The king project

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The Royal Project is a 1974 published science fiction - novel by Carl Amery .

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For centuries, the Catholic Church has owned the MYST, the machina ingeniosa spacio-temporale , a time machine designed by the ingenious inventor Leonardo da Vinci . The CSAPF ( Congregatio secreta ad purificandos fontes ), a secret congregation in the Vatican , uses this to secretly change the course of history. In the past one had to learn that direct intervention in history is not possible in contradiction to the existing sources, an attempted assassination attempt on Martin Luther failed and led to the loss of the operator on the one hand and to the well-known story of the devil's appearance on the Wartburg on the other. So you have to be content with subtle and indirect methods. It is the task of the theoretical department of the CSAPF, embodied by Monsignor Doensmaker, to develop and research starting points for the appropriate procedure, and to put the results into practice, the task of the executive, i.e. Monsignor Sbiffio-Trulli. The executive body is the "operator" and "key soldier" Arnold Füßli, captain of the Swiss Guard .

For some time, more precisely, since the Glorious Revolution in 1688, the CSAPF has been pursuing the goal of delegitimizing the succession of the Tudors who fell from the Catholic Church and their successors and strengthening the claims of the Catholic House of Stuart . According to the Jacobites , the legal successor of the Stuarts and the well-known Bonnie Prince Charlie is now the House of Wittelsbach through the last Bavarian Queen Marie Therese and, at the time of the beginning of the novel in 1953, the then still living Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria . This goal of promoting a subsequent and now finally successful Jacobite revolution is now concretized in the progetto realle , the "king project":

The aim is to literally deprive the English kings of their legitimistic basis, namely by using the stone of Scone , also known as the “Jacob's Cushion”, “ Stone of Fate” or Gaelic “Lia Fáil”, on which, according to tradition, the Scottish kings must be crowned in in the past to be replaced by a duplicate in order to be able to crown the head of the House of Wittelsbach on the real stone in the future after he landed on the coast of Scotland at the head of a Bavarian-Jacobite band, the AJF ( Allied Jacobite Forces ) would.

The project is sabotaged by an internal intrigue by the CSAPF: The real stone was hidden in Glen Turnock, when the AJF arrived there, the Loch Turnock reservoir became the Glen Turnock and the Scone stone lies in inaccessible water depth. The Jacobite-Bavarian revolution has thus finally failed. Or not, because it is not Loch Turnock into which the crowd marches under the waving white-blue diamond flag and the sound of bagpipes, but the lake of Aphallijin of the Celtic legend that receives its warriors , “where the gray water becomes transparent as if it were made of glass, where The stone rises slowly, powerfully from the depths, the Lia Fáil, the true stone of destiny. "

Only one of the crowd remains on the bank, namely Bodhelm von Pruskowitz, be it because he is too little Catholic or too Prussian or simply too rational and too little inclined to the mythical. He perceives this as a rejection and bitter defeat, then, as a kind of penitent wooing the Celtic fantastic, he becomes a monument protector in the Miesbach district and fights for 12 years "for every old wooden barn, every gable compound, every hand-carved nail." The assassination attempt of a young tourist entrepreneur addicted to modernization was the victim and at his grave “white and blue flags were lowered on his coffin, and the official bards sang worthy laments at his grave. He was accepted. "

And the CSAPF is also coming to an end. The key soldier Füßli saw through the sabotage and disappeared in the past. When the superficially trained Defunderoll is sent after him to execute the deserter, he makes the mistake of firing while the MYST field is still activated, killing him and destroying the machine. The wreck lands in the Ice Age Ahrensburg in spring 34,517 BC. BC, where Ice Age hunters eat the heart of Defunderoll, which gives them "tremendous strength" and protects their tribe from misfortune and disease for nineteen years. "So the MYST did more good in her death than ever in the prime of her power."

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  1. ↑ "Ingenious Time-Spatial Machine". The “Y” instead of the actually attached “I” was used for the sake of the Swiss operators of the machine, as they were not expected to work with a “MIST”.
  2. ↑ "Secret Congregation for the Purification [ie Correction] of [Historical] Sources"
  3. ↑ Legends about Luther: The throw with the inkwell
  4. ↑ Amery: The King's Project. Munich 1987, p. 300.
  5. ↑ Amery: The King's Project. Munich 1987, p. 318.
  6. ↑ Amery: The King's Project. Munich 1987, pp. 310-312.