Almost anybody can become a Mummy; from the stupidest to the smartest, the
rich, the poor, the completely strange...
...so it's not really surprising that an alien hunter would end up being
Mummified.
Alfred Nobel has "known" that there were aliens living on Mars since he was
a small child. This quirk wasn't a problem, as this was still considered a
possibility at the time. Similarly, his desire to become an astronaut when
he grew up was quite acceptable, with people assuming that he'd grow out of
his belief that the reason to find aliens was to conquer them.
Alfred was only 9 years old when he learn about the Undead, and choose to be
Mummified. His response of 'cool - so you don't need to breathe - so I could
go to Mars!' amused a Kobalite Shedite who asked an allied Samingan to
Mummify the boy.
It wasn't difficult to smuggle the boy aboard the Viking probe - or more
accurately, his Mummified head; the Samingans can calculate very precisely
how much damage a Mummy can take, and carved him down to the minimum - and
remove an equivalent amount of sensors (as no one expects every piece of
machinery on a probe to work, this went unnoticed). The Viking probe headed
to Mars successfully, Alfred healed himself of the damage taken, and went
looking for aliens to conquer.
That was 25 years ago. He got lost within the first few weeks, and has no
idea where the probe is. He has been battered by storms, fallen down
crevasses; once he was frozen under the dry ice; but no aliens - anywhere!
Even an abandoned city, so that he could zombify a few servants would do.
Sheer loneliness has driven him mad, and until recently, he wandered the
landscape screaming threats at the Universe.
Now, however, he has a new plan. Humans will return to Mars one day; they
will also expect aliens, surely? If Alfred can pass himself of as the alien
ruler of the planet....the aliens will reveal themselves to protest, and he
can conquer them.
Alfred has begun to build a pyramid for himself out of a mountain. It's not
easy; even with his undead strength and Mars' low gravity the practical
limits are huge. He has abandoned his attempt to construct a Pyramid, and is
instead chipping away at the mountain, turning it into a Pyramidal shape,
and trying to quarry corridors into it. He works feverishly, beating on the
rock with other rocks, or cracking it with his Song of Ice, smoothing over
cracks with Healing - horribly afraid that humans will arrive before he has
finished; but refusing to reduce the size of his project - it must be
massive!
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