Psionics, Eternal inflation & the All-Mothers pocket universe.
Added 2025-01-03 21:53:48 +0000 UTCI’ve decided that I’m going to create a new pinned post soon collecting all of the Infographics together, but I figured I’d carry on posting the individual pages like this so that people don’t miss the updates. Here’s the latest entry in that series, I’m going to be carrying on with this theme to discuss how Over-Father “powers” work, then we’ll be hopping over to some different material like the fall of the Yarkeenian empire and their battle against their own super intelligent AI emperor that caused it.
To read the previous posts in this series of infographics, start here:
Part one: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cosmological-118302220?
Part two: https://www.patreon.com/posts/slow-nero-118427387?
Part three: https://www.patreon.com/posts/hell-flux-118841242?
Part four: https://www.patreon.com/posts/elan-vana-118906527?
Part five: https://www.patreon.com/posts/ljos-aese-118953298?
Part six: https://www.patreon.com/posts/world-tree-119147496?
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I did think about it further: since consciousness in this universe is explicitly tied to psionic energy you could anchor a conscious construct to a pattern of gravitational waves and fling that into a wormhole through the LJOS. Speed is not well defined in the inflationary model, but if one can exceed the relative speed of light in one realm one should be able to access its inflationary shock front. At that point you could initiate nucleation of a false vacuum in the AESE higher energy universe using the inter dimensional properties of gravity and produce a new big bang with its own version of a World Tree. You might even be able to tweak the physical properties of the resultan tree/wheel/stack of realities to where it produces different fundamental properties to the rest of the multiverse/forest.
Incomplete Machine
2025-01-13 06:04:40 +0000 UTCDamn dude that’s a really good point!
Callum Diggle
2025-01-11 07:56:31 +0000 UTCWell light speed can be exceeded in this universe which creates an interesting situation at the inflationary edge where you could exceed the expansion rate of one universe (the REAL lets say) by travelling in another (the LJOS for instance). It's not necessarily a plot-hole because it won't come up in the comic, but it's fun brain candyfloss XD
Incomplete Machine
2025-01-09 22:21:50 +0000 UTCThe way I think about it is like this, The emitters act like the psionic nodes in an Over-father’s suit, the All-Mother uses them to amplify her Psionic signal and spread it over the REAL. She exists in a pocket universe which, even if you managed to destroy all the hundreds of thousands of emitters, would still exist, albeit cut off somewhat. I’ll make a section clarifying this. The way to think about the central emitter is like a WiFi router, whereas the minor emitters are like wireless repeaters, Over-fathers act like miniature WiFi extenders spreading the mesh even further and in this analogy the All-Mother is of course the internet. This might sound odd, but each unique spacetime, like the REAL and the FLUX and the VANA, so on… do not have their “own” World Tree, they are connected via it. they have the shape of the World Tree impressed upon them gravitationally because it is a meta-universal structure, it transcends all layers of reality and exists outside of it, it’s beyond our comprehension. Damn dude now you’re getting out there haha, to do that though they’d have to be at the edge of the REAL on the cusp of the High energy Multiversal space that surrounds our universe, it’s truly beyond me how they’d do that because they’d run into Zenos paradox again with inflating space.
Callum Diggle
2025-01-09 08:45:01 +0000 UTCThat’s exactly right! Bubble universes exist off in the distance, bubble universes are all on the same “layer” of reality but are layered between the alternate universes which exist on different planes of reality which also occupy the same relative points in space.
Callum Diggle
2025-01-09 08:26:09 +0000 UTCNot quite, but you’re on the right track. The problem with that plan is that the Over-Fathers would still be around and they’d find a way to allow her back through. There is a solution and it involved destroying her at the source using Belfast, but I won’t spoil the details of that here, that’s going to be discussed at Deicides meeting with the Tandraxian high council at the start of volume 3.
Callum Diggle
2025-01-09 08:18:23 +0000 UTCOh GOSH why? Edit: oh 🤦🏻♂️ I just realised what you meant 😂
Callum Diggle
2025-01-09 08:13:47 +0000 UTCI’m not, no, I’m just a dude who likes to ask the big questions in life and that leads me down some strange rabbit holes where I pick up a few things
Callum Diggle
2025-01-09 08:13:31 +0000 UTCOne thing that's interesting about the pocket dimension that the AM is using is that it seems to require anchoring in more than one place in our universe in order to extend her influence; like it needs to also be physically present in some kind of coterminous way with whatever local spacetime she's trying to contact (if I'm understanding this correctly). She doesn't have an entire unique spacetime to mess around with, her bubble isn't its own 'world tree'. I wonder if any species has ever been able to snag a newly forming bubble-verse and use it for its own purposes. That would make them a Type IV on the Kardashev scale so i cant imagine they'd have any baring on our little galaxy, but its fun to think about.
Incomplete Machine
2025-01-09 01:21:06 +0000 UTCso the series is going to end with them blowing up the central emitter and trapping her in the artificial universe right
Zoë Lovelock
2025-01-07 18:20:17 +0000 UTCYou a quantum physicist?
Omar Molotov
2025-01-05 17:30:09 +0000 UTCbro PLEASE don't call it inflation i am BEGGING YOU
Elijah Overland
2025-01-04 23:25:07 +0000 UTCOk so a bubble universe could be considered Universe similar to our own while alternative universe is what makes each bubble universe work right?
inakidragoirigoyen
2025-01-04 14:21:04 +0000 UTCSounds like a plan! Yeah, I kinda figured after saying that covering the station may be a little redundant. Learning about the man would be fun though!
Alien Person
2025-01-04 13:06:49 +0000 UTCThanks so much mate, it means a lot! I can certainly put an infographic together on Janudua, oh you mean the station! Perhaps not the station, I think enough has been said on how it came together in the baron Janudua’s little monologue at the start of issue 9. What I’ll do is I’ll create an infographic on Janudua the man, it’ll cover his rise to power, the Kolaxan-Conglomerate war and it’ll end with a section on the creation of Janudua station.
Callum Diggle
2025-01-04 13:03:39 +0000 UTCHaha lots of lore and more on the way! I appreciate it Davide 🙌🏻 thanks mate.
Callum Diggle
2025-01-04 08:18:53 +0000 UTCIt’s the other way around, each bubble universe is connected to nine other alternate universes via its World Tree.
Callum Diggle
2025-01-04 08:18:04 +0000 UTCCheers mate! 🙌🏻
Callum Diggle
2025-01-04 08:14:17 +0000 UTCinteresting...
Mantarok1205
2025-01-04 00:24:18 +0000 UTCSo does each alternative universe has its own bubble universe or I am incorrect in that aspect?
inakidragoirigoyen
2025-01-03 22:47:24 +0000 UTCSo much lore, all the design are superb!
Davide
2025-01-03 22:26:30 +0000 UTCIt's so satisfying to see how fleshed out the different universes in this setting are, I commend your dedication for striking the perfect balance between story telling and worldbuilding through the comic medium! I wondered, will there be some kind of infographic or text dump or something in-between issues discussing janudua, perhaps it's history and/or the engineering aspects in a single cohesive page? I totally get if not since it's sufficiently described in the issues themselves and you already have so much on your plate with the other infographics as is
Alien Person
2025-01-03 22:25:38 +0000 UTC
