"Eddy Watson" is a fictional character who appears as a character in many science fiction stories that can be read here at this blog. Eddy and his daughter (see Figure 1), Tyhry, are also characters in a rare story that is not present in finished form on this blog, "The Nanite Smuggler", although there is an account here of how that story was created in early 2024 as a collaboration with the Claude and Gemini Large Language Models. You can read and download "The Nanite Smuggler" from this Google Docs page.
Below on this page is a video introduction to "The Nanite Smuggler" that began its existence with another video, a NotebookLM-generted video that is shown here. For this new video, I used most of the NotebookLM artwork in my new video along with images that were generated by other text-to-image utilities such as WOMBO Dream.
Part way through this video (above) you can probably hear commentary by a cat who does not like it when humans speak to computers.
Two femtobot replicoid copies of Tyhry who have adopted the pointed ears that are characteristic of the tryp'At.
Who is Eddy? For the first forty years of his life, Eddy seemed to be a normal resident of planet Earth. Then strange ideas began to pop into Eddy's mind, arriving from unknown sources. Eddy could only interpret those intruding ideas as content for science fiction stories (example). Eventually, Eddy realized that those "stories" were built upon fact, what Eddy began thinking of as "The Secret History of Humanity".
Infites. Eddy finally realized that his "story ideas" were reaching him by means of infites (information nanites), a form of nanotechnology that could insert new memories directly into his brain, independent of sensory experience. Eddy began thinking of himself as "the Editor", someone who could take the experiences of others (as recorded in the infites) and put them into written accounts of The Secret History of Humanity.
Figure 2. Zeta the Neanderthal meets Eddy the tryp'At.
The tryp'At. With time, Eddy realized that he was not a normal resident of planet Earth. Eddy began to suspect that he was, genetically, a genetically-engineered human variant called the tryp'At. At about the same time, it was revealed to Eddy that his wife was a hybrid: 50% Neanderthal and 50% modern human. Of course, these revelations had implications for Eddy's daughter, Tyhry, even if developmental control nanites had been used to shape the entire Watson family into body forms that hid the tryp'At and Neanderthal gene patterns.
Not wanting to have his family become the subject of medical and anthropological investigations, Eddy took down his blog, removing all of his old stories from public view. However, versions of some of Eddy's stories could still be found at other websites such as the wikifiction blog and the Dead Widowers.
Figure 3. A depiction of Eddy and Zeta generated by Gemini.
When Tyhry was born, both Eddy and Zeta were in their 60s, although their bodies were aging only slowly due to the presence of alien medical nanites in their bodies (see Figure 3). The text of "The Nanite Smuggler" describes how Tyhry obtained advanced alien nanites and programmed them to revert the effects of aging on the bodies of Eddy and Zeta. Figure 1 shows Eddy when he is in his 80s, after having been rejuvenated by those medical nanites.
Casanay. Hoping to avoid publicity, Eddy and Zeta reside at Casanay, a home in the wilderness of the high desert Southwest where Eddy makes use of the Reality Simulation System that was provided by Manny the bumpha. The Reality Simulation System uses advanced bumpha technology to provide Eddy with access to information about the past Realities of Deep Time.
The beating heart of Casanay is its great room, the large centrally-located space where Eddy keeps an old desktop computer from the previous millennium that functions as the control system for the Reality Simulation System.
Figure 4. Yōd and the Gohrlay clones. Image generated by WOMBO Dream.
The name "Eddy" was first used here at this blog in a March 1st 2022 blog post titled "Travelers Aid". While on a research mission inside the Asimov Reality Simulation, Eddy used the name "Eddy Torus", a name that his travel companion, Yōd, described as a "bull shit name" that he could use while inside the Simulation.
Yōd is one of the clone sisters of Zeta. The original biological template for Zeta and Yōd was a human-Neanderthal hybrid woman named Gohrlay who lived in the First Reality.
Fred Torus. One thing led to another and in a story titled "The Frenchyhysur Process" there was a role for Fred Torus, the brother of Eddy. Another character in that story was Anthony, a positronic robot in Alastor Cluster.
Ekcolir Reality Simulation. Eddy has devoted much effort to exploring the Asimov Reality Simulation in search of the origins of human telepathic variants like the tryp'At. However, not all of the stories featuring Eddy as a character are set in the Asimov Reality. The March 2022 story "Edison's Endosymbiont Experiments" depicts Eddy on an historical research mission inside a Simulation of the Ekcolir Reality.
Tyhry, Marda and Rylla.
Rylla. In the Ekcolir Reality, there was an attempt by Interventionists to accelerate the pace of technological advancement in preparation for the arrival of the alien Fru'wu on Earth in the 1950s. "Edison's Endosymbiont Experiments" is a story told by Rylla Onway. When I first started including Rylla in some of my science fiction stories, I toyed with the idea that Rylla would take over from Eddy the task of creating a written account of The Secret History of Humanity. However, so far I have not found a way to remove Eddy from Earth, so Rylla is depicted as being Eddy's collaborator who lives in Australia and sometimes visits Casanay.
Rylla was informally adopted (the origins of Rylla) by Eddy and Zeta, so Tyhry and Rylla are often described as being sisters. Soon after Tyhry and Marda were born, it became evident that they shared a telepathic linkage. Tyhry and Marda were designed as mind clones (see Figure 5): they each have one half of their cerebral cortex that is essentially identical to that corresponding half of the other's brain. This allows them to easily establish a telepathic resonance and share their thoughts with each other.
Rylla's daughter, Marda Onway, onboard the spaceship Sedrover.
As shown in Figure 5, at birth Tyhry was given the name "Tihri" which is "Irhit" spelled backwards. Irhit was the analogue of Eddy in a previous Reality. Later, when it was discovered that the tryp'At favor use of the letter 'y' over the letter 'i', Tyhry officially changed her name to 'Tyhry'. As a tryp'At, Eddy theoretically should have telepathic abilities, but having been subjected to the influence of developmental control nanites, Eddy grew up without the ability to telepathically link to other people on Earth.
Sedron Time Stream. In the April 1st 2022 blog post titled "Alys of Aloysyus", Eddy is depicted as suspecting that he can receive information from the future by way of the Sedron Time Stream. In particular, Rylla's grandson, Brak (see Figure 5) can send information to Eddy from the future. In many of my science fiction stories that feature Eddy and Tyhry, Marda travels from Australia to Casanay, sometimes with her son Brak in tow.
My May 15th 2022 blog post titled "G-syms for G-world" has Part 3 of a science fiction story "The Cythyrya Investigation". Eddy is able to receive information from thousands of years in the future, originating from a woman named Rytya. Part 4 of The Cythyrya Investigation did arrive until July of 2025 in a blog post titled "Pantechnyk". Eddy learned about femtozoans, nanite-based artificial life-forms that can reside inside the zeptite endosymbiont of a human being.
The Far Future. In Part 5 of The Cythyrya Investigation, Eddy learns about the existence of a science fiction story titled "Contact With Alien Telepaths" that includes a character named Tyhry (at this time, 'Tyhry' is still using her original name, 'Tihri'. In that story, Tyhry is depicted as a femtobot replicoid who has lived far into the future of the galaxy to a time when humans have spread to many habitable planets. Tyhry of the far future gets help from Rytya to send information to the past via the Sedron Time Stream.
In some of my science fiction stories, Eddy is depicted as having additional children who are siblings of Tyhry. A strange case is Zeta's child named 'Gamma' who has impressive telepathic abilities in utero but then Gamma is never born. The biological components of Gamma's body regressed and she become a telepathic endosymbiont that resided inside Zeta's body (see Figure 7) as an embroid.
Gamma had a small part in the science fiction story "Someday Mars", using her telepathic powers to communicate with others. As described in "City on the Edge of Tomorrow", Gamma was telepathically linked to Tyhry while Tyhry was developing as a fetus, which helped develop Tyhry's telepathic abilities.
Early in 2023 I has a lot of fun writing a story titled Echo of Cynym. I imagined that the story was written by Rylla, but the story itself involved a visit by Eddy to Alastor 2672, a planet which the telepathic natives, the Stateorea, call Dethevicinelec. Dethevicinelec was one of the planets in Alastor Cluster where an effort was made to genetically engineer telepathic humans, an hermaphroditic human variant called the Chyntos. Arriving on Dethevicinelec, Eddy is met by Bisop, a positronic robot. However, Eddy's mind is being 'attacked' by the Stateorea. In Echo of Cynym, Eddy is depicted as being a constant transmitter of telepathic signals and that annoys the Stateorea.
For his visit to Dethevicinelec, Eddy put a lot of effort into depicting himself as Dr. Edward Lyster, a biologist. Eddy is told that he must allow the Stateorea to alter his brain and reduce his constant emission of telepathic noise.
The Hua. Early in 2023 I wrote a story titled "The Hua Nanites" which featured 1) Tyhry sneaking around restrictions imposed by Eddy on her use of the Reality Simulation System, 2) Tyhry trying to obtain alien nanites and 3) use of the Sedron Time Stream. All three of these story elements ended ip being incorporated in "The Nanite Smuggler".
The events of "The Hua Nanites" are set shortly before the planned Watson family vacation that is depicted in "The Nanite Smuggler". The story did not actually get written until early 2024 (soon after Bard became Gemini and I began using Claude), but in early 2023 I began experimenting with AI-generated images and chatbot and I wondered if it might someday become possible to get help from a chatbot to write a science fiction story.
Too Early. I began trying to create "The Nanite Smuggler" in April of 2023 when I got access to Bard, the early form of Gemini. In April, I introduced both Bard and ChatGPT to the Eddy and the other major characters in Scene 1 of the story, but both chatbots were handicapped by small context windows.
Back in April of 2023, ChatGPT quickly forgot what I had told it about characters like Eddy and plot elements in "The Nanite Smuggler". Here in April 2026, the chatbots have better memories and the text-to-image software programs are also much better. Figure 8 shows that it is now easy to edit images with text prompts such as: "Alter the skin tone of the woman to change the color of her skin to the color of the normal human skin color of a blond woman."
2024. While Eddy eventually took down his blog, some stories about Eddy feature people who try to find Eddy. For example, "City on the Edge of Tomorrow" features a woman named Naseh who is part of a UFO cult called the Alien Research Network. Members of the ASN all believed they carried alien genes. Naseh had was familiar with Eddy's blog and she had moved to Arizona as part of an on-going effort to find Tyhry's father, Eddy.
In my science fiction story "Vythoth the Chresmoscopist", Tyhry realizes that Anthony can use his telepathic abilities and/or memory editing nanites to make Eddy forget things he has seen and learned.
Figure 10. This diagram was modified from the original version shown here.
A rather detailed account of why Anthony came to reside at Casanay is provided in my science fiction story Vythoth the Chresmoscopist. Anthony was tasked with helping to erase all traces of Eddy's writings about the Secret History of Humanity that Eddy had previously placed on the internet.
In addition to Anthony, other characters in some of my science fiction stories have been depicted as having been brought out of the Reality Simulation System and instantiated in the Final Reality as femtobot replicoids. There was one such character (Onky) in Echo of Cynym and other named Rey, who is in another a science fiction story called The Nanites of Love. Rey lived at Casanay for several years and helped raise Tyhry, then moved to Australia to assist Marda in caring for her many children.
Part 1 of The Nanites of Love was posted to this blog in September of 2021 and it depicted Eddy as preparing to use the Reality Simulation system to visit the planet Mothyng in Alastor Cluster, rumored to be a place where the residents had large numbers of Asterothrope gene patterns. However, Eddy unexpectedly receives a mysterious email that contains coordinates for a destination in the Reality Simulation System.
Part 2 of The Nanites of Love did not arrive until September of 2022. Eddy meets his daughter Carrin (see Figure 10) inside a Simulation. Part 3 of The Nanites of Love was posted to this blog in January of 2025. It is revealed to Eddy that Carrin's grandmother was Trysta Iwedon, an Asterothrope. Eddy mixing his tryp'At genes with Asterothrope gene patterns was all part of Manny the bumpha's plan for creating the the first full human telepath on Earth, Brak. However, Eddy's memories of his role in that process was erased.
When Eddy begins recovering his blocked memories, he realizes that his life has been shaped and guided by a mysterious telepathic Interventionist named Jymzy. Jymzy goes with Eddy to the Simulation of the planet Mothyng and explains to him some of the efforts that were made in the Asimov Reality to provide Asterothrope genes to humans in an attempt to make humans who had telepathic abilities. Jymzy claims to have found on Mothyng the last of the genes needed to craft Brak.
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