The Big Generator (Yes)

NAME/ORIGIN
Character name	Big Generator (vehicle)
Song/Album	Big Generator/ Big Generator
Act	Yes
Writer	Trevor Rabin, Tony Kaye, Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Alan White
Release Date	1987
ABILITIES
Powers	-Turn your body into a musical instrument, then play you "It can strike a chord inside you" -Victims willingly give up or embrace natural behaviors "Second nature sacrifice" "Second nature comes alive"
Skills	is an "anthem generator"
Attributes	"Lives out of sight" but works "even if you close your eyes"
Vulnerabilities	Unknown
Formidability	Is lethal: "in for the kill"
Attractiveness	"How it's shining" "Lives out of sight" (but is still heard)
Source	unknown manufacturer
Goals	is an "anthem generator"
POSSESSIONS
Weapons	is a weapon
Amulets	N/A
Objects	is an object
Clothing	"How it's shining in its armor"
Vehicles	is a vehicle: "Hands upon the wheel" "Moving to the left... to the right"
Dwelling	Seems to have no 'garage' as such but is constantly "moving"
Milieu	"Moving through the night"
BIOGRAPHY
Gender	N/A
Age	date of manufacture unknown
Physique	"Made of gold, made of steel"
Ethnicity	N/A (it's a machine) but described as "a strange, peculiar breed"
Origin	unknown
Ancestry	N/A
Profession	"anthem generator"
Education	N/A
SES	N/A but is partially made of gold
Relationships	Has drivers/operators/announcers:"We exist through this strange disguise" "We exist through this strange device" "We are the voices of the Big Generator"... "Speaking happy words of promise" "Flying out of the soft machine we offer all surprise to you"
Pets	N/A, although the operators are symbiotic with the Generator itself
PERSONALITY
Morality	Has good intentions but disastrous effects
Intro/extrovert	Mixed-- is heard, but not seen
Intelligence	Operated by a hive mind that speaks as "we"
Emotions	patriotism, nationalism
Sanity	Sane
Enemies	free-thinkers
Narrative Function	Antagonist
Other Notes	Big Generator is a machine that hosts many lifeforms that exist in symbiosis with it. They operate it and it sustains them; the operators think and speak as one. Since all living things (all things, in fact) vibrate at a given frequency, the notion of the symbiotes in the Generator is that social harmony can be produced literally-- if all residents of a given area were to vibrate at the same frequency, they reason, they would all get along and work together for common goals. They liken this frequency to an "anthem"-- everyone singing the same song, about their unified purpose, at once. Only they aren't singing it with their voices, but with their bodies, which the generator causes to function as resonators. While intending to bring harmony, the Generator ends up causing major physical trauma, even death, to those bodies it tries to align with the group's average frequency. However, some-- those who confuse unity with uniformity-- at first find the Generator's message ("there is a reason to experience... be the chorus") welcome, even messianic. They learn too late that our differences are natural, necessary... and not to be changed at a whim.