SO BELOW: THE TRILOGY

Probably the rarest I have are the cassettes by Steve Wilson's old band Karma. I did SW's merchandising then so I got to hear some real rarities which never saw the light of day I'd love an album full of As Above So Below material.

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I have some stuff of theirs and by God they were good. I tried getting in touch with Tommy Vance and Tony Wilson of the Friday Rockshow befroe they passed away with no luck. I think they also had a go at the Thunderbirds theme but stand to be corrected on both accounts. Just stumbled across this page. I'm the guy with the Trilogy stuff - sorry I never got back to you! E-mail me again and we'll work something out.

Thanks, for that link, Alan. I have vague memories of Trilogy.

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I had their rock show session on cassette. I'll have a listen later. You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot create polls in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum. This page was generated in 0. April 25 Status: April 25 at July 13 Location: The most profound indicator is their long term plan for Earth: Such a transformation would be eventually fatal to all life on Earth, except such few live specimens that the Masters are debating whether to house in zoos.

At least some Masters enjoy an intoxicant they call for the purposes of their slaves a gas bubble. The master places the plastic bubble near his respiratory orifice, breaks it, and inhales the vapor. The effect is evidently mild; it takes several such bubbles to create personality changes noticeable to humans.

Use of gas bubbles brings out latent personality traits in at least one Master. The Masters are not of uniform character. Will's Master the one whose personality is most explored in the trilogy is something of an intellectual, constantly questioning and studying and learning. His reading of human literature awakens a loneliness, so he wishes to keep Will as a beloved pet.

SO BELOW: THE TRILOGY

Fritz's Master, however, is a sadist, most interested in physical exertion as well as inflicting pain on whatever slave he happens to have at the moment. The captured prisoner, Ruki, the only Master to be named in the trilogy, is explored little. However, he is the only Master seen to display any understanding of humor and sarcasm. The Masters power their city with a form of atomic energy that appears to uneducated and casual observers as a "pool of fire. It is loosely inferred by the character Jean Paul Beanpole to be nuclear fusion.

A concentric series of chambers located near the center of the city and below ground level house this apparatus; the various doors do not align, so it is necessary to travel around the perimeter of each chamber to the next entrance. Within the innermost chamber is a single lever that functions as a main breaker.

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Moving it from the operating position to the off position deactivates the mechanism, while moving it in the other direction reactivates it. Contact with this lever while the mechanism is operating proves instantly fatal to humans. The most visible artefacts of the Masters are the Tripods, immense machines that walk the world outside their cities on three long legs. Described as hemispherical, with legs equidistant, the tripods can interact with the world using long, tentacle-like manipulators, each of which is capable of lifting and crushing a Challenger 1 tank; this happens at their first contact meeting, as the tank plays the Anthem of Europe.

At least some of these machines have chambers suited to Earth life, and can take individuals inside them for extended periods. When they reach age fourteen, individuals are taken inside a Tripod to be Capped: The machines visit larger towns, while people from smaller towns travel to nearby larger ones to be Capped.

Tripods seem to follow a route consistently, but whether this is due to the psychology of their pilots or to some form of autopilot is never revealed. Much of the Masters' industry appears highly automated. Machines operating without supervision create everything from food and air to intoxicants. Among these are machines that create gravity at levels roughly twice that of Earth; this heaviness lent itself to the title of the second novel, "The City of Gold and Lead".

According to Will's Master, this is less than the gravity enjoyed by the Masters on their home planet. It is not revealed if this is due to technical restrictions, energy saving, or because such extreme gravity would be very wearing on their human slaves. The Masters' technology includes precision machining techniques. Their airlock doors fit so precisely that the seams are nearly invisible, and do not require gaskets or other flexible seals to compensate for imperfections. They have the means to remove heat from objects, akin to air conditioning. Because of their water requirements, each of their cities straddles a major river.

As part of treating the water before it leaves the city, mechanisms cool and filter it until it is very close to its original outside characteristics of temperature and composition. Perhaps their greatest technological skill is in the area of mind control. They understand brain physiology to a high degree. In the fourth book, " When the Tripods Came " they capture at least one human for the purpose of dissection ; the individual's corpse is discovered later, his brain neatly drained and removed.

They later intercept broadcast television signals, and add their own additional signals to the feed; these signals contain hypnotic suggestions. While not universally effective, these suggestions affect sufficient numbers of people so that the Masters have a substantial base of support in their early invasion effort.

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Whatever the method, these signals can convey detailed technical data and some of the individuals under this control construct and distribute the first Caps. Although their televised hypnosis is not permanent, control through a Cap evidently is, for as long as the Cap remains in place. Caps contain a fine mesh somewhat resembling an antenna. The first versions resemble ordinary hats and can even be removed, although the individual wearing such a cap will never voluntarily remove it and will actively attempt to prevent others from doing so.

Successful removal of a Cap sometimes causes the individual to react in bizarre ways, becoming irrational or breaking down in tears. In a later phase of the invasion, Tripods dispatched to various locations remove the temporary caps and replace them with Caps "married to the flesh" through some kind of bioengineering. These Caps cannot be removed, although White Mountains resistance fighters eventually learn how to disable them by severing certain of the metal filaments.

As earlier, some reacted irrationally to the loss of outside will, even to the point of suicide. Caps create a worshipful attitude toward the Masters, an unhesitating obedience so profound that the Masters do not fear bringing Capped humans into their cities, an overconfidence that eventually defeats them. According to "The White Mountains," about one person in twenty becomes a Vagrant due to some failure of the process.

Will speculates that the Vagrants' brains attempt to resist the power of the Cap and eventually break under the strain. Vagrants are considered harmless although this was not always true , but are generally unable to remain in one place for any length of time.

Each community considers it a social responsibility to care for these unfortunates, who are unable to work, form families, or participate in most of society. Individuals seeking the resistance in the White Mountains are cautioned that if caught and Capped in a place where the natives spoke a different language, Vagrancy was almost certain, suggesting that each Cap receives and relays signals specific to expected thought processes of the wearer. The Masters have a means of suppressing electrical activity at range.

They disable a biplane attack on their Central American city in this fashion. Their Home World is briefly mentioned to Will by his Master as being larger and hotter than Earth, and consisting mostly of swamps.

Masters take care to bathe and wallow in water several times a day. The numerous pools in their domed cities compensate for this when the Masters are on Earth. Nothing is revealed about how much of the galaxy they have a hold on. The true name of their species is never revealed. The closest that is ever got to a name is "Skloodzi".

Will comments that he is unsure whether this is his Master's name, his Master's family name, the name of his Master's race or the name of their species. The music soundtrack was written by Ken Freeman. The series was noted for being one of the first to feature computer generated graphics and special effects. Series one of The Tripods , broadcast in , which had 13 half-hour episodes written by the well-known author of many radio plays Alick Rowe , covers the first book, The White Mountains ; the episode second series covers The City of Gold and Lead.

Although a television script had been written for the third series, it never went into production. The Masters somewhat resembled the Tripods they drove.

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This makes the Tripods seem much more like mecha than purely eccentric vehicles. In the BBC serial, the Masters did not need to eat, sleep or drink. Additionally, they were not the rulers of the city, but were, in turn, under the rule of beings made of pure energy, known as Cognoscs. The Masters came from a planet named Trion that was in the center of a triple star system.

The method by which the Masters name themselves is also different. Rather than having names, they are simply called by their address. The Masters in the BBC production did not breathe green air and did not prefer the high gravity and high temperature of those in the book, since these would have been extremely difficult or expensive to recreate onscreen at the time. Their treatment of the slaves, rather than being harsh and thoughtless, was reasonable to the point of being friendly, with luxuries provided for them.

To avoid an overuse of the mechanical Tripods, the producers invented a new faction, the "Black Guards", as a police force with the task to enforce the will of the masters. They served as a more immediate threat for Will, his friends and the resistance. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the novel series. For other uses, see Tripod disambiguation. This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. Learn how and when to remove these template messages. This article needs additional citations for verification.

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