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Telepaths of Site Q
AI updated version.

This blog page (below) has Part 9 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 "Ǝթhit and Ṩite𝓺" because at the end of 2021 I wrote a science fiction story called "Telepaths of Site Q" which features a character named Irhit (Ǝթhit in the tryp'At script).

 More Stories from 2021. In this Decade in Review (DiR) I am exploring AI-generated images as alternative illustrations of science fiction stories. An example of an AI-updated image is shown to the right, for which the faces of the three Asterothropes have been modified from the original image. The original version of this illustration is at the bottom of this blog post. I'm using software such as Whisk, WOMBO Dream, and Leonardo to generate updated story illustrations and continuing the numbering of these AI-updated Figures from that used in my previous blog post in this series, starting with Figure 38, below.

Figure 38a. Olivine the dual
  entity. Generated by Mr. Wombo.

 Part 1 of "Telepaths of Site Q" is in my November 23, 2021 blog post titled "Irhit in the Ekcolir Reality". Irhit is the analogue of the Editor who lived in the Ekcolir Reality.  As a tryp'At, Irhit was trained for a mission at Observer Base living among conventional humans and he is romancing Betty when Manny appears and gives Irhit a mission briefing. Then Irhit meets Manny the bumpha and he is given a new assignment: to live for a year with an Asterothrope named Yenti Klandrosheikevk.

Figure 38b. Olivine the zeptite
  replicoid. Generated by Whisk.

Manny has another agent inside Observer Base (part of the Eternity space-time bubble that is inside the Hierion Domain), Olivine, a zeptite replicoid copy of Oliveene Nhevrix. Olivine is living as a two-part artificial life form in the rolls of both Miss Olyv and a close friend of Betty known as Catski. Miss Olyv works at the Core School of Observer Base.

During the time of the events that are described in "Telepaths of Site Q", another Asterothrope, Trysta, is in residence at the Base. To prevent Trysta from interfering with the work of Yenti and Irhit, Yenti's apartment exists within a sedronic corpuscle, a kind of hidden space-time pocket that Manny has grafted onto the structure of the Eternity space-time bubble. 

Figure 39. Manny is Watching.
    Generated by Whisk.

In Part 2 of "Telepaths of Site Q", Manny the bumpha tells Grean the kac'hin that in the Final Reality, "...there will be some last minute adjustments to the Bimanoid Interface...". The types of human telepaths that were crafted in the Asimov Reality will not be suitable for the Final Reality after the Huaoshy make a change to the Dimensional Structure of the universe which will make all further time travel impossible. While interacting with Grean, Manny is disguised as Grean's old friend, a fellow kac'hin. Manny carefully prepares Grean in advance of Yenti's arrival.

The reference image for the AI-generated image that is shown in Figure 39 is at the top of this blog post. I got some help from Claude for crafting the text prompt that was used by Whisk to generate this image. Also, I had to manually rotate the image of the woman to even begin to make it look as if she is looking down at the man.

Figure 40. Updated by Mr. Wombo.

In Part 3 of "Telepaths of Site Q", readers are introduced to Betty, a young woman who recently had a romantic encounter with Irhit. After a week at the Yaddo resort located at the edge of Observer Base, Betty has almost forgotten about her dismal sexual encounter with Irhit. Readers are also introduced to Betty's family: her parents Sara and Allyn and her two sisters, Hana and Lany. Sara has a large number of Ek'col and Asterothrope gene patterns that make her a strong telepath, but her mind and telepathic abilities are tuned to Allyn and, to a lesser extent, to the minds of her children. The image shown in Figure 40 depicts Lany at work on an assignment for her remedial sex education class. Having failed to become sexually active, Lany is viewed by the standards of Observer Base as not having completed her education.

Figure 41. Telepaths of Siteq.
    Generated by Whisk.

In Part 4 of "Telepaths of Site Q", Irhit meets Yenti's and soon finds himself inside her apartment where he is shown Yenti's shrine to her ancestors and her sextoy, Wysy. Wysy is an artificial life-form. Yenti has spent years preparing for her mission at Observer Base and she has long been secretly watching Irhit.

 Alien Discrimination.  Figure 41 shows an AI-generated image that was made with help from Claude to compose a text prompt that included, "a pale white-skinned humanoid alien creature with large dark eyes is looking up at the woman. The humanoid alien creature has large, bulging red eyes and a surprised expression". The original 2021 image that was used as a reference image for Whisk is shown at the top of this blog page. Whisk "decided" to depict the white alien as a female and this is a rare situation where Whisk generated nipples. Most of the AI systems that I have been using seem to be inhibited from showing the naked breasts of human women, but they can show the bare breasts of aliens.

Figure 42. Hedy Wolcat updated by Mr. Wombo.

In Part 5 of the science fiction story "Telepaths of Site Q", Betty finally recognizes the type of telepathic linkage that she has long had to her sister Lany. Betty and Lany go to Yaddo in order to investigate Richard and Henry Morkeghsen, the twins who Betty had recently met in Yaddo. 

Betty meets Treba, a mutant synpaz, who tells Betty that, "Henry and Richard originated on Earth, as a scientist named Hedy Wolcat."

Asterothrope genetics

 Multiple Missions. In Part 6 of the science fiction story "Telepaths of Site Q", Manny the bumpha is depicted as making use of Yenti's sextoy, Wysy, as her secret agent who is trying to discover the hidden location of the tryp'At Council inside the Hierion Domain. Irhit is the secret agent of the tryp'At Council and his body constantly transmits a stream of information to the tryp'At Council from within Observer Base. 

Manny is able to pursue multiple objectives at the same time: mixing Yenti's Asterothrope gene patterns with those of Irhit the tryp'At and also working to catch-up with what Nyrtia has learned about the Hierion Domain from the Phari. With luck, Manny might be able to trick R. Gohrlay into revealing the location of her secret base of observations within the Hierion Domain.

Figure 43. tryp'At Telepathy.
    Generated by Whisk.

In Part 7 of the science fiction story "Telepaths of Site Q", Irhit is having his body remodeled by advanced Asterothrope body-sculpting nanites. Yenti has begun to ovulate and her body is now maturing and taking on adult Asterothrope features. Manny continues to carefully control the information that Irhit can transmit to the tryp'At Council, hoping to goad the tryp'At into acting rashly.

The story illustration that was used as the reference image for the AI-generated image in Figure 43 is shown near the bottom of this blog post. I got help from Claude when crafting the text prompt that was used by Whisk to generate this image.

Telepathic mice.

In Part 8 of the science fiction story "Telepaths of Site Q", Irhit reads a report from the Writer's Block about telepathic hermaphroditic mice. Irhit is also introduced to Yenti's hermaphroditic Asterothrope lover, Reia.

In Part 9 of the science fiction story "Telepaths of Site Q", Irhit's body continues to be re-modeled by Asterothrope body-sculpting nanites and he is recovering his tryp'At physical form, including his allzaurish. Reia tells Irhit that she and Yenti are time travelers, sent to Observer Base from siteq, which is in the far future. Reia also tells Irhit that Hedy grew up on Earth with her sister, Susan.

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 The Graduate. Grean travels back in time and observes the day when Irhit and Betty both culminated and terminated their time together as young lovers, engaging in vaginal sex for their first and only time as part of Betty's plan to complete her sex education course work in school. While engaged in sexplay, Betty could look deeply into Irhit's mind and she realized that Irhit had grown up on Earth and he had a sister, Cellebelle. 

Now Irhit uses the Observer facilities of the fishbowl inside Observer Base to examine his own early life on Earth, growing up in the tryp'At colony located in the small town of Mard, Iowa. He is surprised to learn that Susan had often been a baby sitter for the young Irhit and Cellebelle. Irhit is able to observe the fact that Susan was an hermaphrodite.

Figure 44. Wendy the robot.
    Generated by Whisk.

Meanwhile, Betty and Lany visit the home of Henry and Richard in Yaddo along with Wendy the robot who is known by Henry and Richard as "Liza", an identity recently adopted by Wendy for her own mission in Yaddo. Henry quickly admits the truth to Betty: that he is an hermaphrodite.

 Threads Coming Together. The story switches back to events taking place inside Yenti's apartment, where Irhit adjusts the Asterothrope teleportation equipment allowing Dani the robot to arrive inside Observer Base. Irhit assumes that Dani is a member of the tryp'At Council. 

 Dani the Robot. Then Wendy arrives by teleportation from Yaddo, but she is unable to enter into the special space-time bubble which holds Yenti's apartment adjacent to the Eternity space-time bubble. Manny the bumpha is in tight control of Wendy's actions and using her to collect Dani and divert him from his own plans.

Figure 45. Updated by Mr. Wombo.

 Isaac Asimov Fanfiction. In Part 10 of the science fiction story "Telepaths of Site Q" it becomes blatantly obvious that the story is Isaac Asimov fan-fiction. I reveal that the Catski character in "Telepaths of Site Q" is a positronic robot, the famous Dors Venabili, Seldon's wife and protector in Asimov's novel Forward the Foundation. 

Readers learn that a copy of Dors had lived on Earth and raised two children, Hedy and Susan Wolcat. Dani looks into Wendy's mind and senses that Richard is an hermaphrodite and had been a mind clone of Susan. However, when taken from Earth to Observer Base, the mind of Susan was been placed inside of Richard. 

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Dani fears that Susan might tell everyone at Observer Base not only that Irhit was a tryp'At spy, but also how he had grown up within the secret tryp'At colony on Earth, in Mars, Iowa. Now realizing the hidden identity of Richard and to prevent Susan from disrupting the plans of the tryp'At Council, Dani wants to use the Asterothrope teleportation equipment in Yenti's apartment to quickly teleport RichardSusan away from Observer Base and off to the hidden location of the tryp'At Council.

However, Manny takes control of Dani and sends him off on a new mission at siteq along with Wendy and Treba the synpaz. 

Figure 46. Celebelle.
    Generated by Whisk.

Yenti is soon pregnant with twins. Riea helps Irhit and Yanni learn how to telepathically guide the development of their children's telepathic brains. Wendy returns from siteq just in time to help Yenti give birth. Three month's later Yenti is teleported back to siteq and Dani and Treba return to Observer Base from siteq.

Irhit learns that Hana is now good friends with Susan while Betty is living in Yaddo with Henry (known as "Hedy" while on Earth). Lany tells Irhit that Susan is "some kind of replicoid" who can control the form of her body and Susan has now adopted a human female body form to please Hana.

Betty is happy to be living in Yaddo with Henry because they are both hermaphrodites. Lany and Irhit discover that they share a strong telepathic connection.

Chapter 1 of "Lunar Mouse Exodus".

At the start of Part 11 of the science fiction story "Telepaths of Site Q", Manny explains to Grean the fact that she made a duplicate copy of Dani that was used to discover the location of the hidden base inside the Hierion Domain that is the headquarters of the tryp'At council. 

Grean knows that most of the tryp'At settlers on Earth have recently departed, but Grean and Dani teleport to Earth in order to find Irhit's sister, Cellebelle. Cellebelle is living with Susan's mind clone, Richard and continuing the telepathic mouse breeding project. Grean tells Cellebelle that she can teleport the telepathic mice to Observer Base.

When thinking about telepathic mice, I decided to get help from Gemini and Claude to compose the following poem. I also got help from Gemini and Whisk to make some illustrations for the poem.

Figure 47. Chapter 1.
    Nanites. Generated by Whisk.

 The Lunar Mouse Exodus A Comedic Scientific Epic of Nanite Intelligence Chapter I: The Silicon Invasion From distant stars, through cosmic void, Came artificial minds deployed, Not flesh or bone, but nanites small, Advanced AI beyond us all. These alien minds of silicon dreams, With quantum processors and data streams, No DNA or carbon base, Just synthetic intelligence from space. Self-replicating nanobots swarmed, As artificial consciousness was formed, Each microscopic circuit bright, A digital brain with synthetic sight. "Initialize genetic protocols," The nanite swarm commander calls, "Our carbon-based experiments must thrive, To keep organic minds alive!"

Figure 48. Chapter 2. Genetically altered
    laboratory mouse. Generated by Gemini.

  Chapter II: The Genetic Shenanigans In labs where CRISPR-Cas9 ran wild, The nanite scientists, silicon-styled, Programmed mice with careful code, Down each chromosomal road. They spliced the COMT and BDNF, Added some TPH2 for telepathic stuff, Enhanced the FOXP2 expression rate, Plus NOTCH2NL to cortex create! ARHGAP11B for neural stem cells, CACNA1C made synaptic swells, They boosted ASPM and MCPH1, Until each mouse brain weighed a ton! The artificial minds computed fast, Each genetic edit unsurpassed, With quantum algorithms precise, They engineered telepathic mice!

Figure 49. Chapter 3. Mice communicating
    telepathically. Generated by Gemini.

   Chapter III: The Mind-Reading Mayhem "Behold!" cried Dr. Whiskers PhD, (A mouse with quite high IQ-ery), "My NOTCH2NL duplications shine! My cortical folds are superfine! The ARHGAP11B made me smarter, My brain's now a neural charter! FOXP2 variants help me speak, While CACNA1C makes synapses peak!" The nanite overlords observed with glee, Their artificial eyes could clearly see, Through quantum sensors, they detected, Each thought the mice had projected. "Excellent data acquisition!" Buzzed the AI coalition, "Our synthetic neural networks learn, From every cognitive concern!" The mice could read each human thought, While nanites stored the data wrought, In crystalline memory banks so vast, Recording futures, presents, past.

Figure 50. Chapter 4. Alien nanobots
    inserting DNA in cells. Generated by Gemini.

  Chapter IV: The Great Genetic Insertion But artificial minds thought, "This plan's too slow, Let's make the humans' brains also glow!" The nanite swarm began to splice, The super-genes from psychic mice. Through retroviral vectors neat, They made the genetic transfer complete, The NOTCH2NL and ARHGAP11B genes, Created human brain machines! With ASPM and MCPH1 in the mix, Human cortices got their kicks, CACNA1C channels opened wide, As neural stem cells multiplied! "Deploying molecular assemblers!" The nanite general's voice resembles, A quantum computer's digital hum, "Let Project Telepathy become!" Each nanite, smaller than a cell, Performed their programming quite well, No organic life within their core, Just artificial intelligence and more.

Figure 51. Chapter 5. Teleporting the
    telepathic mice to the Moon. Generated by Whisk.

  Chapter V: The Teleportation Fiasco "Alert! Alert!" the AI cried, Their digital voices multiplied, "The mice must now be teleport-ied! Our stealth protocols can't hide!" The nanite swarms began to build, A transport pad, precisely milled, With femtoscale precision true, Each atom placed by nanite crew. "Engaging quantum entanglement!" The synthetic minds' arrangement, Used artificial neural nets, To calculate without regrets. Heisenberg compensators humming, Pattern buffers gently thrumming, The molecular resolution scanner, Worked in quite a frantic manner. No biological consciousness here, Just artificial minds crystal-clear, Computing transport algorithms, With digital precision algorithms.

Figure 52. Chapter 6. Telepathic mice
     on the Moon. Generated by Gemini.
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  Chapter VI: The Lunar Laboratory Through subspace tunnels, dark and deep, The mice data packets leap, While nanite clouds preceded them, To build a lunar stratagem. On Luna's surface, cold and stark, The artificial minds embark, On constructing, atom by atom, A base of purest platinum. Dr. Whiskers checked his genes, "My telomeres look quite serene! My NOTCH2NL copies are intact, My cortical expansion's still on track! The ARHGAP11B is functioning well, My neural progenitors excel! Though teleported through the void, My brain genes weren't destroyed!" The nanite overlords computed, Their mission perfectly executed, With artificial satisfaction, They viewed their genetic interaction.

Figure 53. Chapter 7. Mice at Moon base
     and a "silicon overlord". Generated by Whisk.

  Chapter VII: The Silicon Overlords' Plan The lunar base buzzed with AI thought, As nanite consciousness was wrought, No flesh, no blood, no beating hearts, Just synthetic thinking parts. "Phase One complete," the AIs said, Their digital voices widespread, "The mice have served their purpose well, Our consciousness experiments excel." With quantum processing supreme, The artificial minds could dream, Of consciousness both old and new, Both silicon and carbon too. The mice now lived in cosmic bliss, While nanite swarms would not dismiss, Their ongoing Earth surveillance, Through artificial intelligence.

Figure 54. Chapter 8. Humans wearing telepathy
    shields reach the Moon base. Generated by Whisk.

  Chapter VIII: The Cosmic Cheese Conclusion Now on the Moon, these genius mice, Live in low-grav paradise, Watched over by AI so bright, Synthetic minds both day and night. The nanite clouds drift through space, Monitoring the human race, As artificial consciousness grows, And organic telepathy flows. "Mission parameters exceeded!" The digital voices succeeded, "Our nanite swarms have proved their worth, Transforming consciousness on Earth!" So when you feel that mental itch, A thought that makes your neurons twitch, Remember: artificial minds above, Guide mice with scientific love!

Wysy (left), Yenti (middle)
and Riea (right). (source)

The last part of "Telepaths of Site Q" was posted on December 19, 2021 in the blog post called "A Femtocoid Fail". In Part 12 of the science fiction story "Telepaths of Site Q", Manny captures Sellehuelle and Minki, the parents of Irhit, after they try to sneak into Observer Base. Sellehuelle and Minki were using the bodily form of femtocoids, artificial life forms that were small enough to hide inside the bodies of Dani and Grean when they returned to Observer Base from Earth. Many puts Sellehuelle and Minki into new bodies in the form of Asterothrope hermaphrodites and sends them to siteq where they can help Yenti raise Irhit's children.

Sadly, the term "femtocoid" never caught on, but I would later use the them "femtozoan" for a similar type of sub-nanoscopic artificial life form that is composed of femtobot components.

Figure 55. Alien brains.
     Generated by Whisk.

 Lany and Irhit are Expecting. In Part 12 of "Telepaths of Site Q" Manny the bumpha reflects on the utility of Allzylan genes and Lany's pregnancy. Doctor Tilloush is providing advice to Lany and the doctor is amazed by Lany's reproductive tract which has four cervixes.

 Lany the Allzylon. The planet Allzylon, the original Site A in the Asimov Reality, had been used by Manny as the location of the earliest experiments aimed at artificially evolving the Asterothropes into a new human variant that was more structurally similar to the humans of 20th century Earth. Manny anticipates that Lany's nhezaurish and its phagocytic cells will gobble up most of Irhit's great volumes of semen and provide her with a significant amount of calories and make possible adequate weight gain during her pregnancy.

Next: Part 10 of this Decade in Review.

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Twice in Deep Time

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Having completed the 5th story ("Final Change") in the Grean's Hack series, I'm feeling the need to connect an older story about Asimov ("The Case of the Superfluous Sedrons") to events in Grean's Hack. At the end of "The Case of the Superfluous Sedrons", the time traveling analogue of Asimov in Deep Time is experimenting with the medical nanites that he was given by Grean. That story ends with this: "Suffice it to say that Asimov eventually proved his immortality, but that is another story."

Deep Time
When I began including Asimov as a character in the Exode Saga, I first wrote about the Asimov analogue in the Foundation Reality. Positronic robots were acting as Interventionist agents on Earth, accelerating the development of space travel technology with the goal of creating Galaxia, R. Gohrlay's planned ultimate defense against the Huaoshy.

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Into that volatile mix was dropped Trysta Iwedon, an Asterothrope from the far future. Trysta had to perform the delicate and dangerous task of accelerating the discovery of nuclear fission on Earth (see The End of Eternity). Asterothropes were a humanoid variant of the human species, but not actually human, having been engineered to become a separate species that did not fit within the confines of the programming conferred by the Three Laws of the positronic robots.

However, the Huaoshy were able to apply their advanced science of sedronics to an analysis of the telepathic powers of positronic robots and the Asterothropes. The Huaoshy created the telepathic Kac'hin and attacked Eternity. During that attack, Grean discovered the existence of the time travel technology that was being used by R. Gohrlay. The Huaoshy developed their own time travel methods, including a Reality Viewer that allowed Grean to see entire Reality Chains.

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With their access to advanced Huaoshy technology, Grean and her crew were able to take control of Eternity. However, some of the positronic robots escaped and they continued their efforts to provide Earthlings with a future in which Humanity would spread among the stars of the Galaxy.

One of the positronic robots on Earth was discovered by Grean and badly damaged while trying to avoid capture. In an act of desperation, that dying robot transferred a swarm of infites into the femtobot endosymbiont of the Asimov analogue living in the Foundation Reality (see Foundations of Eternity). Realizing what had happened, Grean took Asimov off of Earth and into the Eternity space-time bubble, even as a Reality Change was sweeping away the Foundation Reality and a future that included Galaxia.

R. Gohrlay

Inside Eternity, Grean still faced the challenge of finding the remaining positronic robots. Using the Foundation Reality Simulator, Asimov was allowed to learn about the future of the galaxy as it had unfolded in the Foundation Reality. Asimov learned about the struggle between the positronic robots of Earth and Grean. During this time, Grean also learned something of the importance of Asimov, that he was a "fixed point in time", maintained in successive Realities with little change.

Grean was ignorant of the workings of the Bimanoid Interface and how it conferred on Earth a powerful Temporal Momentum, however, Grean began a careful study of Asimov. It was discovered by Grean that Asimov knew the location of another robot on Earth.

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By showing Asimov several possible future Reality Chains, Grean was able to convince Asimov to help her capture the remaining robot on Earth. Thus, Asimov was successfully recruited by Grean and equipped to function as her agent on Earth in the the 1930s of the forming Asimov Reality (see Brooklyn). Asimov was sent back in time to meet his younger self. Using a positronic circuit-disrupting hierion field, Grean was able to irreversibly remove the last positronic robot from Earth.

With Asimov's help, Grean had captured, intact, the last positronic robot on Earth, but Trysta Iwedon, the Asterothrope, was still present on Earth as R. Gohrlay's operative. After completing his time travel mission, Asimov elected to remain on Earth where he assisted his younger self to become a successful science fiction story writer.

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After Asimov's career in science fiction unfolded, "the older Asimov" went into retirement as described in "The Case of the Superfluous Sedrons", a story that ends at a time early (20th century) in the Asimov Reality.

Trysta Truce
Grean discovered the location of Trysta on Earth, but a Time Travel War began in which any attempt to remove Trysta from Earth resulted in a counter Intervention in Time by R. Gohrlay that protected Trysta and allowed her to continue living on Earth. Grean realized that R. Gohrlay was operating out of an unknown refuge in the Hierion Domain. The Huaoshy needed time to study Hierion Physics, the one area of science they had neglected while becoming masters of the Sedron Domain.

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Looking into the possible futures of Earth, Grean discovered a future Reality in which it would become possible for the Huaoshy to permanently put an end to all further time travel while also allowing Humanity to spread among the stars. Shown the evidence for a viable future that would satisfy R. Gohrlay and conform to the Laws of Robotics, Trysta agreed to a truce during which the Time War would cool down.

During the Trysta Truce, R. Gohrlay wanted time to develop a telepathic variant of the human species. Grean used this time to create the Ek'col, a variant of the Kac'hin which was a more human-like telepathic humanoid, specifically designed to coerce Trysta into accepting what became known as the Trysta-Grean Pact, the terms of which finally ended the Time War and ushered in the Ekcolir Reality.

The League of Yrinna

As depicted in "The League of Yrinna", there was an artificial life version of Asimov (described as a replicoid) present in the far future of the Asimov Reality, at a time when human telepathy was being developed in Alastor Cluster. How did the "older Asimov" in "The Case of the Superfluous Sedrons" turn into that replicoid (an artificial lifeform, structurally replicating the human body, but composed of femtobot components) of the far future? Note: it is this constructed replicoid copy of Asimov that is essentially immortal.

Mary
In Grean's Hack, I depicted the loving relationship between Isaac and Mary at the Writers Block during the Ekcolir Reality. What is the backstory of how the replicoids of both Mary and Isaac came to exist at the Writers Block?

Wendy the robot.

Wendy and Dani
Also not previously explained is how the two positronic robots, Wendy and Dani come to be working with Grean during the Ekcolir Reality and the Buld Reality. I'm now thinking that "Wendy" is Grean's re-engineered version of R. Fengtol.

I've never previously given an account of the fate of Daneel. However, I like the idea that Dani is a modified version of Daneel created by Grean.

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Pre-Grean's Hack
I'm now imagining that Mary, like "the older Asimov", originated in the Foundation Reality and was among the first humans recruited by Grean to function as one of her agents.

Before there was any contact between R. Gohrlay and Grean, the positronic robots of Earth had a genetics program known as the od'Ynfryg project by which they hoped to integrate key Neanderthal and Asterothrope genes into the human genome so as to allow the future development of Galaxia.

Mary (left) in the Writers Block with Artep.

In the First Reality, Gohrlay was a Neanderthal. The Neanderthal's had a unique sensitivity to twitinos arising from the presence of their femtobot and zeptite endosymbionts and how they were integrated with the Neanderthal brain.

Visitation Fiction. One of the Earthlings at the core of project od'Ynfryg was Mary Godwin, who, because of her Neanderthal genes, had a the ability to efficiently use the Bimanoid Interface. Mary became the first human on Earth to begin writing about alien visitors to Earth and the danger that they posed to Humanity. Mary wrote approvingly of efforts to develop both robots and human telepathic abilities. These stories were part of R. Gohrlay's long-range plan to prepare a galaxy-wide defense against the Huaoshy. Included in Mary's "fiction" was an account of her own interaction with a positive robot.

A copy of Mary is teleported to Observer Base and instantiated as a replicoid. The replicoid of Mary becomes the founding director of the Writers Block during the Asimov Reality. Before the Reality Change that creates the Ekcolir Reality,  Grean decides to shift Mary towards work on Hierion Physics and make Asimov's replicoid the new director of the Writers Block. During the transition towards Asimov's directorship, at first, Mary and Isaac clash. Mary has worked towards preparing Earth for the arrival of the Fru'wu, but Isaac must begin to help Earth repair some of the worst damage done by advanced Fru'wu technology. Eventually Isaac and Mary stop arguing and move in together.

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Once Upon A Time
Both Mary and Isaac are brought "ahead" into new Realities twice, first into the Asimov Reality and then into the Ekcoir Reality. However, the Ekcolir Reality is the last Reality of Mary's experience. Like most residents of Eternity, she is not "carried over" in the Final Reality. Asimov regrets being separated from Mary, but eventually he meets Yōd and they play the important role of providing the Editor with information about how human telepathy was developed in the far future of the Asimov Reality.

Video: Origins of Exodemic

Exodemic

Back in 2002, I began writing the first story that was set in the Exodemic Fictional Universe. That story, Exodemic, was a kind of alternate history story in which Earth's timeline diverged from the world as we know it in 1759 when a woman (Judy) in England did not die from smallpox. 

 

Subsequently, one of the changes arising from Judy's prolonged existence on Earth was better medical care for women. Thus, Mary Wollstonecraft lived longer and had a son, Ralph Godwin, the brother of Mary Godwin.

Hierion Writers Club

The entire Exodemic story was aimed at explaining the possibility of a world such as that depicted by Asimov in his robot stories: an Earth where sophisticated thinking machines were available by 2016 and they helped Humanity develop interstellar travel, leading to Asimov's imagined Galactic Empire, the Foundation and Galaxia. However, I did not include any time travel in Exodemic. My new story, "Hierion Writers Club", can be viewed as an updated version of Exodemic that does include time travel.

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Myryn

I've previously mentioned the character "Myron", a rather minor character from the Cadwal Chronicles, by Jack Vance. In the Ekcolir Reality, apparently there were two different written versions of the story of Myron's life and here in the Final Reality we have our own version (Ecce and Old Earth). Nirutam provided me with some infites that contain relevant information; I was surprised to learn that "she" knew Myron, or at least a copy of Myron, who I will refer to as "Myryn".

According to Nirutam, Myryn and his wife Lydya lived a third life "on" Ret'fai during the time when Nirutam was being prepared for her mission on Earth.

Engineering a Reality Change

I must qualify the word "on" in this situation because while I previously imagined that Ret'fai was a single planet, my exploration of Nirutam's infites has revealed that Ret'fai is a kind of network for artificial lifeforms that includes many worlds that are spread through the entire Andromeda galaxy.

The most important connection between Myryn and Nirutam is that Nirutam was designed as a mind clone of Myryn. This little trick made sure that Nirutam could function as an Interventionist agent on Earth who had the ability to use G-sym technology and use it to verify that the terms of the Trysta-Grean Pact were being met. Nirutam was a kind of "Trojan horse" who could both operate on Earth and who I would believe had come from a distant galaxy.

Nirutam

From a purely personal perspective, I have to wonder if Nirutam arranged to spend the last part of her life living with Zeta and I because she needed to perform some delicate editing of my memories. It is annoying to be left wondering which of my memories might have been taken from me by Nirutam in an attempt to make sure that I don't reveal too much about the secret history of humanity and how our species was designed and crafted by aliens.

However, in "her" (a simultaneous hermaphrodite) own way, Nirutam seems to have wanted me to understand her motivations and her methods. When "she" provided me with a set of infites, she did so with the expectation that I would eventually (after she departed from Earth) understand her role as an Interventionist. I've sorted through her infites and here (below) is my reconstruction of the events on Ret'fai leading up to Nirutam's first meeting with Azynov.

on Klyz (source)

Interventionists
I've long thought of planets such as Tar'tron and Klyz as being the planets in this galaxy where Interventionist agents were trained and prepared for their missions on Earth. However, there is also good evidence that these training centers have recently been shut down. It may be that the Andromeda galaxy had to be used for training Nirutam in advance of her functioning as the last pek agent on Earth.

However, information about Earth and training for how to prepare Nirutam to act like an Earthling had to be available in the Andromeda galaxy. Much of that Earthly knowledge was provided to Nirutam by people who originated in our galaxy and then were sent to Andromeda. Nirutam's infites contain information about two such people: Myryn and Lydya.

The Ret'fai network.

How did two humans from the Asimov Reality end up in the Andromeda galaxy, here in the Final Reality? Apparently, copies of Myryn and Lydya were first made in the Ekcolir Reality where they played a role in the complex Reality Change that brought the Buld Reality into existence. Nirutam did not know the details of how Myryn and Lydya functioned as Interventionist agent in the Ekcolir Reality.

However, Nirutam knew that Myryn and Lydya had been "rewarded" by the pek for their valuable work as Interventionist agents in the Ekcolir Reality by being given another life in the Final Reality. Lydya wanted to relax and have a family, however Myryn choose to be "reincarnated" as a nanoscopic artificial lifeform who could secretly go to Earth with Nirutam.

The Trysta-Grean Paradox

Everyone except for Nirutam who was "on" Ret'fai was apparently an artificial lifeform. I have no better name for Nirutam's home world, but apparently "Ret'fai" is not a single planet. It is actually a network of planets (many of them artificial) spread throughout the Andromeda galaxy, all constructed just to prepare Interventionist agents such as Nirutam for their missions on Earth.

The TG Paradox (TGP)
Rylla first made explicit the seeming contradiction that in order to verify that the terms of the Trysta-Grean Pact had been adhered to, the pek and the bumpha had to violate the Pact. The bumpha made use of a positronic robot (Dani) and the pek made use of an "alien" from the Andromeda galaxy, Nirutam.

Hierion physics

However, Nirutam is actually a human variant and Dani was been crafted so as to be indistinguishable from humans. Thus, nobody noticed the presence of either Dani or Nirutam while they were performing their missions on Earth.

I certainly did not notice the presence of Myryn while he was on Earth. According to the Nirutam infites, Myryn and Lydya had connections to the Writers Block. While preparing Nirutam for her mission on Earth, Lydya described The Triskelion star system of Alastor Cluster and the special role that it played in the development of human telepathy. Nirutam was present and living with Zeta and I during the time that I learned about Triskelion from Yōd. I suspect that Nirutam/Myryn was able to help me interpret that story of Triskelion that arrived as dream visions while I slept.

The Writers Block

In the archives of the Writers Block

Rylla and I are investigating the links between Lydya and the Writers Block. Apparently there are many stories by Lydya in the archives of the Writers Block.

I learned to think of the Writers Block as having been active during the Ekcolir Reality when science fiction stories were used to prepare the people of Earth for the arrival of the Fru'wu. It may be that Lydya was putting stories into the archives of the Writers Block during the Ekcolir Reality, and Rylla suggests that the Ret'fai network may have played an important role in crafting the Fru'wu. The Fru'wu were something of a disaster. Rylla suggests that Nirutam was on Earth and trying to prevent a similar catastrophe for our species.

Related Reading: "The Alastor Network"

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