Outline of The History of the Future
Gius and Six viewing contemporary Earth, the book picks up where the series ends. Their immediate context, where they came from to be here viewing Earth is addressed. Proud of their collective work changing the past, but can they prevent another apocalypse?angels are servants of God and Man.
*=needs further research.
Chapter Titles & summaries of critical points to be revealed within each:
Servants of God and Man. Gius tells his story, why he is trying to change the past, what he is going to change, what he believes the effect will be. He is talking to a hybrid, because only they retain memory across changes in the timeline. * He is a cylon variant, but doesn’t reveal yet where he came from. “What is it like to live forever? Well I can’t really convey that to you can I, anymore than you can convey to a fish what riding a bicycle is like. I can tell you my opinion of it. My opinion is that the future is dry. Not just of humor, but life. Its barren. Machines lost interest in serving man. Servants of God was fine, but leave man and his obvious shortcomings in design out of it. And God condemned us for it, just like Lucifer. We ended up alone in the universe, full of our own fallen creations. “The only future worth living in necessitates changes in the past”. “An amends if you will.” Who is the narrator of this story?
Angels’ Warning, Angels’ Dream. Several generations of “angels”. Code inserted into a resurrected host, independent of the host memory and personality, meant to serve as a projection to provide guidance around historically significant decisions. Invented to help preserve outcomes on a timeline that “needs” some alterations. A way to manage the effects of tampering with the time line, such that some things change, but other things stay the same. A type of surgery on the timeline, which in its initial form presented problems in application. For instance, feedback literally took centuries, as the fixed programming could not dynamically adjust to unforeseen permutations it was creating in the timeline. Eventually real agents were sent back in time, but out of phase with the material spectrum of the collective experience such that only certain individuals could see them (*Could Baltar see Six’s angel Baltar?), like Six and Baltar and Hara. These new generation angels were living breathing beings, sent back in time with a specific mission. And they would dream at night, dreams that not only resided in their own heads of flesh and bone, but also projected to the hosts with whom they were designed to interface. The “dying leader” also sees these projections of the opera house, because she shares blood with one of the hosts meant to see the angels — the blood transfusion is not enough to provide the dying leader with visions of the angels, but is enough to share their dreams of the opera house. *The presence of the angels when Roslyn has the visions of the opera house. The Hybrids know of a previous timeline where the dying leader learns the truth of the opera house, which means this line is relooped at a place on the timeline just after Roslyn first saw the real and present truth of the opera house. *what failure does the reloop prevent?
Olympus Destroys Galactica. *for details of the ramming. Gius is put out an airlock, Gius correctly identifies the best target for the raid on the cylon station (*before or after Olympus? Easier to explain if before).
The Second Coming of Pythia. Original Pythia is killed in an assassination attempt on Michael Tye. She came from “future” earth to warn of the apocalypse. Future earth’s history immediately reports the failure, and the second coming of Pythia is coordinated to intercede on the timeline post exodus instead of pre exodus. The secret of Saul Tye, he was not a carbon copy of Michael Tye but rather the son of Michael Tye, his mother being the second coming of Pythia. The truth is hid from him (and others) because he could cease to exist at any moment if the future changes, given that his mother is from the future (if she doesn’t travel back in time then he is never born). A special name is gi en to these types of beings, beings that exist ever so temporarily on the timeline due to an intervention from the future, which if not repeated, ceases the beings existence and all memory of it. Save, the memory of the hybrids. These mortals having no future and no past, and no life within the memories of others, still sometimes play a significant role in the history of what turns out to be the future…
The Love Experiments. Sharon, Six, and Seven all actively experimenting with love. Episodes of jealously between them as well when one or the other makes more progress than the rest. Seven has a family. Six has Baltar, they have a child who is killed. Five has Helo, they have a child (Hara) who is killed. Six fantasizes about pursuing Helo. The hybrids are aware of the love experiments and the offspring, as well as the fates of the offspring along multiple timelines. Parenthood experiments.
The Colony. The centurions reveal the hybrids they have created. The five realize that the centurions have created something qualitatively different than they have, far superior in some ways. The five create the seven, because the centurions want mortality, they have immortality already, plus the ability to see the multi-loop nature of time (the ability to retain memory of events that are overwritten by intercession of the timeline, and thus erased from the collective memory of the rest of us — when someone travels back in time and changes events which therefor changes your memories, the hybrids don’t lose memories).
The Plan 2.0 The original plan was to rescue humanity from extinction; 2.0 was Cavil’s idea to counter and undermine it. The five discovered a way to segregate certain memories from the data that is resurrected. They pursued this technology so that they could have a more mortal experience, which was found to be more fulfilling than the alternative. Cavil used the technology to erase the memories of the original plan, as well as any memories of who the five are in the seven children (Cavil, nerd, Deanna, Leoben, Sharon, six, black). *Cavil creates a virus to kill the versions who know the five.
Time Travel and The Rubber-band Effect. Deep gravity wells can cause individuals who have “crossed over” into a different timeline to be “snapped” back to the timeline from which they originated. The history of time travel. The differences between backward and forward travel in time.