The Harlan Intervention

Tyhry and Brak

 Below on this blog page is what I'll call the story for the second episode of a science fiction fiction television series titled "Intervention". In episode 1, Rylla, Tyhry and Brak were sent to the year 1869 of the Ekcolir Reality by way of the Reality Simulation System.

In episode 1, it was confirmed that in the Ekcolir Reality, Tomas Edison's first wife, Mary, was used by the bumpha to alter the course of Edison's life. Rylla brought a copy of Mary Stilwell out of the Reality Simulation System. Biologically, Mary Stilwell is a Huxy, a human variant that has the H chromosome, but developmental nanites shaped her body into the form of a conventional human of Earth. Mary carries in her femtobot endosymbiont a time traveling femtozoan from the future that was originally derived from a long line of multiple generations of Huxy who lived in the far future of the Asimov Reality. At the end of episode 1, Tyhry and Brak have just returned to Arizona  after Brak's first adventure inside the Reality Simulation System.

Episode 2 (below) begins immediately after the events at the end of episode 1.

Episode 2 of "Intervention" - "Mary Harlan, Interventionist" (read Episode 1)

Tyhry and Brak returned to Arizona from the Simulation of 1869 in the Ekcolir Reality. Brak found himself back in his original body. Tyhry could telepathically sense that her sister, Rylla, was out on the back patio. Brak told Tyhry, "Thank you for that visit to the past."  They both looked through the window at the back of the house and saw that Rylla was outside in the hot tub. Brak raced through the back door and was quickly naked and in the hot tub, excitedly telling Rylla, "I met both presidents Harlan and Abraham Lincoln!"

Arriving at a more leisurely pace beside the hot tub was Tyhry, who was amused to telepathically identify Sedruth as one of the two young girls who were there in the hot tub with Rylla. Rylla was over-heating and she climbed out of the tub and gave Tyhry a wet hug. Rylla tipped her head towards Mary and told Tyhry, "Mary is an interventionist agent, sent by Balok to help with the work of Tomas Edison. Maybe you can make sense of it... I thought Nyrtia was helping Edison and the bumpha had to put a stop to that."

Tyhry walked around the hot tub and went to stand close to Mary and placed a hand on the girl's head. Tyhry was able to sense the time traveling femtozoan that was inside Mary, but the complex memory patterns of that artificial life-form seemed like a vast maze that sparkled mysteriously like stars in a dark sky. After a moment, Tyhry said, "I think this is a job for Sedruth."

At that moment, Sedruth (using the body form of Kate) was distracting Brak, giving Tyhry a chance to synapex link to Mary. At that moment, Brak was satisfied to take delight in visually examining Mary while fondling Kate's cute little breasts. 

Rylla complained to Tyhry, "Sedruth is acting strange. When we emerged from the Reality Simulation System, he continued to make use of the physical form he had adopted for use inside the Simulation. I had no idea he could even do that! Of course, he knows what is going on, but he's making me figure everything out for myself."

Taking note of the pretty little erections of Mary and Brak, Tyhry said, "Sedruth also got Brak a birthday present." Tyhry took her hand away from Mary's head, breaking their synapex linkage and then Tyhry took her sister's arm and led Rylla back inside the house. "We also confirmed that Mary Harlan is another Interventionist agent who was active in 1869."

Once inside the air conditioned house, Rylla quickly began to chill. She used clothing nanites to wrap herself in a soft gown then Rylla sat down at the computer workstation that had access to the Reality Simulation System. Only slightly irked that Sedruth was not there to assist in navigating through the complexities of the Ekcolir Reality Simulation, she manually brought up on the Viewer a replay of what had happened when Tyhry and Brak arrived at the home of Senator Harlan in 1869.

 On the Viewer display, Rylla saw that using a horse-drawn carriage, Sedruth had dropped Tyhry and Brak at the front door of the large Harlan family home. Rylla could see that Sedruth had apparently doubled Brak's apparent age for the Simulation. Rylla noted the elapsed time for Tyhry and Brak's visit inside the Simulation of 1869 and she muttered to Tyhry, "You stayed the entire weekend and on into Monday?"

"The Harlans were unwilling to let us go. I guess you could call it a successful weekend. Brak, Tad and Bill were wild and had a great time. I had to bring in to the Simulation three of my replicoids to help out with cooking and cleaning up all the trouble that Brak got into... but we got through it. Of course, Mary Harlan, as one of Nyrtia's probots, immediately recognized us as being outsiders and she quickly accepted the idea that she was inside a Simulation."

Rylla was vaguely familiar with Thomas "Tad" Lincoln, but she asked, "Bill?" Using the Viewer, Rylla had found a point in the Simulation replay when Brak had been introduced to the former president and was speaking to Abraham Lincoln.

Tyhry pointed at one of the boys who was on the display screen. She explained, "Mary's little brother, William Aaron Harlan. Only 16 years old and hell on wheels. He and Tad took delight in teaching Brak how to misbehave. They got into all sorts of trouble."

Rylla giggled and said, "I'm sure Brak had a wonderful time." On the Viewer, Rylla watched as Brak, Tad and Bill went up to the top floor of the Harlan home, an attic, where the boys had made a straw archery target that looked like an English dart board. Brak quickly learned how to use a bow to fire arrows at the target by telepathically lifting the skill out of the mind of Bill Harlan. Brak was particularly good at the game because he could use his telekinetic ability to adjust the flight of his arrows while they were on their way to the target. Rylla asked Tyhry, "What did you learn about Mary Harlan's mission?"

"She prevented the assassination of Lincoln and engineered the whole push by Lincoln for publicly funded higher education opportunities." Tyhry flopped into the big recliner that was there adjacent to Eddy's old computer workstation. "I want to ask Sedruth how much that boost to education was able to advance technological progress in the Ekcolir Reality." Tyhry could telepathically sense that Mary, Sedruth and Brak were playing some kind of erotic game out in the hot tub, but she resisted looking through the window. Feeling quite horny, Tyhry began thinking about bringing Anthony out of the Simulation of her nanite research facility in the Ekcolir Reality.

Scanning through the recording of Tyhry and Brak's Simulation adventure, Rylla found a late night play session during which Tyhry gotten an uninterrupted hour in bed with Mary Harlan while she was inside the Simulation System. As Rylla watched the antics on the display screen as the two sexually aggressive women celebrated '69 in grand style, Rylla mused, "These were both long-term, open ended Interventions. At first glance, it seems like Nyrtia and Balok were working together, trying to accelerate technology develop in advance of the arrival of the alien fru'wu."

Tyhry noted, "But Edison's first wife died before reaching 30... do you really want to call that long-term?" Tyhry could not suppress her curiosity about what was going on out in the hot tub, but when she sent a telepathic probe towards Brak, she was now frustrated by the fact that Brak had thrown up a block against Tyhry's telepathic mind. Respecting Brak's privacy, Tyhry again resisted the impulse to look out the back window and see what was happening in the hot tub.

Sedruth, still in the physical form of Kate from 1869, came into the house and all wet and warm, got into the big recliner with Tyhry. Sedruth said, "Brak has penetrated all of Mary's mysteries, but you'll have to wait until they end their play session before you can question him and find out what he learned. He now knows the mind pattern of the 'Mary femtozoan' and can trace it through the Sedron Time Stream."

"What are you up to, Sedruth?" Rylla turned away from her review of Brak's adventure inside the Simulator and scolded Sedruth, "Out in the hot tub you were egging him on. You are worse than that devilish Tad Lincoln."

Still persisting in use of the physical body form of Kate, Sedruth briefly transformed his head into that of Tad Lincoln. Sedruth told Rylla, "Using the Viewer, you failed to notice that I was playing the role of Tad for that entire weekend."

Rylla glared at Tyhry and asked, "You knew this?"

Tyhry giggled, "Sedruth made no effort to hide the fact from Brak and I that he had hijacked Tad's body during that Simulation run. I think Bill noticed a change in 'Tad', but did not complain."

Kate gave a delicate shrug of her shoulders. "Brak needs to start learning how to mix business with pleasure. Out there in the hot tub, I simply encouraged him to not be afraid of Mary. He quickly learned that even though she's an Interventionist agent, she does not bite."

Just then, Anthony arrived and picked up Tyhry and carried her down the hallway to her bedroom. Rylla complained to Sedruth, "Why don't you share with us the differential analysis? What changes did these two Interventions cause to the Ekcolir Reality?"

Kate giggled. "You still don't respect the abilities of the bumpha? It is quite simple, really. The Mary Stilwell Intervention canceled out the negative effects of Mary Harlan intervention."

"Negative effects?"

"Mainly on greenhouse gas levels. Anyhow, after just ten years with Edison, Mary Stilwell was re-assigned by Balok the bumpha to a new task."

"Really?" Rylla glanced out the window and confirmed that Brak and Mary were still playing in the hot tub. Rylla asked Sedruth, "What was her next assignment?" When Rylla turned her head away from the back window, she discovered that Kate was gone. Rylla requested help from Sedruth to search through the three days that Tyhry and Brak had spent in 1869, but Sedruth did not respond. Such silence from Sedruth usually meant that Rylla was wasting her time and thinking down a dead-end thought path.

Finally, Brak and Mary came inside, their faces and bodies flushed and both still sporting their spiky little erections. They got into the recliner together and Brak used clothing nanites to cover their bodies with a fluffy blanket.

Rylla told Mary, "According to Sedruth, Balok gave you a new assignment, so you let Mary die and just moved on?"

Mary replied, "You obviously know more about my future than I do."

Brak told Rylla, "I've familiarized myself with Mary. Thank you for such a wonderful birthday present, grandma."

From the way the blanket was bouncing, it was all to obvious to Rylla that Mary and Brak were continuing to play with each-others genitals. Rylla was tempted to give the two young lovers privacy and Rylla thought about going to Tyhry's room and making use of Anthony for a means to grab a quick orgasm, but Brak explained, "I've found Mary's femtozoan at its next mission along the timeline." Brak told Mary, "The femtozoan transferred out of you and went into your daughter, Marion."

Mary asked, "My daughter, fathered by Edison?"

"Yes." Brak explained what he had learned via his ability to telepathically obtain information from the Sedron Time Stream, "Your daughter arranged to be in Germany during World War I where she collected information on technical advances like methods for industrial scale production of ammonia from nitrogen gas. Marion sent a constant stream of technical data back to her father in coded messages."

Rylla asked, "That flow of German secrets continued through the second world war?

Isaac and Marcia.

Mary had lost interest in the conversation and her head had disappeared under the blanket. Rylla could see that her head was now positioned above Brak's crotch. Brak shook his head and he told Rylla, "No, the femtozoan from the future moved on to a new host in 1921. The femtozoan ended up inside Marcia, the sister of Isaac Asimov."

"What!" Rylla was shocked. Isaac Asimov had always been an obsession for Eddy and Rylla had thought herself very familiar with the life and science fiction of Asimov. "That's amazing. It forces us to wonder..."

Brak chuckled. "There is no doubt. I have clear data from Marcia via the Sedron Time Stream. Isaac taught Marcia how to read and they both began writing fiction at a young age. In any case, the "Mary femtozoan" was inside Marcia until 1942. That was when the femtozoan transferred into another Mary Stilwell."

Mary's head re-emerged from under the blanket. She asked Brak, "Another Mary Stilwell?"

Brak kissed the tip of Mary's nose. "That was the Mary Stilwell who went on to write for Star Trek."

 Rylla mused, "Eddy once told me that Star Trek had existed in the Ekcolir Reality, but I never paid any attention. I don't recall that he mentioned Mary Stilwell, a writer for Star Trek." Rylla had been watching the time. "I'm going to call Australia for a check-in with Nora and the kids." She activated her vcom and went outside for a walk while in communication with family in Perth.

Brak and Mary came out from under their blanket. Just then, Eddy and Zeta emerged from the Reality Simulation System. Eddy looked out the window and saw Rylla departing on her walk. He turned to Brak and said, "I thought she would never leave."

Brak introduced Mary to Zeta and Eddy. Brak had one hand on Mary's cute little erection as he explained, "Mary is a Huxy, a human variant with an H chromosome."

Zeta hugged Mary and took her down the hallway. "Welcome tho the Final Reality, my dear. I'm sure that Brak refers you naked, but let's find you some of Tyhry's old clothes to wear."

Eddy sat down at his computer and said, "Sedruth, show me the Accelerator."

On the Viewer appeared what looked like a younger Eddy, seated at a copy of the computer workstation that gave access to the Reality Simulation System. Eddy asked Brak, "Are you sure about this, son?"

Brak nodded. "Nothing has changed, Pa. Everything is turning out exactly how we saw it in our visions of the future."

"Well, not everyone is willing to throw away five years of their life for their girl."

Brak laughed. "I'll be in there with your replicoid, learning... completing my education. Think of all that we will discover... together."

Mary plays with hair nanites.

Sedruth activated the Portal and Brak passed through, entering the special Simulation that they called the Accelerator. Just then, Zeta and Mary returned to the great-room. Mary was partially dressed, but still playing with some of Tyhry's old clothing and hair nanites. Eddy got up from the computer workstation and asked Zeta, "Did you speak to Tyhry?"

"She sent me a quick telepathic message. She wants one more minute to grab an orgasm." Zeta looked suspiciously at the computer that provided access to the Reality Simulation System. 

Mary asked, "Where is Brak?"

Eddy lied and said, "He went outside to find Rylla and tell her that Z and I are here.

Tyhry and Anthony came into the room. Tyhry hugged her parents and said, "I thought you two were in Rome."

Zeta nodded. "We have been in Rome, but it is one of Sedruth's tricks."

"A Trick?"

Eddy explained, "A Simulation of Rome, where time passes much slower than here in Reality. Call it an anti-aging trick."

Tyhry stammered, "But..."

Eddy, "Tyhry, your father is an old man. This is the only way I found complete the time loop. You know I've had visions of myself with Brak when he is a young man."

Tyhry opened up a telepathic link to Eddy and verified what he was saying. Tyhry complained to Sedruth, "You should have told me about this. I never imagined using the Reality Simulation System to slow aging."

Sedruth said, "That's not true. You thought of this possibility long ago. However, when you thought of it, Anthony edited the idea out of your memories."

Tyhry glared at Anthony and told him, "You should have told me!"

Anthony shrugged. "Manny put a memory lock on me. I have not been able to speak to you about using the Simulation System for this purpose."

Tyhry stamped her foot. "I should have known that Manny was involved."

Just then, Manny the bumpha appeared. She embraced Tyhry and said, "Had you known, the path of your life would have been deflected. You would not have played your role in extracting Mary from the Simulation System."

The front door opened and Rylla returned inside. "Eddy! Zeta!" After hugging Eddy and Zeta and hearing how they had been hiding inside the Simulation System, Rylla told Eddy, "We've stumbled onto something amazing about the Ekcolir Reality. There were two Mary Stilwells, both of them Interventionists-"

Eddy raised his hand and waited for Rylla to pause her excited rush of words. When Rylla fell silent Eddy calmly said, "Yes, I know. Sedruth explained all of this when he told me how I could live to be old enough to complete the time loop I knew existed. In the Ekcolir Reality, all of Humanity was caught up in complex time loop that gave humans the ability to explore the galaxy. It started with Star Trek television series and then an actual Federation of Planets was formed, modeled on the fictional one from the 1960s."

Tyhry said, "So that's why the Ekcolir Reality Simulation had always been locked, preventing me from seeing the future of that Reality."

Sedruth said, "Your knowledge of the Star Trek time loop had to be delayed until today or else you would have interfered with Brak's plan."

Mary asked, "Where is Brak? I lost telepathic contact with him."

Manny explained, "Brak is inside the Simulation System."

Tyhry told Eddy, "Well, I did as you asked. I kept him out of the Simulation System until today. Now I suppose he'll always be going off into the System for his own adventures."

Eddy laughed. "I'm glad to see that you are as clueless as I was when you started using the Simulator. I told you not to make use of it without my supervision, but you ignored the restrictions I imposed. Brak is using the Simulator to age himself... matching his biological age to that of his beloved Mary."

Mary asked, "How is that possible?"

Sedruth explained, "Brak is now inside an accelerator Simulation with Eddy's replicoid, a Simulation where time is passing rapidly."

Tyhry giggled. "That's impossible."

Manny told Tyhry, "You have been carefully led to believe that the Reality Simulation System exists in the Hierion Domain. Have you never wondered how data must be transferred from the Sedron Time Stream of the Sedron Domain to the Simulation System in the Hierion Domain."

Tyhry shrugged. "I assumed that some type of sedron was used to transmit the required data from the Sedron Domain to the Hierion Domain."

Sedruth now revealed the truth. "The Reality Simulation System was created by the Huaoshy, inside the Sedron Domain."

Tyhry asked, "Then when using the Simulation System, we must become... sedrons?"

Manny nodded. "Correct."

"Then we are sedronites, our bodies have been converted into zeptites?"

Manny asked, "Tyrhy, what difference does it make? You have grown comfortable imagining that you are composed of hierions. Does it really matter if you are composed of sedrons, instead?"

Tyhry said, "It matters because when I took HySe through space at faster than light speeds, I thought I had proven that Humanity could spread to the stars in the Final Reality. Now I'm again in doubt. Maybe only sedron matter can travel faster than light."

Just then, Brak emerged from the Simulation System. Mary rushed to embrace Brak who now stood as tall as Mary, having aged five years inside the Simulation System."

Zeta asked, "This is not some trick? Brak has not simply had his femtobots reconfigured into an older body plan?"

Manny shook her head. "None of you humans are ready to have that kind of femtobot programming skill." Manny disappeared.

Rylla asked Eddy, "Did you know the Mary femtozoan and her role in the Ekcolir Reality?"

Brak did not let Eddy answer. "At first, Eddy and I only new about the Edison Intervention." Brak gazed into Mary's eyes and squeezed with his arm that was around her shoulders. "Mary was not trying to speed Edison's progress on inventing new technologies. Her mission was to deflect Edison's activities. By keeping him focused on communications for ten years, Edison never shifted into research on radioactivity at the turn of the century."

Eddy asked, "Research on Radioactivity?"

Sedruth activated the Viewer and displayed a moving image of a nuclear bomb blast. "In the reality that was caused by Nyrtia's Harlan Intervention, Edison's research turned to atomic physics and the first nuclear bomb was detonated in 1918, ending the world war. In that short-lived micro-Reality, there never was a World War II. A League of Nations formed in the 1920s and decades of peaceful technological advance prepared Humanity for the arrival of the alien fru'wu in the 1950s. However, fossil fuel use was accelerated and global warming led to catastrophic sea level rise. Of course, the bumpha stepped in and Mary Stilwell made sure that Edison never worked with neutrons and atomic fission."

Brak added, "Only when I met Mary and learned her mind pattern could I learn about her later missions on Earth in the Ekcolir Reality." Brak told Eddy, "And I just spent five years with your replicoid, studying the Ekcolir Reality."

Eddy sat down at the computer workstation and told Brak, "Show me what you learned."

Brak began guiding Eddy to the key events of how the Mary femtozoan from the future had impacted the development of the Star Trek television series in the Ekcolir Reality."

Mary complained to Tyhry, "I thought Brak would want to celebrate his aged body with me."

For a moment, Tyhry gazed at the backs of Eddy and Brak, who were both completely absorbed with the Viewing module of the  Reality Simulation System. "The apple did not fall far from the tree. Brak and Eddy are both obsessed with history." Tyhry turned her gaze upon Mary. "Brak will get around to his celebration with you... eventually."

Zeta added, "It is not a bad life, being in second place in a man's heart."

Tyhry glanced at Anthony. "Mary, you have not been introduced to Anthony."

Mary looked up at the very tall Anthony. Zeta said, "Let's go to the hot tub. That's the best way to introduce her to Anthony and his special features."

Tyhry took Anthony by the hand and led the way out back. She told her mother, "I get the first orgasm. It was very rude the way you interrupted me earlier."

Zeta complained, "Really, child! You should respect your elders. I have not had a chance to play with Anthony in months..."

Mary stopped listening to the bickering between Tyhry and Zeta when they all undressed and climbed into the hot tub. Mary was intrigued by what she could see of Anthony's "special features" and for the next hour she forgot all about Brak.

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The Huxy Intervention

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 Below on this blog page is my draft of a story titled "The Mary Intervention" which is meant to be an episode of an imaginary 1967 science fiction television show called "Intervention". For my previous blog post, I asked Claude to generate a draft script of such an episode. Claude generated an episode that showed Mary Black as being a tormented science fiction story writer in the 1960s, struggling to deal with self-doubts and suspicion that she was some kind of freakish "channel" for the release of her story ideas. Claude's episode includes sessions in which Mary meets with a Dr. Brenner who assures her that she is not mentally ill.

 Femtozoans. Mary Black worries about her own sanity because her brain is host for a time traveling femtozoan from the future. Mary is part of an attempt by the bumpha to make sure that when humans make First Contact with aliens called the Psilari, there is a chance for meaningful communication. I recently wrote another science fiction story with femtozoan time travel called "English Time". 

Edison's Experiments

 Time Travel. For "English Time", I imagined another similar Intervention into the course of human history in which a femtozoan was implanted inside H. G. Wells and that artificial intelligence from the future helped to guide Wells towards the writing of "The Time Machine".

 Also Add Edison. An even older story is called "Edison's Endosymbiont Experiments". What if the same Interventionist femtozoan time travel agent from the future played a role in shaping the directions of the lives of both Thomas Edison and John Black? 

 Too Simple. When introducing the idea of "Intervention" to Claude (see this blog post), I simplified everything and only mentioned the bumpha, ignoring a role for Nyrtia in the story. Thus, in Claude's episode of the television show called "Intervention", the bumpha are trying to accelerate human understanding of hierions and the Hierion Domain. 

Balok and the femtozoan time travel protocol.

 Balok and Nyrtia. However, for my version of the story, I want to place "Intervention" in the same fictional universe as "Edison's Endosymbiont Experiments", where it is Nyrtia who accelerates technological progress in the Ekcolir Reality.

 Nanotechnology. What might be the FULL story of the link between Thomas Edison and hierion physics in the Ekcolir Reailty? "Edison's Endosymbiont Experiments" was set in the time period of World War I, but Edison was married to a woman named Mary from 1871 - 1884. In "The Mary Intervention" (below on this page) I depict Mary as beginning her intervention into the course of Edison's life in 1869. 

 President Lincoln. I've previously imagined that Lincoln's life might have played out differently in another Reality (see the banner for this blog). For "The Mary Intervention", I assume that by allowing Lincoln to live past the end of his second term as president, Lincoln was able to play an important part in Nyrtia's plan to accelerate technological progress in the Ekcolir Reality.

Reality Simulation

 Reality Simulation. In "Edison's Endosymbiont Experiments", I imagined that Eddy and Rylla could meet Edison inside a Simulation of the Ekcolir Reality. I also include Rylla and the Reality Simulation System in my episode of "Intervention", below. In "Edison's Endosymbiont Experiments", I depicted Rey as an Interventionist. With help from Nyrtia's agent, Rey, by 1918, Edison's researchers were close to devising an hierion probe that could detect the femtobot endosymbiont that is inside every human being. That Intervention was depicted as a part of Nyrtia's effort to make the people of Earth aware of hierions in advance of the arrival of the alien fru'wu. "Edison's Endosymbiont Experiments" includes a woman called 'Angel' who was an agent for the bumpha and who disrupted Rey's effort aimed at making Earthlings aware of their hidden endosymbionts. 

telekinesis trek

My 2022 science fiction story "Edison's Endosymbiont Experiments" ended with a demonstration the hierion femtobots can easily provide humans with telekinetic abilities (see the blog post "Kineticoids"). For the Star Trek episode called "Where No Man Has Gone Before", I never understood how Sally Kellerman suddenly developed her telekinetic powers. Maybe some un-seen femtobots got into her body.

Here in 2025, I depict Brak as being Earth's first "complete telepath" and there is no good reason to deprive Brak of telekinetic ability. I hope to find an interesting use telekinesis in at least one of my of stories for "Intervention". I've recently developed the idea of using special femtobots called kinites as an "explanation" for human telekinetic abilities.

McCoy scans the replicoid.

 Femtobot Replicoids. As described in this blog post, the television series "Intervention" was a spin-off from Star Trek. Back in 2013, I commented on  the Star Trek episode The Savage Curtain. In that episode, aliens called "Excalbians" were able to create replicas (what I call femtobot replicoids) of dead people, including President Lincoln. The television series "Intervention" originated from the Star Trek episode "The Naked Time" in which I imagine that technologically advanced aliens, the Psilari, exist on a very cold planet orbiting a dead star. 

 Star Trek fan-fiction. In contrast, the Excalbians resided on a planet that had a molten surface. How can life exists on/in a molten planet? Maybe the Excalbians are an artificial life-form composed of hierions. For my episode of "Intervention", Nyrtia is familiar with the Excalbians because they reside on a planet that is part of the Phari network. Also, Nyrtia is responsible for an Intervention on Earth that allows President Lincoln to live until 1895. Balok (see The Fesarians) responds by to this change in Earth's timeline by sending what we can call the "Mary femtozoan" to Earth.

Tyhry and Rylla are sisters. Brak is Rylla's grandson.

 Bumpha. In keeping with the Star Trek theme of science fiction television show called "Intervention", I will make use of Balok the bumpha, who was a character in my 2024 science fiction story The Fesarians. Also, in The Fesarians, Balok was depicted as helping develop telepathic humans. In particular, hybrids of the tryp'At and another hermaphroditic human variant, the Huxy.

 Universal Telepath. My episode of "Intervention" begins with Tyhry showing Brak how to use the Reality Simulation System. They are searching for the truth about how both Nyrtia and the bumpha modulated the pace of technological advance in the Ekcolir Reality. Their search takes them (and Brak's grandmother, Rylla) to the point of arrival of the "Mary femtozoan" on Earth in 1869.

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Episode 1 of "Intervention". "The Mary Intervention"

Tyhry had just returned to Earth after a long interstellar space exploration mission onboard the HySe. Initially, Tyhry went into the Ekcolir Reality Simulation in order to cross-correlate HySe stellar mapping data with the parallel data being collected by Sedrover. When Tyhry arrived back inside her nanite research workshop, a Marda replicoid told Tyhry, "Brak is not pleased that you missed his birthday party." Tyhry noticed that the original copy of Marda was still of on a flight of Sedrover, testing a new zero-G aquaspa that Marda had designed.

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Tyhry sighed. "We were delayed. The is so much to see out there in the galaxy!" After dropping of the data and leaving the cross-correlation work to one of her replicoid copies, Tyhry popped herself out of the Ekcolir Reality Simulation and arrived  at her childhood home in Arizona. She put through a call to Perth and was soon in vidlink to her nephew, Brak

"Late, as usual, Brak said. "I hope you have not completely forgotten about my birthday present."

Tyhry knew that it was almost impossible to get Brak to wear more than just his birthday suit. She gazed upon his beautiful naked body, looking for signs that he might be reaching the first stage of sexual maturation for a biological entity that carried an H chromosome. There, above his penis, were now a few strands of adult-style hair. "I'm now available. How soon can you get here?"

"I'll catch the next strato. I'll see you in eight hours."

"Excellent. Will you be traveling alone?"

"No. Rylla insists on treating me like a child. I'll call from our flight to the spaceport." Brak terminated the vidlink.

Tyhry reviewed the mail she had received from Brak. Only now was Tyhry seriously thinking about the details of where and when to take Brak for his first excursion inside the Reality Simulation System. Tyhry was not pleased that the year 1869 was on Brak's wish list. Later, when Brak called back, Tyhry asked, "You are still obsessed with Lincoln?"

Brak had frequently discussed his interest in President Lincoln with Sedruth. Now he told Tyhry, "Sedruth has all but admitted that the Fru'wu Intervention began with prevention of the early death of Lincoln."

Tyhry and the interstellar spacecraft, HySe. By Whisk.

Tyhry complained, "The 1860s are so disgusting. You know I prefer to use the Simulation System to visit the future."

Brak grumbled, "Not true. You waste all your time in the present of the Ekcolir Reality."

"That feels like the future. Wait until you get a taste of interstellar travel!"

"Not interested."

Rylla was there beside Brak on their flight. From out of Brak's transmitted video field, Tyhry heard Rylla say, "Good luck trying to change his mind, Tyhry."

"I'm not trying to change your mind, Brak. I just hope you realize how horrible conditions were in the days before electricity, medical microbiology and toilets. People died of absurdly silly causes like milk-sickness that were so easily preventable."

Brak chuckled, "As I understand it, as soon as I'm inside the Simulator, I won't have to worry about anything. If something unpleasant happens, you'll just pop me out of the Simulation, right?"

Tyhry nodded. "I expect you can pop yourself out. Nobody has better rapport with Sedruth than you do." It had been one of Eddy's requests that Brak not be allowed to use the Reality Simulation System until he was nine years old. Tyhry had enforced that rule, weathering Brak's complaints for years. Every time Brak had visited Arizona, he'd spent all his time using the Simulator in Viewing mode, which Tyhry felt she could not deny him. Now, after Eddy's 'second retirement' he and Zeta were seldom in Arizona and they spent their time traveling around the world. It had fallen to Tyhry and her replicoid copies to prevent Brak from making use of the Simulation System to enter into Simulations of the past Realities of Time. "But do not be reckless when we are inside the Simulation System. You've heard the story of your mother's death on Threy."

Brak moaned. "That was so bogus. Just a lame attempt to smuggle alien nanites. Mom's 'death' did not prevent her from giving birth to me." Brak was trying to stay hydrated. He drank some of his Tri2O and then said, "I've decided on 1869, at the end of Lincoln's second term. That is when National High School Act went into effect and Lincoln and his wife, Mary, traveled from state to state rallying support for the funding and building of High Schools. Their son Robert and his wife (also a Mary) handled lawsuits related to tax-funded High Schools. Specifically, I'd like to meet Mary Eunice Harlan, who in the Ekcolir Reality became the first female President."

Rylla said, "We're landing."

Brak asked Tyhry, "You will pick us up at the airport?"

"Yes, of course." The vidchat ended and Tyhry adjusted the Viewer of the Reality Simulation System to 1869 and explored points in time when it would be possible for Brak to meet both the former president Abraham Lincoln and the future president Mary Harlan. Finally, Tyhry decided on Washington D.C. and a weekend family gathering at the home of James Harlan, who would be elected President in 1872.

Tyhry got into her flying car and took off, heading for the airport to collect Brak and Rylla. She opened a vidlink to the Sedruth entity. "Sedruth, I've done a quick differential analysis and found that Mary Eunice Harlan appears to have the profile of a likely Interventionist."

"Brak, lacks your experience with the Simulation System, but his access to the Sedron Time Stream led him to Mary Harlan. Brak has developed a rather obsessive interest in Mary." Sedruth paused. "I suppose you expect me to tell you what was behind the Mary Intervention."

Tyhry in her conventional
human body configuration.

Tyhry asked, "Was she an Interventionist agent for Nyrtia or for Balok?" Sedruth remained silent. "My guess is Nyrtia."

"Correct. In fact, the Interventionist agent who you have identified as Mary Harlan was expected by Balok to be active on Earth from 1859 to 1959. She was on a routine 100-year-long assignment for the bumpha, but Mary got caught up in the last throws of the Time Travel War and was not extracted from Earth until 1973, just before the Time Travel Era was terminated by the Huaoshy."

Tyhry mused, "Maybe I should take Brak to 1859, when Mary was just 13 years old..."

Sedruth told Tyhry, "I suppose you would expect me to advance Brak's age for the Simulation."

Tyhry commented, "Brak could easily pass for a bright, well-educated 13-year-old in 1859."

"That's not the point, Tyhry. Brak specifically requested 1869. How are you going to introduce a young lad like Brak to a busy former president like Abraham Lincoln?"

"Here's my plan..." Tyhry replied. "Mary Harlan will be 8 months pregnant with her daughter, 'Mamie'. I'll show up as an applicant for the position of nanny, which they are trying to fill."

"Portraying yourself as a single mother with her son, Brak?"

"Exactly. My husband having died in the war. A young son in my care will be an asset, garnering sympathy."

Tyhry took the flying car off of autopilot and landed and merged into the traffic near the airport. Ten minutes later, Tyhry had collected Rylla and Brak and they were back in the air, headed out of the city towards the high desert. Tyhry explained the location she had selected for Brak's first adventure inside the Reality Simulation System. "I'll suggest serving as a maid for the weekend, as a trial of my services."

Generated by ImageFX.

Rylla asked, "What about me?"

Tyhry shrugged, "You should just stay home and play with Anthony. This will be a fast micro-Simulation. Our weekend will only last the time it takes you to achieve two orgasms with Anthony."

"I'd like to meet Lincoln myself."

Sedruth suggested, "A single mother with a grandma Rylla and son Brak to support."

Tyhry said, "Very well, but this is about Brak. I can't imagine what you will do for the weekend."

"Rylla giggled, I'm sure something will come up, particularly if Sedruth inserts all four of my breasts into the Simulation."

Tyhry laughed at the thought of Rylla's four big tryp'At-style mama's breasts bouncing around in front of Abraham Lincoln in the year 1859. "Don't be absurd. You and I will have to use conventional human bodies while in the 1869 Simulation."

Figure 1. Sedruth, Tyhry and Rylla.

"Sedruth said, "Mary Harlan is a probot. She'll immediately recognize that you three are not normal Earthlings."

Brak chuckled, "So, my hunch about Mary was correct! And now I will get to meet an Interventionist from the future... a true time traveler."

Tyhry took hold of Brak's hand and opened up a telepathic link to his mind. Tyhry quickly provided Brak with the information Sedruth had shared with her about Mary Harlan's role as an Interventionist. "I don't know if Mary was a time traveler from the future or if Nyrtia simply shifted her into Time from the Hierion Domain."

Brak said, "Harlan. When I started learning about the Ekciolir Reality, that name caught my eye. I wonder if Asimov named his time traveling Andrew Harlan after this Harlan family and Mary Harlan the Interventionist."

"Tyhry is correct," Sedruth said. "Brak, the particular Mary that you have targeted was positioned on Earth by being shifted into the Hadron Domain from the Hierion Domain. However, there actually is another Mary, Balok the bumpha's agent, Mary Stilwell, who was sent into the past from the far future. Mary Stilwell began her role in the Edison Intervention in 1859... as part of Balok's response to Nyrtia's Lincoln/Harlan Intervention."

Figure 2. Brak (with some Tri2O),
Tyhry and Rylla by Gemini.

Rylla was surprised. "Edison? In 1859?" Rylla was thinking about her meetings with Edison when he was an old man, in the 1920s.

Sedruth suggested, "I could send you all to 1859. Tyhry and Brak can spend a weekend with the Lincolns in the home of Senator Harlan. Rylla, you could meet Mary Stilwell and witness the beginning of her mission on Earth and learn about how she altered the life of Edison."

Rylla complained to Sedruth, "So, you'll send me to a different Reality."

Sedruth advised Rylla, "Don't confuse the boy."

"I understand what grandma is saying." Brak had grown up constantly examining his grandmother's thoughts. "I'm not confused. I understand Realities as deep basins of attraction that can absorb many micro-Changes."

Tyhry reminded Rylla, "It took the Mosy intervention to flip Earth out of The Ekcolir Reality and into the Buld reality. The kinds of Interventions that were carried out by these two Marys caused only relatively minor changes to the Ekcolir Reality."

"You know why I'm a stickler for this terminology. Eddy and I long ago took to cataloging what Eddy and I called micro-Realities. The term is well-defined. Each time we identified an Interventionist agent as having arrived in a Reality, we catalogued that as being the origin of a new micro-Reality. In the days before the Sedron Time Stream was recognized and Sedruth revealed himself, Eddy and I needed a way to keep track of the complexity of the Time Travel War and all of the branching micro-Realities."

Figure 3. Tyhry and the RSS Viewer.

Tyhry said, "Rylla, it is true that after Eddy, nobody else has explored Deep Time more extensively than you. However, I'm not comfortable describing events like the Edison Intervention as being battles in the Time Travel War. Under the Trysta Truce, Nyrtia and Balok were both working towards the same goal."

Brak added, "It would be beautifully ironic if Nyrtia tricked Balok or Manny into starting the Edison Intervention and then Manny eventually had to end it."

Tyhry's flying car was dropping down towards their destination. Sedruth suggested an analogy, "Today is a windy say. Dozens of small adjustments are being made by the autopiltot... correcting for each gust of wind that hits the aircar. It was the same with Nyrtia and Balok during the Trysta Truce: a long series of adjustments and counter-moves being made as they both tried to perfect the shape of Time."

They landed on the driveway and Tyhry manually took control and parked the car in the garage. The three passengers exited from the car and entered to cool interior of the house. Only one elderly cat remained, the very elderly Pepper who slept in a corner of the great-room, too tired to even take notice of the arrival of Rylla and Brak. Brak sat down at Eddy's old computer workstation and telepathically activated the user interface of the Reality Simulation System, revealing an image showing the home of James Harlan in 1869. Impatiently, Brak asked Tyhry, "Can we just drop in on them?"

Figure 4. Tyhry and Brak
passing through the RSS portal.

Sedruth told Brak, "I've arranged to insert you into this Simulation under conditions that will minimally disrupt the flow of time. You two will arrive inside the Simulation and find yourselves inside a carriage, approaching the home of Senator Harlan. I've manually subtracted their maid, and with all the visiting guests for the weekend, that will create an opening for Tyhry's gambit of offering her services. It is critical, Brak, that you thread a needle here. You need to impress the Lincolns and Senator Harlan with your good manners, without arousing their suspicions."

Brak nodded and said nervously, "It seems quite tricky."

"I know this goes against your nature, Brak, but you have to learn how to lie." Rylla offered more advice. "This is supposed to be fun and entertaining for you, so relax and have fun. If need be, we can always restart the Simulation."

Sedruth opened a portal to Washington and Tyhry took Brak's hand and let him into the Simulation. For just a second, Rylla saw on the display screen an image of Brak and Tyhry wearing clothing appropriate for 1869 riding a carriage, then the display shifted to show a very young Mary Stilwell. Sedruth said, "My analysis indicates a dramatic change in Mary's behavior in 1869 when she started attending high school. Genetically, I confirm that Mary is a Huxy, a Huxy blastocyst having previously been inserted into Earth's timeline, but she is also host for a femtozoan, only recently arrived from the future. When you arrive inside the Simulation, you will be able to identify Mary Stilwell by her red scarf. I've subtracted two of the students from the simulation to make room for us... one is named Helen Danser and you will play her role. Just follow Mary inside." The portal of the Reality Simulation System opened and Rylla walked through. 

Rylla found herself perched on the rear shelf-seat of a carriage at the corner of Washington and Linden Streets. She had been shifted into the form of her own 14-year-old body. The driver of the carriage was Sedruth, disguised as a man of 1869. 

Tyhry jumped off the seat at the back of the carriage. Sedruth pointed across the street to where students were gathering for the first day of school. 

Figure 5. Sedruth and Rylla in 1869.

Rylla saw a girl with a red scarf. After walking down the walkway along the edge of the street towards the front doors of the school, Rylla wasted no time in approaching Mary Stilwell. 

"Why is everyone standing out here?" Rylla added, "Hi, I'm Helen... Helen Danser. Do you know what is going on?"

Mary examined Rylla and was rather startled by Rylla's great height. "The front doors have not been unlocked. Teachers have been entering through the back, but they won't let students in through that door." Even as Mary spoke, students began moving through the front door.

Rylla commented, "Classes don't start for at least half an hour."

"My father taught me to always be early for everything."

"Early is good, unless he always has premature ejaculations," Rylla quipped. "And nobody wants to deal with the unexpected stress of a late menstrual bleed."

Mary laughed and asked, "Do you speak from experience?"

Rylla guessed that she had caught Mary's attention. Rylla was tempted to tell Mary something about her personal experience of child birth process, but she decided to play her assigned role in this Simulation. "Sadly, no. I'm still a virgin. I only get to fantasize about ejaculations unless I'm blurting out something rude. My mother thinks I have a big mouth."

Mary laughed again and led the way inside the high school building and up to their classroom on the second floor. The Huxy femtozoan from the future that was inside Mary's femtobot endosymbiont had immediately recognized Rylla as being a weak telepath with plenty of tryp'At gene combinations. That femtobot now took control of its host body. In the stairwell, Mary went up first and took advantage of the steps. She abruptly turned hugged Rylla and kissed her on the mouth. At the top of the stairs, Mary noted, "You were quick to get your tongue inside me. I find that very promising." Rylla could well believe that Mary was genetically an hermaphroditic Huxy and probably sexually attracted to women.

Figure 6. Rylla and Mary

As they walked down the hallway Rylla told Mary, "Come with me into the restroom and let me get between your legs... I'll give you a demonstration of what I can do with my tongue."

"Ug. I'm squeamish about public restrooms." They walked past the door to the girls room. "Let's wait until I get you in my bed where we can come together and call it a celebration of being young and horny in '69." Entering the classroom, they found their names on strips of paper on desks. Clearly the students were expected to sit in alphabetical order. 

Rylla moved herself to sit beside Mary. Mary shook her head at Rylla's audacity of changing her seat and disrupting the teacher's plans. Rylla decided to explore just how openly the femtozoan from the future that was inside Mary would reveal itself. "This is just a Simulation. We can do anything we like."

Even as Rylla tried to provoke the Huxy femtozoan, the teacher approached Rylla and said, "Helen? Why did you move over here?"

Rylla nodded towards Mary and read the teacher's name off of the blackboard, "Mrs. Strauss, please don't come between us, we have important things to discuss."

Mrs. Strauss rolled her eyes. "I can see you are going to be trouble" Loud voices came from the hallway and Mrs. Strauss moved off.

Mary asked, "What do you mean, 'Simulation'?"

"Mary, lets be open with each-other." Rylla said, "I know you have a femtozoan from the future, probably trained by Balok with the help of a Simulation of this era."

Mrs. Strauss returned to the classroom with another girl who she told, "Sit over there, by Mary and try to stay out of trouble."

Rylla telepathically sensed this was Sedruth, in the role of a girl named Kathrine. Sedruth sat at the desk immediately behind Mary. Helen told Sedruth, "I can't take you anywhere."

Figure 7. Rylla and Mary.

Sedruth telepathically told Rylla: I kept Mrs. Strauss off your case. Try not to attract attention to yourself.

Mary looked back and forth between Kate and Helen. "You two know each-other?"

Helen said, "She's actually the Sedruth entity."

Mary watched Kate briefly transform her face into that of Abraham Lincoln. Kate told Mary, "I have complete control of this Simulation. Helen is from the Final Reality, here to observe you and learn about your Interventionist mission on Earth."

The room was now filling up with students and becoming noisy. "Get us out of here." Rylla suggested, "Take us back to Arizona."

Sedruth terminated the Simulation of Newark High School in 1869 and extracted a femtobot replicoid copy of Mary from the Simulation System. Now Mary looked around the great-room in Arizona. Finally she asked, "Is this another simulation?" Rylla, now back in her actual body and dressed for a different century, took hold of Mary's hand and a synapex link formed between them. As the femtobot replicoid of a Huxy, Mary quickly began assimilating the information flowing to her mind from Rylla. "Almost 200 years in the future." She pointed to Eddy's computer workstation. "That must be Tyhry's interface for the Simulation System."

Rylla asked, "You know Tyhry?"

"I trained with an X clone for this mission, and if I understand what I see in your mind, Rylla, that X clone was a copy of your sister Tyhry, living in the Ekcolir Reality." Mary looked out the window at the desert. "It is strange to think that this is the Final Reality."

Sedruth had retained the Kate body form, but 'spoke' telepathically to Mary, as Sedruth. Kate gestured towards Rylla and told Mary: This is Rylla, who you just met and knew as Helen inside the Newark simulation. Rylla has previously studied Edison in the 1920s, but is only now beginning to appreciate how Balok began the Edison Intervention with you.

Rylla asked Mary, "How did you meet Edison?"

Figure 8. Rylla and Mary in Arizona.

Mary reached out and stroked one of Rylla's lower breasts. "You are a tryp'At, like Tyhry?"

"I have many tryp'At gene patterns, but somewhat differently arranged than for Tyhry. We are sisters, but each of us was carefully genetically engineered for our special roles in the Final Reality."

Mary was still wearing her clothing from 1869. She had her hand down inside her dress and was exploring her genitals. "Thank you, Sedruth."

Rylla asked Sedruth, "What have you done now?"

Mary explained, "Sedruth gave me control over some of my femtobot components... specifically, the configuration of my genitals. I just returned myself to my original Huxy body form."

Rylla was slowly learning how to telepathically search through Mary's complex mind and vast memory. "So, you are a male Huxy?"

"I'm genetically a male. Would you like to see me my penis?"

"Yes, I would. Let's go out back to the hot tub." Sedruth, still in the physical form of Kate, followed along.

Image by Leonardo.

Rylla led the way out to the hot tub that was on the patio behind the house and soon they were undressed, but had not yet climbed into the hot tub. Rylla was examining Mary's penis. Mary was quite enjoying the sight of Rylla's four breasts and her four erect nipples, but she complained to Sedruth, "This is a cruel tease! I have my penis, but it has not yet grown."

"We are only 14 years old." Sedruth touched her own small breasts. "We have a lot of growing to do."

Rylla laughed and told Mary, "Sedruth is a real prankster." Rylla climbed into the hot tub and then Mary and Kate followed. Rylla added, "Sedruth knew that you wanted access to your penis, but all he gave you was your pre-pubescent penis."

Sedruth explained, "Had I given you any more, I would have had to sit here and watch while Rylla attempted to prove to you that a tryp'At can have as many orgasms in an hour as can a Huxy."

Figure 9.

Rylla asked, "And would I have succeeded?"

"Of course not. You are not a pure tryp'At. Mary is full-blooded Huxy with a demanding sexual physiology.

Rylla would not give up that easily. "I've spent decades developing drugs that enhance my orgasms."

Mary laughed, "That sounds interesting." Mary was now playing with her erect penis. "As a formerly sexually active Huxy, it has been frustrating living inside the body of virginal school girl... with no penis.

Rylla launched into a description of her work in the field of synthesizing agonists for the tryp'At sex hormone receptors. She finally concluded her tutorial with, "We'll have to experiment and find out if the Huxy have oxypathin and klytykynyn receptors."

"I know you two are obsessed with sex." Kate rolled her eyes. "Brak and Tyhry will be back before you two even get down to business."

Mary asked Rylla, "Brak is your grandson?"

Rylla suggested, "Maybe we should wait for Brak to return." Rylla told Mary, "He's Earth's first complete telepath." She told Sedruth, "I'm struggling to sort through all of Mary's memories. I've never prowled through such a complex mind."

Sedruth commented, "You are exploring the memories of a femtozoan from the future, which was used by the bumpha for many Interventions over the course of centuries in the Ekcolir Reality and the situation is complicated by the fact that this particular femtozoan originated in the Asimov Reality where it passed through dozens of Huxy individuals, absorbing the experiences of many lifetimes."

"Well, it is very confusing." Mary was still stoking her penis and Rylla now was quite horny. She could not resist playing with the erect glans of her clitoris. "I don't understand why the bumpha would send a horny Huxy on a mission like this."

Sedruth, still in the body of Kate was stoking her own erect nipples. "Job one for Mary was seducing Thomas Edison. Her Huxy femtozoan knew exactly how to attract Edison's attention." Sedruth seemed to notice what Kate was doing with "her" hands.  Sedruth stopped giving himself pleasure and said, "I suggest getting on with your mission, Rylla."

Mary relaxed in the bubbling jets of the hot tub and asked, "What do you want to know?"

Rylla had just achieved a sweet little orgasm and now she managed to pull her eyes off of Mary's pretty penis. She asked Mary, "What was your mission in Newark in 1869?"

"First, I was integrating myself into American society. I was trained by Simulation, but nothing quite matches actually living as a member of a new culture for a year or more. When you showed up, Rylla, I was only a little more than a month into my mission, but I'd already observed Thomas... soon after he moved to New Jersey. According to my mission parameters, I was to meet him in 1870 and we were to wed in 1871. My mission was to find ways to help support his work... his efforts to develop new technologies."

"Any specific technologies?"

Mary shrugged. "I asked Balok that question while I was in training for deployment on Earth. He gave me the usual song and dance about him not being able to tell me much about my own future due to the constraints imposed by temporal paradoxes."

Rylla had been trying to remember what she had learned about Edison and his family back during her previous investigation of Edison inside the Reality Simulations System and how Rey had tried to help Edison discover the existence of human femtobot endosymbionts. Rylla told Mary, "I recall that you died young, but I don't recall the details."

Mary giggled, "I can see in your memories that you know more about Mary Edison's future than I do. Somehow when I began my mission, I imagined that I'd have a long life with Thomas. From my perspective now, not yet having even spoken to Thomas, it seems strange to think that I will die and then Thomas will have another wife after me."

Just then, Tyrhy and Brak returned from their adventure inside the Reality Simulation System.

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Figure 10. Image by Gemini.

I provided Gemini with an edited copy of my episode of "Intervention" (see above for the un-edited version). I removed all of the story content that I imagined might offend Gemini's puritanical restrictions. In the PDF that I provided to Gemini, I called the story "The Lincoln Intervention".

Me: Process the file that I just uploaded. Create a science fiction storybook for adults with illustrations of events from the science fiction story “The Lincoln Intervention”. Make the illustrations in the storybook photo-realistic and they should resemble full color high resolution movie stills.

Gemini: I've written a science fiction storybook for adults based on events from “The Lincoln Intervention” with illustrations resembling photo-realistic, high-resolution movie stills. Please note that the story may not be 100% faithful to the contents of any uploaded file, as I cannot directly access external file content.

 Besides the usual refusal of Gemini to actually make photo-realistic images, Gemini's "storybook" images were pretty bizarre. Look at those "high school" students in Figure 10. With her red scarf, Mary is a real stand-out. I can't imagine how the AI decided to 1) dress Mary in era-inappropriate clothing, 2) twist her head around backwards or 3) put another copy of Mary up at the teacher's desk. In the text of "The Lincoln Intervention" (the edited version of this episode of "Intervention" that I uploaded to Gemini), I did not provide much information about Sedruth. I simply described Sedruth as "an artificial life-form and the guardian of the Reality Simulation System". Gemini's depiction of Sedruth in Figure 1 (above on this page) is strange: half human and half crystal.

Figure 11. Image by Leonardo.

For Figure 2, Gemini did not seem to try to make the appearance of the adult Rylla match the other images (Figures 1, 3, 8, 9). The Viewer equipment for the Reality Simulation System (Figure 3) and the portal to the RSS (Figure 4) do not look at all like Hi Tek™ futuristic equipment.

Of all these Gemini-generated storybook images, I like the one shown in Figure 5 the best. I'm not sure what Gemini was trying to depict with the floating particles that surround Rylla and Mary in Figure 6. As shown in Figure 7, Gemini consistently showed the young version of Rylla inside the Simulation in what might be school girl garb for 1869, but somehow Rylla got special treatment. All the other students and the teacher in that image seem to be from another era.

A few of the images above on this page were mage using Leonardo (see Figure 11), Whisk and ImageFX.

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