#999 "Goooood MORNING INNER SPHERE!!
One of the most shocking experiences for the Clans in 3065, was the debut of Alphie Morrinson's syndicated variety show. Efforts to block, attenuate, or damp the signal soon proved to be both frighteningly difficult, and futile. Short of removing every device that could recieve a signal in RF, UHF, VHF, Long Wave or HPG, her two hour per day show from an undisclosed location could not be stopped...until one crossed the old, pre-Amaris, border heading away from Terra.
The secret? isn't really too difficult-someone discovered the keys to a system that First Lord Simon had been intending to use as a tool to both influence the territorial states, and both propagandize the Member States (or break through their propaganda).
It's not just the Clans who aren't happy with Alfie's massive broadcast, Comstar and the Word of Blake are both blaming each other as the voice of a teen girl chats out about national secrets, scandals, and plays underground, rarely heard, and obscure teen-oriented dance music for two hours a day, every day, including sundays and holidays, from her "Student Studio here in the University of Hard Knox!, Bringing YOU the Beetz and all the News Not Fit To Print!!"
Nobody even knows what she really looks like, on the visual spectra, she appears as a clearly cartoonish cartoon character. One that looks suspiciously like a caricature of some classic literary villain, like the Borg, or the infected from "Planet of the Dead".
but she's poking fun at everyone, and her sources? are impossible.
So, who, or more importantly, WHAT is Alphie Morrinson, and what is it going to take to silence her signal?
