The Yngling: Magazine Version by John Dalmas

Author:John Dalmas [Dalmas, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-07-13T21:00:00+00:00

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Kazi, Timur Karim (2064-2831) psionicist and emperor. Born in Kabul, Afghanistan, he received a Ph.D. in neurophysiology from the University of Lucerne in 2087; lectured at London University, 2087-2090; professor of psionics at Damascus University, 2090-2094; and held the Freimann Chair of Psionics Research at the University of Tel Aviv, 2094-2105.

In 2096 Kazi developed the “esper crystal,” which became the operating element of the psi tuner. At age forty-one, although in chronically poor health, he was one of the few survivors of the Great Death of 2105. He also survived the difficult and primitive conditions that followed the plague, apparently by dominating other survivors.

Seriously afflicted with asthma and without effective medicines, he eventually developed a process of ego-transfer believed to involve the use of drugs and the psi tuner, transferring his ego from his aging and debilitated body to one younger and healthier.

As a child, Kazi had been offensively egotistical, effectively alienating himself from normal human relationships. This trait intensified with his brilliant scientific successes and his increasing ability to read minds and dominate others. His development and use of ego-transfer, with the near immortality it provided, probably furthered the pathological deterioration of his personality.

Sometime about the middle of the twenty-second century Kazi disappeared. He seems to have developed a self-controlled psionic means of suspended animation. It has been suggested that he used this to mark time until an increased population and further socioeconomic development provided something worth dominating. Legends indicate that he was worshiped as a god at the time he disappeared and that periodic living sacrifices of young men were made at his tomb, believed to have been a cave in the Judean Hills. Perhaps they were used for ego-transfers. If so, he may occasionally have emerged to maintain the legend and select his next body.

He became active again sometime about 2750, and from that time our information is less conjectural again. Gradually he came to dominate the middle and near east as far south as the Sudan, as well as much of the Balkans, ruling some of the territory directly and some of it as tributary provinces.

Kazi designed a culture specifically for his army. Each level practiced a harsh domination of the lower ranks, and all ranks brutalized subject peoples. The utmost in cruelty was not merely permitted, but demanded of the soldiers, and discipline was based on fear, the fellowship of mutual depravity, and a superstitious awe and terror of the ruler. He called them “ogres” after an army of subhuman monsters in a classic of pre-plague fantasy fiction. (See Tolkien, J.R.R.) After the first generation most ores resulted from forced matings between his soldiers and captive women, the offspring growing up in vicious camps whose regimens were designed to produce the ore personality.

After the plague this was Earth’s largest single army and its only regular army. Its men were better disciplined and trained than their feudal contemporaries and could be relied upon to fight viciously and skillfully. It also was versatile, serving as both infantry and cavalry during a time when feudal armies and most barbaric tribes despised foot warfare.

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