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From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Works About Contests and Competition
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2025 20:43:40 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-06-02, Don <g@crcomp.net> wrote:

> An egg shaped cell activator in Perry Rhodan bestows immortality upon
> whoever wears it around their neck. In PR151 "Signals of Eternity" the
> superintelligence collective called IT releases twenty-five activators
> into the wild. Those with the wits to win one and keep it will live
> forever. The collective's competition continues in the background
> through several ensuing PR novellas.

I wouldn't really call this a competition.  It was more like a
treasure hunt.

>     The race is on for the 25  cell activators distributed by [IT]
>     across the Milky Way. The new cell activators are freely
>     transferable and, unlike Atlan's and Perry Rhodan's activators,
>     do not adapt to the individual cell vibrations of the wearer.
>     [IT] denied its former protégés from the United Empire the
>     usual cell shower, as the superintelligence is threatened by
>     a danger of as yet unknown proportions, and [IT] must withdraw
>     indefinitely.

IIRC, the danger from which IT supposedly fled at that time was
later deemed too trifling for IT's powers and some retconning ensued
that IT had actually fled from... this other new danger... but had
misjudged the timing.  Because those god-like superentities are
always a bit absent-minded, it seems.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de