Grean's Game

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Below on this page is part 7 of "The Alastor Network", a science fiction story about the origins of human telepathy. In part 6, Commander Shermatz of the Whelm was preparing to launch a rescue mission to Yrinna aimed at liberating Twycky Jeghtop. However, it is clear that Yrinna is heavily defended. As a major world of the starmenters, Yrinna does not welcome the Whelm and does not submit to the authority of the Connatic. An attempt to rescue Twycky will be dangerous, but Commander Shermatz is being pushed by a telepathic compulsion to move quickly to rescue Twycky or loose the opportunity.

 

Commander Shermatz is also worried that her hidden identity -Acyreff, the wife of the Connatic- has become known to Kasya Jeghtop and possibly others among the telepaths that she has brought together on board the Appenine. The events in part 7 come immediately after the events depicted in part 6...

 

 ⎯ The Alastor Network ؄

 

Part 7. Replicoid Time. (read part 1) (part 2) (part 3) (part 4) (part 5) (part 6)

Grean the Kac'hin
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Returning to her suite, Acyreff was surprised to see someone in the hot tub. Approaching from behind, she thought it was the robot Coz of the magical tongue. She called out cheerfully, "Coz, back so soon?" Then Acyreff realized that her unexpected guest was Grean the Kac'hin.

Grean said, "I hope you don't mind me trying out the hot tub. I realized that it had been ages since I last took a soak, so..." Her voice trailed off and she winked at Acyreff.

Acyreff put her hand in the hot water and made some small waves that reflected off of Grean's body. "I had the impression that you are not exactly real... some artificial assembly of nanites..." She looked at Grean's chest and saw two small breasts and four erect nipples. "Can you actually experience human sensations?"

Grean cupped one of her cute little breasts in her hand and then tweaked her own pink nipple with her finger tips. "Theoretically, yes. However, it is hard to know exactly what someone else experiences." She leaned her head back into a headrest. "This hot water feels nice and relaxing." She lifted an arm out of the water and pointed to the basket of sex toys, "While waiting for you to return from next door, I could not help but entertain thoughts about getting into your sex toy collection."

Acyreff pulled out one of the vibrators. "This is my favorite toy. I call it 'old reliable'." She switched on the vibrator and tossed it into the water next to Grean. "Go ahead and give it a try."

"Maybe later." Grean looked dubiously at the big vibrator that was floating near her. "First, allow me to answer a question that is burning in your mind. Oh, and Lieutenant Collynn has been trying to reach you. You might want to reply to her message, first."

Acyreff had noticed the arrival of Collynn's earlier call and simply had not gotten around to replying. She reluctantly pulled her eyes away from Grean's unusual breasts, gazed into the Kac'hin's big eyes and asked, "You can read my mind... see every thought I have?"

oxypathin

Grean nodded and grinned. "I can experience each of your orgasms, share with you your adventures as you scale every penis, I sense your interest in my extra breasts and the other day I enjoyed the feel of Kasya's tongue against your erect-"

Acyreff held up her hand to interrupt Grean. "I get the idea." She used her comring to connect to Collynn. "How is the technical work going in the lab?"

Collynn, the technical specialist replied, "With the help of Vez and Coz we are making some progress, although I don't think they understand how the hierion shield equipment of Nykark was manufactured. However, they know how to use the equipment."

Acyreff said, "Yes, that was my impression, also." She again thought about the magical tongue and hands of Coz the robot. 

 

Collynn continued, "I've been puzzling over something. About an hour ago, I happened to look at Captain Lanting's telepathy detection device. It lit up with a swarm of powerful signals..."

"I was performing a little telepathy experiment down here, Lieutenant. I'm learning how to amplify telepathic signals. I want you to take part in the next experiment. Did you get the synchron ring that I had the electronics lab bring to you?"

The Lieutenant replied, "Yes, I did." However, Collynn's mind was still on the detector. "When I called you earlier, I was puzzled by the color coding used by the telepathy detector, but I've since spoken to Lanting. Apparently I was seeing three devices, a half dozen people and something else. I think Lanting knows what that third source of telepathic signals is, but she won't tell me."

Acyreff suspected that the mysterious source was Grean, but, strangely, she listened to herself suggest something else. "Maybe it is a signal from the Phari network."

fwai-chi

"A Phari network signal originating from inside Appenine? Don't tell me we're transporting a fwai-chi or some other alien species."

"I'd tell you if we were, Collynn." Now Acyreff tried with all her concentrated will to say the word 'Grean', but she could not speak the Kac'hin's name. "Tell me, was anyone else present when you questioned Sally?"

"Yes, Dr. Indeckuri."

 

"Ah, I think that explains the mystery. Remember who showed up after dinner last night." Acyreff was watching Grean who seemed bored. Grean had taken hold of the vibrator and was doing something with it down under the water, between her legs.

"I follow you, now. It appears an unshielded comcircuit or Indeckuri's ears are not private enough for your ghark." The mystery resolved to her satisfaction, Collynn was ready to get back to her work in the lab.

 

Acyreff told Collynn, "Keep that ring on your hand. I want to fish some technical information out of Yrinna and I suspect you are just the person to manage that catch." Grean was frowning down into the water.

Collynn looked at the ring on her finger and asked, "What do I do with the ring?"

"We will use it to synchronize your mind with a group of telepaths." Now, Grean lifted the vibrator out of the water, switched it off and tossed it back into the basket. Acyreff told Collynn, "I want you on standby for the next time we activate our telepath network... once we get the telepathy session started, I'll need you to look into the group mind-space and search for any available technical information. I'll explain more later, but I'm busy right now."

 

"Okay, I'll be ready." Collynn cut the comlink.

 

Acyreff briefly wondered how Grean could prevent people from speaking about specific topics under specific conditions, but she pushed that mystery away and returned her attention to the problem of rescuing Twycky. "Okay, Grean, tell me, did you engineer Twycky's abduction or was it somebody else?"

 

Grean giggled, "Really now, how can you ask? I'm innocent" She batted her big eyes at Acyreff. "I'm trying to help get the poor girl back home." 

 

"I ask, because it occurred to me that you might have sent Twycky to Yrinna just to make sure that she would pick up some Gensifer Clan genes and would be impregnated."

 

the creation of R. Gohrlay

Grean laughed loudly. "That would have been clever, but I never thought of it. No, this all smells of R. Gohrlay and her tribe of probots and I'll tell you another thing... I was surprised by how quickly the poor girl got pregnant."

 

Acyreff suggested, "Maybe it isn't by chance that my daughter and Twycky got pregnant at the same time."

 

Grean stood up and stepped out of the tub and then shook off the clinging water like a dog. Now Acyreff could see that Grean actually had six nipples, the bottom two very small nubs down on her taught abdomen. Grean said, "Remember, I'm limited in what I can tell you about the future."

 

Acyreff handed Grean a towel. "Then let me tell you what I think is going on... I suspect that Twycky's baby will become the mate of Lavany; their children will be the first true human telepaths."

 

Grean made no great use of the towel before hanging it around her neck. "I can't say too much about the future." She took Acyreff by the hand and led her to the bedroom where Grean immediately began removing Commander Shermatz's uniform. "I know that you are worried about the danger of going to Yrinna and I want to put your mind at ease."

 

Acyreff felt herself strangely stimulated by Grean's alien features. She reached out and touched one of Grean's small, stiff nipples. Grean pushed the now naked Acyreff onto the bed, climbed over the Commander's body and pressed one of her smaller, second tier breasts to Acyreff's lips. "Have a taste of oxypathin. This is a special Asterothrope neurohormone that was retained as part of Kac'hin physiology. Oxypathin stimulates the brain cells that make telepathy possible."

Acyreff sucked on Grean's nipple and soon she tasted a tart fluid in her mouth that stimulated her saliva glands. Grean shifted Acyreff to the other breast and said, "Take a double dose. I want to make sure that your telepathic ability is fully stimulated so that you can clearly see my thoughts."

As the oxypathin reached her brain, Acyreff felt an odd shift in her senses and some dizziness. She closed her eyes and while she suckled she reached towards Grean's unusual genital groove which was covered by a silky soft pelt. Slipping a finger into the groove, Acyreff felt a slick wetness and then she got the tip of her finger into Grean's tight little vagina. Just then, Acyreff's own vaginal muscle tissue began to contract in powerful waves, almost like spasms. Alarmed, she pulled her lips off of Grean's nipple and exclaimed, "What just..." She moved her hand to her own genitals and was surprised to feel the glans of her clitoris was very stiff and larger than she had ever experienced in her life. Most disconcertingly, her clitoris was twitching and pulsing like an angry meal worm. Grean took Acyreff's twitching clitoris into her mouth and for a few seconds Acyreff worried about Grean's sharp teeth.

Replicoids

What Acyreff did not know was that Grean was putting a new set of medical nanites into Acyreff's body. Those nanites would work together with the oxypathin to begin remodeling Acyreff's reproductive tract, shaping it to be more like that of a Kac'hin. Then suddenly Acyreff experienced an orgasm that was more powerful than she had ever imagined possible. She cried out, "How... what are you..." But then she felt herself in telepathic synchrony with Grean's mind and sinking under the weight of Grean's immense stores of memories. She slipped into a new state of consciousness -not sleep- in which time seemed to pass very quickly while the nanites and oxypathin did their work inside her body.

 

Grean rolled off of the bed and for a moment gazed upon Acyreff's erect and protruding clitoris. Then she began to fade away, becoming transparent, her component nanites now drifting in the room's air currents. Grean commented: My work here is done... Grean was gone, leaving no physical evidence of her visit except for the wet towel from the spa and the heavy scent of ghark lingering in Acyreff's nostrils.

Three hours later, with her comring vibrating insistently, Acyreff returned to normal consciousness. Her eyes slowly opening, she spoke to the comring and asked, "What is it?"

The commander of Appenine replied, "We are on approach to Brevik."

 

Acyreff asked, "ETA?"

 

"I should have Appenine over the droneworks in 40 minutes."

Acyreff acknowledged the message and broke the connection while touching her still erect clitoris which she could see protruding a full inch beyond her labia. She wondered out loud, "Did Grean break my clitoris?" She struggled to reconstruct a coherent memory stream for the past three hours.

Grean's telepathic "voice" said: It is not broken... clitoromegaly is a side-effect of oxypathin when used by humans. Prepare to be teleported.

Acyreff felt herself shifted and transformed as she left the hadronic domain and arrived inside the Hierion Domain. She was no longer in her human body. Now her mind was instantiated inside the body of her replicoid. Acyreff could feel that her mind was now linked steadily to that of Grean. It was now clear to Acyreff that Grean was the source of the compulsion that she had been experiencing, the relentless desire to move quickly to rescue Twycky. Acyreff tried to follow the logical thread in Grean's mind that explained why it was best to act quickly. Acyreff learned that word would soon leak to Yrinna about the fact that the Nykark has been captured by the Whelm, so the rescue of Twycky must take place ASAP. However, when Acyreff tried to see the details of her own future and the exact reasons why Grean was so confident about the impending success of the rescue operation, a wall of black clouds sprang up in her mind.

Grean told Acyreff: Remember, your future is not open to inspection by you because of temporal paradox conflicts. However, I've taken you deep into my mind so that you can know that I am not deceiving you. Grean moved a hand between Acyreff's legs and stroked her labia. Grean pushed a finger into Acyreff's vagina. Grean commented with delight: You are so hot and tight! Now, looking down towards her crotch, Acyreff saw that Grean had a short, slim penis with a bright pink glans that she pushed inside Acyreff. Grean straddled Acyreff's hips and vigorously thrust her penis in and out of Acyreff. With the completion of each cyclic thrust there was a comical little sucking sound.

Hierion Domain

Acyreff felt her clitoris and vaginal muscles pulse with rhythmic contractions. In Grean's mind, Acyreff saw that the Kac'hin were simultaneous hermaphrodites. Grean said: I've placed you in the body of a Kac'hin. In this way, we should be able to achieve a complete mind merge.

As Acyreff approached an orgasm, she felt as if she could move freely through Grean's memories. The only limitation on what she could see in Grean's mind was imposed by the effects of time paradox that relentlessly hid some of Grean's knowledge from Acyreff. Acyreff achieved her orgasm and suspected that Grean had just ejaculated into her vagina, but Grean did not slow the methodical thrusting of her hard little penis. Now Acyreff felt a strange new lump that was sandwiched between herself and Grean. Looking away from Grean's distracting array of nipples and breasts, Acyreff for the first time saw her own erect penis. Grean flopped over onto her back and now Acyreff rose up to kneel on the soft surface of Grean's bed. Acyreff was eager to try out her penis. 

Acyreff reached down and felt Grean's genitals. Grean's penis was now flaccid and rapidly deflating, but while exploring in the Kac'hin's moist genital groove, Acyreff was confused by the feel of Grean's two hot little vaginas. She could see in Grean's mind that the Kac'hin had been designed with several Asterothrope features including multiple rows of breasts and two vaginas. Grean impatiently guided Acyreff's erection into her forward vagina and after just two quick thrusts Acyreff experienced her first ejaculation. Startled by the sensation, Acyreff fell against Grean's body and hugged her tight. Grean pushed Acyreff over onto her back and rode Acyreff's penis vigorously until she achieved another orgasm. And now Grean's penis was again erect and hard and pointed at Acyreff who gently stroked its tip with her fingers. A slippery fluid dribbled out of Grean's penis and Acyreff discovered that it was the perfect lubricant for her hand as it cupped the pulsing penis. Grean ejaculated for a second time, not into Acyreff's vagina but in gushing arcs of honey-like Kac'hin semen. Acyreff massaged the hot semen over her four breasts.

 

During the period of their shared orgasms, all barriers between the two women collapsed and the minds of Grean and Acyreff mingled within a sweet swirl of pleasure. Acyreff felt certain that Grean's mind lay completely open for her inspection and she could sense the Kac'hin's desire to convince Acyreff that she knew it was best to immediately go to Yrinna and rescue Twycky. Finally, the heat of her sexual pleasure fading to a satisfying after-glow, Acyreff emerged from the mind-link and returned to a more normal state of consciousness. Grean was still laying on top of Acyreff. Acyreff sighed contentedly and said, "If that was typical Kac'hin sex, I might be willing to join your species."

Grean giggled. "I'm glad you enjoyed our brief play time. When Kac'hin make love, there are usually at least a half dozen participants and the whole event might take five or six hours. I gave you just a taste. And now, since you are still needed among the humans, I must return you to your human body."

Yrinna

Remembering her plans and duties on board the Appenine, Acyreff felt a a sudden panic. It felt like she had just spent a lifetime moving through Grean's endless pool of memories. Had she missed the arrival of Appenine at Brevik? Then suddenly Acyreff felt the disorientation that came from teleportation and she was back in her own body, back in the hadron domain. She checked the time: they were due to land on Brevik in thirty five minutes. Puzzled, she could not imagine how her visit to the Hierion Domain had been accomplished in just five minutes. For a moment she thought vague thoughts about time travel, but again she felt the fierce compulsion to finalize plans for the impending rescue mission to Yrinna. 

 

Trying to ignore the startling sight of her large erect clitoris, Acyreff opened up a complex group communications connection to Kasya, Sally, Tithixa and Sylvynn and said, "Before we land on Brevik I want to contact Twycky and let her know that I've finalized my plans for her rescue. Sally, Tithixa and Sylvynn... do you have your synchron ring?"

Tithixa complained, "I have the ring, but this is not a good time for sex. I'm on duty..."

Acyreff said, "Let's get this done. I need each of you to drop your other tasks for ten minutes, drop your pants and grab some pleasure. All I'm asking for is one more little orgasm."

Sylvynn asked, "Orgasms? We are going to synchronize orgasms?" Sylvynn giggled. "That's how you have been amplifying telepathic..."

Acyreff explained, "That's right, Sylvynn. Don't make me come to the lab and stick my fist up your vagina. I'm sure you can whip up a quick orgasm down there in the lab. Just watch the timing signals of the synchron ring and don't get out of step." Acyreff now knew that Grean was not leaving anything to chance; the whole telepathy team on Appenine was being guided by Grean's powerful Kac'hin telepathic powers towards simultaneous orgasms. Acyreff could see the cloud of swirling hierions that marked the location of Grean and she could feel the Kac'hin's mind inside her, tracing and activating the memory paths that evoked the sensation of Grean thrusting her hot little penis in and out of Acyreff's tight and pulsing vagina. Hoping to quickly bring herself to sexual climax, Acyreff tried to push "old reliable" into her vagina, but the vibrator simply would not fit inside her newly remodeled Kac'hin-style vagina. She placed the vibrating device against her oddly enlarged clitoris and then she was sucked into a shared telepathic mind-space with her team. She identified and carefully watched the thoughts of Sylvynn and briefly tried to follow the dense flow of technical jargon that came flashing into the shared mind-space from Yrinna. All that accessed data was now being guided by the calm thoughts of Sally and Kasya who hovered there near Collynn in the group mind-space. Not being much of a telepath herself, Acyreff could not tell if the flow of technical information arrived from the past, the present or the future.

Then the shared telepathic link-up was all over. During her orgasm trance, Acyreff had successfully contacted Twycky and told her to expect the arrival of Nykark at Gensifer City on Yrinna in exactly 40 hours. After confirming that her technical expert was in the group's telepathic mind-space, Acyreff had lost track of Lieutenant Collynn's thought stream and she had focused her effort on making sure that her telepathic message got through to Twycky.

 

After a five minute cold shower, Acyreff was finally able to end her intense clitoral erection and then get the tight pants of her uniform done up. With a new appreciation for males dealing with persistent erections, she ran to the laboratory deck and found Sylvynn who was already deep in conversation with Dr. Indeckuri, discussing what she had learned during her first orgasm trace. Noticing the arrival of Acyreff in the lab, Lieutenant Collynn said, "It seems almost too easy."

Suspecting that Sylvynn was having trouble accepting the telepathy-amplifying power of shared orgasms, Acyreff asked, "Why shouldn't sexual pleasure help people share their secrets?"

Sylvynn shook her head, "Ya." For a moment she placed a hand over her breast where a stiff nipple still stuck out proudly against the fabric of her uniform. "No, that's not what I meant." She pointed at a technical diagram. "What I mean is, I think I found a way to protect our ships from having their Jarnell engines knocked off-line by starmenters."

Dr. Indeckuri explained, "We can test this in just a couple of minutes, but it looks like all we need to do is reverse the polarity of a Jarnell engine. That should prevent the hierion field generators of the starmenters from knocking a spaceship out of intersplit."

intersplit

Now Acyreff could remember having earlier seen this solution to her troubles in Grean's mind. Until hearing the idea from Indeckuri, presented in human terms, she had not recognized the solution. When first seen by Acyreff in Grean's mind, the idea of a polarity reversal had been encoded in some abstruse Kac'hin mathematics. "Check the Nykark's Jarnell engines. You'll find that they are already polarity reversed." Acyreff thought: Of course! How else could the Nykark attack a ship moving through intersplit and knock the target ship's drive offline without effecting the function of its own engines? "As soon as you confirm the validity of this little trick, send out instructions to the Fleet Commanders... they must immediately begin reversing the polarity of the Jarnell drives for all ships of the first, third and eighth fleets."

Sylvynn looked speculatively at Acyreff and said, "You knew. Somehow you knew."

Acyreff shook her head, "I knew there was a way for us to move against Yrinna and the starmenters, but I did not know the details. Thank you for figuring this out, Sylvynn."

"I didn't figure anything out. I was told the answer."

"Told by who?"

"I don't know. It happened during my orgasm. You and Kas were there watching me masturbate then there was a man... I felt his penis inside me." Sylvynn struggled to reconstruct the odd sensations and fragmentary memories from the orgasm trance. "Does the name Rupert mean anything to you?"

Acyreff had also seen a strange man -she had thought him a boy- during the group orgasm trance. "No." Acyreff turned to go. She wanted to be on her way to a tour of the droneworks with Kasya. On her way out the door, she turned back to Lieutenant Collynn and asked, "You'll have that mini-Jo telepathy detector on board Nykark within 8 hours?"

Original cover art by Ed Emshwiller

Lieutenant Collynn shook her head. "Nykark was sent on to Yrinna. When we reach the staging area, I'll need about twenty minutes to install the mini-Jo."

 

On her way to the hangar deck, Acyreff stopped by the communications room. She sent a message to her husband Oman arranging for the precise time of the coordinated arrival of their fleets at Yrinna and sharing with him the secret of reversing the polarity of a Jarnell engine in order to annul the technology being used by the starmenters to knock ships out of intersplit.

She was pleased to find Kasya already on board the aircar that would take them to the droneworks. Buckling in, Acyreff asked, "Was that you I felt in the telepathic link to Twycky?"

"Yes, I could sense your presence, but I don't think you heard my sister's reply."

"I was concentrating on my effort to boost off of Tithixa's mind and send through to your sister the time when Nykark will reach Yrinna." Acyreff brought the aircar's systems up to power.

Robots of Triskeliaon

"Twycky will be ready... she got your message. Then she was telling us her news... that she knows she is pregnant with a tiny implanted embryo. Genetic testing has already been done. The father is Rupert Gensifer."

Acyreff nudged the aircar out of the Appenine's hangar and they started dropping towards the surface of Brevik. She knew that the Whelm had no way of keeping tabs on the entire population of Yrinna, let alone any particular starmenter clan like the Gensifers. Acyreff asked, "Who is Rupert?" Acyreff turned the aircar controls over to Kasya.

Kasya set course for the droneworks then replied, "A son of Jamile Gensifer. Twycky is confused, because she never had sex with Rupert, although she knows him."

Acyreff thought about the ability of robots to use their ovipositors to implant embryos inside women. Twycky was an historian of robotics and had visited Triskelion. Acyreff asked, "Does Twycky own a robot?"

"Yes. She has long owned a robot from Triskelion and her robot was taken with her to Yrinna."

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Acyreff nodded. Strangely, she could not find a way to speak to Kasya about robot ovipositors. She changed the topic. "Let's get to the droneworks. I want to get half a dozen drones fresh off the assembly line for loading on board the Nykark."

 

Kasya suggested, "We should get drones that have gone through field testing, although it might not be possible to get six tested drones on such short notice. We are shipping them out as soon as they are ready... for use to protect passenger ships." 

"Hopefully, with Nykark in our hands, there will be no more raids on commercial passenger liners." But how long would it be before the balance of technology tipped back towards an advantage for the space pirates?

Next: part 8 of "The Alastor Network"

 

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