Kŷrt, Alẙs and Jẏm of Alo𝓎sⓨus

Figure 1. Alys of Aloysyus.
   Image Generated by Mr. Wombo.

This blog page (below) has Part 12 of my Decade in Review (DiR, see Part 1). The blog posts in this series have titles that contain unusual characters. This blog post is called "Kŷrt, Alẙs and Jẏm of Alo𝓎sⓨus" because in 2022 I started a science fiction story called The Cythyrya Investigation which has Kyrt, Alys and Jym as characters who live on the planet Aloysyus. I imagined The Cythyrya Investigation to be part of The Nyrtia Cycle.

 Science Fiction Story Illustration. In this Decade in Review (DiR) I am exploring AI-generated images as alternative illustrations for my old science fiction stories. I'm using software such as Whisk, WOMBO Dream, and Leonardo to generate updated story illustrations. An example of an AI-generated image is shown to the right, for which Mr. Wombo (my 'pet' name for WOMBO Dream) generated an image depicting Alys of Aloysyus, which is the title of the blog post where I placed the first chapter of The Cythyrya Investigation.

Extant cover. Trapping Treesong.

 The Cythyrya Investigation should be viewed as fan fiction because Alys was inspired by Jack Vance's character Alice Wroke.  I had long wondered about the fate of Alys and Kyrt (Kirth) after the end of Vance's novel The Book of Dreams.

At the end of Edison's Endosymbiont Experiments, Rylla had experienced the adventure of exploring past Realities by means of the Reality Simulation System that was accessible to her grandfather, Eddy. Twenty years later (note that 'Tihri' is now called 'Tyhry'), while exploring the Asimov Reality Simulation and visiting the planet Aloysius (Aloysyus), Rylla met Alys and discovered that Alys greatly resembled Rey. Rylla had met Rey the femtobot replicoid during her first use of the Simulator and visiting Earth in the Ekcolir Reality. Eventually, Rylla and Eddy would come to realize that both Nyrtia and Manny often used their special Interventionist agents in multiple Realities of Earth's Reality Chain.

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When Rylla meets Alys inside the Asimov Reality Simulation, the telepathic abilities of Alys quickly become apparent (she is an advanced femtobot that was planted into human society and then passed through human developmental stages, maturing into the young woman who helped Kyrt subdue Treesong). Alys readily admits to Rylla that she was assigned by Nyrtia with the task of helping Kyrt Gersen prevent Treesong from becoming Emperor of the many planets that had been settled by humans. Alys is able to confirm that upon Treesong's death, several artificial life forms exited from his body. One ended up in Kyrt and one went first into Alys and then into her son.

Knowing that Rey had been taken out of the Ekcolir Reality Simulation system and brought into the Final Reality, Rylla now hopes that it might be possible to find programmable nanites inside the Simulation System that can be used to re-activate the teleportation system at Observer Base.

Zodiac

In Part 2 of The Cythyrya Investigation, the events describes take place 20 years before Rylla's visit to Aloysyus that was described in Part 1. One of Manny the bumpha's agents on Earth, a woman using the name Jutta Holgenner, arrives at the home of Eddy and Zeta, having followed online clues from Eddy's blog. Having completed her mission on Earth (which involved time spent with Eddy's copy known as "John Smith"), Jutta is irresistibly attracted to the the Reality Simulation equipment that can be accessed through Eddy's personal computer.

Jutta is a clone of Jyryl Tynzy. She and Rylla use the Simulation System to visit the planet Sogdian in the year 3923 of the Asimov Reality, at the time when Viole Falushe was experimenting with clones and clytykynyn polypeptides for a bizarre form of mind control. Working with Falushe was a man named Retz (an agent for Zodyac) who had some advanced training in nanotechnology.

the Ivory infites

At the start of Part 3 of The Cythyrya Investigation, the fate of Jutta is revealed: she was able to rescue her clone sisters from Sogdian. Retz had isolated some nanites from the dead body of Jheral Tinzy and was trying to use them to give Viole Falushe the ability to exercise telepathic control over the clones of Jheral.

 Studying the Future. Eventually, I would depict Tyhry (the grownup Tihri) as having an innate ability to regularly make use of information obtained from the Sedron Time Stream. In 2022, I imagined that Ivory Fersoni and her sisters also had access to the Sedron Time Stream. Because of infites that Ivory had passed on to Eddy, he could sometimes access information from the future that Ivory had previously obtained from the Sedron Time Stream. The events in Part 3 of The Cythyrya Investigation center on Eddy's attempt to compose a coherent account of events from the far future of the Final Reality, at a time when telepathic humans are beginning to form a stable society.

Myller's Planet.

 G-syms for G-world. In that future society, some planets of the galaxy resist using robots for labor and some people (such as Fraunz Wylsyn) are reluctant to use technology-assisted telepathy. Fraunz is a golfer who arrives on G-world, the planet where all of the galaxy's golf champions assemble and compete. Fraunz is a strong telepathic transmitter, but he has no ability to tune his telepathic mind to that of another person. That could be changed if Fraunz used a G-sym implant, but he is not interested in doing so. 

At the end of Part 3 of The Cythyrya Investigation, Fraunz meets his future wife, Tya. Tya will give birth Rytya, a woman who is able to send information from the future back to Eddy via the Sedron Time Stream.

Myller's planet ocean cruising.

One of the goals of the Decade in Review is identifying old stories that I never completed. I did begin writing Part  4 of The Cythyrya Investigation, which shifted back to Rylla and her efforts to re-activate the teleportation system at Observer Base. Here in 2025, I finally caught up to that goal as described in my story "D*". I need to find a way of completing Part 4 of The Cythyrya Investigation, which will be a mission by Rylla to the first "Phari planet" (Myllyr's Planet) to obtain nanites that will allow for use of the Phari teleportation station under Mt Picachu.

Rylla's and Marda's children (source)

The first part of my science fiction story The Nanites of Love appeared in a September 1, 2022 blog post titled "Guess When?" The Nanites of Love is another story from 2022 that I have not yet completed. The events described in The Nanites of Love begin in the year 2022 when Eddy receives memories from the future (from the year 2040).

 Part 1 of The Nanites of Love provides information about two probots who are on Earth: Rey and Anthony. By 2040, Rey has long since moved to Australia to help raise the many children of Rylla. Anthony remains in Arizona and becomes Tihri's companion.

Bonny

At the end of  Part 1 of The Nanites of Love, Eddy receives a mysterious invitation to enter into the Reality Simulation System. In Part 2 of The Nanites of Love, Upon arriving inside the Reality Simulator, Eddy finds himself in the body of a tryp'At hermaphrodite. Eddy is introduced to Carrin, Rylla's grandmother. Carrin raised Vendela (Rylla's mother) in Europe. It was in Europe that Eddy's son met Vendela.

Also inside the Simulation with Eddy and Carrin is Jymzy, who Eddy has previously known as Bonny Lynn and who claims to have originated as a Grendel. Jymzy identifies herself as one of the agents who works for Manny the bumpha and who has been working to guide human evolution on Earth for more than a million years.

creating Brak

 A two year gap. Part 3 of The Nanites of Love was not published to the wikifiction blog until January 1, 2025. In "Making Vendela" there is an account of some recovered memories from Eddy's youth. Eddy is now allowed to remember that one of his childhood friends was a descendant of Trysta Iwedon, disguised by developmental control nanites as a human being. Eddy is now allowed to know that Carrin is his daughter and the grand-daughter of Trysta.

Jymzy then shifts Eddy to a simulation of the Erre district on Tar'tron where Carrin had been trained for for her mission on Earth. Eddy now realizes that by means of a complex time loop, he contributed genes to the creation of Marda's son Brak, the first fully telepathic human on Earth.

on Tar'tron

Jymzy and Eddy then use the Reality Simulation System to visit the planet Mothyng in the Asimov Reality where the human population had large numbers of Asterothrope gene patterns. While observing the telepaths of Mothyng, Jymzy tells Eddy that the only telepathy worth having is the kind that requires the telepaths to love and trust each other.

Part 3 of The Nanites of Love makes reference to the planet Threy, but Eddy is allowed to remember an alternative timeline in which his family vacations on the planet Kyrstynyte. During that vacation, Marda has a romantic interlude with a lover who has large numbers of Asterothrope gene patterns. This "temporary vacation" in the Asmov Reality allows Marda to be impregnated and start her Brak pregnancy.

Long-range teleportation - image source

In Part 4 of The Nanites of Love, the idea is mentioned that critical telepathy genes had been provided to the human population of Earth by Ekcolir and Grean, but sports like baseball had been used to maintain positive selection for those genes over the course of thousands of years.

Figure 2. Blastipositor by Whisk.

Eddy and Rylla travel to Mt. Picachu and try to determine the location of what my be a hidden Grendel base under the mountain. They use Eddy's blastipositor to establish a synapex link between their nervous systems, hoping to amplify their telepathic abilities and detect t-particles coming from the alien base that is located under Mt. Picachu.  I never completed Part 5 of The Nanites of Love, but in May, in Part 9 of the science fiction story "D*", Elyrix the Grendel took Tyhry into the secret teleportation facility under Mt. Picachu. Hopefully, some day I will be able to complete The Nanites of Love and provide an account of what happened to Eddy and Rylla during their visit to Mt. Picachu. Potentially, what they learned was erased from their minds, as part of a 20 year delay in reactivation of the teleportation equipment at Observer Base. 

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 2040. In my December 3, 2022 blog post titled "Observing Mars", there is Part 1 of a new science fiction story called "Someday Mars" that begins at a time shortly after Eddy's daughter 'Tihri' has changed her name to "Tyhry". At this time, it is possible to use the teleportation equipment at Observer Base to move hierions, but not conventional matter. Tyhry is making use of negative mass hierions for her experiments in transportation and with clothing nanites. A story is found by Stacy in the archives of the Writers Block at Observer Base: "Remember Phobos", an account of a Phari base inside of Phobos.

 The Search for Teleportation Technology. Tyhry and Marda are both soon to graduate from college and they are planning a celebratory vacation inside the Reality Simulation System. But first, Manny the bumpha provides Tyhry and Eddy with Reality Simulation coordinates for a visit to Observer Base in the Ekcolir Reality.

Manny the bumpha

In Part 2 of "Someday Mars", Eddy and Tyhry arrive inside Observer Base, Eddy having been placed in a younger body and Tyhry is now is a more mature body. At Observer Base inside the Ekcolir Reality Simulation, Eddy and Tyhry meet John Vance and Alice Turing and Wendy sends them to a chamber inside Phobos by using the Asimov Reality Simulation. 

These copies of Vance and Alice are both femtobot replicoids and Alice delights in altering the shape of her body to please her lovers. Alice has previously received information about Phobos by way of the Sedron Time Stream and she was removed from Earth because of the stories that she wrote about future technologies. Tyhry hopes to find Phari nanites that might be useful in fully activating the teleportation equipment at Observer Base in the Final Reality.

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Inside Phobos, the four explorers are greeted by a Phari artificial life-form that explains how this hidden base was long ago used as observation post to monitor the Nereid civilization on Ver'la, before Ver'la was teleported out of the Solar System. 

Everything that they see inside Phobos is exactly as Alice had seen it in her vision of the future, including the teleportation equipment. The teleportation equipment only responds to Alice and Tyhry believes that control nanites for the teleportation equipment are inside Alice's replicoid body.

Figure 3. Tyhry by Whisk.

Alice forms a synapex link to Eddy and is able to find clues in the infites that he carries which allow her to extract the teleportation control nanites from her body. Eddy and Tyhry return to the final reality with the alien nanites now held inside a hierion containment vial. 

The teleportation control nanites that were obtained from Alice's artificial body are teleported to Observer Base, but they do not allow for full activation of the teleportation equipment and subsequent teleportation of conventional matter. 

Figure 4. Tyhry's hierion
confinement experiment.
Image Generated by Mr. Wombo.

However, the visit to Phobos was not without some advancement. Eddy discovers that he and Tyhry have now acquired the ability to keep secrets from other telepaths. Rylla concludes, "Manny gave you and Tyhry the bookmark for that little adventure with Alice. She must have wanted you two to learn better telepathy control." In later stories, Tyhry will have need to hide her thoughts from other telepaths in some situations.

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 Fiction in 2023. The first new science fiction story of 2023 appeared in a Jan 7, 2023 blog post titled, "Dethevicinelec". The story is called Echo of Cynym, and it begins with a visit by Eddy to Alastor 2672, a "water world" since it has no continents, only scattered volcanic islands. Eddy investigates rumors of what is called call "teleculture", a way of allowing an alien biological organism to maintain a symbiotic relationship with a human and amplify that person's telepathic powers. 

The human-alien hybrids of Alastor 2672 were known as the Chyntos and Eddy arrives on the planet hopeful of meeting some Chyntos. However, he is met at the spaceport by a telepathic robot from the planet Triskelion. Bisop the robot has the physical form of a conventional human woman, but Eddy can telepathically sense the mind pattern of a robot. 

Travel poster featuring the Chyntos of Dethevicinelec.

Eddy soon has a chance to see some Chyntos and they have the physical appearance of a tryp'At hermaphrodite, with two rows of breasts.

Bisop the robot takes Eddy to the laboratory of Dr. Elyn Arky. Eddy gets his first look at the native creatures: the aquatic and telepathic Stateorea. Some gene patterns from the Stateorea have been added to the genomes of the Chyntos in an attempt to make human bodies compatible with an alien endosymbiont. However, some of the Chyntos spontaneously revert to a phenotype that is incompatible with such an implanted endosymbiont.

Figure 5. Echo of Cynym.
   Image updated by Mr. Wombo.

 The Telepathic Stateorea of Dethevicinelec. In Part 2 of Echo of Cynym, Eddy is under telepathic attack by the Stateorea because his undisciplined telepathic mind emits signals that annoy the natives. Eddy is unaware of the fact that he has been enticed to visit Alastor 2672 in order for the Stateorea to have an opportunity to modify his brain structure. 

Dr. Arky is intrigued by the idea that she is inside a simulation, but she must quickly deal with the telepathic conflict between Eddy and the Stateorea. Towards that goal, Eddy is introduced to Onky, a Chyntos whose body rejects implanted Stateo-symbionts. Onky is not happy on Alastor 2672 and immediately begins to hope that Eddy might take her out of the Simulation and to Earth. Although Onky's body rejects implanted Stateo-symbionts, she temporarily takes one into her thoracic pouch so that she can work with the Stateorea to alter Eddy's telepathic mind.

Dr. Arky - image source

In Part 3 of Echo of Cynym, Dr. Arky explains to Eddy that she was trained in advanced genetics by Nyrtia and tasked with finding a way to link the genetically modified Chyntos into the Phari Network by telepathically connecting to the telepathic group mind of the Stateorea on Alastor 2672, the world that the natives call Dethevicinelec.

 Communication with the Phari. In Part 4 of Echo of Cynym, Dr. Arky explains to Eddy that she is a Cynym, a human variant that Nyrtia described as, "telepathic fossil... incompatible with the Phari telepathy network." The Chyntos were crafted as a new human variant that was designed for teleculture. Dr. Arky has tried to craft the Chyntos and their biological telepathic endosymbionts into a tool, a telepathic human culture that can achieve telepathic communication with the ancient Phari.

an Asterothrope female
Image made with EliseComfy10
and KayleeRelax13
by Eclesi4stiK
available under: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.

 Cynym Anatomy. Dr. Arky tells Eddy, "Finding a way to block telepathic signals is one of the fundamental problems that must be solved when creating a society of telepaths." Dr. Arky explains to Eddy why the Asterothropes were designed with two rows of breasts. "The big top row shields the smaller bottom row. Thus, the telepathic signal detectors in the bottom row are protected from a person's own telepathic brain signals." Although Dr. Arky's body was altered and shaped so as to have the superficial appearance of a conventional human female, she explains the special anatomical features of a Cynum female which included six breasts, two vaginas and two tails.

After a week on Alastor 2672, Eddy departs with Onky and they have a brief encounter with Manny the bumpha. Manny repairs Eddy's neural networks, but informs him that he is now capable of shielding his thoughts from Zeta, despite the strong telepathic linkage they have developed through many years of practice learning their mind patterns.

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In Part 5 of Echo of Cynym, Eddy and Onky are in Arizona, back at Eddy's home in the Final Reality. For the first time, Eddy can now prevent Tyhry from telepathically accessing his mind and thoughts. Eddy is surprised to learn that the copy of Onky that he brought back to Earth has a functioning Stateo-symbiont that she can use to form synapex linkages to her lovers.

Zeta is intrigued by the idea that it might be possible for her to now visit Alastor 2672 and have the Stateorea alter her telepathic brain as had been done for Eddy. However, they learn that they cannot us the Reality Simulation System to return to the mini-society of telepathic Chyntos that Dr. Arky made on Alastor 2672. That version of Alastor 2672 was carefully crafted by Manny, apparently for two purposes: 1) to alter Eddy's telepathic mind and to bring a copy of Onky to the First Reality. 

Image credits: "Snowy landscape"
by Aled Jones; "Fi in Mountains"
by Henry1850 and Elena17
and yennefer by
Eclesi4stiK available
under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.

 The Amplification Fork. The first chapter of a new science fiction story called The Hua Nanites appeared in a January 14, 2023 blog post titled "𐀲hang𐀟 23". The events of The Hua Nanites are told by Tyhry. Tyhry takes Onky into a fork of the Final Reality Simulation in which she has made extensive use of the capacity of the Reality Simulation System to make duplicates of people. While in a telepathic trance with one of her femtobot replicoid copies, Tyhry is able to briefly 'enter into' the Sedron Domain, where Manny the bumpha is waiting for her. Manny tells Tyhry, "You'll get better with practice. Onky will use the stateo-symbiont to tune your mind to the Time Stream."

Tyhry soon discovers that it is now possible for her to access a Simulation of the far past in the First Reality. Manny has left a 'bookmark' in Eddy's Reality Simulation System that will allow Tyhry and Onky to visit the alien Hua. Tyhry hopes that programmable Hua nanites might be used to completely re-activate the teleportation equipment that is inside Observer Base of the Final Reality.

this image was made using NightElf01 by
 Eclesi4stiK under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

In Part 2 of The Hua Nanites, Manny reveals the fact that she instantiated a copy of Onky in the form of an artificial life-form composed of zeptite components. Eddy speculates that this will allow Onky's body to act as a zeptite containment system, allowing her to bring back to the Final Reality some programmable Hua zeptites.

Arriving on Sermyth, the home planet of the alien Hua, Tyhry learns that Manny arranged for them to meet the family of Quyn Vye, one of the leading developers of Hua nanotechnology. Tyhry quickly explains that she is hoping to repair teleportation equipment, but the Hua have rules against sharing advanced technology with other species that might be harmed by such technology.

This image was made using
"740 nanometers" and
"Commingling of Radiances"
both by Sevenics as well as
"RedHairedBeauty02" by
 Eclesi4stiK under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

 The Sedron Swap. In Part 3 of The Hua Nanites, Tyhry contemplates the possibility of "trading" Onky for some Hua programmable nanites. Quyn Vye has previously been visited by Manny and Quyn decides to not inform government officials of Sermyth about the mysterious arrival of Tyhry and Onky and their goal of obtaining Hua technology.

In Part 4 of The Hua Nanites, Tyhry learns about Hua cervical sex. The thin tip of the Hua penis is designed to penetrate a sex partner's cervix. Under the influence of sex hormones from the body of Onky, Quyn Vye's child, Fyrryx begins to sexually mature. A week later, Onky announces that she is moving in with Fyrryx. Onky's sedron body components attract the attention of government officials on Sermyth and they find in her body a type of sedron that is unknown to Hua science.

Then Vye's other child, Mym, who has become Tyhry's lover, discovers that she is pregnant. Then Onky discovers that she has been impregnated by Fyrryx.

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Manny leaves copies of Tyhry and Onky inside the Sermyth simulation and returns Tyhry and Onky to the Final Reality along with a zeptite replicoid copy of Mym programmable repair nanites. Completely composed of sedrons, Mym can be teleported to Observer Base. Once there, Mym adjusts the teleportation equipment and makes it possible for Nora, a femtobot replicoid, to be teleported to Observer Base. However, Nora is happy on Earth and she returns to Australia.

The copy of Onky that returns to the Final Reality has made the choice to not continue the pregnancy that was begun inside the Reality Simulation System. Manny removes Sermyth from the destination targeting system of the Reality Simulation System. With the help of memory editing nanites from Manny, Tyhry quickly begins to forget about her copy that remained inside the Simulation.

Figure 6. Nanite programming laboratory by Whisk.

 AI Story Time. After completing The Hua Nanites, I got seriously involved with exploring Large Language Model chatbots and AI-generated images as science fiction story illustrations. At the start of The Hua Nanites, it is mentioned that Tyhry and Marda are planning a vacation inside the Asimov Reality Simulation. On April 2, 2023 I published a blog post titled "Story time with Bard" in which I tried to get help from Bard (now known as Gemini) to write a science fiction story about an attempt by Tyhry to obtain programmable nanites from inside the Asimov Reality Simulation, what would eventually become The Femtobot Smuggler. Bard had a very limited memory at that time. 

Figure 7. Tyhry with hair nanites - by Whisk.

Then, in an April 16, 2023 blog post titled "Story writing with ChatGPT" I experimented with a second chatbot for help in science fiction story writing. In addition to a small context window, ChatGPT struggled to remember basic facts about characters such as the idea that Manny the bumpha is a "she", even though I specified that fact in the story information that I provided.

In The Femtobot Smuggler, Tyhry hopes to obtain programmable hair nanites from aliens on the planet Threy. ChatGPT suggested that Manny is a "holographic projection of a deceased person's mind", which seemed like an AI hallucination.

Figure 8a. Nanite programming
laboratory - by Whisk.

Given the limited context windows for LLMs in 2023, I began making use of the chatbots for limited tasks such as inventing names for characters in my stories.

Figure 8b. Tyhry replicoids
in the laboratory - by Whisk.

The first chapter of a new science fiction story called City on the Edge of Tomorrow appeared in a June 7, 2023 blog post titled "The Tyhry Clones". I had previously introduced the idea of Tyhry using the Reality Simulation System to make multiple copies of herself (see The Hua Nanites, above). For City on the Edge of Tomorrow I depicted events in the days just before the events of The Femtobot Smuggler.

For the image shown in Figure 8b, I asked Whisk to include "half dozen other blond women" in the background. By my count, Whisk included about two dozen copies of Tyhry.

City on the Edge of Tomorrow

In Part 1 of City on the Edge of Tomorrow, Marda and Rylla arrive in Arizona and Rylla is under the influence of Klox23, a potent sex hormone variant of oxypathin which Rylla has recently crafted in her polypeptide research laboratory. With Klox23 in her body, Rylla has has an intense clitoral erection for the past day and the glans of her clitoris has swollen to extraordinary size. This fits right in with Zeta's plans to take Rylla dancing at the "Futurescape" night club. Zeta thinks that Rylla has been working too much and Zeta hopes to find Rylla an exciting new sex partner at the club.

In Part 2 of City on the Edge of Tomorrow, Tyhry hints to Marda about an exciting new result she has achieved in her experimentation with nanites. Manny the bumpha has been training Tyhry as Earth's first nanite programmer. Tyhry has already mastered the use of hair nanites, feeding nanites and anti-gravity nanites that contain negative mass hierions.

Naseh and Wydgren

Tyhry reveals to Marda that Tyhry also can deploy "hacking nanites". Tyhry has gained access to Rylla's laboratory notes and is aware that Rylla is working on an inhibitor of the oxypathin peptidase, which Tyhry refers to as "the secret of human telepathy."

At the Futurescape, Tyhry introduces Marda to Naseh, Tynyo (Ty) and Ty's father, Lahs. Tyhry has used her nanites to steal some Klox23 from Rylla. Tyhry doses Naseh with Klox23 and Naseh is soon under the influence of the potent sex hormone.

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In Part 3 of City on the Edge of Tomorrow, the action shifts to the Ekcolir Reality and a science fiction story teller named Wydgren Förbyndel. In the Ekcolir Reality, Wydgren is a leader of the anti-fru movement, but she suffers from the effects of a terrible microbial infection. Her suscptibility to the infection is related to her large number of Ek'col genes.

In preparation for the coming Final Reality, Grean the kac'hin must test a set of medical nanites that will allow Wydgren's analogue in the Final Reality to fulfill her important role. Manny the bumpha arrives, disguised as Delpha the kac'hin and goes to Earth to test the medical nanites.

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Trăvɘlȋng Yōd sh⍜W

Figure 1. Teleportation
   duplication by Mr. Wombo.

 This blog page (below) has Part 11 of my Decade in Review (DiR, see Part 1). All of the blog posts in this series have titles that contain unusual characters. This blog post is called "Trăvɘlȋng Yōd sh⍜W" because after being given access to the Reality Simulation System, Eddy meets up with his wife's clone sister, Yōd, inside the Asimov Reality Simulation so that they can learn about teleportation technology (see "Travelers Aid").

 More Stories from 2022. In this Decade in Review (DiR) I am exploring AI-generated images as alternative illustrations for my old science fiction stories. I'm using software such as Whisk, WOMBO Dream, and Leonardo to generate updated story illustrations. An example of an AI-updated image is shown to the right, in which Mr. Wombo (my 'pet' name for WOMBO Dream) generated an image using a text prompt that specified a woman holding a man, but the AI generated two men, or what I decided could be a depiction of a duplicate copy of a man. 

W.AI

 Teleportation Duplication. In The Historical Archive, Eddy learned that the Reality Simulation System includes equipment equivalent to teleportation technology that can allow for the creation of duplicate people.

Back in early 2023, I began experimenting with WOMBO Dream as a tool for science fiction story illustration (see "Cover Nanites"). WOMBO Dream has undergone several revisions during the past two and a half years. Today there was yet another change to the user interface at https://dream.ai/create. The following banner appeared:

New banner at the WOMBO Dream website.

Figure 2. A nanite network
   future by Mr. Wombo.

Apparently, the folks at WOMBO Dream are trying to get users to link their computers into a network that will allow for a "Global AI Supercomputer" and "Decentralized Superintelligence". There was a time back in the 1990s when distributed computation for projects like "SETI at home" seemed like a new and exciting idea. But do I really want to pay the power bill so that Mr. Wombo can use my computer's CPU while I am sleeping? Would they even be interested in using my 2011 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 🐌?

Figure 3. Nanite network by Whisk.

The image that is shown in Figure 2 might illustrate the use of nanites to create a network of linked human minds. These are the kinds of imaginary technologies that I like to include in my science fiction stories, but how can you illustrate invisibly small nanites that can pass into and out of people without them even noticing what is happening?

I provided the image from Figure 2 as a reference image to Whisk. Whisk generated the image that is shown in Figure 3.

WOMBO styles

For the past several weeks, the WOMBO Dream user interface has only included the newer "version 3" styles, but today the older styles returned, including ones that are shown to the right.

Figure 4. Using the 'Nightly v2'
   style of Mr. Wombo.

 Hair Nanites. The image shown in Figure 4 was generated by Mr. Wombo using the 'Nightly v2' style. One of the first applications of nanites on Earth is 'hair nanites' that generate cosmetically enhanced hair. It is easy for me to imagine that the beautiful hair in Figure 4 is generated by hair nanites.

 Simulation Experiment. Right at the start of The Prisoner of L2, Eddy performs an experiment with the Reality Simulation System. He is able to enter into a simulation of the Final Reality at a point in time just slightly behind the current time. He now has a way to meet his collaborator, Rylla, anytime he wants to, rather than using video conferencing to allow him to communicate with Rylla, even if she is in Australia and he is in Arizona. 

 The Secret History of Humanity. A big advantage of this new mode of communication is that Eddy can have all the benefits of a discussion with a "copy" of his collaborator Rylla about a sensitive topic without having to worry that the 'real' Rylla (who lives outside of the Simulator) will remember the topic of their discussion. Rylla and Eddy are collaborating to study the history of the human species and how aliens have secretly influenced the course of history.  

Generated by Gemini.

 The French Notebook. Next, Eddy acts on his long-standing wish to visit Alastor Cluster in the Asimov Reality Simulation. This is a particularly good time for him to visit Alastor Cluster because a mysterious document has recently been found by his collaborators at the Writers Block, the French Notebook. The French Notebook hints at a past Intervention by Nyrtia that provided humans of the Asimov Reality with teleportation technology. 

This is surprising because, based on his research, Eddy is quite certain that teleportation was not used (at least not widely used) by people living on the many inhabited planets of Alastor Cluster. Planets such as the capitol world, Numenes, had space elevator technology that was used to transport people between the surface of the planet and orbital space stations.

Teleportation by Whisk.

Eddy enters into the Asimov Reality Simulation and meets Yōd on the planet Numenes, not long after the battle of Yrinna, and then they travel to a government research facility at the Numenes L2 point. Azynov and Yōd have already confirmed that there is a secret teleportation research project at L2 as well as a newly established secret government telepathy project. 

 Investigating Rumors. Those secret military projects and their sophisticate high-tech operations are hidden among the many space stations that form a community of miners for a seemingly mundane commercial asteroid mining facility. Eddy is intrigued by the fact that after centuries of enforcing technological stagnation of humans during the Space Age in the Asimov Reality, Nyrtia is rumored to have begun sharing advanced technologies with the residents of Alastor Cluster.

Figure 5. Bey Paqt by Whisk.

In an attempt to quickly penetrate the secret government facilities at L2, Yōd reveals her telepathic abilities to the Whelm. Soon she and Eddy are on their way to L2 and under the watchful eye of Captain Bolunz. Eddy can telepathically 'see' a woman named Bey Paqt in the Captain's thoughts. In Part 2 of The Prisoner of L2, when arriving at the L2 spaceport, Yōd tries to use her advanced medical nanites to take control of the mind of Bey Paqt, but she can't control the behavior of both Chief of Security Paqt and Captain Bolunz at the same time. Watching from his 'workshop' outside of the Simulation, Azynov devises an alternative plan for Eddy and Yōd.

 Azynov resets the simulation and this time when Eddy and Yōd arrive at L2, Eddy immediately approaches Bey and distracts her while Yōd maintains control of the mind of the Captain and she is taken to see General Wylys.

The L2 immigration protocols.

Eddy pretends to know Elyas Zoffes, a human-alien hybrid who has been identified by Azynov as a resident of L2. Eddy tells Bey, "I'm a writer and Elyas is going to help me do some research on asteroid mining... background information for my next novel." However, Elyas is not really a writer. He is a military intelligence officer who is secretly investigating Bey Paqt as a potential security risk, and in that role he has been living with Bey as her lover.

While Eddy is distracting Bey, Captain Bolunz takes Yōd to see General Wylys at the new telepathy research station. General Wylys has some telepathic ability and can sense that Yōd is a powerful telepath. Wylys explains to Yōd that the new telepathy research facility is primarily devoted to human genetics and most of the people being stationed there are biologists, not telepaths.

Figure 6. Inside the L2 Telepathy research
facility. Image generated by Whisk.

In Part 3 of "The Prisoner of L2", Eddy and Yōd are provided with a helper robot (NBS82734), which is a community service provided by L2. Eddy names   the NBS82734 robot 'Fortran'.

Azynov has arranged for Eddy and Yōd to meet Chief Engineer Dyna Rahwel at the L2 Iridium Processing Station. Dyna shows Eddy and Yōd some of the ore processing facility and then Yōd asks to see the teleportation equipment that is used to send purified iridium to Numenes. Now under the control of Yōd's nanites and telepathic prodding, Dyna shows Eddy and Yōd the teleportation facility. Each teleporter is specifically tuned to the atomic structure of a particular metal. 

Figure 7. Updated by Mr. Wombo.

Eddy and Yōd are told that teleportation was developed centuries earlier by Dr. Frenchyhysur. For a thousand years there has been no success in applying teleportation to the transport of humans. Attempts to teleport animals scramble their atoms, resulting in Death.

All of L2 is in a tizzy because of the recent disappearance of Yurahs, the daughter of the Connatic. Eddy suggests that maybe Yurahs was abducted by means of teleportation. Eddy and Yōd learn that there is a new model of teleporter being used to archive the vast amounts of human genomic data that is now being collected as part of the Connatic's human telepathy research program. Maybe Yurahs is trapped inside a teleportation memory buffer? If so, can she be extracted from the buffer and brought back to life?

Figure 8. Inside the L2 teleportation research
facility. Image generated by Whisk.

In Part 4 of The Prisoner of L2, Eddy and Yōd are extracted from the Simulation of L2. Arriving back in Azynov's workshop, they discover that a copy of Yurahs is there, helping care for Yōd's daughter, Roxzel. Azynov tells Eddy and Yōd, "There are now three copies of Yurahs."

Eddy and Yōd, finally realize that a member of the telepathy research project, Tyffany Maysel is a secret agent working for the Connatic himself. She'd been trained to play the role of a teleportation engineer, but her real job was to make teleportation duplicates for the Connatic.

To advance their exploration of L2, Azynov has used the Reality Simulation System to make duplicate copies of Eddy, Yōd and Yurahs. Tyffany Maysel has a 'helper robot', Anthony.

Figure 9. Major Tyffany Maysel of the
Whelm. Image generated by Whisk.

 Tyffany is the latest in a long line of Whelm officers who have routinely made "backup copies" of the members of the royal family by means of teleportation duplication. The duplicates are held in teleportation data buffers in case a member of the royal family is killed.

Eddy also noticed that Anthony was a positronic robot, apparently positioned to control the special teleportation equipment provided by Nyrtia that could make duplicates of the royal family members. At the end of The Prisoner of L2, Eddy contemplates the possibility of entering the Asimov Reality Simulation in the time period when Dr. Frenchyhysur was credited with inventing teleportation.

Figure 10. Updated by Mr. Wombo.

 Part 3 of The Nyrtia Cycle. In Part 1 of my science fiction story The Frenchyhysur Process, Eddy returns to the Asimov Reality Simulation and meets up with the duplicated copies of himself and Yurahs that had been made by Azynov and who had lived "accelerated" lives inside a fork of Asimov Reality Simulation. This copy of Yurahs has given birth to the son of the Eddy copy: Tyryx. Yurahs takes Eddy to see the Connatic. The Connatic admits that Nyrtia long ago provided Anthony the positronic robot who has served for 1,000 years making backup copies of the royal family members.

Eddy learns from Yurahs that iridium can be used to produce hierions which are traded to Triskelion for sophisticated robots. The Frenchyhysur Process makes use of hierions for teleportation of iridium from L2 to Numenes, avoiding any chance that space pirates could intercept iridium shipments. And eventually, the storage of genomes in teleportation buffers helped the people of Alastor Cluster identify genes that could either enhance human telepathic abilities or interfere with telepathic communication.

Figure 11. Generated by Mr. Wombo.

In Part 2 of "The Frenchyhysur Process", Eddy and Zeta visit their "duplicate family" inside the Simulation System where the twins have already been born. They can form synapex linkages to Zeta while they are nursing, allowing them to link their nervous systems physically to her brain. When Eddy also connects, they enter into 'sleep2', a merged group-mind state. The the twins and the two sets of Eddy and Zeta enter into a period of sleep2 and they find themselves in telepathic linkage to Grean the Kac'hin. 

Grean admits to having made the "Yurahs simulation", a Simulation branch of the Asimov Reality where a copy of Eddy and Yurahs could live at an accelerated pace. Grean also admits that she used a positronic robot named Fenick (disguised as Fortran) to help the copies of Eddy and Yurahs. However, Grean refuses to allow Eddy to understand how it is possible to make "micro-simulations" that run at an accelerated rate.

The Mind Clone Network.

In Part 3 of "The Frenchyhysur Process", Grean states the The Technological Trilemma: "... the technologically sophisticated life-forms of the galaxy face a solvable trilemma: don't destroy the ecosystem of their planet, don't cause their own self-destruction as a species and accomplish those first two goals without losing individual freedoms and free will." She adds, "But in the human situation, there is a fourth requirement; that humans be able to have a great adventure, spreading to millions of planets throughout the galaxy."

mind clones

 The Duplication Problem. Nora is dealing with a "teleportation trilemma": the teleportation equipment at Observer Base can no longer be used. She is trapped on Earth on the mind clones also cannot travel between Earth and Observer Base. 

Nora uses the Reality Simulation System that can now be accessed through Eddy's personal computer as a way for her to visit Observer Base in the Ekcolir Reality where she tries to obtain the code for activating the teleportation equipment. Grean refuses to share the code. 

Figure 12a. Forming a synapex    
   linkage. Image by Mr. Wombo.

Manny the bumpha declares that humans cannot have access to working teleportation equipment because, "Earthlings always find ways to get into trouble." In this case, humans would start making teleportation duplicated of people.

 Full Telepathic Press. In Part 4 of "The Frenchyhysur Process", Naj the sy'Paz is given a normal human-sized body for a synapex experiment inside a new micro-simulation established by Manny the bumpha inside the Reality Simulation System. 

With synapse-editing nanites from Naj inside Eddy's brain, Naj and Eddy link their nervous systems using their blastipositors. The Editor is also given a huge dose of oxypathin and Nora, the Editor and Naj find themselves in a shared mind space and a 'synapex-trance', which is distinct from an orgasm trance. 

Figure 12b. The synapex     
   linkage. Image by Mr. Wombo.

Naj demonstrates to Nora and Eddy that they can now link to other minds that are inside the Reality Simulation System including Dysyn, Alpha, Beta and Radhas (the daughter of Nora's analogue from the Ekcolir Reality).

Later, Eddy tries to recreate the required conditions for a telepathy-amplifying synapex-trance and discovers that this type of telepathy amplification must take place inside the Reality Simulation System. Making use of the Marda-Tihri nodes of the Mind Clone Network, while Zeta and Eddy are synapex linked and inside a Reality Simulation of Arizona, Eddy can telepathically communicate long-range with the Rylla who is in Australia. By linking together all of the Earthly nodes of the Mind Clone Network, telepathic contact is possible to Yōd inside the Asimov Reality Simulation and to the mind clones who are at Observer Base.

Figure 13. Future Tihri - now    
   Tyhry. Image by Mr. Wombo.

 Niaf! In a March 18, 2022 blog post titled "Hearing From Tihri",  Part 5 of "The Frenchyhysur Process" starts with an autobiographical message from Tihri of the future, after she has changed her name to Tyhry (see Figure 13). The precocious Tihri is also beginning to communicate efficiently by way of spoken language and she informs her parents that Anthony is there with them in the Final Reality. His 'cover' blown by the telepathic Tihri, Anthony alters the configuration of his nanites components and reveals himself to Eddy and Zeta.

Eddy is confused; Tihri refers to Anthony as a naif. Anthony explains to Eddy that in the future, Tihri will coin the term 'niaf' to refer to an artificial life-form composed of nanites. Since Tihri has access to information from the future by way of the Sedron Time Stream, she is comfortable using the term 'niaf'.

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While Anthony has been guiding the maturation of Tihri's brain, the artificial life remnant of Nirutam has been doing the same for Yōd's daughter, Roxzel. Tihri insists on visiting Roxzel in the Asimov Reality Simulation. Zeta, Eddy, Azynov and Yōd join up in a synapex trance and are able to telepathically communicate with Nirutam's selfie.

Tihri asks Nirutam: Me niaf? Maturin says: In the future you will cross over and become niaf. Here in 2025 (see the story D*), I have depicted Tyhry as always having been a special artificial life form that can grow through simulated human developmental stages. However, Tyhry does not recognize her artificial nature until she is 21 years old.

Figure 14. Hierion probe    
   experiment. By Mr. Wombo.

 The Origin of Anthony. Anthony explains to Eddy that he originated in the Second Reality as a positronic robot that, like Nyrtia, could grow through human-like developmental stages. After that visit to Zeck in the Asimov Reality Simulation, Anthony went back into "hiding", but when Tihri was a little older, he 'returned' to full size and lived as her companion.

Part 5 (described above) was the final chapter of "The Frenchyhysur Process", but the Nyrtia Cycle continued with a new story set in the Eckolir Reality (called "Edison's Endosymbiont Experiments") when Nyrtia was working hard to make sure that humans were ready and willing to adopt advanced Fru'wu technologies. For Edison's Endosymbiont Experiments, I depicted Azynov as helping investigate events inside the Ekcolir Reality Simulation and hierion probes (see Figure 14) are used as a tool to speed up his research.

hierions

The first part of Edison's Endosymbiont Experiments appeared in a March 21, 2022 blog post titled "Totally Random". Nyrtia has stationed on Earth an Interventionist agent named Reynette who is the Ekcolir Reality analogue of Ray Cummings. In a short six months, Reynette has become the trusted and indispensable assistant to the Ekcolir Reality analogue of Thomas Edison. Using the Reality Simulation System, Azynov arrives and tries to understand the origins of Reynette. However, Reynette is programmed to self-destruct if anyone tried to learn her secrets.

 Global Warming. Azynov tries to warn Edison about the potential problems that could arise from the study and application of hierions on Earth, but Edison is fascinated by the technological opportunities that await from the study of atomic and sub-atomic matter.

Asimov Azynov the time traveler.

Reynette's mission on Earth involves the development of hierion probe technology. Azynov, Eddy and Yōd use all of the tools at their disposal, including synapex linkages, to try to learn the location of the secret base where Reynette was trained before her mission to Earth. After several failed attempts to obtain that information, Azynov makes a copy of Reynette who begins cooperating with Azynov, Eddy and Yōd.

 Dynamic Equilibrium. Manny the bumpha makes a brief appearance in Part 1 of Edison's Endosymbiont Experiments, just long enough to lament the 'death' of one of the copies of Reynette and to tell another copy, "... let it be a warning to you". Nyrtia sent Reynette to Earth, but now Manny is acting to put a limit to the type  of technological advancement that Reynette can achieve on Earth.

Figure 15. Edison Intervention.
  Image generated by Whisk.

In Part 2 of Edison's Endosymbiont Experiments, a copy of Reynette becomes interested in the question: how did Manny put n early end to Reynette's mission on Earth? Part 2 is told by Rylla, who upon arriving in Arizona for a visit, has been witness to Zeta experimenting with oxypathin (Rylla has brought with her from Australia the first purified oxypathin) and the creation of synapex linkages to her daughter, Tihri. At this point in time, Zeta is seven months pregnant with Gamma. With the help of Gamma's unusual telepathic mind, Zeta can now make weak telepathic contact to Eddy while he is inside the Ekcolir Reality Simulation.

Figure 16. Rylla and Rey.
  Image generated by Whisk.

Eddy takes Rylla into the Ekcolir Reality Simulation. They visit Reynette at her home in Florida where Reynette has just been visited by the copy of Reynette that was made by Azynov. The two copies of Reynette soon found themselves in a telepathic feedback loop which they responded to by engaging in sexplay 💕.

1914 of the Eckolir Reality. Reynette explains that in advance of the Interventionist mission on Earth, she was crafted as a mind clone; half of her brain pattern matches that of Edison and the other half of her brain is match to Mina, Edison's wife. Reynette's telepathic manipulation of the Edisons has allowed her to quickly become a trusted employee of Tom Edison. Azynov appears and reports that by looking into the future, he has identified Manny's secret agent on Earth as Angel Suarez.

1918: Florida is part of Espanola in the Ekcolir Reality

 1918. Azynov shifts Rylla, the copy of Reynette and Eddy to Raritan, New Jersey, in the year 1918, the site of Edison's main research lab, commonly described as being located in Menlo Park. Reynette says, "This is the mansion of Mickey Suarez, the sugar cane magnate from Cuba."

Eddy soon discovers that there is a copy of himself in New Jersey who has been living there happily with Yōd for the past four years inside the Ekcolir Reality Simulation.

When Eddy reports that Angel Suarez is Manny's agent who will put an end to Reynette's mission on Earth, the copy of Yōd who has been living in Menlo Park for the past four years mentions Angelique. 

Figure 16. Rylla and Rey.
  Image generated by Whisk.

Yōd explains that Angelique is the new wife of Mikey Suarez. The copy of Eddy who is living in Menlo Park says, "I now work at the Edison Electronics research facility. We are getting close to having a hierion detector that might allow us to detect the femtobot endosymbionts that are hidden inside people." Reynette has become known as the tyrant of Menlo Park, controling every aspect of Edison's empire and throwing vast sums of Edison's money into the hierion detector project.

The copy of Reynette who is helping Eddy gets herself and Rylla an appointment to meet with Mikey and she tells Rylla, "He's got quite an eye for young ladies and now you must play the role of my cousin. You are now a dancer, an apprentice in the Boston Ballet, here visiting for a week." Reynette hopes to meet Angelique and learn how she will put an end to hierion detector project. When they arrive at the mansion of Mickey Suarez, Mina is already there, working with Mickey to bring ballet to New Jersey.

Figure 17. Menlo Park Mystery.
  Image generated by Mr. Wombo & Whisk.

Rylla quickly learns that Angelique has a daughter, Angel, who is an electrical engineer working for Edison. Mina invites Rylla and Angel to dinner that night.

In Part 3 of Edison's Endosymbiont Experiments, Rylla and a copy of Reynette Cummings must confront the mysterious Angel Suarez, one of the first computer scientists on Earth and the secret agent of Manny the bumpha. Angel puts an end to Reynette's hierion probe project, but not before Tom Edison has seen evidence that human bodies all contain an hierion endosymbiont. He is left with the belief that living organisms contain, and are animated by, sub-atomic scale structures hidden inside their bodies.

Figure 18. The Rey Duplicated.
  Image generated by  Whisk.

After discovering how Angel put an end to hierion probe research in the Ekcolir Reality, the copy of Reynette is taken out of the Reality Simulation and into the Final Reality.

In the Final Reality, Manny the bumpha explains that to stop Reynette's interventionist mission, she had to get Nyrtia to re-program Reynette. Manny laments the fact that Nyrtia has learned aspects of advanced hierion technology from the Phari that even the Huaoshy cannot understand.

Figure 19. Write Me A Replicoid.
  Image generated by  Whisk.

Several months passed before I wrote Part 4 of "Edison's Endosymbiont Experiments". As a kind of follow on story, Rylla returns to a simulation fork of the Ekcolir Reality in which the daughter of Reynette, Lyza, displays telekinetic powers. In this case, the telekinesis involves Lyza's ability to control programmable medical nanites telepathically. Manny has arranged that simulation fork containing Lyza as a warning of the kind of problems that can arise for powerful human telepaths.

Next: Part 12 of this Decade in Review.

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