Sunday, September 11, 2011

FF HW1: Backstory

MAGNE-SONIC PROJECTILES

Towards the last years of World War II Emperor Hirohito of Japan orders the Imperial Navy to initiate explorations in certain areas of the Pacific well known for mysterious and unexplainable events, from battleships disappearing to pilots reporting strange sightings. There was no doubt that paranormal phenomena plagued these remote locations.

One of the few surviving ships and crew that lived to tell the story after the exploration of these areas began was the battleship Yamato. The most significant aspect of their story is that not only did they survive their collective experience but they were able to bring with them evidence that supports their incredible experience. The Imperial Navy upon their return to Japan interviewed all of the surviving men rigorously and they didn’t find any discrepancies when it came to the crew’s recollection of events.

According to their story they found an Island in the Pacific Ocean that doesn’t appear in any of the maps pertaining to this area up to date. The story says that they began exploring the island and shortly after their arrival the men encounter what it appears to be based on their description what we know today as a battle-mech.

The exploration crew soon realized they were faced against an unknown enemy with far superior technology and weaponry. Despite their efforts to capture the mechanized creature they were defeated and force to evacuate the island or face total annihilation. Out of this encounter some crewmen were able to retrieve one of the machine’s projectiles from battle. The projectile consists of two oval shaped projectiles made out of some metal-rock magnetic alloy fired together at the same time but from separate adjacent barrels and the result is a non-lethal sonic projectile meant to render men unconscious generating sounds at different levels as both magnets resonate while they travel at incredible speeds through space.

Unfortunately the island was never to be found again but their story endured the test of time igniting in the Japanese a fascination for robots that today is palpably alive through their popular culture and what the soldiers brought back represented a well of knowledge that after being studied inspire many technologies that use magnetic fields. An example of this is Japan’s development of the monorail magnetic system for their bullet trains or Shinkansen.

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