Psychon
Definition
In Space: 1999, a
planet which, at the time the
Moon encountered it,
was suffering a dramatic environmental
decline leading to its total destruction in an explosion.
The former home of a people also called
Psychons,
most of whom died or left during the decline.
Mentor and his daughter
Maya were the two who remained until the end,
the former attempting to revive it through artificial and
(unbeknownst to the latter) life-destroying means,
until this plan was unraveled in a way
which led to its destruction.
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- (Unverified:) Said to once have been a beautiful world?
- It began a rapid (years-long) decline.
By the end, it was a pasty white world with large colored streaks,
all pock-marked with numerous volcanos,
standing virtually on top of each other.
- Some Psychons fled at some point during this decline,
while many others apparently died,
and some donated their minds to
Psyche, which
Mentor had created
in an attempt to take control over the forces of the dying world.
Near the end, only Mentor remained with his daughter
Maya.
- He, unknown to his daughter, was capturing aliens to feed
their minds to Psyche, and using what was left,
brain-damaged to work in the pits (mines).
This was also led to the creation of a
spaceship graveyard at the
bottom of an inactive volcano.
- Mentor's plan this ultimately unraveled when he captured several
Alphans and attacked their base,
Alpha.
His daughter Maya, at the
alien commander's insistent prodding,
discovered this, freed the still-imprisoned Alphans,
and let one of the latter, the same
Commander John Koenig,
destroy Psyche, which she felt had
"made [her father] do evil."
- Psyche, tied to Psychon,
but its energy now unleashed, backwashed into Psychon,
destabilizing it until it soon/finally exploded.
Mentor died in the middle of this sequence,
pleading for the Alphans to take Maya to safety,
which they did. They barely escaped with their lives,
due to collapses (which killed one Alphan, Torens,
previously already subjected against his will to Psyche)
and explosions, while running or in the Eagle.
Maya was the last living Psychon on Psychon itself.
- The collapses and/or final explosion killed the remainder
of the brain-damaged aliens who, like Torens,
were working in the pits.
- Mentor's ship
was presumably destroyed as well.
- Moonbase Alpha
presumably recorded the explosion, and perhaps
Eagle 4 as well.
- Molecular transformation
seems to be a nascent ability on Psychon,
allowing inanimate matter to be manipulated by
at least one machine built by intelligent Psychons,
and Psychons to change their own form, if they can master the art.
How much this nascent aspect of Psychon was
also responsible for its decline in the end is not clear.
Nor is it known from when or where this force developed.
- Mentor may have been close to the point of effecting change
and just needing a large infusion of mental energy,
namely from the (relatively) large population of
Alphans.
The fact Psyche's destruction led so quickly to Psychon's
destruction is a very strong implication the computer
was by then tied very heavily to the forces of Psychon.
- Psychon
had a moon.
Episodes
- "The Metamorph": encountered by the Alphans.
- "All that Glisters": mentioned briefly
(Maya to
Dave Reilly:
"We had many wonderful things on Psychon"?)
- "The Taybor":
Taybor finds out Maya came from Psychon,
claims some vague memory of it, and
offers to take her back there.
She has to point out, sadness in her voice,
that "it no longer exists."
- "The Rules of Luton":
discussed by Maya and John.
- "Beta Cloud":
Maya, feverish and suffering intense nightmares,
sometimes thinks she's on Psychon and sometimes
thinks she has to get back to Psychon.
The latter mode takes hold and she starts shifting
forms in sickness-induced attempts to get there,
injuring some people and damaging at least one
Eagle.
- "Dorzak": discussed by Maya and
Dorzak,
and referred to by others.
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