Marcab Confederacy

The Marcabians had an oppressive political system: "if [a person] was considered to be in contempt of court or anything like that, [he was] simply fried since there was a curtain of radioactive material which went clear across the front of the bench anywhere that a witness or anybody would stand, and so on." Hubbard said that the Marcab Confederacy invented income tax as a means of punishment, with the death penalty imposed for making even the slightest mistake in returns — ''"one comma wrong and it's 'dead forever'." The Marcabians also appear to have been distinctly socialistic, having "had plan balanced economies"'' (presumably some form of planned economy). They were also keen on motor racing and every once in a while Scientologists undergoing auditing "will run into [memories of] race tracks and race-track drivers". Hubbard described this in some detail in a 1960 lecture: They had turbine-generated cars that went about 275 miles an hour (443 km/h). They ran with a high whine. I notice they've just now invented the motor again. And they had tracks that were booby-trapped with atom bombs, and they had side bypasses. The tracks were mined, and the grandstands were leaded-paned. The tracks were deliberately designed to be as dangerous as possible, with "a mountain that you went up to the top of and fell off", and death was commonplace; but participants in the races, and any other citizen, might be revived by the civilization's medical ability. According to author Russell Miller, Hubbard liked to reminisce to his followers about "how he was a race-car driver in the Marcab civilization". One of the people who accompanied him aboard his private fleet in the late 1960s described Hubbard's stories of life with the Marcabians: LRH said he was a race driver called the Green Dragon who set a speed record before he was killed in an accident. He came back in another lifetime as the Red Devil and beat his own record, then came back and did it again as the Blue Streak. Finally he realized all he was doing was breaking his own records and it was no game any more. == Described in secondary works ==

• Russell Miller described Hubbard's ideas regarding the Marcab Confederacy, in his critical book on the man, entitled: Bare-faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard. • A 2006 article in Rolling Stone called "Inside Scientology", described the Marcab Confederacy as an "invader force". The Church denied the authenticity of this document, and it does not appear in the Operating Thetan documents leaked in March 2008, though the Church claim it as copyrighted material. • Based on this, internet group Anonymous has been creating Marcab-based art as part of its Project Chanology activism. For instance the Germany-based Marcab e.V. • An alien race, the Markab exists in the fictional Babylon 5 universe. Although the name is based on the same star name (Markab) and the government of that species is the Markab Confederacy, the creator of Babylon 5 J. Michael Straczynski has explicitly denied any Scientology connection. • The Marcab Confederacy appear as the titular antagonists of "The Sun Stealers", the first story of the Alien Worlds radio drama. Straczynski also worked as a co-writer on this series. • There is a race of aliens known as the Marcabians featured in "The Secret of Easter Island", an original story created for the 1997 Blake and Mortimer cartoon show. == See also ==