Gharks, Grendels, Robots and Femtozoans

Tyna and a transcended Iidi of the Hierion Domain.

 Three months ago I began writing a new science fiction story called "D*". At that time, I mentioned the Eldil, strange, artificial life-forms that appear as characters in Out of the Silent Planet by Clive Staples Lewis. The Eldil are very difficult for humans to see; they apparently exist in a different physical domain than do we humans. In my imagination, the Eldil are similar to advanced aliens such as the Iidi, after they have abandoned their biological form and taken up residence in the Hierion Domain as artificial life-forms. Lewis also described other creatures such as the alien Pfifltriggi. I confused ImageFX with a complex text prompt: "

A pfifltrigg, by ImageFX

A stunningly detailed, full color, photorealistic rendering of a creature with a face that is hairless like a man’s. The creature’s face is long and pointed like a shrew’s, yellow and shabby-looking. The creature’s face is low in the forehead and heavy at the back and behind the ears. The creature is both insect-like and reptilian with a body like that of a frog. Part of creature’s fore-limbs are like an elbow that helps support the weight of the creature’s body. That part of the creature’s arms are broad and padded and clearly made to be walked on; but upwards from it at an angle of about forty-five degrees are branches of the forearms that are thin yet strong and end in enormous, sensitive, many-fingered hands. The creature can perform manual work with its body weight supported by the elbow. The creature is insect-like in that it can swivel its head almost all the way round like a mantis or a grasshopper. The creature appears to be part human dwarf and part like a frog". See the image to the left.

Pfifltrigg version #2, by ImageFX

I modified my text prompt to: "Photorealistic quadrupedal frog creature. The creature has four limbs and all four limbs touch the ground like a frog. Each forelimb has a lower branch ending in a padded elbow that rests on the ground. The upper branch of each forelimb ends in a  dexterous hand with long fingers. The creature supports its weight on the elbow pads and its hind legs, in a posture similar to a frog. The rear limbs are frog-like and end in webbed feet. The creature is posed in front of an ancient stone monolith with carved symbols. The lighting should clearly show the creature using its elbow pads to support its weight while its hands are holding tools used to carve stone. The creature has green skin and a pointed amphibian-like face with large ears". The pfifltrigg that is shown to the right is not bad, but I could never get ImageFX to generate a more quadrupedal pfifltrigg. 

An Iidi with purple skin (source).

 Femtozoans. I have long enjoyed populating my science fiction stories with a diverse collection of non-human biological creatures, human variants and artificial life forms. In my previous blog post, I mentioned zeptozoans, artificial life-forms that can arise within a person's zeptite endosymbiont. In older stories, I have included humanoids and human variants such as the Iidi, Grendels, the tryp'At, the Ek'col and the Asterothropes. Now, in "D*", there is a role for femtozoans.

Humanoid Diversity. I prefer humanoids over frog people. Previously, in stories such as "The Alastor Network" and "Meet the Phari", I depicted the Iidi as a humanoid alien species of the planet Dreavero, a world that I designated as being Alastor 1921 back in 2016. At the time when Ryl Shermatz ruled Alastor Cluster, there were still biological Iidi living in Wilson's Land on Dreavero, a sanctuary that a Connatic had long ago established for the alien Iidi to protect them against human encroachment. 

Figure 1. Some Layernites by ImageFX.

I imagined that the Iidi were so similar to humans that there had been a transfer of some Iidi genes into a few humans, which led to the Idite Dynasty. Thus, as a member of the Idite Dynasty, Ryl Shermatz carried some Iidi gene combinations, even if he did not have purple skin. 

In the final chapter of The Alastor Network, an Iidi appeared in a form that even Ryl Shermatz could see. I depicted Ryl Shermatz as having very limited telepathic abilities, but as having a mysterious ability to sense danger: if someone near him was a threat to his safety, Ryl knew it. Back in 2016, I never accounted for Ryl's ability to sense danger, but I have since developed the concept of the Sedron Time Stream. Maybe Ryl's "visions of the future" are all made possible when Ryl's femtozoan makes use of the Sedron Time Stream to access information about the future.

Figure 2. Layernites by ImageFX.

 When Ryl met that Iidi, the alien was using the physical form of a biological Iidi, but I imagine that this particular Iidi long ago transcended from its biological form and exists in the Hierion Domain and is composed of hierions and can take on any convenient physical form.

Jack Vance imagined a future where humans could adapt to the unique conditions of various exoplanets in the galaxy. Back in 2016, for the story The League of Yrinna, I included mention of Layernites of the planet Layerna, a world with much stronger gravity than Earth. The image in Figure 1 was generated by using this text prompt: "Photorealistic science fiction portrait of a diverse crew inside a spaceship observation deck with large windows showing stars and planets. The crew members are colonists from a high-gravity world and MUST be visibly shorter than average humans (around 4 feet tall maximum) with noticeably stocky, compact, and muscular builds. 

Input to Whisk.

Their bodies should be wide, with thick limbs, broad shoulders, and powerful torsos - proportioned like weightlifters but shorter. Show them wearing futuristic jumpsuits, each of a different color. Include people of various ethnicities, ages, and genders, all sharing the same distinctive short, powerful physique. Include furniture and control panels at a lower height to emphasize their small stature. View from an angle that clearly shows their height relative to the spacecraft interior. 35mm film". This text prompt was devised with help from Claude. My original request for, "Photorealistic science fiction scene depicting of a group of human humans who have evolved as a human variant on an exoplanet that has high gravity. These humanoids are short and have thick powerful bodies that are adapted to the strong gravity of their world," resulted in the image shown in Figure 2.

I used Figure 2 as a "subject" image for Whisk along with Figure 1 as a "scene" image and my usual "style" text prompt. With those inputs, Whisk generated the image shown below in Figure 3. I then used WOMBO Dream to make some modifications to Figure 3, resulting in the composite image shown in Figure 4. I changed the Whisk text prompt and asked that the Layernites be given hair (see Figure 5). I used WOMBO Dream to make some modifications to Figure 5, resulting in the composite image shown in Figure 6.

Figure 3. Two Layernites generated by Whisk.

Figure 4. These two Layernites were modified by WOMBO Dream.

Figure 5. The Layernites were given hair by Whisk.

Figure 6. Layernites that were generated by WOMBO Dream were pasted into the Whisk-generated storyboard.

Figure 7. Reference image for Leonardo.

To get the Layernites that are seen in Figure 6, I used a text prompt that referred to the human figures as "Neanderthals", which resulted in them being dressed in primitive grass skirts. Then the faces of the WOMBO Dream-generated "Neanderthals" that are seen in Figure 6 were generated separately and manually pasted in so as to cover up the rather ugly "Neanderthals" faces that were in the original images.

Figure 8. Leonardo's Neanderthal.

I had previously (see Zetozoans) had some success with Leonardo when generating "Neanderthals", so I again let Leonardo to the task of making Neanderthal-like humanoids. The image shown in Figure 7 was generated by Whisk and used as a reference image for the Leonardo Phoenix 1.0 text-to-image model. Using that reference image and the text prompt, "A stunningly detailed, full color, photorealistic rendering of a beautiful Neanderthal woman with very large brown eyes. Dressed in a cute fur miniskirt. The Neanderthal woman is very short and stout with thick arms and legs," Leonardo generated images such as the one shown in Figure 8.

Figure 9. Two Neanderthal-like Layernites that were generated by Whisk.

Figure 10. Layernites collaboratively generated by Whisk, Leonardo and Wombo Dream.

Figure 11. Mr. Wombo's bears.

I used WOMBO Dream to make some less hideous faces some Leonardo-generated "Neanderthals" and pasted the resulting "Layernites" into a Whisk-generated storyboard image (Figure 9). The resulting composite image is shown in Figure 10.

Figure 12. Layernites by WOMBO.

When provided with a Whisk-generated "Layernite" reference image from Figure 9, WOMBO Dream generated Layernites with animal faces and bodies such as those shown in Figure 11.

Rarely, "remembered" that these were supposed to be humanoids and gave the Layernites human faces. Figure 12 is a composite image where the Layernites have animal-like bodies and human faces. For this image, I also manually added a penis to one Layernite and pasted in two Leonardo-generated breasts for the other Layernite.

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In some of my science fiction stories, I have included Gharks (example), positronic robots and femtobot replicoids. Usually I allow the positronic robots and femtobot replicoids to make use of human forms that are visually indistinguishable from the human form. Gharks and Hoos were the invention of Jack Vance and I like to imagine that they were the artificial life remnants of humanoid aliens who long ago lived on the planet Marune. Only from the perspective of the Ekcolir Reality was it possible for a Vance analogue using the pen-name 'Jaqy Vance' (or Sam Jaqy) to realize that some of the Gharks who were sighted on Marune were actually interventionists who were guiding the evolution of telepathic humans in the Asimov Reality (see the image to the right).

SSS Grean

Grean the Kac'hin is the Interventionist agent who was designed and crafted by Manny the bumpha to lead the mission that captured Eternity from the positronic robots of Earth. In my imagination, the Kac'hin are a human variant that was designed to be resistant to the type of telepathy that the positronic robots had and could use to control the behavior of humans. In my imagination, the Kac'hin have distinctive physical features such as large eyes, pointed ears and teeth that have a different appearance than typical human teeth (see the image to the left).

Text prompt for Whisk: "A stunningly detailed, full color, photorealistic rendering of four young humanoids with very large eyes on a spaceship bridge overlooking Earth. A wide shot of a spaceship bridge, dimly lit with a large window showing a planet from space. In the background is a spaceship crew consisting of ten women in form-fitting jumpsuits of various muted earth tones (tan, red, olive green, dusty rose, darker olive green) and two seated figures (one woman with long dark hair and medium skin, one woman with long light blonde hair and light skin) in dark suits.  Four additional humanoid women stand in the foreground.  One humanoid woman has pointed ears, dark brown hair in a ponytail, light-peach skin, large green eyes, and wears a dark off-the-shoulder top and black choker. Another humanoid woman, also with pointed ears and large green eyes, has long dark brown hair in a ponytail, fair skin, and wears a black off-the-shoulder jumpsuit and choker. A third humanoid woman, with long light brown hair and large blue eyes, stands bare from the waist up, arms crossed, wearing black pants. The fourth humanoid woman has shoulder-length light blonde hair, light skin, wears a gold satin sleeveless jumpsuit, and has very large blue eyes and fangs. The color palette is dominated by earth tones with touches of teal and light blue. The faces and hair of the humanoid women are rendered with careful detail in a hyper-realistic fashion." With that text prompt and the "subject", "scene" and "style" images shown to the left, Whisk generated "storyboard" images such as the one shown below in Figures 13 and 14.

Figure 13. Five Whisk-generated Kac'hin.

Figure 14. Four Whisk-generated Kac'hin.

Figure 15. Four ImageFX-generated Kac'hin.

Figure 16. Four other ImageFX-generated Kac'hin.

Grean by Mr. Wombo.

The images shown above in Figures 15 and 16 were generated by ImageFX and gave very similar results to what was obtained with Whisk. 

Next, I used one of the Whisk-generated Kac'hin as a reference image for WOMBO Dream. The image that is shown to the right was generated by Mr. Wombo (text prompt: "A stunningly detailed, full color, photorealistic rendering of a very young Meg Ryan as a humanoid alien with large eyes, pointed ears and sharp white teeth, Meg Ryan has long blond hair, Meg Ryan is fifteen years old and beautiful, photorealistic detail in Meg Ryan’s face and hair, a dark star field in the background"). Mr. Wombo never generated any fangs, so I had to manually insert some fangs into this image.

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Largo Johns

Extracting femtobots from Largo.

Below on this page is Part 7 of the science fiction story "D*" (see Part 1). In Part 6, Tyhry used the Asimov Reality Simulator to visit her analogue, Tyna, at a point in time shortly before Tyna's journey to Earth, but Tyhry was on a tight schedule. The interstellar spaceship Sedrover was returning to Earth after a visit to the Rigel star system in the Ekcolir Reality. Tyhry rushed to complete her most recent use of the Asimov Reality Simulator as part of her investigation of the origins of human telepathy in the Asimov Reality.

Tyhry brings the 20-year-old Tyna of the Asimov Reality into the Ekcolir Reality where that older copy of Tyna meets her younger copy (the 4-year-old version of Tyna was introduced in Part 4). Under questioning by Tyhry, Tyna describes events from when she was 10 years old and was able to learn about programmable femtobots by watching Largo Johns use a hierion field to extract some from his body. 

Extracting femtobots from Tyna.

Working in her nanite research laboratory in the Ekcolir Reality, Tyhry has so far been unable to re-program any of the younger Tyna's femtobots. The older Tyna helps Tyhry build a special hierion field that allows Tyhry to isolate some of Tyna's programmable femtobots. By reprogramming those extracted femtobots, it becomes possible to alter the body of the 4-year-old Tyna. 

By the end of Part 7, with all that she has learned by visiting the Asimov Reality, Tyhry is now ready to return to the Final Reality and try to use some of the programmable femtobots obtained from Tyna to re-activate the teleportation equipment on Earth.

Part 7 of D* (Part 1)(Part 2)(Part 3)(Part 4)(Part 5)(Part 6)

 Tyna suddenly found herself inside Tyhry's nanite research laboratory, located inside the Ekcolir Reality Simulation. One of Tyhry's replicoid copies instantly noticed the return of Tyhry from the Asimov Reality Simulation and told Tyhry, "Sedrover is now landing."

Tyhry got to her feet and helped the naked and startled Tyna get to her feet. "Quickly now, this way." Tyhry pulled Tyna by the hand to her bedroom where a four-year old copy of Tyna was laying on Tyhry's bed, nursing at the breast of her mother, Aymy. Tyhry pushed the older Tyna towards the bed and said, "Say hello to your younger self." Tyhry turned and departed from the bedroom, closing the door behind her.

Aymy barely glanced at the newly-arrived copy of her daughter, Tyna. Aymy was and the younger copy of Tyna were synapex linked and well on their way to sharing an orgasm trance. Aymy said, "Tyna, make yourself useful."

The older Tyna was swept up in telepathic linkages to Aymy and the younger copy herself; she could taste her mother's sweet milk and the tingling sensation of oxypathin in her mouth. She could sense the younger Tyna's attempt to telepathically link into Tyhry's memories as the young girl hoped to discover if Tyhry's recent mission in the Asimov Reality had revealed anything that might help her alter the form and structure of her femtobot components and how they shaped her physical form. 

Tyna's fantasy Hua garden of delights.

The younger copy of Tyna was already overdosed on sex hormones and was fantasizing about the alien Hua who Tyhry had previous told Tyna about. The 4-year-old Tyna was imagining herself on the planet Sermyth, playing with a young Hua hermaphrodite.

The older Tyna got onto the bed and kissed the sweating forehead of the 4-year old copy of herself then she moved between her mother's legs. She asked, "Where are we?" Tyna then began sucking on the hot pink glans of her mother's large tryp'At style clitoris.

Aymy explained, "This is Tyhry's nanite research facility. You have been taken into another Reality... a new timeline." Aymy was delighted to have her daughter so eager to sexually stimulate her genitals and push her towards the orgasm that she desired. "I'm surprised that Tyhry brought a second copy of you here."

Tyna stopped orally stimulating her mother's clitoris and forcefully slid her erect penis into Aymy's wet vagina. She glanced at her younger copy and asked, "How long has she been here?"

Aymy replied, "I've been here almost a week, but little Tyna arrived just two days ago." 

Tyna and Aymy

In her timeline, it had been more that a year since Tyna had last engaged in sexplay and vaginal intercourse with her mother. Now, the opportunity to again make love to her mother had Tyna quite sexually aroused. Their two telepathic minds linked tightly and as soon as they were synapex linked they entered into an orgasm trance. That trance state grew to include the younger Tyna. The telepathic minds of the two copies of Tyna merged and they quickly shared all of their recent memories with each other while enjoying the pleasure of the shared orgasm trance.

As the orgasm trance ended, the younger Tyna took her mouth off of Aymy's nipple, thus breaking their synapex linkage. At the same time, the older Tyna broke the synapex link between her penis and and Aymy's cervix. She began thrusting her erection in and out of her mother's vagina. The younger Tyna said, "This is so strange! Meeting myself... copy of me from the future..." The younger Tyna reached out and caressed one of the older Tyna's breasts. "So, I finally got to play with an Asterothrope penis!" Tyna had previously experienced visions from her future, including views of Marky's huge penis.

The older Tyna said, "It was not much of a sexplay session. Marky ejaculated inside my allzaurish less than a minute after he entered me." During the orgasm trance when she had been synapex linked to Aymy, Tyna had been able to telepathically examine her mother's memories of the events in her recent past. Aymy had been brought into the Ekcolir Reality from a point in the Asimov Reality timeline that was soon after Tyna had moved and begun sharing a new home with Mylana.

Aymy was also examining the fragments of her daughter's memories that she had glimpsed during their shared orgasm trance. Aymy asked, "You had sex with Manny?"

Two Tynas in the Ekcolir Reality.

Tyna giggled and replied, "That was a magical sexplay session, with both Manny and Tyhry!" Now the younger Tyna had positioned herself behind the older copy of Tyna and was examining the older girl's allzaurish. Little Tyna used her fingers to wipe up some of the fluid that was leaking out of the older Tyna's back vagina and then she licked the fluid off of her fingers. The older Tyna explained, "That is Marky's Asterothrope ejaculate... it is very rich in sex hormones." She was playing with her mother's erect nipples while Aymy manually stimulated the glans of her own clitoris, hoping to achieve another orgasm.

With Marky's ejaculate in her mouth and activating Tyna's sex hormone receptors, the young Tyna felt her lips and entire oral cavity tingling as her klytykynyn receptors were activated. Her oxypathin receptors had already been activated by the oxypathin in Aymy's breast secretions. As part of Tyhry's efforts to reprogram the younger Tyna's femtobots, Tyhry had fed Tyna large doses of sex hormones, which had caused the erectile tissue of Tyna to swell and grow. Little Tyna announced, "I wish I had my penis, but Tyhry has been unable to use her medical nanites to reprogram my nanites and alter my body structure."

Aymy experienced another pleasing orgasm and her vaginal muscles all contracted and squeezed on her daughter's hot erection. Then the older Tyhry reached a sexual climax and ejaculated into her mother's vagina. Little Tyna said, "Maybe I don't really need a penis as long as I can get enough of these sex hormones." She pulled herself away from the older Tyna'a bottom and touched the tingling glans of ger clitoris. "Look how big my clitoris has grown!"

The older Tyna pulled her erection out of Aymy, turned towards the younger Tyna. The tip of her penis was still dribbling semen as the older Tyna looked at the pink glans of her younger copy's clitoris and she commented, "You are a lucky girl. It was not until I was twelve years old that I was able to start growing my penis." Now Aymy began investigating the older Tyna's allzaurish and she sampled and tasted some of Marky's ejaculate. "Very nice! I've never imagined that semen could be like this... so sweet and spicy!"

Tyna

The older copy of Tyna was now intently rubbing her erection with both hands. She told her younger self, "I love having a penis!" After just a few seconds of manually stimulating her penis, the older Tyna began to ejaculate again. The young Tyna giggled as she watched great spurts of her older copy's semen fly across the bed in high arcs as they emerged from her penis.

Just then, Tyhry came into the bedroom, accompanied by Marda, who had just returned from the Rigel star system. The older Tyna turned and sat on the edge of the bed, still stroking her erection and enjoying the feel of her slippery semen as she rubbed it all over her penis. 

The little Tyna was attracted to her older copy's breasts. She sat beside the older Tyna and latched onto one of the older Tyna's breasts. Aymy got off the bed and activated the clothing nanites that she had obtained from Tyhry, clothing herself in a sleek jumpsuit.

Pulling her eyes off of Tyna's beautiful tryp'At style penis, Marda watched Aymy as she covered her beautiful body with nanite-generated clothing and then she asked, "Who is the redhead?"

Tyhry had already received Marda's report on the Rigel star system and then had began filling Marda in on what she had learned during her recent visits to Tyna and Mylana in the Asimov Reality. Tyhry telepathically told Marda: That is Aymy, Tyna's mother. Speaking out loud, Tyhry said, "Marda, meet Tyna's mother. Aymy, this is Marda, the analogue of Mylana from the Final Reality."

Aymy took hold of Marda's hand. "You look amazingly like Mylana, but I can see differences."

Marda glanced at Tyhry and commented, "Aymy looks nothing like your mother."

Anyta and Tyna on Earth.

Tyhry nodded. "Wait until you see Anyta, Mylana's mother. She is nothing like your mother, either."

Marda asked, "Where is Anyta?"

Aymy explained, "Anyta went sight-seeing. She wanted to explore Earth." 

Tyhry had tried to understand the intriguing similarities and difference between the Asimov Reality and the Final Reality. She mused, "I believe that Manny was constructing tryp'At-like genomes in the Asimov Reality...." She telepathically told Marda: Copies of you and I were useful to Manny in the Asimov Reality, the Ekcolir Reality and the Final Reality. Speaking out loud, Tyhry said, "...and deploying them as needed as her agents in that Reality."

The younger Tyna had quickly fallen asleep at the breast of the older Tyna. Now Marda sat on the edge of the bed and began carefully examining Tyna's sexy body, which was quite similar to that of Tyhry. Telepathically, Marda could sense in Tyhry's thoughts the fact that Tyna was a femtobot replicoid. Marda asked, "Deploy?"

Tyhry explained, "I believe that the tryp'At were successfully crafted and optimally evolved in the far future of the Asimov Reality. Manny must have made replicoid copies of the tryp'At who were the original biological versions of you and I and sent those femtobot artificial life-forms into the past. However, those were not just ordinary replicoids! Tyhry pointed first at Aymy then at Tyna, "These replicoids could grow and develop, just like biological humans... only Manny made sure that they would grow while under the influence of developmental control nanites that forced their bodies to take on conventional human form. This copy of Tyna was able to recover her tryp'At body form."

Aymy added one caveat, "I grew up with a normal human body, except for my tryp'At-style clitoris." She pointed at Tyna's big erection. "Even as a baby, Tyna had visions from the future, visions of her penis."

Aymy

Now both Marda and Tyna had hands on Tyna's erection. Tyna said, "From a very young age, I devoted my efforts to recovering the use of my tryp'At penis."

Tyhry gently patted the head of the sleeping 4-year-old copy of Tyna and told Marda, "I thought it would be possible to remodel the genitals of this young copy of Tyna and give her a penis, but I have been unable to use my programmable medical nanites to alter the form of her body. Exposing Tyna to large doses of oxypathin and klytykynyn has caused her erectile tissue to enlarge, but that is the only progress I have made." Tyhry kissed the tip of Tyna's penis and asked, "Tell us Tyna, how did you rebuild yourself?"

Tyna stood up and went to the corner of the bedroom, carrying the younger Tyna to an arm chair. The older Tyna settled into the chair while the younger Tyna continued to nurse and occasionally swallow the sex hormone-rich secretions that flowed from the older Tyna's breast. Tyna thought back across the years and explained, "It became possible for me to change my body form after I learned about programmable femtobots from Largo Johns. I was ten years old when we went to Ysoto-4HD and I learned about femtobots...

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ISV Kosmos Galaktography towing the research module that will be deployed on Ysoto-4HD.

The 10-year-old Tyna was fascinated by the many compartments of the ISV Kosmos Galaktography. Aymy wanted Tyna to stay in the confines of the research module that would be deployed on Ysoto-4HD, but Tyna had no intention of letting Aymy ruin her fun. She'd told Aymy, "You take care of the babies. I'll be busy exploring." Then Tyna had left Aymy there in the research module with Gyny and Joan.

After three days of her explorations, Tyna was known to the entire crew of the Kosmos Galaktography, and she had met all of the children who were on board, including the son of the ship's doctor, a sixteen-year-old boy named Bensyn. Tyna quickly decided that Bensyn was an obnoxious know-it-all, but also the most intelligent and knowledgeable of the children onboard. When they were alone at one of the spaceship's observation ports, she told Bensyn, "Look at this." Tyna pulled the hair away from her right ear and showed him the cute little point at the top of her ear.

Bensyn touched the tip of her ear and said, "That's unusual." He pushed a hand into Tyna's mop of hair and quickly confirmed that Tyna's other ear was also pointed. Bensyn asked, "Mutant ears. Do you have normal hearing?"

Bensyn and Tyna

Tyna replied, "I have excellent hearing." Tyna also knew that as part of Aymy's effort to learn the identity of Tyna's father, Aymy had paid to have an expensive genetic analysis of Tyna performed. That scan of Tyna's genes had reveal no genetic defects. Now, Tyna was thinking about that fact, but she did not like to brag. Still, she was thinking: I'm perfect. If only I had my penis!

Bensyn asked Tyna, "Do you mind if I tell my mother about your ears? She's interested in human genetics."

Tyna shrugged. "I don't mind. I like my ears." Tyna reached out and placed a hand against Bensyn's crotch. "I like pointy body parts." 

Bensyn laughed and said, "You're too young to play with penises."

Tyna said, "That's not true. I suppose you play with your penis all the time."

Bensyn laughed again. "My mother taught me how to masturbate. She expects me to satisfy my own sexual urges for at least the next two years. She's rather old-fashioned."

"So are my parents. I've never actually seen a penis in the flesh." Occasionally Maz let Tyna play with Maz's collection of artificial penises, but Tyna wanted a real penis... her own penis which she had seen in visions of her future. Tyna mused, "I suspect that just seeing pictures of penises is nothing like holding a hot penis in your hand."

"You may be right." Bensyn shrugged. "Some penises are quite ugly. I'm told that many women prefer to make love in the dark, just to avoid looking at a penis."

Tyna explained, "I'm more of penis naturalist. I'm fascinated by the human penis and all of its variants."

Bensyn laughed and said, "You say the strangest things, Tyna." He rubbed his chin thoughtfully a an mumbled, "You might be int..." He stopped speaking and looked speculatively at Tyna.

"What?"

"Nothing."

"You were going to say something."

Bensyn shook his head. "No."

"If you don't tell me what you wanted to say then I'll use my telepathic powers to get it out of you. I'm not a baby. You can tell me about your penis."

Bensyn assumed that Tyna was joking about having telepathic powers. "I was not going to tell you about my penis, there's nothing remarkable about it."

Tyna guessed again. "Your father's penis?" Bensyn shook his head again. Tyna asked, "Your mother's penis?"

Bensyn laughed loudly. "Women do not have penises."

Tyna asked, "Then why are there so many stories about Asterothrope hermaphrodites?"

"I don't know. Wishful thinking? There are also stories about mermaids and Bigfoot."

Now Tyna laughed. "I suppose any creature called 'bigfoot' must have a big penis, too."

Bensyn commented, "I can see you are really obsessed with penises."

Tyna admitted, "I'd love to have a penis to play with."

"Let's change the subject."

Tyna said, "This is going to be a long voyage. I'll find out what you were going to say."

Bensyn said, "Don't be a little pest, Tyna. If you must know what I know, then you have to promise not to tell anyone else. It is just a silly rumor. Gossip."

Tyna asked, "You know a penis secret?"

"This is no joke. Promise."

"I promise."

"Can I trust you?"

"I'm not a liar. I'll keep your secret."

"Do you know Captain Johns and Ny, the second in command?"

Tyna nodded. "I've met everyone."

"Did you notice that Ny is a robot?"

Tyna had not noticed. "Are you serious?" Tyna was thinking about Maz and she guessed that Bensyn was going to say that Ny was a sexbot with a detachable penis.

Bensyn said, "The gossip around the ship is that the Captain had to have Ny made to special order, just to accommodate his giant penis." 

Tyna looked carefully at Bensyn, trying to sense if he was lying. He seemed serious. "Interesting."

"Now, don't tell anyone else."

"I won't. Who cares if your ship's captain has a big penis? Although, now that I think about it, his first name is 'Largo'." Tyna giggled.

"That's why all the children onboard spread this rumor. It is like joke. It does not even matter if it is true." Their conversation returned to their shared interest in astronomy, but now while they gazed at the passing stars in the viewport, Tyna was making plans for how to get a look at the Captain's penis. She quickly decided on an indirect approach.

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Ny at work.

Later, Tyna found Ny at work overhauling one of the ship's air purifier units. Tyna asked a long series of questions about the purifier then she abruptly changed the subject. "Are you the Captain's lover?"

Ny stopped her work. "That's a strange question coming from a little girl like you."

Tyna said, "Well, I'm not as little as you might think."

Ny told Tyna, "I'm from the same robot factory as your Maz. We both have had sexbot training, but with time, we have both come to have other duties."

Tyna said, "I love my sexplay sessions with Maz."

Ny asked, "Is that why you are here, pestering me with questions? You expect me to have sex with you?"

"No, I'm satisfied with playing with my two sisters and an occasional sexplay session with Maz. Maz has taught me a lot about sex. Mostly I just masturbate when I get horny. But forget about me! Tell me about the Captain."

However, Ny would tell Tyna nothing about her sexual encounters with the Captain or her sexual relationships with any of the rest of the crew. 

The next day, Tyna followed Captain Johns around the ship. Finally, he went into one of access tunnels for the ship's sedron fuel line and there were no other members of the crew nearby. As a heavy freight hauler, the Kosmos Galaktography had high-capacity fuel lines that operated at the upper end of the magnetic confinement field strength for equipment available to humans in the Asimov Reality. Those lines needed careful maintenance to avoid catastrophic failure. Tyna followed Largo into the access tunnel. He initiated a diagnostics routine for the equipment and then looked at Tyna and asked, "Why have you been following me?"

Tyna found it impossible to not look at Largo's crotch. "I'm curious about your penis."

Largo shook his head and sighed. "Ny told me that you asked her questions about our sexual relationship."

"And I've heard rumors." Tyna asked, "Is it true that Ny has a vagina that was designed and specially built to match your gigantic penis?"

Largo asked Tyna, "Why do you care about my penis?"

Tyna explained, "I've had visions of penises my whole life. My family's robot can wear artificial penises and use them as tools to provide sexual pleasure to my mother. I imagine that Ny must modify the size of her vagina so that it can hold your enormous erection. Probably you can't have vaginal intercourse with women because their vaginas are too small to accommodate your gigantic penis. That must be frustrating for you, but as long as you have Ny you can satisfy your sexual needs."

"You have a wild imagination, but that is absurd. I would not have been sent here on my mission under conditions that kept me sexually frustrated. Manny is not cruel. However, it is true that Ny does attempt to modify her body form in any way that she thinks might please me." Largo could never be certain, but now he guessed that telling Tyna about femtobots may have been one of the reasons why Manny sent him to this place in time. "I was sent to this time with programmable femtobots which allow me to adjust and fit my penis to the vaginas of my lovers. Ny is nice to have around, but I'm not dependent on her anatomical flexibility for my sexual needs."

Tyna asked, "Really? What is a femtobot?"

The Captain explained, "I'm a femtobot replicoid. An artificial life-form. My body simulates cellular components, but that is a disguise. Ultimately, I'm a form of advanced nanotechnology, sent here to this primitive time in the past by Manny the bumpha."

Tyna almost forgot about penises. With her ability to receive information from the future, Tyna had long been intrigued by the idea of time travel. She asked, "Manny the bumpha? What does that mean?"

"Manny is a technologically advanced alien. Before she sent me on this mission, she showed my images of you and Manny warned me that we would meet and that you would ask about my penis." Largo turned his back on Tyna and examined the fuel line. "Let me finish this diagnostic test."

While Largo worked, Tyna asked a dozen questions about the fuel line, but eventually Largo led her out of the access tunnel and they went to an adjacent compartment of the spaceship; the actual sedron fuel tank which was inside a large hierion containment field. The Captain opened up a supply cabinet and pulled out a small device which he showed to Tyna. "This is a device from the future. It is what allows me to modify my body structure." He held the device beside his head and Tyna watched in fascination as one of Largo's ears grew to take on a long and pointed non-human shape.

Tyna reached towards her own ear. "You know about my..."

"Yesterday, after the doctor examined your ears, she told me about your pointed ears." Largo reversed the body modification process and his ear returned to normal.

Tyna asked, "Is it possible that I am like you... made of femtobots?"

Largo nodded. "Yes, that's what Manny told me."

Tyna quickly pulled up the hem of her skirt and pulled down her panties. "Can that body form alteration device change my clitoris into a penis?"

Largo had never imagined that a woman might transform her clitoris into a penis. He laughed. "What a crazy..." Largo suddenly realized that Tyna was serious. "Manny did not warn me about this." He held the femtobot reprogrammer close to Tyna and tried issuing a telepathic command: Enlarge her clitoris. Tyna spread her labia and he could see the pink glans of her big tryp'At-style clitoris. He said, "Wow, it seems to be working."

Manny onboard Kosmos Galaktography

Tyna fingered her glans and now it was stiff and erect. "No, this is normal... for me. I inherited my mother's big clitoris."

Largo tried a few other similar telepathic commands, but he could not modify the structure of Tyna's body or even confirm that she had femtobot components. Disappointed that Largo seemed unable to re-shape her body, Tyna put her clothing back to normal and told Largo, "I still want to see your penis."

Largo activated his comring. "Ny? Please meet me in the fuel storage compartment. And bring a nanite containment vial." Largo opened up his pants as showed Tyna his penis. "Are you satisfied?"

Tyna reached out and took hold of Largo's penis with both of her hands. Just then, Ny arrived and said, "Largo, what are you doing?"

Largo told Ny, "I need your help. Show Tyna how your vagina was designed at the factory. How deep was it?"

Ny held her hand against her abdomen. She told Tyna, "I was built with a normal vagina."

Largo told Ny, "I need your help." He pointed at his flaccid penis.

Ny said, "Oh, bother." She pushed Tyna's hands away and took the tip of Largo's penis in her mouth. With the help of oral and manual stimulation from Ny, soon Largo was fully erect. Ny took her mouth of of the big glistening glans of Largo's penis.

Again Tyna put her hands on the Captains big hot penis. She commented, "Impressive."

Largo held the femtobot reprogramming device near his penis and said, "Watch this." His erection quickly shrank down to normal human size. 

Tyna commented, "It is hard to believe that you are an artificial life-form." Tyna began playing with the slippery fluid that now dribbled out of the hole at the tip of his penis. Tyna licked some of the fluid off of her finger and felt her lips and tongue tingle. She asked, "How do you really know that femtobots exist? They must be very small... smaller than cells... too small to actually see."

Largo asked Ny, "Did you bring a vial?"

Ny handed Largo a small nanite containment vial. The Captain pulled his erection out of Tyna's hands and turned around. He unlocked the hierion containment field access gate and walked into the hierion field that contained the hierions that were used to guide and feed the sedron fuel of the Kosmos Galaktography to the intersplit drive. Largo held the femtobot reprogramming device and the little vial close to the glans of his erect penis. Then he exited from the containment field, closed the access gate and tossed the vial to Ny. For a moment the Captain struggled to get his penis back inside his jumpsuit then he asked Tyna, "Can you see the femtobots?"

Ny held the containment vial in front of Tyna's face. Tyna could see what looked like a swirling mist inside the transparent vial. She muttered, "It is hard to believe... these are nanites?" She reached for the vial. "Let me see..."

Ny let go of the vial. Tyna held it up to the light of a lamp. Tyna announced, "I want to try an experiment." Tyna again pulled up her skirt and she held the vial against her crotch. She told Largo, "Release the femtobots and program them to enter my body... to enlarge my clitoris."

Largo laughed and held out the femtobot reprogramming device. He said, "We don't really know if this can work. Manny told me that you have femtobot components, but they may not be programmable..."

Tyna pulled down her panties again, revealing the erect glans of her big tryp'At-style clitoris. She impatiently ordered, "Just try it."

Ny said, "This crazy." She told Largo, "You can't release those femtobots! You don't know what will happen."

Largo said, "At worst, they will just merge back into my body."

Ny grabbed the vial back from Tyna. "At worst they will be lost and floating around the ship, causing no end of troubles." Ny pulled up Tyna's panties, but her erect glans could still be seen, jutting out against the soft fabric of Tyna's panties.

Largo took the containment vial from Ny. "You may be right." He again unlocked the access gate and turned to Tyna. "We'll try the transfer inside the fuel containment field." Tyna quickly took off her panties and her skirt and handed them to Ny. Tyna followed Largo into the fuel containment field. Holding the small vial and the reprogrammer close to Tyna's crotch, Largo backed his penis back out of the fuel containment field. Now he tried giving a telepathic command to the femtobots that he had extracted from his penis: Integrate into her clitoris.

Tyna watched in amazement as the swirling mist inside the vial disappeared and the glans of her clitoris quickly doubled in size. She cried, "It worked! Look at my giant erection!"

"That's enough!" Ny said, "Largo, stop fooling around. Put her back the way she was."

Largo had already tried giving a reversal command, but nothing had happened. Tyna was saying, "No! Don't revert me! Give me more! I want my penis... all of it!"

Largo pulled Tyna out of the fuel containment field. Ny forced Tyna to get back into her clothing. Ny said, "This has gone far enough. Too far!" She asked Largo, "How are we going to explain this to her mother?"

Tyna said, "Thank you, Largo. You've done enough. You proved that I'm like you... a femtobot replicoid."

_________

Tyna finished her account of events from ten years previously on the Kosmos Galaktography. She told Tyhry, "Eventually, I was able to reprogram my body and recover my tryp'At features."

The 4-year-old copy of Tyna opened her eyes and said, "Then you can reprogram my body."

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Kosmos Galaktography

Femtobot reprogramming.

Below on this page is Part 6 of the science fiction story "D*". Tyhry is investigating the role that her analogue played in the Asimov Reality during the Trysta Truce when both R. Nyrtia and Manny the bumpha were actively working to create and develop human telepaths for a Final Reality. Human telepathy involves use of zeptite endosymbionts as a device to transmit and receive information, but humans also have a femtobot endosymbiont that acts as a sophisticated interface between cells in a human brain and that person's zeptite endosymbiont. Tyhry knows that there is some kind of relationship between telepathy and time travel; people like herself who have telepathic abilities also can receive information from the future by means of the Sedron Time Stream.  

Discovery of light deuterium.

Tyhry's analogue in the Asimov Reality, Tyna, gave her father, Vart, the idea of looking for D* (a form of deuterium containing an anti-gravity hierion) in the atmosphere of Sadal Suud IV. Tyna knew about the strange material, D*, because of her ability to receive information from the future via the Sedron Time Stream. 

After moving his family to Sadal Suud IV, Vart carefully investigated the source of the D* that was in the atmosphere of Sadal Suud IV. After getting his family settled on Sadal Suud IV, he returned to space where Vart tested a nearby asteroid for D* as part of determining the origin of the D* found on Sadal Suud IV. Vart learned that no D* could be detected in the atmosphere of Sadal Suud III or on the asteroid. For his travels within the Sadal Suud star system, Vart used an anti-gravity Leap Shuttle that had no interstellar drive. Eventually, Tyna's telepathic abilities allowed her to realized that there was a secret sedron mine on Sadal Suud IV that was the source of D*. 

Arrival at Ysoto-4HD.

Working as an astrophysicist, Vart found other star systems in the galaxy that had planets with D*. Among the many such planets that were found, finally another Earth-like planet (Ysoto-4HD) was found that had very high levels of D* in its oceans. Ysoto-4HD was the obvious choice for a scientific expedition to further study the origins of D*. While Ysoto-4HD had an oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere like Earth, Ysoto-4HD was more massive than Earth and had a much thicker atmosphere than Earth and only a few volcanic islands.

The Earth Overseers.

When Tyna was 10, Vart obtained funding from the Jarnell Corporation to send a major scientific investigative team to Ysoto-4HD where about 20% of the hydrogen in its oceans in the form of D*. Vart took along his entire family and for a year they lived "on" Ysoto-4HD, inside a self-contained floating scientific research station which used the same anti-gravity technology that was used in the Abin of Earth. Abin were floating cities, such as Abin-284 where Aymy had given birth to Tyna. The alien life-forms of Ysoto-4HD all evolved to metabolize D* through a process that involved concentrating D* in some specific cell types of their bodies. 

Aerophycus volans

On the way to Ysoto-4HD, Tyna met the crew of the spaceship ISV Kosmos Galaktography which transported the large anti-gravity research laboratory and Vart's family to Ysoto-4HD. ISV Kosmos Galaktography was a well-traveled transport vessel that had a 100 year history of supporting exobiology missions.

Eventually, Tyhry realized that Ysoto-4HD and its unusual life-forms were all part of a Phari effort to create a plausible explanation for D* being a natural phenomenon. All of the planets in the Ysoto star system had D* and life had evolved in that environment where D* became a constituent of living organisms. 

Tyna's nanite inactivation experiment.

For example, one of the D*-metabolizing organisms (that was given the name Aerophycus volans) of Ysoto-5HD looked like a giant colonial algae that floated in the dense atmosphere of that world.

 The captain of ISV Kosmos Galaktography was a man named Largo Johns (a descendant of Lato Johns). Tyna was intrigued by rumors that Largo had a huge penis (a phenotypic trait that Tyna would later learn is a characteristic feature of an Asterothrope male). 

Programmable femtobots from the sedron mine.

Tyna told Largo about her visions of large penises. Largo showed Tyna his ability to reprogram the femtobot components of his penis, making her aware of the idea of reprogramming femtobots.

Years later, back on Sadal Suud 4, Tyna got a job working for the Jarnell Corporation at the sedron mine. Tyna was able to obtain some programmable hierion femtobots that were part of the sedron extraction process. Tyna reprogrammed those femtobots and used them to re-configure her replicoid body's femtobots, allowing her to recover her genetically-specified tryp'At body form.

vision of Earth

Tyna has had visions of visiting Earth and learning the secret of teleportation. Now approaching her 21st birthday, Tyna had begun making plans with Mylana for a visit to Earth. The events of Part 6 of "D*" continue immediately from the end of Part 5.

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For a minute, Tyna marveled at the huge penis of Marky that seemed as if it might rip open the fabric of his pants leg. Tyna was becoming quite sexually excited as she ran her hand back and forth along the long shaft of his semi-erect penis. 

Tyhry was wondering how much Karyn knew about tryp'At and Asterothrope hermaphrodites. Tyhry was asking Karyn, "I'm genetically identical to Tyna, so why not include me in this selective breeding project?"

Marky said, "There are rumors of a surviving evolutionary off-shoot of the Asterothropes, what is called the tryp'At. Have you heard that term before, Tyhry?"

Tyhry nodded. "Yes, I am tryp'At." Tyhry was planning to erase this fork of the Asimov Reality Simulation as soon as she was done visiting Tyna, so she felt free to speak openly of her own life in the Final Reality. "My father was the one who first discovered the presence of tryp'At agents on Earth." Tyhry did not mention the fact that her father, Eddy, was himself a tryp'At agent on Earth.

Karyn looked at Vart and asked, "When were you on Earth, Mr. Othing?"

Vart shook his head and replied, "I've never-"

Tyhry interrupted Vart. "Karyn, Vart is not my father. For that matter, Vart isn't even Tyna's father."

Tyna and Vart

Tyna stopped stroking Marky's remarkable penis and got up out of her chair and went to where her father was seated. She put her arms around Vart's shoulders from behind his chair. Tyna explained to Karyn, "Vart adopted me. I call him 'father', but he is not my biological father. I was born on Earth, before my mother ever met Vart."

Karyn told Tyna, "I see." She shifted her gaze to Tyhry and said, "Well, I suppose my proposal to the Eugenics Program grant committee can be amended. At the very least, the Committee should be aware of your existence. Of course, the Committee members will want to hear what your father knows about the tryp'At."

Tyhry did not want to explain that her father was in the Final Reality or the fact that Karyn existed inside a Reality Simulation. Tyhry quietly muttered, "He's a rather private person."

Karyn looked speculatively at Tyna. "And Tyna is planning to visit Earth."

Tyna told Karyn, "I have my own reasons for visiting Earth. I have no idea how to obtain the identity of my biological father."

Aymy added, "The genetic privacy laws of Earth are very strict. I doubt if anyone, even Tyhry, could discover who donated the sperm that produced Tyna."

Tyhry said enigmatically, "That may be true, but it is also true that I know my father quite well."

Tyna and Tyhry

Tyna moved to stand behind Tyhry and placed a hand on Tyhry's shoulder. Tyna told Karyn, "Let's leave Tyhry out of our plans for making babies... she's just visiting from Earth."

Tyhry glanced over her shoulder at Tyna and winked at the girl. Tyna continued speaking to Karyn, "I accept your offer... I'd be happy to participate in this experiment with the goal of making tryp'At hybrid babies. I trust that your plan includes opportunities for many orgasms." 

Karyn nodded and exclaimed, "Wonderful! Of course, the main goal of the project is to test for reproductive comparability between Asterothropes and humans, but we need not pass up any opportunities for orgasms that arise."

Now Tyna moved around the circumference of the table and stood next to Karyn. Tyna reached out and ran her fingers through the other woman's hair. "I'd love to have the opportunity to impregnate you... the good old fashioned way. However, I am worried that we may need to resort to in vitro fertilization in order to test if Marky's sperm can fertilize a tryp'At egg cell. Maybe his giant Asterothrope penis will not fit inside my vagina."

Marky said, "Have no fear, Tyna. I have the ability to control the size of my erections. An Asterothrope male always arranges for a perfect fit with his lover's vagina."

Without any further discussion, Karyn stood up and took Tyna by the hand and led her up to the second floor and to her bedroom. As they went up the stairs, Karyn told Tyna, "Let me look in on Olyv and make sure she is keeping your two sisters adequately entertained." Karyn was linked to her daughter and Marky by an experimental technology-assisted telepathy system that had been developed by the Jarnell Corporation. Karyn knew that Olyv, Gyny and Joan were engaged in a sexplay session and the three young women were comparing their genitals. Olyv was feeling intimidated by the large tryp'At-style clitorises of Gyny and Joan and Karyn had been telepathically giving Olyv some reassurance that her own genitals were quite adequate. Karyn telepathically told her daughter: I'm on my way.

Tyhry and Marky.

When Karyn and Tyna departed, Marky then approached Tyhry and held out a hand and told her, "Allow me to satisfy your curiosity about my penis." Tyhry got up from the table and took hold of Marky's hand. They went off together, walking in the direction of the backyard swimming pool.

"Amazing... meeting a mythical Asterothrope!" Aymy reached out and placed her hand over Vart's hand where it rested on the table. She told him, "Seeing Marky's penis bulging outwards there inside his pants leg and these young ladies so eager for sexplay has me feeling horny. Maybe you and I should find a quiet corner where you can ravish me."

Maz got off of her chair and suggested, "Maybe I should go upstairs and check on Gyny and Joan."

Aymy stopped Maz from leaving the dinning room. "No, don't interrupt them." Aymy could telepathically monitor the actions of her children. "They are playing some sex game with Karyn's daughter."

Maz giggled and said, "All the more reason. Three for sex play can be an awkward number."

Vart told Maz, "Let the children play. Sit back down and help us understand these startling revelations." Vart wanted to make use of the access that Maz had to data about the Jarnell Corporation. "Tell us what you know about Tyhry. Where did she come from?"

Maz reluctantly returned to her chair. "I don't think you would believe the truth, so why not just believe the idea that the Jarnell Corporation cloned Tyna?"

Aymy asked, "How could they have done so? And Tyhry looks older than Tyna. If anything, Tyna might be a clone of her older sister, Tyhry."

Vart spoke sternly to Maz, "Stop making up stories about what you think we want to hear and just tell us what you know."

Marky's Asterothrope penis.

Maz tried to change the subject of the conversation. She glanced out the window and saw Tyhry bending close to Marky as he showed her his big erection. Trying to not think about Marky's penis, Maz looked back at Aymy and said, "I should have stayed on Alphanor. If I spend more than four years with humans, I find it impossible to act in their best interests... instead I just do whatever gives them pleasure."

Aymy assured Maz, "You've taken good care of us all these years and I don't want to imagine what these last fifteen years might have been like without you. Since Tyna moved out of the house, we now count on you to keep us informed about Tyna's activities. You are a big part of this family and always will be."

Maz took another brief look out the window. "I'd really like to get a look at Marky's erection. It might give me ideas for a new and better part." Maz pointed a finger up towards the ceiling.

 Karyn complained, "Stop making obscene gestures and talking about penises... I'm not going to have a chance to engage in sexplay until we get home and you are just making me more horny." Aymy rubbed her erect nipples and asked, "This girl, Tyhry, she was born on Earth?"

Maz sighed and explained to Aymy, "Tyhry is from a different Earth than the one where you were born."

Vart laughed. "What does that mean?" There were space legends about the existence of duplicate Earths. "It sounds like you are talking about one of those absurd Phari legends."

Maz shrugged. "Legends can be based on truths. Aymy has had contact with the Phari."

Aymy slowly shook her head. "I'm far too susceptible to the lure of fantastic fiction. I have confused memories of voices in my head. It is only natural that I have wondered about the possibility of telepathic contact with aliens, but I can't really believe in invisible aliens."

Maz crossed her arms across her chest. "I'm not talking about telepathy. It is clear that the Phari used their long-range teleportation technology to construct artificial star systems like the Rigel Concourse. Obviously Alphanor was teleported to Rigel by the Phari from some distant, older star system such as the Ysoto system. Tyna is fascinated by teleportation and that is why she plans to visit Earth."

Vart objected, "Clearly not the Ysoto system. Planets like Alphanor have no light deuterium." 

Maz obstinately shook her head. "The Phari constructed Alphanor, and that process of planetary engineering resulted in D* as a waste product. Yes, all of the D* remained in the Ysoto system after the Earth-like artificial planets were teleported away."

"Bah! You should write science fiction, Maz." Vart asked skeptically, "So now you want us to believe that Earth was teleported across the galaxy?"

"Don't twist my words. I never said that. However, there could be duplicates of Earth that were sent to other star systems in the galaxy by the Phari or other advanced alien species of the distant past. Humans have only explored a small part of the galaxy, so far. But that is not the point. There is good evidence of teleportation technology having been used on Earth, and Tyna wants to investigate that mystery."

Just then, Tyhry returned to the dinning room. Vart asked, "Well, are you satisfied with your study of Marky's anatomy?"

Tyhry giggled and delivered her report. "Marky certainly has a gigantic penis. Good luck to Tyna if she hopes to have vaginal intercourse with him. The Asterothropes were in a whole different league than the tryp'At... the big league. My father always told me that Asterothropes were a different species, not quite human." 

Planetary teleportation.

Tyhry was in telepathic contact with Tyna. She glanced upwards towards Karyn's bedroom and added, "At least Tyna is having fun with Karyn."

Aymy, who had been telepathically monitoring Tyna's sexual encounter with Karyn now told Vart, "Tyna was having fun with Karyn, but now Marky has interrupted their sexplay."

Again Maz sprang to her feet and ran up the stairway to the second floor. Tyhry said, "Maz is terribly protective of Tyna."

Through the entire evening, Aymy had been trying to telepathically link into Tyhry's thoughts. Only brief flashes of information had slipped past Tyhry's telepathic block. During the time when Marky and Tyhry had been out beside the pool, one telepathic glimmer had entered Aymy's consciousness arriving telepathically from Tyhry's mind. Aymy asked, "You gave Marky oral sex?"

Tyhry nodded and smiled broadly. "I have a big mouth. I could fit the glans of his penis in my mouth... I hope my teeth did not hurt his delicate skin. Our sex play was quick but sweet. I confirmed that his Asterothrope semen is very rich in sex hormones." Tyhry licked her tingling lips. "And he said he likes the taste of my tryp'At semen."

Aymy admitted, "I never developed a taste for semen."

Vart apologized, "I'm sorry my semen is so boring."

Tyhry was struggling to keep her still-erect penis inside its sheath. She noted, "I was astounded by the incredible volume of Marky's ejaculate. Karyn was not kidding when she recommended saving room." Tyhry had only swallowed small fraction of the semen that Marky had ejaculated, but the sex hormones she had consumed were active in her system, making her strongly desire more sexplay. Also, when Marky had politely provided Tyhry with a sweet orgasm and she was ejaculating into his hot mouth, she had become consciously aware of the force of his telepathic mind and how Marky had telepathically pushed her to a quick orgasm.

At that moment, Tyhry was still telepathically linked Tyna who was busy thrusting her penis in and out of Karyn's silky soft vagina. Tyna was quickly approaching her own orgasm. Arriving in the bedroom where Karyn and Tyna were engaged in heated sexplay, Marky had approached Tyna from behind and now he managed to get about half of his big erection into Tyna's allzaurish. Tyhry muttered, "Wow, she did it."

Vart looked at Aymy and asked, "What?"

Aymy told Vart, "Marky managed to get his alien Asterothrope penis inside Tyna's back vagina."

Vart said, "Well, I suppose this is exactly why Tyna worked so hard to equip herself with a penis and an allzaurish. She probably long ago had a vision of this day."

For a time, Tyhry and Aymy were silent while they linked into the orgasm trance that was being shared by Tyna and Marky. Vart was speaking, "I don't think Tyna was ever meant to be a woman. And what would it mean if this Asterothrope, Marky, can impregnate Tyna? Tyna has never been interested in being a mother. I suppose the Jarnell Corporation would simply raise any child that came from this experimental union in one of their biology laboratories."

The orgasm trance ended and Aymy told Vart, "So that's why Maz wanted to join in the sexplay."

Tyhry said, "Maz knows when she's needed."

Vart asked, "What's going on?"

Aymy could telepathically "see" the sexplay session that was unfolding in the upstairs bedroom. Aymy explained, "Now Karyn is riding Tyna's erection to a second orgasm and Maz is astride Marky's giant penis... of course with her flexible artificial anatomy, she can fully accommodate Marky's incredibly large sex organ."

Having telepathically shared in Tyna's orgasm trance, Tyhry was now very horny and puzzled as to why she had not experienced an orgasm trance when sharing oral sex with Marky. Tyhry began thinking about the Ek'col, a human variant, crafted by the bumpha, that could exercise telepathic mind control over Asterothropes. Maybe Marky was Ek'col, not an Asterothrope? Tyhry told herself: But no, the Ek'col did not exist until the Ekcolir Reality. Tyhry told herself that there was really only one explanation for Tyna's orgasm trance. She muttered quietly, "Maz must be Manny."

Aymy asked, "You know Amany?"

Tyhry had indeed observed Amany in the future of the Asimov Reality Simulation. Tyhry corrected Aymy, "I said 'Manny', not Amany."

Aymy told Tyhry, "I've had memories of the future... sent to me by Amany."

"Yes, I know. I suspect that Amany will be named in honor of Manny."

Vart asked, "Who is Manny?"

Tyhry sighed and slumped in her chair. Up stairs, Tyna had just ejaculated again, but only experienced a normal human orgasm. Tyhry was growing even more sexually aroused and her erect penis was trying to emerge from its sheath. Tyhry told Vart and Aymy, "Manny is an alien who watches over we humans... guides us into the future."

Aymy asked, "Manny is your personal Grendel?"

Tyhry laughed. "No, the Grendels were no longer deployed on Earth in my Reality."

Vart asked, "Reality?"

Tyhry did not want to have to explain the fact that she was from another Reality. She had accomplished her mission and confirmed that Asterothrope semen was full of a complex mixture of sex hormones including oxypathin and klytykynyn. Now she only remained in the Asimov Reality Simulation so that she could ask Tyna a few more questions. She told Vart, "You don't believe in time travel, so there is no sense in me telling you about Earth's Reality Chain."

Aymy repeated. "Reality Chain. I've heard that term before, in a message I received from the future, from Amany."

Tyhry was surprised. How could Amany know about time travel? Maybe in the future Manny would visit Amany...

Just then, Tyna, Maz, Gyny and Jane came down the stairway and arrived in the dining room. Tyna told her parents, "We can go now." The robot staff saw the guests out of the house and soon they were back in their aircar and flying home. In the middle row of seats in the aircar, Tyna leaned close to Tyhry and asked, "Did you enjoy that orgasm trance?"

"I did, but your ability to so quickly and easily share an orgasm trance with Marky took me by surprise. I suppose Manny made it possible."

"I'll have to thank her the next time I see Manny."

Tyhry took hold of Tyna's hand and she immediately got a stronger link to the girl's telepathic mind pattern. Tyhry could sense that Tyna was thinking about delaying her trip to Earth in order to engage in the reproductive experiments with Karyn and Marky. Tyna told Tyhry, "Karyn recently ovulated. There is a chance that she could become pregnant in a day or so. I did my best to fill her up with my sperm. Marky did the same for me, but I won't ovulate again until next week."

Tyhry knew the future. Karyn would quickly be impregnated by Tyna and it was impossible for an Asterothrope to impregnate a tryp'At... they were two different species. Two months in the future, Tyna and Mylana would depart for Earth. Tyhry asked, "How did you learn about Eternity?"

Tyna slowly shook her head. "That's a long story. It goes back ten years to when-"

Just then Aymy asked Tyna, "So you are going to Earth?"

Tyna replied, "Mom, stop snooping in my mind."

Aymy reminded her daughter, "I worked for sixteen years to get off of Earth."

Tyna said, "And I'm glad you did. However, Earth is unique.. the home of Humanity. Why shouldn't I go there for a visit?"

"So, what is so important and secret on Earth that you can't tell your mother?"

Gyny called from the back seat to her grandmother, "She wants to find Eternity."

Now Vart turned in his seat and looked at Tyna. "So, now you are infatuated with the legend of Eternity? Really? Time travel?"

Tyna said, "Time travel is impossible. However, there could be other advanced technologies on Earth... I must go investigate."

For a time, Aymy questioned her daughter about where she planned to look on Earth for the legendary Eternity. Tyna spoke about the possibility that Eternity was another planet in Earth's star system. Gyny explained the location of Eternity as it was portrayed in a widely popular computer game. Then, Tyna and Tyhry were dropped off at the home that Tyna shared with Mylana.

Mylana had been away from home for most of that week, visiting one of her lovers. Arriving in the quiet house, Tyna and Tyhry could not resist engaging in a sexplay session. Later, wrapped in each others arms, Tyhry asked, "Why do you think you can find Eternity?"

Releasing femtozoans.

Tyna replied, "It goes back to when I was just a young girl. I met a man who I suspect was another Asterothrope, like Marky. His name was Largo Johns. He had advanced nanites that allowed him to release femtozoans."

Tyhry asked, "Femtozoans?"

Tyna looked at Tyhry. "If you are from the future, I'm surprised you don't know about femtozoans. Largo said their discovery was the most important scientific discovery in a thousand years."

"Femtozoans." Tyhry considered that name. "From the name, I'll guess it is an artificial life form... or a type of biological-nanite hybrid organism."

"Largo told me that everyone has a femtozoan inside of them... unless it is release and liberated. Largo had programmable femtobots that could be used for that purpose. I did not really care about the means to release a femtozoan from its host, since we telepathic humans need our femtozoans for telepathic communication. However, I discovered that I could use Largo's programmable nanites to modify my body structure. Largo helped me make one small change to my body, but eventually, I learned how to recover my genetic heritage and all of my tryp'At body structures. When I recovered my full tryp'At telepathic powers, I found myself in constant telepathic contact with my femtozoan, who told me about Eternity."

Tyhry said, "Amazing. You have contact with this femtozoan right now?"

Alice Wroke and Treesong.

Tyna shook her head. "This is embarrassing. Eventually, my femtozoan tricked me into releasing her. She's long gone."

"Where did she go?"

"I have no idea."

"So obviously you don't actually need your femtozoan for telepathy."

"I have a theory. A dualistic theory. I believe that each person has a femtobot endosymbiont that has two parts. Part one is purely mechanical. The second part is a conscious entity: the femtozoan. When my femtozoan escaped from my body, the mechanical femtobot endosymbiont remained and that was, by then, adequate for telepathy. In fact, in my case, it was better. I believe my femtozoan often conspired with my personal Grendel to inhibit my telepathic abilities and even alter my memories of events. Of course, when I was young, it was my femtozoan who taught me how to access the Sedron Time Stream and telepathically link to my mother."

Tyhry was astounded by Tyna's theory of femtozoans. Was such a thing possible? She thought of people like Howard Treesong, who in the Asimov Reality had been "inhabited" by multiple "personalities". Could he have been a trap for escaped femtozoans? Was there now some person who had two femtozoans, including Tyna's? She asked, "What did your femtozoan tell you about Eternity?"

"That I was from the future. My femtozoan claimed to have been sent into the past by means of alien time travel technology. Eternity housed a time travel device..." Tyna corrected herself: "Still houses it!"

Six liberated femtozoans.

"If these femtozoans are inside every human being, then why is it only you that knows about it?"

"It is not only me. In the future it must be common knowledge."

"You told your father that time travel is impossible."

"It is impossible for us. That does not mean that others, people of the future..." Tyna fell silent. She was now playing with Tyhry's nanite-generated hair. 

Tyhry had been carefully blocking Tyna from having free access to Tyhry's memories, but now Tyhry was tempted to tell Tyna all about Eternity, the space-time bubble that was inside the Hierion Domain and had the time travel device that had made possible Earth's Reality Chain. Tyhry checked the time. This Simulation fork ran fast, but the time of the return of Sedrover to Earth was fast approaching. And now Tyhry was eager to exit from the Asimov Reality Simulation. She herself wanted to visit Eternity in the Final Reality, and now Tyhry thought she knew how it would be possible for her to do so. Wanting to learn more about the programmable femtobots that Tyna had obtained from Largo Johns, Tyhry popped both herself and Tyna out of the Reality Simulation.

Next: Part 7 of "D*".

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