Síntesis y análisis de la experiencia de recarga artificial en Chile

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Nova Planet;

air date 03/20/08

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Excerpt from a lecture given to prospective Team Tomorrow applicants, 9/14/06

I’ll skip introductions. By this point, the five of you should know who I am and why you’re here. You’ll have time to get to know one another, too; this training program makes for excellent bonding material. Think of it as a kind of boot camp — if that scares you, you shouldn’t even have made it this far. You’re powerful, sure, but are you ready to represent all of Project Utopia when the entire world’s looking at you? You’ve undergone the Project’s training, so we know you can control your powers. Here you’ll learn how to master them. You need to know everything you’re capable of; raw power can cover up for a few mistakes, but one’s all it takes to screw you up for good. You’ll learn how to apply your potential, and you’ll learn self-defense. After all, you’re novas — you already have enemies, whether you know who they are or not. But this isn’t the Army. You’ll learn much more than self-defense. You’ll learn fluency in foreign languages if you didn’t have any already. That’s right, you have to leave your isolationist ideals at the door here — we’re Team Tomorrow, and we represent the world. Not your home country or state or province or county or village — the world. Look at your fellows here; doesn’t seem too representative of any one country, does it? Your cell won’t seem that way, either. We take the best, and excellence doesn’t recognize political boundaries. It’s no accident that Caestus Pax and Slider serve alongside Makara and Ana Graça Texeira, and them alongside André Corbin and Jinshu Shan.

With that in mind, you’ll also be taught etiquette. And I damn well recommend you pay attention during your tutoring. You will be taught how to deal with public speaking, how to act responsibly around crowds, how to be an ideal specimen of humanity whenever the cameras are on you. A poor public image won’t get you anywhere in this world.

You may be asking yourselves, “Why should I go to all this trouble when I can get an easier job elsewhere?” You already know the reasons. A generous eight-figure salary. Unmatched health care and insurance benefits. Fame and fortune — a whole world’s acclamation, if you think you can handle it. And most importantly, you can go to bed at night richer, more popular and without a scrap of a guilty conscience — because you are doing the right thing with us. And you cannot get that to such a degree anywhere else.

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Hi! Nice to see you! I’m Terri, and I’ll be your virtual hostess and tour guide. I must say, you’ve chosen a very popular package. Seems like everyone wants to see inside the headquarters of the four

main Team Tomorrow cells these days. Well, we’re here to oblige! Naturally, some details have been changed; after

all, Team Tomorrow is hardly without its enemies. But for the most part, this

tour will give you the impression of what it’s like to live with the brave

members of Team Tomorrow! From Virtual Tours Inc.,

Package #108

This tour is patterned, appropriately enough, after the headquarters of T2M Central, located in the Addis Ababa Utopia complex. And what a complex it is! Acres and acres of lush garden paradise, filled with animals and

plants of the most phenomenal beauty. Of course, no bugs can bite us here — but they couldn’t bite you in the flesh,

either. Visitors are supplied with special pheromone-treated badges

that keep the worst pests at bay.

Let’s get started! First of all, this is the reception area. I wonder if we’ll see anyone from T2M Central here —

oops, no luck. I guess they’re all too busy to hang out here for any length

of time. Note the replica carpets — and yes, that Rodin over by the bay

windows is an original. And the

wonderful lighting effects are because this entire complex was designed by none other than Piotr Enrikssen, the nova genius behind much of Project Utopia’s architectural

engineering projects. No, he doesn’t just build dams!

Okay, now let’s go to the gym. I hope you won’t be disappointed — there’s not

much by way of combat training equipment there. Team Tomorrow

conducts much of its battlefield readiness training on highly specialized staging areas, and we’re not told a thing

about that. But there’s still plenty to see. There’s the Olympic-sized pool —

ooh, it looks refreshing. Now note the variable-level gymnastics equipment; it’s a lot more impressive than your average set of monkey bars, isn’t it? And wait —

who’s that man using the hydraulic weightlifting press? That’s right, it’s Makara! Gee, he sure doesn’t look like he needs the exercise, does he? What a

hunk of muscle!

Now we’ll be going to the dining room. You’ll note the 13th-century tapes- tries — we understand that they—

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