| Cândido Rondon's Galvanometer | |
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Origin |
Cândido Rondon |
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Type |
Electrical Current Equipment |
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Effects |
Translation into a shared language |
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Downsides |
Poisoned puncture wounds |
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Activation |
Connection to electrical equipment |
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Origin[]
Marshal Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon (5 May 1865 – 19 January 1958) was a Brazilian military officer famous for his telegraph commission and exploration of the Mato Grosso and Western Amazon Basin, as well as his lifelong support for indigenous Brazilians. He was the first director of Brazil's Indian Protection Service or SPI (later FUNAI) and supported the creation of the Xingu National Park. The Brazilian state of Rondônia is named after him.
Many expeditions paddled along unknown tributaries of the Amazon. Even Theodore Roosevelt was guided down one by Rondon in 1914, later renamed the Rio Roosevelt. Rondon placed over 4000 miles of wire through the Brazilian rainforest while tackling the harsh terrain, disease and attacks by native tribes.
As a member of a positivist movement, Rondon believed in peacefully uniting the indigenous peoples with the advancing country versus stomping out their cultures entirely. That was part of his intention with spreading telegraph, to allow for greater communication with the interior. SPI and later FUNAI were created to protect tribes from violence by outsiders. Many members were struck down by poison arrow without retaliating, instead continuing a courtship to gain trust of isolated tribes.
Effects[]
Lets people within the vicinity of connected equipment, usually telecommunications, understand each other. Not fluent, as much of the vocabulary and sentence structure sounds childish to a native speaker. But enough that they can carry on a conversation even though they know different languages.
Reports indicate listeners of recorded tapes cannot discern what the speakers are actually saying. It sounds like most humming and mumbling mixed with strange noises that wouldn’t pass for speech. Even being away from the equipment leads to them both reverting to their actual tongue. From this, it is theorized an entirely new language is constructed for the speakers to engage with. How it translates and why the sounds are so foreign are unknown.