X-Manson Chapter 3 by Doctor Benway - The End of Chapter 3. Annotated by Tsar.
Before we move on to the last two chapters, we need to address a few more things. Please don't hesitate to leave a comment or send me a message if you have any questions or if you think I might have missed something. In these last two chapters, there will be a lot of questions that will come up, so it's important to stay on top of everything. this is however a pallet cleanser.
[Shot of Douglas and Marie-Ange Ramsey]
Int: Were you relieved when they raided the compound?
DR: God yeah, especially when they got all the main psis that I knew of. I mean, it was terrible what happened to them and all, but maybe I can start feeling safe again.
MAR: Douglas has difficulties with the out-of-doors.
DR: It's just, if I'm not in a Class 1 psi-blocked environment, I kind of get freaked. That means lots of concrete and Faraday cages.
MAR: He's been better about going outside, lately. He spent an hour in the garden yesterday, with only head armour on.
Int: Do you feel that you will ever feel safe?
DR: Something happened to me, and it was so big I can still barely get my head around it. I can talk to you about it, and you can try to imagine it, but you weren't there, experiencing it, fighting for your life at the age of twelve. It's left me scarred, but it wasn't all bad. I'll give you an example. Twelve years ago, Bill Gates came over from Seattle to show me the latest thing he'd been working on. He was going to build a Mac-like operating system over his command line OS, and he wanted me to help him get it to work.
*Doug Ramsey is a tech billionare. My boy is a low tier scumbag even after all of this horrorshow shit.
Int: I heard he offered you half the stock in the company.
DR: More than half. Well, I looked at what he'd done, what they'd bet the farm on. It barely ran. The code looked like someone had barfed onto a hard drive and then tried to compile it. I knew I could get it to run. I knew if I did, Bill and I would own the operating system for the world. All the businesses would buy it, and the much superior Mac platform would become a niche item or die out completely. So I thought about this, and I looked at Bill, and don't get me wrong, Bill's a great guy, he's going to have every classroom in India wired by next year and he's starting in on Africa, but if he or me or anyone else owned the computers on every desk in the world, and something happened like what happened to Emma happened to us and we turned into something like Xavier, then, well, I turned him down. I went to Apple and said that I'd marry the Mac OS with this free version of Unix from Europe if they'd turn the company into a cooperative, which they did. The rest is history.
Chapter 2 - X-Manson by Doctor Benway - Annotated By Tsar.
Many of you are familiar with Hank "The Tank" McCoy and his works. my college @brw is the formost McCoy Scholar. But as you'll see here this AU's version of Hank takes many cues from his Age of Apocalypse self. But he lacks any kind of the fuzzy goodness of your average Hank McCoy.
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[Shot of a very large man in an expensive suit in a lushly appointed office, possibly that of an investment banker but possibly that of a professor who is very good at getting grants. The man is wearing rimless high-fashion European glasses and a look of extreme urgency. Plainly, this interview is keeping him from something very important. He also has unusually large hands.]
[Caption: Henry McCoy, Trofim Lysenko Professor of Genetics at Northwestern University, Chicago IL]
*I didn't catch this on my first read through, but Trofim Lysenko is a soviet pseudo-scientist who rejected the idea of Medelivian genetics. He was primarily focused on hybridizing crops by grafting them together. It's frankly bizarre that an american institution in a post-soviet world would have such a position, but it's a weird world, isn't it?
HM: I was at the School For Gifted Youngsters for three of the best years of my life.
Int: You chose to attend?
HM: I had a rough time at my first high school, very rough. It was in the Midwest, where any deformities would make one the object of the most vicious ridicule. At the School, I set myself on the path to understanding that which had made me different.
Int: You worked with Charles Xavier on his genetic experiments?
HM: Charles Xavier had a profound intellect. Everything I am today I owe to him. His breakdown and demise were most unfortunate.
Int: You are aware of the controversy surrounding his background?
HM: Overblown, completely overblown. Xavier had a remarkable mind, one that transcended the petty certifications that we so often use to indicate the size of a mind.
Int: Such as your PhD from Princeton?
HM: Such as that, yes. I am certain that Charles Xavier could have easily attained all that I learned at Princeton in a much shorter time, had he not known it already. He was a most remarkable teacher, and I am but a humble fool by comparison.
*Simp.
Int: Were you close to the other students?
HM: As close as my studies would allow. My program of study was quite intensive, and I spent little time with them. I found their company pleasant, when I had time to indulge in it.
Int: Were they happy at the School?
HM: So far as I knew.
Int: What do you think happened to Robert Drake?
HM: I have no idea. He was still there when I left the School and went up to Princeton.
Int: Didn't you stay in touch with the others?
HM: I had limited contact with the Professor. Otherwise, I lost touch with them. I certainly wish I had not, knowing now what happened. If only I had known, I might have been able to prevent it.
[Shot of a much less well-appointed office with no windows but plenty of steam pipes. The place is in a state of almost pure chaos, with books and papers piled on every free surface. A middle aged man who obviously runs marathons is staring a little too keenly into the camera.]
[Caption: Sir Bernard Quatermass, RA Fisher Professor of Eugenics at the London School of Hygiene]
*Bernard Quartermass is another cross-media reference. He is derived from a 1955 british sci-fi serial called "The Quartermass Experiment. Quartermass is however not a Professor of Eugenics but an Aerospace Engineer.
**The London School of Hygiene is somewhat real, The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has had a few reports of eugenicist attitutes and white supremacy stances, though that can be expected from an institution that was founded as Britain was colonizing the world.
BQ: McCoy would sell his own mother to the gypsies to get the Nobel. For that matter, he missed his mother's funeral on account of some experiment he was involved in. Disgusting man. No one with any sense of honour will work with him.
*The only reason why B.Q isn't seen as a monster is because he is being placed in comparrison with this AU's Hank McCoy.
Int: Why is that?
BQ: His early career consisted almost entirely of publishing work weeks or even days ahead of others who had been working on their ideas for decades.
Int: So he had no ideas of his own?
BQ: Oh no, no, no. He did have some very good ideas, completely original ones as far as anyone could tell. He developed the anti-retrovirals that cured that awful venereal disease that the Africans caught from monkeys and that infected all those pederasts in California twenty years back. He has a better understanding of mutant genetics than almost anyone in the field. Of course, he would have, given his connections.
*evil Hank McCoy cured AIDS.
Int: How do you mean?
BQ: His work, and indeed all of our work, depends upon getting large quantities of genetic material in a fresh condition. He's always had and still has the best supplies of it.
Int: This material, it comes from cadavers?
BQ: Cadavers and those on their way to becoming them. It may be something as simple and harmlessly taken as blood, it might be a pituitary gland torn from a technically still-living brain. Brain, kidney, and liver tissue in particular can't be taken ethically until the source has died, and Henry always has had an unusually good supply of brains and kidneys.
*i think Bernard is jealous because he wants to get in on some illegal organ harvesting.
Int: You're suggesting that he may have gotten these by illegal means?
BQ: All I'm saying is, he always had tissue, whenever he needed it. If you want a subject for another documentary, try looking at how much cable traffic there is from his lab to China every time they have one of their anti-corruption campaigns.
[Shot of Dwight Hammer]
DH: The autopsy report on Robert Drake showed that he was missing several organs.
Int: Which ones?
DH: Brain, both kidneys, liver. Maybe more, he was down in that muck over ten years, but the coroner was sure that those ones were missing.
Int: Were any of the other bodies found in the lake missing organs?
DH: Some of them. Usually brains. Only one of the bodies was fully intact, the one that they call the Lady of the Lake. Some of the live ones we arrested were missing parts. Summers was missing a kidney and both eyes.
*two victims in the lake now, six remaining:
Robert Drake
Rogue
Int: What do you think happened to them?
DH: We know what happened to Summer's eyes, but we don't know what happened to his kidney. Maybe they ate it. Just assumed it was some sort of mutant thing.
*i think they took Summers' eyes as a means of keeping him powerless to stop them.
Int: Did you vote for the Kelly Amendment?
DH: Way I see it, the founding fathers set everything up assuming we were all equal. There's no call to make some more equal than others.
Int: So you don't feel that mutants need extra protection?
DH: Hell, no. Some of my best friends are mutants, and they never complained.
