Poetry by Bunny Burns (source). NASA image. |
Green Star
In the novel Throy, Vance mentioned a mystery involving Gilbert's Green Star. Previously, I realized that there was a long-standing confusion about the existence of "green nanites" as a relatively new type of nanite that had been deployed on Earth as part of the endosymbionts that reside within we humans.
original cover art by Paul Chadwick |
Yōd recently revealed that an analogue of Jack Vance who lived in the Ekcolir Reality wrote about the importance of "green stars" for teleportation. The closest "green star" to Earth is about 185 light years away, located in the constellation libra. These "green stars" are full of special sedrons that allow them to act as foci within the pek teleportation network of our galaxy.
When Ekcolir was sent into the past, he was well aware of the location of Grean's Star and 20,000 years ago he named a constellation the "star fisher". That "star fisher" was at the boundary between the modern scorpius and libra constellations. In the sky, find Antares and then imagine a starfish with arms pointed at both Antares and the two brightest stars in libra.
Zubeneschamali, the star of the northern claw. |
The different types of Hierions and Sedrons. |
It is difficult to imagine how sedrons might be extracted from stars, but doing so may be no more difficult for the pek than it is for us to refine metals like gold from raw gold-containing ore. How the pek might transport vast quantities of sedrons from star to star is another mystery, but if they have advanced teleportation technology, maybe they can teleport sedrons from star to star.
According to Yōd and her collaborators at the library of the Writers Block, Grean had a base of operations in the Zubeneschamali star system, which functions as a long-range teleportation node. Zeta believes that Ekcolir was trained for his missions to Earth at Grean's base. Then, while on Earth and talking to Earthlings, Ekcolir apparently never hesitated to point out the location of the star that he came from.
Anney's report from the Buld Reality |
The Vale of Xian
Jack Vance was fond of including mention of ghosts in his stories. In Trullion, both Duissane and Glinnes casually discuss the habits of ghosts on Trullion.
In the Ekcolir Reality. Original art by Luis Royo. |
original art work by Virgil Finlay |
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