Ozzie
Names: OzzieGreat OzzieOswald Fernandez IsaacsIsaacs
First appears in Book 1: The Dreaming Void, chapter 10 (5)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Dreaming Void
- Ch 12Ozzie was named a friend by the Silfen, given a pendant, and discovered it worked by quantum entanglement, leading to gaiamotes.
Book 3: The Evolutionary Void
- Ch 1Ozzie is a Silfen Friend, which Araminta only vaguely knew.
- Ch 6Ozzie was a phenomenal physicist, a Silfen Friend, and is still alive outside the Commonwealth.
- Ch 8Ozzie gave humanity the gaiafield and disliked Inigo for perverting it into a religion; he went to the Spike to build a galactic dream.
- Ch 10Ozzie, whose full name Inigo and Corrie-Lyn only now learn, left the Commonwealth to build a galactic dream and is renowned on the Spike.
- Ch 10An Octoron citizen confirms under torture that Isaacs is resident in the Spike.
- Ch 10Gore says Ozzie pulled off two great thefts, including cleaning out the Vegas casinos through a wormhole heist, and was nearly killed by Nigel.
- Ch 12Ozzie is a former ruler of the Commonwealth who withdrew to the Spike and is now treated as a guru by people seeking help against the Void.
- Ch 12Ozzie intended the gaiafield to help humans and aliens understand each other, and on the Spike he is working to build something bigger, linked to the Silfen Motherholme.
- Ch 12Ozzie bluffs the Chikoya by claiming to have superweapons that can destroy Inigo, in order to calm them and avoid more bloodshed.
- Ch 12Ozzie disliked his birth name Oswald Fernandez Isaacs because of childhood persecution, and insists he is just Ozzie.
- Ch 12Ozzie switched off the mindspace telepathy effect after Aaron threatened to kill Corrie-Lyn, accepting the threat as real.
- Ch 12Ilanthe was inspired by Ozzie's mindspace, which alters spacetime locally to enable telepathy, and calls it a phenomenal achievement.
- Ch 14Ozzie lives as a hermit in a farmhouse on an island by an alien city and is hostile to Aaron and Inigo's intrusion.
- Ch 14Ozzie is over fifteen hundred years old, lives in Octoron in the Spike, and claims to be a Silfen Friend with a private TD link to the Commonwealth.
- Ch 14Ozzie dumped his old memories and scientific knowledge into smartcores, keeping only a purged, emotional personality; he says he can live with dying in the expansion.
- Ch 14Ozzie refuses to tamper with the Spike's anchor mechanism, calling the idea absurd; he is irritated by Aaron's mental programming.
- Ch 14Ozzie has a very advanced medical module in his basement and admits he secretly peeked at Inigo's dreams.
- Ch 16Ozzie fears entering the Void because no one has ever been known to get out, and he is reluctant to accompany Inigo.
- Ch 16Ozzie opines that Edeard's descendants flying in Querencia was fulfilment without striving, which he calls un-evolving.
- Ch 16Ozzie still has influence with the remains of the Brandt Dynasty and shielded his house's calls from Aaron's u-shadow.
- Ch 16Ozzie declines to join the mission, calling himself an aging irrelevancy who wants to stay alive, and argues for mindspace.
- Ch 16Ozzie dissolves into a spectral form and vanishes as the Chikoya attack, saying this kind of thing isn't him anymore.
- Ch 16Ozzie transmuted his quantum state and went outside spacetime, evading the Chikoya; Inigo doubts he is postphysical.
Connections
- createdgaiafield
- createdOzzie's dream
- enemy ofInigo
- inthe Spike
- partner ofMyraian
- copied intoOzzie's me-brain-in-a-jar
- createdMindspace
- ally ofQatux
- friend ofQatux
- ally ofMyraian
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 11Aaron chooses the Spike
Aaron decides the Lindau cannot risk Pulap and reveals that his implanted options point to the Spike, where Ozzie lives.
- Book 3 · Ch 6Araminta named Friend of Silfen
Bradley Johansson gives Araminta a pendant naming her Silfen Friend, points her to Ozzie, and she enters the path to Francola Wood.
- Book 3 · Ch 10Massacre in Octoron plaza
Aaron questions citizens for Isaacs's location, kills one, tortures another and fires on the plaza, killing several and wounding others, ignoring Inigo's pleas to let him talk.
- Book 3 · Ch 12Ozzie calms the Chikoya
Ozzie arrives at the battered plaza, bluffs the angry Chikoya with talk of superweapons, and persuades them to holster weapons and promise to inform him of Inigo.
- Book 3 · Ch 12Meeting with Aaron
Guided by a hijacked capsule to a remote spot by a water column, Ozzie meets Aaron, who holds unconscious Inigo and Corrie-Lyn. Under threat against Corrie-Lyn, Ozzie switches off mindspace.
- Book 3 · Ch 14Aaron delivers Inigo to Ozzie
Aaron brings sedated Inigo and Corrie-Lyn to Ozzie's island house, where Ozzie is rude. Inigo wakes, and Aaron says he will give his plan when Ozzie comes down.
- Book 3 · Ch 14Ozzie confronted
Aaron forces a reluctant Ozzie to meet Inigo; Ozzie gives them access to his house net and says to talk in the morning.
- Book 3 · Ch 14Breakfast strategy talk
Over breakfast they discuss Ilanthe, Ozzie's discarded memory copy, and the limits of the gaiafield and mindspace. Ozzie suggests Inigo or a Skylord, or Gore, as ways to reach the Void.
- Book 3 · Ch 14Debate on reaching the Heart
The group discusses how to contact the Heart without an ultradrive ship. Aaron proposes moving the Spike, which Ozzie flatly refuses, questioning Aaron's programming.
- Book 3 · Ch 14Inigo's dream of perfection
Ozzie challenges Inigo on why he abandoned his gospel. Inigo says Edeard did not truly win, and answers Corrie-Lyn's plea by saying he dreamed of perfection.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Inigo's dream discussion
Inigo tells Corrie-Lyn the transcended beings' lives are worthless ennui, while she insists they achieved fulfillment.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Inigo discusses the Last Dream
After Inigo shares the Last Dream, Corrie-Lyn storms out, Ozzie and Inigo interpret it as the Void's utopia ending in stagnation, and she later returns accepting it.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Qatux contacts Ozzie
Forced by Aaron, Ozzie calls the High Angel; Qatux cannot get them into the Void but says someone important, escorted by Oscar Monroe, will arrive in three days.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Inigo releases the Last Dream to followers
Persuaded by Ozzie and Corrie-Lyn, Inigo opens his gaiamotes and gifts the Last Dream to all his followers.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Aaron recognized as the Mutineer
When Oscar's party arrives at Ozzie's house, Tomansio recognizes Aaron as Lennox McFoster, the Mutineer who defied the Cat, shocking Aaron.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Troblum offers wormhole transport
Troblum reveals his ship's Anomine-derived novabomb-powered wormhole engine that could reach the galactic core ahead of the Pilgrimage fleet. The group agrees to go, with extra suspension chambers being built for Void time.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Chikoya attack Ozzie's house
Forty armored Chikoya teleport in, surrounding the house; Ozzie vanishes, and Oscar and the Knights Guardian fight them back while Aaron guards the Dreamers.