Michael Everett wrote:runsforcelery wrote:About Aivah/Nynian, I will say only this. She was born with the primary capability which has made it so difficult for Merlin to figure out how she communicates with her friends back home in the Temple Lands.
...interesting.
Perhaps her mother was injected with specialist nanotech which meant that Aivah was born with the nanotech-assembled Neural Education And Training interface hardware in place...
Such a thing might include a short-range comm system...
That's certainly possible. we'd need to look up the prior text evidence about how nanotech and NEAT installation work, but the simplest explanation is that someone in Shan-Wei's circle installed a customized nanotech suite in one of the original colonists, and programmed it to be inheritable through pregnancy.
Personally, though, I'd skip any possibility of implanted radio, and go straight to physical data mediums. In theory, there should be nanotech method to 'write' data into a vial of blood, and 'read' it with a blood transfusion. but even if the blood memories are encrypted and can only be read by someone with both NEATs and the access code, shipping chilled vials of blood around safehold has obvious risks involved, such as accusations of demon worship.
