Mental Man
Names: Mental Manstar-angelMental Man projectSecond MilieuHomo summusNew Onesparamountsparamount fetusesNew HydraMental children
First appears in Book 2: Jack the Bodiless, chapter 4 (1 FROM THE MEMOIRS OF ROGATIEN REMILLARD)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 2: Jack the Bodiless
Book 3: Diamond Mask
- Ch 1The Mental Man project was the Ghost's scheme to accelerate human mental and physical evolution, which the Milieu condemned.
- Ch 21Fury's vision: humans break from the exotic-dominated First Milieu, avoid Unity, and follow a new leader with Divinity implanted in her brain.
Book 4: Magnificat
- Ch 1Marc's Mental Man project was cancelled by the Galactic Concilium; its details were suppressed and the public never learned how it would work.
- Ch 1The Mental Man project aimed to personally engineer a great leap forward in human mental and physical evolution.
- Ch 1Marc is still too ashamed to talk about the Mental Man project, according to Malama.
- Ch 18A hidden voice tells Marc that Mental Man must be conceived with passion, in a consanguineous mating with his perfect spouse, whom he will find within a year.
- Ch 19A project conceived by Fury in which newborn paramount minds would bond to a master; Hydra hoped to be that master.
- Ch 20Project to engender genetically selected paramount children, trained from the fifth fetal month; Jack Remillard was the first Homo summus.
- Ch 20Uses nonborn in-vitro technology refined by Shig Morita, embryo sorting by Jeff Steinbrenner, Marc's genes, and eggs from Dierdre Keogh.
- Ch 21Mental Man is Marc's project to artificially engender large numbers of highly operant, paramount humans via in-vitro embryos selected by embryonic metapsychic assay.
- Ch 21The project uses Marc's sperm and ova from an anonymous high-assay donor; viable seven-week embryos are cryogenically stored and eventually offered for free adoption.
- Ch 22Mental Man is a Rebel project to breed about a hundred paramount-potential children from Marc's sperm and Remillard or Macdonald ova for political indoctrination.
- Ch 22Mental Man has so far produced no paramount embryos, not even latent ones, using Dierdre Keogh's ova.
- Ch 22The voice says Mental Man will breed true only in the second generation, with enough paramounts bred from new donors' eggs.
- Ch 22The voice says the infantile preceptive sequence must be redesigned so Mental Man matures within two years rather than five.
- Ch 23The Mental Man project made about 3,000 embryos with paramount metacreative potential, over 96 percent latent; the Concilium ordered it ended on 6 January 2082.
- Ch 24Paramount operant fetuses grown in a secret gestatorium; training will now occur in a secret facility on Okanagon rather than under fosterage.
- Ch 24The 103 New Ones were conditioned to obey only Madeleine, motivated by the Reward and by fear of what happens to bad babies.
- Ch 24Fetuses that rejected Madeleine's choice died; the remaining 103 chose her, and this choice is sealed in their unconscious.
- Ch 25The Galactic Magistratum shut down this project to breed paramount humans; confiscated embryos are hidden by the Krondaku.
- Ch 26Mental Man are bodiless infant brains with 600X enhancers, meant to tip the balance of mindpower toward the Rebellion by destroying Molakar.
- Ch 26All the Mental Man brains died of an electrical charge during the aftershock; only Trevor tried to escape.
- Ch 28Mental Man consisted of bodiless brains in uterine capsules; they suffered when encouraged to live independently without artificial support, after painless encephalizing and algetic conditioning.
- Ch 29Mental Man babies were gestated beneath the Orcas Island house and later hidden at CEREM; their brains developed faster than expected.
- Ch 30The Mental Man project's babies died in a disaster; Marc revised the offensive metaconcert to work with adult CE operators, but less efficiently.
Connections
- created byMarc
- related toJeffrey Steinbrennerworks on the project
- led byMadeleine
Key moments
- Book 4 · Ch 18Marc's Rebel strategy and the voice
After a successful Concilium session, Marc rests in Alpenland Enclave, having decided to delay a direct attack on Unity. A voice in his mind compels him to accept that he must find a consanguineous mate to conceive Mental Man.
- Book 4 · Ch 24Revised Mental Man plan
Marc announces encephalization of the fetuses within two weeks, then transfer to a secret Okanagon facility; Cyndia hides her dismay and agrees to supervise.
- Book 4 · Ch 24Madeleine binds the New Ones
Disguised, Madeleine reinforces the New Ones' loyalty, ensuring they obey only her via the Reward, then puts them to sleep and finds Conlan apparently dead in his capsule.
- Book 4 · Ch 26Death of Mental Man
During an aftershock the Mental Man brains are electrocuted. Trevor dies last. Denis confronts Cyndia and claims to have killed them.