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Power Rangers: Cyber Squad

Cybernetics.

Just the word alone screams of the advancement of technology in the modern world – as if it were some new principle created for the betterment and furthering of humankind in its realm of technological superiority.

But Cybernetics is more than circuits, gears, wires, and coding.

Cybernetics is life.

As a basic concept, cybernetics is the study of structure and function – so that every single thing in the universe (or, smaller still, the applied group) has a purpose and a goal. It is this very concept that has been ingrained in the smallest strands of biology, or the most indiscernible atoms: the sense of unity.

My name is Thomas Oliver, a former professor at Lower California University and former teacher—and current principal—at Reefside High School in Reefside, California.

I'm sure you're wondering about the lecture on cybernetics.

Well, as a professor at LCU, I taught the Introduction to Cybernetics class—a class focusing on the broad application of cybernetics. The term itself is greatly misunderstood, often evoking thoughts of robots, computers, digital spaces, and science fiction galore.

Sure, Cybernetics applies to all of these.

But more accurately, Cybernetics is the study of applying functions to reach a certain goal. Originating from the ancient Greek word, kybernētēs, the word actually stemmed from the same root as the English word for Government.

Interestingly enough, it was the Greek philosopher, Plato, who applied Cybernetics to government and initiated the world's obsession with function, purpose, and teleology.

Why this obsession with the Greeks?

Here's where things get confusing.

In my long, complicated life, I have learned about the origins of over twenty different alien species—none of them sharing very much besides the basic physiological design we call "humanoid." Apparently evolutionists were right about a superior design.

There were two exceptions, though, that were inarguably intertwined—inadvertently shaping the fate of mankind for millions of years.

It started with the Greeks.

In Greek Mythology, humans would worship beings of superior power known as Gods. As we have all learned, these Gods wielded inconceivable power and were said to have resided atop Mount Olympus. Obviously, we dismiss this as false.

Wrong.

Though they are not the creators of mankind, these beings were very real, and by their true name, they are known as Chrominites.

The Chrominites were the foil of a benign race of aliens known as the Eltarians—angelic entities who fell from grace during the great Titanomachy that resulted in the imprisonment of the Chrominite leader, Cronus.

Why is this important?

These beings had taken refuge on Earth for centuries, helping mankind evolve leaps at a time—learning to build aqueducts, arches, roads, etc. Until the Eltarians stepped in and opened the minds of humankind. The Eltarians represented knowledge, freedom, and independence for Earth, and the reign of the Gods fell to the reign of knowledge. Slowly.

As these two alien beings struggled to overpower one another, humankind continued to evolve into its own powerful species, daring to voyage into what it considered the unknown—the universe.

Then, Earth changed.

The Eltarians sent their King and most powerful leader, Zordon, to Earth so that he could defend the still-budding planet of Earth from forces beyond its current comprehension. And he bestowed one great gift to mankind—to show the Homo Sapiens that they, too, could achieve supernatural powers. He gave the humans the Morphing Grid.

The Morphing Grid was simply a harnessing of the energy of the universe, manifesting in many different and sporadic ways. Once tamed, it could be channeled into devices known as Morphers that could access the Morphing Grid at will. The Grid would then empower the wearer of the Morpher with knowledge, strength, agility, endurance, and the capacity to either end worlds or save them.

That's when I became "touched" by The Power.

I became a Power Ranger—a super-powered warrior known as an Orymeka on planet Eltar—to save the Earth from the forces of a witch-like villain known as Rita Repulsa. Just as she was vanquished, Earth became the battlefield for the universe, and I was inadvertently thrown on the frontline—leading a group of teenagers like myself into battle against monstrous aliens that would have shredded us to pieces without our Morphers.

But I, along with the others, became an eternal testament to the great selflessness humanity could offer, in contrast of the greater part of selfishness displayed by our species.

After years of ongoing war, though, the Rangers finally became publically noticed as a potentially dangerous force. In 2012, the Eltarian-Chrominite war returned to Earth when the legendary Cronus Stone—an omnipotent gemstone with unknowable power—was revealed to have settled on Earth.

A team of 14 brave former-rangers brought an end to the ancient war, though, at the cost of their identities and any sense of normalcy they may have desired.

Unfortunately, due to their immense power and the cataclysmic repercussions of the battle, the leaders of Earth decided the massive destruction caused to Earth would be faulted on the Mayan Prophecy of 2012, effectively covering up the largest war ever fought on Earth's soil.

It was then that Earth began to resent the Morphing Grid and aliens of all kind. After all, since when has humanity ever been good at accepting the unknown?

It was shortly after the "apocalypse" that Eltar became wary of the Universe's safety, and they took it upon themselves to use their religious philosophy of Cybernetics as a metaphorical impregnable shield.

Cybernetics, where we began, is also the Eltarian form of religion that everything in the universe is aligned by one constant ebb and flow of energy that they consider to be the will of the Aether. Cybernetics was essential in crafting the ultimate keys to the Morphing Grid called the Cyber Morphers.

To wrap it all together, we humans have evolved our own concept of Cybernetics to reflect the Eltarian concept of Cybernetics—introduced to mankind as Religion.

Cybernetics is the steering of life to achieve a goal.

Welcome to Cybernetics 101.