"Trysta Iwedon" is one of the many cover names that have been used by
Skaña. Trysta is a master of disguise, having been carefully and beautifully designed to fool her human victims, particularly sentimental males such as me.
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I naturally prefer to think of Skaña (who is actually an
Asterothrope) as being "Trysta", the woman who put in place the
Trysta-Grean Pact. It is in her role as Trysta here in the
Final Reality that I have personally known Skaña. During the past 40 years it is
Trysta who has carefully guided me into the future and I fear that I still do not fully comprehend the extent to which she has shaped my life and may continue to do so in the future.
This latest and most worrying qualm is like a fresh wound in my mind. I had mistakenly imagined that my contacts with Trysta were all safely in my past (see
Mayness), but that was part of her trickery.
Visitation
Why 'visitation'? Because I'm not sure that it was a visit. I'll describe some more of the encounters that I've had with her through the years at a later time, after I've had a chance to figure out what was going on. Maybe
my most recent contact with Trysta is all just because of
me and my ability to use the
Bimanoid Interface when that channel is not being blocked by my
replicoid. This is a subject for future investigation.
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| Ivory's family |
At the time when I realized that it was the story of Trysta that must be told first, I imagined beginning the Exode Trilogy with an account of her life with Andrew Harlan in the Primitive, a story that naturally follows after the end of Isaac Asimov's
The End of Eternity. Then all hell broke loose.
First,
Ekcolir demanded to explain why he seduced Trysta and impregnated her. And, for that biological mystery, the more important issue is
how.
Ivory Fersoni was able to explain that mystery away because of the strange history of her own family, so I did a lot of listening to Ivory and the stories told by her clone sisters, particularly
Angela. However, I now realize that I was allowing myself to be distracted by the wealth of information available to me.
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| the Exode Trilogy |
During my journey towards understanding Trysta, there were additional distractions waved at me by
Thomas (the son of Trysta) and
Peter (Ivory's uncle). Then, most recently, and most seductively, Gohrlay piled on. For a time, I mistakenly allowed myself to imagine that I should allow
Gohrlay to tell Trysta's story. No, no, no. And no.
Maybe Trysta had looked deep into the
Buld Reality and had seen that I would fall into that trap of over-reliance on Gohrlay. Had I imagined that Trysta could be jealous of Gohrlay, I would have been more cautious and more respectful of Trysta, the girl with the
Viewer.
In some sense, Skaña was
R. Gohrlay's golden girl. When R. Gohrlay created the Asterothropes there was no intention to replace we humans with Asterothropes. However, R. Gohrlay must have recognized the superior qualities of the Asterothropes and felt pride in a job well done.
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| our Reality Chain |
But R. Gohrlay was trapped in 'her' own programming. Ultimately, R. Gohrlay had to destroy the Asterothropes. Skaña was R. Gohrlay's optimal example of humanoid perfection and so it was Skaña's task to erase the Asterothropes.
To what extent was Skaña tricked into destroying her own species? In the worst case analysis, Skaña was a dupe; given the physical form of a human and forced to destroy her own species. However, I wonder.
Where is R. Gohrlay? Maybe the only problem with Asterothropes arises in the unusual context of Humanity +
positronic robots + Asterothropes. Maybe R. Gohrlay took the Asterothropes away, to a part of the universe where they don't have to worry about humans.
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| fanciful depiction of the pek (source) |
In the
Mallansohn Reality, Skaña hid the existence of time travel from Humanity. R. Gohrlay was in a desperate race to complete
Galaxia and win we humans a chance to control and dominate our galaxy. By some trick of fate,
Isaac Asimov became the tool of
Grean and the
Huaoshy. When Asimov traveled through time, he brought into existence a new reality that fittingly can be called the Asimov Reality. That was the start of the
Time Travel War.
The Asimov Reality was an improvement over the Foundation Reality from the narrow perspective of Earth as a
Garden World. Although there was a nuclear war during the 20th century in the Asimov Reality, Earth did not become uninhabitable as it had in the Foundation Reality.
In the Asimov Reality, Grean used advanced Reality Viewing technology to identify Trysta as R. Gohrlay's remaining secret agent on Earth. In order to end the Time Travel War, the
pek created the Ek'col and Grean positioned Ekcolir close to Trysta.
This brought into existence the Ekcolir Reality in which atomic catastrophes were avoided, but Earth went through a catastrophic phase of global warming, ice cap melting and sea level rise. However, within the Ekcolir Reality, Ekcolir accomplished his mission. By capturing Trysta's heart, Ekcolir created the necessary conditions for the Trysta-Grean Pact. Working together, Trysta and Grean were able to identify the
Final Reality.
Still, bringing into existence the universe as we know it was not a trivial task. In a flurry of activity, Trysta had to initiate the most complex Reality Change ever attempted. I imagine that Trysta not only wanted to provide humans with a future among the stars, but she needed to fulfill her own biological needs and satisfy her desire to have descendants who would spread through millions of worlds of the galaxy. And, as if that were not enough, I believe that she wanted to make sure that her story and the entire story of
Deep Time, what I call the Exode, would be told and would be known to her descendants.
Science Fiction
I can't believe that it was only by chance that science fiction story telling became the means by which Trysta's story could be told. The
bumpha seem to have a 2,000,000,000 history of using every trick in the book, including science fiction. Thus, science fiction was already the dominant fiction genre in the
First Reality when a human civilization arose at
Observer Base.
In the Asimov Reality, where Asimov invented his own form of science fiction, science fiction was again an outlet for deeply human aspirations. Earth of the Asimov Reality was Observer Base writ large. The pek firmly clamped down on human technological innovation in the Asimov Reality and Asimov, with his memories of the rapid pace of technological advance as it had existed in the 20th century of the Foundation Reality, only had fiction as a way to explore the vast space of technological progressions.
I believe that it was the lurking bumpha who took pains to guide Asimov towards creation of the
Writers Block. That Sci Fi Intervention created the milieu within which the Trysta-Grean Pact could exist. In the Ekcolir Reality, the science fiction genre itself provided "cover" for the twists and strains that had to be exerted upon Huaoshy
ethical rules.
Further, the impending arrival of the alien
Fru'wu, provided a sense of purpose and direction that I can only compare to the role played by the Foundation in an earlier Reality. We humans need our dreams, particularly while we are descending into a future that is as bleak as what existed in the Ekcolir Reality.
Here in the Final Reality, science fiction had to be shunted in a new direction. And Trysta had to first foster my interest in science fiction and then carefully regulate my access to this potent drug. Finally, she has intervened and made me realize that it is with her story that the Exode Trilogy must begin. And so, I salute you Trysta.
And although I believe that you died about 10,000 years ago, I hope to see you again before I die.
Image shown to the left: "D'hab pretending to be a Preland". D'hab, is a temple pek (see this blog page). Also see this blog page. Credits.
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