Terrans on Aeneas in the Technic History are like Romans in Jerusalem in the New Testament. Differences: the Terran Empire is interstellar; there really were powerful non-human beings on Aeneas in the distant past. Aenean millennarians can point to artifacts of the Ancients who, they say, will return. This makes it possible for an unscrupulous enemy to use technology to fake a "Return." This kind of fakery happened in the original Future History. Technicians at the Voice of God television station in New Jerusalem routinely faked the annual return of the First Prophet, Nehemiah Scudder, in the body of the reigning Prophet as one man's face and voice segued into those of the other: a deepfake, something to which we referred recently. I might be the first commentator to compare Scudder with Caruith because the latter is entirely different, an artificially induced second personality that Jaan thinks is an Ancient who has returned by possessing his, Jaan's, body and brain.
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Then there is fakery in real history. Like people working for Stalin modifying photos of the early Bolshevik leadership to eliminate the images of Stalin's rivals.
Kaor, Jim!
Not just rivals of Stalin! Underlings who fell out of favor with the tyrant had their images removed from photographs after getting shot.
Ad astra! Sean
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