Short Tale

Man Bin, an artificial life form visiting Earth.

It is possible that the shortest Sci Fi story I ever wrote was "Manmahtiti Bebobinmahtiti". I now want to create a very short story (UPDATE: it ended up being 1700 words) that can be the first part of A Search Beyond.

What would it be like to discover that your mother is an alien life form? That is the startling discovery that awaits Marda when she grows up as the daughter of Rylla.

Marda's family tree (source)

Lucky for Marda, Rylla is almost human. Rylla has some Asterothrope genes, but thanks to the wonders of developmental control nanites, Rylla is almost human in physical appearance.

Previously, I decided that Marda will have five siblings. Jytyr is the younger brother of Marda, born five years after Marda (shown as sibling 2 in the image to the left).

Thomas

At a young age, Marda becomes a writer, working with Rylla to transform the information that Rylla receives from Observer Base into components of the Exode Saga. I've previously depicted Thomas Iwedon as a precocious writer, growing up in the middle of the 20th century.

Ivory

Ivory Fersoni was from the next generation; she grew up in the era of the microelectronics revolution. Ivory was comfortable making a first draft on paper and then making an electronic version.

Marda

I'm imagining that Jytyr will be born in about 2025. Maybe Marda and Jytyr will be part of a generation that never makes use of paper or a keyboard.

From early during her embryonic development, Marda is telepathically linked to Amiante and Alexina, but Jytyr has no telepathic abilities. In about 2040, Rylla will give birth to a pair of twins (the Last Mind Clones) who will be part of a Mind Clone sub-network that includes the children of Alexina and Amiante at Observer Base.

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I've previously mentioned oxypathin as an Asterothrope protein that is also present in some other human variants such as the tryp'At. I'm now imagining that Rylla inherited the ability to make oxypathin and some of her children will also have oxypathin receptors. But why stop there, with only one alien hormone? Why shouldn't Marda become the first Earthling to experience the effects of another brain-transforming Asterothrope hormone that can be transmitted from mother to child?

The Grendel Files

I've already depicted the very young Amiante as being interested in his mother's stories. Now I need to decide exactly how sophisticated Marda's linguistic skills might be at about age five.

 In the case of Thomas, he was linked to his mother's mind by twitino-mediated telepathy. All of the Mind Clones such as Marda are using the Bimanoid Interface for their technology-assisted telepathy.
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