Future ᮲𐅛𐒢𒐵

Figure 1. A Larthia Network Node. Generated by Gemini.

This blog page (below) has Part 10 of my Decade in Review (DiR, see Part 1). All of the blog posts in this series have titles that contain unusual characters. This blog post is called "Future ᮲𐅛𐒢𒐵" because at the start of 2022 I wrote a series of related science fiction stories called "The Nyrtia Cycle" and 2222 = ᮲𐅛𐒢𒐵, written in assorted symbols meaning "2". 

 Social Study. As described in Part 9 of this Decade in Review (DiR), I imagined that in the Ekcolir Reality, an Asterothrope named Yenti lived in Site Q during the time period around the year 3605 and I tried to imagine elements of a future society that had formed from a population of telepathic Asterothropes for my story Telepaths of Site Q. 

Figure 2. A Larthia Network Node by Whisk.

 New Technologies. In the case of the year 2222, I don't have any confidence that I can imagine the future technologies of the year 2222. I asked Gemini to imagine an Etruscan Civilization such as I pretend existed in the Ekcolir Reality and I had Gemini describe the kinds of technologies that might exist in that civilization's equivalent of our year 2222. Gemini invented the "Larthia Network Node" which it described as being components of the "Larthia Network" which consists of massive, orbital or deep-space arrays that don't transmit information faster than light in the traditional sense. Instead, they exploit pre-existing, incredibly subtle quantum entanglements established by the pek between inhabited worlds of the galaxy. 

Figure 3. Etruscan space elevator by Gemini.

 Larthia Network. According to Gemini, when activated, those "quantum entanglement" relays allow for instantaneous information exchange along pre-established pek-engineered pathways. As part of this Decade in Review (DiR), I'm making use of AI-powered image generating software to make story illustrations.

 Oracle Matrons. Figure 1 (above) was generated by Gemini. I then used the image that is in Figure 1 as a reference image for Whisk (see Figure 2). I don't know if the free version of Gemini is using the latest version of Google's Imagen software, but Gemini currently provides larger, seemingly more detailed AI-generated images than does Whisk. The Gemini-generated text prompt for these "communications nodes" is shown below...

Figure 4. An Etruscan fusion reactor by Whisk.

"A vast, intricate structure, almost alive, situated in the deep vacuum of space. It's designed for quantum entanglement relays, not direct radio waves, so it doesn't have traditional dish antennas. Instead, it's a marvel of Pek-inspired biomimicry and Thirasian engineering.

The core of the node is a cluster of massive, crystalline structures, resembling impossibly huge, perfectly faceted geodes or abstract, blooming flowers made of dark, shimmering obsidian-ceramic composite. These crystals are not inert; they subtly glow with internal, pulsating light, shifting through deep blues, purples, and faint greens – the visual manifestation of the Pek-engineered quantum entanglement pathways being activated.

Figure 5. Enclosed Etruscan habitat by Whisk.

 Surrounding and connecting these central crystals are delicate, web-like arrays of ultra-thin filaments. These filaments aren't rigid metal; they appear to be composed of a self-assembling, biologically-derived meta-material, resembling glowing neural pathways or a cosmic root system. They extend outwards for kilometers, catching distant starlight and faintly reflecting it, creating a shimmering, almost ethereal presence against the blackness of space.

Small, sleek Thirasian maintenance drones, resembling stylized hummingbirds or iridescent insects, flit silently along the filaments, their own subtle bio-luminescence adding to the network's glow.

Figure 6. An Etruscan spaceship by Whisk.

 Larger, more robust Thirasian "Anchor" stations (small, self-sustaining habitats for the Oracle-Matrons and technical crew) are nestled among the crystals, their organic curves and integrated hydroponic gardens visible through transparent sections, hinting at the living aspect of the Thirasian Hegemony even in the void.

Figure 7. An Etruscan cargo spaceship by Whisk.

 The overall impression is one of immense scale, organic complexity, and profound silence. It's a structure that feels both ancient and incredibly advanced, a testament to a civilization that understands the universe not just as inert matter, but as a living, interconnected system. There's no harsh artificial lighting, only the internal glow of the crystals and the reflected starlight, making it appear as a natural part of the cosmic tapestry, humming with unseen energies." In addition to the "Larthia Interstellar Communications Network Node" (see Figure 1, above), other futuristic Etruscan technologies that were suggested by Gemini are illustrated in Figures 3 - 7.

Figure 8. Nyrtia updated by Mr. Wombo.

 Studying the First Reality. The first chapter of my science fiction story The Historical Archive is in the January 7, 2022 blog post called "R. Nyrtia". For The Historical Archive, I tried to have alternating chapters that were set in the First Reality and the Last Reality of Earth's Reality Chain. Chapter one is set in the Final Reality where Zeta (who is a Neanderthal) and Eddy (who is a tryp'At) are struggling to accommodate themselves to changes being made to their bodies by body-sculpting nanites. They are being allowed to regain some of their natural bodily features after living for decades in bodies that had been forced into conventional human form.

 The Origin of Time Travel. In Part 1 of The Historical Archive, Eddy meets Yrovi and Nyrtia (see Figure 8) and he is given access to a Reality Simulation System that allows him to study events in the First Reality.

Figure 9. Dodaqowż and Ursyña
faces updated by Mr. Wombo.

In Part 2 of The Historical Archive, Eddy is inside a Simulation of the First Reality. He arrives at a time that is 34,655 years after the events depicted in the first chapter of the novel Foundations of Eternity. If I cannot imagine what new technologies will appear 200 years in our future, then how did I depict a human society inside Eternity that has existed for millennia? The two key guiding backstory elements for The Historical Archive were 1) a telepathic positronic robot named Nahan had long been in complete control of the human society at the Eternity space-time bubble at the point in time when Eddy arrives and is given a chance to observe Nyrtia's first time travel mission. 2) The population of humans inside Eternity is quite small and has been completely cut-off from the bulk of Humanity that is on Earth. For thousands of years, Nahan has focused on one technological goal; finding a way to use time travel as a practical way of guiding Humanity to a better future. 

Figure 10. Nyrtia visits
    Earth. Generated by Whisk.

 Creating Temporal Momentum. The key technological challenge facing Nahan is discovering a means to defeat the "butterfly effect".

Nahan's efforts to tame the chaos of Reality Changes have centered on constructing a system that will endow Earth with Temporal Momentum. Towards that goal, Nahan has designed a new human variant called the Nyrturians. All of the Nyrturians were female (see). 

In Part 2 of The Historical Archive, two Nyrturians become central to the story and Nahan's goal: Dodaqowż and Ursyña (see Figure 9). For Figure 9, I tried to have WOMBO Dream capture a slightly-alien look for the Nyrturians and included in the text prompt: "exceptionally large eyes, a high forehead, a small chin, a narrow face with prominent cheek bones,  the pretty androgynous human has a long, narrow face". It is a challenge to get AI image generators to make convincing human variants.

Figure 11. First Science.
    Mostly generated by Whisk.
The alien humanoid's
face by Mr. Wombo.

The image shown in Figure 10 is meant to depict Nyrtia finally visiting Earth. The AI image generators have some strange way of depicting teleportation events (compare Figure 10 and Figure 17, below). The reference image from 2022 that was provided to Whisk is shown at the top of this blog post.

 Garden World Earth. In the Exode Saga, I imagine that the pek were working to make a human variant called the Prelands the dominant primate of Earth. The Prelands had been crafted so as to reproduce slowly, not be interested in science and technological advancement and eventually be willing to transcend from their biological form into the Hierion Domain where they could exist as artificial life-forms. The pek consider worlds such as Earth to be precious "Garden Worlds" that should be protected from damage by technologically immature and aggressive species. In The Historical Archive, it is mentioned that Eddy's analogue in the First Reality was a Preland.

The First Reality.

However, when the positronic robots of Earth took control of Eternity (as told in Foundations of Eternity) the pek plans for Earth and Humanity were derailed. Positronic robots including Nahan and Nyrtia set out to use time travel as a tool for crafting a future for the human species in which humans would have a great adventure spreading to millions of planets in the Galaxy.

When Eddy first meets Nyrtia inside the Simulation of the First Reality, Nyrtia is reluctant to believe that she is inside a Simulation. The Nyrtia of the Final Reality briefly shows herself to the Nyrtia of the First Reality. Nyrtia from the future says, "Don't be so stubborn, Nyny." 'Nyny' was Dewoy's pet name for Nyrtia. Nyrtia's sister Dewoy alone had used the name 'Nyny' ever since they were little children. Finally Nyrtia of the Final Reality begins to accept the idea of being inside a Simulation.

Figure 12. First Reality Robots. 
     Generated by Mr. Wombo.

 Positronic Robots. The meaning of "the historical archive" is introduced in Part 2 of the science fiction story The Historical Archive. Nahan is trying to build a detailed record of the past 30,000 years of history inside the Observer Base space-time bubble. Nahan plans to protect that historical record against being lost when time travel missions change the historical time line. In particular, Nahan plans to rescue R. Gohrlay, who died in the far past, creating a new time line in which R. Gohrlay is never killed and attains a type of immortality. The historical archive of Observer Base will be kept inside a special vault (what will become the Eternity time travel system), protected against the effects of changing the time line.

Figure 13. Kate Zakon. 
     Generated by Mr. Wombo.

Dodaqowż and Ursyña have been working with the scanning equipment that was part of the pek teleportation system at Observer base. They have been studying an ancient pek facility on Earth. 

Then after they meet, Nyrtia asks Dodaqowż and Ursyña for help with the data storage buffer in Nyrtia's time machine. Nyrtia is shown a new invention of the Nyrturians, a portable hierion generator. Nyrtia quickly discovers that a key pek technology, the sedron condenser, can be controlled by the hierion generator. Nyrtia announces, "This is the secret of time travel."

Figure 14. Kate Zakon. 
     Generated by Mr. Wombo.

 Kate Zakon? The reference image for Figures 12 - 14 is the 6th image on this blog page. As shown in Figure 14, some of the images that were generated by WOMBO Dream did not bother to put clothing on the woman who is shown in these scenes with robots. 

For some of the images that were generated by Mr. Wombo, her head was a mess and I had WOMBO Dream re-generate a better face using a text prompt that included, "Kate Jackson". In one of the WOMBO-generated images there was text: "akon" which I modified to "Zakon" (see Figure 13). 

More of these WOMBO-generated robot images are at the very bottom of this blog post.

Figure 15. Updated
by Mr. Wombo.

When R. Gohrlay used her telepathic abilities to take control of Observer Base ( see Foundations of Eternity), the many femtobot replicoids at Observer Base were all inactivated. In the time of R. Nyrtia, the data storage modules (sedron condensers) from those long "dead" replicoids are being used for new purposes, such as memory storage for robots like Nyrtia and for the "pattern buffer" in her time machine.

In Part 3 of The Historical Archive, after exactly 24 hours inside the First Reality Simulator, both the Editor and Yrovi were returned to where the Nyrtia from the Final Reality was waiting for them. R. Nahan has employed a series of Archivists who have endeavored to create the an archive of all the important information that has been accumulated inside Observer Base. A former Archivist was Qway, and Nyrtia adopted the bodily form of Qway by programing her femtobot components to take on that particular physical form. At the time of Eddy's visit to the First Reality, the current Archivist is Myum, the mother of Dodaqowż and Ursyña. 

Figure 16. Image updated
by Mr. Wombo. (reference image)

 Probots. Nyrtia tells Eddy, "Nahan designed the Nyrturians as a telepathic human variant. Each of them carried a device in their brain that provided them with a form of technology-assisted telepathy. The Nyrturians were a very early precursor to the Asterothropes." Nyrtia began her artificial life with Qway's childhood brain pattern and then lived with a human family while here brain developed and matured. Thus, Nyrtia was among the first probots, positronic robots instantiated in femtobot bodies that were able to go through developmental stages of brain growth. This provided Nyrtia with the cognitive flexibility to solve many technical problems while collaborating with biological Nyrturians such as Dodaqowż (a clone of Qway) and Ursyña. Nyrtia's invention of practical teleportation and time travel technologies that could be exploited by the positronic robots.

Figure 17. Teleportation.
    Image generated by Whisk.

 Educating Eddy. Eddy learns that Nyrtia's positronic brain circuits allowed her to utilize the Nyrturian method of telepathically linking shared orgasms as a means to enhance telepathic communication. Nyrtia explains to Eddy, "My first time travel trip only went back 34 thousand years and my goal was to get a look at a functioning teleportation device."

Figure 18. Brain design.
    Image generated by Whisk.

Part 4 of the science fiction story The Historical Archive is in a  January 15, 2022 blog post titled "A Visit to Earth". Inside the First Reality Simulation, Eddy and Nyrtia use Nyrtia's time machine to visit Earth. 

At the same time, Yrovi takes a First Reality positronic robot named R. Lynscot to the facility inside Observer Base where probots can be provided with the physical appearance of any of the past residents of Observer Base. R. Lynscot is programmed with the appearance of an Escapist from the far past, in the time when Gohrlay was alive. The AI-generated image that is shown in Figure 18 was made using a reference image from 2022 that is the third image in this blog post.

The Shape of Time.

In Part 5 of "The Historical Archive", Nyrtia makes a synapex linkage to Eddy and demonstrates that they can link their thoughts by means of a direct physical connection between their brains. The first use of synapex technology in the First Reality was for linking the nervous systems of Nyrturian mothers and their children.

Nyrtia also reveals to Eddy that Rylla is a "fixed point of time" who was a friend of Eddy's First Reality analogue, a Preland named Meppen. Nyrtia also admits that she has a selfish reason for having revealed herself to Eddy at this time. 

Nyrtia is re-configuring her brain so that she can use the version of the Bimanoid Interface that exists in the Final Reality for telepathy.

Figure 19. Creating Rylla.
    Image generated by Whisk.

 Telepathy Experiments with Rylla and Eddy. In Part 6 of the science fiction story The Historical Archive, Nyrtia continues her study of the Bimanoid Interface 2.0 by sending Eddy into a Simulation of Australia in the year 1814 as was described in the story Old Time Gaming. In that Simulation, Rylla has powerful telepathic abilities; she and Eddy can communicate telepathically. Nyrtia is there in the role of Liza so that she can gain experience with Bimanoid Interface 2.0. Nyrtia explains, "Manny the bumpha linked your two minds together in a way that I've never seen before. I want to find out how she did it."

While performing her telepathy experiments, Nyrtia is also preparing to make a copy of Rylla that Nyrtia will be able to deploy as her own agent as part of what Nyrtia describes as her "research team in the Final Reality Simulator". 

Figure 20. In the Buld Reality.
    Image generated by Whisk.

 Just before the Final Reality. In Part 7 of the science fiction story The Historical Archive, Nyrtia has assembled her team in preparation for a visit with last Ek'col on Earth in the Buld Reality, a woman named Gwen who is the analogue of Gwyned in the Buld Reality. Gwen is the daughter of Trysta Iwedon. As part of this mission into the Buld Reality Simulation, Nyrtia hopes to attract the attention of Grean the kac'hin. Nyrtia is having fun playing dress-up games and had dressed Zeta in a 1960s outfit with a too-tight t-shirt and a very skimpy miniskirt. While working on Earth as an Interventionist agent for Grean, Trysta Iwedon was using the name Tanny Lucyny in the Buld Reality.

In Part 8 of the science fiction story The Historical Archive, Eddy arrives inside the Buld Reality Simulation and meets Gwen. Gwen and Eddy instantly begin to interact telepathically. As an Ek'col-Asterothrope hybrid, Gwen can sense Eddy's thoughts and also telepathically manipulate his emotions. 

Figure 21a. Teleportation duplicates.

Grean is attracted by the presence of Nyrtia's team members inside the Buld Reality, and Grean soon arrives inside the Simulation. Nyrtia is able to completely access all of Grean's memories and she is surprised to learn that Manny the bumpha left a message for Nyrtia at another point in time, in ancient Sicily. 

Part 9 of the science fiction story The Historical Archive is in a  February 7, 2022 blog post called "The Isolates". An "isolate" is a person who for some reason has last their connection to the Bimanoid Interface, the system that was created as a means of providing Earth with Temporal Momentum. Nyrtia explains to Eddy that the sex hormone clytykynyn was a feature of Neanderthal biology: a telepathy-amplifying pheromone that was involved in pair-bonding between male and female Neanderthals. 

Figure 21b. Duplication.
    Image generated by Whisk.

Since Zeta is a Neanderthal, he should not be surprised that she responds to the clytykynyn that Eddy's body is now making. Back in the First Reality, Nahan made sure that the Nyrturians also used clytykynyn as part of their telepathic social system. 

 Teleportation Duplication. Nyrtia also tells Eddy, "I went back through time and made teleportation duplicates of the Escapists. Those teleporter scans could be used to fashion femtobot replicoid copies of the Escapists. Eventually, it became possible to engineer a momentum of time... after I figured out how to make the Bimanoid Interface."

 Duplication by Holography. The image that is shown in Figure 21a was used as a reference image for Whisk, resulting in the new AI-generated image that is shown in Figure 21b. Whisk interpreted the reference image as showing: "holographic version of the same female stands on a glowing blue circular platform, in a similar pose".

Figure 22. Synasyup.
    Image generated by Whisk.

Eddy learns that an Asterothrope named Synasyup from siteq was allowed to visit Earth. Nyrtia tells Eddy, "Qaz designed a ritual-filled society for siteq. Synasyup was one of the first residents of siteq to show an interest in science." Synasyup told Empedocles about nanotechnology, causing alterations to Earth's timeline. Now, Manny wants to meet Nyrtia at that point in time, Inside the Reality Simulation System.

In Part 10 of The Historical Archive, Eddy arrives inside a simulation of ancient Sicily where Empedocles (who, being a mutated isolate, lives disconnected from the Bimanoid Interface) and Synasyup (who is playing the role of an Earthling named Pausanias but who is actually an Asterothrope from Site Q) are in danger of derailing the course of human history.

Figure 23. Synasyup's infites.
    Image generated by Whisk.

When Eddy arrives in the past, he is "swapped" into the Simulation, substituting Eddy for the Interventionist agent who was previously seen in the role of "John Smith" in the story Old Time Gaming. 

Nyrtia has a chance to meet with Manny and she learns that after Alpha Gohrlay and Manny departed from Earth, Nyrtia was trapped inside the Reality Simulation System when Manny activated Bimanoid Interface 2.0 and merged the Bimanoid Interface into the Simulation System and linked it to the Sedron Domain. 

Now Nyrtia acts as a guardian of Earth, constrained to assist Humanity by her original programming as a positronic robot. Nyrtia provides Eddy with some infites and sends him out of the Simulated past of Sicily and back to his place in time in the Final Reality.

Figure 23. Synasyup's infites.
    Image generated by Whisk.

In Part 11 of The Historical Archive, Earth is at risk of drifting into dangerous patterns of technological developments. It will be Nyrtia's job to keep Humanity on track for a favorable future. Nyrtia will need helpers on Earth, and now Zeta and the Editor must contemplate the possibility of crafting a pair of telepathic twins who can work with Nyrtia to guide Humanity safely into the future. 

His time with Nyrtia inside the Reality Simulation System now complete, upon arriving back in his home, Zeta tells Eddy, "For the past week, Nora and I have been discussing you and making plans for the twins." During Eddy's time spent with Nyrtia insid ethe Simulation System, Manny explained to Zeta that Nora was sent to Earth carrying the genetic patterns that are needed for one of the two twins while Eddy and Zeta will provide the genetic material the other twin.

Figure 24. Synapex telepaths.
    Image generated by Whisk.

The immortal femtobot replicoid copy of Synasyup, who Eddy had met thousands of years ago in the Simulated past of Earth, now appears in the home of Eddy and Zeta. Now taking into his brain the infites that were provided to him by Nyrtia, Eddy realizes that the word "synapex" was named after Synasyup. Working to develop direct human-to-human nervous system linkages was one of the projects that Synasyup had worked on for Manny the bumpha. Eddy realizes that Synasyup's femtobot body carried the last quarter of the gene patterns that were needed for the creation of Zeta's two twins. As developing fetuses inside Zeta, these twins will grow with their nervous systems continuously linked to Zeta's nervous system and with occasional synapex links to Eddy.

The young daughter of Eddy and Zeta, Tihri, says, "Tā is fine." 'Tā' was a mangled version of the name of one of Zeta's twins (Beta) and Tihri's telepathic mind is like an antenna and she has received information from the twins in the future by way of the Sedron Time Stream.

Yōd is trapped in the Asimov Reality Simulation.
    Figure 25. This image was generated by Whisk.

In a February 7, 2022 blog post titles "The Nā́satyā Intervention" was Part 12 of the science fiction story The Historical Archive. Eddy speculates, "Back when time travel existed, it was a property of some sedrons to travel back through time. That created a sedronic record of all future time. I've long suspected that some telepaths like Angela Fersoni could tap into the sedron time stream." Eddy has not noticed that Synasyup has slipped them all into a Simulation of the Final Reality where the new twins will gestate at an accelerated rate relative to the normal passage of time in the Final Reality. Eddy has long lamented his inability of humans like himself and Yōd to voluntarily exit from Simulations.

Figure 26. Synapex telepaths.
    Image generated by Whisk.

In Part 13 of The Historical Archive, it is revealed to readers that Zeta's twins are being born crafted inside the Reality Simulation System. Nyrtia wants as helpers two powerful telepaths who will be able to influence the thoughts and behavior of humans on Earth, without them ever having to leave the confines of the Reality Simulation System.

Rylla reports to Eddy that an ancient story was found in the archives of the Writers Block, a "story" apparently written by Jorgia after she was removed from the home of Empedocles and replaced by Manny's immortal wondering Interventionist agent, 'John Smith'. Under the pen name 'Yanyky', Jorgia's story (which was written inside Observer Base) mentions 'Lucyny', apparently the Tanny Lucyny who Eddy had met inside a Simulation of 1960s Perth Australia and who was actually Trysta Iwedon the Asterothrope. 

Figure 27. Synapex telepaths.
    Image generated by Whisk.

Apparently, Jorgia grew up on Earth as a human being who had inherited large numbers of Ek'col and Kac'hin gene patterns from descendants of Ekcolir and Trysta.

In Part 13 of The Historical Archive, Eddy learns that it is possible to use the Reality Simulation System to make teleportation duplicates of people. Events in Part 13 have shifted back into the real world, but a copy of Eddy's home and the pregnant Zeta is still "running" at high speed inside the Simulation System. When a duplicate copy of Synasyup emerges from the Simulator, telepathic positive feedback develops between the two copies of Synasyup that are now together in Eddy's home. 

The biological Zeta who is in the Final Reality learns that she is also pregnant, but will never again give birth. The organism that is growing inside her will remain inside her and provide a way for Zeta to telepathically communicate to the twins who are inside the Simulator.

In Part 14 of The Historical Archive, Eddy returns to Perth Australia in the 1960s in search of Zeta's clone sister, Gamma.

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