Name: Tom Kyster
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Heya everyone! I'm a little late to the game but I wanted to throw my hat in this just looks like too much fun to pass up. There's already some amazing entries! So! With that said, here we go.
Story: Constructing the New Motive Power
"In 1852, Spear broke all ties with the Universalist church, and instead turned to Spiritualism. He claimed that he was in contact with ‘‘The Association of Electrizers’’, a group of spirits including Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, and Benjamin Rush, as well as Spear’s namesake John Murray. Evidence indicates he occasionally faked signatures as a way to gain authority from a "guide from the past;" however, these signatures were dated beyond the lifetimes of the deceased.[3] Spear believed that the purpose of this group was to bring new technology to mankind, so that greater levels of personal and spiritual freedom could be achieved.[2] The following year, Spear and a handful of followers retreated to a wooden shed at the top of High Rock hill in Lynn, Massachusetts, where they set to work creating the ‘‘New Motive Power’’, a mechanical Messiah which was intended to herald a new era of Utopia. The New Motive Power was constructed of copper, zinc and magnets, all carefully machined, as well as a dining room table. At the end of nine months, Spear and the ‘‘New Mary’’, an unnamed woman, ritualistically birthed the contraption in an attempt to give it life. Unfortunately for Spear, this failed to have the desired effect, and the machine was later dismantled."
source: https://everipedia.org/wiki/John_Murray_Spear/
However what if the God Machine wasn't dismantled. There is no proof and it's a very interesting story in history. I wanted to explore this and create a story where this incredible idea comes to life in the future when humanity is all but lost to darkness. I have so far imagined this creation as more of an all empowered deity however it is still a machine and cannot think for itself. It would need a sort of host to bring forth its "second coming".
Here's my first string of quick concepts. Hope ya dig!
