Secrets Revealed at 10:13
If you have the "Fight the Future" CD, which is quite good by the way, you may or may not know about the hidden track. In it, CC divulges some interesting information about the mythology and the history of the syndicate. This is a transcript of what Chris Carter himself said.Warning! Spoilers be here!!!
The method, as they call it, though it was more so a germline procedure of singular metascientific complexity, had been given to them by the alien colonists as a quid pro quo. The Syndicate would help them to create a population of alien hybrids who would hide in plain sight, cloned from huma ova and alien biomaterial so there would be a cloned race immune to the effects of the black oil when the return to the planet began. For this, the Syndicate would be sequestered, granted a sort of immunity or asylum, given a place in the grander scheme. They were the Vichy government to the German Final Solution, collaborationists, whose motivation was simple: self directed survival. These cloning operations were spread across the country; the cataloging done through a complex, intra-institutional system that connected to every branch of government from the Social Security Administration to the Department of Defense. The operation, under the working title "Purity Control", had been launched in 1948, its original conception the brainchild of German scientists given immunity themselves from war crimes and allowed to continue the eugenic expieriments that were Hitler's dark legacy. The Syndicate had begun as a subset of a shadow intelligence agency whose original orders were to create "plausible denial" and an effective cover-up of Purity Control. But through fifty years, various US and UN administrations, the principles began to wrest control, accumulating power and influence across international borders, such that by 1990, the operation ceased to have a member accountable to any one government, and whose only orders would be taken from a man named Strughold, a German industrialist who had fled his homeland to Notrhern Africa. These men, whose knowledge and access provided control of a forseeable future, had in spite of this everything to lose. Their secret work, the cloning preparations and the cataloging constituted their greatest vulnerability: exposure. Their detection would not just ensure their own demise, but a far reaching dissolution of social and religious order around the globe. To protect against this, the Syndicate employed methods of disinformation using covert government programs that had been regrettably discovered as a kind of smoke screen, a dodge or blind where the transgressions of Congress-accountable agencies served to hide their own more odious undertaking. They had even at times used the UFO phenomenon to create an hysteria that science and the intelligentsia denounced so completely as to make belief and believers seem ridiculous and completely discreditable. They had also, in a crisis, used a tool of the colonists themselves, alien bounty hunters who policed the cloning operations and enforced rule on the countdown to colonization. A double-edged sword whose cold-blooded tactics could help to stem a leak or threat but who also kept watch on the syndicate, a threat in itself because the syndicate had something to hide that not even the colonists knew of: a vaccine against the black oil, an innoculant against the substance in which the alien life force was held; in fact, the very medium of the life force itself. To guard this secret was perhaps even more critical than the truth of the existence of alien life, and of colonization. If the Syndicate's own secret vaccine were discovered, a vaccine that would make themselves immune from the effects of the black oil, they would certainly be destroyed and the timetable for colonization stepped up. They would protect this secret with their lives; they would kill to protect it, as it symbolized the only hope they had of avoiding enslavement when the planet was overtaken. That they had been able, over decades, to conduct their work
on the vaccine undetected was the result of a code among the Syndicate members that put honor and the future above personal politics. But now this code was beginning to break down; an incipient scramble for power beginning to develop; a threat from within that doubled the threat from without, from Agents Mulder and Scully, and the X-Files.
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