Interview with Rei - Part 9 of 10
As Steve Fisch and I get the scripts ready to sell Rome's Revolution as a streaming series, he asked me for a lot of background information that I did not have. So I took some time out to interview Rome and Rei. Here is Rei's interview, part 9 of 10.
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Rei: Geez. Let me answer your first question first. Right after she accused me of carrying Erklirte weapons in the Ark. She was right about that, by the way. Anyway, she told me the jumpsuit I was wearing was ill-fitting and she was right about that, too. It was too tight. So I went back to the airlock where they were keeping my sarcophagus so I could pull out my flight suit that I had brought from Earth. Estar rigged it so that the safety interlocks and OMCOM’s video feeds crapped out at the same time and I got caught in an airlock cycle. I would have died if it hadn’t been for my sarcophagus. It had its own internal air supply. I jumped in and locked myself in until it was all clear to come out.
Interviewer: And her motive?
Rei: You know about MASAL, right? (The Interviewer nods). Well his master plan to create peace and order for all mankind was to remove our humanity. Living robots. So he created the 24th chromosome to convert humans, ultimately, into things he could control. But the change wasn’t happening fast enough for him so he triggered the Robot War to thin the herd. As certain recessive elements of the 24th chromosome began to express themselves, the group split off and they were called the Onsiras. Unbeknownst to everyone, MASAL was still alive and hiding beneath Kilauea in Hawaii. He was the Onsira’s version of the Overmind. He directed everything from his hidey hole. Anyway, the only thing that could stop his plan from ultimately converting all of mankind were the mandasurte. They could never be controlled. And worse, if they interbred with the Vuduri, the mosdureces like Rome, they would never convert either. So MASAL hatched this plan to slowly but surely kidnap all the mandasurte from the Earth and have them taken to Deucado. This was a 20 year plan and after 20 years, an asteroid was going to hit the planet and wipe them out forever. It was brilliant but the arrival of a ship full of Essessoni, people used to thinking for themselves and armed with the technology to do whatever they wanted was a serious setback to MASAL’s plan. So Estar figured she would just kill me, have the Ark destroyed and that would be that.
The problem was, she didn’t understand us at all. She did not truly fathom the concept that we could think for ourselves. So when she tried to suffocate me, I figured out how save myself. When she rigged our tug to crash into Dara, I was able to figure out how to jump past the moon until we could right ourselves. When we arrived at Deucado, the Onsiras had already taken over. My brave little Rome took it upon herself to convince the Overmind there to follow a new path. When we got back to Earth and were kidnapped by the Onsiras, they miscalculated. They had no clue that together, Rome and I are unstoppable. We defeated them and stumbled across MASAL himself. I sprinkled some weaponized VIRUS units on him and Rome delayed him until they took hold and we detonated Kilauea and vaporized him. When we came back to Earth looking for Aason, we defeated MASAL’s shadow and started converting the Onsiras back to humanity using the pills OMCOM gave us way back when.
Interviewer: That part I know. I did not know the pills were from OMCOM.
Rei: Oh yeah. OMCOM and his pills. He made a special yellow one for Rome and me. I don’t know why. He said it was to fix my back and it did but it also rewired our brains so that Rome and I and our children can communicate using EM transmission. We call it a cellphone in the head. He also connected my auditory center to my visual cortex so that I can “see” in the dark with a kind of sonar-vision.
Interviewer: Why did OMCOM do that? How did that benefit him?
Tomorrow, the final part, part 10
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Rei: Geez. Let me answer your first question first. Right after she accused me of carrying Erklirte weapons in the Ark. She was right about that, by the way. Anyway, she told me the jumpsuit I was wearing was ill-fitting and she was right about that, too. It was too tight. So I went back to the airlock where they were keeping my sarcophagus so I could pull out my flight suit that I had brought from Earth. Estar rigged it so that the safety interlocks and OMCOM’s video feeds crapped out at the same time and I got caught in an airlock cycle. I would have died if it hadn’t been for my sarcophagus. It had its own internal air supply. I jumped in and locked myself in until it was all clear to come out.
Interviewer: And her motive?
Rei: You know about MASAL, right? (The Interviewer nods). Well his master plan to create peace and order for all mankind was to remove our humanity. Living robots. So he created the 24th chromosome to convert humans, ultimately, into things he could control. But the change wasn’t happening fast enough for him so he triggered the Robot War to thin the herd. As certain recessive elements of the 24th chromosome began to express themselves, the group split off and they were called the Onsiras. Unbeknownst to everyone, MASAL was still alive and hiding beneath Kilauea in Hawaii. He was the Onsira’s version of the Overmind. He directed everything from his hidey hole. Anyway, the only thing that could stop his plan from ultimately converting all of mankind were the mandasurte. They could never be controlled. And worse, if they interbred with the Vuduri, the mosdureces like Rome, they would never convert either. So MASAL hatched this plan to slowly but surely kidnap all the mandasurte from the Earth and have them taken to Deucado. This was a 20 year plan and after 20 years, an asteroid was going to hit the planet and wipe them out forever. It was brilliant but the arrival of a ship full of Essessoni, people used to thinking for themselves and armed with the technology to do whatever they wanted was a serious setback to MASAL’s plan. So Estar figured she would just kill me, have the Ark destroyed and that would be that.
The problem was, she didn’t understand us at all. She did not truly fathom the concept that we could think for ourselves. So when she tried to suffocate me, I figured out how save myself. When she rigged our tug to crash into Dara, I was able to figure out how to jump past the moon until we could right ourselves. When we arrived at Deucado, the Onsiras had already taken over. My brave little Rome took it upon herself to convince the Overmind there to follow a new path. When we got back to Earth and were kidnapped by the Onsiras, they miscalculated. They had no clue that together, Rome and I are unstoppable. We defeated them and stumbled across MASAL himself. I sprinkled some weaponized VIRUS units on him and Rome delayed him until they took hold and we detonated Kilauea and vaporized him. When we came back to Earth looking for Aason, we defeated MASAL’s shadow and started converting the Onsiras back to humanity using the pills OMCOM gave us way back when.
Interviewer: That part I know. I did not know the pills were from OMCOM.
Rei: Oh yeah. OMCOM and his pills. He made a special yellow one for Rome and me. I don’t know why. He said it was to fix my back and it did but it also rewired our brains so that Rome and I and our children can communicate using EM transmission. We call it a cellphone in the head. He also connected my auditory center to my visual cortex so that I can “see” in the dark with a kind of sonar-vision.
Interviewer: Why did OMCOM do that? How did that benefit him?
Tomorrow, the final part, part 10
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