Aremac Power: Inventions at Risk

Marna Savron has a PhD in theoretical physics. So does Tess Myers Fixman.
Marna suffers because she is half Spanish and half Navajo. Spanish men think she's too fat. Navajo men think she's too thin. Desperate for affection, she married an narcissistic Anglo artist who sponges off her while abusing her at every opportunity.
Marna is unhappy because nobody will pay attention to her theory of quantum displacement. Tess is unhappy because everybody is paying attention to her reverse camera, Aremac.
Tess suffers because her husband is half Anglo and half Arab. Half the FBI thinks he's the answer to the terrorism problem. The other half thinks he's a terrorist.
Marna has a problem with her husband, Karl, a talented painter. Tess has a problem with her husband, Roger, a genius inventor.
Karl is smooth and sophisticated. To him, Marna's low self-esteem made her a pushover.
Roger is socially inept and naive. To him, Tess's high self-worth made her the most attractive woman in the world.
Karl drinks, but never paints anything. Roger rarely drinks, but invents everything.
Karl punches Marna and steals her money. Roger would never strike anybody—and happily lets Tess manage the vast income potential from his inventions, especially Aremac.
Aremac threatens to overturn the world of jurisprudence, because it can project pictures from inside the human brain. Police use Aremac to free the innocent and convict the guilty. Conventional medicine is also threatened, because surgeons can use Aremac to repair failing human brains. Even so, the application of Marna's theory imperils the entire human economic system by offering perpetual power at virtually zero cost.
Aremac can also be used for interrogations, which Tess is perfectly willing to allow as long as they are voluntary. To prevent torture, she instructs Roger to build in safeguards that shut off the machine if the subject is fearful or in pain. Homeland Security wants these protections removed. Roger and Tess refuse.
To force Tess to yield to their demands, the government uses the Food and Drug Administration to classify Aremac as a medical device and obtain a restraining order, cutting off the fledgling company's principal source of income.
Other governments also want Aremac, and are willing to go to even greater lengths to get it. Their agents fool Tess by using a liberal front organization, Justice for Africa.
To please her boss and because Karl wants an expense-paid trip to Las Vegas, Marna agrees to present her theory at an entrepreneurial conference. Tess attends the same conference, seeking backing for Roger's new inventions. When the two women meet, Tess instantly grasps the potential applications of Marna's theory. In order to put that theory into practice, Tess turns down the offer from Justice for Africa.
When Karl steals Marna's credit card to underwrite his gambling losses, Tess watches them fight. Marna seeks Karl to apologize once again, but sees him leave the Casino with a lady friend. Tess consoles Marna, who agrees to come to Chicago and work with Roger to produce a perpetual power battery. "We need to keep this secret," Tess says. "If we can make it work, everyone will try to steal it, just like Aremac."
Roger's other inventions have served humanitarian purposes. They provide little income, and leave Tess and Roger strapped for cash. Though they are determined not to repeat their earlier mistakes with Marna's device, they run into a host of new troubles—as from energy companies who would suppress the invention and others who want to steal it, legally or illegally. Karl sees the invention as a meal-ticket, and pushes for his "rightful" share.
Although the prototype battery demonstrates Marna's theory, it explodes, suggesting the use of the device as a devastating weapon, which they all find abhorrent. As each new discovery reveals the potential of the battery, the team begins a disinformation campaign to present the device as a simple solar collector, hiding its true nature.
The FBI raids their Aremac laboratory and tries unsuccessfully to find their hidden battery lab. In the dark of night, the team moves the battery lab to the Navajo Nation to work under the protection of Marna's extended family. Aremac, being too large to move secretly, falls into FBI hands, along with Tess and three other team members. They are subjected to Aremac interrogation, thwarting the FBI through Tess's ingenuity and the built-in torture controls.
Roger and other members of the team, still not knowing of Tess's capture, disguise the battery as a solar hogan stove to be traded in the Navajo Nation for rugs and jewelry. Though the stove is an immediate hit, and built largely out of scrap auto parts, they are left short of cash needed for a few parts and equipment.
Marna needs to a refuge from Karl. Tess needs a safe haven from the American and other governments. Roger and the team must