Skarży

Jack Vance's character Ghyl Tarvoke
is brought into Reality to live
in the world as we know it.

Back in 2017, I got into a bad habit of starting blog posts and not finishing them. Here in 2019, I've reached the point where I have managed to clear most of that 2017 backlog, having finally posted the rather long "Foundation of Robots".

draft blog posts in 2019

There are still 4 draft blog posts in the queue as I write this, but "Asmovian Anti-Singularity" is intended to be posted early in 2020 for my celebration of Isaac Asimov's 100th birthday.

Tar'tron
One of Asimov's famous literary creations was the planet Trantor. I like to imagine that the most centrally located planet of our galaxy ever settled by humans was named "Trantor" in the Foundation Reality. However, in subsequent Realities, such as the Ekcolir Reality, that world was known as Tar'tron.

Earth: Day 1

Early in 2015, I was busy ripping Ghyl Tarvoke out of his place in Deep Time so that I could give him a second life in the Buld Reality. Poor Ghyl was awakened to find himself on the planet Tar'tron. Svahr was there, working hard and trying to "assemble" Ghyl's mind as a stable pattern of activity inside his new body. Similarly, the story "Earth: Day 1" provides an account of how Parthemy's mind was teleported to Tar'tron and inserted into a new physical body. Within stories of the Exodemic Fictional Universe, that sort of "magic" is made possible by information nanites, and advanced technology that I call "infites".

Svahr as a primate/feline hybrid.
Image credits: Will Stephenson

Back in 2015, I had not yet imagined that a replicoid of Isaac Asimov would be "assembled" on Tar'tron. Lucky for that Asimov replicoid (who became known as Azynov), his assembly was carried out by a professional ( Many Sails ) and the process was seamless. However, Azynov had one major shock to adjust to: the natives of Tar'tron are humanoids, but they are covered with fur!

For Star Dance, I depicted Svahr as having adopted the furry form of a Tar'tron native (see the image to the right). At that time, I specifically depicted Svahr as a type of hermaphrodite. Azynov arrives on a part of Tar'tron where there are males and females. For thousands of years those females existed as migratory creatures: "magic"-using witches who were being genetically selected for their ability to use telastid-based telepathy.

"Jaguar" by Jason L.Y

"Magic"
On Tar'tron, there were nanites that took care of all the basic needs of the people. In fact, the natives had a very reduced set of teeth since they did not have to eat. Invisibly small femtobots brought microscopically small bits of food into the bodies of the sleeping people.

I originally imagined Rynela as having black fur, but I'm contemplating a different coloring for her friend, Skarży.

Towards the end of our Reality Chain, Tar'tron had become the site of an experiment in devolution, strategically using nanites to allow creation of a long-lasting human culture. However, Azynov arrives on Tar'tron soon after the Huaoshy have put an end to time travel. That change to the Dimensional Structure of the Universe also makes twitino-mediated telepathy impossible, vastly disrupting the social system on Tar'tron.

In the Ekcolir Reality.
Removing Hana from Earth.
original cover art by Vincent Di Fate

Rylla
I now want the story of Azynov's adventure on Tar'tron to be told by Rylla. However, Rylla appeared in the Exode Saga after I had already begun writing A Search Beyond. I've begun to retrofit A Search Beyond so as to make it a story that comes to be told because of the ability of Rylla to use the new mind clone network that links Earth to Observer Base. However, "Earth: Day 1" introduced the idea of a technology-assisted telepathic linkage between Earth and Tar'tron. In that story, a copy of yT'Teb was sent to Earth in the Ekcolir Reality in order to assist in removing a copy of Hana from Earth. Did that Interventionist agent also exist on Earth in the Buld Reality? If so, then yT'Teb would be able to provide Rylla with an account of events on Tar'tron, allowing Rylla to become the author of A Search Beyond.
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