Nanotechnycian

Figure 1. Tyhry gets distracted
while hacking a New York database.

 Hacking Nanites. A major theme in City on the Edge of Tomorrow is that Tyhry is Earth's first nanotechnycian. The image to the right (Figure 1) shows how Mr. Wombo usually depicts Tyhry in scenes where she is at work in her nanite programming laboratory. Sadly, Mr. Wombo has no idea what Tyhry is up to, which is actually just fine... the image only has to look highly impressive. However, we can ask: what is Tyhry looking at?

Sedron Time Stream. Tyhry was born several decades after the Huaoshy put an end to all further time travel by changing the dimensional structure of the universe. However, there is still one available way for information to flow backwards through time which depends on a part of our universe called the sedron domain. Tyhry is one of the few people on Earth who can obtain useful information from the Sedron Time Stream, but that information flow often takes place at the edge of her conscious awareness. 

Figure 2. Tyhry's vision.

Sometimes Tyhry suddenly has the mysterious feeling that she is being watched. Maybe these kinds of strange cognitive tickles are due to her own efforts in the future to transmit important information back into the past, an attempt to complete a time loop and provide useful information to herself from the future. I've previously written about such a time loop that involves Brak (see The Telepaths of Site Q). However, at the time of City on the Edge of Tomorrow, Brak has not yet been born (Brak will be Marda's first child).

There in Figure 2 is what Tyhry thinks she sees when she looks over her shoulder. Maybe a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, but not so for Tyhry. For Tyhry, her life's experience has been a never ending chain of successes. There is nothing that she has ever tried to do that she has not found a way to accomplish. 

Tyhry with a cloud of nanites.

Tyhry feels no great pride from all of her many accomplishments; Manny the bumpha has provided Tyhry with advanced nanotechnology that makes even the seemingly impossible, possible. 

Imaginary Friends. The impossible? Tyhry grew up not imagining a friend, but living with a loyal companion, the replicoid named Anthony. And from a very young age, Tyhry was envious of her mentor's (Manny) amazingly beautiful hair. Tyhry learned how to program hair nanites and provide herself with artificial hair. Fascinated by the idea that Antony is an artificial life-form, a replicoid, Tyhry learned how to create replicoid copies of herself. Simple.

Since nothing exceeds Tyhry's grasp, she has never felt the need to mutter words like these to herself (but see Figure 3):
"Had I been two, another and myself,
Our head would have o'erlooked the world!" (source)

Figure 3. Two headed Tyhry.

There are several kinds of copies of Tyhry in City on the Edge of Tomorrow. Through study of the Reality Simulation System, Tyhry has learned how to use the simulator equipment to make replicoid copies. Through the years, Tyhry has made several such replicoid copies of herself; usually they stay in a simulation fork of the Ekcolir Reality and help with projects in Tyhry's nanite programming laboratory. However, whenever Tyhry is inside the Ekcolir Reality Simulation, one of her replicoid copies is present at home, in the Final Reality, pretending to be the original biological copy of Tyhry in that Reality.

Tyhry has also been experimenting with ways to make miniaturized replicoid copies. These often have defects, and Tyhry has no qualms about destroying defective copies of herself. Tyhry's ultimate goal for her replicoid experiments is to learn the secret of creating nanoscopic replicoids that can "plug into" the Bimanoid Interface.

Figure 4. Two copies of Marda.

As told in City on the Edge of Tomorrow, Tyhry is surprised to discover that there were biological copies of herself that lived in Deep Time, during the Ekcolir Reality. After getting over the initial shock of that discovery, Tyhry realizes that Manny lives by the motto: waste not, want not. If copies of Tyhry proved their worth in the Ekcolir Reality then why shouldn't Manny deploy another Tyhry copy in the Final Reality?

 World Thinkers. Both Tyhry and Marda are trying to find a way to provide telepathy to everyone on Earth. Marda's method is to create brain implants that will link human thought to a global communications network. Tyhry's strategy is not too different, but she wants to use ten billion nanoscopic replicoids to link the minds of every person on Earth into the Bimanoid Interface. I expect it will be in Part 8 of City on the Edge of Tomorrow when Marda discovers that a copy of herself existed in the Ekcolir Reality (see Figure 4). 

Tyhry, the graduate.

Finding a copy of herself in Deep Time will be a lucky discovery because Marda will have a strong telepathic linkage to her copy. That telepathic contact will lead to "the city on the edge of tomorrow" (New York, Virginia) and that will allow Tyhry to realize that her existence in the Final Reality was also anticipated by the existence of two copies of herself in the 20th century of the Ekcolir Reality. 

Tyhry and Marda have both recently graduated from college when they make their journey to New York. For her senior research project, Marda developed an cerebral implant and tested it on herself. Tyhry monitors everything that Marda does and Tyhry has secretly taken Marda's idea for a cerebral implant and modified it using advanced nanotechnology that is not available to Marda. Figure 5 is a rather overly-dramatic depiction of Tyhry during one of her cerebral implant experiments.

Figure 5. Brain Surgery.

 Synapex Linkers. Now having reached 14,000 words into my new science fiction story City on the Edge of Tomorrow, I'm thinking about how Tyhry will deploy one more type of nanite in an attempt to establish a telepathic mind link to Naseh. I've long imagined that Ekcolir was genetically crafted and carefully designed so as to be able to telepathically influence the minds of Asterothropes. 

 What about Naseh? When he was sent to Earth, Ekcolir was on a mission to end the Time Travel War and to accomplish that he needed to make Trysta fall in love with him. For City on the Edge of Tomorrow, I imagine that Naseh is constantly transmitting an Ek'col-like emotion-controlling telepathic signal and Tyhry is receptive to it, making Tyhry experience a persistent fascination with Naseh (the same is true for Tynyo). Tyhry desperately tries to establish a synapex link to Naseh using some of her programmable nanites.

Deactivated

 Other News. As described in this blog post from 2020, the wikifiction blog was started at just about the same time when I began using Twitter. I have stopped using Twitter. Why? I recently saw someone who was still using a Yahoo email account and I thought: Am I one of those old-timers who can't let go of old things? Yes... but not everything.

The Last Straw

 The Last Straw. Through the years, the people who I had grown to appreciate on Twitter seemed to gradually drift away. Then there was a period of time when Twitter relentlessly crammed things into my feed, bad things that I was not interested in. Recently, most of my use of Twitter has been related to baseball. I felt like there was a problem when I seemed to derive maximal satisfaction from watching the fans of losing teams melt down and rant. The last straw was the way that gambling seemed to take over my baseball feed. I tried to mute all the silly gambling accounts, but finally I had to give up.

Next: a story writing collaboration with ChatGPT.

Coming soon: Part 5 of City on the Edge of Tomorrow.

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