Foundation Films Trilogy |
I previously explained the origins of Ariel. Here in this blog post, I want to account for two other characters in the Foundation Films Trilogy: Petra Nicholls and Gina Hay. I also want to speculate on the future life of Petra, in times beyond the end of FFT.
Petra is not the youngest character in the Foundation Films Trilogy. Leira is only 13, but she is a minor character in the story. Petra is the star of "Foundation Reality Simulator". At the start of the story she is only 15, but by the end of the story she is 16 years old and ready to marry Sven.
Why does she want to get married? Petra is scheming with the other Asimov (who lives in the Hierion Domain) to try using the Bimanoid Interface to establish a two-way telepathic link to her replicoid. So far, Sven has helped Petra use a hierion probe to alter the function of her femtobot endosymbiont and allow her to telepathically communicate with the analogue of Asimov at the Writers Block. This was fairly easy to accomplish because Grean had Petra designed as a mind clone of that version of Asimov (called O.A. in the story, "other Asimov").
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The image to the left illustrates the mind clone network (MC1) that is made possible by Petra's special brain. She can synchronize her mind with O.A. and then he can use telepathy to tell her what he has discovered by using the Foundation Reality Simulator.
The version of Isaac Asimov living in the Ekcolir Reality has significant differences from the other Asimov, so although Petra can telepathically link to Isaac when they meet on Earth and the strength of that connection is boosted by the hierion probe, Petra is not as strongly linked to Isaac as she is to O.A.
Baby Sven with Svahr. |
Also, Petra has another kind of telepathic link to Sven. As a human-fain hybrid, Sven was designed by Grean so that he would be able to telepathically connect to Petra and induce her to trust him. Sven's parents are Isaac Asimov and Marcia Greenberg, but his genome was artificially crafted and includes some useful fain gene combinations that influence his unusual telepathic abilities.
In the Ekcolir Reality
Petra and Sven |
We don't know much about Petra's parents. Petra has been told that she is the child of Peter Nicholls, but she never really knew her biological father and mother (Kate). In the Final Reality, Peter Nicholls was involved with the Science Fiction Foundation in England and he lived until 2018. For this reason, I depict Petra as living in Scotland and helping to create the Foundation for Science Fiction.
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What goes into making a mind clone like Petra? I'm going to imagine that Petra's mother must have been one of Grean's operatives on Earth and possibly a tryp'At or an Ek'col or some other human variant who could make sure that during fetal development Petra's brain formed a connectome similar to that of O.A.
With a brain structure similar to that of O.A., Petra was eventually able to have a robust telepathic connection to him, making it possible for her to learn everything he knew about the Foundation Reality.
Television in the Ekcolir Reality. |
Asimov's Science Fiction Adventure specialized in converting short stories (previously published in magazines) into television programs. One gimmick was to use story authors as actors. There's Gina (above) who had a part in the episode called "Enigma of the Fru'wu".
Foundation Reality Simulator
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I'm thinking that after Petra's replicoid adjusts to "life" in the Writers Block, she will take over the task of going on information-seeking missions inside the various Reality Simulators in Eternity. Maybe the replicoid will be able to more efficiently transmit its thoughts to Petra from within a Simulator.
Hermaphrodites
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It is implied that Trysta and Grean were, at some time in the past, romantically involved as lovers. Not explicitly depicted in the text of the story, Leira impregnates Gertrude while they are living in the Hierion Domain. This comes about as part of the process by which Relda "instructs" Gertrude on how to deal with human males. The child of Leira and Gertrude is Piero, who eventually becomes important in the life of Gina Hay.
In the Foundation Films Trilogy, there is mention of fain agents on Terminus. These are human-fain hybrids, created by the fain remnant artificial life form, possibly with help from the pek. In the story "Invasion of the Telepathic Hermaphrodites", it is revealed that some of the fain agents on Terminus were hermaphrodites.
Petra Nicholls and Gina Hay. |
Besides Petra, the other mind clone in the Foundation Films Trilogy is Gina. There is a delay in getting Gina linked into the Bimanoid Interface so that she can begin to telepathically communicate with Relda in the Hierion Domain. The story ("Foundation Reality Simulator") ends just a few minutes into what will be a new life for Gina living with Piero. Earlier in the story, it is suggested that Gina's sexual preferences lean towards other women. It is also suggested that Piero has some unusual anatomical features due to his fain gene combinations. The fain were simultaneous hermaphrodites, so one might speculate that Piero could have a vagina. Someday we might receive a report on that from Gina.
cover art by Stephen Youll |
One last issue in the Foundation Films Trilogy is the fact that a positronic robot (Dani) is on Earth even after the Trysta-Grean Pact has gone into effect. Technically, no positronic robots should still be deployed on Earth. However, Grean has allowed this "violation" because Ariel needs some special care. We can wonder: how did Dani win Ariel's heart? As is also the case for Wendy, Dani routinely does not allow the humans around him to realize that he has telepathic abilities. Ariel knows that Dani is a robot and I assume that Ariel also knows about his telepathic abilities, although I also assume that Ariel and Dani almost always speak to each other rather than communicate telepathically. I also assume that without her knowledge, Dani has altered Ariel's emotions and thought patterns in order to cause her to fall in love with him.
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