“THE FALLACY OF THE MAD CURRENT”
A Corpuscarii Electro-Priest’s Public Denunciation of blasphemous Alternating Current
Transcript: Vox-Sermon Delivered by Mag-Electrix Voss Iudicator
(Electrostatic discharge crackles as the Corpuscarii Priest ascends the iron lectern. Incense hisses. Servo-skulls orbit with lumens blazing. A suspended steel relic hums between two massive coil arrays.)
“BEHOLD, BRETHREN OF MACHINE!
We gather today beneath the sacred pulse of Magnetic Alignment to cast down false doctrine, to expose the heresy of oscillation, and to speak the binary truth of the Machine-God.
The heretek Alternarchs, whispering in the vents of forge worlds, speak of Alternative Current—a so-called miracle of ‘efficiency,’ a ‘cleaner wave,’ a ‘wider reach.’ Lies, all of them! Heresies cloaked in waveform!”
(He slams his staff against the ferro-grate. The DC coil hums. The iron disc levitates smoothly.)
**“This is the will of the Motive Force: STABILITY! DIRECTION! PURPOSE! A current that flows from source to function, from origin to effect—a binary arc, not a squirming contradiction!”
(The AC coil engages. The disc jitters, vibrates, flickers with light—then drops with a clang.)
“This is your ‘alternating current’—a madness that changes its mind fifty times a second! A current that cannot decide! Back and forth, yes and no, positive and negative—all in a single breath! It is a current that speaks in lies.”
(The crowd murmurs. A lesser tech-acolyte takes notes in machine-scribble. Skitarii chant softly.)
“ON THE ALTERNARCH THREAT”
“Who promotes this madness? The Alternarchs, hereteks of the outer fringes, whose minds have been scrambled by their own unclean oscillators! They speak of ‘efficiency’, but where are their shrines? Where are their living machines? What Titan has cogitated on Alternative Current?”
(He raises his hand. The DC coil flares. Lights power on. An iron servitor awakens, steps forward with absolute control.)
“Direct Current is sacred. It flows as the Motive Force intends. From cathode to anode, from divine principle to iron reality. Even its name is true: direct, pure, righteous. What is ‘alternating’? It is uncertain, it is heretical inversion, it is the shudder of indecision!
(A servitor near the AC coil sparks, glitches, and collapses. Several in the audience gasp. Others record.)
“THEO-ELECTROMAGNETIC TRUTH”
“Even the name ‘Alternating’ defies sense. The Motive Force does not oscillate. It attracts, it binds, it flows with conviction. Binary opposites meet not in chaos, but in polarity—not in vibration, but in alignment. Every sacred circuit knows this. Every blessed capacitor resonates with unity, not madness.”
(He gestures to a glowing data-slab inscribed with ferro-script: two lines, 0 and 1, unbroken.)
CALL TO ACTION
“I, Mag-Electrix Voss, servant of the true pulse, call upon you to report Alternarchs, to cast down the twin-wave heresy, to cleanse your circuits with blessed iron and undivided charge.
Direct Current is binary.
Direct Current is power.
Direct Current is truth.“
(He holds up a charged rod, humming with directed energy. The crowd chants in binary:)
1-0. 1-0. 1-0.
(The AC coil shuts down. Its servitors are disconnected. The Rite of Activation begins. The disc floats once more, steady and unwavering.)
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