#heaviside layer

I've got some ideas about it, but I can't decide. The only facts I'm set on is that the previous Leader choses however they see more fit for the job and there's a ritual were they pass the metaphorical "key to the Heaviside Layer" to the new Leader. Is on that very ritual that the previous Leader goes to the Heavyside Layer in a breathtaking way.

I've also been thinking: being the Leader gives you longevity powers, so they live for way longer than the average cat.

Now to the differences. On one hand, I believe it would be interesting if the Leader was always an elder cat, preferably magical or mystical. For the whole 'old wisdom' thing, you know. Nonetheless, I feel like it isn't as fun for some reason. At least, it doesn't allow much storytelling fun.

On the other hand, perhaps age doesn't matter. Personally, I don't think having a "blood right" to rule fits the Jellicles all that well. Sure, being related to the Leader gives you a higher standing in the tribe and more probabilities of being chosen, but it doesn't assure you anything.

I’ve wanted to actually post and elaborate on my Heaviside layer head cannon and since @incorrectcats seemed to like it I’m gonna post the notes I have regarding it. It’s essentially a layered system.

Death by the choice: Go to Heaviside layer, speak with everlasting cat directly, choose exactly what kind of cat you wish to be and where you want to be born (jellicles are all over the world), then become reborn. The cat can choose to stay in the Heaviside layer for as long as they like before they make their final decision.

Death with a good life: Go to Heaviside layer, don’t meet everlasting cat, frolic around for undisclosed time with cats both chosen and not, eventually you will be approached by a servant of the everlasting cat with a chance to be reborn. You do not have any say in what kind of cat you’ll be or where you will be reborn, but you will be reborn.

Death with a bad life: cats wake up in a very dark and very large forest. The trees are dead and without leaves, the ground covered in rocks and gravel, the wind blowing either a little too warm or a little to cold. The Forest is infinite, chances of finding other cats are exetrmely low but still possible if you get lucky. The cat is trapped here forever and will never come back to earth. The cats must live in this horrible place with memories of their horrible lives with only a slim chance to meet equally horrible cats with no second chance. This is the worst fear of a jellicle.

This kind of punishment is reserved for the worst cats. Petty thieves like mungo and rumple don’t go here. Cats like Macavity certainly do.

On this day in 1982, the musical Cats made its Broadway debut at the Winter Garden Theater after having first opened in 1981 at the New London Theatre. On June 19, 1997, the performance became the longest running Broadway show in history and had created more theatrical jobs than any other production in Broadway history. Cats closed on September 10, 2000, and is currently Broadway's fourth-longest-running show of all time. The Hagley doesn’t have any notable Cats-related items in its collections, but it does have these cats, created by artist Margaret Mary Tempest (1892-1982). Found on a ca. 1960s postcard in the Hagley’s Waldron collection of Christmas and holiday postcards (2000.223), these cats don’t have a song or a complicated backstory, but unlike the cats of Cats, they’re also not begging for the sweet release of death, which is nice (what a weird musical Cats is!).

the heaviside layer (aka the kennelly -heviside layer) is a layer in the ionosphere that reflects radio waves, allowing information to go past the horizon

Oliver Heaviside – Scientist of the Day

Oliver Heaviside, a British mathematical physicist, was born May 18, 1850.