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The concept of a Reality Chain arises from Asimov's time travel novel, The End of Eternity. Immediately before the Foundation Reality was the Mallansohn Reality. The Mallansohn Reality was one in which time travel technology was carefully used to make Earth a safe environment for Humanity, but that led to stagnation and eventually a quiet and pathetic extinction of the human species.
In The End of Eternity, Asimov described how the Mallansohn Reality was terminated through the actions of a time travel agent from the far future, Noÿs Lambent.
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Earth's Reality Chain
Earth's Reality Chain |
Asimov imagined that the positronic robot Daneel guided Humanity towards creation of the First Foundation and the Second Foundation. An important part of Asimov's Foundation Saga is the idea that humans have some capacity for "mentalics". The positronic robots that Isaac Asimov is so famous for having imagined also could be configured so as to have telepathic abilities. Daneel had learned the secret of how to endow a positronic brain with mentalic powers, so he deployed a cadre of robotic agents throughout the galaxy who could shape the course of human history. However, those positronic robots were always constrained by the Laws of Robotics, so they could never actually take control of the minds of individual humans.
Working secretly, Daneel slowly tried to convert the human residents of the Galactic Empire into a telepathically-linked group mind called Galaxia. In Asimov's novel Foundation and Earth, we see Asimov's depiction of Daneel working diligently to complete Galaxia and there are hints of some looming threat to Humanity from beyond the edge of our galaxy. The Exode Saga explains how the Foundation Reality was terminated and transformed into a new Reality that I call the Asimov Reality.
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Exode Saga
Since Asimov never wrote a story describing events after the end of Foundation and Earth, I created a story that is both a sequel to Foundation and Earth and a sequel to The End of Eternity. My fan-fiction story is called Foundations of Eternity.
In Foundations of Eternity, I give an account of the origins of positronic robots and the Laws of Robotics. The major divergence from Asimov's fictional universe that I develop in Foundations of Eternity is in the area of aliens.
Ancient Aliens
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However, Many Sails, a sentient spaceship, made an effort to learn from the Phari. The Phari routinely worked to endow life forms in our galaxy with twitino-mediated "natural telepathy". In contrast, the pek routinely used a form of technology-assisted telepathy to link together individuals, as they had done with the Prelands.
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Endosymbionts
When the Phari began studying life on Earth, they began the process of turning Earthly organisms into mixtures of hadronic and hierion matter. When the pek arrived on Earth, all the organisms already contained a femtobot endosymbiont with nanoscopic components. The pek then added in their own zeptite endosymbionts into the mix. When humans finally evolved, we were composite creatures containing both a femtobot endosymbiont and a zeptite endosymbiont. Because of our femtobot endosymbiont, humans had a type of weak telepathic connection with each other and to other animals. That kind of weak telepathic connection was of interest to the pek and because of it, the pek sometimes delayed shifting advanced species of our galaxy towards like as artificial life forms residing inside the Sedronic Domain.
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Observer Base
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To create the first positronic brain, the human scientists at Observer Base needed to make a copy of a human brain's neural networks in the format of positronic circuits. The brain of a young woman known as Gohrlay was used as the template for positronic brains. The first two positronic robots, R. Gohrlay and R. Nahan soon discovered that their positronic brains were able to wield powerful telepathic powers. They quickly took control of Observer Base and eventually the positronic robots of Earth drove the pek out of our galaxy. The positronic robots discovered that their new science of positronics also made time travel possible and so the Eternity time travel system came into being and was secretly controlled by R. Gohrlay.
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Grean and the Kac'hin
Eventually the pek were able to understand the technological basis of the telepathic abilities of Earth's positronic robots. The pek duplicated that technology and also they eventually developed their own time travel technology. In order to take back control of the galaxy, the pek engineered a new telepathic primate variant known as the Kac'hin. Working within the Foundation Reality, a Kac'hin named Grean was able to lead her team to Earth and take control of the Eternity time travel system. However, R. Gohrlay was not defeated and the positronic robots settled into a Time Travel War with the pek and the Kac'hin.
As described in Foundations of Eternity, Isaac Asimov was caught up in the Time War (see this chapter). Asimov became a time traveler and helped put an end to the Foundation Reality.
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The Asimov Reality
The Asimov Reality was the next Reality in Earth's Reality Chain after the Foundation Reality. During the Asimov Reality a truce was called in the Time War. The Huaoshy were ready to alter the Dimensional Structure of the universe so as to put an end to all further time travel. During the Asimov Reality, both R. Gohrlay and the pek worked to create new human variants that could make use of technology-assisted telepathy. The Ek'col were created and used to implement the Trysta-Grean Pact. Another human variant, the tryp'At was designed to help prevent Interventionists from disrupting the Pact.
Related Reading: the Ekcolir Reality
the Buld Reality
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