Tight close-up on Trurl's mitt at the ALTRUISM CHARGE switch — flipped UP, with a small electric arc + small SIZZLE-SMOKE coming from the contact point. The dial labeled 'ALTRUISM CHARGE' reads MAX. The first intervention beat. The narrator caption sits at the top of the panel.
Tight close-up of Trurl's mitt at the INTELLIGENCE INJECTION — a small brass piston-plunger pushed DOWN, with a small cooling-mist puff and the dial-needle dropping. The corrective beat: cools off somewhat.
Wide micro-view of MILITARY PARADES inside the box — electromites in tight rectangular formation marching mechanically, painted faces neutral-calm now (no longer religious-fervor or philosophical-passion), brass armor, drums + bugles, perfectly synchronized.
GENERATIONAL TRANSITION (connective beat addressing the Opus jump-cut critique). The militaristic era visibly winding down: in the FOREGROUND-LEFT, an ex-soldier electromite UNSTRAPS his brass HELMET and sets it on a stack of disused brass military regalia (banners furled, bugles laid down). In the MIDDLE-DISTANCE, the FIRST POST-MILITARY GENERATION emerges — younger electromites without military gear, hurrying past with armfuls of newly-printed SECULAR TREATISES. In the BACKGROUND-RIGHT, a small wooden PRINTING-PRESS clatters as treatises flow off the rollers. The orphanist + electrovoltairian icons of earlier panels are visibly being archived (a small cart wheels old religious + heretical placards toward a 'CIVIC ARCHIVE' shelving unit). The visual answer to 'Another generation came and went.'
Narration: Trurl charged it with altruism—that only made it sizzle and smoke;
Narration: he added a few more units of intelligence, which cooled it off somewhat
Narration: but later there was a great deal of activity and confusion, after which military parades appeared, marching in a disconcertingly mechanical way.
Narration: Another generation came and went, the orphanists and electrovoltairians vanished without a trace,
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