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On the time scale of human evolution, written stories are a relatively recent invention. I'm not at all convinced that books (novels) are the best medium for telling stories, so I like to experiment with online software tools such as blogs that provide new ways of sharing stories.
Hyperstories
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Linearity
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Exode
I've been exploring the idea that "the Editor" could act as an organizing focus for a collection of story tellers who would, as a group effort, tell the story of the Exode Saga. However, I have begun to doubt the wisdom of using a narrative structure that is built mostly upon the limited perspective of the Editor.
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Overseers vs Interventionists
In the Exodemic Fictional Universe there is a billion-year-old struggle between Interventionists (bumpha) and Overseers (pek). The Editor must struggle with doubts about the wisdom of allowing Interventionists to alter the historical timeline of Earth. The Editor knows that some sympathizers of the Interventionist cause (such as Ivory Fersoni) have been forcibly removed from Earth so as to prevent them from revealing forbidden secrets to Earthlings. On the other hand, the Editor cannot abide the idea that self-appointed tryp'At Overseers have taken it upon themselves to decide what we humans can learn about alien visitors to Earth.
original cover art by Dirk Schulz |
Would it be possible to create an introductory description of the Overseer-Interventionist dynamic and then allow readers to explore along three different narrative paths:
1) that of the "neural observers" such as Parthney and the Editor
2) that of Interventionists such as Ivory who are certain that Earthlings should be better informed
3) that of Overseers such as the tryp'At Overseers who have no intention of letting folks like Ivory run wild.
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Laziness
My avoidance of taking the tryp'At Overseers seriously is a form of laziness. There must be an interesting story behind the origin of the tryp'At and how a small cadre of try'At took control of Observer Base. Originally, the tryp'At were crafted in order to make it possible to station agents on Earth: agents controlled by the pek, but biologically indistinguishable from ordinary Earthlings.
What if a group of tryp'At agents became "renegades" and began playing the role of Earth Overseers, even though the terms of the Trysta-Grean Pact had originally specified that Observer Base would be decommissioned in the Final Reality?
The Making of a Replicoid
The original replicoids were tools of R. Gohrlay and her cadre of positronic robots. After Grean and the Kac'hin took control of Eternity, they adapted replicoids for their own needs. The Asimov replicoid who travels to Tar'tron was "manufactured" as a replicoid in Eternity.
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