"slide14" - читать интересную книгу автора (Dalmas John - Yngling 01 - The Yngling 3.0.html)13.KAZI, TIMUR KARIM (A.D. 2064-2831), psionicist and emperor. Born
in Kabul, Afghanistan, he received a Ph.D. in neurophysiology from
the University of Lucerne in 2087; lectured at London University,
2087-2090; was professor of psionics at Damascus University,
2090-2094; and held the Freimann Chair of Psionics Research at the
University of Tel Aviv, 2094-2105. In 2096, Kazi developed the “esper crystal,” which
became the functional element of the psi tuner. At age forty-one,
although in chronically poor health, he was one of the few
survivors of the Great Death of 2105. He also survived the
difficult and primitive conditions that followed the plague,
presumably by dominating other survivors. Seriously afflicted with asthma and without effective medicines,
he eventually developed a process of ego-transfer believed to
involve the use of drugs and the psi tuner, transferring his ego
from his aging and debilitated body to one younger and
healthier. As a child, Kazi had been offensively egotistical, effectively
alienating himself from normal human relationships. This trait
intensified with his brilliant scientific successes and his
increasing ability to read minds and dominate others. His
development and use of ego-transfer, with the near immortality it
provided, probably furthered the pathological deterioration of his
personality. Sometime about the middle of the twenty-second century, Kazi
disappeared. He seems to have developed a self-controlled psionic
means of suspended animation. It has been suggested that he used
this to mark time until an increased population and further
socio-economic development provided something more gratifying to
dominate. Legends indicate that he was worshipped as a god at the
time he disappeared and that periodic living sacrifices of young
men were made at his tomb, believed to have been a cave in the
Judean Hills. Perhaps they were used for ego-transfers. If so, he
may occasionally have emerged to maintain the legend and select his
next body. He became active again sometime about 2750, and from that time
our picture becomes less conjectural again. Gradually he came to
dominate the Middle and Near East as far south as the Sudan, as
well as much of the Balkans, ruling some of the territory directly
and some of it as tributary provinces. Kazi developed a culture specifically for his army. Each level
practiced a harsh domination of the lower ranks, and all ranks
brutalized slaves and subject peoples. The utmost in cruelty was
not merely permitted, but demanded of the soldiers. Discipline was
based on fear, the fellowship of mutual depravity, and a
supersititous awe and terror of the ruler. He called them
“orcs,” after an army of subhuman monsters in a classic
of pre-plague fantasy fiction, The Lord of the Rings. (See
Tolkien, J.R.R.) After the first or second generation, all orcs
resulted from forced matings between his soldiers and captive
women, the offspring growing up in vicious camps whose regimens
were designed to eliminate the weak and to produce the orc
personality. This was Earth’s largest post-plague army, and its only
standing army. Its men were better disciplined and trained than
their feudal contemporaries and could be relied upon to fight
viciously and skillfully. It was also versatile, serving as both
infantry and cavalry during a time when feudal armies and most
barbaric tribes despised foot warfare. Kazi himself built in its major weakness when he designed its
culture. Its primary orientation was not fighting, but occupying
and brutalizing. It was supreme in breaking conquered peoples and
served its master’s psycopathic compulsion for unbridled
depravity, but it lacked the fervor and vigor necessary for a
really great army in an age of edged weapons and close combat. Kazi relied on auxiliaries to supplement that shortcoming. Many
small tribes of “horse barbarians” ranged and fought
one another in the steppes and arid mountains of south-central Asia
as far west as Turkey. By combinations of privilege, flattery and
threats, he was able to unite and command the use of large numbers
of those tribesmen when he wished, mostly to control other similar
tribes. The horse barbarians sometimes lacked discipline and unit
coordination, but they were skilled and reckless cavalry whose
passion was fighting . . . (From The New School Encyclopedia, copyright A.C.
920, Deep Harbor, New Home.) 13.KAZI, TIMUR KARIM (A.D. 2064-2831), psionicist and emperor. Born
in Kabul, Afghanistan, he received a Ph.D. in neurophysiology from
the University of Lucerne in 2087; lectured at London University,
2087-2090; was professor of psionics at Damascus University,
2090-2094; and held the Freimann Chair of Psionics Research at the
University of Tel Aviv, 2094-2105. In 2096, Kazi developed the “esper crystal,” which
became the functional element of the psi tuner. At age forty-one,
although in chronically poor health, he was one of the few
survivors of the Great Death of 2105. He also survived the
difficult and primitive conditions that followed the plague,
presumably by dominating other survivors. Seriously afflicted with asthma and without effective medicines,
he eventually developed a process of ego-transfer believed to
involve the use of drugs and the psi tuner, transferring his ego
from his aging and debilitated body to one younger and
healthier. As a child, Kazi had been offensively egotistical, effectively
alienating himself from normal human relationships. This trait
intensified with his brilliant scientific successes and his
increasing ability to read minds and dominate others. His
development and use of ego-transfer, with the near immortality it
provided, probably furthered the pathological deterioration of his
personality. Sometime about the middle of the twenty-second century, Kazi
disappeared. He seems to have developed a self-controlled psionic
means of suspended animation. It has been suggested that he used
this to mark time until an increased population and further
socio-economic development provided something more gratifying to
dominate. Legends indicate that he was worshipped as a god at the
time he disappeared and that periodic living sacrifices of young
men were made at his tomb, believed to have been a cave in the
Judean Hills. Perhaps they were used for ego-transfers. If so, he
may occasionally have emerged to maintain the legend and select his
next body. He became active again sometime about 2750, and from that time
our picture becomes less conjectural again. Gradually he came to
dominate the Middle and Near East as far south as the Sudan, as
well as much of the Balkans, ruling some of the territory directly
and some of it as tributary provinces. Kazi developed a culture specifically for his army. Each level
practiced a harsh domination of the lower ranks, and all ranks
brutalized slaves and subject peoples. The utmost in cruelty was
not merely permitted, but demanded of the soldiers. Discipline was
based on fear, the fellowship of mutual depravity, and a
supersititous awe and terror of the ruler. He called them
“orcs,” after an army of subhuman monsters in a classic
of pre-plague fantasy fiction, The Lord of the Rings. (See
Tolkien, J.R.R.) After the first or second generation, all orcs
resulted from forced matings between his soldiers and captive
women, the offspring growing up in vicious camps whose regimens
were designed to eliminate the weak and to produce the orc
personality. This was Earth’s largest post-plague army, and its only
standing army. Its men were better disciplined and trained than
their feudal contemporaries and could be relied upon to fight
viciously and skillfully. It was also versatile, serving as both
infantry and cavalry during a time when feudal armies and most
barbaric tribes despised foot warfare. Kazi himself built in its major weakness when he designed its
culture. Its primary orientation was not fighting, but occupying
and brutalizing. It was supreme in breaking conquered peoples and
served its master’s psycopathic compulsion for unbridled
depravity, but it lacked the fervor and vigor necessary for a
really great army in an age of edged weapons and close combat. Kazi relied on auxiliaries to supplement that shortcoming. Many
small tribes of “horse barbarians” ranged and fought
one another in the steppes and arid mountains of south-central Asia
as far west as Turkey. By combinations of privilege, flattery and
threats, he was able to unite and command the use of large numbers
of those tribesmen when he wished, mostly to control other similar
tribes. The horse barbarians sometimes lacked discipline and unit
coordination, but they were skilled and reckless cavalry whose
passion was fighting . . . (From The New School Encyclopedia, copyright A.C.
920, Deep Harbor, New Home.)
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