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Tar'tron
One of Asimov's famous literary creations was the planet Trantor. I like to imagine that the most centrally located planet of our galaxy ever settled by humans was named "Trantor" in the Foundation Reality. However, in subsequent Realities, such as the Ekcolir Reality, that world was known as Tar'tron.
Earth: Day 1 |
Svahr as a primate/feline hybrid. Image credits: Will Stephenson |
For Star Dance, I depicted Svahr as having adopted the furry form of a Tar'tron native (see the image to the right). At that time, I specifically depicted Svahr as a type of hermaphrodite. Azynov arrives on a part of Tar'tron where there are males and females. For thousands of years those females existed as migratory creatures: "magic"-using witches who were being genetically selected for their ability to use telastid-based telepathy.
"Jaguar" by Jason L.Y |
On Tar'tron, there were nanites that took care of all the basic needs of the people. In fact, the natives had a very reduced set of teeth since they did not have to eat. Invisibly small femtobots brought microscopically small bits of food into the bodies of the sleeping people.
I originally imagined Rynela as having black fur, but I'm contemplating a different coloring for her friend, Skarży.
Towards the end of our Reality Chain, Tar'tron had become the site of an experiment in devolution, strategically using nanites to allow creation of a long-lasting human culture. However, Azynov arrives on Tar'tron soon after the Huaoshy have put an end to time travel. That change to the Dimensional Structure of the Universe also makes twitino-mediated telepathy impossible, vastly disrupting the social system on Tar'tron.
In the Ekcolir Reality. Removing Hana from Earth. original cover art by Vincent Di Fate |
Rylla
I now want the story of Azynov's adventure on Tar'tron to be told by Rylla. However, Rylla appeared in the Exode Saga after I had already begun writing A Search Beyond. I've begun to retrofit A Search Beyond so as to make it a story that comes to be told because of the ability of Rylla to use the new mind clone network that links Earth to Observer Base. However, "Earth: Day 1" introduced the idea of a technology-assisted telepathic linkage between Earth and Tar'tron. In that story, a copy of yT'Teb was sent to Earth in the Ekcolir Reality in order to assist in removing a copy of Hana from Earth. Did that Interventionist agent also exist on Earth in the Buld Reality? If so, then yT'Teb would be able to provide Rylla with an account of events on Tar'tron, allowing Rylla to become the author of A Search Beyond.
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