Upper Motor

Zero Minus X

 Back in 2018 I mentioned a 1952 story by Jack Vance called "Telek" (see also: "Vance 1952"). For "Telek", Vance provided no explanation for the sudden appearance on Earth of people with telekinetic abilities. 

 Perfect Brains. Published ten years later in 1962 was "Zero Minus X" by Robert and Patricia Fanthorpe. For "Zero Minus X", some children are raised under special conditions that protect them from experiencing neuronal death due to either the incorporation radioactive atoms into the cells of their bodies or the effects of damaging radiation from outside of their bodies. These children grow up with "perfect brains" and they have telepathic ability and telekinetic powers. Lucky for Earth, these telekinetic powers become available just when Earth needs to be defended from aliens who arrive in our Solar System from a distant star system.

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 The Telekinetic Challenge. In 1953, Isaac Asimov published a story called "Belief" about a physicist who has the ability to levitate himself (see the image to the left). I have to wonder if "Belief" was written by Asimov after he read "Telek", but Asimov later claimed that it was Campbell who suggested that Asimov write a story about levitation. In "Belief", it is suggested that the levitating physicist might be some sort of mutant that has developed the means to control anti-gravitational forces and by the end of the story, there is a top secret government project to study the phenomenon.

As shown in the image to the left, not only can the levitating physicist make his own body defy gravity, when holding his wife he can also make her float.

Later, in 1986, Asimov published Foundation and Earth which depicted genetically engineered Solarians as having "transducer lobes" in their brains that allowed them to manifest telekinetic abilities. Sadly, Asimov suggested no actual mechanism by which the Solarians could levitate objects.

in the Ekcolir Reality
 Original art by Giancola
and Gambino.

Here on this blog page (below) is a new science fiction story called "The Mystery of the Missing Motor Neurons" which concerns the analogues of Robert and Patricia Fanthorpe in the Ekcolir Reality. "The Mystery of the Missing Motor Neurons" explores how a type of advanced nanotechnology could make telekinesis possible by replacing a person's upper motor neurons with femtobots.

On Earth, Patryk Fynthryp writes a story based on Robyn Fynthryp's experience of witnessing the use of telekinetic powers by historical researchers who are in a simulation of a version of the Foundation Reality that existed before Grean's arrival in our galaxy. Robyn is one of the rare Earthlings who can access information inside the Sedron Time Stream. The demonstration of telekinetic powers that was "witnessed" by Robyn takes place inside the Foundation Reality Simulation, sometime after the establishment of the Second Galactic Empire by telepathic humans. Robyn is removed from Earth and a replicoid copy of Robyn is instantiated at Observer Base.

See this 1987 cover by Staffan
Göransson. Alternate version by
Mr. Wombo (WOMBO Dream).

Having shown that technology-assisted telekinesis was possible in the past Realities of Deep Time, "The Mystery of the Missing Motor Neurons" ends without resolving the question: can there be some form of telekinesis that is still possible by means of advanced nanotechnology in the Final Reality? However, Tyhry becomes aware of the fact that special femtobots, with the right programming, can make technology-assisted telekinesis possible. With her growing skill at programming nanites, might Tyhry be able to achieve telekinetic abilities?

The story starts with events at the Writers Block in the Ekcolir Reality where the Robyn replicoid demonstrates that she has been able to attain telekinetic powers. As a replicoid, her motor cortex has been converted into a femtobot extension of her Phari endosymbiont. Robyn the replicoid will be taken into the Final Reality and she will be able to telepathically send some of her story ideas to Robert Fanthorpe on Earth.

in the Ekcolir Reality

 It might be helpful to read this story which also features the Paz. More recently, long after I began writing "The Mystery of the Missing Motor Neurons", I began to develop the idea that Tyhry is one of many Interventionist agents who originated as clones or replicoid copies of one original biological tryp'At who I call "X" and who lived in the far future of the Asimov Reality. I now refer to Tyhry as an "X clone". 

For "The Mystery of the Missing Motor Neurons", I imagine that Robyn Fynthryp was an "A clone", an Interventionist agent in the Ekcolir Reality using the same body plan as Marda and Rytya, who both originated as A clones, copies of an original tryp'At who I call "A" and was the genetic template for Marda.

 A clones and X clones.

The A clones.

In the Ekcolir Reality, Robyn's editor is an X clone. I have previously included two X clones in stories about the twentieth century in the Ekcolir Reality: Lexy and Sopha. Another "A clone" was known to Lexy is Abby. Abby was a tryp'At agent on Earth who appeared in a story about Irhit and Siteq (see "Telepaths of Site Q"). It is not clear that Lexy Keeler has ever met or seen Robyn. Lexy knows that she has a clone who is also on Earth, what she thinks of as her little sister. In Part 5 of Vythoth the Chresmoscopist, Lexy tells Tyhry, "I have not seen Nyrtia since I came to earth, 40 years ago." And in Part 7 Lexy tells Tyhry, "I know that infites were used by the Fru'wu to teach me English".

Also, Sopha is another X clone in the Ekcolir Reality (see Part 6 of The Fesarians). Sopha knows that Lexy was stationed somewhere on Earth, acting as another secret agent of the bumpha. I have previously depicted Sopha as being a science fiction magazine editor, so in "The Mystery of the Missing Motor Neurons", Sopha is depicted as one of the editors who receives stories from Robyn.

Roxzel

Earlier this year (see "SIHA 2025: Start the Search") I had the idea that when Tyhry finally gets inside Observer Base, she would be able to bring Roxzel out of the Asimov Reality Simulation and form a synapex link to her mind clone. At that time, Roxzel would learn that she is also a replicoid. Roxzel has grown up inside the Asimov Reality Simulation and in "The Mystery of the Missing Motor Neurons" I introduce the idea that Roxzel has met "X", the original biological version of Tyhry in the Asimov Reality Simulation.

 Master Minds. For Foundation and Earth, it seemed that Solaria was one of Daneel's long-term experiments. Eventually, he wanted to make use of a Solarian brain, along with its transducer lobes. Daneel was able to use Bliss and Trevize as his tools to extract Fallon from the planet Solaria. For "The Mystery of the Missing Motor Neurons", I depict Manny the bumpha as wanting to provide Tyhry with telekinetic abilities. 

 Mechanism of femtobot-mediated technology-assisted telepathy: there are special femtobots that can move negative mass hierions and other hierions into and out of the Hierion Domain as needed, resulting in technology-assisted telekinesis. This form of telekinesis is not magic, it is physics. 

The Mystery of the Missing Motor Neurons

Negative mass hierions.

Tyhry was nearing the end of a week-long vacation at the Writers Block during which Mary had become quite fascinated by Tyhry's tryp'At anatomical features. Tyhry was demonstrating to Mary how she could alter the size, texture and shape of her lower two breasts. Now Tyhry had enlarged her breasts and her big pink erect nipples were being stroked by both Asimov and Mary. Tyhry's boob display also had the complete attention of several of the other writers who were at nearby tables there in the Rotunda.  Mary asked, "How do you keep these giant breasts from drooping?"

Tyhry explained, "This is one of the popular applications of negative mass hierions."

Tyhry, Isaac and Mary were seated at a small table in the central lounge of the Grand Rotunda, that public space within the Writers Block where writers on break often gathered and socialized. It was not uncommon for lovers to meet in the Rotunda and public sex acts were not unusual. Isaac had been distracted by something other than Tyhry's spectacularly enlarged breasts and nipples. He was watching a couple at another table who were loudly arguing and who seemed completely oblivious to Tyhry's big bared breasts. He told Mary, "I'm worried about her. She's not herself."

Mary glanced again towards the table where Robyn Fynthryp was having a rather animated discussion with Artep, who had been instantiated as a miniature artificial life-form at the size scale of the sy'Paz of Seelie. Artep was flying around erratically, as if trying to dodge the verbal pyrotechnics flowing from Robyn's mouth. Mary was able to catch some of what Robyn was saying, which seemed to concern Grean the Kac'hin. Mary turned back towards Isaac and told him, "If she's going to see Grean, you should go with her."

Fun with Artep and Mary

Robyn got to her feet and quickly walked off in the direction of the path that led from the Writers Block to Grean's Workshop. Isaac reluctantly pulled his finger tips away from one of Tyhry's big stiff nipples, got out of his chair, leaned over and kissed Mary's cheek and then he hurried off after Robyn. Mary watched Isaac rushing to catch up to Robyn and then Artep buzzed over and landed on the table beside Mary. Mary asked, "What has Robyn so upset?"

Artep hung her head and replied, "I suppose it is all my fault. I think I drove her crazy." Artep placed both of her small hands on one of Tyhry's lower nipples and wiped up some of the pink secretion that was oozing out. Artep licked the fluid and enjoyed the feel of oxypathin activating the receptors in her mouth. Afraid that Artep would soon be sucking on her nipple, Tyhry began shrinking her breasts back down to their thier normal genetically-programmed size.

"Tell me about it." Mary added, "But first, tell me, is Robyn rushing off to see Grean?"

 "Yes, she has an appointment with Grean." Artep complained to Tyhry, "I prefer you with big breasts."

Tyhry now used her clothing nanites to cover her four breasts with semi-transparent lace that artfully displayed her now small and cute breasts and her pink nipples that were still erect. Mary giggled and told Artep, "You make it sound like Robyn is going to a doctor's appointment." The idea was absurd because just like Artep, Robyn had been teleported to Eternity from Earth and instantiated inside an artificial body composed of femtobot components. Mary felt confident that nothing could go wrong with Robyn's body or her carefully constructed brain. "What do you mean... crazy?"

"You saw how she's acting. Ranting like a lunatic. That's not Robyn." Disappointed that Tyhry had shrunk and covered up her breasts, Artep had now drifted up into the air.

Mary reflected, "She seems upset, but what has she done that's irrational?"

Now Artep was literally flying in circles above the heads of Tyhry and Mary. She told Mary, "I suppose it all began last week when Robyn told me about her vision of telekinetic humans."

Mark nodded. "I've heard that story. Apparently, when Galaxia formed in the Foundation Reality, there were telepathic humans who had telekinetic abilities."

Artep explained, "I've always been interested in the mystery of how we little people can fly, so I searched the story archives for information about the sy'Paz of Seelie. I came across a story about the Paz called 'Nanobrain'."

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Mary reached out and grabbed hold of Artep. "Stop buzzing around. You're making me dizzy." Mary set Artep down on the table. "What do you mean by nanobrain?"

Artep sighed. Actually, I should not call it a story. 'Nanobrain' is written like a technical report... it purports to include an account of the origin of the Paz. They evolved as a biological species, the Jeesonpazy, on a distant world, much like the human species, and were then taken through a process of artificial evolution that eventually allowed them to transcend into a new existence inside the sedron domain. However, a minority of the Jeesonpazy refused to abandon their material bodies and became the Pazy, a nanoscopic form of life composed of femtobots."

Mary shook her head. "I've never heard of the Pazy."

"I've carefully searched the story archive. There is no other mention of the Pazy. In any case, R. Nyrtia needed the help of the Pazy inside Eternity. Eventually, Nyrtia began placing some of the invisibly tiny Pazy into visible bodies. That was the origin of the Paz."

Mary nodded. "I begin to understand..."

"Yes, it makes sense. The Paz were ghost-like shells, made to look humanoid, but their minds still resided in nanoscale femtobot assemblages." Artep again floated upwards, rising off the surface of the table. "While reading 'Nanobrain', the ability of the sy'paz to fly finally made sense to me."

Mary suggested, "The sy'paz... even you... are actually nanoscopic life forms?"

"Well, of course we appear to be small humans, but there has never been an attempt to hide the truth, that we are composed of femtobots. The only question is, how are the femptobot components assembled... particularly, the components that comprise our brains? Apparently, we sy'paz do not have miniature humanoid brains in our little heads. Our bodies are simulated human bodies, simply designed to appear human. In reality, our minds are instantiated in nanoscopic structures composed of femtobots."

Again Mary took hold of Artep. She let Artep stand, balanced in the palm of her hand. "I can't accept that. I'd say you weigh about half a pound." It had been weeks since Artep had gone to live with Robyn and now Mary was reflecting on the joy of making love to Artep. As Mary gazed at Artep's sexy body, she felt the glans of her clitoris stiffen.

Artep altered herself, seemingly increasing her weight, which pushed Mary's hand down on the table. "How much do I weigh now?" Then Artep floated, barely touching Mary's skin. "And now? You have no idea how much I weigh. I can quickly change my apparent weight, which makes it easy for me to fly."

"How do you do that, some kind of gravity control?" Now Mary was intrigued. She had a long-standing interest in hierions. "I've long suspected that there are anti-gravity hierion particles."

Artep shrugged. "I don't know any advanced hierion physics. 'Nanobrain' is not a science textbook. It is more of a how-to manual. For the past week I've been learning how to shift my capacity for flight to other uses... beyond my body."

Now Mary felt a wonderful vibration of her erect clitoris. Mary emitted a brief gasp of pleasure and then asked, "You did that?"

Artep's first day in Eternity

Artep giggled. "Call it telekinesis, if you like."

"Oh, I like it well enough. Do it again!"

Now Mary imagined that Artep was bouncing around inside her vagina and sucking on the stiff glans of her clitoris. "I can feel you inside of me!"

Artep floated above the table. "You can clearly see... I'm not inside of you. However. I can use my force transducer system to push against you."

Mary bit her lip and for a minute enjoyed the sensation of Artep remotely playing with her genitals. "Amazing... this is how you drove Robyn crazy?"

Artep explained, "At first, Robyn was perfectly content to enjoy her telekinetic orgasms, but then she started thinking. She started using the how-to manual in 'Nanobrain' and then yesterday, while we were making love, I thought I felt..."

"What?"

"I felt Robyn's telekinetic touch. And I made the mistake of telling Robyn. She went raging off to find Grean. But Wendy was the only one there."

Mary achieved an intense orgasm and then as her mind began to clear, she muttered. "Wait now. Are you saying that everyone can make use of this how-to manual and learn how to achieve telekinetic powers?"

Bimanoid Interface

"I don't know. Robyn is not very good at it. Will she get better? I don't know. Could you develop telekinetic ability? I don't know. Robyn demanded that Wendy make an appointment for her with Grean. Now she's gone to ask Grean these questions."

"I see. And I sent Isaac along. And I suppose Robyn won't hesitate to give him a demonstration of her telekinetic abilities, just like you did for me."

"Hmm, I suppose you are right. And I suppose you don't want to hear what else Robyn told me about her abilities."

Of course, Mary was curious and wanted to know. "What?"

"I don't know if it is true, but Robyn told me that she was brought to Eternity because she had a telepathic linkage to her husband, Patryk. She's been making use of the bimanoid interface to send stories telepathically to Patryk, on Earth."

Mary nodded. "Yes, that's all true."

"Well, I wasn't the first person to experience Robyn's telekinetic touch. She told me that she had been able to make love to Patryk, remotely, by using telekinesis."

"Wow."

"I don't know if Robyn's telekinesis is amplified by the Bimanoid Interface or if maybe she's just better at making love to men..." Artep placed her hands against her small breasts. "I could just barely feel Robyn telekinetically stroking my nipples, but she told me that she was able to make her husband ejaculate by telekinetically stimulating his penis."

Mary felt a surge of jealousy. She had sent Isaac off with Robyn, and she had no doubt that she would provide him with a demonstration of her new telekinetic powers.

Wendy the probot

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Isaac ran and caught up with Robyn. "Where are you going?" He was enjoying the sight of Robyn's sexy bottom as she continued talking her long strides along the path.

"To see that conniving Kac'hin, Grean."

For a time, Isaac concentrated on the task of keeping up with Robyn and her fast pace. Finally, he said, "You seem upset."

"I'd blame you too, Isaac, but I suppose you have had no choice but to accept whatever Grean tells you."

Asimov chuckled. "I'm willing to take responsibility for my short-comings. What have I done that contributes to your snit?"

"Oh, its just that you seem perfectly content to be used by Grean. But don't you resent not being able to truly help your copy on Earth?"

"I don't have much telepathic ability. Sometimes I wonder if I've done more harm than good in trying to send information to my analogue on Earth. I suppose it is different for you, given your great telepathic ability."

"My skill with the Bimanoid Interface is a mixed blessing and a curse. I've probably sent more information to Earth about the Fru'wu than anyone else, but I've also had to suffer through watching my husband marry and live with another woman."

"My understanding was that you told Patryk to re-marry."

"Do you think that makes it any easier? And now I've learned that it was all completely unnecessary."

Grean

"What do you mean?" To Asimov, it felt as if someone had taken hold of his penis. "Hey!"

Robyn demanded, "Just think... Mary could give you a long-distance hand-job like this, too. Yet for some reason, Grean has never seen fit to share this secret with the human residents of Eternity."

Isaac was now finding it difficult to keep walking as his penis stiffened. Now it felt like someone -Robyn?- was holding the tip of his erection in her mouth. At first Asimov wondered if someone was using telepathy or infites to provide him with sexual sensations. He asked Robyn, "Are you telling me that you have telekinetic abilities?"

Robyn asked, "Are you enjoying that? Of course you are. Ah, there's Wendy... I suppose she was expecting me."

Wendy told Robyn, "Grean is waiting for you in the workshop." She paced a hand on Asimov's pants where his erection was pushing outwards. "Allow me to take care of your little problem, Isaac."

Isaac knew that as a positronic robot, Wendy was programmed to not stand by and watch a human suffer. However, he pushed past Wendy and followed Robyn into Grean's Workshop. Using her telepathic ability and knowing the cause of Robyn's 'snit', Grean immediately told Robyn, "Humans and human societies never turn out well if they have telekinesis."

Robyn was right in Grean's face and she angrily said, "Well I have it, and this genie is not going back in the bottle."

Thinking that the hopping mad Robyn might physically attack Grean, Asimov tried to step between Robyn and Grean, but he had to bump into each of them. Grean reached out and patted Asimov's erection. "This is a good example. Robyn could not resist using her telekinetic ability to sexually assault you, Isaac."

Asimov said, "I don't mind that. And I suspect that some human variants have long exploited telekinesis, without bothering to let the rest of us know about their special abilities."

Grean shrugged. "If so, that had nothing to do with me."

Robyn asked, "So you deny even knowing about the use of hierions for telekinesis?

Grean explained, "Before I first came to Earth, I was taught about Galaxia group mind of the Foundation Reality. That history provides a good example of how human telekinetic abilities disrupted and undermined an entire civilization."

Asimov asked, "You are saying that Galaxia did form?"

Grean told Asimov, "Yes, of course. However, when I came to Earth, there was a Reality Change. In the new Reality, Galaxia was never completed."

Asimov complained, "Sadly, I've never heard anything about that future era of a completed Galaxia."

Robyn mused, "That must be what got me kicked off of Earth. One day I woke up after a strange dream. I told my husband about the dream and he wrote a story about telekinesis."

Grean told Robyn, "My sister Delpha handled your case and teleported you up from Earth. That was no dream... you must have accessed information from inside the Sedron Time Stream about Galaxia." Grean shrugged. "I'm sure that the bumpha have often made efforts to suppress the spread of stories about femtobot-mediated telekinesis. For example, there is the sad case of Crimson Cloukey..."

Asimov said, "I remember Crimson. Upon arriving here in Observer Base, she took the form of a synpaz. I have not seen her since. I wonder what became of her?"

Grean told Asimov, "She went to High Seelie. The bumpha did not want her telling humans about telekinesis."

While on Earth, Robyn had been vaguely aware of the science fiction stories of Crimson Cloukey. Robyn asked, "Crimson was exiled to High Seelie?" Robyn now began wondering if she would face a similar punishment.

Grean said, "I'm not familiar with the case." Grean reflected on what she did know and then she continued, "Crimson was an X-clone, an Interventionist agent stationed on Earth, tasked with preparing Earth for First Contact with the Fru'wu. Crimson could routinely access information from the Sedron Time Stream. Crimson was a scientist who wrote science fiction in her spare time. She discovered how to use hierion-containing composite materials that made possible the first practical fusion power generator." For a moment, Grean reflected on the likely origin of the nanobrain technical report that Artep had found in the archives of the Writers Block. "Like you, Robyn, Crimson developed telekinetic abilities, in her case, because she was very good at accessing information that is inside the Sedron Time Stream."

Asimov said, "Fascinating."

Robyn asked, "Why did Crimson get removed from Earth?"

 "I don't know. Crimson was another extraction performed by Delpha."

Next: Part 2 of "The Mystery of the Missing Motor Neurons".

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Making Rytya

Below on this page is Part 5 of a science fiction story called "The Cythyrya Investigation". Previously in Part 3, drawing on information from the future, Eddy began to provide an account of events after Fraunz arrived on G-world. A native of G-world, Tya, became the constant companion of Fraunz and eventually they had a daughter named Rytya who inherited her mother's ability to tap into the Sedron Time Stream and receive information from the future.

In the future of the Final Reality, travel through time is no longer possible, but information can move from the Hadron Domain into the Sedronic Domain. Once inside the Sedronic Domain, information can be accessed from all points in time, future and past. However, the correct interpretation of that information requires that special quantum calculations be performed. Only a few humans have ever had the ability to process information from the Sedron Time Stream.

Tya was provided with a G-Sym at an early age and she not only had visions of her daughter from the future, but she also became aware of the fact that Rytya would be able to transmit information far into the past. Tya knew that information had been received far back in time, by Angela Fersoni in the early 21st century.

In the Ekcolir Reality, Crimson Cloukey was a chemist who discovered a new superconductor that could be used for fusion power research. While dreaming, Crimson was able to telepathically link to Tya via the Sedron Time Stream, but she had no understanding of when/where Tya lived or how they were connected. When Crimson began publishing "fiction" about hierion-doped superconductors, she was taken to Observer Base. In the Final Reality, the replicoid of Crimson sent story ideas to her analogue, Charles Cloukey and he published a few rather garbled stories about the future. Later, some of Crimson's unpublished stories were found in the Archives of the Writers Block.

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After visiting Myllyr's Planet, Rylla had become obsessed with the idea that her daughter, Marda, might be the analogue of someone who had lived in past Realities. The first I learned of that concern was a week after Rylla and Rey had returned from using the Reality Simulation System to visit Myllyr's Planet.

Rytya

During that week, using the available telepathic connections to the Writers Block at Observer Base, Rylla had initiated a search for information about possible analogues, clones or replicoid copies of Jheral Tinzy, Lyza, Marda or anyone under any other name who might be related to Marda. I was at my computer preparing for a follow-up visit to Sogdian when Rylla sat down behind me and said, "I have a story for you to read."

I imagined that Rylla had written up a report on one of her recent excursions inside the Reality Simulation System. As I turned in my chair, it also occurred to me to ask, "Were any of the nanites that Rey brought out of the Simulator able to help with the inactivated teleportation equipment at Observer Base?" I saw that Rylla was holding what looked like a hard-cover book, but I confess that I was looking at her four breasts, which had all grown quite large while first gestating and now nursing her daughter Marda.

"No, that was a bust, but Stacy found an intriguing book in the archives of the Writers Block." Knowing my preference for paper, Rylla had arranged for a printed copy of the book to be made and she handed me a copy of a book called Contact With Alien Telepaths by Crimson Cloukey. 

Rising from my chair, I opened the cover of the book and there was only one piece of information on an otherwise blank page before the start of the story. I read that page out loud: "From the Archives of the Writers Block. Translation by Stacy Pasimov and Georgy White." 

Rylla elaborated, "The story is from the Ekcolir Reality, so it had to be translated. The main character in the story is a woman, Rytya, who might be a clone of Jheral Tinzy."

Crimson Cloukey

I asked, "Cloukey? Why is that name familiar?"

"Crimson was a popular author of science fiction in the Ekcolir Reality in the years before the arrival of the Fru'wu. Her analogue here in the Final Reality only published a few stories, but that is probably how you know that name. Crimson's analogue in this Reality was a man named Charles."

I sat down at the computer and did a quick search, confirming that I had in the past read fiction by Charles Cloukey, only to forget about it. I turned back to glance at Rylla and said, "I don't have any memory of his stories." Then I asked, "How did this book get here from the Writers Block?"

Rylla explained, "This book is made of hierions, so it was possible to teleport it to Earth from Observer Base."

I was aware that the teleportation equipment at Observer Base could still teleport hierion matter while not being able to teleport hadronic matter. I'd never thought about making printed material using hierions. Carefully examining the book, which felt like a type of plastic, I said, "This is fantastic!" I had in the past spent huge amounts of effort trying to get reports on Writers Block stories by means of telepathic transmission from Observer Base to Earth. This new hierion printing technique held promise to revolutionize information exchange between Earth and Observer Base.

Rytya and Olsyd

Rylla shrugged. "In any case, Contact With Alien Telepaths is set in the far future, at a time when thousands of exoplanets have been colonized by humans spreading out from Earth into the galaxy. Rytya meets a man named Pyterov Jynkwylt, although that is a false identity and in the later part of the story he is depicted as being an artificial life-form, one of the Felydyans."

"A Felydyan!" A week earlier, Rey had returned from the Reality Simulation System and had mentioned aliens called Felydyans.

"Yes, I had Stacy search the Archives for that term. Apparently, 'Felydyan' is a term from Neoetruscan. However, I'm quite certain that Contact With Alien Telepaths is not set in the future of either the Asimov Reality or the Ekcolir Reality. It includes a character named Tyhry."

"My daughter is in the story?" I wondered: How can that be?

"In Contact With Alien Telepaths her name is spelled 'Tyhry', with two 'y's, but it seems quite clear that Tyhry-two-'y's is related to your Tihri-two-'i's. She is depicted as an ancient artificial life-form, a femtobot replicoid, who lived through the entire Space Age: tens of thousands of years, leading up to the events of the story when she meets the Felydyans... again.

"What do you mean 'again'?"

Ivory Fersoni

"It is clear from the text of Contact With Alien Telepaths that the Tyhry character has had previous contact with the Felydyans, even before it is revealed to readers that her husband, Pyterov Jynkwylt, is an alien, a Felydyan, living with Tyhry while disguised as a human being. By the way, at the start of the story, the Tyhry character is using the name 'Olsyd Jynkwylt'."

I was, at that moment, experiencing déjà vu. I now realize that Ivory Fersoni had long ago provided me with infites that held information about the Jynkwylts, but I had assumed it was only part of a jumble of story fragments that had come to me from Angela Fersoni by way of her sister Ivory. For a minute, I was thinking about the fact that I had once spent a simulated life time with Ivory, my first lover, inside a Simulation System. 

I must have been staring off into space. Rylla said, "Well, I want you to read the story. Then we can discuss its implications."

I was thinking that because of Angela's ability to receive information from the future, it was possible that she might have known about the fate of my own daughter in the far future. Having watched Tihri being born, I was struggling with the idea that an artificial life copy of her might someday be made that would live far into the future. I put aside those thoughts and told Rylla, "I'll read this right now."

Rylla said, "Good. However, take a look at this." Rylla handed me a photograph, another hierion matter artifact teleported to Earth from the Writers Block. "That is Crimson Cloukey. Stacy told me that Crimson may have been an analogue of Tihri who lived in the Ekcolir Reality."

"What? Another version of my daughter?"

Rylla said rather sarcastically, "She and Marda seem to be quite popular with the bumpha."

Rytya (left) and Olsyd

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Growing up on G-world, Rytya naturally assumed that she had four parents. At a young age, Rytya noticed that her father, Fraunz, was somehow special and it was he who took the time to teach Rytya how to golf. Only later did she understand that like Fraunz, she was among the small minority of people living on G-world who did not use a G-sym. Influenced by Fraunz, Rytya resisted the idea of taking a G-sym into her body.

Rytya's resistance crumbled when she began working as a caddie, first for Fraunz and Mylly who still competed in the Mixed Doubles Golf League. Then, after having some experience, it seemed natural for Rytya to become a caddie for the championship events in that League that were played on G World. At her second such tournament, Rytya was assigned to a new pair of golfers who had just arrived on G World; Olsyd and Pyterov Jynkwylt."

After meeting the Jynkwylts, Fraunz immediately noticed changes in Rytya and it was not really a surprise when after a year into Rytya's new career, his daughter told him, "I'm thinking about getting a G-Sym."

Fraunz knew that Rytya had become infatuated with Olsyd and was living with the Jynkwylt's, who had formally immigrated to G World and had taken up permanent residence on the planet. Fraunz was rather astounded that his daughter could be so attracted to a woman, having previously thought that Rytya was only sexually attracted to men. 

Fraunz had grown up on a planet in the Vega Sector of the galaxy where over 25% of the population lived without a G-sym and it had been easy for him to resist the temptation of linking his mind into the community telepathic communications network. However, on G-world, less than 1% of the adult population was like Fraunz and Rytya, without a G-sym. During the decades that Fraunz had spent on G-world, pressure had grown relentlessly towards the Golf Federation imposing a ban against further immigration of anyone not equipped with a G-sym. Fraunz calmly asked, "Why now?"

Rytya (left) and Olsyd

Rytya explained, "I've seen how Olsyd and Pyterov enjoy fully linking their minds. I want to experience that kind of intimacy with Olsy."

Fraunz nodded. "Long ago I experienced that kind of pressure from both your mother and Mylly, but they eventually learned to appreciate me for what I am."

Rytya asked, "How did you..." Rytya paused. She'd long known the story of her own origins, how her mother, after having visions of the future, had allowed herself to become pregnant, putting an end to her own career as a caddie. "When you met mom, did you know that..."

Fraunz shrugged. "I don't know if I had been influenced by future vision." Fraunz reached out and touched Rytya's silky hair where it cascaded over her shoulder. Rytya had jet black hair, like her mother's. Fraunze let his mind cast back to his first day on G-world. "The day I met your mother I could sense that there was something special about her..."

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Inside the luxurious Cascadia Suite, the four-group was introduced to the cook who would be at their service. "You may have dinner at any time. Simply let me know how I may accommodate you."

Mylly was pulling off her clothing and headed for the spa. She told the cook, "I'll eat in half an hour." She led Yeam into the spa room.

Dely glanced at Fraunz and said, "A soak and a massage before dinner sounds like a good idea."

Fraunz told Dely, "Enjoy the spa, I'll be back in a bit." He took his driver out of his golf bag and exited from the suite. The sun had long since set and it was growing dark outside.

Fraunz returned to the front desk and asked directions to the resort's golf equipment shop. Fraunze strolled for ten minutes through the dusk, walking from the resort's hotel to the golf club. Arriving at the golf equipment shop, Fraunz rented one of the flying drones that came equipped with a powerful light and could be used by night golfers. He then exited from the resort building and walked the next hole of the course, a par 5 with a sharp dogleg bent around the end of the resort complex. Halfway up the fairway he noticed that he was being followed. He used the drone to illuminate the fairway, back in the direction of the tee and saw that his follower was Tya. As she approached, Fraunz asked her, "Do you know this hole?"

Tya moved close beside Fraunz and gestured towards the hand-held holodisplay he was using to view a recorded image of the green. "It is better to over-shoot this green than deal with those bunkers at the front."

"So, you know this course well?"

"I grew up here. I know the first thousand miles of the Grand Course quite well." She adjusted the view of the holodisplay, zooming out the view so that it became a map of the region. She pointed and said, "I was born just a hundred miles from here, in Alywong."

Tya's hand brushed Fraunz's hand and he felt a warm sensation spread up his arm. After a curious glance into Tya's eyes, he continued walking towards the green. He asked Tya, "Are you a telepath?"

"My parents gave me my G-sym when I was three, the earliest age allowed here on G-world."

"And yet you'd be willing to caddie for me, a non-telepath."

"I don't consider you a non-telepath. As soon as you arrived in orbit I could sense your telepathic emanations. And besides..."

"Besides what?" They had reached the point where the beam of the drone could brightly illuminate the green. Tya said jokingly, "I like your big driver." Fraunz laughed as he visually examined the bunkers in front of the green then he went up onto the elevated green.

Tya moved to stand close beside Fraunz and she placed a hand against the side of his face. "Well, if you must know, I can sense that you like me."

Fraunz pressed the recall button on the drone's remote control. That turned off the drone's big lamp and it sped off, returning to its charging station. In the dim light of night, they began walking back towards the softly glowing resort building. Fraunz said, "It is strange. I feel like I know you. It seems as if I've met you somewhere..."

Tya explained, "I'm a clonal organism."

Fraunz knew that about five percent of the galactic population consisted of clones. Back when galactic exploration and expansion was still in progress, as much as thirty percent of the human population had been clones. Fraunz asked, "Have I previously met one of your copies?"

"I have a copy who has investigated all of the young sector junior golf champions... looking for someone like you."

"And now that you have me, what do you plan to do with me?"

Tya laughed and pulled the big heavy driver out of Fraunz's hand. "I'll be your caddie."

"I always carry my own clubs."

"Good. I don't want to carry your clubs." Tya took hold of Fraunz's arm. "We have more important things to do."

"Such as?"

"I don't want to scare you off by saying too much, too soon." 

"How could you scare me off?"

"Well, I have future vision. I've seen our future. We will spend many nights looking ahead to the next day's fairways and greens... and making babies."

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 After Rytya was fitted with her G-sym, she eagerly established a telepathic linkage to Olsyd Jynkwylt. With their thoughts now telepathically resonating, the two women made love. Suddenly, achieving a delightful orgasm, Rytya could access Olsyd's memories.

Rytya telepathically "saw" that Olsyd was using a false name. Her true name was Tyhry. Later, after their boisterous sexplay and laying wrapped in Tyhry's arms, Rytya was pondering Tyhry's true identity. Rytya asked, "You are not human?"

Tyhry admitted, "I'm an artificial life-form, my body composed of femtobots. I can take on any convenient physical form, but Manny suggested that you would like me in this configuration."

"I do, but I sense that you want to use me... for..."

"I'll explain." Tyhry sent infites into Rytya that did most of the explaining and also dosed her body with potent sex hormones. "I need your help to send some important information back into the past. Back the the younger me. Information that made it possible for me to begin the space age and galactic exploration."

Rytya laughed and then grew serious. "A time loop?"

"Exactly. I must get a message back to my younger self to complete the time loop." Just then, Olsyd/Tyhry's husband, Pyterov, came into the bedroom. He sat on the bed and placed a hand on Tyhry's long leg. Tyhry told Rytya, "We will get help from Pyterov who is a powerful telepath... he is a Felydyan." Pyterovre-shaped his femtobot components and took on his natural Felydyan body form, that of a beautiful cat-like humanoid. Tyhry told Rytya, "Like me, Pyterov is a femtobot replicoid."

Pyterov told Tyhry, "I waited patiently. Rytya seems to be taking this well, so now it is my turn." Pyterov's clothing dissolved away.

Tyhry told Pyterov, "Very well, let's solve the penis shortage." Tyhry took hold of Pyterov's semi-erect penis and then began sucking on it's tip. Soon Pyterov had a spectacular cat-style alien erection that Rytya could not resist grabbing with both her hands. Rytya began positioning herself to take Pyterov's big stiff penis into her dripping wet vagina."

Tyhry said, "Slow down, girl. Don't you think you should ask me for permission before you ravish my husband?" 

Rytya looked over her shoulder at Tyhry and saw that Tyhry was kneeling on the bed, one hand on her own big erection. Rytya asked, "You have a penis?"

Tyhry had shifted to her natural tryp'At body form, complete with four breasts, two vaginas and a penis. Tyhry grabbed hold of Rytya's shoulders and pushed her down onto the bed, flat on her back. Tyhry slid her long hard penis into Rytya's quivering vagina. Pyterov got on top of Tyhry and began thrusting his penis in and out of Tyhry's allzaurish. When the all merged their minds into a shared telepathic mind space during their first group orgasm trance, Rytya sensed another mind pattern surrounding them, an entity known to Tyhry as Kl'ath-Sedruth. In that first session that included Rytya's G-sym, they did not have time to place much information into the Sedron Time Stream. But with practice, their orgasm trances got longer and they completed the time loop.

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Olsyd and Pyterov in human form.

It was late that night when Eddy finished reading Contact With Alien Telepaths. Rylla had gotten Marda to bed and she returned to the living room where Eddy was making notes about the story on his computer. He looked at Rylla and said, "Well, that is quite a story. I have to agree with you, Rytya must be in our far future. Olsyd must be some future version of Tihri and Pyterov an alien, a Felydyan."

Rylla looked at the display screen of Eddy's computer and said, "Do you think that is a good idea?"

Eddy briefly glanced at the targeting code for the Reality Simulation System that was there on the screen. "I should be able to quickly get a DNA sample from Crimson Cloukey."

Rylla told Eddy, "I won't have it sequenced in my lab."

Eddy sputtered, "But-"

"You already had me get sequence data on Tyhry. That raised red flags in the lab. We can run through another similar -or accidental- sample.

Eddy sighed. "I suppose you are right. And what if it is true, that Crimson was a clone of Tihri? Would that change anything for Tihri?"

Rylla giggled, "Who knows? I think it will be for Marda and Tyhry and the other mind clones to investigate their origins, if they ever decide that they want to know where they came from. Those are not our secrets."

Eddy suggested, "I could still visit Crimson... just to talk."

Rylla threw up her hands and turned away, muttering. "Do as you please. You always do what you want no matter what I say."

The room fell quiet. Zeta was out in the hot tub with Anthony. It was times like this that Eddy found it convenient to slip into the Simulator and not have to pretend not to notice Zeta's lusty sexplay with Anthony. 

Eddy wistfully imagined what it would be like if the Reality Simulation System could fully access the Sedron Time Stream and provide simulations of the future of the Final Reality. In this case, it would be adequate to visit the Ekcolir Reality, in the time shortly before the arrival of the alien Fru'wu on Earth. Eddy went through the portal of the Simulator and entered into the Ekcolir Reality Simulation, arriving just outside the front door of Crimson's home.

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the Alys Investigations

Below on this page is Part 4 of the science fiction story called "The Cythyrya Investigation". Previously, in Part 2, Rylla and Rey took Jutta to the planet Sogdian where they got help from Azynov to rescue several of Jutta's clone sisters from the strange mind-control experiments being conducted by Viole Falushe.

The Cythyrya Investigation is Jack Vance fan-fiction based on the premise that the science fiction stories of Jack Vance were inspired by actual events in the Asimov Reality. Thus, Vance's novel "The Book of Dreams" has a character named Alice Wroke while The Cythyrya Investigation shows her actual name to be Alys. Similarly, Vance wrote about Milton, "The Man from Zodiac", while in the timeline of the Asimov Reality there was Lyza (see below, on this page), an agent of the bumpha working from within Zodyac, the scientific investigative team of the Institute.

In the beginning.

In Vance's novels about Kirth Gersen, the Institute was depicted as a galaxy-spanning organization devoted to the suppression of advanced technology. However, in the Asimov Reality, the scientists of Zodyac discovered that the Institute is a front organization established by robots who treat humans like puppets. Lyza becomes caught up in an attempt to obtain Phari nanites that will allow humans to take control the Bimanoid Interface and end the era of humans being behaviorally programmed 'puppets' of their replicoids.

 The Femtozoan Intervention. The positronic robots of Earth developed the Bimanoid Interface as a way to provide Earth with Temporal Momentum. However, when the positronic robots first tried to craft telepathic humans, they were bedeviled by the human drive to develop ever more advanced technologies. 

A cloned woman on Sogdian (right).

During the Trysta Truce in Asimov Reality, Nyrtia linked the Bimanoid Interface in the Phari Network, which accomplished two things: 1) it allowed the Bimanoid Interface to be used on other planets of the galaxy beyond Earth and 2) Nyrtia learned how to use the Bimanoid Interface to alter human behavior, suppressing human scientific creativity and causing a kind of technological stasis during Earth's Space Age. As humans spread to the many habitable exoplanets of the galaxy, those worlds became a vast laboratory for the artificial evolution of telepathic humans, while humans lacked the technological sophistication to realize what was happening.

At first, the bumpha worked within the constraints of the technologically stagnant society that Nyrtia had engineered, but eventually the bumpha learned enough about Phari technology so that they were then able to find a way to break the tyranny of the Bimanoid Interface and start allowing humans some freedom to develop new technologies. The bumpha tool for breaking the Bimanoid Interface became known as the femtozoan, a form of artificial life that could re-program a person's Phari endosymbiont. The events of Part 4 of The Cythyrya Investigation (below) begin soon after the events that took place in Part 2.

Part 4 of The Cythyrya Investigation (Part 1)(Part 2)(Part 3)

When Rylla and Rey returned from using the Reality Simulation System to visit the planet Sogdian, Eddy thought that Rey seemed unusually subdued. Rylla spoke excitedly about how Azynov had arrived at the Palace of Love and rescued the clones of Jheral Tinzy. Azynov had last been seen transporting the clones and Jutta back to Earth. 

Eddy asked Rylla, "What were you able to learn about Retz?"

Finally Rey spoke and told Eddy, "I believe that Retz experimented with femtozoan reprogramming and transplantation. Viole Falushe wanted to alter Jheral Tinzy's femtozoan and transplant it into a clone of Jheral. Falushe hoped that the re-programmed femtozoan would force the clone of Jheral to fall in love with him." Rey slowly shook her head and explained, "Jheral was a powerful telepathic transmitter and Falushe was a good telepathic receiver, leading to his romantic obsession with Jheral."

Tyron's anti-gravity cruiser, Pantechnyk.

Eddy asked Rey, "What do you mean by 'femtozoan'?"

Rey shrugged. "The term 'femtozoan' was in the notes of Viole Falushe and I learned it first by telepathically probing the mind of Retz, but I don't think he really had any deep understanding of its meaning. He was little more than a technician. In any case, I learned from Retz that he could exert some control over femtozoans by making use of an alien artificial life-form from Myllyr's Planet... what he knew as a Vef or a Yulir or some such. Myllyr's Planet is where we must go next."

Eddy asked, "Myllyr's Planet?" He activated the index of the Reality Simulation System and found an entry for Myllyr's Planet. Eddy glanced back at Rylla. "That world means nothing to me. There were thousands of nondescript exoplanets being colonized early in the Space Age of the Asimov Reality."

Rey said, "Myllyr's Planet is part of the ancient Phari Network of planets that existed only in the Asimov Reality, and it is a habitable exoplanet actually located quite close to Earth. Myllyr's Planet was possibly the first Phari world visited by humans. With no human social structure for generating new scientific discoveries or new technologies, there was interest by the Institute in the possibility that humans might obtain advanced technology from aliens on worlds such as Myllyr's Planet. Retz had worked in the laboratories of Tyron Russ on Myllyr's Planet and it was apparently on that world that Russ had somehow obtained negative mass hierions and began using them for their anti-gravity actions."

Irosh the bumpha.

Eddy blurted out, "Are you serious?" He had no idea that humans had learned about hierions that early in the Asimov Reality. Eddy was now thinking about the bumpha and their long struggle against R. Nyrtia and the positronic robots of Earth. Eddy wondered: might Manny the bumpha have provided advanced technology and hierions to a few people in the Asimov Reality such as Tyron Russ?

Rey shrugged. "Obviously, we will have to verify that by visiting Myllyr's Planet."

Rey told Eddy nothing about the fact that she had obtained one of the Jheral femtozoans and it now resided inside her body. Rey was tempted to test the nanites from that femtozoan to determine if they could be used to control and re-activate the teleportation equipment at Observer Base, but that could wait until Myllyr's Planet was investigated.

Rylla also had a new secret that she did not understand and was not prepared to discuss with Eddy. Rylla was unable to explain it, but the Jheral clones, when together in close proximity, could amplify their telepathic abilities. Rylla did not have much telepathic ability herself, but when the Jheral clones had been assembled all in one place, Rylla had been able to recognize the telepathic mind pattern of her daughter, Marda. Strangely, the Jheral mind pattern was quite similar to Marda's mind pattern. The idea that Marda was a clone of some other woman from the Asimov Reality was deeply disturbing to Rylla and she was not certain that she wanted her daughter to ever become aware of that possibility.

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Tyron and Lyza.

Tyron Russ tried to roll away from the sleeping Lyza and out of bed, but she noticed his movements and said, "You're up early."

Tyron needed to urinate and he had a very stiff morning erection which he fondled with one hand and pointed at Lyza, "You do that to me, my love."

Lyza followed him and they showered together. Despite her best effort, Lyza only managed to grab one quick orgasm in the shower. Tyron began to dress, but Lyza tried to pull him back to bed. She asked, "Why are you in such a hurry?"

"We reached PC23." Tyron was obsessed with his continuing search for more alien technology. Having obtained the secret of anti-gravity from the Vef-Yulir natives of Myllyr's Planet, he could not resist exploring every Phari Cavern that was hidden deep in the crust of the planet.

"It has been there for a billion years, it will still be there this afternoon. Let's wait until it warms up later today."

"I'm going down now." He was out the door before she could pull on her clothes.

It was cold outside and Lyza rushed to cover her skin as she followed Tyron to the aircar hanger. PC23 was near the south pole of Myller's Planet and Tyron had waited until summer for this visit. They got into one of the anti-gravity aircars and they were soon out of the Pantechnyk and dropping towards the icy surface of the planet below. 

Lyza's eyes sought out the mine shaft entrance. She and Tyron had gone through this same routine a dozen times previously at other Phari caverns. As the aircar reached the planet's surface, the door at the mouth of the cavern slid open upon their approach and they were quickly landed inside the entrance to the cavern. There they were met by the Chief Miner of PC23, Polly Rhodysyo, who told Tyron, "Welcome." She looked suspiciously at Lyza and asked, "Who is she?"

"This is my new telepath." Whenever he found a more powerful telepath, Tyron disposed of the old one and exploited the abilities of the best telepath that was available to him. Tyron asked, "How is that platinum deposit panning out?"

Polly Rhodysyo

"Excellent. We are calling it Rhodysyo Reef. The levels of palladium are incredibly high."

The Chief Miner quickly got Tyron and Lyza packing into a drop pod and soon they were falling down through the human-constructed shaft and into the ancient Phari cavern. Packed in tight against Tyron, Lyza was playing with his semi-erect penis when they came to a stop and the pod popped open. They stepped out of the pod and looked around the alien cavern which looked like all the other ones they had previously seen. It was hot and stuffy there inside the cavern, but not as hot as it should be for this great depth under the surface of Myllyr's Planet. Lyza pulled off her top, exposing her four breasts and she confirmed what her telepathic sense was telling her, "The Kry are here. Or... no, these mind patterns... I don't-" Now Lyza was uncertain what she was telepathically sensing.

Tyron looked at Lyza and after noting her four erect nipples, he finally noticed that a blank look had come to her face. She tottered and fell. Tyron caught her long lean body and turned to return to the pod. Then he stumbled and found himself in a group mind space with Lyza and an alien. Lyza was in mid-conversation with the alien: ... now reveal yourselves to us?

The alien mind seemed to be having difficulty conforming to the rules of human linguistic communication. Tyron felt his mind being flooded with a million stray alien thoughts, one of which provided the name of these particular aliens: the Nyk.

The Nyk telepathically said: We Nyk are outcasts, sealed in this cavern as punishment. We are rebels and we don't heed the Phari when they order us to ignore humans.

Not comfortable with telepathy, Tyron spoke out-loud, "I am grateful for that. I've worked hard to contact you. Until now, my telepaths have only felt the minds of the Kry inside these caverns... watching."

The Nyk said: The Kry condemned us to this prison long ago. They passed over into the Hierion Domain, leaving us here. If we help you, then maybe you can help us... break us out of this prison.

Lyza and Tyron.

Lyza told the Nyk: I would be quite happy to help you, but we humans are a young species. We lack technological sophistication. Can you explain exactly what holds you here as prisoners?

The Nyk tried to explain in terms that Lyza and Tyron might understand. This cavern houses a space-time bubble that holds the uncounted billions of we Nyk. We are each femtoscale artificial life forms, caught in a limbo between the Hadron Domain and the Hierion Domain. Very few human minds are like yours, Lyza, with the ability to telepathically resonate with our mind patterns. Sadly, I see nothing in your primitive mind that could help us escape from this prison.

Tyron, as one of the few humans who had been able to escape from the behavioral restrictions imposed by the Bimanoid Interface suggested, "Maybe we could work together. You could teach us how to help you."

The Nyk produced its version of laughter. An amusing concept, Tyron. It is not easy for me to follow your non-telepathic thoughts, but with help from Lyza, I can sense that you seek to access advanced Phari nanotechnology. Nyrtia will not allow that.

Tyron admitted, "Yes, that is my personal goal. My telepaths were able to learn from another species of the Phari Network about the negative mass hierion that makes it possible for these underground caverns to exist under miles of rock. Zodyac scientists have now begun to liberate human minds from the tyranny of the Bimanoid Interface. I can think creatively about new technologies, so tell me how I can help you."

The Nyk said: We know how Zodyac has used the Vef-Yulir to alter human programming. You are clever, Tyron, but why brag about your ability to make technological advances? In essence, all you have done is use an hierion probe to disconnect your Phari endosymbiont from your biobrain. Obviously, that radical nanosurgery has damaged your mind. You are no longer sane. We Nyk cannot trust you. We agree with Nyrtia... human minds should be constrained by behavioral laws. Your mind is too wild and... dangerous. The Nyk are themselves wild and dangerous, but we are not foolish enough to facilitate your evil actions.

At that moment, Tyron and Lyza were ejected from the Nyk telepathic mind space. They found themselves in a heap on the floor of the cavern. The Chief Miner stepped out of the drop pod, having come down to assist with exploration of the cavern. She rushed forward and helped Tyron to his feet and she was impressed by his erection that was partially protruding from his loose fitting pants. 

Lyza pointed her erect nipples at the Chief Miner and while pulling back on her shirt, she reported, "We made contact with the residents of this chamber... the Nyk."

Tyron managed to cover up his erection under his clothing and he added, "But we were shunned. The Nyk want nothing to do with us."

Lyza said, "You are the problem, Tyron." She agreed with the Nyk, Tyron's mind was broken and it was her mission to undo the damage he had done. "But while you distracted the Nyk, I did learn something... I'm just not certain what..."

Tyron told Polly, "There is nothing more to be accomplished here. You can return to your mining operations. We will soon depart." With one last glance in the direction of Tyron's erection where it bulged outwards against the fabric of his clothing, Polly departed in the pod, rising up from the deep alien-constructed cavern.

For weeks, Lyza had been dosing Tyron with sex hormones and mind-altering infites, causing him to fall deeply in love with Lyza. Now, after having had his mind touched by the Nyk and placed in telepathic synchrony with Lyza's thoughts, he was in a state of intense sexual desire. He opened up Lyza's blouse and exposed her cute breasts and would have proceeded to ravish her but...

Just then, Rey and Rylla entered into the Asimov Reality Simulation, appearing inside PC23. Tyron and Lyza were amazed by their sudden arrival inside the cavern. Lyza could sense a diffuse telepathic signal from Rylla and she said, "They just appeared... from nowhere."

see Part 1 of
The Cythyrya Investigation.

Rylla explained, "We are inside a Simulation of Reality. We entered the Simulation from outside. I am Rylla and this is my friend Rey. We are investigating how humans made use of Phari technology here in this Reality."

Lyza rubbed her erect nipples with her finger tips and said, "No Simulation could be this detailed."

Rey sent some infites into Lyza and began the process of allowing Lyza to accept the existence of a Reality Simulation System that could make simulated people feel perfectly normal and unaware of the fact that they were part of a Simulation. Rey said, "We'll ask you not to worry about the fact that this is a simulation. We are here to learn and then we will depart." Rey placed one hand on Tyron's head and her other hand on the end of his erection and she told him, "I understand how you obtained negative mass hierions from a species of the Phari Network, the Vef-Yulir, but we recently visited Sogdian where Retz told us to come here and visit your laboratory. We want to know how you learned to use the Vef-Yulir like a hierion probe and how you were able to begin extracting femtozoans from human test subjects."

Tyron could telepathically sense that like Lyza, Rey was a powerful telepath. However, while he had some ability to receive telepathic signals, Rey's mind was opaque to him. He asked Rey, "Why should I tell you anything?"

Lyza moved close to Rey and placed both of her hands on Rey's head. She asked, "What are you? I sense a robot mind pattern, but also a human pattern... are you mimicking my mind pattern in order to link to me telepathically?"

Rey told Rylla, "There is something strange going on here. I..." She paused her probing of Tyron's memories and telepathically examined Lyza's mind. Rey announced, "She is another clone of Jheral Tinzy!"

Rylla nodded. "I suspected as much, just from her facial appearance, but look! She has four breasts, just like me." Rylla unzipped the top of her jumpsuit and showed Lyza her two rows of breasts.

Speaking to Rylla, Tyron commented, "And Lyza has two vaginas." He asked Rylla, "Do you?" Rey now had both of her hands on Tyron's erection. She formed synapex links to his nervous system and while sexually stimulating him, she examined the damage that had been done to his brain. That self-inflicted damage had turned him into a ruthless and obsessed man who had no compunction about working with Viole Falushe to make use of alien technology to develop human mind control techniques.

Then, another voice was heard, answering Tyron's question. "They are both from the future." What appeared to be a flashy redheaded woman came forward from the far side of the underground chamber. She added, "But sadly, poor Rylla was deprived of her allzaurish during her current mission on Earth."

Tyron asked the redhead, "Who are you and how did you get down here?"

"You can call me Irosh. I teleported myself into this chamber." Irosh stroked one of Lyza's cute lower breasts and commented, "I hope you found this body form and the sex hormones useful in captivating Tyron." Irosh turned to Rylla and noted, "And I see in your mind that you have used oxypathin to amplify your daughter's telepathic abilities."

Rylla held one of her lower breasts in her hand and said, "I've isolated and sequenced the oxypathin hormone. I'm trying to design even more potent activators of the oxypathin receptor that might alow amplification of human telepathic abilities."

Lyza (left), the secret agent
of Irosh the bumpha (right)

Irosh shook her head in wonder. "I suppose I should not be surprised that in the future, a few humans have been given access to Reality Simulation technology, but I have never viewed such a future Reality." For a moment, Irosh seemed to hesitate, then Irosh dissolved her clothing nanites and gave her torso the gaudy physical appearance of an Asterothrope female with four large breasts. For a moment she stroked and fondled her own erect nipples, then turned her attention back to the business at hand. Irosh explained, "It was I who provided Tyron with a Vef-Yulir and broke him free of the Bimanoid Interface. In the not too distant future, space elevator technology will be needed by the human settlers of Alastor Cluster. Now that negative mass hierions are known to humans and Tyron has built his anti-gravity machine, it is only a matter of time before space elevators will be constructed. I am satisfied."

Lyza reached out and stroked one of Irosh's big breasts. Lyza asked Irosh, "Can I now complete my mission?"

"Soon, my love." Irosh kissed one of Lyza's stiff nipples then explained, "I came here now because I hope Nyrtia will show herself. She must by now have viewed the future and be willing to concede the benefits of providing humans with space elevator technology."

Rey had continued to stroke Tyron's erection and now she was sucking on the hot glans of his penis. Tyron was quite desperate for an orgasm, but Rey seemed to be intentionally holding him just short of his sexual climax. He now reached out a hand and fondled Irosh's big top right breast and asked, "So are you ladies just going to display your beautiful bodies or is someone going to actually get laid?"

Irosh giggled and used her nanites to remove all the clothing from Tyron, Lyza, Rey and Rylla. She placed her hands on Tyron's big hot erection where Rey's hands were already expertly massaging the long hard shaft of his penis and said, "If a group orgasm trance is what it takes to get Nyrtia's attention, then I'm all for it."

Lyza commented, "There is serious penis shortage down here."

Irosh waved her hand and three of the alien Vef-Yulir appeared, one each right in front of Lyza, Rey and Rylla. These alien artificial life forms had been carefully programmed by Irosh. Now they instantly wrapped their furry appendages around the hips of the women and began stimulating their genitals. Rey abandoned her effort to understand Tyron's fractured brain circuits and now gave her full attention to the Vef-Yulir that had telepathically linked itself into her mind while sexually stimulating her genitals. 

Irosh helped Tyron slide his erection into her vagina. Almost at once, with his penis inside the tight and silky vagina of Irosh, Tyron began to ejaculate. He found himself caught up in a telepathic mind space where the Nyk were making plans with Irosh for their escape from PC23. Vaguely, Tyron wondered what advanced technologies might be obtained from the Nyk.

After some initial revulsion, Rylla began to enjoy what her Vef-Yulir was doing to her: stimulating both the stiff glans of her clitoris and the wet walls of her vagina. 

Now linked into a shared mind space with the others, Rylla was certain that Lyza was somehow related to Marda. She wondered: A clone? As her Vef-Yulir's expert attention to her clitoris quickly brought her to sweet sexual climax, Rylla entered into a shared orgasm trance and lost her capacity for normal rational thought.

With the Jehral femtozoan she was carrying, Rey felt her telepathic mind link not only to Lyza, but also Jym and Marda and... what? Another mind. Finally there was a name associated with the new mind pattern: Retya. Among all of the myriad of alien thoughts coming from the Vef-Yulir and the Kry, there were also images of cats and cat-like humanoids. Then Rey's mind pattern fully merged into the shared orgasm trance and she was lost to the intense sexual pleasure that Irosh had brought to everyone who was there inside PC23.

Later, after Tyron had dutifully and enthusiastically ejaculated into every available vagina there inside PC23, the lovers all laid there on the floor in a tangle of sweaty limbs. Tyron had finally collapsed and lay on his back and Lyza was riding his hot erection towards another orgasm. Rey and Rylla were playfully giving each other oral sex, but then Rey noticed that Irosh was gone. The Vef-Yulir were also gone, but not forgotten. Rey's vagina still tingled in a kind of after-sensation from the alien creature's amazing genital massage. Finally returning to normal consciousness, Rey popped both herself and Rylla out of the Asimov Reality Simulation and they landed back in the living room, on the floor behind where Eddy was at work on his computer. Hearing them land on the tile floor, he turned and gazed upon the naked bodies of Rey and Rylla. Rylla instantly got to her feet and went to find her daughter, Marda.

Rising to her feet, Rey covered herself with clothing nanites and told Eddy, "We met another bumpha... she calls herself Irosh."

Eddy had never heard of Irosh, but he was certain that there were bumpha in every Reality of Earth's Reality chain. He asked, "What did you learn about those femtozoans?"

Now Rey realized that during the orgy inside PC23, she had been stripped of the Jheral femtozoan. "Azynov inserted us into a Phari-built facility, deep under the surface of Myller's Planet. Irosh admitted to having provided Tyron Russ with the means to extract femtozoans from people and Retz was trained to re-program femtozoans on Myllyr's Planet." Still feeling a tingling sensation in her vagina from when the Vef-Yulir had been giving her sexual pleasure, Rey decided to leave out that part of the story.

"Amazing!" Eddy commented, "Even thousands of years later, humans of the Asimov Reality did not know how to program nanites."

Rey realized that Eddy would not stop asking questions until he knew everything. "Well, it was an artificial life-form called the Vef-Yulir that Irosh... well, I don't know how to describe it. Compelled? Programmed? It does not matter. Let's just say that the Vef-Yulir were a component of the Phari Network which the bumpha learned how to behaviorally program and control. Retz and Tyron knew nothing about nanite programming, but they got what they wanted from the Vef-Yulir, all provided by the bumpha. In my case, I got a mind altering orgasm."

Eddy laughed. "So, the mission to Myllyr's Planet was a success?"

Rey was thinking about the unusual telepathic Retya mind pattern that Rey had briefly felt during the group orgasm trance inside PC23 on Myllyr's Planet. She asked Eddy, "Do you know an alien species called the Felydyans?"

Eddy gave his head a shake. Just then, Zeta came into the living room with Tihri latched on to one of her breasts. "Welcome back, Rey." Zeta locked lips with Rey in a passionate kiss.

Eddy asked Zeta, "Do you know of the Felydyans?"

Zeta pulled her lips and tongue away from Rey and sat down in one of big easy chairs that was there in the living room and replied, "No. Are they part of the Phari Network?" Qyla the cat jumped up and laid down on an arm of the chair, close beside Tihri, who continued to nurse.

Now Rey realized what had happened to the Jheral femtozoan. Rylla muttered, "I did bring it back." Rey could now telepathically sense the Jheral femtozoan's mind pattern inside the cat!

Tihri (Tyhry) nanite programming.

Eddy asked, "Brought what?"

Rey moved to Qyla and scratched the cat's ears. "Qyla will make sure that Tihri knows about the Felydyans."

Zeta asked Rey, "What are you talking about?"

Rey had already turned to go find Anthony. She was still horny and convinced that Anthony could scratch the same itch that the Vef-Yulir had scratched in Rey's vagina. Heading off down the hallway, Rey muttered, "Tihri will understand, even if we can't." Rey knew that she had received information from the future, information that made no sense... yet.

Next: Part 5 of "The Cythyrya Investigation".

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