Two hundred years after Savitri became the first human on Durus, the
eleventh major form of government, the Solar Democratic Republic officially
ended. Technically, it should have ended a long time ago, if not once the
rogue world left 70 Ophiuchi space, then certainly when nearly the entire
population was evacuated through the Nexus. Survivors, called remainders,
ultimately agreed that this most recent event was the greater shift than
those others, however. The thirteenth remainder in charge of waking up from
stasis, and being available to solve any problems, was a woman by the name
of Kyra Torosian. Nothing of note happened for the first few months of her
shift. A couple of the pods experienced some power irregularities, but these
were simple repairs. None of the Dardieti team were awake at the time, for
she was not considered a threat to them. She spent her days zipping
throughout the bunkers on a scooter that one of the children left there when
he evacuated, and carrying on full conversations with her completely
unresponsive friends. They had access to entertainment from Durus, Dardius,
and even Earth, but she wasn’t much for that kind of art, so she really just
wasted the days away. She was the type of person who could sit in a chair
for hours, doing nothing else, and not grow bored. Her mind was just too
busy with her imagination for it to matter much what her environment was, as
long as it wasn’t uncomfortable, or sometimes even if. One day, Kyra was
wandering the halls just outside the Nexus room when she thought she heard
it start to power up. Of course, she assumed that someone from Dardius was
coming to check on them, so she ran inside, and mentally prepared herself to
greet them professionally, and in her words, well-spokenly. She never knew
exactly what happened, or whether anyone was actually trying to come
through, because it all went wrong. The machine exploded, and sent a wave of
energy throughout the entire section.
What no one knew at the time was that the explosion was an accident, and
happened to all Nexa in this universe. Because they involve time travel,
they didn’t explode all at once, and the damages were not irreparable, but
this did cause a number of problems for everyone who needed to use them at
certain times. The explosion was powerful, but it was pretty contained, so
no one else on Durus was affected, or even immediately made aware that it
happened. Kyra would later have to start waking them up, so she could let
them know. Obviously, the explosion didn’t kill her, which was a universal
result. Others experienced superficial injuries, but nothing serious. What
set Kyra apart was that she came from a bloodline of paramounts. While there
was never enough temporal energy on Durus for her to have exhibited any
powers before, she was genetically predisposed to developing them, and the
Nexus explosion was enough to do just that. What was unclear was whether she
would have developed the same power under different circumstances, or if the
explosion also decided what she could do. Evidence suggested the latter.
After waking key remainder leadership, along with the team from Dardius,
Kyra went about figuring out who she now was. It was like she became a
walking Nexus. When someone touched her, they would be transported to one of
the other Nexa, and if someone made the appropriate hyperdimensional
metamathematical calculations, they could also transport to her. Unlike
regular Nexa, Kyra could also transport herself anywhere in the universe
that she wanted; it didn’t even have to be tied to the network. Every time
she jumped somewhere, it would recharge her temporal energy, like a
perpetual motion engine, and the more she did it, the stronger she became.
Over time, she would end up with enough power to move entire planets through
the network, which she used to move Durus to its new home. Not even the Nexa
could do that. It wouldn’t be there forever, though, because her power
continued to grow. The remainders would come to use their unique position to
fight a great war against a multiversal threat. Until then, the remainders
had to decide how they were going to use this advantage, and whether they
would be able to convince any former Durune to return to their homeworld.
While they worked on that, they figured they ought to shift to yet another
form of government. This one would be called the Kyran Nexus Tempocracy.
That was not all, though. The remainders would also decide to change the
name of the planet to Torosia, in honor of her.
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