# Characters: Cecil (Nuclear Nerd 7926)

By [Steph Leclercq](https://paragraph.com/@stephleclercq) · 2024-02-09

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I’m Cecil and this is my story: 

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Honest, I’m not one of these crazies that believe in conspiracy theories, but people are always ribbing me because of my convictions. I look around me and see how the world is; some people more equal than others; I can only deduce that the Illuminati is not a joke. It’s real. 

I mean you look at politics and see how some families are always in power, generational Presidents from the same families; great fortunes inexplicably amassed along the way. Even those obscenely rich families that go back hundreds of years - they are the ones who are calling the shots and pulling the levers of power. They are always there, lurking in the shadows. Ordinary people like me just have to take what’s dished up.

You look at all the unexplained phenomena around the world; assassinations of presidents; major terror attacks to name a few. Even the freakin’ moon landing - who knows whether that really happened or if it was just a major hoax to show up the Russians. 

I dunno if I believe in these stories or whether they’re bullshit that’s been made up; but I know there are intelligent aliens out there, because my super intelligent friend Venus (#4640) has told me. At night, I literally lie in my bed with a visceral fear of them landing on earth and turning us into their slaves.

We’re just puppets. But I’m going to make the difference. My life’s ambition is to bring these unknowns out of the dark before they destroy the world as we know it. They are behind Cosmos Exploration, or should I say Cosmos Exploitation, those guys who want to colonize Mars!! And if they’re allowed to carry on, they will unwittingly signal our existence to nasty aliens and that will be the end of that for us on earth. Our one way ticket to hell…

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*Originally published on [Steph Leclercq](https://paragraph.com/@stephleclercq/our-nuclear-nerd-characters)*