Million Monkey Machine
The Million Monkey Machine is a device jointly developed by the Space-Nuns and Orphans. Although shrouded in mystery, current rumor has it being employed deep under the surface of Nu Fonix to furnish some type of war engine.
The Idea
The Million Monkey Machine was the brainchild of Homer Iliad, whose long life has garnered him immense wisdom into the workings of the Gramma-Verse. Having once been told by the hobo, Bloobeard, that a thousand monkeys on a thousand typewriters would eventually produce the greatest novel known to man, Iliad hatched an idea.
Funding
Due to endless conflict with the Dino-Nauts, the Orphan coffers were on E for Empty. For Iliad’s brilliant idea to be born, vast resources must be stealthily gathered under the guise of legitimate purposes. The vast coffers of the Space-Nuns were conveniently on S for Sam Walton Wealthy. A partnership was struck up by the light of the moon with an unbreakable spit-palm, behind the back, blood-brother handshake. The Million Monkey Machine would become a reality.
Construction
The Million Monkey Machine would require many resources, the foremost of which were one thousand thousand (one million) monkeys. The initial design plan called for lots and lots (and lots) of paper as well as one thousand thousand very small typewriters. Additionally, because monkeys love smoking and cocaine, a vast supply of those materials would need to be on hand as well. Beyond that, the Million Monkey Machine began as little more than a big box with a bunch of monkeys, typewriters, drugs, and a little slot to slide novels out. Iliad had not thought his plan through very well.
The project’s evolution
The Space-Nuns, not satisfied with Iliad’s (rather crude) conception double-crossed him and broke the deal. Seems the Nun that made the spit-palm, behind the back, blood-brother handshake was left-handed, so the deal was off. Iliad, having made the deal in secret, told no one and the Space-Nuns took full control of the Million Monkey Machine. Seems they had plans of their own for its purpose.
The first step was to disembodied the monkeys and hook their now body-less monkey brains to a giant computer Matrix style (Whoa…). By stimulating the area of the monkey’s brain related to smoking and cocaine, the nuns found they could force the monkeys to do what they do best besides throw feces at each other; namely, imagine they are bashing on typewriters. The Million Monkey Machine was now in operation.
Operation
With the Million Monkey Machine operational and in full swing, the Space-Nuns had ample supply of the resource they direly needed: Novels. With an endless stream of novels being produced by the Million Monkey Machine, the Space-Nuns could put into motion two projects long believed impossible: Project Goodboy and the Large Work-of-Fiction Collider.
