Tuesday, October 04, 2005

The Ganjee

For years, I was working on a race of aliens from outer space and their history and evolution. I found this document amidst my old files. The Ganjee originally appeared as an alien from nowhere when I needed a scary alien (a la the 1979 movie Alien) to attack a ship. This was when I was playing with action figures, and especially those M.U.S.C.L.E. men--anybody remember those? I again used the Ganjee when I wrote my book. 1987. I was a freshman in high school. I wrote 151 of my handwritten pages in a notebook. It was simply titled "Invasion" and was about the Ganjee invasion of earth. Harry Revenge was also in the book and he helped repel the attack.

GANJEE

Rigilantare System

The star called Rigilantare is a red supergiant located 17 light years outside of the Milky Way Galaxy. The pull of this star is so intense that it has seventeen planets circling it. This system is home to three prominent races. One race, the Ganjee, is said to be the most powerful race in the known universe.

PLANETS (In orbital order)
1. Closotho
2. Sardin'A
3. Treinta
4. N'Pernern--Throneworld and origin of the Ganjee
5. Attraf--Homeworld of the Scrave
6. Erjo--Homeworld of the Erjo
7. Rootin'A
8. Cirquin
9. Terwin
10. Nindana
11. Poccet
12. Mintar
13. Kussilu
14. Glassier
15. Cantonon
16. Tati
17. R'Gonon--Outer Ganjee post; home of the Infinity Guard


TIMELINE

290-272 B.W. = Height of the Warrior class
271-265 B.W. = Scientists get accepted, perfect space travel (Use of the argument to conquer other worlds)
265 B.W. = First Ganjee spaceship launched with two live Ganjee
258 B.W. = Ganjee meet Erjo in space
252 B.W. = Beginning of Ganjee Erjo War
106 B.W. = End of war, Ganjee steal science secrets that enable them to travel to deep space
103 B.W. = R'Gonon established
102 B.W. = Ganjee leave system for first time
53-45 B.W. = Scraves conquer Closotho, Sardin'A, and Treinta
44-25 B.W. = Ganjee conquer rest of system (except Attraf, Closotho, Erjo, Sardin'A, Treinta)
War Year = Ganjee Civil War (restricted solely to N'Pernern)
1 A.W. = First Ganjee Superior established Twitillill
51 = Second Ganjee Erjo War
104 = Second Ganjee Superior established Sendallall
118 = End of War (Ganjee conquer Erjo). Beginning of Ganjee Scrave War
120 = End of War (Ganjee conquer all of Scrave Empire)
219 = Third Ganjee Superior established Slitabab
Ganjee conquer Trist System by this year
237-239 = Erjo uprising (Ends in almost complete extermination of the Erjo; only 31 left)
327 = Fourth Ganjee Superior established Blatratr
334 = Ganjee begin massive exploration; will result in their discovery of the Sol System
347 = Blatratr assassinated by a Scrave from Poccet, causes slight Ganjee Civil War II; Fifth Ganjee Superior established Qpepep; Poccet kept as severe military district
425 = Discovery of Sol System
426 = Discovery of Earth; observed for next 97 years
439 = Slight Scrave uprising, race exterminated
457 = Sixth Ganjee Superior established Pqutchutch
468 = Ktashash established as Supreme Head of Military (a new title)
509 = Premature invasion of Earth (one craft crashes on planet, Ganjee worried)
523 = Ganjee Invasion of Earth. Defeated by Battalion led by Harry Revenge (alternate timeline). Pqutchutch and one half million Ganjee killed. Ktashash survives on planet for five more years until killed by Battalion II


STORY FROM JOURNALISM JOURNAL (UNFINISHED)

He walked through the hallway yawning. His rounds were as stupid as they were boring. Nobody could even get to this sector of the Galactic Station without exciting a highly royal war at the gates. He thought it ridiculous that he had to do this at all. His watch read 20:15, 28 Aug. 2214; only 45 minutes left. Then he could sleep off this boredom. But the clawed hand crashed through that idea as well as the wall.
The sentry tried to signal a warning or make noise somehow but it seemed impossible. The intruder took its gigantic hands and applied slight pressure at the the sentry's neck. The sentry gurgled with fear and pain. The intruder looked the sentry square in the eye as the last flicker of life leapt from the body. The intruder threw it across the hall in a heap, then left through the opening in the wall as quickly as it had come.

Harry Revenge loathed stopping at Galactic Stations. But MW Galactic Station 14 was the only one he even half liked. Mainly it was because of the people there, stationed at this remote outpost outside of Neptune's orbit. Who couldn't like Flash, the coolest Glissoid bartender, winner of Quickest Server in Nine Systems for the past five years? There were many more, especially under Controller titles, but Harry thought of his frequent Station 14 visits as another excuse to see Preemat Hyb, the Erjo doctor on board. He could sense something he had inside for her but he couldn't possibly let it show, not until he realized what it was.
Erjo people come from the planet Erjo in the Rigilantare System. They resembled Earthers down to every respect. Some scientists have made intense studies of the similarities in genetic makeup. The only difference was an Erjo's voice. They growled when they talked, kind of like how the Tiger Man from space in those cartoons had talked. They were the first sentient life discovered by Earth.
Harry walked down the corridor in a daze, thinking of his last encounter with Preemat. It would be tougher to leave this time. Just the, Sneezy, his Tatrol friend, bumped up against his leg. Harry had missed the turn into the medical sector.
Tatrols are born with the uncanny ability of photographic memories. They remembered absolutely everything. Tatrols, commonly called Trolls, come from the planet Tatron and resemble what people have nicknamed them: little green trolls from all those fairy tales you've read.
Carmichael wound his way into the medical section and to a glass door marked in three languages. The one Harry understood read: Preemat Hyb, Chief Medical Supervisor. He placed his hand on the doorknob and slowly turned it open.
Preemat was bent over her desk doing paperwork, oblivious to the fact that Harry had just entered. Harry snatched a rose from the vase next to the door and cleared his throat loudly.
Preemat looked up slowly but when her eyes keyed recognition of Harry's features, she rushed out of her chair. Her arms were about to enwrap Harry ferociously but then she froze. Harry saw this coming.
"Hiya, Preemat. I've missed you."
"Apparently!" screamed Preemat on the verge of tears. "You don't. . . "
"I'm sorry," Carmichael blurted.
Preemat whispered, "You didn't even say goodbye."
"I know, but that would have made it even harder for me."
"Well, um. . . " Preemat thought and took the rose from his hand. "I've got work to do. How's about we talk over dinner at the cafe tonight?"
"Sure, it's a date," responded Harry. He walked out of the room without a backward glance.
Sneezy, who waited patiently outside the door, looked in and waved at Preemat. She let a little smile go and waved back. Sneezy caught up with Harry.
They walked into the bar part of the cafe and sat on remote stools on the far end. The prism like Glissoid bartender ran over to them.
"Ut'll it be, Harry and his faithful companion, Sneezy?"
"Hey, Flash," Harry said. "Gimme a Coors and Sneezy's got a milk."
As the drinks were poured, and Flash swung them down the bar to Harry and Sneezy, the noise started. It was a big rumbling sound with no definite point of origin. Harry had heard this sound before, once. In the mines of Alzareus when he was with the Anti Drug Corps. It was the start of a B Bomb. The low rumbling would start to shake the chemicals inside it (something that started with a B), until the balance was disrupted and they blew in a very spectacular explosion.
"Everybody down!" screamed Harry as he fell to the floor on top of Sneezy. The explosion rocked the house.
Before the smoke cleared, sounds of an army were all over. As well as Harry could see, it was just the wall to the cargo bay that had blown open. And out of it were galloping some nasty looking cyborg henchmen.
The cyborg is a being half man and half machine. If the head or brain remains, it's impossible to finally dispose of it. They can almost go down to a single core molecule and be reconstructed. Cyborgs, illegal to manufacture in the nine systems, are highly dangerous.
Harry whipped out his pistol and fired a few lasers in the direction of the opening. The air around him began to explode with fire. The cyborgs were using exploding shells.
Sneezy grabbed Harry's hand and yanked hard. Trolls can be strong when necessary. He shoved Harry down a heating duct and followed him in. "No time for heroics!" Sneezy yelled.
After ten minutes, the combat stopped as quickly as it had started. It was then that Harry remembered Preemat. He tried to shove open the grate and get out. Sneezy held him tight.
"You wanna get killed?" the troll said.
Harry pulled himself free from Sneezy's grasp. He rocketed into a fighting position, with pistol in each hand. Then he saw it.
Through all the smoke, the gigantic silhouette was unmistakable. These things were supposedly extinct, especially after the Ganjee War Patrol pushed their efforts to destroy the planet N'Pernern where these vile creatures come from.
Ganjee.
The most terrible, ferocious creature to inhabit the nine systems.
Its body was huge, a full seven and a half feet tall with bulk to more than match. It was hunchbacked but the shoulders were so big as to make it appear that the creature had three heads. Its arms were long enough to reach its knees at standing. Its kangaroo type legs gave the Ganjee mobility for its mass. The face was even more horrific, looking down upon its gorilla haired body. When it looked up, its face was that of a neanderthal man with a slight but unmistakably present glimpse of a human resemblance. Its hands were big enough to wrap around two footballs completely. Its weapon could only be described as a cannon. It was an XR 17.4 tripod launcher, which fired off such various implements as exploding bullets and on impact grenades. It took three normal men to pick it up, but the Ganjee held it high in one hand.
It sniffed the air and noticed Harry's presence. Harry let off six quick shots from his blaster pistol, dead in the chest. He watched in horror as the shots collided into its breast. . . and bounced off.
"Holy shit!" Harry bellowed. "It's got some kind of armor plating!"

Story notes:

Good guys
Harry Carmichael
Rich Skulley
The Fox (Cyborg)
Kamal Reeis (Erjo)
Jack Hewson (Black)
Tatrols
Sneezy
Dunky (called "Dummy")
Harry's 3 M: dwarf sized "Bingo"
Kamal's 3 M: Raccoon "Trezb"

Station Workers
Glissoid bartender: Flash
Erjo Doc Female Preemat Hyb
Servicers
Jack Mendota
Lou Taxis
Sherman Gerald
April Rolin (Female)
Cyborg Servicers
The Treeman (extendable limbs)
The Turtle (Heavy Armor)
Controllers
Beetl Staiz Erjo, head controller
The Bat (ears) Cyborg technical controller
Minor Controllers
Daisy Brothers (Female)
Mike Gasin
Covet Myna (Erjo)
Woint Myna (Erjo)
Matb Tiyren (Erjo)
Waitresses
class 4 'bots Vivian and Madelyne

Ganjee's troops
Ktashash
Riffle (Cyborg)
The Lantern (Cyborg with Dazzler type light powers)
Qjernern (Cyborg with Ganjee looks)
Ftollall (Cyborg with Ganjee looks)

RACES
Human
Tatrols (Trolls for short)
Glissoids (Prism like men that work in mines and other heavy labor
Erjo (Human like but with a growling undertone to their voices from
planet Erjo, Rigilantare System)
Ganjee

Year 2216

'Bots
Class 4 oldest, mainly waiters and guides
Class 3 M personal 'bots, shaped how you'd like them
Class D Military
Class 60 entertainment
Cyborgs military and actual customers



THE GANJEE LANGUAGE

NOUNS end with same sound twice, like in in kinin
VERBS all end with vowel sound
PREPOSITIONS almost all are just a single vowel, only difference is in a slight pronunciation change


Kasa die (kasan kill)
kinin human
di I, me
rev will
fot not
kanda speak
a, e, i, o, u "prepositions"
ki you
rsal stinking
sait then
growwe capture, get
t the
treis three



DOCTOR WHO VERSUS THE GANJEE (STORY PLAN)

The 7th Doctor & Ace are hovering above ATTRAF in the Rigilantare System. Ace talks about system and Ganjee (Dr. kids "Hope we don't rum into any of them.") They dematerialize on an airstrip platform some miles above the surface in hopes of getting a part for the TARDIS that Gallifrey doesn't make anymore. {A crew member is mysteriously murdered by a weapon not of this planet, before death he sees a hairy hand.} Of course, Dr. gets blamed for it.
It appears that this one Ganjee is a scout for an invasion force. After Dr. is allowed to examine the body, he realizes it was a Ganjee. Says he first encountered one in his third regeneration. They were spread across the universe long ago. "Some have said that one Ganjee is more deadly than a small Dalek invasion force."
During the Dr.'s incarceration, the Ganjee gets a message from his superior saying "kill the Dr." with picture.
Back in the jail cell, the Dr. & Ace escape, out the front door but end up hurrying back in because the Ganjee are coming full force. Dr. kills Ganjee eventually.


STORY PLAN

The entire Milky Way Galaxy is collapsing into one big black hole. Exactly in the center lies a gigantic star which is burning itself out and turning into a black hole. The humans and Ganjee only have one way of stopping it, by displacing time waves on it that make it turn into a small young star once more ("past waves"). But that means that the Ganjee homeworld would be destroyed, shrunk into nothingness. Are the Ganjee willing enough to sacrifice their homeworld when the humans won't lose anything but a supply base in the same system? Or will the Ganjee ride the storm out?

year:2286
Earth relations president:William Clark
Ganjee homeworld Superior:Twillill

Star exhausts supplies of hydrogen and then balloons outward, becoming a red supergiant, and ultimately explodes a supernova. It then collapses into itself. (Lesser massed stars become neutron stars). Most massive stars collapse into gravity wells so intense that not even light can escape.

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