3 Problems

Streaming in 2024?

 At the start of 2024, I imagined what it might be like if the novel Inter Ice Age 4 by Kōbō Abe were placed in the hands of Hollywood story tellers (see the image that is shown to the right and my blog post 2024). However, rather than man-made aquans, what I got from Hollywood in 2024 was two alien invasion flicks: 1) Resident Alien and 2) 3 Body Problem. Yes, Resident Alien was on TV in 2021, but I only got around to seeing it in 2024. Full disclosure: I watch very little television. Here, in this blog post, I discuss both of these television programs in the context of my annual Search for Interesting Hollywood Aliens (SIHA).

Fucking alien - image source

 Don't Fuck With the Aliens.
I was reluctant to watch either Resident Alien or 3 Body Problem. Knowing that Resident Alien originated as a comic, I expected silliness from this television show. For example, viewers are told that the main character (an alien from a distant planet) is evolutionarily related to octopus-like creatures. However, even given the vast biological gulf between humans and these alien, viewers are treated to an alien-human hybrid (call this "problem #1" on my list of 3 problems).

a 3 body solution (see also)

 Fantasy? In the case of 3 Body Problem, I had read about The Three-Body Problem after its English-language translation won a Hugo Award. Based on descriptions of the novel, I feared that it was little more than a fantasy-tinged re-hash of old Sci Fi stories like War of the Worlds and "Nightfall". Fantasy? Having watched the first 8 episodes of 3 Body Problem, I struggle to call it "science" when I'm told that the aliens can send a proton to Earth that has the computational power of a planet-sized computer (call this "problem #2").

The 2023 SIHA.

 Old School. Here in 2024, I've also been re-watching the original Star Trek episodes ("remastered"). My 2023 SIHA award was a retro-SIHA that I awarded to an episode of Star Trek (see), so I suppose the real question for the 2024 SIHA is: can a newer Sci Fi television show from this millennium top Star Trek from 50 years ago, or will I simply award another retro-SIHA this year?

 This is Some Bullshit. In the case of Resident Alien, the show runners were obviously trying to have some fun, which makes it easy to forgive much of the silliness and anti-science plot elements that abound in Resident Alien. However, in the case of 3 Body Problem, there is no fun at all and a large amount of sickening horror which does not put me into a forgiving mood.

Our resident comic is having fun with baby food (brain food).

A brain with a body problem.

 Problem #3. However, the main problem for both Resident Alien and 3 Body Problem is that I have no interest in stories about technologically advanced aliens who travel vast distances across interstellar space because they want to go to war with humans. That's right folks... according to the folks in Hollywood, life and humans evolved quietly on Earth for 4,000,000,000 years and then just when the science fiction genre is invented, aliens from another planet show up to fight with us. Such stories are not about aliens, they are about the fears and stupidity of humans. Yawn. 😴

Figure 1. The Corbomite Device.

 Interesting Aliens. Back in 2016, I blogged about "The Corbomite Maneuver", a Star Trek episode that gracefully avoids the annoying "evil aliens will kill us" plot element that is often used in Hollywood. I like to imagine an alternative universe where there was a series of follow-up episodes about Balok and his people, but that was not to be. 😢

Instead we got a Star Trek fictional universe with interminable hand-wringing over Klingons, Romulans, Borg, the Dominion and other militaristic aliens who all bored me to tears. Resident Alien and 3 Body Problem continue this sort of Hollywood obsession with all things militaristic and morbid. 😛

The power of the Huaoshy.

 Dimensional Structure. I confess to having been strongly influenced by "The Corbomite Maneuver" when I was in my personal golden age of science fiction. Imagine a First Federation. My decades long effort to imagine the first ever interstellar civilization led to the Huaoshy, a key element in the Exodemic Fictional Universe. 

I imagine that the Huaoshy started out as a biological species called the Hua, but after millions of years of technological advancements, the Huaoshy became an artificial lifeform that had the power to change the Dimensional Structure of the universe.

some tryp'At anatomy

 Don't Get Me Wrong. For stories set in the Exodemic Fictional Universe, I often depict hybrids between space aliens and Earthlings. For example, Tyhry is an artificial hybrid with genetic elements from her Neanderthal birth mother and the genetically engineered human variant, the tryp'At. However, the tryp'At were intentionally designed to be a telepathic human variant that was inter-fertile with Earth humans. 

In contrast, for the alien who is the main character in Resident Alien, there was no serious attempt to explain how alien genes and human genes were successfully mixed together and in Resident Alien. I'm a fan of fictional biology, but I'm not a fan of magical biology. I suppose the typical TV viewer does not care about such plot details, but I do.

The Man Who Evolved

I'm also a fan of fictional physics. In the Exodemic Fictional Universe, I include two families of imaginary fundamental particles, the hierions and the sedrons. I also make use of imaginary "extra dimensions" in my stories. So, why do I feel so unsettled by the magical protons in 3 Body Problem? There are some ideas in science fiction that were bad when they were first published and they are still bad 100 years later. As an example, look at the "man of the future" with a big head and a small body that is shown in the image to the right. Okay, we can accelerate protons in a particle accelerator, but that does not mean that it makes sense for aliens to send a proton to Earth from Alpha Centauri.

Alien nanotechnology.

 Nanotechnology. I'm a huge fan of including imaginary advanced nanotechnology in science fiction stories. I was completely disgusted by the first use of nanotechnology that was in 3 Body Problem. 

 That's Entertainment? I do not want to hear about the latest way that you have found to kill people.

 Drama? I have to congratulate the makers of 3 Body Problem for actually showing a failure of another example of hastily-developed nanotechnology: a type of "space sail". However, I don't understand the whole idea of trying to send a human brain to the aliens by means of an impossibly complex process involving the detonation of hundreds of nuclear bombs. It does not really seem like much of a failure if nobody thought your Rube Goldberg device had a chance of working.

Figure 2.
generated by WOMBO Dream

 The End. In 2022, I watched the first several episodes of the Foundation television show, but I could not keep watching. The same thing happened with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Here in 2024, I feel like I've had enough of both Resident Alien and 3 Body Problem, so I don't expect to watch either of these past their first season. 

Green Orion by WOMBO Dream

 She's Green. When I first watched Star Trek, I saw the episodes on a small black-and-white TV that was displaying a weak and snowy signal arriving at my house from a distant city. It was not until many years later that I saw Susan Oliver in all of her green glory.

 Now, almost 60 years after Gene Roddenberry was going where nobody had gone before in Hollywood, it is amusing to read accounts of how he struggled to put his fantasies about sexy aliens on TV screens that were being attentively watched by millions of nerdy kids. Often Roddenberry had to content himself with providing Captain Kirk with cute crew members (see Figure 1, above) who could tempt him to think about something other than the Enterprise.

Figure 3. "Shore Leave" by WOMBO Dream.
Kirk gets a back rub from Tonia,
but then a Ruth replicoid arrives.

I've previously blogged about how Theodore Sturgeon had pushed at the boundaries for including sexual topics in 1950s pulp science fiction magazines. In the Star Trek episode "Shore Leave" (1966), Sturgeon provided Kirk with an opportunity to move past just having his subordinate (yeoman Tonia Barrows) massage his back. Obliging aliens create an artificial lifeform replica of Kirk's "long-lost love", Ruth, and Kirk gets to spend a couple days of leave with that artificial woman (see Figure 3).

 The 2024 SIHA. I nominate Balok and the mysterious First Federation as depicted in "The Corbomite Maneuver" (1966) for a retro-SIHA award. In Jerry Sohl's original story ("Danger Zone"), Balok had avian features (see Figure 2, above).

Related Reading: a summary of “Danger Zone” by Jerry Sohl.

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The Felydyans of Gyryph

Figure 1. Joke cover #1.

 Below on this page is Part 8 of the science fiction story Vythoth the Chresmoscopist. In this part of the story, the interstellar spaceship Sedrover makes its first flight. In Part 8, Tyhry and the crew of Sedrover never achieves faster-than-light space travel, but they do meet the Felydyans, a human variant from the far future of the Ekcolir Reality. The Felydyans have access to advanced technology that can be used to complete Sedrover's faster-than-light space drive.

cover art by Paul Lehr

 Cover Illustrations. Back in the 1970s I read The Last Starship from Earth by John Boyd. More than fifty years later, I'm still haunted by the cover art for that Berkley Medallion paper back book cover (see the image to the ⇐left). I could not imagine that this cover art by Paul Lehr for The Last Starship from Earth had anything to do with the story, but maybe half of all book sales are due to some eye-catching feature of the book cover, so what the hell...

Figure 2. Joke cover #2.
Tyhry and Rylla meet a sentient
polar bear on an exoplanet.

Today, I was working with WOMBO Dream and while making the cover illustration that is shown to the right ⇒, suddenly the WOMBO AI image-generating algorithm produced a strange image of a seemingly disembodied head adrift in an icy landscape. Amused, I incorporated that strange AI-generated image into Figure 1, above.

Vestibul of Hell.

 Speaking of Hell. I've labeled both (Fig. 1 & Fig. 2) of these cover illustrations as "joke" covers. I don't intend for the crew of Sedrover to meet bipedal polar bears. However, in The Last Starship from Earth, John Boyd depicted a dystopian Earth where interstellar space travel was only used to send political prisoners to a distant exoplanet called "Hell". Don't worry: the small colony of exiles on Hell did not suffer agonies in a hot desert environment nor were they chased by monstrous wasps. The image to the left is Mr. Wombo's version of the vestibule of hell.

the time equations

In Boyd's story, although the interstellar spacecraft from Earth were always scheduled to arrive and drop off new residents of Hell in the dead of winter, that was part of a scheme to make the people of Earth think that Hell was a terribly cold planet where the human residents were being punished for their wrong-thinking. However, it is revealed that the residents of Hell are actually the Cool Kids™ from Earth who have developed time travel technology.

The Equation from Hell. Perhaps the most annoying aspect of The Last Starship from Earth was that Boyd shamelessly adopted the Sci Fi plot gimmick of there being a mathematical equation describing "negative time". Once that magical equation is discovered, it is then simple to make a Time Machine and travel back into the past. The time-traveling mathematician changes the course of history, apparently bringing into existence the world as we know it, where the mathematical foundation for time travel is not so quick to develop 😞.

infite extraction experiment

The technical problem confronting Tyhry in Vythoth the Chresmoscopist is not related to time travel. Tyhry was born in the Final Reality after the Huaoshy changed the Dimensional Structure of the universe and put an end to all further time travel. Tyhry is being trained by Manny the bumpha as Earth's first expert in the discipline of nanite programming. 

Tyhry has recently been using medical nanites to modify the structures of her body and the bodies of several of the replicoid copies of herself and her friend, Marda (see Part 7 of the story). Tyhry long suspected that she is genetically a tryp-At, a telepathic human variant. Acting on the evidence that she is tryp'At, she changed her name from Tihri to Tyhry, using the likely tryp'At spelling of her name (see Irhit). Tyhry's goal is to fully activate her tryp'At-style telepathic abilities.

A Tyhry replicoid
with tryp'At features.

 Telepathy and Orgasms. Tyhry has been enjoying her exploration of the relationship between orgasms and telepathy. The tryp'At brain was originally designed by genetic engineering so as to restrict the use of tryp-At telepathy to communication between individuals who love each other. However, subsequently, several methods have been found to work around that genetically-programmed restriction of the use of telepathy by the tryp'At. 

1) First of all, artificial synapex linkages can be formed between the nervous systems of two individuals. That kind of direct nervous system connection can be used to "bypass" the usual restrictions of tryp'At telepathy. 

hierion probe experiment

 2) Secondly, Tyhry's sister Rylla has developed a series of artificial sex hormones that can activate tryp'At telepathic abilities independent of there being a loving relationship between two people. 

3) Third, information nanites (infites) can be used to alter memories and thought patterns, not only in humans, but also in positronic robots, whose artificial brains are based on the human brain template of a Neanderthal woman named Gohrlay. Tyhry's mother is a clone of Gohrlay named Zeta Gohrlay.

4) Fourth, Tyhry has access to hierion probe technology that allows her to independently use her two cerebral hemispheres, allowing her make telepathic linkages to other people while hiding some of her thoughts and knowledge.

Tyhry's little problem

 Project Coryn. Tyhry hopes to be able to use her telepathic abilities to control the behavior of a positronic robot named Nymerya Coryn. This project is a "training mission" that was devise by Manny to force Tyhry into learning how to simultaneously use her tryp'At brain, infites, hierion probe technology, synapex linkages and sex hormones such as klox21 to optimize her telepathic abilities and guide the behavior of Nymerya Coryn.

A technical problem confronting Tyhry is that klox21 acts in the tryp'At body to enlarge erectile tissue and keep it continuously erect. This has caused Tyhry's tryp-At penis to out-grow the sheath that would normally allow an erect tryp'At penis to be held inside the abdominal cavity with only the tip protruding. Tyhry's artificially-enlarged penis now protrudes several inches from it sheath even when Tyhry is trying to conceal it.

Part 8 of Vythoth the Chresmoscopist. (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4) (Part 5) (Part 6) (Part 7)

Tyhry's dream of First Contact.

Tyhry and Marda had been locked in a telepathic hours-long drug-enhanced orgasm trance when Tyhry was finally brought back to normal waking consciousness by a positive feedback process that had caused both Tyhry and Marda to start fantasizing about the imminent first test flight of Sedrover.

Upon awakening, Tyhry took hold of her very firm erection and thought about the wonders of klox21. She'd sent her scavenger nanites into Marda and obtained some of the new sex hormone. Her synthesizer nanites could now provide Tyhry with an unlimited supply of klox21, but Tyhry was worried that she had over-dosed. Her hot tryp-At penis showed no indication that it would relax and exit from its super-priapic state. After a few quick strokes of her penis, Tyhry achieved an orgasm and watched as spurts of her semen shot up from the tip of her penis, the first half dozen rising all the way to the low ceiling of her cabin.

These had been the captain's quarters back when Sedrover had been nothing but a nuclear submarine. Tyhry's ejaculations slowly subsided, but she kept massaging her erection. Since she's begun dosing herself with klox21, the look and smell of Tyhry's semen had altered and now it seemed that she could produce an endless river of sweet and savory ejaculate that was fun to play with and eat. Tyhry was delighted with her penis and after having it for two weeks she still was awestruck by its look and feel. Now, her erection was slick with semen and glistening. Marda said, "I guess I'll have to get one of those." Marda turned on her side and took hold of Tyhry's magnificent erection.

Marda's dream of First Contact.

Tyhry turned her head and saw that Marda's eyes were fixed on Tyhry's erection. Tyhry warned, "Having a tryp'At penis is a huge distraction. I can spend endless hours just playing with it. You might be wise to just revert your brain to its original form and not..."

Marda was telepathically following Tyhry's thoughts, "Why should you get all the fun? We could take turns hammering each other. I can see in your thoughts and memory that you've already had the penis of one of my replicoid copies inside your tight little vagina."

"If we both had a penis then we'd spend all day in bed and get nothing done." Tyhry checked the time. "Look at the time! I suppose the crew is starting to wonder if we'll delay lift-off." Before Tyhry could roll out of bed, Marda squatted over Tyhry and slid her vagina over Tyhry's penis. Marda's big tryp'At style clitoris was stiff and tingling from the effects of klox21. Tyhry pressed her two thumbs against the glans of Marda's clitoris and matched the rhythm of Marda's thrusting hips. Tyhry began to telepathically tune back in to Marda's thoughts and she now Tyhry saw fragments of the dream that Marda had been having. "You had sex with a plant?"

Marda was trying not to think about her dream. "An alien plant woman". In her dream, Marda had used Tyhry's medical nanites to grow her own tyry-At penis. After the Sedrover had discovered an exoplanet that was populated by sentient plant-like aliens, Marda had taken one of the sexy plant-woman as her lover. 

Her senses sharpened by klox21, Marda quickly climaxed and enjoyed her orgasm and the feel of Tyhry's hot penis inside her body. "There... now we are even." She had methodically made sure that Tyhry did not get more orgasms during their love making. Now Marda was telepathically reviewing Tyhry's recent dream experience which had involved hot sex with some sort of bear-like alien on a very cold exoplanet.

Tyhry muttered quietly, "The only thing I hate about sleeping with you is your skill at stealing the covers." In Tyhry's dream, she had been freezing cold except for her penis which had been warm and snug inside her furry alien lovers.

Marda and Tyhry.

Marda had never shared Tyhry's fascination with the possibilities of sexual intimacy with animals.  Now she saw a devious thought in Tyhry's mind. Marda told Tyhry, "No, just because you had sex with two dream bears during the time I was with my plant-woman, you are not ahead in the orgasm count. My plant lady provided me with two sweet orgasms." Marda reluctantly pulled herself off of Tyrhy. Just then, she felt a drop of Tyrhy's semen fall off of the ceiling onto her head. "Let's get a quick shower then it will be time for lift-off."

Their shared shower was not quick and it included another shared orgasm trance. Finally, Marda got out of the shower and dried herself off. Tyhry lingered under the falling water and tried running a stream of cold water over her erection, but it still would not deflate. When Tyhry came out of the shower, covered with goose bumps, Marda asked, "Are you going to be able to do this?"

Tyhry pulled on her top and got one leg into her pants. "I don't mind walking around Sedrover with my erection jutting out. I think it commands respect."

The tryp-At bulge.

 Marda took hold of Tyhry's jutting erection and shook her head. "The replicoid crew might not care about the sight of your penis, and I'd love to see it all day long, but my mother would be appalled. She was counting on me to keep klox21 a secret."

Tyhry put both hands on her erection and forced it back into her body. With only the last two inches protruding, Tyhry used her clothing nanites to wrap her crotch up tight in a soft, elastic fabric. With luck, her erection would stay confined and not force itself out and go on full display. She pulled up her pants and after some struggling, got them closed. The jutting tip of her penis made an interesting bulge, but there was nothing she could do about that. "Okay, let's get this show on the road." 

 Marda threw her arms around Tyhry and they shared a long passionate kiss. Marda pulled up the hem of her skirt and started rubbing the erect glans of her clitoris against the bulging tip of Tyhry's erection where it jutted out through the fabric of her clothing. Tyhry telepathically warned Marda: This is quite precarious. I'm actually feeling pain in my penis right now. I don't need you sexually stimulating me.

Marda's exoplanet fears.

Marda pulled back from Tyhry and said, "Sorry, lover. I'm afraid I just can't get enough of your pretty penis and your sweet semen." After briefly massaging her tingling clitoral erection, Marda let her skirt settle back down around her thighs. Marda suspected that Tyhry was using klox21, but she could not telepathically detect any thoughts in Tyhry's head about klox. Marda took hold of Tyhry's hands and said, "I don't expect you to tell me everything, but I'm trusting you to keep me informed about what is important. I've had such haunting dreams about what might be waiting for us in outer space.

Tyhry was experimenting with keeping her thoughts hidden. She did not like hiding anything Marda, but why was she raising the matter now? Tyhry kissed the tips of four of Marda's fingers then said, "I've never promised to tell you everything I know. It is only fair... you keep secrets from me."

Marda giggled. "Mom sometimes expects me to keep secrets, but I'm not sure why. You seem to know everything. I suppose you spy on her."

Tyhry nodded. "Of course I do. I'm not going to pass up opportunities to learn, even if Zeta and Rylla feel the need to protect me."

"The closer we get to lift-off, the more nervous I become. How can you remain so calm?"

Tyhry is confident.

"I've seen the future. I know nothing terrible will happen to us." Now Tyhry could see a disturbing dream image in Marda's thoughts. "You watch too many Hollywood movies. There are no evil monsters waiting for us out there."

"I know, but I don't have the luxury of your experience. You built this spaceship. For me, there are too many unknowns." Marda bit her lip then continued, "Intellectually I trust you and the replicoids to have made this ship space-worthy. Emotionally, I'd prefer to just keep you in bed with me all day where we can play and be happy."

Tyhry kissed the tip of Marda's nose. "I wish it was just you and me, like the old days. Everything was so simple. There's nothing sweeter than sexplay with you, my dear. However, we have much to do. I'm compelled by my programming to do what is best for Humanity. That takes president over my love for you as an individual."

"I know. I don't resent the fact that you have duties. Please ignore all of my childish whining."

Tyhry took a deep breath, adjusted her pants one last time and led the way out of her cabin and to the Main Control Room of Sedrover where half a dozen replicoid copies of Anthony and Tyrhy were speculating on the flight plan that Tyhry would implement.

As soon as Tyhry entered, one of the Anthony replicoids glanced at the cute bulge in her crotch and rather impatiently asked, "Where to, Captain?"

The original biological Tyhry ran her eyes over the replicoids, enjoying the sight of their strong bodies and eager faces. She felt it was silly for the Anthony replicoid to call her "captain", but she did not chastise him. Rylla and Lexy came into the control room from the neighboring Wardroom. Taking note of the bulge in Tyhry's tight-fitting pants, Rylla said to Marda, "Tell me, was I right?"

Marda shrugged and explained, "I don't know how, but I think Tyhry is already using 21. I can taste it in her semen."

Tyhry told Rylla, "Listen, sis, you should know that you can't keep secrets from me. But tell me, do you have anything like a klox antagonist?"

"If you over-dosed, I might be able to speed the break-down of 21, but I haven't tried that in a human yet." Rylla leaned close to Tyhry, lightly stoked the tip of Tyhry's erection with her finger tips and whispered, "Klox21 has made all my erectile tissue enlarge."

Marda spoke out-loud, not trying to keep any secrets from the replicoids who could all telepathically read her thoughts. "All my erectile tissue has enlarged and is constantly engorged."

Tyhry nodded. "I suspect this is part of the normal tryp'At life style, being in a constant state of sexual excitement. That seems to be the only way to keep tryp'At telepathy functioning at full efficiency." Tyhry glanced at the navigator's station and told her replicoid copy who was in charge of charting their course, "I've decided that we should depart from Earth in the direction of the Moon. Well use the Moon's bulk and brightness to hide us from astronomical instruments that might catch a glimpse of us as we depart from Earth. Once we're past the orbit of the Moon, engage the sedron drive and see how long it takes us to reach Mars."

The Tyhry replicoid quickly laid in a course to Mars via the Moon and said, "Course set."

An Anthony replicoid spoke to the engine room, "Stand by for faster-than light travel."

Tyhry glanced at her control panel and saw that the engine readiness light was glowing green. The pulled the cover-guard off of the "go" button and pressed it. In the big forward display panel, the open hanger door seemed to approach and then Sedrover tilted up into the sky. The anti-gravity system worked with near perfection. Only a slight sensation of acceleration was felt. Ten seconds later, they were above the dense lower part of the atmosphere. The Anthony replicoid in the Operations Room reported, "Forward outer hull temperature is 1150 degrees."

Mars seen through Sedrover's screens.

Now the front shield flashed occasionally as Sedrover crossed paths with dust particles. Tyhry watched as the Moon swelled and then passed out of view. Now ahead was the red sparkle of Mars, almost hidden by a constant spattering of micrometeorite impacts on the shields. Marda checked a display panel. "We're moving at about 10,000 kilometers per minute. Sublight."

Tyhry spoke to her replicoid copy who was in the engine room monitoring the sedron drive. "Can you give us light speed?"

Now Vythoth the Fru'wu entered the Control Room from the Wardroom. "What's wrong?"

Tyhry could sense in the alien's thoughts some slight glee. The Fru'wu spaceships could move just below the speed of light. Tyhry replied, "I don't know. These engines should easily take us above light speed."

During the next five minutes it was confirmed that the sedron "fuel" had been fed into the interstellar drive. Finally, one of the Anthony replicoids said, "You know, we were never able to confirm that we have the correct type of sedron."

 Vythoth asked, "How can that be?"

Tyhry explained, "Manny is the only one who can bring sedrons into the Final Reality from the Reality Simulation system." Tyhry left the control room and went to the environmental systems room where the replicoid copy of Marda was trying to stay secluded from the biological Marda. The two copies of Marda were rather jealous of each other. The Marda replicoid had played a major role in setting up the sedron mining and purification operation on Earth. Tyhry went to stand beside the Marda replicoid and she looked at the data for the levels of gasses in the ship's air. The carbon dioxide level was holding steady. Tyhry asked, "What do think the chances are that we have the wrong sedron?"

Tyhry's alien synapex dream.

The replicoid placed her hand over the tip of Tyhry's penis where it pushed out against the fabric of her pants. "Since we can't break the light barrier, I'd say the chances are fair. Why would Manny let us waste so much time purifying the wrong sedron?" Marda paused. "...unless this is one of Manny's little games."

Tyhry had a flash-like memory of one of her dreams that had featured a creepy alien creature with tentacles forming synapex linkages to Tyhry in an effort to take control of Tyhry's mind. opened her pants and let her erection snap out of the body cavity that was designed to hold it. "That's a relief." The Marda replicoid took hold of Tyhry's penis with both of her hands. Tyhry speculated, "Maybe Manny wanted to get us off Earth, but not too far from Earth. I've long suspected that the Eternity space-time bubble of the Hierion Domain is somewhere out here, not far from Earth."

Tyhry began to ejaculate and the Marda replicoid took the tip of Tyhry's erection in her mouth. While the Marda replicoid swallowed Tyhry's hot spurts of semen, she telepathically told Tyhry: I'm getting nervous. We should turn around. It would not be good to get stranded out here.

Tyhry allowed herself a full minute to enjoy her orgasm and wait for her ejaculations to subside. Then she lifted the Marda replicoid's skirt. The replicoid stopped sucking on Tyhry's penis and quickly took Tyhry's big erection into her wet vagina and began working towards her own orgasm. Tyhry linked their nervous systems with a synapex connection and the sex hormones in Tyhry's semen began effecting Marda's sensory system. Tyhry said, "I'd like to get as far as Mars, but you are right. Something else might go wrong." Tyhry had the Marda replicoid leaning against one of the control consoles and she vigorously thrust her erection in and out Marda. Now they both shared an orgasm and briefly sank into an orgasm trance. However, Tyhry knew that Sedrover was rapidly approaching Mars. "Thanks for the orgasms, my love." She pulled her penis out of Marda and then spoke to the crew in the Main Control Room. "Distance to Mars?"

One of the Tyhry replicoids replied, "About 20,000 kilometers. We'll go into orbit soon, except we are picking up a radio signal... behind us."

Tyhry ordered, "Full stop. What kind of radio signal?"

"Short and simple. It keeps repeating: 'Welcome to Gyryph'. In English... not any language of the Ekcolir Reality."

"How strange. They know we are from the Final Reality." Tyhry immediately suspected a trick by Manny the bumpha. "Can you find the source?"

"We should be able to. We're turning around and triangulating. We have it... a point well above the ecliptic. Just about exactly over Earth's north magnetic pole."

"When we get close enough to send a tight beam reply that won't be heard on Earth, send this message: 'Who are you?'" Tyhry broke the communications link to the Control Room and turned back to the Marda Replicoid. Tyhry began licking the stiff glans of Marda's clitoris and telepathically told her: I've never hear of 'Gyryph', how about you?

The Marda replicoid was still synapex linked to Tyhry and now she was rapidly approaching another orgasm. No, I don't know what that means. Gyryph? Get your hot erection back inside me, lover.

Tyhry did not hesitate to comply with Marda's request. By the time they had shared another, longer orgasm trance, the Tyhry replicoid arrived and spoke directly to the original biological copy of Tyhry, "We seem to be at the source of the Gyryph transmission, but there is nothing here. Nothing our sensors can detect."

Tyhry pulled her hard penis out of the Marda replicoid and turned towards the Tyhry replicoid. "What if they are inside the Hierion Domain?"

Sorsyph in her laboratory.

Just then, Tyhry saw one of the many cats that had taken up residence inside Sedrover during the past year. The cat had black and white patches of fur and Tyhry thought she recognized it, but it was purposely approaching. "Tyllyr, is that you?"

Tyhry "heard" a new voice in her mind: I am Sorsyph. I've taken control of Tyllyr's body. Tyllyr jumped up and Tyhry caught the cat, holding it in her arms. Tyhry looked down at the cat and almost forgot about her erection. Sorsyph continued: I suppose you'd like to visit Gyryph.

Tyhry spoke out-loud, "It is true? You reside inside the Hierion Domain?"

"Yes." 

Tyhry had shifted. Suddenly she was no longer on Sedrover. She was looking at Sorsyph and Tyhry realized that ten years previously she had seen Sorsyph in a vision of the future that came to Tyhry by way of the Sedron Time Stream. Tyhry reached out across the table that was there between the two women and touched Sorsyph's fuzzy face. Tyhry noticed that she had furry hands, as did Sorsyph. Realizing that she was in a new body, Tyhry asked, "What's going on?"

Sorsyph explained, "I've been using Tyllyr to spy on you for much of the past year."

Tyhry was quite amazed to find herself in someone else's body, but Sorsyph obviously took that for granted. Tyhry asked, "I suppose that's how you learned English." She glanced down at the surface of the workbench which was cluttered with equipment.

"I've had help from infites. Your English is a nightmare. It was quite a shock for we Felydyans to discover you and your replicoids on Earth." Tyhry could now feel Sorsyph searching through Tyhry's memories. "I'm still finding it hard to accept that you are from a future Reality and all this," She waved a hand at the interior of her laboratory, "Is some kind of simulation."

One of Tyhry's cat fantasies.

Tyhry looked around the room that was full of enigmatic devices and laboratory equipment. Tyhry could telepathically sense the fringes of Sorsyph's mind. More importantly, Tyhry was feeling quite sexually aroused. Sorsyph was quite beautiful and dressed in revealing lace. Sorsyph's stiff little nipples pointed at Tyhry. Tyhry tried to ignore her own tingling erectile tissue. "Exactly where are we?"

"This is my physics laboratory."

"Tell me... how did you change my body?"

"My lover, Oyub, agreed to let you use her body for a time. I've linked your cognitive system into her body, although in a very real sense you are still inside your own body, back on Sedrover."

Tyhry flexed her fingers. Oyub's fingers. "This feels so natural. I'm impressed with your mind-transfer technology." Tyhry reached down into the furry pants that she wore and explored her genitals.

Sorsyph explained, "We Felydyans are from the far future... we are one of the human variants that can be traced back to the tryp'At, so just like them, I have a penis and two vaginas."

Oyub exploring
Sedrover while using
Tyhry's body.

Tyhry felt her erect penis emerge from her body. Her furry pants were obviously designed to make it easy for a Felydyan penis to come out into full view. Using both of her furry hands, Tyhry examined Oyub's pretty penis. Sorsyph commented, "Tyhry, you have a problem. I find it amusing, and titillating, that you over-dosed on that klox sex hormone just before I finally got to meet you. You are going to have to learn to control your penis, girl... which at this moment happens to be Oyub's penis."

Tyhry was delighted by the sensations provoked by the soft fur of her hands against the sensitive skin of her penis. She asked Sorsyph, "Where is Oyub right now?"

Sorsyph explained, "I sent her consciousness over to Sedrover. She's using your body and exploring your spaceship while you are here and making use of her body."

Tyhry imagines Sorsyph with less fur.

Tyhry walked around the table and reached into Sorsyph's pants and felt the stiff tip of Sorsyph's penis where it jutted outwards. "You Felydyans are always erect?"

"Almost always. That's a tryp'At trait that we have retained." Sorsyph took hold of TYhry/Oyub's hot erection. "I'm impressed at how sexually aroused you are."

Tyhry giggled. "My whole life I've had fantasies about making love to you." Tyhry began to explore both of Sorsyph's vaginas with her... fingers? She asked, "It seems strange to have furry fingers... and claws. I hope I don't scratch you."

Sorsyph's two vaginas were both dripping wet with luxuriant secretions. With Tyhry exploring her vaginas, Sorsyph began to purr and she said something in the Felydyan language that Tyhry did not understand. Tyhry was wondering if Sorsyph used feeding nanites to bring nutrients into her body and shuttle away wastes. Speaking in her own language, Sorsyph had told Tyhry: There's no shit in my back vagina... it is not an anus. Tyhry said, "I'd like to ravish you."

Sorsyph giggled. "I suppose you won't be able to think straight until you have an orgasm or two. I don't mind. There's no point in me trying to discuss sedrons with you when your mind is focused on sex."

Tyhry had placed her erection between Sorsyph's legs, but now she hesitated and asked, "So you know why Sedrover did not travel at super-luminal speed?"

Sorsyph nodded. "Of course. You don't have the correct type of sedron." Now Sorsyph let her pants fall to her ankles. They were made of nanites and quickly dissolved away, returning to their default state: a cloud of invisibly small nanites. She leaned her torso over the work bench and seductively presented her round bottom to Tyhry. 

Tyhry slid her/Oyub's stiff penis into Sorsyph's back vagina. After a few deep trusts, Tyhry asked, "But you Felydyan have the type of sedron that I need?"

Sorsyph was purring loudly. She continued purring and at the same time replied telepathically: Yes, we do. I'd be happy to provide you with some, but these sedrons are a precious commodity. We don't have an infinite supply.

Tyhry had heard what she wanted to hear. Now she concentrated on the pleasurable task of exploring Sorsyph's hot silky vagina's and the sensations that could be generated by this new penis of her host body.

Later, after a prolonged sexplay session, Tyhry awoke, still in Oyub's body. Tyhry realized that she had been unconscious for some extended period of time. Her last memory was of greatly enjoying her love making with Sorsyph and having the sensation that her telepathic link to Sorsyph's mind was strengthening. Sorsyph was now between Tyhry's legs, slowly massaging her lover's front vagina with her big hot erection. Sorsyph was deep in Tyhry/Oyub's vagina and telepathically deep in Tyhry's mind. Welcome back.

Tyhry again engaged in the pleasurable game of explored Sorsyph's beautiful body, curious about why some parts were furry and others had normal human skin. "Can you explain... your fur pattern seems to have changed..."

Sorsyph kept thrusting her big hot erection deep into Tyhry/Oyub's vagina and told Tyhry: We Felydyans have body-sculpting nanites. We constantly re-shape out bodies to please our lovers. Right now I'm enlarging my penis because I can sense in your thoughts how much you like a really huge penis inside you!

Tyhry completely relaxed and enjoyed the way that Sorsyph was stretching her front vagina to the limit. "So your body is not actually part cat and part human?"

Sorsyph now spoke. "We Felydyans do have many cat gene patterns." Sorsyph giggled. "I've studied you for months, Tyhry. When I learned that you have had past experience in feline sexplay, I knew that we would be sexually compatible. Of course, when I was sent on a time travel mission to explore Earth's past, I was evaluated for my ability to use a conventional Earth-human body form. Give me a few days and I can use medical nanites to remove all of my feline features." Sorsyph rushed herself to sexual climax and ejaculated inside Tyhry's hot vagina. 

When Sorsyph pulled her big artificially inflated erection out of Tyhry, Tyhry took it in her mouth and tasted Felydyan semen. Tyhry's mouth seemed to explode with exciting sensations. Tyhry's penis again stiffened, but it did not pop out of Tyhry's body. Sorsyph was still telepathically following Tyhry's thoughts. "While you were unconscious, I scrubbed the klox sex hormone out of your system. Now you can think about things other than sexplay and we can make plans." Again Sorsyph said something in her native language and once again Tyhry thought she telepathically received some understanding of what Sorsyph had said: a brief subjective commentary on how much Sorsyph was enjoying the feel of Tyhry/Oyub's feline tongue on the sensitive tip of Sorsyph's penis.

Tyhry stopped sucking on Sorsyph's penis and said, "I remember you mentioning Felydyan infites. You told me that you'll share sedron technology with me, what about infites?"

Sorsyph and Tyhry were both playing with Sorsyph's erection. Sorsyph told Tyhry, "I don't really understand why you want infite technology. You want to trick a robot, this... Nymerya Coryn? He's from a previous Reality? I see in your mind that this has nothing to do with time travel. So why bother?"

Tyhry thought about Systolina and her problem on Threy. Now Tyhry/Oyub's penis became fully engorged and slid out of its sheath. For a minute, Tyhry directly compared her erection to Sorsyph's. Sorsyph commaned her body-sculpting nanites to exit from her penis and it quickly shrank back down to normal size, just about exactly the same size as Tyhry/Oyub's penis. Tyhry then remembering the topic of conversation and said, "My friend, Systolina, needs help. I feel responsible for having gotten her into a difficult situation. I hope to send Nymerya Coryn into the far past of this Reality and change the course of human civilization. Yes, it is only a simulation, but this project will allow me to learn how my own Reality, the Final Reality, came into existence."

Sorsyph kissed the tip of Oyub's penis and she spoke to her lover, Oyub. Tyhry could now sense the mind of Oyub as it took control of her own body once again. "I'm intrigued by the possibility of seeing Tyhry's Reality Simulation System in action. I'll see you soon!" Then the cognitive systems of Tyhry and Sorsyph transferred back over to Sedrover and Tyhry's visit to Gyryph was at its end.

Coming Soon: Part 9 of Vythoth the Chresmoscopist.

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