Pantechnyk

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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