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The Technology of Trailokya – Access Grid

June 9, 2017 By Captain Maiel

In April of this year, I wrote about the technology of Mirror Gates, but all of the articles on Trailokyan technology tie together through what I term the access grid. The concept of this grid is important to understanding how the world works inside the books. This helps to ground the tech outside of the fantastical elements, such as the creatures and characters readers will encounter. After all, this series is considered science fiction (and not just because little green men show up in it).

The access grid is a wireless interface of both information and energy. Tesla’s free energy project would be the closest invention to what is happening here. From the narrative, readers will gather that this energy is clean from the environmental state of Zion, which is pristine. You might ask, but what about when these characters or creatures cross into other planes? Most devices would have a reserve battery life, which charges back up when they return within the range of the free energy. In addition, the duta installed a power grid in Samsara, of which only they can make use. Accessing it would require an authorized interface (which could be keyed on your atman, or another piece of technology).

Why would they use such technology? If you consider how humanity is evolving their technology, this is a logical progression. In Zion, it is of no cost to the inhabitants as it is abundant and cheaply made. In Samsara, the scarcity of resources make production a little more costly, but the Zion economy is not based on profit, but instead based on service and need.

How do the inhabitants make use of this technology? As mentioned above, those with access will be keyed in via their atman or another device. Much like the internet, that key has levels of access based on who you are and what your clearance would be. For instance, in the first book, we observe Maiel opening a gate by raising her hand to the air. At her finger tips appears a dial. She sets the coordinates of her destination via this dial. For Samsara, the dial looks like an astrological chart. The dial for Zion resembles the 4th seal of Venus, an alchemical talisman. Each plane has its own dial.

It’s important to note that danava cannot access the grid. Their atman and devices are blocked. In order to hack the system, they’d need to be in Zion. The Samsaran grid is not connected to the one in Zion, being its own animal. They have developed other means of entering from Jahannam. Before a hole gets poked into this, realize that danava are burned down duta. Those who designed or worked on the grid in Zion, could be among the fallen. Rebuilding a grid would take time, but it has been thousands of years since the Conflict. Obviously their grid is a cheap ripoff, due to the lack of authentic resources. Unlike the Zion grid, it requires the dark energy of a danava to activate it.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this blog series. Come back for more Trailokya Fridays to learn more about characters and places, as well as the companion on Wattpad.

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The Technology of Trailokya – The Records of Akash

May 19, 2017 By Captain Maiel

In August of 2016, another article covered the Library of Akash where the records of Zion are housed. Some records, those that are active, can be found in the smaller libraries of the orders in which the guardians charged with their upkeep and protection are located. The records mostly contain the dharma of souls or duta. Some records pertain to administration, history, research, and the like.

The technology of record keeping appears to be low tech, but is far from it. While one may observe guardians scrawling the tales of their assigns in the pages of a journal book, there is much more going on. The journals, when entries are made, take the handwritten words and turn them into clear type. This keeps the entries legible for everyone. The journals have leafs like any other book, but are essentially computer archives. Diagrams, illustrations, and other visual items become image files, some of which may be video. Such items are downloaded from the guardian’s penannular or lifted from the atman’s memory core and copied into the record.

The point of having guardians maintain the record is to achieve accuracy in the record. Guardians care very much for their assigns, but will not falsify a record on their behalf. Indeed, there are instances where this might happen, but the council to which the guardian reports and with which the assign plans their dharma reviews the record. Any inconsistencies or falsifications will be found and dealt with as appropriate.

Once a soul or duta rise, the journal for that section of their path will be turned over to the Sisters of Akash for their safekeeping. The record can be accessed at any time by the council or guardian who worked on the dharma, as well as the atman in question (person who rose). Under special circumstances, the council may send an outside operative to review the record. In these cases, Watchers are employed.

The records of Akash, as well as the unfinished dharmic records, can be compared with the past via the Akash kapalanum. This device is another way in which historical records are maintained. It downloads the records from the journals as well as the atman to which that record belongs. Inconsistencies will create an error notification that is sent to the council. The journal would not be corrected, although the kapalanum record would be corrected as soon as the issue is found. In the journal, the incorrect information would be moved to an endnote and the record corrected after an inquest.

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The Technology of Trailokya – Mirror Gates

April 14, 2017 By Captain Maiel

In the narrative of The Shadow Soul, the reader will encounter mirrors several times, and with it the inclination that they are more than just reflective surfaces. This is not to suggest that a mirror isn’t just a mirror, but rather that sometimes, on rare occasions, they are windows, if not portals to other places. Last year, I wrote about the way gates and the various shapes they take. In this installment of The Technology of Trailokya, I will talk more specifically about mirror gates.

Mirrors have long been held as portals by the superstitious. It is believed that you should cover all the mirrors in a home where a loved one passes away immediately, as not to allow their spirit to get trapped. In the film, Prince of Darkness, the demons possessing the researchers try to use mirrors to bring forth the devil. There are ghost stories about repeating a spirit’s name into the mirror thrice to call them to you. Houses of mirrors are unusually disturbing to our senses, perhaps because of these cultural myths. Still, there is a reluctance to stare too long that percolates from the depths of our minds. Mirrors can be utterly chilling. Perhaps there is something to the folklore after all?

Jahannam’s legions, even their most powerful, do not seem capable of using mirrors as gates in the way that duta do. Even Belial fails to come past the surface, using them as a means to scry and spy on those he has set his sights upon. Is it the prince of Acheron making Dominic think he has succumbed to the burning, or are those really flames in the human’s eyes?

For duta, mirrors are especially useful. They can use them to watch over assigns, or as ways to get around. Unlike other gates, mirrors are usually a dedicated pair. One part of the set will be placed in one location, and the other at the desired destination. The must be installed by specialized units of Watchers. Not just any mirror will do. They would be programmed and linked within the safety of the cloisters (more to come on that place later this month). This is done to guarantee that they are not tainted by jahannam’s hordes. A warding helps protect them and keep them disguised from the danava’s will to evil and senses.

If a mirror is discovered by a shadowalker, it is possible for them to physically destroy the reflective surface that is used as a gate. They are not strong enough to make it work. At least, no sustained effort has resulted in more than being able to use it as a spying source. This is fairly quickly detected when it happens, and the system shutdown. Watchers will be dispatched to destroy the piece. If it was used to keep watch of an assign, another solution will take the mirror’s place. Once a location a means is compromised, the tactic cannot be used again, as a matter of good military stratagem.

Some mirrors are equipped with an accessible interface that allows duta to calibrate them to other locations. Mirrors with this feature are interconnected. These would be guarded, not just warded, to maintain their usefulness. They are the most rare of this kind of gate. Danava would be wise to avoid trying to compromise them, but they tend to not make the wisest of choices, following instincts fed by rage.

What would you look for if you wanted to find a mirror gate? Generally speaking, they would be tall. Age is not an indication of likelihood. There may be an etching in an unrecognizable language on the frame. They feel unusually cold to the touch. A deep sense of unease is had around the mirror, and an avoidance to gaze into it for any length beyond necessary. It’s hanging somewhere that is out of the way of pedestrian traffic, and is either near a major hub or quite out of the way of one. The device might also hang in the proximity of a person with curious abilities. It’s far too unlikely your bedroom or bathroom mirror is one.

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The Technology of Trailokya – Direct and Indirect Interfaces

March 10, 2017 By Captain Maiel

In other editions of The Technology of Trailokya, I’ve covered transportation, weapons and armor, Bio Interface Machines, the Kapalanum, Zion’s gates, Communications and the Penannular. Hopefully those articles both whet your appetite and deepened your experience of the series. Let’s continue now with direct and indirect interfaces.

Both souls and duta will encounter incarnations during the course of their dharma. An incarnation is simply put, coming to live a life as a being in Samsara. For instance, a soul may choose to lead a human life to explore the uniqueness of being a researcher, a soldier, or mother. These are things that can be experienced to an extent in Zion, but they don’t come with many of the complications that one encounters in Samsara. The adversity faced sharpens the mind and strengthens the atman.

How a soul or duta undergo this process is through writing a contract via their assigned guardian, and with the approval of their alder committee. All contracts will interlace with the dharma of other planned incarnations. The contract is a promise to fulfill the dharma agreed upon. With success of fulfilling the contract comes growth. Failure to fulfill the contracted dharma, even partially, can lead to another’s failure and thus weakens all involved, but mostly the one who causes the deficit. In many cases, this leads to further incarnations and delays the rising of the atman involved. This is why some beliefs speak of reincarnation and karma.

In order to incarnate, an atman will chose to directly or indirectly interface with a bio-vessel on the Samsaran world of their choosing. A bio-vessel is also called a bio-interface machine, and is a biological host which the atman possesses for an agreed upon length of time, in order to fulfill the contract. Attributes are decided in the contract, as well as the BIMs that will create the new machine.

A direct interface takes place when the atman is placed within the bio-vessel. They are never discovered because upon death they vacate back to Zion (think of spooky theory). They also are not a solid object, as we understand in Samsara, but an energy field, which the vessel camouflages while attached. The danger of this connection is that Jahannam’s soldier are able to detect these atman and can steal them. Instead of just leaving a husk, these dark beings often take up a rudimentary connection in the bio-vessel and use for nefarious ends. This occurrence has developed a universal notion of spirit possession among Samsaran cultures. Because incarnated beings don’t recall their roots in Zion, the phenomena came to be explained in fantastical ways, and often has even more fantastical remedies. Despite this problem, this is the most common of interfaces undertaken, and why guardians are necessary.

Indirect interface is exactly how it sounds. The atman will be connected via lines (wireless connectivity) completed by the muses of Otzar who watch over their incarnated charges. Drawing of the lines puts the sattva into a trance, as the consciousness is completely focused on the distant bio-vessel. This interface is safe for any atman incarnating and is the preferred manner for duta and higher resonating souls. The likelihood of their atman being damaged is mitigated to nearly zero. Guardians are still dispatched to watch over the incarnation, as they both protect and bear witness. When an indirect interface is prematurely cut, the atman will break its trance and wake, just as if it were ending its contract. The guardian will either return, or attempt to recover the bio-vessel. This is dependent on the necessity of the dharma attached. In some cases, a stronger atman will step in to finish the contract, as the danava (Jahannam’s soldiers) have been roused to attention and will remain tenacious for the sake of it.

Keep in mind that this is a less than scientific explanation of the process, to maintain the readers understanding of such strange concepts. Return next Friday for more about The Trailokya Trilogy.

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The Technology of Trailokya – Communication

February 10, 2017 By Captain Maiel

In other editions of The Technology of Trailokya, I’ve covered transportation, weapons and armor, Bio Interface Machines, the Kapalanum, Zion’s gates, and the Penannular. Hopefully those articles both whet your appetite and deepened your experience of the series. Let’s continue now with communications.

Communications can mean anything from telephones to actual linguistics. Getting bogged down in the languages of the series feels a little superfluous. The duta do have their own language, which gave rise to the no longer spoken Sanskrit of southern Asia on Earth. Aside from them, the other soul races highlighted in the series would also have their own dialects and languages. For this installment, however, let’s talk about just technology, as the title focuses us there.

Managing a large scale offense or defense requires communication with military and other protective forces maintaining the borders. Zion has a clear hierarchy over which information is dispersed. The King deliberates with his council, and Metatron communicates with the highest authority in each department to disseminate the decisions and information that will be sent forward. For instance, Metatron may go to Ganesha to apprise the Alders of information critical to their function, and/or got to General Michael to brief his forces on those aspects that affect the general’s section of the military.

In some cases, the written word is still very much in use in Zion. Not only would the sharing of messages in this manner be commonplace, but there are artists and scribes who produce their work via the written word as well. In this way, communications are achieved in the same way as on Earth. That would include both electronic and manual formats.

The scrolls and books in which soul dharma (life paths, experiences, and so on) are cataloged are seemingly analog in nature, but the records are echoed in the kapalanums clearly suggesting that there is some form of electronic transfer from the paper to the fonts. Why not? Humans are developing such electronic paper to make the taking of notes and writing of ideas more easily and quickly transferred into electronic formats, alleviating the need to type up at a later time.

Troops and guardians in the field are kept in the loop via messengers and cellular like devices they can use to call in to commanders or request assistance. This cellular like device is connected to the multi-functional penannular. Like your i-Phone, the penannular has apps that control its functions and make them accessible to the wearer. The interface on the device does not reflect your usual cellular device, because it is tied into the thought waves of the owner. A mere touch wakes the from stasis and thought commands the action required. It’s fast and effective.

Electronic communications take mere seconds to travel cross dimension or other distances, which is in line with the physics of atoms. They appear and disappear in various locations at will. The dimensions being interlaced, so to speak, allows for the connectivity to work quite well, as if it were all just one great dimension (picture Russian Nesting Dolls).

As with transportation, there are historical enthusiasts who treasure the technologies of communications that have evolved on the various Samsaran planets inhabited by the many soul races that occupy them. One might see a display of telephones in the Akash records.

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