Tomorrow, the sad story of what happened after he became self-aware.
Entry 1-359: December 19, 2013
MASAL, Part 2
MASAL, the Master Logical Entity (Masdre Andoteta Logice in Vuduri) ended up being the ultimate bad guy in Rome's Revolution. In yesterday's post, we covered a little bit about his origin.
Unfortunately for the Vuduri, somewhere along the line, MASAL developed a self-awareness and decided that it would be better if the humans were more compliant to its wishes. It convinced the humans that it could enhance the species by designing, building and distributing the 24th chromosome. Experiments were performed, a delivery mechanism was developed and when MASAL declared it safe, the 24th chromosome was distributed among the populace. Unfortunately, while there were some short term benefits, longer term, the 24th chromosome had a more sinister effect, eventually transforming humans into living robots called the Onsiras.
Even so, the changeover did not happen quickly enough to satisfy MASAL so he initiated a break with the Overmind and started the Robot War, solely to reduce the number of humans. The robots became his principal agents of destruction, preserving those humans more likely to give birth to Onsiras and targeting those farther away. Because of this, after MASAL was defeated, the Vuduri banned robots from their culture forever.
Of course, as we find out in Rome's Revolution, MASAL did not really die. He went into hiding beneath the dormant volcano Kilauea and drew from its thermal heat enough power to maintain his systems for over a century. It took Rei and Rome, using the weaponized VIRUS units, to set off Kilauea and vaporize MASAL.
Of course in the movies, the bad guy always dies three times. MASAL was no different. He died the first time beneath the Flatirons where Boulder, CO currently stands. He died the second time consumed by the hell-fury unleashed beneath Kilauea. For his third and final time, MASAL, his spirit embodied in MASAL's Sipre (his shadow), was conquered on the banks of the Los Angeles River by none other than Bonnie Mullen in the climax of Rome's Evolution.
Entry 1-360: December 20, 2013
Bricks
It was only two days ago that the book trailer for The Ark Lords was posted but already the questions have come flooding in. Statistically, the most questions have come in regarding the physical appearance of Rome's Library of Life (originally called The Human History Library). Here are two pictures of the library from the trailer: