About 3 years ago I wrote two chapters of a sequel to
Jack Vance's novel
Trullion (see
The League of Yrinna). After almost 40 years of wondering about the fates of
Duissane Drosset and
Glinnes Hulden, it was fun to continue exploring their lives and learn about their interstellar adventures on planets such as
Numenes, Layerna and Yrinna. However, the mission of Duissane and Glinnes on the planet Yrinna was not
the end of the story.
Alastor Cluster
Distant Planets such as Yrinna and
Cynk (located within in
Alastor Cluster) were where
R. Gohrlay successfully used the
Phari to solve the problem of connecting humans to the
Bimanoid Interface, but my information sources are fragmented and incomplete. The origins of the
tryp'At and the
Ek'col remained mysterious and it was those two type of human variants that were crafted to efficiently use of the Bimanoid Interface and make possible the
Final Reality.
I have been sifting through the
infites that I recently received from
Yōd. It appears that I was close to learning the origins of the tryp'At and the Ek'col back in 2015. However, since
I am tryp'At, there has been an effort to keep me in the dark and ignorant of my own origins. The key to further understanding of the hidden connections between Duissane and the tryp'At was finally penetrating the mysteries surrounding R. Gohrlay. I've actually been making some
progress in that direction here in 2018.
Back in 2015, I discovered that Inspector Jantiff Revensroke (Vance's protagonist in
Wyst) of the Whelm had traveled to the planet
Marune and obtained evidence for the existence of
alien endosymbionts inside some special minority populations of the humans of Alastor Cluster. For example, the
Idite,
Ambal and
Gensifer clans and some
Rhunes had long been viable hosts for
Phari endosymbionts.
Return to Trullion
However, long after the first few humans received their Phari endosymbionts,
Alastor Cluster continued to function as an incubator, the site of continuing human breeding experiments aimed at finding a human gene pattern that was
fully compatible with the Bimanoid Interface. Duissane was the culmination of those genetic experiments. After their mission on Yrinna, Duissane and Glinnes returned to Trullion.
Returning to their home planet, Duissane and Glinnes were forced to continue using the under-cover identities that they had been provided with for their mission to Yrinna. They were still trying to avoid arrest for theft of 30,000,000 ozols from the Lords of the Fens.
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| The central part of the Fens, including Fleharish Broad, near the home of Glinnes on Rabendary Island (source). |
Upon returning to the Fens, Glinnes quickly learns that
Akadie the mentor has traced the roots of the Fanscherade movement to the secretive
Society of Matriarchs, which has a base of operations on Bellicent
* Island, at the heart of the Fens, adjacent to Fleharish Broad.
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"starmenters" are the space
pirates of Alastor Cluster |
Investigation of the
Order of Lords has revealed that Lord Gensifer had been acting as the local agent of the Gensifer Clan which operates out of their headquarters on the planet Yrinna. The starmenter
Bandolio was to have captured both Duissane and Glinnes during his raid on Welgen. Duissane and Glinnes were to have been transported to Yrinna by Bandolio, but quick action taken by Glinnes during the raid allowed them to avoid capture.
Of course, there were great forces at work trying to bring Duissane and Glinnes to Yrinna. No sooner had Bandolio's attempt to capture them failed and new forces were aligned to bring Duissane and Glinnes to Yrinna.
Eventually, Duissane and Glinnes were deployed by the Whelm as spies on a mission to investigate the League of Yrinna, an ancient alliance of space pirates. The modern Hussade League of Yrinna provided Glinnes with cover for a secret operation on the planet Yrinna. During their "Spare time" in between playing several hussade matches, Duissane and Glinnes manage to discover how the Phari secretly control the human population of Yrinna and most of the Alastor Cluster.
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Infiltrating the Society
of Matriarchs (see) |
Cursar Pakken and Duissane infiltrate Bellicent Island where they discover that the
Society of Matriarchs is headed by R. Gohrlay (who uses a cover name:
Lady de Vaenz). Using her
technology for viewing the future, R. Gohrlay now suspects that the children of Duissane and Glinnes might be able to fully use the Bimanoid Interface. The main problem that R. Gohrlay is trying to deal with is that Duissane has some ability to see into the future by connecting to R. Gohrlay's
positronic brain.
Duissane accuses R. Gohrlay of using the
Fanschers to commit genocide against the
Trevanyi. R. Gohrlay is planning to send Duissane and Glinnes far back in time and bring into existence a new Reality in which the
Time Travel War can be ended.
Grean the
Kac'hin arrives and detects that Duissane is pregnant with twins. Grean uses advanced
nanite technology to secretly remove one of the embryos from Duissane's body. The special gene combinations of that stolen child eventually will be used by the pek to help create the Ek'col.
The details of exactly how the tryp'At and the Ek'col were created remain hidden. At one time I had imagined that the answers might be found by
Azynov inside the
AR Simulator. However, most of the crafting and polishing of the tryp'At and the Ek'col was apparently accomplished in the far past of the
Ekcolir Reality.
Lord Gensifer formed the Fleharish Gorgons as a new Hussade team. According to legend, two of the mythical Gorgons were immortal.
At the end of
Trullion, Lord Gensifer disappears under a dock, and everyone assumes that he was killed by
merlings. However, his body was never recovered. There are hints in the infites that I received from Yōd indicating that Lord Gensifer was an artificial life form, crafted by the
pek and used as their tool to facilitate a starmenter raid on the Fens that would capture Duissane and Glinnes.
Zeta speculates that Glinnes, who was also briefly a member of the Gorgon team, may have been the other immortal Gorgon.
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*note: there is a difference in the
Vance Integral Edition map of the Fens, "Bellicent" is changed to "Bellic
net".
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Related Reading:
R. Gohrlay in the distant past 2018: the
investigation continues
Next: Qazation
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