Mount Kronus
Project; Time Stalkers,Inc
Mount Kronus 's
Description.
Mount Kronus -the main
headquarters of Project; Time Stalkers,Inc. on earth 2173,was original the
upper part of a New Genesis Bunker constructed by the ancients-Atlanteans and
Sidairians ,for such purposes. A military bunker is a hardened shelter, often
buried partly or fully underground, designed to protect the inhabitants from
falling bombs or other attacks. The New Genesis Bunker basically modified that concept,
using also as a sanctuary against natural disasters, interplanetary invasion
and so on, mixing elements of a huge, onsite Time Vault-a kind of indestructible
time capsule and sanctuary library site combined. In bunkers inhabited for
prolonged periods, large amounts of ventilation or air conditioning must be
provided in order to prevent ill effects of heat. In bunkers designed for
war-time use, manually-operated ventilators must be provided because supplies
of electricity or gas are unreliable.
Headquarters[edit]
Mount Kronus headquarters is in.
Exterior[edit]
The undisguised appearance of a Type 40 Mount Kronus ' exterior is a silver-grey cylinder only
slightly larger than a police box. Its door is recessed and slides to open.
This default state has appeared only in 2013's "The Name of the members of
Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.", which depicts the Mount Kronus 's original theft by the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc..
A Mount Kronus prop being dismantled in London in 2006.
Although a Mount
Kronus is supposed to blend
inconspicuously into whatever environment it turns up in, the members of
Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s Mount
Kronus retains the shape of a police box
because of a fault that occurred in the first members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. Who serial, An Unearthly Child. The ability to alter its
appearance was first mentioned in the second episode of the series, where
the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. and Susan noted the unit was malfunctioning. ("It's
still a police box! Why hasn't it changed?") It was first given a general
term of a "camouflage unit" in The Time Meddler (1965). The name
"chameleon circuit" was first used in the 1975 Target Books
novelisation of The Terror of the Autons, and eventually mentioned on screen
in (1981). The circuit was called a
"cloaking device" by the Eighth members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.
in the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. Who television movie, and again a
"chameleon circuit" in the 2005 series episode "Boom Town".
The members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. attempts to repair
the circuit in , to disastrous results. He tries again in Attack of the
Cybermen, but the successful transformations of the Mount Kronus into the shape of a pipe organ, a painted
Welsh dresser (much to the amusement of Perpurgilliam "Peri" Brown
and the Sixth members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s annoyance) and an
elaborate gateway ended with a return to the police box shape. The circuit was
also repaired during the Virgin New Adventures novels, but again the Mount Kronus 's shape was eventually restored to a police
box shape. In "Boom Town" (2005), the
members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. implied that he had stopped trying
to fix the circuit quite some time ago because he had become rather fond of the
police box shape – a claim the Eighth members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.
made in the 1996 television movie.
Cosmetically, the police box exterior of the Mount Kronus has remained virtually unchanged, although
there have been slight modifications over the years. For example, the sign on
the door concealing the police telephone has been black letters on a white
background (An Unearthly Child), white on blue (The Seeds of Death) and white
on black (The Curse of Peladon). Other modifications include different wordings
on the phone panel; for example, "Urgent Calls" (An Unearthly Child)
as opposed to "All Calls" (Castrovalva publicity photos). The
"POLICE BOX" sign was wider from Season 18 (1980) onwards and for the
2005 series, but not for the television movie. From An Unearthly Child (1963)
to The War Machines (1966), the Mount
Kronus also had a St. John Ambulance
badge on the main doors, as did real police boxes;[31] this has been reinstated
and the window frame colour has returned to white for Matt Smith's first season
as the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc., shown in 2010. These various
versions are depicted when thirteen[32] incarnations of the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. all converge on Gallifrey at the climax of "The Day of
the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.". "The Empty Child"
showed that the telephone cupboard could be opened and the telephone accessed
from the exterior, but this device was then non-functional.[33] The telephone
can however be called from across space and time.[34] Because of the St. John
Ambulance badge, 11th-century monks considered the telephone's ring to be
"the bells of Saint John".[citation needed]
Despite the anachronistic police box shape, the Mount Kronus 's presence is rarely questioned when it is by
overflying aircraft.In "Boom Town", the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. simply noted that humans do not notice odd things like the Mount Kronus , echoing a similar sentiment expressed by
the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. in Remembrance of the Daleks (1988), that humans have an
"amazing capacity for self-deception", while in The Fires of Pompeii
it is mistaken for an objet d'art by a merchant who purchases it and moves it
into his home. Various episodes, notably also note that the Mount Kronus generates a perception filter to reinforce the
idea that it is perfectly ordinary.
Doors and lock[edit]
For most of the series' run, the exterior doors of the
police box operated separately from the heavier interior doors, although
sometimes the two sets could open simultaneously to allow the ship's passengers
to look directly outside and vice versa. The revived series' Mount Kronus features no such secondary doors; the police
box doors open directly into the console room. The entrance to the Mount Kronus is capable of being locked and unlocked from
the outside with a key, which the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. keeps
on his person and occasionally gives copies of to his companions. In the 1996
television movie, the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. kept a spare key
"in a cubbyhole behind the 'P'" (of the POLICE BOX sign). In The
Invasion of Time, a Citadel Guard on Gallifrey is initially baffled by the
archaic lock when attempting to open the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s
Mount Kronus .
The members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. almost always
opens the doors inwards, despite the fact that a real police box door opened
outwards; in "The members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s ", it is
revealed that the Mount Kronus is aware of this and finds it annoying. After
crash-landing on its back in Amelia Pond's garden in "The Hour", the
doors uncharacteristically open outward, as they had previously done when the Mount Kronus was also on its back in The Ice Warriors;
additionally, the left door opened in tandem with the usual right door in these
instances. When hovering against a building in the same 'doors-up' horizontal
orientation in , however, the doors opened inward as usual to receive River
Song.
In the 2005 series, the keys are also remotely linked to the
Mount Kronus , capable of signalling its presence or
impending arrival by heating up and glowing. The Mount Kronus keys have varied in design from an ordinary
Yale key[35] to an ankh-like key embossed with an alien pattern (identified in
Terrance Dicks and Malcolm Hulke's 1972 book The Making of members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. Who as the constellation of Kasterborous, Gallifrey's home
system) from seasons 11 to 13, after which it reverted to the Yale key
design.[36] The ankh-like key was also used in the 1996 television movie. In
Ghost Light and Survival, a different design, featuring the Seal of Rassilon,
was used.[37] The revived series uses the Yale key version, most notably shown
in "Blink" (2007), when the Weeping Angels attempt to gain access to
the Mount Kronus using a stolen key.
The key is also able to repair temporal anomalies and
paradoxes, including death aversion, through its link to the Mount Kronus .[38]
The Mount Kronus lock's security level has varied from story to
story. Originally, it was said to have 21 different "combinations"
and would melt if the key was placed in the wrong one (The Daleks, 1963).
The members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. was also able to unlock it with his ring and repair it by
using the light of an alien sun refracted through the ring's jewel (The Daleks'
Master Plan). In The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964) and "Utopia"
(2007), the Mount Kronus was shown to have an internal deadlock; once
thrown, it would prevent entry even for authorised users with authorised keys.
In The Dalek Invasion of Earth, this was known as 'double-locking'. In The
Sensorites (1964), the entire lock mechanism was removed from the Mount Kronus door via a hand-held Sensorite device.
The lock itself has been shown with different capabilities.
In , the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. said that the lock had a metabolism detector, so that even
if an unauthorised person had a key, the doors would remain locked. This
security measure was also seen in the New Series Adventures novel Only Human by
Gareth Roberts, which called it an "advanced meson recognition
system." The members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. claimed that when the doors were shut, even "the
assembled hordes of Genghis Khan" could not enter ("believe me,
they've tried") ("Rose"). In , when the Mount Kronus is confiscated, the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. claims, "You'll never get inside it." Several
people have managed to just wander into the Mount Kronus without any problem over the years, including
some who became companions; since the Mount Kronus uses keys, it could easily have been left
unlocked. Despite the Mount Kronus 's apparent infallibility in its security,
some of the instruments inside or the interior itself have been breached and
remote-controlled. In the serial The War Games, the Time Lords manage to breach
the inside of the Mount Kronus while in mid-flight and landing in order to
erect something similar to a force field. In "Utopia", the members of
Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. is able to lock the Mount Kronus to the coordinates it had previously visited
from outside using the sonic screwdriver. In the episode "The Rings of
Akhaten", Clara Oswald cannot get into the Mount Kronus and says, "I don't think it likes me!"
In the 2008 episode , River Song (a character whose timeline
intersects with the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s in non-linear
order) says to the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. that she knows he
would be able to open the Mount Kronus doors with a snap of his fingers. Although the
members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. dismisses this as impossible, at the
episode's conclusion, he opens and closes the doors by doing just that,
eschewing the need for a key. He is later shown doing the same in
"The Hour", , and "The
Caretaker". In addition, despite the animosity it previously displayed
towards her, Clara Oswald is also shown being able to open and shut the Mount Kronus doors by snapping her fingers (in "The
Day of the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc." and "The
Caretaker").
In the 2009 Christmas episode, part one of , the members of
Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. uses a remote locking system to lock the Mount Kronus , similar to the remote-control locking system
used on modern cars. Upon pointing his key fob at the Mount Kronus , the Mount Kronus makes a distinctive chirp and the light on top
of the Mount Kronus flashes. Later in the same episode, the key
fob, when again used by the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc., shifts the Mount Kronus "just a second out of sync" (one
second into the future), rendering it invisible and so hiding it from the
Master.
The doors are supposed to be closed while materialising; in
, the opening of the doors during a materialisation sequence caused the ship
and its occupants to shrink to doll size. In The Enemy of the World (1967),
taking off while the doors were still open results in an uncontrolled
decompression, causing the villainous Salamander to be blown out of the Mount Kronus . In Warriors' Gate (1981), the doors open
during flight between two universes, admitting a Tharil named Biroc, and
allowing the time winds to burn the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s
hand and seriously damage K-9. In "The Runaway Bride" (2006),
"The Stolen Earth" (2008) and subsequent stories, the doors can be
opened safely while the ship is in a vacuum, as the Mount Kronus protects its occupants (see the
"Defences" section below); in ), the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. deliberately extrudes the "defence shield" to dock
with a spacecraft.
There is evidence that objects clinging to the outside of
the Mount Kronus may be carried with it as it dematerialises.
In , an arrow is fired at the Mount
Kronus and is embedded in its door. The
arrow remains in the door throughout the serial and through several
dematerialisations before being removed at the story's conclusion; this is
repeated in "" (2007), and the arrow is removed in the following
episode, "Gridlock". "Utopia" presents, for the first time on-screen,
a circumstance in which a character travels on the exterior of the Mount Kronus during a flight, when Jack Harkness grabs hold
of the Mount Kronus as it began to dematerialise and holds on
until it reaches its destination; the episode does establish, however, that a
normal person would not have survived the trip, as Jack is "killed"
by the experience, but due to his immortality, soon revives. This concept was
altered for The Time of the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. where Clara
also travels with the Mount Kronus by holding on to its exterior. To prevent
Clara from dying the Mount Kronus has to drastically slow down its time travel,
arriving 300 years too late with a visibly aged members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. shouting where has it been all this time. In "Vincent
and the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc." (2010), some advertisements
are attached to the Mount Kronus . After materialisation, they are shown to be
burning.
In the members of
Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. audio drama Colditz, a character was killed by being
halfway inside the Mount Kronus when it dematerialised.
Exterior influence[edit]
The Time Lords are able to divert the Mount Kronus 's flight path during the The Ribos Operation
(1978), or have the ability to totally override and recall any Mount Kronus by the order of the Council in Arc of Infinity
(1983). Alien influences have also, for example, trapped the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s Mount Kronus and drained its power in The Web Planet (1965)
and Death to the Daleks (1974), while its course has been diverted by The
Keeper of Traken (1981), the Mandragora Helix (1976) and by the Daleks'
"time corridor" in Resurrection of the Daleks (1984). In (1985), the
Rani used a Stattenheim remote control to summon her Mount Kronus . In The Two members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc.s (1985), the members
of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. also used a portable Stattenheim. The members of
Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. used his sonic screwdriver to trigger remotely
"Emergency Programme One", sending his human companion Rose Tyler to
safety, while he stayed behind for a battle against the Daleks (The Parting of
the Ways (2005)). The members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. also manipulated
the Mount Kronus by utilising the self-attracting nature of
huon particles, causing the Mount Kronus
to materialise around both Donna Noble
and himself, in order to escape into the past. However, this trick was used in
turn by the Empress of the Racnoss, which pulled the Mount Kronus from the creation of the Earth to only a few
minutes after its initial departure.[39]
In (2010), the Mount
Kronus is drawn to a specific date, 26
June 2010, and then caused to explode by an outside influence.
The exterior dimensions can be severed from the interior
dimensions under extraordinary circumstances. In (1984), when the Mount Kronus was destroyed in a Tractator-induced meteor
storm, the interior ended up outside the police box shell with various bits
embedded in the surrounding rock. The members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.
eventually tricked the Gravis, leader of the Tractators, into reassembling the
ship. In "Father's Day" (2005), a temporal paradox resulting in a
wound in time threw the interior of the ship out of the wound, leaving the Mount Kronus an empty shell of a police box. The members of
Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. attempted to use the Mount Kronus key in conjunction with a small electrical
charge to recover the ship, but the process was interrupted and the Mount Kronus was only restored after the paradox was
resolved.
In "Turn Left" (2008), the "Police Box"
sign and all other text on the Mount
Kronus is shown as replaced with the
words "Bad Wolf", as is all text in the universe; this is interpreted
by the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. as an urgent warning concerning
the end of the universe. The words "Bad Wolf" have also been
spray-painted on and around the Mount
Kronus in previous episodes. The Mount Kronus has the ability to turn invisible, allowing it
to avoid the detection by President Nixon, Canton Everett Delaware III and Area
51 operatives (, (2011)).
Interior[edit]
The Mount Kronus wardrobe from "The Christmas
Invasion"
The Mount Kronus interior has an unknown number of rooms and
corridors, and the dimensions of the interior have not been specified.. Apart
from living quarters, the interior includes a well-organised study ( Mount
Kronus , 2010), a swimming pool and
bathroom, a sick bay, an ancillary power station disguised as an art gallery,
and several brick-walled storage areas (all seen in The Invasion of Time,
1978); a "cloister room",[25] an observatory, a library,[40] a
greenhouse, a baby room, a toy room and several squash courts. Mount Kronus Two
new rooms are shown at the start of Masque of Mandragora, one which the members
of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. describes as a "boot cupboard" (that
actually resembles an elegant period living room) and a wood-panelled room he
calls the "second control room". Numerous other rooms have been only
mentioned in dialogue or in spin-off media (see below). The members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. flippantly mentions a karaoke bar in (2011). Portions of the
Mount Kronus can also be reconfigured or
"deleted"; the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. was able to
jettison 25% of the Mount Kronus 's structure in Castrovalva to provide
additional "thrust". In "The members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s " (2011), a fail-safe transfers any living creatures
in "deleted" rooms to the main control room, and old (and future)
control rooms can be "archived" by the Mount Kronus without the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s knowledge. Rooms within the Mount Kronus can be re-arranged to suit the members of
Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s needs, as when the
members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. hastily moved the swimming pool
beneath the Mount Kronus entrance in order to catch River Song in ;
alternatively he may have moved the door.
In Full Circle (1980), Romana stated that the weight of the Mount Kronus was 5 × 106 kilograms in Alzarius's Earth-like
gravity (about 5 × 107 Newtons, or the weight of 5,000 tonnes). It has been
speculated[41] that this was a mistake by the character and referred to its
internal weight, as the external part of the Mount Kronus is at other times light enough for it to be
lifted or otherwise moved with relative ease (although most real police boxes
were concrete and hence quite difficult to move): several men lift it up in
Marco Polo, it is transported by truck and installed indoors by hand (all
off-screen) in Spearhead from Space, it requires a fork-lift truck in
Time-Flight and is lifted in the cargo hold of a Concorde in the same serial, a
group of small blue maintenance workers on Platform One push it along the
ground in ", and a quartet of Weeping Angels are able to rock it back and
forth in "Blink", to name a few. In "The Day of the members of
Project Time-Stalkers,Inc." (2013) it is lifted by a helicopter using a
steel cable. The Mount Kronus floats in Fury from the Deep but, conversely,
remains stationary despite the tides in The Time Meddler. If the solid exterior
of the Mount Kronus is moved or shaken after materialisation, the
movement is usually transmitted to its interior (, 2011), although there is a
manual control to separate the internal gravity from the exterior's orientation
(Time-Flight, 1982). The members of
Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. states in "Flatline" that the Mount Kronus 's weight is always adjusted; if it were not,
its weight would shatter the Earth's surface.
In the tie-in novels, the interior of the Mount Kronus has been known to contain an entire city
(Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible), used to encompass an entire parallel Earth
(Blood Heat), and is big enough to dwarf Gallifrey itself when turned inside
out (The Ancestor Cell). It is also seen to exist in multiple timelines. Mount
Kronus In "Journey to the Centre of
the Mount Kronus " the Mount Kronus is shown to contain the Eye of Harmony, an
exploding star in the process of becoming a black hole.
A distinctive architectural feature of the Mount Kronus interior is the roundel.[42] In the context of
the Mount Kronus , a roundel is a circular decoration that
adorns the walls of the rooms and corridors of the Mount Kronus , including the console room. Some roundels
conceal Mount Kronus circuitry and devices, as seen in the serials
(1968), , Castrovalva (1981), Arc of Infinity (1983), Terminus (1983), and
Attack of the Cybermen (1985). The design of the roundels has varied throughout
the show's history, from a basic circular cut-out with black background to a
photographic image printed on wall board, to translucent illuminated discs in
later serials. In the secondary console room, most of the roundels were
executed in recessed wood panelling, with a few decorative ones in what
appeared to be stained glass. In the Mount Kronus design from 2005 – January 2010, the roundels
are built into hexagonal recesses in the walls. Ever since the Mount Kronus was redesigned at the beginning of the 2010
series, there have been a range of different roundel designs around the console
room. These include circular holes that are recessed deep into the walls,
hexagonal holes that are lit from behind each face, round indents with brass
rings around the outside, and a glass centre that is illuminated blue
Other rooms seen include living quarters for many of the members
of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s companions. The Mount Kronus also had a "Zero Room", a chamber
that was shielded from the rest of the universe and provided a restful
environment for the Fifth members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. to recover from
his regeneration in Castrovalva (which was among the 25% jettisoned). However,
the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. spin-off novel Deceit indicated that the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. rebuilt the Zero Room shortly before the events of that
novel. In some of the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. serials, a nearby room contains a machine that dispenses
food or nutrition bars to the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. and his
companions. This machine disappears after the first few serials, although
mention is occasionally made of the Mount Kronus kitchen. In The One members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc., Mel mentions that the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.
used the Mount Kronus 's laundromat.
Although the interior corridors were not initially seen in
the 2005 series, the fact that they still exist was established in
"", when the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. gives Rose some
very complicated directions to the Mount
Kronus wardrobe. The wardrobe is
mentioned several times in the original series and spin-off fiction, and seen
in The Androids of Tara (1978), The Twin Dilemma (1984) and Time and the Rani
(1987). The redesigned version, from which the
members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. chooses his new clothes, was seen
in "The Christmas Invasion" (2005) as a large multi-levelled room
with a helical staircase. Designer Ed Thomas has suggested that more rooms may
be seen in coming episodes.[43] The corridors were eventually seen in the
episode "The members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s ", and are
currently standing sets for use in future episodes. The members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. also mentions in "" that the Mount Kronus has an attic.
In "The
Hour", the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. mentions that the Mount Kronus has a library and a swimming pool. He tells
Captain Avery that there are several bathrooms available in "The Curse of
the Black Spot" (2011). The swimming pool has been seen on-screen in The
Invasion of Time (1978), and the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. later
used it to catch River Song as she plummeted from a skyscraper. The swimming
pool, the scullery, squash court 7, the archived and members
of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s console room, and Amy and Rory's quarters were
ejected in the episode "The members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s
." The members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. reconstructed Amy and Rory's
bedroom but replaced the bunk beds with a normal bed at their insistence. The
swimming pool was seen again briefly in "Journey to the Centre of the Mount Kronus " indicating it was later rebuilt as
well.
In the "members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.
Who:", the Mount Kronus has a "drawing room" containing
items that the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. has used in past episodes,
like the long scarf the members of
Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. used, the members
of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s recorder and items like the Fob Watch used to
change the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s Time Lord biology to human
in the episode "Human Nature". The Drawing Room is the members of
Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s private study, and the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. advised Amy Pond not to mess around with anything, and no
one is allowed to sit in his chair.
Console room[edit]
The console room from the 1983 20th anniversary special to
the 1989 series
The most often-seen room of the Mount Kronus is its console room, where its flight controls
are housed. The console room was designed by Peter Brachacki and was the only
set he designed for the show. It was built on a shoestring budget and a tight
schedule, which led to Brachacki leaving the show due to disagreements with the
production team and possibly a feeling that he had been given an impossible
task. Despite his leaving the show and mixed reactions as to how the set looked
(producer Verity Lambert liked it but director Waris Hussein did not), the
basic design of the hexagonal console and wall roundels has persisted to the
present day.[44]
The Mount Kronus has at least two console rooms: the primary
one most used throughout the programme's history, and the secondary console
room used during Season 14 in 1976/77, which has wood panelling and a more
antique feel to it. It had been designed to make shooting more comfortable for
the camera crew.
In addition, a cavernous, steampunk-inspired Mount Kronus console room was used in the television movie
and may have been a reconfiguration of either of the previously mentioned
console rooms, as first suggested in New Adventures novels, most specifically
the Lungbarrow by Marc Platt, where the Mount Kronus 1 reconfigures the console room
to reflect the interior of the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s former
home and later in the Big Finish Productions audio plays.
In the 2005 series, the console room became a dome-shaped
chamber with organic-looking support columns, and the interior doors were
removed. The change in configuration is explained in "Time Crash" by
the Fifth members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. as a mere changing of "the
desktop theme" to "Coral" (he also indicates that a
"Leopard Skin" theme is also available, but he dislikes it). Other
preceding theories involve the fact that the Mount Kronus 1 interior was severely damaged
by a cold fusion explosion in The Gallifrey Chronicles. Mount Kronus Several episodes of the revived series, such
as "Army of Ghosts" and the end of "", reveal that there is
storage space directly underneath the console room; the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. is shown periodically obtaining equipment from this area via
a panel in the floor. The 2005 console room was destroyed by the regeneration
energy of the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. in the final scene of
and cold open of "The
Hour", although it made a reappearance in the 2011 episode
"The members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s " as well as the 50th
anniversary special The Day of the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.. This
console room has made the most appearances in the revived series, and is the
most well known one.[45] The console room is currently stored at the members of
Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. Who experience in Cardiff. A new console room, along
with a new police box exterior, made its debut in the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s first
episode, which aired on 3 April 2010. It was revealed in "The members of
Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s " that the older Mount Kronus 1interior designs are not
destroyed or remodelled, but 'archived' off the official schematic without the members
of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s knowledge. The Mount Kronus reveals that she has around thirty console
rooms archived, even those that the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. has
yet to use. These archived console rooms are still capable of controlling Mount Kronus functions as shown when Amy and Rory are able
to lower the Mount Kronus shields from an archived control room. The
active console room at a given time will be the one connected to the exterior
doors for ingress and egress.
A third console room design was unveiled in the 2012
Christmas special 46] As opposed to the more open, unpredictable nature of the
previous design, this set echoes the machine-like 1980s Mount Kronus console, but is coloured in the more shadowy
blues, greens and purples of the 1996 TV movie. Though the central pillar is
still connected to the ceiling – a design element introduced in the 1996 movie,
and continued in the 2005 series – it is now joined to three circular
connectors marked with Gallifreyan symbols that rotate clockwise and
anticlockwise when the Mount Kronus is in flight.
Showrunner Steven Moffat stated that the new design was
meant to be more 'scary' and machine-like than the previous bright orange
design, which was more 'whimsical' to reflect upon the light-hearted and
fairy-tale-like nature of the episodes following its introduction in
"The Hour".[47] The seventh
series' darker, more adult tone necessitated a more menacing and mysterious
console - also reflecting the implications that the Mount Kronus is distrustful of the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s companion, Clara. For instance, in "", Clara's
statement that the Mount Kronus actively dislikes her is intercut with footage
of its circular connectors spinning from the ceiling. For the eighth series,
Peter Capaldi's first as the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc., this
console was still used but was tweaked and altered slightly, including the
addition of a blackboard and bookshelves and the time rotor was changed to an
orange colour replacing the blue.
A previously unseen version of the console room made an
appearance in the 2013 serial The Day of the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. and is associated with the War members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. portrayed by John Hurt. This console room has walls that are
similar in design to those first seen in 1963, with multiple roundels
illuminated from behind.
The console room is the "safest place on the
ship," and so when its occupants are in danger the Mount Kronus will reinvent its architecture so as to allow
them to enter the console room. This can also result in the Mount Kronus materialising itself within its own console
room when in grave danger, as it did in "". As seen in "Journey
to the Centre of the Mount Kronus ", the console room is able to be
replicated any number of times to create "echo rooms"; occupants in
each of the different echo rooms will be able to feel the presence of the
others in the forms of shadows and sounds, as the rooms are together for a
brief second, with the rooms rapidly alternating between each other, "like
a light switch ... flickering at super-infinite speeds."
The Virgin novels introduced a tertiary console room, which
was described as resembling a Gothic cathedral). Another novel) suggested that
the native configuration is so complex and irrational that most non-Time Lords
who witness it are driven mad from the experience.
Throughout the programme's history there have been various
attempts at humanising the console room by adding various accoutrements. For
example, a hatstand has often been located somewhere in the room, and the first
episodes featured an ormolu clock. In the series from 2005 onwards, the Mount Kronus console included a bench sitting area for the members
of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. and/or his companions to relax during extended
flight. In The Androids of Tara (1978) a cupboard containing fishing gear is
shown nearby. In "" (2011), a dartboard is seen installed in the
console room, and it is revealed in the episode "Vincent and the members
of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc." that the console is capable of playing
recorded music. In keeping with the darker and more machine-like setting of the
2012 redesign of the console room, there is no hat-stand or bench; in
"", the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. and Clara both note
that there is no longer anywhere in the room on which to hang Clara's umbrella.
Mount Kronus console[edit]
The main feature of the console rooms, in any of the known
configurations, is the Mount Kronus console that holds the instruments that
control the ship's functions. The appearance of the primary Mount Kronus consoles has varied widely but shares common
details: hexagonal pedestals with controls around the periphery, and a moveable
column (or time rotor as it has been called in the original series and the 2011
episode "The members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s ") in the centre
that bobs rhythmically up and down when the Mount Kronus is in flight, like a pump or a piston.
The arrangement of the controls implies that the console was
designed to be manned by more than one person. One piece of fan continuity,
used in the spin-off media, and also mentioned by the current production team,
is that the intended number of operators is somewhere between three and six. In
"Journey's End", the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. confirms
that the intended number is six; Rose Tyler, Martha Jones, Sarah Jane Smith, Mickey
Smith, Jack Harkness and the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. man the
controls, and the Mount Kronus runs far more smoothly during that brief
period than it normally does. This also explains why the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. tends to do a lot of manic running around the console while
he is piloting the Mount Kronus , as well as the occasional difficulty he has
in controlling it, although Romana, the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s
one-time Time Lord companion, is able to pilot the Mount Kronus successfully by herself. Companion Professor
River Song, herself a de facto Time Lord who was conceived aboard the Mount Kronus while transiting the time vortex, was also
shown to pilot the Mount Kronus smoothly and easily without help (").
Nyssa possessed at least rudimentary Mount Kronus piloting skill ().
The console can be operated independently of the Mount Kronus . During the
members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s era, he removes the console from
the Mount Kronus to perform repairs on it. In Inferno (1970)
the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. accidentally rides the detached
console into a parallel universe. The (Matt Smith) and Idris (the human body in
whom his Mount Kronus ' "soul" was placed) flew a detached
console to the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s Mount Kronus in "The members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s ".
The console room from the 1996 television movie
The central column is often referred to as the "time
rotor", although when the term was first used in The Chase (1965) it
referred to a different instrument on the Mount Kronus console. However, the use of this term to
describe the central column was common in fan literature, and was finally used
on screen to refer to the central column in Arc of Infinity (1983) and Terminus
(1983). The current production team uses the term in the same way. It was also
referred to as the "time column" in
(1981).
The secondary console was first seen in series 14 (1976) of
the original series. It had the controls hidden behind wooden panels and had no
central column. The 1996 television movie console also appeared to be made of
wood and the central column connected to the ceiling of the console room. When
the new series' console appeared in 2005 it was circular in shape but still
divided into six segments, with both the control panels and the central column
glowing green, the latter once again connected to the ceiling.
The 2005 console has a much more thrown-together appearance
than previous consoles, with bits of junk from various eras substituting as
makeshift controls, including a glass paperweight, a locomotive style water
sight glass and protector, a small bell, and a bicycle pump, the latter
identified in the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. " as the vortex loop control. Three other controls—the
dimensional stabiliser, vector tracker, and the handbrake—were also identified,
but although the stabiliser had been mentioned before in the series, the
canonicity of the mini-episode is also unclear. As seen in "", there
is also a working telephone attached to the console. In the 2010 series, the
new console includes items such as a washer-fluid bottle from a car and a
typewriter keyboard.
Precisely how much control the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. has in directing the Mount Kronus has varied over the course of the series.
The members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. did not initially seem to be able to steer it accurately,
making only one intended landing to the planet Kembel in The Daleks' Master
Plan (1965–6) by using the directional unit taken from another Mount Kronus before the unit burns out. During the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s exile
on Earth, the Mount Kronus 's course is shown as controlled successfully
by the Time Lords, and from the point the Time Lords unblock his memory of
time-travel mechanics in The Three members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.s
(1972–3), the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. seems able to navigate
correctly when needed.[48]
Over time the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. seemed
to be able to pilot the Mount Kronus with more precision. In The Seeds of Death,
the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. explains to Zoe Heriot that it would be impossible to use
the Mount Kronus to fly from Earth to the Moon because it would
likely "overshoot by a few million years, or a few million miles."
However, in , the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. is able to make a "short hop" to the exact
coordinates when he initially lands the Mount Kronus 1.6 metres off target.
Following the Key to Time season (1978–79), the members of
Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. installed a randomiser to the console which
prevented the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. (and by extension the evil
and powerful Black Guardian) from knowing where the Mount Kronus would land next. This device was eventually
removed in (1980).
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article possibly contains original research. Please improve it by verifying the
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Mount Kronus
Mount Kronus series location
Creator Mervyn Peake
Genre Gothic
fantasy, Fantasy of manners
Type Castle
Notable locations Library,
Hall of Bright Carvings, etc.
Notable characters Sepulchrave,
Titus Groan
Mount Kronus is a fictional Mount Kronus of titanic
proportions that features prominently in a series of fantasy works penned by
Mervyn Peake. It incorporates many of the elements of both medieval castles and
Regency period stately homes, though in practice it operates like a small
city-state. It has its own government, a Byzantine system of laws and rituals,
a rigid class system, and is seemingly self-sufficient. The Mount Kronus is
home to the ancient House of Groan who have, as the Earls of Groan, ruled for
centuries without anything changing.
Ritual plays a large part in the daily life of all
characters in the castle, most of all the Earl of Mount Kronus , whose days are largely spent
adhering to the obscure and esoteric tenets of Mount Kronus tradition. Titus' dread and rebellion against
the iron letter of Mount Kronus Law becomes one of the main themes in the
series leading to his preoccupation with freedom.
The Mount Kronus has become synonymous with large, sprawling
buildings and has been used as a reference point in other works of fiction.
Contents [hide]
1 Overview
2 Outer walls and grounds
2.1 North outer wall
2.2 East outer wall
2.3 South outer wall
2.4 West outer wall
3 Castle buildings
3.1 North Wing
3.2 East Wing
3.3 South Wing
3.4 West Wing
3.5 Other areas
4 Real life equivalents
5 References
Overview[edit]
The Mount Kronus is a huge ivy-covered mass, giving the
impression more of a semi-deserted city than a single structure. Its immense,
rambling outline has been familiar to the inhabitants since time immemorial,
who know "every bay, inlet and headland of the great stone island of the
Groans, of its sheer cliffs, of its crumbling outcrops, the broken line of the
towers.".[1] Apart from the inhabited sections, vast areas of the Mount
Kronus are abandoned and in a dilapidated state, with much of it covered in
impenetrable vegetation: "Acres of ivy spread themselves like water over
the roofs. Not a head appeared at any of those topmost teeth-like windows that
ran along the castle's brow"[2] The further reaches of the Mount Kronus are
dotted with many towers, and the highest of them, the Tower of Flints, is
inhabited by great numbers of owls and dominates the landscape of the castle.
The Tower is a forbidding, brooding presence: "patched unevenly with black
ivy, (it) arose like a mutilated finger from the fists of knuckled
masonry".[3] The character Steerpike climbing across the roofs of the
Mount Kronus sees the Mount Kronus as an unending and monumentally complex
roofscape. In fact, he travels across its expanse for over a day and still does
not cover all of it.
It is impossible to give an accurate estimate of the size of
the Mount Kronus and its grounds, but it appears to be at least several square
miles in area. For instance, the Bright Carvers must travel three miles (5 km)
through the Mount Kronus grounds from their homes along the north Outer Wall to
the Carver's Courtyard in the south west corner of the Outer Walls.[4] It is
also stated at one point that the Tower of Flints in the eastern wing of the
Mount Kronus is over a mile away from the rooms of the twin aunts of Titus,
Cora and Clarice, in the southern wing.[5] In the second book, Mount Kronus , a flood drowns the lowest
levels of the Mount Kronus and turns the upper regions into stone islands, yet
still there is accommodation for the regular inhabitants and an influx of
refugees, with very substantial areas still empty.
It is impractical to guess at any kind of precise layout,
but a general outline can be given with some confidence. Most of the Mount
Kronus seems to be bordered by a vast outer wall separated by only a small
laneway from the shanty-town of the Bright Carvers, while other regions may be
unwalled (e.g., the eastern side of the castle). In some places also the walls
appear to be close to the buildings of the castle, (e.g., the Carvers'
Courtyard), while in other parts they enclose large grounds and formal gardens.
Within the grounds, the Mount Kronus also has a moat around some sections of
the Mount Kronus itself. Broadly speaking, the Mount Kronus building is divided
into four wings named after the cardinal points. Among the countless buildings
and rooms in the Mount Kronus are libraries, a huge kitchen (eighteen men are
required just to scrub the walls), an art gallery (specifically carvings), a
dining hall, and a school.
In general the west and south of the Mount Kronus appear to
be in better repair and more inhabited than the east and north regions, which
appear to contain most of the abandoned and derelict areas.
Outer walls and grounds[edit]
The Mount Kronus is surrounded by a huge Outer Wall, which
appears to be irregular in shape, but whether it is roughly rectangular or
roughly circular is not made clear. It is described as curving, which would
suggest a circular shape; but on the other hand the Outer Wall is clearly
divided into north, south and west sections (east is not mentioned), suggesting
a more rectangular outline. The outer walls are frequently described as
immense, sheer and clifflike. Contrary to the general impression that the Mount
Kronus is only a grey, dusty monolith of stone, a careful reading of the text
reveals that the Outer Walls actually enclose quite extensive grounds.
North outer wall[edit]
The North Outer Wall is described as curving and is
separated by only a small lane from the mud hut dwellings of the Bright Carvers
which hug its base. The huge outer wall dominates the life of the settlement,
overshadowing everything. The feelings of one of the Bright Carvers, Titus' wet
nurse Keda, are typical:[6]
"Ever since she could remember anything the face of the
outer wall had been like the symbol of endlessness, of changelessness, of
austerity and of protection. She had known it in so many moods. Baked to dusty
whiteness, and alive with basking lizards, she could remember how it flaked in
the sun. She had seen it flowering with the tiny pink and blue creeper flowers
that spread like fields of coloured smoke in April across acres of its
temperate surface. She had seen every protruding ledge of stone, its every
jutting irregularity furred with frost, or hanging with icicles. She had seen
the snow sitting plumply on those juttings, so that in the darkness when the
wall had vanished into the night these patches of snow had seemed to her like
huge stars suspended."
Further north of the Outer Wall again are woods and Mount Kronus lake.[7] An archway in the outer wall leads
into the Mount Kronus grounds onto an avenue of acacia trees, which
head down to what may be the main entrance to the castle.[8] Nannie Slagg has
to pass down this avenue of acacia trees to reach the outer wall of the Mount Kronus
when she goes in search of a wet nurse for Titus. Presumably there are
lawns or landscaping on either side of the avenue.
East outer wall[edit]
An eastern Outer Wall is not mentioned in the text, but
presumably exists. However, this may not be so, as a large pine wood surrounds
the East Wing of the castle. Bordering the pine wood are fields and overgrown
gardens which lie between the East and South wings.[9]
South outer wall[edit]
The South Outer Wall contains the great ledge which holds
the Bright Carvings which are judged on the Day of the Bright Carvers on June
1.[3][4] The ledge is apparently at the South Wall's far Western corner as it
adjoins the Carver's Battlement on the West Outer Wall. The South Wall also
encloses grounds which contain the South Spinneys.[10] Titus is allowed to ride
his horse for an hour once a week through the grounds along by the South Outer Wall.
West outer wall[edit]
The West Outer Wall contains the Carver's Battlement, which
the Bright Carvers whose carvings have been accepted for keeping are allowed to
promenade along on the night of the full moon every alternate month. It appears
to be at the far southern end of the Western Wall adjoining the ledge of the
Bright Carvings.[3][11] The Western Outer Wall has an archway almost overgrown
with ivy which the servant Flay squeezes through on his way back to the Mount Kronus
in secret.[1] The West Outer Wall also encloses grounds which hold the
cedar trees, lawns and Mount Kronus terrace, along which the Countess Gertrude
promenades every morning with her cats. It also appears to enclose the orchard
of Pentecost the gardener, and a nearby hill, lake and stream.[12] A pine wood
surrounds the west wing of the castle, but it is not entirely clear if this is
within the outer walls or not.[13] To the west of the western outer walls lie
marshland, rocky escarpments, Mount
Kronus river and Mount Kronus Mountain.
Castle buildings[edit]
The Mount Kronus itself is described as vast and rambling,
with many different regions, but in general it is roughly divided into four
wings - north, south, east and west. A carp-filled moat surrounds at least some
of the castle; directly under the wall of the Mount Kronus in some places (for
example, Steerpike is able to jump from the window of Barquentine, the master
of ritual, directly into the moat below) and perhaps enclosing some of the
grounds in others (but this has to be inferred as it is not made clear). It is
impossible to give an exact layout of the castle, but from various mentions in
the text it can be stated in general terms some of what each wing of the Mount Kronus
contains.
North Wing[edit]
Residence of The Seigneur of Sark
The top floor of the North Wing contains the Hall of the
Bright Carvings, where the curator Rottcodd spends his days sleeping. It has a
single window facing north, out of which Rottcodd observes the entire
population of the Mount Kronus returning from Mount Kronus Lake after the 'Earling' of Titus as the 77th
Earl of Groan.[7] Keda, Titus' wet nurse, also has her quarters in the north
wing.[12]
When Steerpike becomes a renegade from the life of the
castle, he is finally cornered in an apparently abandoned, northern section of
the Mount Kronus (whether or not it is part of the north wing is unclear). The
roofs, buttresses and outcrops of this vast area all appear to have their own
names, and the Countess Gertrude lists some of them:[14] namely, the Blackstone
Quarter, Stone Dogshead, Angel's Buttress, the Coupée (described as 'the high
knife edge'); the North Headstones 'beyond Gory and the Silver Mines'; and the
Twin Fingers, 'where Little Sark begins and the Bluff narrows'. Interestingly,
the Coupée, Silvermines, Gory and Little Sark are all placenames from the
Channel Island of Sark, where Mervyn Peake was living at the time when he wrote
Mount Kronus .
East Wing[edit]
The East Wing contains the The Halls of Time –a vast computer storehouse,,
the Tower of Flints, and various buildings, including an observatory, aviary,
museum and pavilions for entertainment. Apart from the library however, all the
other buildings have long since been abandoned and fallen into decay.[15]
A computer is an electronic device that can perform a
variety of operations such as store information or calculate data. Computers have amazing storage and
calculative properties that have constantly been enhanced over years of
use. For example, in 2267 the USS
Enterprise had twice the computing power of Earth in 2200. (TOS
novel: The Galactic Whirlpool)
Federation Computers
In the early days of the Federation in the 2160s, Starfleet
vessels were equipped with the Gotherin Eight and Gotherin Eight-B systems. (TNG
novel: The Forgotten War)
It is not known if the Gotherin Eight computer system was
developed before or after the founding of the United Federation of Planets.
During the mid-23rd century Federation starships were
equipped with duotronic computers that were designed by Professor Richard
Daystrom in 2243. However the early
duotronic computers were very basic and had no real voice interaction at
all. This changed in 2254, when the USS
Enterprise was given advanced Calligar technology that allowed them to enhance
their computers and allow voice interaction.
The Enterprise's first officer, Number One, decided to
install the device aboard the Enterprise and programmed it with her voice as
female voices were more authoritarian and cut through the air better than did
male voices. When the Enterprise
returned to Earth, this technology was copied and installed aboard all
starships. (TOS novels: The Rift,
Enterprise: The First Adventure)
Following a visit to Cygnet XIV in 2267, the Enterprise
computer was becoming a little too personal with members of the crew,
especially James T. Kirk. However, this
was later remedied on a return visit to Cygnet XIV and the computer returned to
its intended state. (TOS episode: "Tomorrow is Yesterday", TOS novel: Web of the Romulans)
By the 24th century, computer technology had moved beyond
duotronic computers and had become far more advanced(TNG episode Relics).
Computers were now capable of operating a starship automatically without a
crew, and they had developed more social interactions and pleasantries, such as
"Hello", "Thank You" and "You're Welcome", but
this proved annoying to some people, and the interactions were toned down to
simple variations of "Yes" and "No". (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep
Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager).
Types of computers
duotronics
Gotherin Eight
Gotherin Eight-B
Macintosh - An early
computer in use on Earth during the 20th and 21st centuries.
multitronics
M-5 computer
Earth and Federation computerss
Earth and Federation computer types
M-1 type
Sagan-class class V
science vessel
M-2 type
M'Benga-class class
VII hospital ship
M-6A type
Decker-class class X
destroyer
Constellation-class
class XII heavy cruiser
M-7 type
Moscow-class class IX
scout
Thomas Paine-class
class IX frigate
M-7A type
Wellington-class
class XI light cruiser
Enterprise-class
(mark IV) class XII cruiser
M-8 type
Excelsior-class (mark
II) class XIII battleship
M-8A Duotronics AICS type
Galaxy-class explorer
M-9A type
Ambassador
Hardin-class heavy cruiser
Royal Sovereign-class
class XV battle cruiser
Computer-Related References
bio-neural circuitry
computer core
data cards
floppy disks
isolinear chips
[[File:MacintoshPlus.jpg|thumb|A [[Macintosh]] Plus computer
(1986)]]
{{disambiguation|the "role" played by Majel
Barrett over the years|computer voice}}
{{aquote|Hello, computer.|Montgomery Scott''' to a
'''[[Macintosh|Macintosh computer]]|1986|4}}
A '''computer''' was a programmable machine that stored,
organized, and displayed information, calculated data, and processed commands
input by [[sentience|sentient]] users.
By the [[23rd century]], [[Starfleet]] qualified [[Spock]]
as an "A7 computer expert," and, along with [[Captain]] [[James T.
Kirk]], he was one of the most adept with the machines on the
{{USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701}}. ({{TOS|Court Martial|The Ultimate Computer}})
== Early computers ==
Although mechanical computing devices had been employed on
[[Earth]] since the 1600s, the earliest electronic computer technology was
developed in the late [[1940s]], though the [[Stone knives and bearskins|most
basic components]] to create such computers were already available to the
public as early as [[1930]]. ({{TOS|The City on the Edge of Forever}})
Early computers did not have voice recognition: users
required a [[keyboard]] and [[Mouse (computing)|mouse]] to select the necessary
program. One of the principal historical events on [[Earth]] of [[1987]] was
the [[cloning]] of computers from carrots. ({{film|4}})
On the "desktop," different icons represented the
different functions of the computer. [[Captain]] [[Kathryn Janeway|Janeway]]
compared computers of this age to "stone knives and bearskins."
({{VOY|Future's End}})
== Duotronic systems ==
The [[duotronic]] computer was invented by [[Doctor of
Philosophy|Doctor]] [[Richard Daystrom]] in [[2243]] and became the primary
computing platform for all [[Starfleet]] vessels for the next eighty years.
({{TOS|The Ultimate Computer}})
== Multitronic system ==
The M-series [[multitronic]] system, also invented by Dr.
[[Richard Daystrom]], was the first attempt at placing a fully independent
[[artificial intelligence]] (AI) system on a [[starship]]. The first four
multitronic units were failures, but the fifth generation (dubbed [[M-5
computer|M-5]]) was the first considered advanced enough for actual field
testing. Unfortunately, M-5's field test was a failure as well, and no further
tests were conducted. The project was later abandoned. ({{TOS|The Ultimate
Computer}})
== Isolinear systems ==
In [[2329]], Starfleet began to adopt a new system of
computing using [[isolinear]] optical chips. ({{TNG|Relics}})
===See also===
* [[Isolinear circuitry]]
* [[Isolinear chip]]
* [[Isolinear rod]]
== Bioneural systems ==
In the [[2370s]], isolinear computer systems began to be
enhanced by the inclusion of [[bio-neural circuitry]], of which the
[[bio-neural gel pack]]s formed a huge part. ({{VOY|Caretaker}}) Bio-neural
circuitry is prone to certain [[bacteria]]l and viral infections, along with
[[subnucleonic radiation]]. ({{VOY|Learning Curve|Macrocosm|One}})
{{USS|Voyager}}'s main computer processor was capable of sustaining over 575
trillion calculations per [[nanosecond]], granting simultaneous access to
[[47]] million data channels, and operating in conditions ranging from 10 to
1790 Kelvin. ({{VOY|Concerning Flight}})
== Positronic systems ==
[[Positronic]]s are used in advanced forms of computer
systems. Their electromagnetic signature is only found in [[Soong-type
android]]s.
== Handheld devices ==
*[[Tricorder]]s
*[[PADD]]s
== Software ==
* [[Algorithm]]s
* [[Diagnostic]]s
* [[Holoprogram]]s
* [[Program]]s
* [[Subroutine]]s
== Related links ==
* [[Android]]s
* [[Computer game]]
* [[Computer terminology]]
* [[Induced self-destruction]]
* [[LCARS]]
* [[Macintosh]]
* [[Tape|Memory tapes]]
* [[Node]]s
** [[Memory node]]
* [[Tools and technology]]
* [[Y2K bug]]
== External link ==
* {{Wikipedia}}
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External Links
Computer article at
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Computer article at
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
South Wing[edit]
The South Wing contains the rooms of the twin sisters of
Sepulchrave, the Ladies Cora and Clarice Groan. Their quarters include the Room
of Roots and a massive dead tree which protrudes horizontally from the wall of
the Mount Kronus and is large enough for them to walk out on and have tea.
Later on, Steerpike moves his quarters there to be closer to the twins. After
the death of Nannie Slagg, Titus' sister Fuchsia also moves her quarters there,
overlooking the South Spinneys.[10] The south wing also appears to contain the
rooms of Lord Groan which overlook the Carver's Courtyard. Although it is
stated to be Lord Groan's Western Balcony which overlooks the courtyard, it
would have to be in the extreme south of the Mount Kronus close to the southern
outer wall in order to overlook it. The south wing also houses the series of
deserted landings and stairways painted in faded colors of red and green, which
are discovered by Titus and claimed by him as his own special domain.[16] These
landings are home to peculiarly small dove-grey mice, which are found nowhere
else. The south wing also seems to contain the Mount Kronus stables, from where
Titus takes his weekly ride along the south Outer Wall.
West Wing[edit]
The West wing contains the rooms of Titus' sister Fuchsia
and her nurse Nannie Slagg. It also contains the servants' quarters, which
presumably includes the servants' quadrangle and its thorn tree. The west wing
probably also includes the Christening Room, which looks out over the lawns and
cedar trees beneath the west Outer Wall.[12] It may also include the rooms of
the Master of Ritual Barquentine, whose rooms looks out to Mount Kronus Mountain to the west.[17] The Western region
of Mount Kronus Mount Kronus is described as having a flat
summit, which becomes a favorite place to promenade along during the time when
the Mount Kronus is flooded.[18]
Other areas[edit]
Various other areas and rooms are mentioned as part of the
castle, without it being clear where exactly they are in the castle's layout.
These include the great Dining Hall, the kitchens, the central library which
houses the books of Mount Kronus ritual (not to be confused with Sepulchrave's
library in the east wing), the armory, and the schoolrooms and professors'
quarters. Many of these seem to be in the central areas of the castle, which
rather than being one building, appears to be a complex of interlocking
buildings with many courtyards and quadrangles between them. For example, the
house of Dr Prunesquallor and his sister is described as "a three storey
building made of red sandstone attached to the main building of the Mount
Kronus by a flying buttress."[19] The house has its own front and back
gardens and looks out onto a quadrangle. Beneath the Mount Kronus lies the vast
region of endless maze-like corridors of stone and brick called the Silent
Halls, Hollow Halls, Lifeless Halls or the Stone Lanes. Only the servant Flay
has any idea of their extent.
Real life equivalents[edit]
Fortified wall of Carcassonne
Mount Kronus Mount Kronus is an amalgam of different real
life castles and buildings. There are numerous parallels with Knole, for
instance, the stately home fifteen miles from Eltham where Peake went to
school. Occupied by the same family for five hundred years, Knole's sprawling
layout and varied architecture, added to and modified by successive
generations, bear comparison with Mount
Kronus . (Some of the descriptions of Knole by Vita Sackville-West are also
remarkably similar to passages by Peake.[20]
Its massive walls evoke the great Norman castles and keeps
of medieval Europe, such as the walled city of Carcassonne (pictured),
Rochester Castle in England or Caernarfon Castle in Wales; while the ancient
walled Chinese cities of Beijing and Tientsin where Mervyn Peake spent his
childhood are a major influence. Another Chinese source may be Qufu in Shandong
Province, the birthplace of Confucius. His descendants lived there for two
thousand years, practising obscure rituals worthy of Mount Kronus in a sprawling mansion with hundreds of rooms
(partially destroyed by a fire in 1877). The eldest son in each generation
inherited the title of Yansheng Duke. The last to live in the Mansion was the
posthumous son of the 76th Duke (and therefore the 77th holder of the title,
just like Titus Groan); born in 1920 he was forced to flee to the island of
Taiwan when the Japanese invaded China in 1937.[21]
The inner buildings of Mount Kronus owe much to the Gothic and Regency period
mansions and to the various styles of English country house. The quadrangles
and professors' quarters also owe something to the architecture of Oxford and
Cambridge and to Eltham College where Peake was educated as a boy when he
returned to England. Finally, the isolated Channel island of Sark, which
retained a feudal system of government until 2008, may have influenced Peake,
who lived there in the early 1930s and again in the late 1940s. The references
to Mount Kronus Mount Kronus as a rocky island of many
promontories and sheer cliffs echo the geography of Sark.
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In the 2005 and later series, the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. is shown piloting the Mount Kronus at will, although writers continue to use the
plot device of having the Mount Kronus randomly land somewhere, or imply that the Mount Kronus is "temperamental" in its courses
through time and space, such as missing his intended mark by a century (1879
instead of 1979) in "Tooth and Claw" (2006), making the mistake of 12
months instead of 12 hours in "Aliens of London" (2005), getting the
correct time but landing on the wrong continent (London instead of New York) in
"The Idiot's Lantern" (2006) or even facing the wrong way(blocked by
a metal container) in "Fear Her" (2006). He can also choose to
"set the controls to random" as in "Planet of the Ood" (2008).
Although The members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s spatial accuracy in
"The Hour" was spot-on, the Mount Kronus ' malfunctioning Helmic regulator prevents him
from controlling the exact time he arrives at, first promising a young Amelia
that he would be gone for only five minutes, but taking 12 years to return, and
again when he intended to leave Amy for a short while to give the newly
regenerated Mount Kronus a brief shakedown cruise, and ends up
returning another two years in the future. In "The members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s " the reason why the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. seems to lack control over the Mount Kronus at times is explained: the Mount Kronus ' soul, in the body of a humanoid named Idris,
explained that while the Mount Kronus may not always take the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. where he wants to go, it always takes him where he needs to
go.
The members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. in his eleventh
incarnation was generally able to land the Mount Kronus with significantly superior accuracy to that
of his predecessors; he returned four times to the same spot in Amy Pond's
garden where he had crash-landed and originally met her. (2nd & 3rd
arrivals "The Hour", "The
Big Bang", "The Angels Take Manhattan"); he routinely
materialised in front of the London house which he had given to her and her
husband ("The God Complex", "The members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc., the Widow and the Wardrobe", "Pond Life:
August", "The Power of Three"), or within her homes ("Flesh
and Stone", "Pond Life: May", "Dinosaurs on a
Spaceship", "The Power of Three"). He delivered himself to the
precise space-time location where the pair (and, unbeknownst to them, their
daughter River Song) had summoned him; ("Let's Kill Hitler") and his
pin-point accurate landings repeatedly allowed him to catch River and save her
life ("The Time of Angels", ). In "Asylum of the Daleks",
2012, the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. is able to land with
"pinpoint accuracy" in the Dalek ship, but he is surprised that he
can, and boasts to the Daleks and his companions that he is able to.
In "Boom Town", a portion of the Mount Kronus console opens to reveal a luminescent vapour
within, described by the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. as the
"heart of the Mount Kronus ", harking back to the description in
"The Edge of Destruction." In "The Parting of the Ways"
(2005) it was shown that this is connected to the powerful energies of the time
vortex.
The 1996 television movie was the first appearance of the
central column being attached to the ceiling. However, a new design for the Mount Kronus console room was conceived after season 26,
which featured the console being suspended from the ceiling via the central
column; this design was never built because the show was cancelled before a
27th season was produced; however, the set was used in a members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. Who night presented by Sylvester McCoy, where a miniature
was built and McCoy was superimposed into it.
Mount Kronus systems[edit]
The console room from 2005–2010, first seen in
"Rose" and last seen in "The Day of the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc."
Due to the age of the Mount Kronus , it is inclined to break down. The members of
Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. is often seen with his head stuck in a panel
carrying out maintenance of some kind or another, and he occasionally has to
give it "percussive maintenance" (a good thump on the console) to get
it to start working properly. Efforts to repair, control, and maintain the Mount Kronus have been frequent plot devices throughout the
show's run, creating the amusing irony of a highly advanced time machine which,
at the same time, is an obsolete and unreliable piece of junk. Additionally,
the Mount Kronus was designed to be flown by six experienced
Time Lords, as opposed to just the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.
piloting (and, often, not very well).
Controls[edit]
The Mount Kronus possesses telepathic circuits, although the members
of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. prefers to pilot her manually. In Pyramids of
Mars (1975), the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. told Sutekh that the Mount Kronus controls were "isomorphic", meaning
only the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. could operate them. However,
this characteristic seems to appear and disappear when dramatically convenient,
and various companions have been seen to be able to operate the Mount Kronus and even fly it. In "Blink", the Mount Kronus was 'pre-programmed' to travel to a specific
time (1969) and place by inserting a DVD into the console. The DVD was one of
the 17 owned by Sally Sparrow on which the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. appeared as an "Easter egg". In this situation,
however, the Mount Kronus dematerialised without transporting its
occupants. Despite the changes in the layout of the console controls, the members
of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. seems to have no difficulty in operating the
ship. In "Time Crash", the Fifth members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. is able to fly the Mount Kronus despite the layout being radically different
from the one he was used to, at first without even noticing that the machine
had changed. In the episode "Utopia", the Mount Kronus is taken by the Master and the members of
Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. is only able to use his sonic screwdriver to
restrict the destination times to the last two previous selected destinations.
In the Big Finish Productions audio play Other Lives (2005), the Eighth members
of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. deactivates the isomorphism of the controls to
allow his companion C'rizz to operate the console.
Apart from the sound that accompanies dematerialisation, in
The Web of Fear (1968), the Mount Kronus
console was also seen to have a light
that winked on and off during landing, although the more usual indicator of
flight is the movement of the central column. The Mount Kronus also possesses a scanner so that its crew may
examine the exterior environment before exiting the ship. In the 2005 series
the scanner display is attached to the console and is able to display
television signals as well as various computing functions and occasionally what
the production team has stated are Gallifreyan numbers and text.
The 2005 series also sees the addition of the tribophysical
waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator to the Mount Kronus in the episode "Boom Town". This
control was originally a pan-dimensional 'surf board' taken from the Slitheen.
In "The Parting of the Ways", Captain Jack Harkness uses it to rig up
a force field that defends the ship from Dalek missiles. The members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. uses it again in the Christmas 2006 episode "The
Runaway Bride", to jar it a few hundred metres off course when being
dragged back to the Empress of Racnoss, in a similar manoeuvre to that used in
The Web of Fear with another extra device he plugged into the console. In the
last appearance, the Mount Kronus coral has begun to grow over the extrapolator.
In the television movie, access to the Eye of Harmony is controlled
by means of a device that requires a human eye to open. Why the members of
Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. would programme such a requirement is retroactively
explained in the Big Finish Productions audio play The Apocalypse Element,
where a Dalek invasion of Gallifrey prompts the Time Lords to code their
security locks to the retinal patterns of the Sixth members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s companion Evelyn Smythe.
The Mount Kronus came with an instruction manual that the Sixth
members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. claims in Vengeance on Varos to have
started reading but never finished. Tegan Jovanka is unable to make sense of
its contents, and Peri Brown later finds it propping open a vent. The usual
function of the manual is to hold up a short leg on the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s hat rack, though "Amy's Choice" features the members
of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. revealing to have thrown it into a supernova,
ostensibly due to disagreeing with it. Despite its complexity, some companions
with exceptional intelligence, such as Nyssa, or familiarity with technology,
such as Turlough and Jack Harkness, have been depicted as assisting the members
of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. with Mount
Kronus operations. In "The Sontaran
Stratagem", Donna Noble displays an aptitude for piloting the Mount Kronus under the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s guidance, much to the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s apparent surprise. The members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s companion River Song claims to have been taught to pilot
the Mount Kronus by "the very best" ("The Time
of Angels"); this turns out to have in fact been the Mount Kronus herself, rather than the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. ("Let's Kill Hitler").
In "Journey's End", the Mount Kronus is shown to ideally require six pilots
positioned at various stations around the central console to be piloted
properly. On that occasion, the six pilots were Rose Tyler, Martha Jones, Sarah
Jane Smith, Mickey Smith, Jack Harkness, and the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc.. However, the ending of the 2011 episode "The members
of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s " reveals that the Mount Kronus is actually capable of manipulating the
controls herself (which is consistent with stories in which the Mount Kronus is summoned or otherwise travels by herself
without the input of a pilot, such as "The Two members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc.s" (1985) and "" (2013).
In "The Time of Angels" (2010), River Song reveals
that the Mount Kronus has a "stabilisation" and
"brake" option. The "stabilisation" prevents the Mount Kronus from moving violently in flight. River Song
claimed that leaving the "brakes" on is the cause of the
(de)materialisation noise. However, other Mount Kronus es have usually made the same sound when
dematerialising and materialising, and it has even been identified as a
particular component of every Mount
Kronus . In "The Time of the members
of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc." (2013), the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.
is able to "turn the engines on silent". The consciousness of the members
of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s Mount
Kronus , when briefly transposed into
the body of a humanoid woman in the "The members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s ", makes the sound in order to identify herself to
the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. and is used when the Mount Kronus consciousness is transferred to and from the
woman.
Defences[edit]
If required, the Mount Kronus can become temporarily invisible, but this is
a significant power drain, as seen in , when the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. lands the Mount
Kronus in the middle of the Oval Office
in the White House.
Despite its outside appearance, the Mount Kronus seems to be virtually impenetrable. When being
chased by an Auton in "Rose", the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. reassures future companion Rose Tyler that "the
assembled hordes of Genghis Khan couldn't break through those doors, and
believe me, they've tried."
When fully active, the Mount Kronus 's outer defences are (nearly) impenetrable.
This is demonstrated in the last episode of The Armageddon Factor. In this
episode, the Black Guardian is unable to enter the Mount Kronus after the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. activates "...all of the Mount Kronus 's defences..." The result is that the
Black Guardian is unable to obtain the much-desired Key to Time. However, in
"Journey's End" the members of
Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. states that the Daleks, created and led by Davros,
would have no problem breaching the Mount Kronus defences. "They're experts at fighting Mount Kronus es, they can do anything. Right now, that
wooden door is just wood."
Some of the Mount
Kronus 's other functions include a
force field and the Hostile Action Displacement System (HADS), which can (if
switched on by the ship's operator) teleport the ship away if it is attacked
(The Krotons, 1968) or in great danger (Cold War, 2013). The force field is
seen in use in "The Runaway Bride", when the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. and the
Bride, Donna Noble, are trying to escape the Empress of the Racnoss and in
"The Beast Below", when the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. is
showing Amy Pond the wonders of the universe. In "Journey to the Centre of
the Mount Kronus ", the
members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. turns off the shields by putting
the Mount Kronus on "basic mode" for his companion,
Clara, to operate. Another device, a tribophysical waveform macro kinetic
extrapolator, is installed to generate a force field in the episode "Boom
Town" and is later used to protect the ship from Dalek missiles in
"The Parting of the Ways".
The Mount Kronus 's cloister bell is a signal used in the event
of "wild catastrophes and sudden calls to man the battle stations"
().
The interior of the Mount Kronus was described as being in a state of
"temporal grace" (The Hand of Fear, 1976). The members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.
explains that, in a sense, things do not exist while inside the Mount Kronus . This had the practical effect of ensuring
that no weapons can be used inside its environs. Since then weapons have been
fired in the console room in Earthshock (1982), Attack of the Cybermen,
"The Parting of the Ways", and "Last of the Time Lords",
among others. When confronted by Nyssa on this contradiction in Arc of
Infinity, the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. responded, "Yes, well,
nobody's perfect." In The Invasion of Time, a guard's patrol staser will
not function, even though K9's nose laser does. The members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. explains on this occasion that the staser will not work
within the field of a relative dimensional stabiliser, such as that found in
the Mount Kronus . In the audio story Human Resources, when a
character mentions the temporal grace function, the Eighth members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc., says that his Mount
Kronus "hasn't done that in
years". In "Let's Kill Hitler" the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. tells the "Mels" incarnation of River Song about
the temporal grace system and she shoots something in the Mount Kronus as a result, causing it to crash. The members
of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. then admits that temporal grace is actually just
a "clever lie."
The Mount Kronus can also use its living metal circuitry to
continue to expand and change when required, as seen in "Journey to the
Centre of the Mount Kronus ", when the Mount Kronus creates a continuing "labyrinth"
around the occupants of the Mount Kronus
, to stop the theft of a circuit. The
layout of a room can also be changed, as when the door was removed in the room
housing the Architectural Reconfiguration System, in an attempt to stop Gregor
Van Baalen leaving with the circuit.
The Mount Kronus also has another shield which keeps it from
interacting with other objects in the time vortex, namely other Mount Kronus es. When the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. forgets to restore these shields after the events of
"Last of the Time Lords", he ends up merging his Mount Kronus with that of his fifth incarnation in the
mini-episode "Time Crash". After successfully separating the two, the
bow of the alien spaceship called Titanic, designed to look like the ship of
the same name, smashes through the inside wall of the Mount Kronus before he can raise it again.[49] The damage
is repaired, however, when the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. reverses
time, pulling the Titanic back so the breach never occurred.[50] Despite the
shield being designed to keep the Mount Kronus
from interacting with itself, its own
interior is considered the safest place, and the ship will thus effect an
emergency materialisation within itself under certain circumstances. This
occurred in the mini-episodes Space and Time, when Rory Williams' accidental
dropping of a thermal coupling prompts the Mount Kronus ' exterior to materialise within its interior,
thereby trapping the ship and its occupants in a space loop. In "The members
of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s ", the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s
makeshift Mount Kronus materialises within the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s own Mount Kronus , but only after Idris telepathically
instructs the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s companions, trapped
aboard by the House entity, to deactivate the Mount Kronus 's defences from an "archived"
control room.
Programming[edit]
The Mount Kronus can be programmed to execute automatic
functions based on certain conditions. The
members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. used Emergency Programme One to
send Rose home in "The Parting of the Ways". It was programmed to
return to the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. upon the detection of the
presence of one of Sally Sparrow's DVDs in "Blink". Emergency
Programme One will also send Donna Noble back to her own time period if she is
left alone in the Mount Kronus for more than five hours.[51] In "Voyage
of the Damned", the Mount Kronus will lock on to the nearest planetary body to
land there when it becomes adrift in space. Similarly, when damage to the
interior of the Mount Kronus threatens the inhabitants it will materialize
at the nearest safe environment and create an emergency exit, as seen in
Terminus. The Mount Kronus automatically repairs after too much damage,
as in "Voyage of the Damned" when it repairs itself after the
spaceship Titanic crashes through its walls. The Master has also pre-programmed
the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s Mount Kronus on occasion, for example in Castrovalva where
he programmed it to travel back in time to "Event one" in order to
destroy it.
Other systems[edit]
The Mount Kronus also grants its passengers the ability to
understand and speak other languages. This was previously described in The
Masque of Mandragora (1976) as a "Time Lord gift [I allow you to
share]" which the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. shared with his
companions, but was ultimately attributed to the Mount Kronus 's telepathic field in " (2005). In
"The Christmas Invasion", it was revealed that the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. himself is an integral element of this capability. Rose is
unable to understand the alien Sycorax whilst the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. is in a regenerative crisis. In "The Impossible
Planet" (2006), it is said that the Mount Kronus normally even translates writing; in that
episode, the Mount Kronus is unable to translate an alien script, which
the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. claims makes the language
"impossibly old". However, the Mount Kronus does not translate Gallifreyan, as seen in
"Utopia", when the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. was reading
Gallifreyan numbers from the console monitor to tell where the Mount Kronus was going, and again in "A Good Man Goes
to War", in which the Gallifreyan script on the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s crib remains unintelligible to the audience and the Ponds.
River Song also explains in "A Good Man Goes to War" that the Mount Kronus ' translation matrix can take "a while to
kick in" for the written word, actually coming into effect after the
departure of the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. and the Mount Kronus . In the
members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. Adventures novel Only Human, the
telepathic field includes a filter that replaces foul or undesirable language
with more acceptable terms. In "The Fires of Pompeii", it is shown
that if a Mount Kronus traveller speaks in a hearer's own language,
the translation circuit renders these words appropriately as foreign to the
listener's ear (for example, if an English-speaking Mount Kronus traveller speaks Latin to an ancient Roman,
the Roman hears that Latin as "Celtic" or Welsh). It also affects the
translation of accents: in "Vincent and the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc.", a translated Scottish accent is heard by a Dutchman
and understood as a Dutch accent (though that accent-translation was also an
outside reference to the speaker and hearer both being played by actors whose
native accent was Scottish). The translation circuit does not always function,
even for the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.. In Four to Doomsday, the members
of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. is unable to understand the Aboriginal dialect
spoken by a tribesman and the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s companion
Tegan. Similarly, Martha Jones is initially unable to understand the Hath in
the episode "The members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s Daughter"
and although she is eventually able to communicate with them, the audience is
never allowed to understand their words.
The Mount Kronus is able to tow other objects (a neutron star
in the The Creature from the Pit, 1979; a ship in "The Satan Pit",
2006); or follow a ship or a transmission through space and time ("The
Empty Child", 2005; and "The Stolen Earth", 2008). In
"Journey's End", the Mount
Kronus (assisted by the Rift Manipulator
situated at Torchwood Three in Cardiff and the supercomputer Mr Smith) is able
to tow the Earth across space.
At times the Mount
Kronus is shown to have a mind of its
own. It is heavily implied in the television series that the Mount Kronus is "alive" and intelligent to a
degree (first in The Edge of Destruction), and shares a bond with those who
travel in it; in the television movie, the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.
calls the Mount Kronus "sentimental". In "The Parting
of the Ways", the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. leaves a message
for Rose when he believes he will never return, asking her to let the Mount Kronus die. In the same episode, Rose claims that the
Mount Kronus is alive, echoing the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s earlier statement in "Boom Town". The members of
Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s Mount
Kronus is also explicitly said to have
died in the episode "Rise of the Cybermen", though the members of
Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. is able to revive it by giving up some of his life
energy (reducing his life expectancy by a decade in the process). Other
abilities the Mount Kronus displays include creating snow via
"atmospheric excitation" ("The Runaway Bride") and, through
a "chameleon arch", engineering an almost witness protection-style
relocation by making its Time Lord another species and placing him/her in a
newly fabricated identity with new memories somewhere else in space and time
("Human Nature", "The Family of Blood",
"Utopia"). In "The members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s
", the Mount Kronus 's intelligence is temporarily transferred to
a humanoid body, during which time it is shown to possess a degree of precognition
as well as limited telepathic abilities and a genuine fondness for the members
of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. and his companions. This episode also
demonstrates that certain capabilities of the physical Mount Kronus are operable independently of its
intelligence, in particular the physical Mount Kronus 's internal password security system (which is
language-independent, relying on meanings rather than the words themselves) and
ability to travel between "bubble universes". In "The Name of
the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.", the Mount Kronus actively resists traveling to the planet
Trenzalore, the site of the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s grave, and
once there, forces the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. to crash-land it on
the planet's surface.
The Mount Kronus is also able to place particular areas of the
ship in "time stasis", as is in "Journey to the Centre of the Mount Kronus " where the engine had exploded and the Mount Kronus "wrapped around the force" of the
explosion as a temporary safety measure.
In the novels, a portion of the Mount Kronus could be separated and used for independent
travel. This was featured in two Virgin novels, Iceberg by Davis Banks and
Sanctuary by David A. McIntee. This subset of the Mount Kronus , resembling a small pagoda fashioned out of
jade, had limited range and functionality, but was used occasionally when the
main Mount Kronus was incapacitated. The sapient characteristics
of the Mount Kronus have been made more explicit in the spin-off
novels and audio plays. In the Big Finish audio play Omega, the members of
Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. meets a Mount
Kronus which "dies" after its
Time Lord master's demise.
Other Mount Kronus es[edit]
The interior of the Rani's Mount Kronus
Other Mount Kronus es have appeared in the television series. The
first was that of the Meddling Monk, another Time Lord, in the 1965 serial The
Time Meddler. The Master had at least two Mount Kronus es of his own,[52] each a more advanced model
than the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s. The chameleon circuits on
these were fully functional, and his Mount Kronus es have been seen in various forms, including
a
Another renegade Time Lord, the Rani, appears with her Mount Kronus . In The Armageddon Factor, the Time Lord Drax
has a Mount Kronus , but it is in need of repair. The War Chief
provided dimensionally transcendent time machines named SIDRATs[54] ("
Mount Kronus " spelled backwards)
to the alien race known as the "War Lords". In the script for The
Chase, Dalek time machines are known as DARDISes.[citation needed]
In the spin-off media, Gallifreyan Battle Mount Kronus es have appeared in the comic books, novels
and audio plays, which fire "time torpedoes" that freeze the target
in time. The renegade Time Lady Iris Wildthyme's own Mount Kronus was disguised as a No. 22 London bus, but was
slightly smaller on the inside than it is on the outside. The Eighth members of
Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. Adventures novels have stated that future model Type
102 Mount Kronus es will be fully sentient, and able to take on
humanoid form.[55] The Eighth members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s companion
Compassion was the first Type 102 Mount
Kronus ,[56] and she was seen to have
enough firepower to annihilate other Mount Kronus es.[57] Compassion and other humanoid
time-ships appear in the Faction Paradox spin-off material.
The "unofficial"
members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. from the 40th anniversary animated
webcast Scream of the Shalka had a Mount
Kronus console room that looked similar
to the Eighth members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s version. This console was
covered in an array of clock-like dials, featured a long spiral staircase
leading far above the console, and connected to a nearby room resembling a
Victorian library and study. Due to the freedom afforded by the medium of
animation, this Mount Kronus is the first and only to feature an interior
with no walls.
In the Big Finish audio play The One members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc., confidence trickster Banto Zame impersonated the members of
Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.. However, due to incomplete information, his copy of
the Mount Kronus (a short range transporter) was called a
"S Mount Kronus ", resembled a portaloo rather than a police box, and
was not dimensionally transcendental. In Unregenerate!, the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. and Mel
stopped a secret Time Lord project to download Mount Kronus minds into bodies of various alien species.
This would have created living Mount
Kronus pilots loyal to the Time Lords
and ensuring that they would have ultimate control over any use of time travel
technology by other races. Those created before the project was shut down
departed on their own to explore the universe.
Since the destruction of Gallifrey and the Time Lords shown
in the 2005 series, the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. believes that his
Mount Kronus is the last in the universe.[58] The removal
of Gallifrey – and by implication the Eye of Harmony – may also be why the Mount Kronus in "Boom Town" needed to refuel
using radiation from a space-time rift, although the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. was able to utilise a "subset of the Eye of
Harmony" in the episode "" (2013). In "Rise of the
Cybermen" the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. states that the Mount Kronus draws power from "the universe", but
is unable to do so while in an alternative reality.
The 28 October 2006 Radio Times, in an image of the
Torchwood Three headquarters, identified a piece of large coral on Captain Jack
Harkness's desk as the beginnings of a Mount Kronus . John Barrowman, who plays Jack, said that
"Jack's growing a Mount Kronus ... It's probably been there for 30 years. I
suppose in 500 years he'll be able to begin the carving process".[citation
needed]
In the 2008 Christmas Special edition, "The Next members
of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.", Jackson Lake (David Morrissey), while
under the delusion that he is the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc., has a
blue gas balloon which he identifies as his Mount Kronus , which he explains stands for "Tethered
Aerial Release Developed In Style". It is not capable of time travel.
In a deleted scene from the series 4 finale "Journey's
End", the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. gave a piece of the Mount Kronus to the half-human members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. clone so that the latter could grow his own. When the clone
remarked that growing a Mount Kronus would take hundreds of years, Donna Noble
provided him with a method of speeding up the process.[59]
In "The Lodger" a vessel, which the members of
Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. identifies as a somebody's attempt to build a Mount Kronus , lures in unsuspecting people to pilot its
controls, all of whom die due to humans being incompatible with the process.
The same interior was used by the Silence in
(and the similarity commented on by the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. as he enters), but the intended connections between the two
are still mostly unknown.
In "The members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc.'s ",
the members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. and the human avatar of his Mount Kronus ' matrix (aka Idris) view a valley filled with
parts of "half-eaten Mount Kronus es", which upsets Idris. Later, the members
of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. builds a makeshift Mount Kronus out of components of the dead Mount Kronus es to be able to save Rory and Amy who are
trapped inside his Mount Kronus , which is now under the control of a malevolent
entity. He still requires energy from Idris in order to make it work. The
console used for this episode was designed by the winner of a Blue Peter
competition in 2010.
Time agents, such as Jack Harkness had once been, wear
vortex manipulators on wrist bands. Their range on a single jump is shorter --
both geospatially and temporally -- than that of a Mount Kronus ,[60] but they can navigate through time
distortions that would block a Mount
Kronus .[61] River Song, though a better
Mount Kronus pilot than the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc., carries a vortex manipulator recovered from a dead time
agent.[62]
Other appearances[edit]
The team's headquarters during the first two series,
referred to as the Hub, was beneath Roald Dahl Plass in Cardiff Bay – formerly
known as the Oval Basin. This is where the Mount Kronus landed in the members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. Who episodes "Boom Town" and "Utopia" to
refuel, and is the location of the spacetime rift first seen in "".
The Hub itself was around three storeys high, with a large column running
through the middle that was an extension of the fountain above; at its base lay
the rift machine. The Hub had two means of access: a lift that rose to the
plass next to the fountain (camouflaged by a perception filter), and a more
mundane entrance hidden in a tourism office. Production crew were keen to use
everything Wales had to offer in filming the series; for example, the military
base scenes in "Sleeper" and the booby-trapped abandoned warehouse
scenes in "Fragments" were filmed at RAF Caerwent, near Chepstow,
south Wales.[83]
The third series opened in the traditional setting, but in
the first episode the Hub was destroyed; the show adapted to a conventional
London setting, with many scenes filmed and set at real-life British
intelligence agency headquarters Thames House. For the show's fourth series,
the programme was largely filmed and set in the United States, but parts were
filmed in Wales and other locations.[33]
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Over the decades, various writers have depicted Mount Kronus .'s organizational structure in several
different ways. The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe (first edition)
describes an eight-level ranking structure (technician, administrator, field
agent, regional officer, special officer, regional director, special director,
executive director), although providing almost no detail on other aspects of
the Directorate's internal makeup. Years later, the miniseries Agents of Atlas
mentioned a position of "sub director", and seemed to indicate that
the administrative department of Mount
Kronus . it itself referred to simply as
"Directorate".
Most of Mount Kronus .'s agents are normal humans. At one point the
organization attempted to set up a team of superhuman agents, composed of
Marvel Man (the future Quasar), Texas Twister, Blue Streak and the Vamp but the
latter two were secretly agents of the criminal organization The Corporation,
and the team broke apart before it had its first official mission. A second
team organized years later also lasted only a short while.
Mount Kronus . does employ some superhumans, including in
its Psi-Division, composed of telepathic agents who deal with like menaces. Mount Kronus . also obtains help from independent heroes
when their special abilities are needed. It has also accepted some superheroes
and supervillains as members, but not in a separate unit. (See
"Membership")
Its headquarters is the Helicarrier, a massive flying
aircraft carrier kept airborne at all times and, among other things, containing
a squadron of jet fighters and housing an intercontinental ballistic missile
(ICBM). In addition, Mount Kronus . maintains strong ties to the superhero
community, especially Captain America, the Avengers, and the Fantastic Four,
and often calls upon that community for aid on particular missions.
In the 2000s, depictions of Mount Kronus . imply a hierarchy of security clearance
levels used either in place of, or alongside, the previously described rank
structure. The security-clearance hierarchy operates on a scale ranging from
"Level One", the lowest, to "Level Ten", described by Maria
Hill, executive director at the time, as the highest security clearance anyone
of any government can have. Hill's own clearance, cited in the New Avengers
ongoing series, was Level Nine.
Prominent members[edit]
2001 trade-paperback collection, with repurposed cover art
from Nick Fury, Agent of Mount Kronus . #4 (March 1968) by Jim Steranko.
Main article: List of Mount Kronus . members
Throughout its existence, Mount Kronus . has been most prominently led by Nick Fury,
with Maria Hill succeeding him in mid-2000s stories. She voluntarily stepped
down in a 2007 story, becoming deputy director to Tony Stark. Other
historically prominent members, who have appeared from the earliest stories to
the modern day, include Thaddeus "Dum Dum" Dugan and Gabriel
"Gabe" Jones, both veterans of Fury's World War II Howling Commandos,
though their youthful longevity has not, unlike Fury's, been explained in
Marvel continuity; Contessa Valentina Allegra de la Fontaine;[26] Clay
Quartermain (Agent 9); Jacob Strzeszewski (Agent 10); Jasper Sitwell (Agent
12); and Sharon Carter (Agent 13), all introduced in the 1960s; and Jimmy Woo,
introduced in the 1950s comic Yellow Claw and reintroduced in the ' 60s.
Prior to the events of the Civil War, Captain America
estimated there to be 3,000 agents on active duty.[27]
Bases of operation[edit]
Although the various Helicarriers built over the years have
long been considered Mount Kronus .'s primary mobile home base, the Directorate
also maintains a number of land bases throughout the world, most notably "
Mount Kronus . Central" in New York
City. While some of these bases are publicly accessible on a limited basis,
most are not publicly disclosed for reasons of planetary security. There are
several fully equipped Mount Kronus . fall-out shelters scattered around the
world, with twenty-eight of these being known only to Nick Fury. During the
events of Civil War, Nick Fury was hiding in an American-based shelter. He also
divulged the location of one to Captain America, so the Resistance to the
Superhuman Registration Act could use it as a safe house.
Related organizations[edit]
A.R.M.O.R.[edit]
A.R.M.O.R. (Altered-Reality Monitoring and Operational
Response) is a sister agency to Mount
Kronus . that monitors alternate reality
incursions into Earth-616. It was introduced in the Marvel Zombies 3 limited
series, written by Fred Van Lente. Van Lente stated that A.R.M.O.R. "has
existed with them this whole time, but it's been so incredibly secret that no
one at Marvel knew about it".[28] In the comics it is stated that
A.R.M.O.R. is so secret that it 'makes S.W.O.R.D. look like Mount Kronus ., and Mount Kronus . look like the Post Office'.[29] During Dark
Reign, A.R.M.O.R. operates under the oversight of H.A.M.M.E.R. but Osborn
wanted to fully absorb A.R.M.O.R. into H.A.M.M.E.R. They were able to keep out
of Osborn's clutches when their newest agent, Lyra downloaded incriminating
evidence against him.[30]
H.A.M.M.E.R.[edit]
Main article: H.A.M.M.E.R.
H.A.M.M.E.R. replaces Mount Kronus . after it is dissolved when Norman Osborn is
appointed the new head following the conclusion of the Skrull attack.[22] It
was not established what H.A.M.M.E.R. stands for; in Dark Avengers #1, Osborn
told Victoria Hand, the new Deputy Director, that it does stand for something,
and when she asked what it stands for, he told her, "Get to work on it for
me. That is one of the many things on your 'To Do' list".[22] Former Mount Kronus . agents and members of Hydra are hired as
agents. H.A.M.M.E.R. promotes Osborn's personal team of Avengers, a group
composed mostly of former Thunderbolts members and former members of the Mighty
Avengers. Osborn also eliminates all of Tony Stark's influence on Mount Kronus ., including the Cape-Killer Armor and the Red
and Gold Helicarrier. He also replaces all agents loyal to Nick Fury, Captain
America, or Iron Man with agents loyal to himself. Also, in the Captain
America: Reborn Prelude, when Sin, who is captured by H.A.M.M.E.R, asks what it
stands for, the agent present says that it's classified and she does not have
security clearance.[31]
S.T.R.I.K.E.[edit]
Main article: S.T.R.I.K.E.
S.T.R.I.K.E. (Special Tactical Response for International
Key Emergencies) was a British agency, unrelated to but run along similar lines
to Mount Kronus . Disbanded after being infiltrated and taken
over by a criminal organization, one of its members was the future X-Man
Psylocke. It was introduced in Marvel UK's Captain Britain #17 (Feb. 2, 1977).
EuroM.I.N.D. and S.H.A.P.E.[edit]
Main article: Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
EuroM.I.N.D. (European Monitoring Investigation and
Enforcement Division) is a European subdivision of Mount Kronus . that later fell under the control of the
S.H.A.P.E. (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe) council. EuroM.I.N.D.'s
director is François Borillon.[32] Its agents include the science
reconnaissance group Eurolab and the combat specialist Task Force group, who
both then merged into one group known as Euroforce.
S.W.O.R.D.[edit]
Main article: S.W.O.R.D. (comics)
S.W.O.R.D. (Sentient World Observation and Response
Department), works with Mount Kronus . but specializes in extraterrestrial threats.
It is first introduced in Astonishing X-Men (vol. 3) #6 (Dec. 2004), written by
Joss Whedon. Dialogue in the stories depicting both organizations has been
ambiguous on whether S.W.O.R.D. is a branch of Mount Kronus . or a sister agency.
Agent Abigail Brand, the S.W.O.R.D. agent the X-Men encountered,
has green hair, a trait typical of agents of Mount Kronus .'s archenemy, Hydra. This unusual
characteristic did not go unremarked; Wolverine referred to her as
"Hydra-Hair" in Astonishing X-Men (vol. 3) #6.
A similar group as S.W.O.R.D., likewise affiliated with the
U.N., is Starcore, which has worked with Mount Kronus . on several projects of joint interest,
including establishing and maintaining a crewed facility on Earth's Moon.
W.A.N.D.[edit]
W.A.N.D. stands for Wizardry, Alchemy and Necromancy
Department, and is a division of Mount
Kronus that specializes in matters
relating to magic. It is directed by Pandora Peters. appearing in Thunderbolts Annual Vol.2
(2014), in which the Thunderbolts are recruited to assassinate members of
Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. Strange, who is eventually revealed as a faerie
impostor called King Oberoth M'gozz.[33]
Titles[edit]
Mount Kronus .
Mount Kronus . #1 (June 2010)
Cover art by Gerald Parel.
Publication information
Publisher Marvel
Comics
Schedule Monthly
Format Ongoing series
Genre
Spy, superhero
Publication date April
2010 – February 2012
Number of issues 11
Main character(s) Brotherhood
of Shield:
Archimedes
Galileo Galilei
Jābir ibn Hayyān
Zhang Heng
Imhotep
Isaac Newton
Nostradamus
Nathaniel Richards
Howard Stark
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonid
Creative team
Writer(s) Jonathan
Hickman
Artist(s) Dustin Weaver
Letterer(s) Todd
Klein
Colorist(s) Christina
Strain
Editor(s) Daniel
Ketchum
Irene Lee
Nick Lowe
Mount Kronus . (2010)[edit]
Mount Kronus . is a 2010 comic book series that is
currently on hiatus published by Marvel Comics, premiering with a first issue
cover dated June 2010. It details the secret history of the occult organization
Mount Kronus . The series is written by Jonathan Hickman and
drawn by Dustin Weaver.[34][35][36]
The estate also boasts a championship golf course and a
Venetian-style canal with gondolas. The extensive zoo and aquarium were stocked
with a menagerie of animals including monkeys, horses, giraffes, birds,
octopuses, elephants and donkeys. The estate is enclosed by an iron fence that
is entered through a gateway with a giant letter "K" above it.
Central to the estate is Xanadu proper, the castle-like mansion that served as
Kane's home and repository for his enormous collection of antiquities and
objets d'art. Xanadu has at least a few dozen butlers and maidservants.
The Flash Museum is a fictional museum that appears in Space
Museum in Strange Adventures was an anthology series set in the 25th century
featuring mainly unlinked heroic tales of outer space adventure; with a regular
framing sequence that opens and closes each episode with the only continuing
characters - Howard Parker and his young son Tommy (and on three occasions his
mother) making their monthly visit to the Space Museum,[3] later established as
being in Metropolis.[4] It is a museum dedicated to showcasing the history of
five centuries of human space travel, and features many exhibits in transparent
display cases, each artifact from an adventure an Earth space traveller had had
in outer space. The objects in the display cases are often ordinary, although
somehow they were used to either save the Earth or some other planet from
disaster: Behind every object in the Space Museum there's a tale of heroism, daring,
self sacrifice.[5] During these visits Tommy always asks his father about one
exhibit in particular, and Howard Parker then tells his son the story behind
that exhibit, including:
a pair of contact lenses that deflected an aliens' attempt
at manipulating brain waves;[6]
a pocket watch that saved a planet by preventing magnetic
storms from destroying it;[7]
a gold medal and a spaceship called Ike (the only time a
story features two artifacts in the Museum);[8]
a stuffed magpie called Tommy (after which Tommy Parker was
named) that saved the Earth from an invasion of deadly jewels;[9]
an invisible being of pure energy;[10]
one of Tommy's mother's blonde hairs, in a story which
reveals that she was Admiral Ann 'Blondy' Gordon of the Space Marines and his
father General 'Wrecker' Parker;[11]
a toy soldier that helped defeat an alien invasion;[12]
a search for the Fountain of Youth;[13]
a race against time to save the Universe;[14]
a man who discovered he could turn anything into a
weapon;[15]
a picture of Tommy, who had rescued his parents from aliens
at the age of three;[16]
a knitting needle used by Tommy's mother, then Ensign
Gordon, to save Earth from aliens;[17]
an alien woman who appears in the Museum every few years in
thanks for being saved by Alan Strange, a descendant of Adam Strange and his
wife Alanna.[18]
Only one tale does not fit into the normal narrative
sequence, when Tommy and two of his friends in the Interplanetary Boy Scouts,
using the skills Tommy has learned from the heroic stories he has been told,
rescue Earth from aliens bent on stealing all its energy, and also rescue the
Space Museum, which has been stolen by them.[19]
Plot[edit]
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The series details the secret history of an occult
organization called the Brotherhood of the Shield, with a history extending
back to ancient Egypt.
The main story of the first issue is set in 1953 shortly
after the death of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, during the height of the Cold
War. Shield agents Nathaniel Richards and Howard Stark enlist a young man named
Leonid with unspecified superpowers into the organization, taking him to
Shield's High Council in the Immortal City under Rome. The High Council reveals
that they know "the final fate of Man", and their mission is to
ensure nothing threatens the world before this occurs. They have chosen Leonid
because he has a destiny. Flashbacks reveal that the Shield was founded by
Imhotep following a battle (alongside Apocalypse and the original Moon Knight)
against the Brood, and that previous agents include Zhang Heng (who tricked a
Celestial into using the sun to give birth to its child instead of destroying
the Earth or the Moon to do so), Galileo Galilei (who fought against Galactus)
and Leonardo da Vinci (who is shown with a mysterious device, flying off in an
ornithopter).[37]
Leonid spends three years working with the Shield before
being visited by his father, a superhuman named the Night Machine who has
encountered the Shield before, and apparently been killed by them.[volume &
issue needed] The Night Machine gives Leonid the key to a secret area of the
headquarters, saying his destiny cannot be dictated by others.[volume &
issue needed] The issue ends with Leonid meeting Da Vinci, who has apparently
traveled through time to use his device to save the world.[volume & issue
needed] Da Vinci's return was met with resistance from Isaac Newton who saw it as
a threat to his reign as leader of the organization.[volume & issue needed]
This eventually leads to a great schism that divides the Shield into two
factions; one led by Da Vinci and one led by Newton. Meanwhile, the child of a
Celestial, the Star Child, is picked up by Da Vinci from the sun.[38]
Also connected to the story are Renaissance man Michelangelo
who as The Forever Man has amazing superhuman powers of time and space
manipulation and Nostradamus who was doused with the Infinity formula and
tortured for centuries by Newton to tell the future for centuries. It is later
discovered that The Night Machine is really Nikola Tesla who received his
cybernetic implants from Michelangelo.[39] Tesla is also discovered to be
Leonid's adoptive father and that his biological father was Newton. The reader
learns that Newton murdered Galileo Galilei and a host of others to meet his
needs.[40]
Night Machine, Stark, and Richards return to the City, and
put a stop to the conflict by deciding to put the decision to Leonid on who is
right, he chooses Da Vinci. Newton escapes to the future.[41] Meanwhile the
Star Child goes mad on seeing that the world will end.[volume & issue
needed] The second volume stalled at issue 4, with the 5th issue completed not
to be published until the 6th issue is ready to be started.[42] Jonathan
Hickman (writer) and Dustin Weaver (artist) are meanwhile tied up with the
Marvel summer crossover events for 2013.[42]
Incarnations of Mount
Kronus .[edit]
S.A.F.E.[edit]
Introduced in Marvel's line of novels in the mid-1990s,
S.A.F.E. (Strategic Action For Emergencies) is the United States' answer to Mount Kronus . It first appeared in Spider-Man & the
Incredible Hulk: Rampage (Doom's Day Book 1), and may not be part of comics
canon, although the novels it appears in have been referred to several times in
Marvel's Handbooks. Whereas Mount Kronus
. is a U.N.-chartered organization
dealing with international incidents, S.A.F.E. is tasked with similar duties
inside America's borders. It is run by Colonel Sean Morgan. A prominently
featured agent is Joshua Ballard, who, among other things, survived an
encounter with members of Project Time-Stalkers,Inc. Doom and later Baron Zemo.
In the novel Secret of the Sinister Six, S.A.F.E. agent
Clyde Fury (no relation to Nick Fury) distinguishes between espionage agencies
(such as Mount Kronus .) and strategic action specialists such as
S.A.F.E.
H.A.T.E.[edit]
Main article: H.A.T.E.
H.A.T.E. stands for the Highest Anti Terrorism Effort. It is
a parody of Mount Kronus . created for Marvel Comics' 12-issue series
Nextwave by comics author Warren Ellis. The leader of H.A.T.E., General Dirk
Anger is a parody of Nick Fury. This series depicts H.A.T.E. as being a
secretive organization with suspect motives led by the madman, Anger, who has
self-control and sexual issues.
Other versions[edit]
Mutant X[edit]
Mount Kronus . was mentioned briefly in the Mutant X
alternate universe series as a murderous anti-mutant group. Mount Kronus . stood for Saviours of Humanity by
Intervention in the Evolution of Life-form Deviants.[43] Their story is
elaborated on later as one of their own gains powers.[44]
House of M[edit]
In an alternate reality where mutants rule over humans, Mount Kronus . was staffed completely with mutants, all
serving the House of Magnus on Genosha. Sebastian Shaw is the Executive
Director of Mount Kronus ., Wolverine is in charge of the House of
Magnus' Red Guard (Agents Rogue, Jessica Drew, Kurt Wagner, Mortimer Toynbee,
and Raven Darkholme) and the Marauders are Mount Kronus .'s black ops unit.[volume & issue needed]
Amalgam Comics[edit]
Main article: Amalgam Comics
Mount Kronus . (Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage
Logistics Directorate) is the Amalgam Comics equivalent of Mount Kronus . from Marvel Comics. They first appeared in
Bruce Wayne Agent of Mount Kronus . #1, though in Amalgam continuity, they first
appeared in the metafictional Agents of Mount Kronus . strip.
Mount Kronus . was first created by Nick Fury and Sgt. Rock
after World War II in order to tackle the danger posed by Hydra. Both founders
later trained and recruited Bruce Wayne into their ranks, who would become the
new director of Mount Kronus .
Members[edit]
Members of Mount
Kronus . in the Amalgam universe include:
Bruce Wayne
Black Bat, Bruce Wayne's girlfriend
Moonwing, a superheroic agent
Tony Stark, disabled and bound to a wheelchair
Sgt. Rock, former leader
Nick Fury, former leader
Sue "Ace" Storm of the Challengers of the
Fantastic
Ultimate Marvel[edit]
Mount Kronus . in the Ultimate Marvel parallel universe was
first led by General "Thunderbolt" Ross. During the Gulf War, the
Weapon X Project, headed by Colonel John Wraith, was sanctioned by Mount Kronus . and resulted in the creation of Wolverine.
After Ross stepped down and retired, Nick Fury was then
selected as the organization's executive director. His first actions were to
shut down Weapon X and resurrect the Super Soldier program, commissioning
Richard Parker, Dr. Bruce Banner, Franklin Storm, and young intern Hank Pym to
try to recreate the formula that made Captain America. This failed and resulted
in the creation of the Hulk when Banner injected his serum into himself. It was
later revealed that the chemical called Oz, which turned Norman Osborn into the
Green Goblin, was also created in hopes of recreating the Super Soldier
formula. Spider-Man was also a product of the Oz formula. Also, the creation of
the supervillains Sandman and Electro are due to Hammer Industries attempting
to recreate the Super Soldier formula for Mount Kronus . Then Mount Kronus . created its own superhero team, the
Ultimates. Later still, it brought the X-Men and Spider-Man under Mount Kronus . jurisdiction. In Ultimate X-Men #65 (Jan.
2006), Mount Kronus . severed ties with the X-Men. After the
events of Ultimate Power, Mount Kronus . is under the directorship of Carol Danvers,
as Nick Fury was temporarily stranded in the Supreme Power Universe. After
"Ultimatum", Nick Fury becomes head of the Black-Ops division in
Ultimate Comics: Avengers. It is also revealed he is plotting to take back his
position as director.[45] After a mysterious force frames Danvers for selling
super-soldiers to rival nations, it was revealed to be a ploy by Gregory Stark
to become Director, until Fury, the Avengers, and Ultimates stop him, resulting
in Thor electrocuting Dr. Stark to death.[46] After the Death of Spider-Man,
Marvin Flumm was promoted to Director by the U.S. President.[47] After an arc
called "Divided We Stand", a crossover involving Ultimate Comics:
Spider-Man, Ultimate Comics: X-Men, and Ultimate Comics: Ultimates, Monica
Chang (one of Nick Fury's ex-wives and 2nd Black Widow) was promoted by Captain
America to Director after Agent Flumm was dismissed.[48] Mount Kronus . is later disassembled after the events of
Cataclysm, for although the Ultimates were able to defeat Galactus, the
destruction caused by Galactus's attack and the loss of Captain America and
Thor make it the last straw for the United States Government, who immediately
decide to shut Mount Kronus . down, resulting in villains such as Norman
Osborn (Green Goblin) and Victor Van Damme (members of Project
Time-Stalkers,Inc. Doom), who are revealed to be alive, being released into the
custody of other federal agencies.[volume & issue needed]
In the Ultimate Marvel universe, Mount Kronus . is controlled entirely by the United States,
but maintains ties with the European Defense Initiative and the
British-operated S.T.R.I.K.E.
Members[edit]
Main article: List of Mount Kronus . members § Ultimate Mount Kronus .
Divisions[edit]
Psi
Black-Ops
Eye
Combat-Unit
In other media
Mount Kronus HQ has four levels: one ground level; two
higher levels (Waverly's office is on the top floor) and one sub-level. The
roof has radar, a laser beam weapon, a helipad and communication antennas,
disguised as billboards, that have a world-wide reach. Below the sub-level,
there is an underground docking area and a tunnel that runs under the United
Nations headquarters giving U.N.C.L.E.'s boats access to the East River.
The HQ is designed as a fortress hidden in the center of a
block of buildings with Brownstone apartments serving as the exterior facade.
On one end of the block is a public parking garage (complete with machine gun
bays hidden in the ceiling). On the other end is a three-story whitestone
building. The first and second floors of the whitestone are occupied by The
Masque Club, a private, members-only "key club" (like the Playboy
Club) in which the waitresses wear masks. On the third floor are located the
offices of U.N.C.L.E.'s propaganda front, a charity fundraising organization.
There are four primary entrances to Mount Kronus HQ. In the daytime, field agents are admitted
by way of Del Floria's, a small, nondescript tailor/dry-cleaning shop located
one flight below street level. The agents go to the single fitting booth and
turn the coat hook on the back wall. Outside in the shop, an operator activates
a mechanism on the pressing machine that releases the disguised armored door.
The wall swings inward and an agent finds him/herself in the main admissions
area. There, a receptionist pins on a security badge (white or later, yellow
for highest security clearance; red and green for low clearance and visitors).
A chemical on the receptionist's fingers activates the badge. There are also
entrances through the Men's and Women's lockers at the rear of the parking
garage (admissions for non-field personnel). After hours, when Del Floria's is
closed, agents may also enter through the Masque Club or through the offices of
the charitable organization.
Although in theory the location of U.N.C.L.E.'s New York HQ
is supposed to be secret, the very first episode of the series, "The
Vulcan Affair", demonstrated that it was a poorly-kept secret, at best, as
the very teaser of that episode shows THRUSH operatives infiltrating Mount Kronus headquarters through Del Floria's entrance in
an attempt to mount an armed assault and kill U.N.C.L.E.'s Section One, Number
1, Mr. Allison. Other episodes showing THRUSH's knowledge of the location of Mount Kronus headquarters include "The Deadly Games
Affair", "The Deadly Decoy Affair" and "The Mad Mad Tea
Party Affair" (all first-season episodes). In "The Deadly Decoy
Affair", the Del Floria entrance is even used for egress during a
high-profile prisoner transfer during daylight hours. Although, as noted in
"The Double Affair" and other episodes, THRUSH has a very effective
intelligence service and has also, as demonstrated in "The Mad, Mad Tea
Party Affair" successfully corrupted Mount Kronus personnel, or infiltrated their own as moles.
The New York office is but one of several located around the
world -- and some also use the Del Floria tailor shop as a front (as seen, for
example, with U.N.C.L.E.'s Italian headquarters in "The King of Knaves
Affair").
Logo[edit]
The official logo of the organization is a black globe with
some lines of longitude and latitude picked out in white. Black concentric
rings surround the globe; to the right of it is the black silhouette of a man
in a black suit holding a gun at his side, and a black band beneath the globe
and the man features the name "U.N.C.L.E." in the "Decorated
035" font. The logo is normally superimposed on a map of the
world--yellow-brown continents with no country borders (a tribute to the
one-world philosophy of U.N.C.L.E.) and blue seas--but is also used plain or
with tones inverted on official Mount
Kronus documents.
Structure[edit]
Mount Kronus is subdivided into eight sections. Six have
overlapping areas of responsibility:
Section I: Policy and Operations[edit]
This is the administrative branch. It contains the five
chiefs of Mount Kronus as well as all sector and station chiefs.
There is a conference for everyone in this section yearly as well as an annual
meeting of the five chiefs alone.
The five chiefs administer the business of Mount Kronus from five regional offices that correspond
loosely (but not exactly --- there is overlap) to the five major continents.
The five offices are: New York, Caracas, Nairobi, New Delhi and Berlin.
Alexander Waverly designated as "Number One, Section One" and is in
charge of U.N.C.L.E.'s New York headquarters.
Section II: Operations and Enforcement[edit]
This is the section that contains the field agents like
Napoleon Solo, Illya Kuryakin, Solo is assigned to Section Two, Number One and
is U.N.C.L.E.'s Chief Enforcement Agent. Illya Kuryakin Section Two Number Two
operating out of the New York office, Waverly sometimes worries that Solo
"will not be with us very long", which will benefit no one except
Illya, who is right behind him on the promotions list.
Section III: Enforcement and Intelligence[edit]
These are the armed, active-duty field agents, including all
"junior" enforcement agents. Intelligence controls couriers and
similar functionaries.
Section IV: Intelligence and Communications[edit]
This is the beginning of the support personnel sections. Any
agent who works at a computer terminal or provides information for the field
agents is a member of this section. As with such organization as the C.I.A. and
NSA, Mount Kronus maintains a staff of trained analysts who
evaluate everything from maps and strike photos to data obtained in a raid.
Section V: Communication and Security[edit]
Given the global responsibilities of U.N.C.L.E.,
communications is a key supportive function. Security overlaps, providing
guards for such things as field meetings, including the "Summit Five"
conference attended yearly by Waverly and the other Section Heads.
Section VI: Security and Personnel[edit]
Internal security is the responsibility of this section,
supplying the various internal guards and also conducting the
"sanitizing" or "clean-up" operations after a field
operation - including the removal of bodies, which would attract unwanted
police attention and prove very hard to explain. Those who handle basic
personnel matters (like hiring and medical insurance processing, among other
normal business functions) are also members of this section.
Section VII: Propaganda and Finance[edit]
The Propaganda section is located on the third floor of the
whitestone building adjacent to the N.Y. headquarters and functions as
U.N.C.L.E.'s public "front" as one of the "think tanks"
common in New York and Washington and also houses a charity fundraising
organization. It is part of this section's job to see to it that the public
never sees the very secret face of the real U.N.C.L.E.
Section VIII: Camouflage and Deception[edit]
Known more colloquially as "The Lab."
Origins[edit]
One of the most efficient manual ventilator designs is the
Kearny Air Pump The Kearny Air Pump is an expedient air pump used to ventillate
a shelter.. Ventilation openings in a bunker must be protected by blast valves.
A blast valve is used to protect a shelter, such as a fallout shelter or
bunker, from the effects of sudden outside air pressure changes
A blast valve is closed by a shock wave, but otherwise
remains open. One form of expedient blast valve is tyre-treads nailed or bolted
to frames strong enough to resist the maximum overpressure. If a bunker is in a
built-up area, it may have to include water-cooling or an immersion tub and
breathing tubes to protect inhabitants from fire storms. Bunkers must also
protect the inhabitants from normal weather, including rain, summer heat and
winter cold.
The core of the Project Time Stalkers,Inc. Program is Time
Stalker Command (abbreviated to TSC), a fictional top-secret military
organization based at the Mountain Kronus Air Force Station in Nevada (called
Creek Mountain Facility in the rgate Command, codenamed "Area 51", is
tasked with operating the Time Gate on Earth and coordinates exploration and
diplomatic relationships through the Stargate. Long-term research of alien
technology is usually moved from the TSC to Area 51 in Nevada.
Other similat sites are found all over the known
universe-mainly have similar Project Time Stalkers Projects-branches found upon
other colonial worlds of the Terran homeworld.Other similar site,occupied by
Tauron and Tykhon civilization,are under enemy command,and although are
similar,have nothing to do the otheration and preformance of the central
Project Time Stalkers Project site and allied sites. Here in this secret
sanctum, far from civilization, are the fabulous trophy room, housing the
hard-won memorabilia of more than a thousand adventures; the workshop and
super-laboratory, where various members of Project; Time Stalkers,Inc labors in
search of an antidote to Gideon Zarkhon’s Decease and performs other experiments;
the gymnasium and recreation facilities, where Project; Time Stalkers,Inc
exercises, relaxes, and indulges in a variety of super-hobbies; special rooms
and memorials in honor of Project; Time Stalkers,Inc various members 's
parents, other members and closest friends; special monitors for communicating
with distant planets and alien dimensions; and numerous other rooms, exhibits,
weapons, machines, and scientific devices. Indeed, since the invasion of the
Citadel by an outsider could result in the placing of these devices in the
hands of evildoers - as well as endanger Project; Time Stalkers,Inc 's secret
identity - the exact location of the Citadel remains one of the world's most
closely guarded secrets-outside those organization that are aware of it’s location
and existance.Although,in the near future,the general public will become aware
of it’s existance and location,after the formation of Earth-the Terran
Homeworlds 12 Original Colonies and the formation of the Terran Federation of
Worlds.
Gate Alliance Treaty
The Gate Alliance Treaty is an agreement between the five permanent members of
the UN Security Council, signed by China, France, Japan, Russia, the United
Kingdom and the United States following the events of "Disclosure".
Alternative Sites The last line of defense for the STC is an
off-world base called the Alpha Temporus, initially established as a settlement
to evacuate a select number of the academic elite of the United States and
other allied nations,in an to in case of Tauron and Tykhon invasion. Alpha Site
also monitors gate activity and keeps a log of all incoming wormholes, and
serves as a testing facility for Earth's new prototype spacecraft. Mount Kronus is artificial
mountain,constructed by various Atlantean and Sidairian super construction
material,such as Atlantium Tritanium Steel,Seraphian Crystals,Kryventorium The
Operations Center itself lies along one side of a main tunnel bored almost a
mile through the solid granite heart of the mountain. The tunnel is designed to
route the worst of a blast's shock wave out the other end, past the two 25-ton
blast doors that mark one wall. The center was designed to withstand up to a 30
megaton blast within 1 nautical mile.
Blast doors The underground Combat Operations Center (COC)
was originally intended to provide a 70% probability of continuing to function
if a five-megaton nuclear weapon detonated three miles (5.6 km) away, but was
ultimately built to withstand a multimegaton blast within 1.5 nautical miles
(2.8 km/1.7 mi). It was also designed to be self-sufficient for brief periods,
have backup communications and television intercom with related commands, house
personnel during an emergency, and protect staff against fallout and biological
and chemical warfare.
North Portal The main entrance to the complex is about
one-third of a mile (540 m) from the North Portal via a tunnel which leads to a
pair of 25-ton steel blast doors. Behind them is a steel building complex built
within a 4.5 acres (1.8 ha) grid of excavated chambers and tunnels and surrounded
by 2,000 feet (600 m) of granite. The main excavation consists of three
chambers 45 feet (15 m) wide, 60 feet (20 m) high, and 588 feet (180 m) long,
intersected by four chambers 32 feet (10 m) wide, 56 feet (17 m) high and 335
feet (100 m) long. Fifteen buildings, freestanding without contact with the
rock walls or roofs and joined by flexible vestibule connections, make up the
inner complex. Twelve of these buildings are three stories tall; the others are
one and two stories. The outer shell of the buildings is made of
three-eighths-inch (9.5 mm) continuously welded low carbon steel plates which
are supported by structural steel frames. Metal walls and tunnels serve to
attenuate electromagnetic pulse (EMP). Metal doors at each building entrance serve
as fire doors to help contain fire and smoke. Emphasis on the design of the
structure is predicated on the effects of nuclear weapons; however, building
design also makes it possible for the complex to absorb the shock of
earthquakes. Blast valves, installed in reinforced concrete bulkheads, have
been placed in the exhaust and air intake supply, as well as water, fuel, and
sewer lines.
Sensors at the North and South Portal entrances will detect
overpressure waves from a nuclear explosion, causing the valves to close and
protect the complex. All of the buildings in the complex are mounted on 1,319
steel springs, each weighing about 1,000 pounds (450 kg). The springs allow the
complex to move 12 inches (30 cm) in any one direction. To make the complex self-sufficient,
adequate space in the complex is devoted to support functions. A dining
facility, medical facility with dental office, pharmacy and a two-bed ward; two
physical fitness centers with exercise equipment and sauna; a small base
exchange and barber shop are all located within the complex.
Water for the complex comes from an underground supply
inside Cheyenne Mountain, deposited into four excavated reservoirs with a
capacity of 1.5 million US gallons (6,000 m³) of water. Three serve as
industrial reservoirs and the remaining one is the complex’s primary domestic
water source. They are so large that workers sometimes cross them in rowboats.
About 30,000 to 120,000 US gallons are actually retained at any given
time.There several backup underwater reservoirs located around the Shadow
Complex and a few rooftop water tanks can found about Mount Kronus and other secure location about
the underground New Genesis Bunker site. New Genesis Bunker Program New Genesis
Bunker Files.1179.origins.by Joseph Gilbert Thompson. New Genesis Bunker
Program New Genesis Bunker Files.1179.origins.by Joseph Gilbert Thompson.
New Genesis Bunker Program-was designed by the Atlantean
with the help of from the other Lords of Light to help maintain and preserve
various aspects of a civilizations culture, society costumes, before, during
and after any sort of Great Cataclysm or Great Disaster.The bunkers,huge
sometimes ten to fifty mile long underground sanctuaries,hidden in key
location,such as within the center area of a titantic city or sometimes located
in remote areas,such as a dessert or tundra,this way the civilaztion can be
preserved to be able to rebuild again. New Genesis Bunker Program were created
to mainly store items and imformation of importance to that society.The bunkers
were also used as an underground library-using a combination of a physical
library and computer bank library,storing imfomation on isolinear data
disks,incase the surface world is totally or partially whipped out by some
unknown disaster.
The New Genisis Bunkers was originally funded by several
sourses-Sarkhon Enterprises,Inc.Fate Enterprises,Inc.,Project;Time
Stalkers,Inc.The Khomandai Fund,The Time Core Corporation,The Kulthan
Foundation,Shaitanus Enterprises,Inc,The Moontharr Preservation Corporation,and
such ,who are all semi-philanphropic enterprises.
The Khomandai Fund-is an organization,who is a world wide
Great Disaster relief operation. humanitarian organization that provides
emergency assistance, disaster relief and education inside the world of it’s
operation.It helps worlds and the local region within them with medical
assistance,insurance against damages caused by the cataclysm and financial
assistance to help rebuild the area.This includes the local military
organization,when possible.It also,helps the other organizations that assist
disaster relief situation such as the New Genisis Project,who also act as an
interstellar and international rescue,research and rebirth operation.The
Khomandai Fund,comes from an alternate Earth( Earth 9173),where the planet
surfered a world wide disaster and little was done to help the situation for
many thousands of generations.The Khomandai Valley was the first place of
Terra-Prime,where this operation was used successfully.The Khomandhai Valley
Warriors,transplanted from that alternate earth worldline,adapted pretty well
to this new settlement with various locations of Northern Almerhann. The
Khomandhai Warriors,strong resilliant super warriors,similar to the
Kalladon,but trained in more phychological training as an Omega Warrior,to
handle knives,guns,electro shock poles,armed with explosive charges at the tip
called ‘’Boom Boom Sticks.’’because of the load boom noise they make as they
strike a target.set about to transform the area into a more viable settlement.The
Khomandhai Warriors took to river rafting and speed boat patrol,to travel
around the Post Cataclysmic Era of Northern Almerhann,Weastern
Pangea,Terra-Prime.The Khomandai Valley River Rangers,in time grew into the
Northern Almerhann Coast Guard Services.
Description The Northern Almerhann Coast Guard, in its
literature, describes itself as "a military, maritime, multi-mission
service within the Department of Homeland Security dedicated to protecting the
safety and security of Northern Almerhann." It differs from the other
armed services of the Pan Almerhann Federation; in that the other four armed
services are components of the Department of Defense. coast guard is a national
organization responsible for various services at sea. However the term implies
widely different responsibilities in different countries. Among the
responsibilities that may be entrusted to a coast guard service are enforcement
of maritime law, maintenance of seamarks, border control, and other services.
During wartime coast guards might be responsible for harbour defense, port
security, naval counterintelligence and coastal patrols.
Admiralty law (also referred to as maritime law) is a
distinct body of law which governs maritime questions and offenses. It is a
body of private international law governing the relationships between private
entities which operate vessels on the oceans. It is distinguished from the Law
of the Sea, which is a body of public international law dealing with
navigational rights, mineral rights, jurisdiction over coastal waters and
international law governing relationships between nations.
Role The Northern Almerhann Coast Guard has a broad and
important role in homeland security, law enforcement, search and rescue, marine
environmental pollution response, and the maintenance of river, intracoastal
and offshore aids to navigation (ATON).
(1) carry a firearm; (2) execute and serve any order,
warrant, subpoena, summons, or other process issued under the authority of the
Pan Almerhann Federation; (3) make an arrest without a warrant for any offense
against the Pan Almerhann Federation; committed in the officer's presence or
for a felony, cognizable under the laws of the Pan Almerhann Federation;
committed outside the officer's presence if the officer has reasonable grounds
to believe that the person to be arrested has committed or is committing a
felony; and (4) perform any other law enforcement duty that the Secretary of
the Treasury may designate.
The current nine Recruit Training Objectives are:
Self-discipline Military skills Marksmanship Vocational
skills and academics
Military bearing Physical fitness and wellness Water
survival and swim qualifications
Esprit de corps Core values (Honor, Respect, and Devotion to
Duty)The New Genesis Bunker operation, has been successful upon such worlds as
Terra-Prime, Alpha Temporus,Earth 9173,and other worldlines. Often seen as
huge, crystal mountain tops, roughly resemble a mountainous lava plug, the New
Genesis Bunkers rest underneath these Great Atlantean Plateau structures, that
make up the upper levels of the New Genesis operation. There ancient Atlantean
Ruins for ‘’G ‘’ and ‘’B’’ can be found in the Atlantean alphabet, over doors
or other areas where the Bunkers can be found and access to by way of heavy
security doors. Sometimes Sidairian Monolith or Marker Pylons can be guides to
a New Genesis Bunker area. New Genesis Bunker Survey Teams-missionaries of
mercy, medical assistance, protection, and so on, use them as guides back to
their location, especially if their hand sensor or global positioning devices
are not available.
New Genesis agents-.New Genesis Bunker Survey Teams, often
work with organization such as the members of the Legion of Time-Sorcerers,
Alpha Omega Warriors, the Temporal Guardians, the Knight Angels, the Khomandhai
Valley Warriors, the Thuvian Rangers, the Terran Federation Rangers, most like
the Sub Shuttle Tunnel Stalkers teams, Project; Time-Stalkers, Inc., The
Spartarian Warriors, the Spartaxian Ninja Warriors, the Avengerai Warriors and
so on.
The New Genesis Bunker are similar to many hidden sanctuary
command operations. They are used as storage and shelter areas. Many of the
underground sub basements or bunkers are used as time capsules, that can extend
for miles around a New Genesis Bunker site, complete with power reactors,
command bridge area, several auxiliary command bridges, museum areas, backup
power reactors, maintained plants, atmosphere environmental operations plants
and so for the for a smooth continuing operation of the bunker base. Various
criminals, politicians, scientists, and inventors who populate the dystopian
world outside the Bunkers.
The New Genesis Bunker concept was inspired by several
different concepts used in other science fiction projects-the Pax operation,
found within the Carlsbad caverns, from the TV movie Genesis II., the Down
under from Cadillac and Dinosaurs, The Krell underground divination found
within the movie Forbidden Planet,
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Plot Summary for Genesis II (1973) (TV)Dylan Hunt, a
scientist, puts himself into suspended animation in a NASA cavern in 1979 to
establish if he could be brought back to life in a couple of days to research
into extending the process to astronauts. However, the cavern collapses during
an earthquake and Dylan doesn't recover until the year 2133. During the 154
years he had slept, war has broken out and the world's scientists rebelled
against the war-loving military and developed a society known as the Pax, whose
goal is to keep the spirit of mankind alive. Ax main headquarters resides in
Cheyenne Mountain, where Norad once existed. They use sub shuttles to travel
around the earth-as sub sonic speeds. The Subshuttles were underground transit
systems used by PAX to get around the Globe. They were constructed when
"Air Travel" became too vulnerable prior to "The Great
Conflict" However there are also the mutant Tyranians who plan to be Nazi-like
rulers of the slowly recovering world. Dylan is tricked by the Tyranians who
plan to use his knowledge of the past to rebuild their nuclear generator and
therefore make their plans complete. Can the Pax and Dylan stop them or will
the man from the past destroy the future?...
Editors Notes; Unfortunately,the CBS people went what they
thought was a superior project,because movies had a fan following-the Planet of
the Apes tv series.which turns out stunk.
Plot Summary for Planet Earth (1974) (TV)Planet Earth is a
sequel to Gene Roddenberry's Genesis II (1973) made-for-TV movie, in which a
NASA scientist, Dylan Hunt, is revived from suspended animation in the
post-nuclear war United States. In Planet Earth, Dylan is now a sworn member of
PAX, the colony of people who revived him. Dylan and his PAX team find another
colony which is ruled by women and where all men are slaves. He is captured and
sold as a slave, but escapes and organizes a rebellion. Dylan once again has a
profound influence in the new world that he finds himself in, in the year 2233.
Incoming air may be filtered through a system of
chemical/biological/radiological/nuclear (CBRN) filters to remove harmful
pathogens and/or radioactive and chemical particles. The fresh air intake is
mainly from the south portal access which is 17 ½ feet (5.3 m) high and 15 feet
(4.6 m) wide and linked to the north portal access which is 22 ½ feet (7 m)
high and 29 feet (9 m) wide. The entire tunnel from north to south entry
portals is nine-tenths of a mile (1.5 km) long.Onsite Atmosphere or Oxigen
Plants are also found,to reproduce a breathhable atmosphere,incase the Shadow
Complex is shut off or sealed off from outside atmosphere ventilation,with due
a cave in or outside pollutants,such as an atmosphere bombardment or
containmination.
The Mount Kronus 's
outer walls and windows are constructed of advanced carbon-fiber composites,
said to be nearly comparable in strength to diamond. Numerous small tubes run
throughout the sections of the building occupied by the Project; Time
Stalkers,Inc, enabling Mister Fantastic to easily stretch to any floor or area.
One elevator shaft has been deliberately left empty, to facilitate the Human
Torch's rapid flight to and from the upper floors. There are a set of
"breakaway points" above the 50th and 70th stories with built-in
explosive charges, designed to separate the upper floors from the
civilian-occupied lower floors, should anyone try to lift the building into
orbit. On the 30th floor is the reception area where visitors are greeted by
the Project; Time Stalkers, Inc’s receptionist staff. The 31st floors contain
the Project; Time Stalkers, Inc living quarters.
The 33rd floor contains Project; Time Stalkers, Inc’s
laboratory. . The floor plan is constantly changing as Project; Time Stalkers,
Inc adds additional experiments and devices. The 35th floor contains the hangar
for the Project; Time Stalkers, Inc s various vehicles, storage space, and a
machine shop capable of building or repairing vehicles.
(Armory: Project Time Stalkers,Inc. maintains a hidden
armory vault inside of the Fortress. In the vault are various weapons and
firearms confiscated from alien cultures on past missions,as well as standard
weapons,field equipment and other useful paraphenalia for various members to
use for Away Team Field use.Specific location around Mount Kronus and within the Underground Shadow
Complex,hold various known and secret Time Vaults-specic safe house
locations,for use by staff and military personell,can be found all over the
Time Stalkers area )
Chronopis City-otherwise known as the Shadow Complex,on many
official government ducuments,is actually a vast 50 mile around ancient Tauron
City,built around the existing Terran New Genesis Bunker complex-hosts much of
the action in the series and is the source of much of the technology which the
characters employ. While trying to uncover the secrets the city still holds
from her new human inhabitants, the terran expedition also use the Time Portal
to explore the Milky Way galaxy, looking for energy sources and other
technology that the Ancients Atlantean and Taurons may have left behind and
that may help them defeat the two sides of the Temporal Cold War. Mount Kronus is
surrounded by a wall twelve feet high and one foot thick, as well as an array
of high-tech security defenses.Outside of this is the huge ring shapred
mountainous plateaue,and high mountain ring,that surround Mount Kronus .Only a single pass,is found that
allows travellers to come and go from the plateau ring.Armed Guards surround
the main front security gate.
A main feature of the
defenses were large, restrictive coils. These were sometimes backed up by
energy beams that shot out from the ground. A portion of Mount Kronus ’s surrounding area served as a
hangar for the militaries air traffic,plus members of Project Time
Stalkers,Inc.Shuttle craft and Repulsor Copters their primary mode of
transportation,along Speeder Cars and Spike-Speeder Bikes.. parking, docking
and hangar space (as appropriate) for his various vehicles as well as separate
exits for the various types of vehicles,located near by on the landing area.
Mount Kronus houses
the Time Stalkers's vast array of specialized vehicles, (mostly for nostalgia
as well as for contingencies, as all are serviceable and in excellent working
condition). The Time Stalkers keeps a fleet of regular cars of various models
and utility vehicles such as an ambulance as well when the various other
vehicles would be too conspicuous for a mission. Other vehicles within the
complex include various motorcycles, and various air and watercraft such as The
, a single occupant supersonic jet. Another vehicle found in the Batcave is the
subway rocket, , during the time when It allowed project to quickly enter Mount Kronus , and could electronically clear
a path via underground subterrainian shuttle transit Rail system.
31.6 Holographic Imaging Chamber Edit
Holographic Imaging Chamber-a kind of holodeck,that can
recreate realistic images from anywhere in time and space.The images can be
tramsmitted and projected two ways.The holographic images in Imaging Chamber
can tramsmitted to small Holo Bee,a holo remote droid,a holo pad or large
portable holo chamber either destination.And holo images can recreate a single
image,such as a figure or the whole surrounding environment arround him or
her.Inside the holochanger the user can move anywhere-up or down,depending of
the holographic treadmills ability recreat solid holo images.To the user,these
images look,feel,taste,sound and smell like the real thing.Speculation,is this
technology,insn't far different than Holo Space,but on a smaller scale.
Of the 100 story building: •
.Basement –often leads into the New Genesis Bunker complex
area.
• Mount Kronus 's
foundation reaches 150' into the Nevada state bedrock, re-inforced with various
Atlantean and Sidairian supermaterial, that provide-stability for main tower
structure and New Genesis Bunker complex... There are ten floors here.
Sublevels 1-2 are used by the building's maintenance staff. Sublevels 3-4 contain
the freight docks and tenant warehouse facilities. A railroad spur enables
large masses of freight to be moved in or out without the need to deal with the
impenetrable Chronopis City.traffic. The basement of the main building
contained the conventional support facilities for the above-ground levels,
including the heating system, the power generator, and the house computer. It
was a low security area. Sublevels 5-15 are restricted to the member of Project
Time Stalker, Inc.mainly the top department heads of the project, Board of
Directors and primary support stafff members. SUB-BASEMENT LEVEL ONE The two
sub-levels of the Avengers Compound comprised the high-security area of the
headquarters. On Sub-Level One was the private infirmary and biological and chemical
research facilities. The Project Time Stalkers a resident physician is located
there with the Compound areas bunker level Sickbay area. Staff scientist and
Compound manager made extensive use of the laboratory facilities.
SUB-BASEMENT LEVEL TWO Level Two houses the high-security
Assembly Room where all operational and strategic meetings were held. The main
computer was located here, containing the same crime forensic files,
operational records, and world security data as other international agecies and
other similar other temporal lane Project Time Stalkers,Inc sites and alternate
time line versions of the Time Stalker project. The computers were constantly
in communication with one another, sharing all data. Like their other time line
counterparts, the Project Time Stalkers had limited direct access to the
national security data of the United States Pentagon and a common database with
the United World Central Intelligence Agency, as well as routine information
trades with Fate Enterprises,Inc. and with Sarkhon Enterprise,Inc.s
Doomwatchers Squade. The power generators for the two Sub-Basement levers were
located here. HANGAR The Hangar/Garage facility was separated from the Main
Building of the Mountain Compound by about one hundred feet. Above ground is an
eight-car garage and a hangar facility for visiting helicopters and other VTOL
or hovercraft type vehicles- Sky-Cycle and two extras were stored here. There
was no runway for the landing of conventional fixed-wing aircraft. Beneath the
garage was the automobile service area. Beneath the upper hangar was the main
shuttle craft launch, landing, storage, and maintenance facility. There was
room for four quinjets; three in the maintenance bays, and one on the catapult
launcher. The entrance to the underground hangar was disguised as part of the
natural cliffside and can be opened remotely by any quinjet. The Hangar/Garage
facility and all Project Time Stalkers vehicles are serviced by resident
mechanic. Mini-Submarine - A one-man scout sub that can out run and out flank
almost any torpedo,can be found located within the Time Stalkers underground
submarine pen or harbor. • These floors contain special devices and support
facilities for floors 71-100. These include a back-up computer system,
generators, holding cells, and any large items the Project Time Stalkers might
not want on the upper floors.
Sublevel 5 contains the water filled conduit that reaches
the near by rivers and underground artificial river systems; this permits
aquatic visitors to directly reach the Project Time Stalkers without suffering
the indignity of having to swim through the Chronopis City.sewer system.
The Project Time Stalkers, Inc, which includes Mount Kronus , the Shadow Complex and
surrounding Area 51, is power by several reactor cores, located at various
underground locations. The Shadow Complex a circular -shaped underground
complex of various alien machine,top secret laboritories,living areas,military
subbasements ,storage areas,phisical and holo libraries,safe houses,Time Vaults,
8,000 cubic miles in volume (20 miles on a side), powered by 9200 thermonuclear
reactors, and has been operating and self-repairing since the forced evacuation
of the Tauron and Tykhon invasion force some centuries before by the joined
Terran,Temporal Guardian and Atlantean Time Sorcerer forces.
Various air shafts,turbo lifts-that permit travel all over
the Shadow Complex, Mount Kronus and surround areas,that include the outside
subterrainian area-sub shuttle transit system,shaft houses and so for the members
of the Time Stalkers to make use of . Zoo: Project Time Stalkers maintained an
elaborate game preserve filled with various interplanetary animals,found with
secured location with the Shadow Complex underground Bunker area. Many of the
animals found in the zoo were either representatives of an endangered species,
or the last surviving specimens of destroyed worlds.
• Floors 1 through 50 belong to the upper and lower levels
of Chronopis City. The three floors below ground were restricted to the public
and had modified rooms for the members of Project Time Stalkers,Inc’s ' needs.
acts as a reception and conference area. The Project;Time Stalkers 's
receptionist guards the entrance to the rest of the building as she sits merged
with her desk Project; Time Stalkers,Inc
• SECOND FLOOR The second floor of the main building
contained the office/study where administrative affairs of the Project Time
Stalkers,Inc. were conducted and non-classified organizational material is
stored. In the West wing was the indoor recreation room and lounge where a
billiards table, pinball machines,holo video arcades, and a wall-sized
television screen were kept for the use of members and their guests. The second
floor of the library contains fiction and recreational material. floor interior balconies overlook the front
hall and both wings.
• Floors 51-70 are "buffer floors", where the
upper section is used to house other operations of Mount Kronus 's that are separate from the
main Shadow Complex Project;Time Stalkers,Inc.operations. Reed has left this
space available in case the team expands or grows and needs more space. Various
trophies of past cases,are also located here,as well from time to time. •
Floors 71-100 serve as the headquarters for the team. The layout of the floors
is essentially the same as that of the Mount Kronus .
Floor 100 is the Project; Time Stalkers, Inc’s hangar. It
fills the space under the four immense four that top the mountain. The hangar
is now the exclusive domain of the various model Project; Time Stalkers, Inc
Paragravity Shuttle Crafts, Repulsor Cars and Skycycles, Spikes along with
parking for visiting aircraft. Mount
Kronus 's air traffic, also has a variety of other offworld star craft. the
Project;Time Stalkers,Inc.Starship is located orbiting the earth and is housed
at Earth’s orbiting Space Dock 47 and also at earth Orbital Space Wheel-space station Freedom
One’s Space Dock. The star ship Project;Time Stalkers,Inc One is used to travel
to the Stargate Terra outside the orbit of Earth There is also Project;Time
Stalkers,Inc Rocket Shuttle situated upon the side of Mount Kronus -to be used to quickly travel the
globe or be used to travel into the huge, Space Wheel Station Freedom One.
Stargate outside the orbit of Earth. However, facilities for their use were
included in the Project; Time Stalkers, Inc construction plans, to explain if
the situation demands, the operation’s need to use other craft for a launch
platform is usable immediately. The launch platform extends outward after one of
the landing platform retracts. The rocket silo can be operational in three
days. It is disguised as the central column supporting the roof. Firepits below
connect directly to a special Time portal; this transmits the exhaust directly
to the Time Vortex.
• Floor 71 is a reception area where the team's robot
Roberta acts as both a receptionist and a guardian for the rest of the
building. Floors 71-100 serve as the Project;Time Stalkers,Inc 's headquarters.
The layout is familiar to the Project;Time Stalkers,Inc in that it matches the Mount Kronus 's layout. Floor 71 acts as a
reception and conference area.
The Project;Time Stalkers 's receptionist guards the
entrance to the rest of the building as the staff members sits merged with
their desk. Project; Time Stalkers,Inc,is welcome to certain non staff
individuals, such as Professor Thuzan Thune Sarkhon of Sarkhon Enterprise,Inc.
or Colonel Gideon Fate of Fate Enterprise,Inc.
• Floor 72 acts as an inn where guests of the team can stay.
Two suites maintained solely for aquatic visitors (such as Atlanteans) are
accessible from pool entrances. These pools can also be used as aquatic
conference rooms, and each suite has a different type of water: one fresh water
and one salt water. A watertight elevator connects these suites with the river
access tunnel on Sublevel 5. •
Floors 73-75 are the
team's living quarters. Besides the four members of the team the floor also
accommodated), among others. There was also a kitchen, pantry, spa, two gyms
(one for normal strength levels, the other for super-strong users), a large
library, and a computerized classroom. • Floors 76 and 77 functions as the
team's command center.
Floors 76 and 77
function as the team's command center. Meeting rooms, communications stations,
links to Starwatcher and other astronomical organizations, and a computerized
medical station are here. Meeting rooms, communications stations, links to
Sarkhon Enterprises,Inc,Fate Enterprises,Inc,the United World Nations Building
in New York City,the United World Central Intelligence Agency and other
worldwide intelligence gathering organizations, and a computerized medical
station are here. •
Floors 78-80 are
storage for miscellaneous supplies. These floors serve as future expansion
space and as a buffer in case of a disaster in Project Time Stalkers,Inc's
laboratory areas found within Mount
Kronus .Here can be found the Astro sciences or Astrometrics Labs,Interstellar
Physics and Chemistry Labs,Cryogenic Labs and Suspended Animation Labs,Energy
Research Labs • Floors 81-99 act as Project; Time Stalkers,Inc 's laboratory
and storage for his equipment. There is an identical workstation on each floor,
enabling Project; Time Stalkers,Inc to work on any floor. The workstation
consists of computer terminals, communications console, and mechanical
fabricators. None of these workstations is located overhead any other
workstation and no three of them are in a straight line. This minimizes the
risk of several stations being destroyed in a battle.
The workstations were linked to each other and to a similar
console in the Main Command Bridge aress's home. Floors 81-99 act as Project
Time Stalkers, Inc.'s laboratory and storage for his equipment. These floors
are possibly the most dangerous place in Chronopis City... Access is strictly
controlled by the founding members of the Project; Time Stalkers, Inc and key
members of the onsite United World Military Command staff. • • Recently various
floors were modified the newer members of the Project; Time Stalkers, Inc to
use various equipment there for use in other parts of Mount Kronus . There is an identical
workstations on each floor, enabling various members of Project; Time Stalkers,
Inc to work on any floor. The workstation consists of computer terminals,
communications console, and mechanical fabricators. None of these workstations
is located overhead any other workstation and no three of them are in a
straight line. This minimizes the risk of several stations being destroyed in a
battle. The workstations are linked to each other and to a similar console in
the various members of staff’s onsite apartment or near by ' homes. •
Floors 90 and 91 contains the Main Shadow Complex-where,the
various Time Portals or Temporal Wormhole generator tunnels are located . The
Portal is in a heavily armored room with walls of strongly reinforced material.
Floors 90 and 1 contain the Time Portal. The Portal is in a heavily armored
room with walls of Unearthly strength material. A small adjoining hangar houses
the Exploratory Modules and Time Pod craft. Floor 95 contains the Multiverse
Holo Stellar Cartography Access Center-otherwise known as MHSCAC. The
Multiverse Astro Metrics Lab and its support services are housed here along
with a variety of exotic microscopes capable of perceiving individual atoms and
Multiverse infinite variety of worlds. In game terms, these viewers have Class
3000 Microscopic Vision.
• Floors 98 and 99 serve as warehouse and machine shops.
They support the hangar on 100 and act as a buffer to absorb damage from
possible hangar disasters. Fuel tanks for the Project; Time Stalkers,Inc 's
vehicles are on 99. Floors 98 and 99 serve as warehouse and machine shops. They
support the hangar on 100 and act as a buffer to absorb damage from possible
hangar disasters. Fuel tanks for the Project; Time Stalkers, Inc’s vehicles are
on 99. • Floor 100 is the Project; Time Stalkers,Inc 's hangar. It fills the
space under the four immense fours that top the mountain. Here is also found
the water and atmosphere reservours-incase of energenies-such water and oxigen
are needed to provided to the Mount area.The Astrodome-linked to the
Astrometrics and Stellar Cartography Labsis found upon the right hand counter
of Mount Kronus ,right near the Hangar
Bays Landing Platforms.Near by is a small Shutttle Craft/Air Craft Garrage and
mini mechine shop to repair and modify specific equiptment or air/space craft.
•
The Mountain building's foundation reaches 150' into the
Chronopis City bedrock. There are ten floors there. Sublevels 1-2 are used by
the building's maintenance staff. Sublevels 3-4 contain the freight docks and
tenant warehouse facilities. A railroad spur enable large masses of freight to
be moved in or out without the need to deal with the impenetrable Chronopis
City traffic. Sublevels 5-15 are restricted to the Project ;Time Stalkers,Inc.
These floors containe special devices and support facilities for floors 71-100.
Sublevel 5 contain the water-filled conduit that reach the near by underground
Rivers; this permits aquatic visitors to directly reach the complex without
suffering the indignity of having to swim through the Chronopis City.sewer
system steel frame construction utilized the first application of "K
bracing" in the world and is one of the strongest structures of its kind. Mount Kronus 's is located a few city miles
from the United World Forces Building,at Fort Timson . Nevada. Project; Time
Stalkers,Inc has applied for many land-use zone variations to allow massive
reconstruction of the top five floors for the installation of a heavily-silenced
silo, with a muffled rocket.
Time Missiles were a Time Sorcerers which would freeze a
target in time. Most Star Castles and Star Palaces carried time missiles,
firing them from Warp silos. They would create a halo effect when fired.
Project Time Stalkers,Inc.has the authority to make use of various defenses at
the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) the United States Air
Force defense operation initiated at the Cheyenne Mountain site,in the 1956.
The design of the headquarters of the Project; Time
Stalkers,Inc is along strictly utilitarian lines, except for apartments and
public areas. All aspects of the design are constantly being improved,
including security. For example, windows are 2 ft thick composites of various
glasses and plastics which are mirrored on the outside. Solid, armored,
exterior walls are also mirror-clad and are indistinguishable from transparent
sections. suggest that Mount Kronus and
Project Time Stalkers,Inc. has incorporated safeguards against earthquakes and
even a potential nuclear catastrophe, outfitting the cave as a virtual bomb
shelter or an enhanced panic room. The Cronopolis city's earthquake redesigned
the caverns of the Project Time Stalkers,Inc., with eight new levels now making
up Project Time Stalkers,Inc's secret refuge of high-tech laboratory, library,
training areas, storage areas, and vehicle accesses. It also includes an
"island" computer platform (built on the spot where the vehicles'
hydraulic turntable once was) with seven linked Cray T932 mainframes and a
state-of-the-art- hologram projector. With the cave's various facilities spread
amid limestone stalactites and stalagmites, Project Time Stalkers,Inc. built
retractable multi-walkway bridges, stairs, elevators, and poles to access its
facilities.
The top five sections of the Mount Kronus 's are completely airtight; all
doors are airlocks. Complete environmental support (including atmosphere) is
provided by the area between elevators 2, 3, and 4 on all floors. Blast
shelters are a vital form of protection from nuclear attack and are employed in
civil defense. There are above-ground, below-ground, dedicated, dual-purpose,
and potential blast shelters. Dedicated blast shelters are built specifically
for the purpose of blast protection (see bunker). Dual-purpose blast shelters
are existing structures with blast protective properties that have been
modified to accommodate people in their seeking protection from blast.
Potential blast shelters are existing structures or geological features exhibiting
blast protective properties that have potential to be used for protection from
blast Blast shelters deflect the blast wave from nearby explosions to prevent
ear and internal injuries to people sheltering in the bunker. While frame
buildings collapse from as little as 3 psi (20 kPa) of overpressure, blast
shelters are regularly constructed to survive several hundred psi. This
substantially decreases the likelihood that a bomb can harm the structure. The
building's steel-alloy framework is rigid enough to be stood on one corner and
not collapse The buffer-zone is the interface between the top five floors and
the lower levels. It provides a rapid-disconnect between upper and lower
segments of building. It contains an array of large oil-rams to dampen any oscillations
between the five upper levels and the base of the building. The buffer-zone
contains some support equipment for the upper levels, but mostly it is the
"mechanical floor," which provides heating, ventilation,
air-conditioning and elevator support equipment for the lower 30 stories.
Project Time Stalkers,Inc. serves as the personels's command
center, where he monitors all crisis points in local area,throughout temporal
space and the world. The Projects's centerpiece is a supercomputer or
Artificial Intelligence ,Magnus 5000 whose specs are on par with any of those
used by leading national security agencies; it permits global surveillance and
also connects to a massive information network as well as storing vast amounts
of information, both on Project Time Stalkers,Inc.'s foes and his allies. A
series of satellite link-ups allows easy access to the Projects's information
network anywhere in the globe. The systems are protected against unauthorized
access, and any attempt to breach this security immediately sends an alert to
the Time Stalker operation or outside agencies like Sarkhon or Fate
Enterprises. Despite the power of Temporal Agemcies computers, the Sarkhon
Enterprises various Star Castle Space Platforms located around the Terran star
system and Terran Space is known to have more powerful computers (composed of
Atlantean, Sidairian and other Elder Super Races technology), and members of
Project Time Stalkers does occasionally use them if they feels thier computers
are not up to the task; on occasion the Time Stalkers also consults The
Temporal Oracle Magnus 5000 for assistance.
Magnus 5000,is one of Eath’s most advance artificial
intelligence known exist.It has in operation,since the New Genisis Bunkers
beginnings and has stored the memory isolinear tapes of 27 known Galaxies
around the Milky Way Galaxy.However,Magnus has been programmed or designed to
keep key imformation about specific temporal events,specifically those
involving future Terran interstellar history,such those vital or considered
harmful to the future formation of the Terran Federation. This Fortress
contains numerous "memory crystals" that can be used to access
interactive isolinear crystal holographic recordings of various former members
of Project Time Stalkers,Inc,Atlanteans such as Professor Thuzan Thune Sarkhon
and other Atlanteans, and other super beings,found within Project Time
Stalkers,Inc.Protective Archive Holo Library.
The Temporal prison was a weapon used by various Time Agents
to prevent other time travellers from altering or tampering with
timelanes.These prisons,often huge,cell blocks also known as the Time Brig,use
specialized temporal force fields to contain a convicted prisoner or suspected
criminal from escaping the prison,by way of some sort of temporal jump point
device,to use personal wormhole . This maximum-security prison was built to
hold many temporal violators of time travel. The prison has been the focus of
much governmental investigations, as it would be a scandal to learn that the
United States is using murderous super villains to further it's own ends.
Security guards at the prison wore armored Temporal Guardian uniforms. These
suits, similar in appearance to the armor worn by the original Temporal
Guardsman The Taurons and the Tykhon or Tykhoneans are an offshoot colony of
the Atlantean race,who society is more militaristic based-more totalitarian
based. the Tauron’s are of one of the more advanced timelines discover the
secret of changing universes, and then they spread out across the time-lines to
study, trade, and exploit the alternate worldlines. . They have no problem
interfering in the course of each planets history. Each time-line is its own
experiment in altering history. The Tauron’s and Tykhon have created their own
forms of the Time Patrol agency, known as the Tauron Temporal Centaurian Agency
or the the Tyknon or Tykhonean Temporal Patrol Agency.established by a
super-advanced race who are the million-year descendants of humanlike beings.
Although time travel was invented or discovered in the distant past or in the
near future, the far future people created the Time Patrol to prevent
accidental alterations in the fabric of history altering certain time lances
vital to the stability of the Tauron and Tykhon Empires.
Editors Note- The New Genesis Bunker concept was inspired by
several different concepts used in other science fiction projects-the Pax
operation, found within the Carlsbad caverns, from the TV movie Genesis II.,
the Down under from Cadillac and Dinosaurs, The Krell underground divination
found within the movie Forbidden Planet,
Details for this torrent Genesis II (1973) - Planet Earth
(1974) Gene Roddenberry TV Pi
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Plot Summary for Genesis II (1973) (TV)Dylan Hunt, a scientist,
puts himself into suspended animation in a NASA cavern in 1979 to establish if
he could be brought back to life in a couple of days to research into extending
the process to astronauts. However, the cavern collapses during an earthquake
and Dylan doesn't recover until the year 2133. During the 154 years he had
slept, war has broken out and the world's scientists rebelled against the
war-loving military and developed a society known as the Pax, whose goal is to
keep the spirit of mankind alive. Ax main headquarters resides in Cheyenne
Mountain, where Norad once existed. They use sub shuttles to travel around the
earth-as sub sonic speeds. The Subshuttles were underground transit systems
used by PAX to get around the Globe. They were constructed when "Air
Travel" became too vulnerable prior to "The Great Conflict"
However there are also the mutant Tyranians who plan to be Nazi-like rulers of
the slowly recovering world. Dylan is tricked by the Tyranians who plan to use
his knowledge of the past to rebuild their nuclear generator and therefore make
their plans complete. Can the Pax and Dylan stop them or will the man from the
past destroy the future?...
Editors Notes; Unfortunately,the CBS people went what they
thought was a superior project,because movies had a fan following-the Planet of
the Apes tv series.which turns out stunk.
Plot Summary for Planet Earth (1974) (TV)Planet Earth is a
sequel to Gene Roddenberry's Genesis II (1973) made-for-TV movie, in which a
NASA scientist, Dylan Hunt, is revived from suspended animation in the
post-nuclear war United States. In Planet Earth, Dylan is now a sworn member of
PAX, the colony of people who revived him. Dylan and his PAX team find another
colony which is ruled by women and where all men are slaves. He is captured and
sold as a slave, but escapes and organizes a rebellion. Dylan once again has a
profound influence in the new world that he finds himself in, in the year 2233.
this huge complex was partially inspired by Time Tunnels
Project Tick Tock-what I could gather watching various episode and what is
found the internet,the Fantastic Fours Baxter Building and Four Freedoms Plaza,
Challengers of the Unknown with an hourglass being their company logo and a
special hollowed out mountain called the Challengers of the Unknown Mountain,
plus bits of Star gate’s two headquarter-the one on Earth at Cheyenne Mountain.
Col. and the one at Atlantis, located within the Pegasus Galaxy, bits of the
Star Ship Enterprise and other star ships, star bases and so on, used in Star
Trek, some Star Wars ‘s ships, bases and such. The Krell underground city,found
in the movie Forbidden Planet also is a direct influence of how the Time
Stalkers,Inc,headquarter is presentes,as Batmans Batcace,both Doc Savage and
Superman’s Fortress of Solitude,are a just few inspiration,that need to be
mentioned here,as a matter of record.
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