twenty twenty, mankind finally achieved its greatest triumph of science and technological achievement, INTERPLANETARY SPACE TRAVEL.
Unfortunately, no man would ever journey there, because the apparatus designed to create predictable portals in space, the colossal GREAT MAGNATEMPORAL PORTAL APARATUS that is roughly the size and shape of Utah, could only safely generate an artificial black hole the size of a shoe box.
In twenty twenty-four, an unrelated scientific breakthrough came in the form of the world’s first fully functional nuero-biological mech-organic being, designed and created by DR. HANS PULASKI for the 2024 World’s Fair. The real breakthrough was not that a brain-wave controlled live-tissue based android had been created, but that it was THREE INCHES TALL.
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HANS PULASKI: THE MAN WHO FELL TO SPACE
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The long defunct theories of tissue-cloning were re-evaluated when Dr. Pulaski claimed to have used basic micro organisms on earth as the pattern for “simplifying” the human form to its chemical origins, providing the basic motor skills in the form of a free-floating synthetic muscle and bone structure (famously referred to as “fuzzy bones” because of their resemblance to modern pipe cleaners.)
The oft-quoted Pulaski said cryptically of the process: “the key to replicating organic tissue is providing the proper conditions and allowing nature to ‘Do its thing,’” and he later hypothesized that his success came from the fact that instead of examining things on a larger scale to analyze the intricate mysteries inherent in every piece of living tissue, he allowed that there is always a “smaller small” and trying to replicate individual electrical compulsors in brain/matter was a fool’s errand.
Efforts to create a larger “man-sized” version of the original mechanism have continually failed. The creature Dr. Pulaski created was, in essence, an extra muscle in the shape of a man, controlled by brain waves as an extension of a human’s own nervous system. A man, with minimal training (the booklet was thirteen pages long,) could learn to control the mecha-organic symbiot (or multiple, for people with advanced mental prowess) as an extension of him or herself using the same parts of the brain that cause human beings to feel “out-of-body experiences” while dreaming or unconscious.
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DAWN OF THE N.E.W.MAN
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After extensive government testing, the N.E.W.MAN (neuro-electrowave man) technology was released to the public. By twenty twenty nine, every profession and industry had found a use for the N.E.W.MAN.
Doctors used them in complicated surgeries, and the ease in which a three-inch being could be introduced in the human body without serious damage allowed medical advancement that would have otherwise put life-threatening strain on certain areas of the body. Corporations funded national education reform and hosted free post-secondary schooling because it was proven that assembly line workers were more valuable if they were able to control two or three Newmen (as later the acronym was dropped and pluralized in favor of conversational ease) at a time.
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ROSALYN GROSS PUTS A MAN IN A SHOEBOX
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It wasn’t until ROSALYN GROSS, chief engineer of the Great Magnatemporal Portal Apparatus, received a “U2 special edition” Newman for the Christmas of 2030 that the full potential of the Newman was realized.
The idea of sending an advanced robot into space through the portal was not a new one, but power supplies and control problems due to the fact that it is impossible to remotely control a robot from light years away had thwarted any advancement beyond a few new pictures of the universe and two very unfortunate astronaut mice.
On September 14th 2031, the first Newman was sent through the G.M.T.P.A., and despite theories that the bio-machine would simply “detach” itself from the “home brain” when separated by distances of light years, Rosalyn Gross reported real-time connection with the Newman when the being imploded as it exited the other side of the portal on the far side of Jupiter.
Despite the severe nausea (and reported psychiatric counseling with occasional feelings of weightlessness) that occurs to the host when any Newman is destroyed, no long-term side-effects were reported and the experiment was deemed successful.
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THE ZUES 5 AND THE FUTURE OF MANKIND
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With minor modifications to the structural and physical integrity of the Newman design, the tiny astronauts were redubbed simply “Symbiots” with their earth-bound counterparts being called “Hosts.” A team of highly trained scientists and theoretical survivalists were set to travel in a tiny space craft christened the “ZEUS” (in keeping with the Greek God naming-scheme of the early 20th century space craft, and referencing the God-like feeling of living through miniature creatures from astronomical distances) on new year’s day 2035.
Fourteen years later, humanity’s knowledge of space science had immeasurably increased. To date, 27 planets with life-sustaining conditions have been discovered, four of which have native life forms, of which two are intelligent beings with whom we now frequently communicate/observe.
In 2049, when the first intelligent race (colloquially known as “lizard folk”) were discovered, it was deemed prudent by the World Congress to not allow any beings encountered in the course of observational travels to discover the true origins of the symbiots they considered simply “visitors.” That is to say, any new life forms found would be unaware that humans controlled these bio-mechanical men, or from where.
This highly controversial “Great Lie”, as it was dubbed, was proven to be an appropriate measure for earth safety when the original Zeus 5 crew were all subsequently killed by the second intelligent beings ever discovered, the hellish ape-like ROSTMEN.
The tragedy of discovering the Rostmen in 2051 was that the deaths of the original Zeus 5 lead to the ultimate deaths of all five hosts on earth. Due to the neurological nature of torture inflicted by the beast-like Rostmen, the deaths of the Zeus crew also inflicted incurable insanity in the hosts of earth with which they lived symbiotically. As such, the Rostmen are considered extremely dangerous by any standards.
In 2054, Dr. Pulaski was allowed to visit the Up and Out Science Colony of Toles IV in a historical media celebration, and was subsequently driven homicidally insane when a caged Rostman broke free and plunged its “head tooth” into the doctor’s symbiot. Dr. Pulaski killed three people in the G.M.T.P.A. Complex before he was restrained and incarcerated in the San Francisco Mental Institution for the Insane.The Zeus Program now has colonies on thirteen planets. The symbiots live as humans do, needing food, water and a habitable environment to survive and are considered by some of their hosts to be the most important extension of themselves, since all hosts feel, think and generally exist vicariously through their tiny counter parts.
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....So, That's the end of part one (of which I believe there will be three.) Stay tuned
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