After the Otters lost to the eventual Season 9 champion New Orleans Second Line, he said his goodbyes to his teammates and left as he always does after every season. He shuffled off to parts unknown and the rest of the team usually only heard from Marc when he wants to be heard from. He's known as the Enigma for a reason. He's strange.
So, with only a short time passing after the Ultimus, for the team to see Marc was very uncharacteristic. He was with a group of scientists. They called for a small press conference.
Spector: Thank you everyone for coming.
Dr. Freinkamp: We have come here to announce a brilliant scientific discovery.
Dr. Milstein: Allow me to introduce the team. I am Doctor Helen Milstein, and I am a particle physicist. Doctor Arlen Freinkamp is a Theoretical Physicist. Doctor Mitchell Morgenstern is a Genetic physicist. Doctor Johann Einarsonn is our Time Physicist. Each of us lead a team of top minds with one goal.
Dr. Morgenstern: We wanted to find a way to genetically clone a person to be able to harvest organs, blood and stem cells so that we can treat illnesses and provide transplantation for patients.
Dr. Freinkamp: Cloning was something we've done in some capacity for years. we all know the story of Dolly, the sheep. That was a wonderful start.
Dr. Milstein: But the application on humans was a long ways away because in order to make organs viable, we were missing one crucial element. Time.
Dr. Einarsonn: That is where I come in. My team in Iceland have been secretly working on time theory. We have cracked a way to expedite time in a controlled area. It essentially accelerates time forward in a sterile environment. We can age a sample 20 years in a week.
Dr. Morgenstern: We understand the moral implications involved, and the legality of this is very much a grey area. This is not technically illegal in any country, but it could be seen as something that could, in the wrong hands, very destructive in the wrong hands.
Dr. Einarsonn: What we have done, successfully, is clone a human and raise it from infancy to adulthood in a week.
Spector: I was in contact with Dr. Morgenstern from a previous issue and he brought me in on this to see if I would be a volunteer for the physical specimen they clone. My physical attributes are a great fit for their experiments.
Dr. Freinkamp: We conducted our testing in an undisclosed site. And we were critical of our own successes. We have a behavioral scientist working with our success to determine mental safety.
Dr. Milstein: Arlen, you're getting ahead of yourself. First, let me introduce to you the product of our experimentation.
Out walks a young man, who looks like a much younger Marc Spector.
Spector: It's like looking in a mirror that de-ages you 10 years. It's crazy.
Clone: Hello.
Dr. Morgenstern: This cloned Marc is in every way a replica of the original, physically.
Dr. Milstein: Behaviorally, there are a lot of similarities as well, which lead us to a whole bunch of different hypothesis about human behavior.
Dr. Einarsonn: We've always wondered if personal preferences are nurture or nature, and this clone shows much of it is nature. The clone of Spector has the same likes and dislikes of food as Marc. The clone enjoys the same music and the same clothes. It's changing our perspective on a lot of human psychology.
Dr. Freinkamp: The medical implications are huge. This clone could provide a perfect match for a liver, kidney, lung, heart or blood should Spector fall ill and require it.
Dr. Morgenstern: Of course, there's the ethical side of killing a clone to harvest a healthy heart or set of lungs. We're getting into some real sci-fi novel type stuff here. Before we make this technology available to the world, we will vow to not do this until we have a UNANIMOUS allowance from the predominant governments of the world. We are the sole owners of this technology and all funding for this research was out of our pockets, and we have a responsibility to science and humanity to do the correct thing regarding this technology. We see both positive and negative implications here.
Spector: In the mean time, I will be taking a lot of my time to nurture this clone of mine. He will make his own decisions regarding his life. I'm not sure of his legal status as a citizen of the United States. But I will work with the government to seek his integration into our society. Because of my dedication to this, I sadly have to announce my retirement from the NSFL. This season will be my last. That's part of what I needed to say here.
Clone: Can I say things?
Spector: Um. What?
Clone: I have words for people.
Spector: Um...
Dr. Einarsonn: I don't see why not. Go ahead.
Clone: I am Marc Spector. That is me. I am he. I desire playing. I wish play sport. I strong and fast. NSFL look fun. I want play.
Spector: I don't know if that's legal. There's no rules in the rulebook saying clones can't play in the NSFL, I'm sure though. But it's difficult. It isn't as easy as I make it look.
Clone: I am you. Yes. It be easy for me. Easy for you, I am you.
Dr. Milstein: From a mentality standpoint, he's advanced amazingly. He's speaking, walking, understanding complex concepts and he was created a week ago. I see no reason why he couldn't master an NSFL playbook and play in the NSFL. It'd give him something to do.
Clone: I play! I play!!
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tl;dr
Marc Spector is retiring.
I am recreating immediately.
So, with only a short time passing after the Ultimus, for the team to see Marc was very uncharacteristic. He was with a group of scientists. They called for a small press conference.
Spector: Thank you everyone for coming.
Dr. Freinkamp: We have come here to announce a brilliant scientific discovery.
Dr. Milstein: Allow me to introduce the team. I am Doctor Helen Milstein, and I am a particle physicist. Doctor Arlen Freinkamp is a Theoretical Physicist. Doctor Mitchell Morgenstern is a Genetic physicist. Doctor Johann Einarsonn is our Time Physicist. Each of us lead a team of top minds with one goal.
Dr. Morgenstern: We wanted to find a way to genetically clone a person to be able to harvest organs, blood and stem cells so that we can treat illnesses and provide transplantation for patients.
Dr. Freinkamp: Cloning was something we've done in some capacity for years. we all know the story of Dolly, the sheep. That was a wonderful start.
Dr. Milstein: But the application on humans was a long ways away because in order to make organs viable, we were missing one crucial element. Time.
Dr. Einarsonn: That is where I come in. My team in Iceland have been secretly working on time theory. We have cracked a way to expedite time in a controlled area. It essentially accelerates time forward in a sterile environment. We can age a sample 20 years in a week.
Dr. Morgenstern: We understand the moral implications involved, and the legality of this is very much a grey area. This is not technically illegal in any country, but it could be seen as something that could, in the wrong hands, very destructive in the wrong hands.
Dr. Einarsonn: What we have done, successfully, is clone a human and raise it from infancy to adulthood in a week.
Spector: I was in contact with Dr. Morgenstern from a previous issue and he brought me in on this to see if I would be a volunteer for the physical specimen they clone. My physical attributes are a great fit for their experiments.
Dr. Freinkamp: We conducted our testing in an undisclosed site. And we were critical of our own successes. We have a behavioral scientist working with our success to determine mental safety.
Dr. Milstein: Arlen, you're getting ahead of yourself. First, let me introduce to you the product of our experimentation.
Out walks a young man, who looks like a much younger Marc Spector.
Spector: It's like looking in a mirror that de-ages you 10 years. It's crazy.
Clone: Hello.
Dr. Morgenstern: This cloned Marc is in every way a replica of the original, physically.
Dr. Milstein: Behaviorally, there are a lot of similarities as well, which lead us to a whole bunch of different hypothesis about human behavior.
Dr. Einarsonn: We've always wondered if personal preferences are nurture or nature, and this clone shows much of it is nature. The clone of Spector has the same likes and dislikes of food as Marc. The clone enjoys the same music and the same clothes. It's changing our perspective on a lot of human psychology.
Dr. Freinkamp: The medical implications are huge. This clone could provide a perfect match for a liver, kidney, lung, heart or blood should Spector fall ill and require it.
Dr. Morgenstern: Of course, there's the ethical side of killing a clone to harvest a healthy heart or set of lungs. We're getting into some real sci-fi novel type stuff here. Before we make this technology available to the world, we will vow to not do this until we have a UNANIMOUS allowance from the predominant governments of the world. We are the sole owners of this technology and all funding for this research was out of our pockets, and we have a responsibility to science and humanity to do the correct thing regarding this technology. We see both positive and negative implications here.
Spector: In the mean time, I will be taking a lot of my time to nurture this clone of mine. He will make his own decisions regarding his life. I'm not sure of his legal status as a citizen of the United States. But I will work with the government to seek his integration into our society. Because of my dedication to this, I sadly have to announce my retirement from the NSFL. This season will be my last. That's part of what I needed to say here.
Clone: Can I say things?
Spector: Um. What?
Clone: I have words for people.
Spector: Um...
Dr. Einarsonn: I don't see why not. Go ahead.
Clone: I am Marc Spector. That is me. I am he. I desire playing. I wish play sport. I strong and fast. NSFL look fun. I want play.
Spector: I don't know if that's legal. There's no rules in the rulebook saying clones can't play in the NSFL, I'm sure though. But it's difficult. It isn't as easy as I make it look.
Clone: I am you. Yes. It be easy for me. Easy for you, I am you.
Dr. Milstein: From a mentality standpoint, he's advanced amazingly. He's speaking, walking, understanding complex concepts and he was created a week ago. I see no reason why he couldn't master an NSFL playbook and play in the NSFL. It'd give him something to do.
Clone: I play! I play!!
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tl;dr
Marc Spector is retiring.
I am recreating immediately.
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