Trysta Truce

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Five years ago I created a blog post that was intended to explain the Trysta-Grean Pact. However, before Trysta Iwedon and Grean the Kac'hin could become collaborators, they were adversaries during Earth's Time Travel War. In between the war and the Pact was the Trysta Truce.

Who is Trysta? I spent many years contemplating the "Hidden Centuries" and other mysteries that Isaac Asimov wrote into his time travel novel, The End of Eternity. Of particular interest to me was the backstory for his character, Noÿs Lambent. After a few decades of trying to imagine how Noÿs was trained as a time travel agent and wishing that Asimov would write a prequel novel to The End of Eternity which would explain details of the future culture of Noÿs' people, Asimov died, that task not completed. Later, when I started writing fan fiction, I simply had to write about the lives that Andrew Harlan and Noÿs led on Earth after they departed from Eternity.

Skaña views the future; image source

 My imagined events taking place after the end of Asimov's The End of Eternity probably offend many Asimov fans. I mean, Asimov's book is about putting an end to the Eternity time travel system, but for the Exode Saga, I imagine that Eternity was brought into existence about a billion years ago and may actually be eternal. It certainly continued its existence after Andrew and Noÿs began living together on Earth.

The Eternity space-time bubble is too useful of a concept to do without. If there were no Eternity, then there would have to be other such "places" hidden inside the Hierion Domain... so why not just allow Eternity to survive the Noÿs Intervention? I am weak, I could not resist that temptation. While in exile on Earth during the the Time War, Noÿs used another name: Trysta Iwedon. 

lady parts

 Telepathy. I also invented another name for Noÿs... Skaña... the name she used while growing up and being trained as a time travel agent. In particular, Skaña was trained in how to use telepathy to control the behavior of Andrew Harlan. 

Yes, I blame Noÿs for the odd names that I've given to some Exode characters such as Yōd. Yōd is actually a clone of Gohrlay, the Neanderthal woman whose brain was used as the template for making the first positronic brain. As shown in the image to the right, in addition to Trysta and Yōd, there are several other ladies who play important roles in the Exode Saga including Grean the Kac'hin, Ivory Fersoni and Zeta (another clone of Gohrlay).

Clones and other kinds of copies of people (such as replicoids and teleportation duplicates) are common in the Exode Saga, but for more than ten years I imagined that Trysta was the last of the Asterothropes. That finally changed here at the end of 2021 when I wrote a new novel called Telepaths of Site Q in which I introduce Yenti, an Asterothrope female and Riea, an Asterothrope hermaphrodite. Trysta has only a small role to play in Telepaths of Site Q and I intentionally keep her apart from Yenti and Riea so as to prevent them from synchronizing their telepathic mind patterns.

Sara (Left) and Kate (right)

However, the Trysta Truce gets mentioned in Telepaths of Site Q (here) and so recently I suddenly realized that I had never created a blog post specifically about the Trysta Truce. The Trysta Truce was during the Asimov Reality when the positronic robots R. Gohrlay and R. Nyrtia were still trying to find a way to make sure that the interests of Humanity would be respected by the Huaoshy. That was before R. Gohrlay learned that the bumpha had worked hard to create humans and could attend to human affairs far more efficiently than robots.

After Grean the Kac'hin took control of the Eternity time travel system, several positronic robots were captured by Manny the bumpha and transformed into replicoid copies that were amenable to analysis by Manny. By the time of the next Reality, the Ekcolir Reality, new robots were routinely being manufactured for use at Observer Base, including Kate the sexbot, who has a role in Telepaths of Site Q.

The Trysta Truce was a temporary agreement between Trysta Iwedon and Grean the Kac'hin. During the time of the truce, the Time War was halted and neither side used time travel to revert Reality Changes that were made by their opponent. Both the positronic robots and Manny the bumpha devoted their efforts to crafting human variants with powerful telepathic abilities.

During the Trysta Truce, both the Ek'col and the tryp'At were created as new telepathic human variants. It was Ekcolir who finally penetrated Trysta's defenses and convinced her to stop fighting Grean. Telepaths of Site Q is concerned with the first tryp'At agent who infiltrates Observer Base: Irhit.

I've written many stories about the far future of the Asimov Reality during the period of Deep Time covered by the Trysta Truce such as The Alastor Network and The Yerophet Experiment. 

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by Eclesi4stiK - available
under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.

One of the common themes across the Asimov, Ekcolir and Buld Realities is that Manny the bumpha always tries to keep her agents busy and happy. After reaching Observer Base, Irhit is entertained by Catski, Betty, Yenti and then Lanora Dryswyn. Trysta is happy with Ekcolir until the time comes when he must be sent 20,000 years into the past. While waiting for her turn to travel back into Earth's ancient past, Trysta is able to spend time with Deomede, Ekcolir's analogue from another Reality.

Similarly, R. Oliveene Nhevrix is kept busy with various tasks that Manny needs to be completed, often on tight deadlines. For Telepaths of Site Q, Oliveene made use of the bodily form of Dors the robot when Manny requested that a precise duplicate of a house on Earth be built in Yaddo.

robotic tunnel ball players

 More Robots. At the time when the Trysta Truce was begun, several field agents of the positronic robots had recently been captured by Grean and Manny. These included R. Fengtol (who then adopted the new name Wendy), R. Recleu and Daneel. At later times, new robots were made as needed. For example, in preparation for the arrival of Irhit at Observer Base, Manny had to make an entire cadre of robots who would serve as tunnel ball players and long distance runners. Irhit's friend Whitken is one such robot.

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