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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