The Hierion Heretic

The origin of Many Sails as a character in the Exode Saga arrived when I needed an alien spaceship to make contact with Galaxia. That contact was an important event in the Foundation Reality, coming at a point in time when the Huaoshy were ready to start the Time Travel War.

Later, I depicted Many Sails as having been the alien spaceship that saved the life of Gohrlay in the First Reality and took her away from Earth to the Galactic Core. At that time, Many Sails committed a major violation of the Rules of Intervention by providing the first human scientists with a detailed scan of Gohrlay's brain.

Gohrlay's Brain

The scientists at Observer Base were ready to destroy Gohrlay's brain in order to obtain a detailed description of the structure of her brain. They never noticed that Many Sails performed a non-destructive scan of Gohrlay and provided the brain structure data in a way that meant there was no need to kill Gohrlay.

For eons, R. Gohrlay believed that Gohrlay died by volunteering to go through the process of destructive brain scanning. R. Gohrlay blamed the pek for Gohrlay's death, establishing an animosity towards the pek and the Huaoshy that was very hard to get over. However, eventually R. Gohrlay realized that it was possible for the Huaoshy to "bring back" Gohrlay, and at the end of the Exode Saga, Alpha Gohrlay and R. Gohrlay are merged into a new artificial lifeform, a new Gohrlay in a zeptite-based body provided by Many Sails.

The Hierion Heresy
Many Sails took on the role of an Interventionist long before bringing Gohrlay into existence. Over two billion years ago, when the pek first arrived in our galaxy, they found an existing civilization. The Phari had developed advanced hierion-based technology that gave them the means to link together thousands of planets in a vast interstellar network.

The Phari themselves had long since migrated into the Hierion Domain and existed there as artificial lifeforms. However, they maintained connections to hadronic lifeforms via one of their great inventions, the Bimanoid Interface.

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Later, using his telepathic abilities, R. Nahan discovered the ancient Phari base deep inside the Slave Craton. After Nahan's death, R. Gohrlay discovered how to use the Bimanoid Interface as a means to maintain communications via technology-assisted telepathy with her human field agents in the Hadron Domain while she remained safely within the Hierion Domain. However, that use of the Bimanoid Interface was basically one way, turning Gohrlay's agents into puppets, their behavior controlled by R. Gohrlay.

After much effort, R. Gohrlay eventually crafted the Asterothropes as a human variant that could efficiently use the Bimanoid Interface for two-way communications. Doing so required the use of a Phari Endosymbiont that could act as an adapter between the Asterothrope brain and the zeptite endosymbiont that had co-evolved inside humans as part of their body.

our Reality Chain

At that point, R. Gohrlay began the Foundation Reality and the creation of Galaxia. Before Galaxia was complete, Many Sails brought a team of agents including Grean to Earth and they captured what had long been the base of operations for R. Gohrlay in the Hierion Domain.

It was a trivial matter for R. Gohrlay to move on, continuing her role in the Time Travel War by operating out of a new base in the Hierion Domain that was not linked to Earth. Even after the Trysta-Grean Pact went into effect, R. Gohrlay still did not trust the Huaoshy.  

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Many Sails was able to reverse engineer the Phari endozymbiont that R. Gohrlay had developed. That allowed the tryp'At to be positioned both on Earth and at Observer Base, the final "insurance policy" that was required before the Huaoshy altered the dimensional structure of the universe so as to make all further time travel impossible.

However, there were some "bugs" in the design of the tryp'At. In particular, it was found that Irhit could prevent the Editor from using the Bimanoid Interface. R. Gohrlay had insisted that the people of Earth be informed about how aliens had long shaped the history of Earth. Irhit and the tryp'At Overseers were interfering with the work of the Editor and threatening to derail the Pact.

"Exoditions on Cynk"

Eventually, R. Gohrlay realized that Many Sails was the original Hierion Heretic, relentlessly exploring the possibilities of hierion-based technology. Might it be possible for Gohrlay to alter the Bimanoid Interface and save the Trysta-Grean Pact? The answer to that question is provided in "Exoditions on Cynk". How it became possible for we Earthlings to learn about the events on Cynk is explained here.

Next: The Phasian Knot.

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