Exodemic was the first story that I ever wrote that is set in the
Exodemic Fictional Universe. In the Exodemic Fictional Universe, there have long been alien creatures visiting Earth and guiding the human species towards the future. Originally, I imagined that alien visitors first arrive on Earth about 7,000,000 years ago and they promptly set about creating we humans from the available genetic material of the great apes.
Several years later, while working on the
Exode Saga, I decided that a mere 7 million years in our past was far too recent a time for "first contact" with aliens. For
Exode, I assume that aliens had been visiting Earth for about 2,000,000,000 years. Even in that long-ago time when aliens first reached our planet, there two distinct alien factions, each with their own mission on Earth.
Pek and Bumpha
One alien faction, the
pek, had as their goal the extraction of
sedrons from Earth. While spreading outward through the universe from their home galaxy, they routinely impregnated all hadronic matter, including stars and every planet they encountered (including Earth) with
zeptites. Pek zeptites are a form of artificial life composed of sedronic matter. Those zeptites were efficient at finding sedrons and it was important to move most of the sedronic matter from its original random location the galaxy in order to make possible
long-range teleportation. To this day, everything on Earth remains infected by pek zeptites, including we humans.
The pek are conservative enforcers of the
Rules of Intervention, rules designed to protect fragile species like we humans from our self-destructive tendencies. And, of course, the pek don't want any up-start creatures such as tool-using primates to interfere with the smooth workings of the vast intergalactic empire that the pek manage.
The other alien faction that has long been visiting Earth, the
bumpha, constitute the
Interventionist faction of the aliens. The bumpha have been constantly tinkering with Earth, working to increase the likelihood of complex life forms evolving. According to
Ivory, the bumpha made sure that oxygen became available in the atmosphere of Earth. Later, the bumpha did extensive bioengineering of mitochondria, including the development of
telastids. Telastids were at the heart of an effort by the bumpha to endow biological organisms with a form of telepathic communication.
During the long evolution of eukaryotes, they have always been composite organisms: a hadronic shell with a
zeptite endosymbiont. Eventually, when tool-using primates evolved on Earth, the pek and the bumpha had two different visions of the future.
Making use of the
Grendels, the bumpha drove human evolution on Earth in a similar direction to what the
Nereids had experienced on their world. The pek wanted to replace humans with an engineered primate variant, the
Preland.
In the middle of the pek-bumpha conflict over the fate of the human species, the first positronic robots were created (as told in
Foundations of Eternity). Unexpectedly, positronic robots turned out to have powerful "
mentalic" abilities. The pek were driven out of the Solar System by telepathic positronic robots and eventually, pushed out of the entire galaxy.
With time, the
Huaoshy realized that they had made possible both sedron-mediated telepathy and time travel when they had long ago modified the
dimensional structure of the universe so as to make possible fast-than-light space travel.
Although the positronic robots of Earth had a head-start, eventually, the Huaoshy learned how to travel through time and they developed an advanced technology for viewing possible
Reality Chains. Given their superiority in sedronic science, the Huaoshy were able to force the positronic robots of Earth to accept a compromise: the
Trysta-Grean Pact. Under the terms of the pact, humans would be allowed to spread between the stars of the galaxy.
The Huaoshy knew from long experience that most technology-using species manage to destroy themselves. Using their Reality Viewing technology, a safe path to a human future among the stars was found and the conditions on Earth were established to make possible the long-term survival of the human species. Then the Huaoshy once more modified the dimensional structure of the universe, making further time travel and telastid-mediated telepathy impossible.
One of the "conditions" that was required for the stability of a
Final Reality in which humans could spread between the stars was that some warnings about the dangers of hierion and sedron-based technologies had to be provided to the people of Earth. At the same time, not
too much information could be provided about the aliens who had long been visiting Earth. Ultimately, it was realized that the critical information could only be provided to Earthlings in the form of
science fiction stories.
The tryp'At Solution
The science fiction genre had to be created and crafted by alien Interventionists, but that in itself was not enough to ensure a glorious future for humans among the stars. The
tryp'At were needed as a type of "lubrication" that allows for a successful Trysta-Grean Pact, but making use of the tryp'At created new problems. In particular, (see
this blog post) some tryp'At had to be inserted into Earth's timeline. Investigations carried out by the
Atlantis Clones have begun to solve the mystery of why
Carl Sagan had to be constructed, but that investigation continues.
In an Asimov Reality.....
In the various Realities of
Deep Time, there have been several different versions of the science fiction genre. In the
Asimov Reality,
Isaac Asimov was sent back in time. He took that opportunity to create a science fiction genre that was perfectly suited to his own interests in science.
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In the
Ekcolir Reality, the entire science fiction genre was crafted by
replicoids working in the
Writers Block. In that Reality, science fiction stories were used to prepare Earthlings for first contact with the
Fru'wu. In that Reality, Gina Lucas made a popular film:
Star Ways -about an alien civilization on a distant world
In that story, the aliens arrived on Earth by teleportation from the
Galactic Core. There were were millions of brief "alien contact" events, at seemingly random locations.
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The aliens used
infites to communicate and invite Earthlings to teleport to distant planets. Many people accepted the invitation and they teleported off Earth. None were ever reported to return.
Zeta believes that what Gina Lucas described as "infites" were actually a type of femtobot adaptor that could provide Earthlings with a nearly functional
Bimanoid Interface.
Women in White
As told in
Star Ways, there was a desperate government project to compile an account of what was going on during this unusual alien invasion. Guided by operatives from a mysterious think-tank (
Space-Time Momentum), a team of investigators known as the Women in White was able to piece together a compendium, what became known as "The Guide to Tar'tron". All the infites "given" to humans carried fragments of a story, parts of a book that had been written by an
Asimov Replicoid who had apparently visited the planet
Tar'tron in the Galactic Core.
That story was "revealed", one piece at a time, to individuals as they "asked questions" of the "aliens", but contact with Earthlings was soon terminated if no interest in leaving Earth was present in a particular individual. The "aliens" did occasionally appear in human form on Earth, but, frustratingly, no physical evidence of alien technology was ever collected. The title, "Asimov's Guide to Tar'tron" was one of the last parts of the book revealed.
Asmosis
Eventually, the Ekcolir Reality was terminated and Asimov was taken into the next Reality in order to create science fiction "the right way". According to Zeta, there is a special term used to describe the lingering impact of Asimov on science fiction: Asmosis. At the Writers Block inside
Eternity, there are rumors of a Woman in White who had also reached the
Buld Reality and who could "summon" the zeptites that reside within all Earthly objects.
Special thanks to
Miranda Hedman (www.mirish.deviantart.com) for the photograph "
Dauntless - Action Heroine stock 9" that was used to make the image to the right.
Working with her clone "sisters", Ivory Fersoni was able to learn about events in Deep Time. According to Zeta, Ivory actually published a story in the Buld Reality about a Woman in White. That story included many examples of how zeptites could be harnessed to do "magical" things.
For example, zeptites could be used to create
frictionless surfaces that allowed large objects to be easily moved. Dramatically, it was claimed that medical
nanites could confer immortality, allowing a few Earthlings to live for millennia.
Sadly, in some of the last alterations to the timeline of Earth, many of the results from Ivory's study of Deep Time were removed from our world.
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Tar'tron and the Galactic Core
