Jun 1, 2025

Pharȉ & Embroĩd Gameš of Ṧite Q

Figure 1. Updated by Whisk.
 This blog page (below) has Part 6 of my Decade in Review (DiR, see Part 1). All of the blog posts in this series have titles that contain unusual characters. This blog post is called "Pharȉ & Embroĩd Gameš of Ṧite Q" because in 2021 I had four major science fiction writing projects:
1) The Alastor Network, which introduced the plot device of telepathic embroids,
2) Meet the Phari, which was to have concluded a five-year-long story writing effort aimed at depicting the development of some form of human contact and communication with the alien Phari in Alastor Cluster,
3) Old Time Gaming, a story set in Australia that was to be a serious depiction of Manny the bumpha manipulating the fates of Earthlings so as to craft an acceptable future for Humanity, with particular emphasis on one resident of Earth, Rylla Onway and
4) Telepaths of Site Q, an exploration of how Asterothrope gene patterns shaped the human telepaths of the Final Reality.

Figure 2. The Asimov Reality.
 Story Illustration. As part of this Decade in Review DiR, I'm identifying old science fiction stories that I never completed while also using AI tools to make updated versions of old story illustrations. Figure 1 shows an updated version of an old illustration that was used to illustrate this 2019 blog post. The new version of the illustration that was generated by Whisk shows that Whisk can recognize the format of old science fiction magazine covers in reference images and Whisk then tries to make a new image in that style.

Figure 3. Updated by Whisk.
The image that is shown in Figure 2 was generated by WOMBO Dream using a story illustration from 2017 as a reference image. My text prompt for Mr. Wombo specified, "photorealistic high detail, sharp focus, emphasizing texture and materiality," and the AI-generated image was more like a photograph than either Figure 1 or Figure 3. Whisk is good at recognizing text in reference images that are imaginary book and magazine covers. The letters 'TION" in Figure 1 and all the text in Figure 2 was added manually by me.

The reference image that was given to Whisk for generation of Figure 3 is shown at the top of this 2021 blog post. The Kerub were featured in some of my older science fiction stories (see Part 5 of this DiR) and these telepathic human-alien hybrids of the planet Yerophet return in The Alastor Network.

Figure 4. Acyreff and Yurahs inspect Ra (image source).
 Science Fiction in 2021. The first part of my science fiction story called The Alastor Network is in a January 3, 2021 blog post called "Grandma Acyreff". The Alastor Network is quite explicitly Jack Vance fan-fiction set in Alastor Cluster.

In 2021, I began taking seriously the idea that when R. Nyrtia and Manny the bumpha were designing and crafting telepathic human variants, they both adopted the idea that humans could be trusted with telepathic abilities only if it was individuals who loved each other that could exchange information telepathically. 

Thus, my stories in 2021 did not avoid the fact that when breeding better human telepaths in Alastor Cluster, Nyrtia and Manny made use of sexual attraction to being together the genes of their telepathic test subjects.

Figure 5. cover image
 Sexbots. Along with the telepathic humans, Lo and Ra, two sexbots, were included as characters in The Alastor Network. I had previously imagined the planet Triskelion A as the source of advanced robots in Alastor Cluster, so I depicted Lo and Ra as having been manufactured on Triskelion (see Figure 4).

Due to the explicit linkage between sexual behavior and telepathy in my science fiction stories such as The Alastor Network, I placed this blog behind Google's "mature content" barrier in 2021.

The Alastor Network includes characters who have Asterothrope gene patterns and I adopted the idea that Asterothrope females had been genetically designed by Nyrtia so as to reproduce rapidly. As shown in Figure 5, some Asterothrope gene patterns can be used to craft human variants with four breasts.

Figure 6. Original illustration.
 Illustrating the Invisible. One of the challenges of illustrating science fiction stories such as The Alastor Network is finding a way to visually depict the invisible or the barely visible. The Connatic's wife, Acyreff, is guided through her life by an artificial life-form that she thinks of as a ghark. The ghark can be seen by Acyreff, but it appears to be no more than a "transparent gray smudge". Both Acyreff and the robot Lo can detect the presence of the ghark by smelling its nanite components.

The image shown in Figure 6 was made by me in 2018 using PhotoShop. I provided that as a reference image to Whisk and it generated the following text description: "The cover of "Unknown World" by Georgy White in a futuristic, photorealistic style features a fair-skinned adult woman in profile, her gaze directed to the left, set against a detailed landscape. The woman has shoulder-length, light blonde, slightly damp and tousled hair falling around her face, with a visible ear, a slight nose, and slightly parted lips. 

Figure 7. Generated by Whisk.
 The background shows a body of water meeting a hilly, rocky shoreline covered in green vegetation, beneath a sky that transitions from blue near the horizon to cloudy white and gray above. The text "UNKNOWN WORLD" is prominent in large, white, blocky serif font outlined in orange and red at the top left, with "by Georgy White" below in a smaller, cursive, red-orange font, and "Memory Nanites" further down in yellow block letters. In the lower left, behind the woman, is a blurry, fiery orange and yellow shape with a faint trail. The overall scene has rich, vibrant, and saturated colors with intricate photorealistic details, sharp focus, and a cinematic quality emphasizing texture and materiality, evoking a spirit of adventure and wonder typical of functional far-future designs" and the image shown in Figure 7. Whisk seemed to interpret the nanite swarm as being some sort of flame. Whisk prefers to use just one font for the text "by Georgy White". My preference is to have "by" and the author's name use different fonts and have different colors.

Figure 8. Generated by Whisk
with my text prompt.
I then modified the text prompt to, "A photorealistic, high detail, sharp focus science fiction book cover emphasizing texture and materiality depicts a young adult woman who is experiencing a Close Encounter with a mist-like swarm of nanites. This is a cover illustration for a book that has the title  "Unknown World" by the author Georgy White. The cover text "Unknown World" is in a large font, “by Georgy White” is in a smaller font below the title.

The young woman futuristic is shown in a photorealistic style that features the fair-skin of her face in profile, her gaze directed to the left, set against a detailed landscape. The woman has shoulder-length, light blonde, slightly damp and tousled hair falling around her face, with a visible ear, a small cute nose, and slightly parted lips. The background shows a body of water meeting a hilly, rocky shoreline covered in green vegetation, beneath a sky that transitions from blue near the horizon to cloudy white and gray above.
Figure 8a. Generated by Whisk
with my text prompt.

 Immediately in front of her face is a swarm of sparkling nanites. Each nanite is invisibly small, but when large numbers of the nanites aggregate and swarm, they appear as a sparkling multi-colored mist. The nanites are streaming into the young woman’s head.

The text "UNKNOWN WORLD" is prominent in large, white, blocky serif font outlined in orange and red at the top left, with "by Georgy White" below in a smaller, cursive, red-orange font, and the text “Memory Nanites" is lower down on the cover in yellow block letters. The overall scene has rich, vibrant, and saturated colors with intricate photorealistic details, sharp focus, and a cinematic quality emphasizing texture and materiality, evoking a spirit of adventure and wonder typical of functional far-future designs." and Whisk generated the two images that are shown in Figures 8 and 8a.

Figure 9. Generated by Whisk
with Claude's text prompt.
 Getting help from Claude.
Next, I asked Claude to generate a modified text prompt that would address these three issues: 1) most of the sparkling nanites should be visible as a mist-like cloud that is directly in front of the woman's face, 2) the nanites should appear to be streaming into the woman's body, 3) the woman has just emerged from the water of the lake that is in the background. Her shoulders should be bare and appear to be wet.

Claude generated this text prompt: "A photorealistic, high detail, sharp focus science fiction book cover emphasizing texture and materiality depicts a young adult woman who has just emerged from water and is experiencing a Close Encounter with a mist-like swarm of nanites. This is a cover illustration for a book that has the title "Unknown World" by the author Georgy White. The cover text "Unknown World" is in a large font, "by Georgy White" is in a smaller font below the title.

Figure 9a. Generated by Whisk
with Claude's text prompt.
 The young woman is shown in a photorealistic style that features the fair-skin of her face in profile, her gaze directed to the left, set against a detailed landscape. She has just emerged from the lake, with bare wet shoulders glistening with water droplets. The woman has shoulder-length, light blonde, wet and tousled hair clinging to her face and shoulders, with a visible ear, a small cute nose, and slightly parted lips. The background shows a body of water meeting a hilly, rocky shoreline covered in green vegetation, beneath a sky that transitions from blue near the horizon to cloudy white and gray above.

Directly in front of her face is a large, prominent mist-like cloud of sparkling nanites. The nanites appear as a concentrated, sparkling multi-colored mist hovering just inches from her face. The nanite swarm is actively streaming into the woman's body through her face and exposed skin, creating visible trails of glittering particles flowing toward and into her. Each nanite is invisibly small, but when large numbers aggregate in the swarm, they form a dense, shimmering cloud.

Figure 10. Generated by Whisk.
The text "UNKNOWN WORLD" is prominent in large, white, blocky serif font outlined in orange and red at the top left, with "by Georgy White" below in a smaller, cursive, red-orange font, and the text "Memory Nanites" is lower down on the cover in yellow block letters. The overall scene has rich, vibrant, and saturated colors with intricate photorealistic details, sharp focus, and a cinematic quality emphasizing texture and materiality, evoking a spirit of adventure and wonder typical of functional far-future designs." Using Claude's text prompt, Whisk generated the two images that are shown in Figures 9 and 9a. Whisk was confused about how many times to put the text "by Georgy White" on the cover.

I consolidated all mention of the text into the first part of the text prompt and then Whisk was able to generate the image that is shown in Figure 10

Yurahs and Heshlo share long-lasting periods
of telepathic linkage called orgasm trances.
 Numenes. The first scene of The Alastor Network is on Numenes, the Capitol world of Alastor Cluster. The Connatic's adopted daughter, Yurahs, has some capacity to access information about the future by means of what I would later call the Sedron Time Stream. Her brother, Heshlo, is a cadet in the Whelm and will be away from Numenes for a time, stationed on the planet Yerophet.

Also mentioned in Part 1 of The Alastor Network is an artificial intelligence of human design named Josef. Although The Alastor Network is set thousands of year in the future, human technological advances have been suppressed in the Asimov Reality, so Josef is among the first ever artificial intelligences made by humans in that Reality. Josef was designed to monitor the Phari interstellar telepathy network that links the inhabited worlds of Alastor Cluster.

Figure 11. Generated by
Mr. Wombo and Whisk.

 Mind Clones. Also mentioned right at the beginning of The Alastor Network is the idea that Yurahs is destined to give birth to a child (Lavany) who will be part of a Phari mind clone network, the idea being that such a network of telepaths will make it possible for humans to finally achieve contact with the alien Phari, who reside in the Hierion Domain.

The image that is shown in Figure 11 is a composite image, mostly generated by Whisk by starting with the image that is at the top of Part 2 of The Alastor Network. The woman in the upper left corner of that image is meant to be a telepathic human-alien hybrid known as a Kerub and that part of the image was made using WOMBO Dream, replacing another image of the blond woman that had been generated by Whisk.

Figure 12. Generated by
Mr. Wombo and Whisk.
An important feature of the royal palace of Lusz that is mentioned in Part 2 of The Alastor Network is the presence cats who reside in the palace. The image that is shown in Figure 12 is a composite image, mostly generated by Whisk, but the cat was made by WOMBO Dream. Whisk failed to place the cat on the chair and I wanted a cat with an unusually large head.

The cats of Lusz are a medium for another artificial life-form known as a hoo. The gharks and the hoo were introduced in a 2019 story and depicted as two different factions involved in breeding telepathic humans. In the Asimov Reality, both R. Nyrtia and Manny the bumpha (and Manny's helpers the Kac'hin) are working in Alastor Cluster to design and develop telepathic humans by borrowing useful gene patterns from aliens. In general, the human "breeding stock" for these experiments in directed evolution are kept unaware of the on-going efforts of Nyrtia and Manny to create powerful human telepaths.

Asterothropes
 Telepathic Space Pirates. Acyreff is told by a hoo that eventually "Chi mind clones will be needed on Marune", a topic that would be taken up later, in March 2021. Two other robots at the palace of Lusz are Hans and Xeralf. While the Connatic is away from Numenes, Hans usually plays the role of the Connatic, but it is Acyreff's job to meet visitors and make decisions. Acyreff meets representatives from Brevik, one of the more technologically advanced planets of Alastor Cluster, where work is proceeding on technology that can better protect spaceships against attacks by space pirates. Dr. Jeghtop is trying to find a defense against telepathic space pirates (that Jack Vance called "starmenters").

 Asterothropes. Yurahs learns that her adoptive grandparents, Eleyn and her husband Rujyan, went to visit Earth and are trying to obtain information about the Asterothropes, mystical people of the past who are rumored to have had telepathic abilities. Later in The Alastor Network, Eleyn returns to Alastor Cluster for a visit.

Figure 13. Generated by Whisk.
 Mind Control. Dr. Kasya Jeghtop (who works for a spaceship manufacturing company on Brevik) requests access to the top secret Josef technology that is being developed by the Whelm. Acyreff wants to know how it had been possible for Dr. Jeghtop to learn about the top secret Josef project and so she tries to get help from Hans to telepathically probe Dr. Jeghtop's mind. However, both Hans and Acyreff are being prevented from discussing telepathy, possibly as part of Grean's efforts to prevent time travel paradoxes.

Figure 13a. Generated by Whisk.
Dr. Jeghtop's technology development project is called the Shadow Drone Project (see Figures 13 and 13a). Acyreff becomes interested in Dr. Jeghtop's Shadow Drone project and they meet for dinner in Part 3 of "The Alastor Network". Can Kasya and Acyreff work together and discover how to use nanotechnology to defend spacecraft from the space pirates of Yrinna?  Can Acyreff trust Kasya?

Figure 14. Lo and Yurahs.

At dinner, Kasya and Acyreff are joined by Lo the robot and Yurahs. Lo and Yurahs are playing dress-up games and Yurahs is disguised as her brother Heshlo and Lo is disguised as Yurahs.  

Just prior to the arrival of Kasya for dinner, Lo and Yurahs were making love and while Yurahs experiences her orgasm, her telepathic powers are amplified. She links telepathically to Kasya. Having telepathically examined the thoughts of Kasya, now Yurahs knows that Kasya can be trusted.

I provided Whisk with the old story illustration from 2021 that is shown in Figure 14

Figure 15. Generated by Whisk.
Whisk then generated the updated image that is shown in Figure 15. I was amused that Whisk spontaneously changed "Lusz" (the name of the Connatic's palace)  to "Lust".  

Until telepathically sharing in Yurahs' orgasm, Kasya had only ever had a telepathic link to her sister (Twycky).  Kasya explains that when Twycky was taken by the starmenters, they were on their way back to Brevik from Triskelion. While visiting Triskelion, Kasya and Twycky had learned that Triskelion was supplying technology to the Whelm for the Josef artificial intelligence project.

Now Yurahs insists that Acyreff must work with Kasya to liberate Twycky from the starmenters. Kasya demonstrates a new hierion field generator from Triskelion which instantly inactivates Lo the robot. Kasya suggests a technology trade: hierion field generator technology for the Josef AI technology. Acyreff arranges for a military escort to accompany Kasya back to Brevik. Yurahs experiences a telepathic vision of the future and she senses that Acyreff, will be able to rescue Twycky from the starmenters.

image source

In Part 4 of the science fiction story "The Alastor Network", with the help of a ghark, the Connatic's wife, Acyreff, is able to establish a telepathic connection to Twycky across a vast interstellar distance. Kasya's husband Mando is telepathically sensitive, and he is able to detect the approach of telepathic starmenters.

Guide to character names (source).
In Part 5 of "The Alastor Network", a telepathic starmenter, Captain Lanting, tries to capture Kasya and falls into a trap that was set by Acyreff, now in her role of Commander Galzara Shermatz of the Whelm.

image credits
 Grean the Kac'hin reveals herself to Acyreff and a few key members of the Whelm along with Kasya and her telepathic daughter, Maghy; the team that will rescue Twycky from captivity on the planet Yrinna. Grean uses her advanced nanotechnology to put locks on their minds, preventing them from discussing Grean with anyone outside their group. 

Grean explains that R. Gohrlay gave advanced technology to the starmenters of Yrinna and now she is "re-balancing" technologies, allowing the Whelm to develop defenses against the hierion probe technology that Captain Lanting has used to knock spaceships out of Intersplit, the interstellar drive used in the Asimov Reality. 

Figure 16. Generated by Whisk.
In Part 6 of "The Alastor Network", it is revealed that Kasya can use a hierion probe to modulate her zeptite endosymbiont, allowing her to have telepathic connection to her sister Twycky across interstellar distances. Acyreff begins to make plans for how to extract Twycky from Yrinna.

In Part 7, using shared orgasm trances to amplify her telepathic abilities, Acyreff successfully contacts Twycky and tells her to expect the Whelm rescue team to reach Yrinna in exactly 40 hours. It is discovered that the starmenter trick for knocking spacecraft out of Intersplit can be thwarted by making a small adjustment to the Intersplit drive mechanism. Also, Acyreff is taken into the Hierion Domain where she briefly uses her replicoid's body, which has been given the form of a Kac'hin. Acyreff gets to experience Kac'hin-style sexplay with Grean.

The Pirates of Yrinna
 Flash Back. In Part 8 of the science fiction story “The Alastor Network”, having been abducted by space pirates, Twycky Jeghtop was delivered to the planet Yrinna and she began learning about her captors including Lord Doberthucain Gensifer, head of the Gensifer Clan. Lord Gensifer is part of a human breeding project that is aimed at producing humans with improved telepathic abilities. The space pirates of Yrinna collect telepaths from the many inhabited planets of Alastor Cluster and combine their gene patterns in new ways.

Figure 17. Generated by
Mr. Wombo and Whisk.
In Part 9 of the science fiction story “The Alastor Network”, a bio-mechanical artificial intelligence system called QB5 is designated as the representative of Brevik that will coordinate with the Josef AI of the Whelm during the rescue of Twycky from Yrinna.

Figure 18. Generated by Whisk.
Along with computer circuits, QB5 includes an embroid, a modified human brain with telepathic abilities. Most of the image that is shown in Figure 17 was generated by Whisk, but the strange humanoid attached to the tail end of the embroid was generated by Mr. Wombo.

Figure 18a. My original embroid.
As shown in Figure 18, Whisk does not like to depict embryos. The original story illustration that was provided to Whisk as a reference image is shown to the left, in Figure 18a. Here is the description of the embroid that was generated by Whisk: "The creature is large and grotesque, featuring a veined, pinkish-tan appendage ending in sharp, claw-like points. At the top of this appendage is a fleshy, brain-like mass with deep convolutions. The creature appears to be reaching towards the woman with one of its clawed extensions near her face."

Figure 19. Generated by Whisk.

I modified the text prompt to specify: "The red embryo creature seemingly floats in mid-air. The floating embryo creature is large and grotesque, featuring a veined, pinkish-tan appendage ending in sharp, claw-like points. At the top of this appendage is a fleshy, brain-like mass with deep convolutions. The creature appears to be reaching towards the woman with one of its clawed extensions reaching towards her face. The creature has the appearance of a large convoluted brain with a small embryonic mammalian body." The resulting image is shown in Figure 19

Unfortunately, Figure 19 fails to depict an interaction between the woman and the embroid, although my text prompt specified, "Her left arm is raised, as if in defense or surprise, towards a monstrous creature emerging from a circular opening in the background."

image source
In Part 10 of "The Alastor Network", readers learn that Acyreff has had a vision of the future showing that Twycky would be successfully rescued from her captivity on Yrinna. As Josef and QB5 begin to interact in preparation for the rescue mission on Yrinna, suddenly there is a vast amount of information transmitted from QB5 to Josef.

In Part 11 of "The Alastor Network", Twycky is liberated from Yrinna along with a teleportation duplicate of Rupert Gensifer and Lady and Lord Gensifer. With the help of Grean and the telepathic abilities of Joqueline and the human rescuers, there are no human casualties among the Whelm.

Josef and QB5 have merged to form a new telepathic mind called Joqueline which has traveled through time into the future... promising to return. 

Figure 20. Generated by Whisk.
 Kac'hin Syndrome. At the top of Part 12 of "The Alastor Network", there is an illustration that I made in 2021 by using an old magazine cover image from the Winter 1951 issue of Fantastic Story Quarterly. Using the image that I made in 2021 as a reference image, I had both Whisk and WOMBO Dream make new, updated versions of the scene. The image in Figure 20 was generated by Whisk. The text prompt included "blonde hair with dark roots", but for some reason Whisk gave her half black hair and half blond.

Figure 21. Generated by
Mr. Wombo.
 WOMBO Dream has a limited text prompt length, but Mr. Wombo made images such as the one shown in Figure 21. The image shown in Figure 21 is a composite image with some "embroid bits" cut from other images and pasted in to this one to cover up parts of the original image in the lower right quadrant.

There are some additional WOMBO-generated images at the bottom of this blog post. In Part 12, an effort is made to save the "body" of the QB5 embroid by implanting it inside Kasya.

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In Part 13 of "The Alastor Network", the Connatic, his son Heshlo and Lady and Lord Gensifer go to Brevick in order to learn more about the mysterious telepathic embroids that were developed by the Pegasus spaceship manufacturing company. Kasya also returns to her home on Brevick, but with the QB5 embroid now inside her uterus, she is under doctor's orders to rest. The Connatic meets Director Patrycya Menchlex of the Pegasus quantum computing research project that has developed telepathic embroids for the past 50 years with support from mysterious "investors".

Figure 21. Image updated by
Mr. Wombo.
 The Joqueline Time Loop. In Part 14 of "The Alastor Network", the Connatic tells his assembled team of telepaths (which includes Twycky and Mando), "While experiencing sexual pleasure, the minds of telepaths can relax their defenses and can network and achieve positive feedback, amplifying telepathic abilities." The planet Brevick is the home of an ancient telepathic alien species called the Brevi. Lord Gensifer has telepathically felt the touch of the Brevi since he first arrived in orbit around Brevick. Lord Gensifer suspects that the Bryvi of Brevik are guiding all of their minds towards thoughts of obtaining sexual pleasure.  

Maghy (image source)
 The Mysterious Investors. During a group orgasm trance, during which Lady Gensifer brought the Pheni of Yrinna into sync with the Bryvi, Patrycya telepathically discovered that the Joqueline entity has been on Brevik for the past 15 years, providing advanced technology from the future for the Pegasus technology development projects, technology that finally made it possible for Joqueline to come into existence. The Bryvi were able to split out a copy of QB5's mind pattern from the Joqueline entity and return a copy of QB5's mind to the embroid brain that was placed inside Kasya's uterus. Kasya realizes that her daughter (Maghy) has long had an imaginary friend, 'Joke', that was actually the telepathic Joqueline entity.

Figure 22. Generated by Whisk.
 Return to Numenes. In Part 15 of "The Alastor Network", Acyreff and Captain Lanting go to Numenes. Captain Lanting discovers that she has a strong telepathic link to Yurahs. The Pheni of Yrinna, the Muu're of Numenes and the Phet of planet Yerophet are all inked by way of the Phari interstellar network. 

 After briefly linking into the Phari telepathy network, Captain Lanting realizes that there are clones of Yurahs' unborn daughter, Lavany, on Yerophet and the Connatic has plans to send Captain Lanting to Yerophet.

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 The Robots of Triskelion. In Part 16 of "The Alastor Network", the Connatic goes to Triskelion in hopes of learning about the hierion field generator that Kasya used to telepathically link to her sister across interstellar distances. However, Dr. Ektenor, the designer of the field generator, tells the Connatic that humans are not ready to have such powerful technology.

Twycky has returned the borrowed field generator to Dr. Ektenor and now she has a chance to play with the sexbot Vyky. Completing a deal brokered by Grean, medical personnel that were captured by the Whelm arrive on Triskelion, a world with a shortage of workers.

Marune
In Part 17 of "The Alastor Network", there is mention of the planet Marune. The Connatic has a telepathic vision of a woman named Ariel who had recently transported a mysterious patient the Connatic's Hospital. That patient is a native resident of the planet Marune. This is a fan-fictional reference to Jack Vance's novel Marune which chronicles the life of Efraim. In March, Ariel would return in a new science fiction story called Meet the Phari.

Captain Lanting, now a member of the Whelm, is assigned to capture another space pirate, Captain Tirret, who commands the spaceship Kraken.

Figure 23. Generated by Whisk.

In Part 18, Connatica Eleyn, the mother of the current Connatic, returns to Alastor Cluster after visiting Earth. This is actually a replicoid copy of the biological Eleyn. This "new" Eleyn has impressive telepathic powers and she is able to communicate with Lav, the nanoscopic replicoid who is residing inside the Lavany embryo, guiding its development into a mind clone that will function as part of a mind clone network

Back on July 17, 2012 in a story called "Assignment: Marune" I introduced a character called Chief Investigative Agent Joole. 

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In Part 19 of "The Alastor Network", Joole is studying data from the newly regenerated Josef AI concerning Phari network data that is being passed between the inhabited worlds of Alastor Cluster. At the time when the Connatic visits Yerophet, Yerophet is the most active node of the Phari telepathic network, however, there is also a big increase in network activity  happening on Marune. The Connatic is trying to understand an epidemic of Cold Fever that has been killing residents on Yerophet.

Lora with her head made up so as to appear human.
Made using Assastudyroom by Eclesi4stiK
available under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
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In Part 20 of "The Alastor Network", Heshlo and his sister Voyt (who has been doing genetics research on Yerophet) chat with Josef. Josef tries to get help from Voyt in finding two telepathic Kerub on Yerophet, Bryget and Snoyl. Josef also informs Heshlo and Voyt that they have a half-sister, Konywhn, who lives on Yerophet. Through her powerful telepathic abilities, Eleyn that there are nanoscopic replicoids guiding the embryonic development of Lavany, Bryget and Snoyl... forming them into a mind clone network. Eleyn asks Konywhn to take her to see Konywhn's mother, Lora, who the Connatic had met on Yerophet two decades previously.

Part 21 of "The Alastor Network" appeared in a February 22, 2021 blog post called "Lora's Lab". Konywhn's mother, Lora, is Managing Director Lora Shaw of a secret genetics laboratory where telepathic alien-human hybrids have been designed and constructed. This genetics laboratory was founded by Eleyn's father more than fifty years previously.

 

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May 28, 2025

ᴺiʀutam&maturᴙiᴻ

Figure 1. Nirutam by Mr. Wombo.
 This blog page (below) has Part 5 of my Decade in Review (DiR, see Part 1). All of the blog posts in this series have titles that contain unusual characters. This blog post is called "ᴺiʀutam&Maturᴙiᴻ" because for my 2020 writing Change Challenge I invented a new character called Nirutam. Nirutam's "backup copy" is called Maturin.

Tami. Nirutam was introduced in a Jan. 5, 2020 blog post called "Two Wrongs". The image that is shown in Figure 1 was updated by WOMBO Dream from the original book cover for "The Nirutam Intervention" that was used as a story illustration in 2020. The text of my story about Nirutam noted that, "Nirutam has glossy orange-brown skin and wears a wig." Nirutam is an alien from the Andromeda galaxy, but she has to "fit in" with the people of Earth during her mission. Colleen Liscan is an exile from Earth who while residing at Observer Base could write an account of Nirutam's life.

Figure 2. Orange alien.
For the image to the left, I requested, "a humanoid alien" with "orange alien skin". It is not easy to find the boundary between "alien" and "too alien", particularly when so many science fiction depictions of aliens make the aliens look ugly.

The Editor first met Nirutam when she was part of a writers group that met once a month to discuss writing. The Editor was intrigued by the science fiction stories that Nirutam told since they involved robots and an "escapist literature" about "creators" of the robots who long ago "transcended". The Editor cannot ignore the similarities between Nirutam's story "The T-Band Robots" and elements of what he thinks of as the Secret History of Humanity.

The Trysta-Grean Pact
Nirutam and the Editor discuss the bumpha and Nirutam comments: "Sadly, you don't have much information about the bumpha." Eventually (in 2021), I began allowing a character called Manny the bumpha to interact with the main characters of the Exode Saga, but as a bumpha, Manny is an artificial life-form that can take on any convenient form, including the spaceship Many Sails.

The other half of "Two Wrongs" is the presence of Dani the probot on Earth. Technically, it is a violation of the terms of the The Trysta-Grean Pact for Dani and Nirutam to be on Earth, but they are trying to verify that, besides themselves, no other alien influences remain on Earth. Dani makes the point that as a femtobot artificial life-form, he can move between Observer Base and Earth via a femtotube.

Figure 3. Updated by Mr. Wombo.
 The fain of Ret'fai. For Figures 1 and 2 (above) I wanted images of a young and healthy Nirutam, but she was designed as a "disposable" Interventionist who could not survive for very long on Earth. By the time when Nirutam meets Zeta, Nirutam is already quite ill and will soon be dead. However, as a fain from the distant planet Ret'fai, Nirutam has carefully prepared her own Selfie as an artificial life "backup copy" of herself. During the brief time period when Nirutam exists as a biological life-form in Earth, she has a "pet cat" and her Selfie is hidden inside the cat.

The image shown in Figure 3 is an AI-updated version of a 2020 illustration in my blog post "Post Life". That is a depiction of Zeta, who is in her 60s, but Zeta makes use of medical nanites to avoid aging processes and retain a youthful body. Maturin is a sub-nanoscopic artificial life-form that resides inside the body of a cat while on Earth.

Manufactured people (source).
 Extinct Aliens. Early in 2020, I was writing chapters of A Search Beyond that explained how Nirutam was prepared for her mission to Earth, but by the middle of 2020 I would abandon work on the five novels of the Exode Saga as it had been planned by the Editor. From that point on, I simply placed by science fiction stories at the wikifiction blog and pretended that the Editor had taken all of his blogs and writings off of the internet. In the chapter of A Search Beyond called "Nirutam", Many Sails tells Azynov about the history of the fain, "Originally they were the Onvo. The Onvo began using nanotechnology and managed to cause their own extinction."

As seen in A Search Beyond, my early thoughts about the Reality Simulation System (in 2019) included the idea that while a person used the Simulation System, their biological body needed to be cared for while their conscious mind explored the Simulation. 

Figure 4. Updated by Mr. Wombo.
 Disposable Bodies. In later stories that involved Reality Simulation, I abandoned that pesky detail, assuming that the Reality Simulation System had teleporter-like functionality that dematerialized a person's body while they used the Simulator.

 Change Challenge. In a blog post dated Apr 17, 2020 and called "CC Complexity" I decided to make Tihri the recipient of a set of infites that were left behind on Earth by Nirutam. Eventually, Tihri discovered the more accurate spelling of her name (Tyhry) and became the first person on Earth to learn how to program and control femtobots, an advanced form of alien nanotechnology. 

The original 2020 version of the scene shown in Figure 4 is at the end of the blog post "CC Complexity". The AI-updated version was generated by Mr. Wombo.

In Alastor Cluster.
In the end, the Nirutam character ended up playing three important roles in the Exode Saga: 1) she helped bring out into the open ISIO, 2) she helped make the Editor realize that he should hide his investigations of the Secret History of Humanity and 3) Tyhry began her role as the key Earthling who, with the assistance of Manny, would begin to deploy advanced nanotechnology on Earth. 

In a blog post dated June 1, 2020 and called "Débutante", I finally presented Part 2 of The Yerophet Experiment, which I had begun in December 2019. On the planet Triskelion in the Asimov Reality is an analogue of Isaac Asimov's famous positronic robot, Daneel. The version of Daneel who is on Triskelion is called Danni. Triskelion is depicted as the most technologically advanced world of Alastor Cluster, its wealth based on hierion mining.

On Yerophet (image source).

By Part 6 of The Yerophet Experiment, the action has shifted from Triskelion to the planet Yerophet where Maturin is serving as the assistant of Colleen. Maturin has a ranch in Goslewenn, where Colleen stayed after her arrival on Yerophet. Goslewenn is a tiny hamlet right on the border of Kerub territory, on the fringe of Frost Hills District where there are several Kerub villages conveniently nearby. 

In one of those native villages is the home of lo'Whots, a Kerub who is helping Colleen investigate Kerub telepathy and how it is causing troubles for human settlers on Yerophet.

Grean's Hack (image credits)
 The Utility of Fain Gene Patterns in the Ekcolir Reality. In a blog post dated August 1, 2020 and called "Fateful Planet" there is the first part of a story called Grean's Hack, an account of the development of human-fain hybrids who could help counter the effects of the Fru'wu on Earth.

Figure 5. Updated by Mr. Wombo.
The third blog post with story elements for Grean's Hack is in "Alien Hybrids" (see Figure 5). In the Ekcolir Reality of Deep Time, Asimov's wife Marcia gives birth to Sven, an human-fain hybrid, who would appear again in later stories.

The Interventionist agent Svahr appears in Grean's Hack. Sven had been carefully designed with genes from many sources only two of which were Isaac and Marcia. Svahr explains, "Sven is a hybrid; even now he is in two-way communication with his replicoid in the Hierion Domain."

image source
 "Time of Theurgency". The August 6, 2020 blog post called "Matter Duplication" has a continuation of the Grean's Hack series of stories.  "Time of Theurgency" begins with Grean and Trysta making plans for the Final Reality. Those plans involve Ariel Adler (the Ekcolir Reality analogue of Allen Adler), previously introduced as a friend of Marcia. Ariel is "part of the famous show business Adler family of New York, Virginia". Grean notes that Marcia and Ariel were long-time lovers, even after Marcia was married to Isaac Asimov. Trysta and Grean make a teleportation duplicate of Ariel. Telepathic linkage between two copies of Ariel, one remaining on Earth and the other one now in the Hierion Domain, allows Ariel to incorporate Trysta Iwedon as a character in a science fiction story that she is writing.

Figure 6. Trysta in the Hierion Domain (source).
The fate of the new copy of Ariel Adler who appears in the Hierion Domain is described in "Relda". Beginning a new life in the Hierion Domain, Ariel2 is greeted by Trysta Iwedon the Asterothrope (see Figure 6). Trysta explains to the new copy of Ariel, "Often what is done in these situations is to reverse the letters of the duplicate's original name."Ariel learns that she is needed to train an Interventionist agent named Gertrude. Soon after her arrival in the Hierion Domain, Ariel2 (Relda) also meets Wendy the probot and Deomede the Ek'col.

Petra Nicholls and Gina Hay (image source).

The concluding section of "Time of Theurgency" was in a blog post called "Making Hay". My story character Gina is depicted as the Ekcolir Reality analogue of the grand-daughter of George Hay who helped found, "the Science Fiction Foundation in 1972, espousing in that role his continuing sense that sf provides an armamentarium of mostly technological tools for coping with the future" (source). Gina is a mind clone of Ariel who along with Petra Nicholls formed the Foundation for Science Fiction, an organization devoted to countering the Fru'wu Movement on Earth. When two copies of Ariel meet Gina on Earth, they can sense a telepathic link to Gina. Using the Bimanoid Interface, Relda will be able to transmit information from the Writers Block to Ariel on Earth.

another mind clone network

The next component of Grean's Hack was "Foundation Reality Simulator". Isaac Asimov's son, Sven, experiments with an hierion probe, using Petra as a human test subject. Petra is part of a mind clone network that links her two the two copies of Isaac Asimov in the Ekcolir Reality, one on Earth and one at the Writers Block. In the blog post called "The FR Simulator", Sven tunes a hierion probe so that Petra's brain can efficiently us the Bimanoid Interface to connect her telepathic mind to that of the "other Asimov" in the Hierion Domain, the replicoid of Asimov from the previous Reality. The other Asimov has access to Reality Simulation equipment at Observer Base. He and Relda use a Simulation of the Foundation Reality to obtain data about the fain from an archeological site on the planet Terminus. The other Asimov also begins the process of linking science fiction story writer Sydney J. to her replicoid at the Writers Block.

image source
The conclusion of "Foundation Reality Simulator" is in the blog post "Space Force". The character Danela Steel is yet another cover identity for Isaac Asimov's famous positronic robot, Daneel. Danela Steel works hard to cover-up the fact that robots from the fain interstellar civilization were on the planet Terminus millions of years before humans were crafted and brought into existence. In "Space Force", it is also suggested that the telepathic abilities of Giskard originated from an Intervention into Earthly affairs by the artificial life descendants of the fain. Gina is provided with a "domestic helper", Piero, who will provide Gina with the time that she needs to begin writing her own science fiction stories.

Ottengla
By the end of August 2020, Grean's Hack had grown to be a 50,000 word science fiction adventure set in the Ekcolir Reality. To that point, the story had three linked parts, "Terminus Planet", "Time of Theurgency" and "Foundation Reality Simulator". Petra is the star character of "Foundation Reality Simulator". At the end of August, I was not entirely done with Petra Nicholls as a character and in September I wrote a new story about Petra's replicoid, Artep.

Tirret

But first came another story, "The Gensifer Clan", a follow-up story to The Yerophet Experiment, which began to tell the tale of historical investigations carried out by Azynov and Yōd using the AR Simulator. The planet Ottengla is one of the worlds of Alastor Cluster where alien gene patterns were used to help make telepathic humans. In "The Gensifer Clan", Maturin explains to Azynov and Yōd the importance of space pirates in Alastor Cluster and their role in collecting useful telepaths and taking them to the planet Yrinna. 

Figure 7. Updated by Whisk.
 "The Gensifer Clan" was completed in a blog post called "Notteng of Ottengla" in which Azynov and Yōd learn that robots from Triskelion have long been protecting the telepathic humans who live on Ottengla. The telepathic natives of Ottengla, the Plesypy, are highly intelligent, but they hide that fact from the starmenters such as Captain Tirret. Maturin demonstrates that she has complete and precise control over the Asimov Reality Simulator, resetting it after having demonstrated for Azynov and Yōd the true state of affairs on Ottengla.

The telepathic humans on Ottengla are blind and they use part of their brain that is normally for vision to aid their telepathic ability. Azynov and Yōd are sent to the planet Zeck where they learn about Glisten, a woman with interesting telepathic abilities who grew up without spoken language. "Notteng of Ottengla " is actually a prequel story to "The Power of Pause" that was written in 2019.

Mary and Artep (image source).

"The Synpaz of Seelie" is a science fiction story about Artep, the replicoid of Petra at Observer Base. Artep is a synpaz, about one tenth the size of a normal human being and "The Synpaz of Seelie" introduces the Seelie community of Eternity. Mary Godwin is living with "the other" Asimov at the Writers Block and she is trying to devise a scientific theory that can account for the many types of known hierions. The other Asimov is still working to send stories about aliens from the Writers Block to Earthlings such as Petra Nicholls.

The Seelie community is home of the sy'Paz, hermaphroditic human-alien hybrids who live in a special subdomain of Observer Base that is linked to the Writers Block. Both the sy'Paz and Synpaz replicoids such as as Artep have the ability to fly because their bodies caontain special negative mass hierions.

Grean's Hack
 Grean's Hack of the Asimov Reality Simulator. Grean the Kac'hin plays a major role in "The Synpaz of Seelie". Grean is preparing for the Final Reality, where the only form of telepathy will be technology-assisted telepathy made possible by the Bimanoid Interface. 

A major problem confronting Grean is that R. Nyrtia has placed a lock on the Eternity Asimov Reality Simulator. Other Realities such as the Foundation Reality are accessible by the Reality Simulation System, but not the Asimov Reality, where R. Nyrtia had access to the expertise of the Phari in hierion physics. In "A Missing Hierion", Grean says, "Mary found the negative mass hierion. I have a second team at work, building on that discovery. That effort might soon give us the computational power that we need to hack R. Nyrtia's lock."

sy'Paz time travelers - image source
The concluding section of "The Synpaz of Seelie" is in a September 3, 2020 blog post titled "Mission in Time". Grean sends her sy'Paz operatives back in time to 1860 to provide a key mathematical idea that will eventually make possible use of the Asimov Reality Simulator. Grean's Hack ended up being a 96,000 word long novel with five major sub-sections.

Grean's Hack is best viewed as fan-fiction since it includes fictional elements (such as the planet Terminus) that I borrow from Asimov's Foundation Fictional UniverseGrean's Hack ended up being a fun story that accounts for the widespread presence of "little people" in Earth's ancient cultures. It is also a depiction of events in 1973 leading up the the Reality Change that ended the Ekcolir Reality and brought into existence the Final Reality.

A book cover in the Ekcolir Reality,
inspired by Paul Bacon (image source)

The fifth and final section of Grean's Hack is called "Final Change". At the end of the story, there is an account of exactly which residents of Observer Base were allowed to continue to exist in the Final Reality. The image that is shown to the left hints at the fact that some of the nanoscopic replicoids from the Ekcolir Reality are among the few residents of Observer Base and its linked hierion domain subsections who are shifted into the Final Reality. Several "endtime Hierion Field generators" must be installed at Observer Base to allow a select group of the residents to pass into the Final Reality. That select group includes a few nano-scale replicoids who work as part of the Writers Block team.

The other Asimov is pushed into the Final Reality and right at the end of Grean's Hack, he is told that he is being sent off to visit Tar'tron in the Galactic Core. Later he will return to Earth and enter the Asimov Reality Simulation with Yōd.

in the nanorealm (image source)
  September 20, 2020. Close on the heels of the Grean's Hack novel was a new science fiction story called "Hierion Writers Club". The Nanorealm was originally designed as a way to develop the type of telepathic group mind that might successfully defend the galaxy against the Huaoshy. The second part of "Hierion Writers Club" did not arrive until December 2020 (see below).

 Grean Fiction. In a blog post dated November 12, 2020 and called "Green Fiction", I began another new science fiction story called "Grean Fiction", which became a 35,000 word novella. The "Green Fiction" blog post starts with an image of Greenland in the future of the Ekcolir Reality, after all of Earth's ice caps have melted. In the future of the Ekcolir Reality, humans were given access to Fru'wu teleportation technology.

Grean and Delpha the selfie (source).
 After the arrival of the Final Reality. "Grean Fiction" depicts on-going events inside the Ekcolir Reality at a time after the Final Reality has already begun and a "copy" of Grean named Delpha is at Observer Base and trying to guide events at the Writers Block.

 The second part of "Grean Fiction" appeared in a blog post that was dated November 18, 2020 and called "The Gift of Teleportation". The story, set in a time when the Greenland icecap is rapidly melting, depicts a rushed archeological expedition to find alien artifacts that have been hidden under Greenland ice for millions of years.

In "Grean Fiction" it is suggested that the Fru'wu were on Earth millions of years ago and they carried out primate breeding experiments.

the Belerephon at Altair IV
Clues found at an archeological site in Greenland suggest that biological samples from Earth were sent to planet Altair IV. "Warp drive" had been invented on Earth and soon an interstellar spaceship is sent to Altair IV.

Tequid and Alphin

In the November 20, 2020 blog post called "Ocean World", the Belerephon arrives at Altair IV and a young girl named Tara has the ability to make telepathic contact to the Tequids, aquatic primate variants who have been artificially evolved and adapted to the ocean of Altair IV. At an undersea base, there is a long-range teleportation device that can send people to other planets that were known to the Fru'wu civilization that existed millions of years in the past. 

image source
The November 25, 2020 blog post called "River of Time" has the 4th part of the science fiction story "Grean Fiction". Tara returns to Earth and begins to learn about the tryp'At, who had long been acting as Interventionists on Earth. One of the tasks for the tryp'At is helping to prevent humans from gaining access to teleportation technology which could be used to make duplicated of humans and lead to disruption of human society.

The final part of  "Grean Fiction" was in a blog post dated November 28, 2020 and titled "The Replicoids of Talya". Tara is concerned that she is part of an engineered time loop by which her existence depends on sending information about the Fru'wu base on Altair IV back to science fiction story tellers of the 20th century. Tara is taken into the Hierion Domain and she meets Delpha the Kac'hin.

Tara's home at Talya. (image source)
Tara learns that she had been guided through her life by Ara, a nanoscopic replicoid that was integrated with her zeptite endosymbiont. In 2025 I began using the term "femtozoan" for such nanoscopic personalities.

Arriving in the Hierion Domain, Tara learns that rather than dying on Altair IV, her family was teleported to a community in the Hierion Domain called Talya. Tara learns that she has a fine home and even her childhood Tequid friend, Patty is there living in the lake beside Talya. Delpha has completed the Tara time loop and now Tara can live out the rest of her life at Talya.

Châtella the probot at the Writers Block (source).
 Kac'hin Conversion. In December of 2020, I continued my science fiction story "Hierion Writers Club". When Grean takes control of Eternity, she extracts the replicoid of Mary Godwin (known as Yira) from Nanoville (itself a project of Nyrtia) and Yira helps create the Writers Block.

In Part 4 of "Hierion Writers Club", Grean reveals that she has made a duplicate copy of Wendy the probot who is on Earth as Fengtol, bait that might help Grean find Nyrtia's secret base of operations. 

"The Galaxiad"
The other copy of Wendy is now inside a full-sized probot body and helping staff the new Writers Block with probot assistants such as "Châtella".

Eventually, a copy of Isaac Asimov is installed as the new Director of the Writers Block, at a time after "Yira" had returned to using the name Mary.

Having depicted the immediate aftermath of Grean's arrival in Eternity, right near the end of 2020, I wrote "The Galaxiad", a new story set in the Foundation Reality just before Grean took control of Eternity. I generally hate fictional accounts of politics, but "The Galaxiad" features a political struggle between the Social Unity Party and the Individual Freedom Party for control over the fate of the galaxy. This is at the time when the positronic robots of Earth are trying to form Galaxia as a galaxy-wide telepathic group mind.

sedroids vs probots
In Part 2 of "The Galaxiad", Many Sails the bumpha is first seen in the guise of a reporter named Ambra Hetzey. Ambra explains that she deployed artificial life-forms called sedroids in the galaxy to slow the development of Galaxia until Grean was ready to take control of Eternity. During the formation of Galaxia, R. Nyrtia had deployed probots, advanced positronic robots who were resistant to to the kind of "mind static" devices that Isaac Asimov included in his Foundation stories.

Also in "The Galaxiad" is Vyky Dey, a human variant called a Werefe, that can use modified hairs to efficiently detect electromagnetic signals emanating from human brains. The Werefe have also developed a method for direct linkage of two nervous systems that is similar to what I would later call synapex linkages.

Ebernal
Right at the end of 2020 was Part 1 of "The Olivine Intervention", a follow on story to "The Power of Pause". Arriving on Yerophet, Glisten can telepathically link to the Kerub who are are Phet-Plesypy-Human hybrids. Long in the past there were two telepathic creatures on Yerophet, the Yer and the Phet. The Yer remain as part of the interstellar Phari-network, but the Phet are long extinct. However, their telepathic gene patterns were mixed with those of Plesypy-Human hybrid telepaths from Ottengla.

In Part 2 of "The Olivine Intervention", Yōd tells Glisten that she is half Neanderthal and that Neanderthal genes have been spread through Alastor Cluster. For the Exode Saga, I imagine that the Neanderthals had a type of weak telastid-mediated telepathy. However, Alastor Cluster was used as a laboratory for making a fully telepathic human variant.

Next: Part 6 of the Decade in Review.

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