Dysprosium Delphiki was the son of Cincinnatus Delphiki and the grandson of Bean and Petra Arkanian. He was first introduced in The Last Shadow.
History[]
Early Life[]
Dysprosium was born on the planet Nokonoshima to Airi around 3168 AX along with his twin brother Lanthanum Delphiki. Some time after their birth, they was kidnapped by her father Cincinnatus "Sergeant" Delphiki and taken aboard the lightspeed ship Herodotus with the rest of their family. As the child of Sergeant, Dys possessed the high intelligence of Anton's Key but without the out of control growth hormone. Their cousins, the children of Carlotta Delphiki and Ender Delphiki, were scared of their father so they stayed away from the twins and Thulium.[1]
The Last Shadow[]
Around the year 3180 AX, it was their cousin Delft Delphiki's 9th birthday. Dys and Lanth joked with their younger sister Thulium Delphiki but were told off by their cousin, Little Mum. Later that day, a computer program reflecting the mind of Hyrum Graff found its way into the computers of the Herodotus and conversed with Dys' aunt Carlotta Delphiki and Thulium. Graff revealed that he had been slowing down the Herodotus to non-relativistic speed in order so that the Leguminids may help solve the problem of the Descolada on Lusitania. After their conversation, Carlotta told the rest of the family on board the ship. The cousins met together in the mess hall with his uncle Ender and talked about identifying the Descolada planet. His father Sergeant came in and listened to the discussion briefly before starting to walk out. After prompting by Ender, Sergeant explained his thoughts that it was most likely that even if the virus was created, its creators were most likely extinct by millions of years. Graff appeared as a hologram again in the room, who Sergeant promptly dismissed and left the mess hall. After much discussion about the finances of the Delphiki family and the Descolada problem, Thulium proposed that the Leguminids simply go to Lusitania to converse with the scientists there about the issue. Suddently, Brussels Delphiki realized that Graff came to the Herodotus to escape the Hundred Worlds-wide Ansible shutdown, to which Graff affirmed his hypothesis. Graff explained to the Delphikis that the Lusitanian scientists had found a possible origin point of the Descolada, a planet they called Descoladora.[1]
At that moment, a man and a woman appeared in the room. The woman walked to Ender and expressed that he looked much like his parents, Bean and Petra Arkanian. The hologram of Graff thought the woman was Valentine Wiggin, though much younger than she should be. She introduced herself as Jane and the man as Miro Ribeira to the group and explained how Andrew Wiggin had created her body and Peter Wiggin II while Outside, as well as the concept of an Aiúa and how the Recolada had neutralized the Descolada on Lusitania. The Leguminids doubted Jane's story and were baffled at how she and Miro appeared instantaneously on the ship. Jane then instantly transported the Delphikis to a plain of grass on Lusitania. Jane stated that she had left the Herodotus in orbit around the planet and explained the concept of instantaneous travel to them, and that she had sent Carlotta, Cincinnatus, and Ender to Nokonoshima to persuade their spouses to join the Delphikis on Lusitania. When asked by their children when their parents would return, Jane simply said when their work is done. Dys asked Jane if she could teach instantaneous travel to them and she said that she had tried with people much smarter than them.[1]
For the next several days, the Delphikis worked on their own computers on the Descolada problem or whatever they were working on prior on the Herodotus. Instantly going into military resistance mode immediately, starting with gathering intelligence about the enemy, Dys and his brother jerry-rigged listening devices in a room to that they could hear Miro Ribeira and Thulium's conversation. On the same day, Dys and the rest of the cousins went to go meet the Pequeninos, except for Thulium.[1]
Dys later attended a presentation to the Leguminids on the prior research about the Descolada hosted by Valentine Wiggin. She explained that she was simply reporting the work of researchers, and Lanth questioned why they did not present it themselves. Valentine explained that they were hard at work and did not need distractions, which Dys took to mean that they had not informed the researchers about the arrival of the Leguminids.[1]
At some point after this, Dys and Lanth were teleported to Nokonoshima with their father. They met their mother Airi, but after seeing them she refused to go back with them to Lusitania. After the Descolada project was completed, Sergeant decided to return to the Herodotus with his sons and voyage at lightspeed again. He took the twins to the ship and shut them in their rooms when they did not behave.[1]