In Popular Culture
The Robotech definition of Protoculture is similar in some respects to the Vril energy described in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1871 novel The Coming Race, a substance used by a subterranean humanoid species of Earth called the Vril-ya; in Trevor Ravenscroft's book about the occult practices within the Nazi inner circle, Spear of Destiny, it is stated that the process of deriving Vril energy was discovered by Atlanteans, which involved "extracting life-power from seeds"; German rocket engineer Willy Ley alludes to the Nazi occult fascination with Vril energy in his 1947 article, "Pseudoscience in Naziland", linking the Vril-ya to the Aryan race and Nazism.
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