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Art trade, part one

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Correspondance from the desk of a known galactic criminal, to unfortunate subordinates

These are not my research notes.

This is not a professional thesis with proper terminology and application of specific term-and-circumstance provided, and if any fellow scientists laugh at it they have every right.

No, this paper is grossly simplified- some would say grotesquely simplified- for you delightful cretins in my service. I won't strain you overlong with extensive example, distended word, or diagram. I will get the point across and if you still haven't the point I'll simply have you put upon one.

Am I clear.

I never could remember if a rhetorical in writ merited an actual question mark or not but that is not the point. The point is, rather the points are, these. These below.

Fellow scholars may laugh at the idea that a few mere noises could invoke power, calling it superstition, fancy, idiocy and worse, but so much of our own tech today incorporates principles and functions even the greatest medieval genius would consider arcane.

A case in point- the ability to talk to a being in another country, entirely through the black of space, or even within another solar system would be called a variant of 'summoning' to some, and our own still term it 'calling' someone even if it is done with devices on the principle of- sound, as applied to cellular, radio, and light spectra waves. Rather than huddling in a circle with runes and bloody animal pelts, we turn to our little boxes and actively transmit, redirect, channel, receive and tune what feeds the speakers read. Amplifiers are devised for music, broad-bands for sonar, micro-sonic-waves (not to be confused even by you with the normal public association of kinetic and thermal microwaves, such as used in cooking) for organ resuscitation and internal vibration.

Is that not power?

Or our weapons that can obliterate cities to the last strained, tortured piece of metal leaning, simply from the right note of the right decibel played at the right amplification to incite the sonic equivalent of seismic charges; does that not equal any primitive's conceptualization of Jericho?

Why, even the twenty first century technology that allowed one via sonogram to view the unborn infant in the womb, and to perceive details before the mother even finished swelling; is that not mystic, to some degree? Does it not inspire wonder?

Why, then, I ask you who could not possible be expected to know, why is it that the greater majority of the community refuses to believe that (similarly) the right intonations and phrases could similarly achieve results? Particularly when citing such absurd precepts to the public as 'a flap of butterfly wings may elsewhere incite a hurricane'? Laws and theories of causality aside, sonics are an ever evolving proven science with countless applications once thought improbable or impossible, and certainly so with 'mere noises'.

By its very nature, dear minions, whether intentional or not, speech is evocation expressing thought, and thought transposed physically through any medium is at least considered potent. Waveforms, take note, affect matter on all four stages of matter (plasma, gas, liquid, and solid, in case you managed to forget that much) but by their very nature transpose most often as energy. This energy sometimes changes variances; wave theory will be considerably more helpful than any last minute scolding of my own to you, particularly the study of photons and light-wave theory as transferred to kinetic or thermal waves, or- in the case I'm trying very gently to impress into your squishy little brains- in the case of sonics to or from any of the aforementioned.

Some, like liquids, can exhibit kinetic waves; no, I am not taking you to a beach to demonstrate. Stop asking. NO.

From the studies that created a good number of you, I know that 'magic' words and phrases (insofar as working and applied ones) harness otherwise latent energy sources within matter to evoke change on invocation. That basic principle is a prime reason such sciences are laughed at, actually. "Abracadabra" is a mark of scorn upon it, and the image of simply wishing for a matter and achieving it is entirely too easy to laugh at.

No, the process we are discussing is how the proven science of sonics apply to this theory of 'chanting magic', and how it (very basically) works. When specific decibel, tone, and vibration are matched, resulting waves and their sounds affect existing processes and catalyze a reaction. This is basic application; reading the pings from a sonar on a screen, watching a sonic spike drill through soil, listening to my wife yell at me over a Skype call from a planet away.

What the 'magic' does is simply apply processes otherwise inaccessible.

To wit, the sonics produce a very crude waveform that, correctly amplified and tuned, can (as shown) pierce tissue without harm, pierce matter with extreme harm, incite seismic events, ride radio or even radial waves, and far, far more. Sonics can affect inherent emotion, ability to sleep, growth, even basic construction. All that is lacking is deliberate intent.

The chanting (particularly striation and harmonics at a great duration) focus this intent, and provide the means for the energies to apply;

Doctor theorizes that most 'magic' rumored or believed of this type, at least, is actually then deliberately invoked psionic or biotic processes actualized via waveform to affect (and, haha, effect at times of illusion) the environ interactions or perceptions thereof.

A decibel harmful to the human brain causing hallucinogenic states is not in fact unknown, and certainly seems to affect you lot pretty well. I have yet to apply these... 'illusion spells' on a planetary populace, but that time will come. The mysticism, children, is half the fun; proving magic to simply be science is the other half, particularly since the foundation of a great deal of modern science is rooted in those first feeble attempts by magicians and alchemists to understand their world. "We have no need for astrologers with astronomers," some snobs claim, but let us see how many can be made to believe when given the right impression.

In fact, I will achieve all of their wilder imaginings, though so far such non-verbal matters as 'runes' or 'hand gestures' elude me- but I haven't yet mastered the whole of verbal magic or written the corresponding essays and theories, so this does not gall me overmuch. Not like you, anyway, taking the time to read all this when you know you have an intruder to catch. Kill the pinkhaired girl by the end of the hour or end your wretched lives, sweetlings; you wouldn't want to experience what I'll do to you.

Yours,

Are you still not getting to work-?

Yours,

Doctor Moriamoran
Can you picture this guy, or should I spell out his description later? Part one of two for an art trade with :iconmorethanamemory04: , wherein I was to invent a villain for her use. Behold, the magiscientist, lord of lorekeeping, finder (and user) of lost words, jerk, charlatan, and expert at the use of tech to achieve his 'magic'! Although he tells the truth in that, using scientific process, he has (horrifyingly) achieved magic simply by reciting words, too. 

The real scientists may now point and laugh at all the absurdities and redundancies in the email, as well as the oversimplifying and (occasionally) outright lying. ;p

But isn't sonic tech wonderful in our own world? :3
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After finally having removed all distractions, I was able to read this all the way through and I thoroughly enjoy it. I plan on making your Doctor Moriamoran (great name, by the way, however did you come by it?) the main villain in issue #3, if by then I have the rest of his information (Don't worry; I'm only on page 9 on issue one, so you have plenty of time).

I feel like he'll be fun to write. I can't wait :3