Sunday Seminar Series: The Puppeteers

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Dear Readers,

   In the very recent past (October for you, only a few days ago for me), the University was attacked by a group of foreign entities and it shut down a great deal of our infrastructure.  It took us a few days to get back up and dust ourselves off.  I was wounded in the fighting, and every department has worked around the clock to figure out what they are and how they got here.

  So, where I would normally give a lecture from my introductory CHRN/AUG 100 class for my Sunday Seminar, I'll instead tell you about them.

  They are about seven to ten feet all, and incredibly beautiful, at least at first glance.  They look like idealized warrior-humans, with a harsh edge that disqualifies them from being angels.  That, and their wings, which can span twenty feet, are usually mottled colors and rarely white in their entirety.  Their hair can be any color, but for some reason their commanders always have black hair.  We wonder if their hair changes color based on the status they have in society.

  On closer examination, one discovers that much of their appearance is trickery.  They are not the beautiful creatures they appear to be, but rather are theatrically costumed to inspire love, awe, and fear.  Wipe away some of their affectations and you begin to see sinister creatures with terrifying natural weapons.

  As for technology, they have much the same as we at the University have, except that they seem to have a device that can transmit matter through times.  There are limitations to the use of this device, for example that it cannot travel to or from locales where strange matter has been created, but overall it allows anyone to transmit themselves to any time stream.

  From what we have learned, they use these devices and their talent for trickery to blend in and influence the events of certain key time streams.  We assume that this is to some nefarious end, because outside interference almost always is.  Also because they tried to kill many of us and destroy our resurrection systems.  That did not win them any friends.

  Because of their propensity to manipulate events and try to be in control from backstage, I have dubbed them the Puppeteers.  I hope only that we can thwart them if they try something else.

  Always,

  Dr. John Skylar
  Chairman
  Department of Anachronism
  University of Constantinople