Mysteron Reversal Of Matter
A Report From Spectrum Research Center
Transcribed By Parker Gabriel
The conflict between the
people of Earth and the Mysterons of Mars began in the spring of 2068 after the
Spectrum-commanded Zero-X mission to Mars, led by Captain Black, discovered the
mysterious energy beings' lair and mistook a surveillance camera for a weapon
being armed; seeing what he perceived to be a hostile enemy, Captain Black
ordered Lieutenants Crimson and Ultramarine to open fire on the complex and
destroy it. Given the hostility by our
people, it is no wonder the Mysterons chose to respond as they did--by turning
their power of matter reversal on us as a weapon of war. What follows is a set of hypotheses based
upon what Spectrum have learned from the numerous Mysteron attacks that have
followed the beginning of hostilities.
It is our speculation that the Mysteron
society, as it is, is dying due to Captain Black's attack draining their energy
resources. This explains their
oft-stated determination to make the Earthmen pay for their act of aggression;
it is the normal reaction of any being fighting for its survival.
Further, we believe that Lieutenants
Crimson and Ultramarine are not dead, as was first speculated, but rather
prisoners in the Mysterons' complex on Mars, being held in states of suspended
animation, their minds being probed for details of Earth's defenses. This would explain how the Mysterons seem to
have such detailed first-hand knowledge of certain aspects of Earth's military
and intelligence forces that they could not learn from mere observation. We believe Captain Black is also a prisoner
of theirs, walking the Earth as a kind of animated zombie; Captain Black
himself does not meet the criteria for being an animated Mysteron recreation,
for he does not show on Mysteron detectors.
The imprisonment of Lts. Crimson and
Ultramarine also provides Mysterons with a first-hand look at the complexities
of the human body, which they need to understand in order to create their exact
likeness copies that they place at the scenes of many of their terrorist
acts. They Mysterons need these two men
alive due to their own discorporate state, the result of what we speculate to
be five hundred thousand years of development of their mental abilities; they
have come to rely on organic matter from a living subject to generate an energy
matrix whose duplication defies Earthcomprehension. This matrix, we speculate, enables the Mysterons to link up
interdimensionally with a plane of existence paralleling Earth's, absorb matter
from it, and use it to create duplications of objects and/or persons, which
they can then telepathically and/or psychokinetically control. To distinguish this form of matter from the
matter to which we are accustomed to understanding, we shall refer to this
matter as "retromatter".
Retromatter's properties differ from normal matter's properties in three ways:
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Retromatter can, if
damaged or destroyed, replace itself by absorbing energy from the ambient
electrons around it and converting this energy to mass to replace what was
damaged or destroyed. Organic
retromatter, in particular, causes measurable electromagnetic interference with
radio carrier waves, especially in an active regeneration state. This property was first noted by Dr. Fawn in
observation of Captain Scarlet and has since been named "retrometabolism".
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Retromatter emits a wavelength of electromagnetic radiation, too feeble
to poison organic matter, which blocks Roentgen radiation ("x-rays")
and deflects the Roentgen radiation rather than absorbing it as normal matter
does. This discovery led directly to
the invention of the Mysteron detector, still the primary weapon in
distinguishing a Mysteron clone from a human; the retromatter of the clone
deflects the Roentgen radiation and it produces a photographic likeness on the
image plate of the detector instead of a skeletal view.
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Retromatter, though
it can absorb a good bit of energy from the environment around it-and, in fact,
must do so in order to regenerate itself--cannot absorb unlimited amounts of
electronic energy, nor can it exceed a certain rate of absorption. If bombarded with excessive amounts of
electronic energy or bombarded at such a speed that it cannot shed the excess,
a paradoxical reaction will result, and the electronic energy will prevent
rather than accelerate cellular division as occurs in nuclear radiation
poisoning. The electromagnetic
radiation wavelength carrying the highest practical concentration for this
purpose without causing the effects to cancel themselves out is Cherenkov
radiation, visible as the bright blue flash observed when an electron beam is
accelerated to high speed. Poisonous in
its own right to normal organic matter as well as to organic retromatter,
Cherenkov radiation became the weapon of choice when designing the Mysteron
rifle, an energy-emitting gun used to destroy active Mysterons.
Retromatter is drawn from its
extradimensional source after the Mysterons have scanned normal matter at the
quantum-vibrational frequency level.
This scan is visible as the "twin green rings" effect observers
have reported seeing near Mysteron targets.
The Mysterons then telemetrically work in reverse to read the
pre-destruction molecular and/or genetic pattern of the destroyed matter. This gives them a template for their
psychokinetic transmutation of the retromatter which they will use to recreate
the likeness. The Mysterons then link
telepathically with their matter-reversal matrix to open the interdimensional
link with the extradimensional source of retromatter, then teleport an
identical quantity of retromatter to the destroyed matter's original location,
psychokinetically reshaping it into the likeness of the original object or
person by using the template they constructed earlier. The Mysterons can then control the likeness
by telepathic and/or psychokinetic means.
It is not believed that Mysteron control over a retromaterial likeness,
once released, is easily reestablished; Captain Scarlet's own recovery from
Mysteron control is ample evidence of this.
While reversing matter is a formidable
weapon, it must be noted that it has its limitations: It must be used on very recently dead corpses to gather enough
life energies from the matter to ease the process but not leave enough behind
to allow the reassertion of control should the telepatchic control link fail;
it needs a living normally-material conduit to guide the retromatter to its
intended destination; and--perhaps most importantly—its entropic nature is
slowly but effectively destroying the discorporate Mysterons.
The Mysterons cannot grow retromatter
clones of humans whose brain functions are not irreversibly terminated; on more
than one occasion, either the original victim has survived, exposing the
Mysteron clone, or (in at least two cases we know of—Captain Scarlet and Major
Blackheart) the Mysterons have released their control on the clone when the
body has suffered what appeared to be unrepairable damage and the original
personality of the clone has resurfaced to reassert control. The Mysterons, in their duplication process,
duplicate both body and mind exactly, and when control is broken, the original
memories and intellect return fully, though memories of the Mysteron control
itself is blocked in a kind of psychological suppression; the clone will be
amnesiac for the period during which he or she was under Mysteron control. This phenomenon has been observed in Captain
Scarlet, where, despite extensive testing, psychoanalysis, hypnosis, and other
memory-stimulating efforts, the six hours of Mysteron control remain unknown.
As
noted earlier, Captain Black himself does not meet the criteria to be a
retromatter being; therefore, he is most likely the conduit for the passage of
retromatter from one dimension to the other, as observed by his presence at
many scenes of Mysteron destructions from which clones have emerged. The Mysterons appear to guard this conduit
jealously, and he appears to be under their complete telepathic control; it is
the speculation of many Spectrum scientists that should Captain Black be freed
from Mysteron control, he will be able to remember all of what happened to him
and be able to provide valuable insight into the working of the Mysteron
matrix. Thus, it remains vital that
Captain Black be captured alive at all costs.
Through observations of Mars, our
scientists have observed that energy emissions have been seen slowly but
steadily declining since the beginnings of this war. We therefore believe that the entropic nature of the process of
channelling retromatter to the normal plane is destroying the Mysteron
society. With each takeover of an
Earthman or object, the Mysterons' electromagnetic cohesion weakens. Thus, they have been forced to sustain this
cohesion, in part, by destabilizing some retromatter to an incindiary explosive
state; when it explodes, its energy is released and reabsorbed by the Mysteron
matrix. Their likenesses of Captain
Brown and Major Brooks of SHEF are examples; further examples can be found in
the exploding champagne bottle used on the President Roberts and the diamond
pulsator found in the Spectrum mission to Crater 101.
In conclusion, it is
imperative to remember the Mysterons are motivated to continue this fight not
by evil or malice, but by fear and the survival instinct present in all. This would explain why Colonel White's
explanations of the attack being "a mistake" have not been accepted
readily, and why the war of nerves and attrition will continue until either the
Mysterons are assured of their survival or until they perish.
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