Telekinetic Arms Race

An X clone.

Below on this page is Part 3 of a science fiction story called "The Mystery of the Missing Motor Neurons". For this story, I transformed Final Reality science fiction story writers Robert and Patricia Fanthorpe into their analogues in a previous Reality of Time, Robyn and Patryk. I imagine that the pace of technological progress in the Ekcolir Reality was somewhat faster than here in the Final Reality due to Interventionist agents who were preparing Earth for First Contact with space aliens in the 1950s.

When I published Part 1 of "The Mystery of the Missing Motor Neurons" to this blog, I was struggling to keep track of all the many story characters who were "copies" of Marda and Tyhry. Robyn Fynthryp is an "A clone", a copy of Marda, as is Rytya, a woman from 20,000 years in Robyn's future. This allows Robyn to telepathically obtain information from the future via the Sedron Time Stream.

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In Part 2 of "The Mystery of the Missing Motor Neurons", Robyn is struggling to understand why knowledge of telekinesis is suppressed. She is taken into the Reality Simulation System and shown how Crimson Cloukey "misused" her telekinetic ability. Crimson was an X-clone and served as an Interventionist agent stationed on Earth, tasked with preparing Earth for First Contact with the alien Fru'wu. Crimson Cloukey is the Ekcolir Reality analogue of Final Reality science fiction story teller Charles Cloukey.

Crimson Cloukey was mentioned in another story, The Cythyrya Investigation. "The Mystery of the Missing Motor Neurons" can be viewed as a kind of follow-on story for The Cythyrya Investigation, but "The Mystery of the Missing Motor Neurons" is intended to be a stand-alone story that makes sense even for readers who have never read The Cythyrya Investigation.

Now, in Part 3 of "The Mystery of the Missing Motor Neurons" (below), the replicoid of Isaac Asimov is taken into the Reality Simulation System and shown how telekinesis was used in the Foundation Reality after the formation of Galaxia.

Part 3 of "The Mystery of the Missing Motor Neurons" (Part 1)(Part 2)

Tyhry and Anthony.

Asimov and Delpha arrived on a quiet planet in the Foundation Reality Simulation at a time when the Galaxia group mind was complete and functional. Asimov looked around at the sky and the rolling hills and asked, "Where are we. This does not look like Earth."

Delpha explained, "This is Tyhry's planet. She's made it resemble Earth, but the terraforming project is a long-term effort that may take another 10,000 years. Let's go inside." Delpha gestured towards a small glowing platform that was partly over-grown by grass.

Delpha put her arms around Asimov and held him close against her body. The platform sank into the ground and they descended about 100 feet before coming to rest inside a well-lit cavern. Asimov could now hear strange music in the distance, what sounded like an alien band practicing. Delpha released Asimov and led the way through an archway and into Tyhry's workshop. Delpha called to Tyhry, "I'm back!"

Tyhry in the age of Galaxia.

Tyhry and a man were playing a melody that Asimov had never heard before. Tyhry was holding what looked like a fairly conventional string instrument, but floating in the air above the seated man was a strange musical instrument that looked more like a laser blaster than a musical instrument. There was also an electronic keyboard floating in the air and the man was playing a wind instrument. Asimov could tell that the two floating instruments were playing, even with nobody touching them. Fifteen or twenty seconds passed before they finished the complex song and only then did Tyhry turn and gaze upon Asimov. "Nice to meet you again, Isaac." From the perspective of Tyhry, she and this version of Isaac had met at Observer base some 20,000 years in the past. She set handed her musical instrument to the man who also gathered up the two floating instruments and then departed from the room.

Asimov stepped forward and took hold of Tyhry's hand. A synapex link formed and Tyhry began sending a stream of information directly into Asimov's nervous system, explaining the nature of the music that she had been playing and she identified her partner in music as Anthony, the probot. Tyhry was also pulling information from Asimov's mind by means of both her telepathic ability and the synapex link. Tyhry told Asimov, "Telekinesis has become popular here in this Reality." Asimov now understood that Tyhry and Anthony had each been playing two instruments, one each by means of telekinesis. Tyhry turned her gaze to 'Delpha' and asked, "Manny?"

Manny altered her body form from that of Delpha the kac'hin to the form that Tyhry was long accustomed to seeing, a tall blond woman with amazing nanite-generated hair. "Yes, it is me. Who else would be dropping in on you here at your secret hiding place? Couldn't you find a more remote planet? This is half way to Andromeda."

Tyhry shrugged. "I do have some friends with me, you know. I don't get lonely here." Tyhry turned her head back towards Isaac so she should gaze into Asimov's eyes. "Lately I do spend most of my time here, monitoring the behavior of my tribe of test subjects."

Isaac was looking at Manny and watching her nanite-generated hair as it moved around her head like a living creature swimming through the air. Asimov now had infites in his brain from both Tyhry and Manny, so he had no need to ask about Manny's game of pretending to be Delpha when she was visiting Grean. Tyhry offered Asimov food or drink. Then noting that Asimov was rather sexually aroused, Tyhry politely suggested that they engage in some three-way sexplay. Tyhry told Manny, "If Isaac got an orgasm or two then maybe he'd actually pay attention to what I have to say about telekinesis."

Asimov said, "I feel you inside my mind, providing me with information about galactic history for the past 50,000 years. Can't you also use your infites to take the edge off of my sexual response to you two beautiful women."

Manny replied, "Remember, Isaac, both Tyhry and I are ancient artificial life-forms using these body forms simply because we enjoy trying to please each-other with beautiful gifts. Tyhry and I have been lovers for 20,000 years, so you must expect us to be a bit wild on those occasions when we are together. In your case, not manipulating your sexual responses is actually important to us, and a good lesson to help you understand why I terminated Galaxia and liberated Humanity from Daneel's absurd social experiment."

 Asimov told Tyhry, "I'm quite eager to hear what you can tell me, but why don't you serve coffee and we can sit and relax while we chat."

Tyhry released Asimov's hand and led the way out of her research laboratory and through a doorway into her living quarters where Anthony was setting out cups of coffee. Asimov seated himself on one side of a triangular table and tasted a small pastry that he had grabbed from a platter at the center of the table.

Tyhry sat across the table from Asimov and did not seem to care that her genitals were visible to Asimov as she sat there with her legs spread and with the short hem of her little dress having ridden up around her hips. When Asimov finally got his mind off of Tyhry's pink labia, he noticed that Tyhry was saying, "It was a design feature of Galaxia that people from all across the galaxy would be telepathically linked by means of hierion-based signals passing almost instantly through the Hierion Domain. That made the spread of telekinesis very rapid, with deleterious effects on galactic society."

Asimov set down his coffee cup and looked across the table at Manny. He still found it difficult to think of her as a component part of Many Sails, a sentient spaceship. "So, we are inside a simulation of the Foundation Reality, after Galaxia was completed?"

Manny replied, "Yes, but this Reality was superseded by the Ekcolir Reality where Nyrtia, Daneel and the other positronic robots of Earth were not allowed to shape the Space Age. The only reason the Foundation Reality was remembered by anyone in the Final Reality was because you wrote about it in your science fiction stories."

Tyhry the X clone.

Tyhry noted, "And my father was obsessed with your stories, Dr. Asimov. That is how I first became aware of the Foundation and Galaxia. I'm here studying the problems that arise from allowing humans to have access to telekinesis." Tyhry was from the Final Reality, but Manny had arranged for Isaac to meet her inside this on-going simulation of the far future of the Foundation Reality. Tyhry told Isaac, "I'm glad that you have read 'The Galaxiad' which provides a good snapshot of galactic civilization shortly before the completion of Galaxia."

Asimov nodded. "I've had the chance to read many amazing stories at the Writers Block. I only wish I had the ability to obtain information directly from the future by way of the Sedron Time Stream, but that is not one of my abilities. So I'm dependent on others for information about the future."

Tyhry asked Manny, "Given his interest in history, both past and future, why did you never give Isaac free access to the Reality Simulation System?"

Manny explained, "Every advanced technology can cause problems. Due to temporal paradoxes, I could not share access to the Reality Simulation System with humans until the Final Reality, after the Huaoshy ended all further time travel.

Tyhry told Asimov, "Anytime Manny does not want to do something, she cries 'temporal paradox!' Tyhry asked Manny, "Is that why you exiled poor Georgy to Observer Base?"

Asimov asked, "Georgy?"

The discovery of antigravity hierions.

"In the Final Reality, she discovered a negative mass hierion... before Manny wanted negative mass to be discovered. So that discovery was covered-up and Georgy was exiled from Earth."

Manny told Tyhry, "Imagine the chaos had Georgy's discovery been published? Later, when you learned how to work with programmable femtobots that allowed you to shift negative mass hierions into and out of the Hierion Domain, you contented yourself to make a flying car. Had you dabbled in telekinesis, I never would have let you know about negative mass hierions. Your mother and I kept you well supplied with vibrating sex toys, so you never had much motivation to develop telekinesis."

Anthony was there, waiting and watching and ready to fetch more coffee. Now he said, "Tyhry did wonder about the mechanism by which I made my tongue and penis vibrate so as to efficiently provide her with orgasms, but I used my telepathic ability to prevent her from thinking about telekinesis."

Asimov asked, "What is the link between negative mass hierions and vibrating sex toys?"

Tyhry explained, "A negative mass particle experiences gravitational and inertial forces opposite to normal matter." Tyhry held up her hand. "If I push a normal object, it accelerates in the direction I push. If I push a negative mass object, it accelerates toward me, not away."

Asimov tried to visualize it. "So if you had a positive mass object and a negative mass object together..."

"They would spontaneously accelerate together—the positive mass chasing the negative mass, the negative mass fleeing backward into the positive mass. Under the right conditions, this creates what we could call a runaway motion effect."

Asimov whistled. "And femtobots can manipulate these negative mass hierions?"

Tyhry nodded. "Some special advanced femtobots, what are known as kinites. By rapidly shifting negative mass hierions between the Hadron Domain and the Hierion Domain, a programmable femtobot can effectively change its own inertial properties. It can make itself effectively massless, allowing it to be moved by minimal forces. More importantly, by sending femtobots into a nearby object, you can manipulate the inertial properties of nearby matter."

"That's telekinesis," Asimov said slowly. "If you have femtobots in your body, you could self-levitate. Send invisibly small femtobots into a target and you can manipulate the mass of objects around you..."

Tyhry told Asimov, "You can move things without touching them. Manny is doing that to my clitoris right now and I'm about ready to experience an orgasm." 

Asimov could not resist another glance at Tyhry's crotch. "My word! You have a penis?"

Tyhry rubbed the big glans of her Neanderthal-style clitoris between to fingers. "I have gene patterns that code for a big clitoris."

Manny explained, "The Neanderthal women had the ability to constantly self-stimulate their own genitals. That was part of Neanderthal-style telepathy."

Asimov asked Tyhry, "You have Neanderthal genes?"

"My mother provided me with some useful Neanderthal gene patterns. I was born with a big clitoris and Manny knows just how to stimulate it with her nanites." Tyhry stopped talking while she experienced a sweet orgasm.

Manny told Asimov, "I could provide you with your own orgasm if you like."

Asimov managed to pull his eyes away from the big pink glans of Tyhry's clitoris. "Let's try to stay on task."

Manny, Isaac and Tyhry.

Manny shrugged. "I tried to prevent knowledge of telekinesis from spreading, but the techniques got out. Hierion matter can be used to make small and convenient fusion power sources and once that technology is in hand, it is easy for anyone with a femtobot endosymbiont to develop telekinetic abilities."

Tyhry was recovering from her orgasm. With a trembling voice she said, "A femtobot replicoid —one of the bumpha's operatives— accidentally discovered a simple form of telekinetic capability while trying to develop advanced fusion reactor materials. Once the principle was understood, the knowledge spread through the Galaxia collective mind."

Asimov asked, "The spread of telekinesis through the human population of Galaxia was triggered by Manny?"

Manny explained, "I took a risk. I wanted to provide humans with a means to resist Galaxia. A significant fraction of the human population resisted the formation of Galaxia, but they were subjected to increasing telepathic meddling and inducement to join the collective mind. I provided the resistance movement with telekinesis." 

Tyhry added, "That turned the entire galaxy into a vast laboratory for the development of applications of telekinesis. That's why I'm here, studying how people use telekinesis. I believe that if the proper control mechanisms are put in place then limited forms of telekinesis can be allowed in human society."

Manny chuckled. "I don't agree."

Tyhry and Manny

Tyhry told Asimov, "Which is why I have to come here, inside the Reality Simulation System. Manny won't let me share telekinesis with the people of Earth."

"I forgot what you once told me..." Asimov asked Tyhry, "What year of the Final Reality are you from?"

"I was born in the early 2000s, but I entered this Galaxia simulation from the year 22465. So you see, Isaac, it has been 20,000 years of me having the ability to use my telekinetic abilities while other humans are deprived of this useful technology."

Asimov asked Manny, "So you will never allow humans to develop a society that includes the everyday use of telekinesis?"

Manny replied, "Never? With Daneel at work in the Foundation Reality, creating Galaxia where humans were under strict behavioral control, I thought I could give a human minority population access to telekinesis. However, it became another endless war, like the Time Travel War. Daneel would not relent in his effort to make every human join the Galaxia collective."

Tyhry said, "Of course, it is the fact that the pek are a threat to Humanity that keeps Dannel and Nyrtia at work against the resistance movement."

Manny told Asimov, "I thought the resistance might use telekinesis to access the Hierion Domain and put an end to Nyrtia's obsessive effort to defend the galaxy against the pek. However, Nyrtia got assistance form the Phari, making her the master of the Hierion Domain."

Manny, Isaac and Tyhry inside
the Foundation Reality Simulation.

Tyhry laughed. "Manny has Phari envy. She can't stand it that Nyrtia knows more about the Hierion Domain than she does."

Manny admitted, "It is humbling. For billions of years the Huaoshy ignored the Hierion Domain and became masters of the Sedron Domain. Sometimes I wonder if it will always remain like this, with Nyrtia acting from her strategic position inside the Hierion Domain, endlessly interfering with my efforts to help Humanity."

Tyhry noted, "Nyrtia also wants to help humans. You two just don't know how to get along. Instead, you both keep pursuing your own agendas."

"Well, in my own defense, I did not foresee Daneel easing the behavioral constraints on the people of Galaxia." Manny was gazing intently at Asimov. "I should have learned from you, Isaac."

"What do you mean? Until today, I'd never viewed telekinesis as anything more than a fun science fiction plot."

"You wrote about it in your robot novels, Isaac. The Spacers altered the Laws of Robotics, defining Earthlings as being non-human and exempt from First Law protection. Daneel did the same for Galaxia, excluding rebels who refused to join the Galaxia collective from First Law protections. The members of Galaxia had special femtobot endosymbionts that allowed for the Galaxia group mind to function. Anyone not linked in to the telepathic collective was deemed non-human."

Tyhry told Asimov, "Hence, my experiments on this planet. I'm creating a new human society where humans are homogeneous and allowed to have limited telekinetic powers. Love is the key control principle. For my experimental society, you can only place kinites into someone or something who you love."

"Kinites? I don't really understand that term you are using."

"That is just the term that I use to refer to femtobots that can rapidly shift negative mass hierions in and out of the Hierion Domain." Tyhry had finally lost her clitorial erection and she stopped playing with her genitals. Asimov was rather uncomfortable, his semi-erect penis painfully confined in his pants. Believing that Tyhry had stopped sexually stimulating herself, he jokingly asked Tyhry, "In your model telekinetic society, are people free to use telekinesis for sexual pleasure?"

"Of course. Sex is central to tryp'At society."

"Asimov asked, "What do you mean, 'tryp'At'?"

Tyhry reached across the table and held out her hand towards Asimov. "Let's link up. It will make it easier for me to explain what it means to be tryp'At."

Asimov took hold of Tyhry's hand and soon his nervous system was directly connected to Tyhry's. She explained, "We are both femtobot replicoids, so I can educate you quickly by way of our synapex link." Asimov felt his mind filling with understanding of the telepathic human variant known as the tryp'At.

After a minute of learning about the tryp'At, Asimov blurted out, "Tyhry, you have four breasts and two vaginas?"

"And a penis. That is normal normal tryp'At body structure. Of course, growing up on Earth I was deprived of my penis and I was disguised as a girl. For today, I took on my original body form, the one that was allowed to develop on Earth when I was a child. However..." Tyhry shifted her femtobot components and took on her tryp'At body form. "This is my genetic form."

Asimov was visually inspecting Tyhry's four breasts which were there in front of him. "You have a population of tryp'At here on this planet?"

"Yes, I do."

Asimov was sorting through the artificial memories that Tyhry had shared with him. "They are all your descendants?"

"Mostly. Some are copies of me, acting to coordinate the telekinesis experiment." The walls of the room came alive with a video image showing the central square of the tryp'At village. Asimov could see four-breasted tryp'At walking and going about their daily lives.

Asimov considered a society of tryp'At with telekinetic abilities. "I'm trying to understand the social system you have designed. What could someone actually do with their telekinetic ability?"

Tyhry explained, "First, you already know the use of telekinesis for the production of sexual pleasure. Sex is fundamental to the tryp'At lifestyle and telekinesis is used constantly for sexual purposes."

"Constantly?"

"Constantly. For normal tryp'At brain function, constant sexual pleasure is required."

An X clone in human form.

Asimov mused, "It sounds wonderful. Does anyone get any work done?"

"Most work is done telekinetically. Exactly what people do depends on their femtobot endosymbionts and how sophisticated their neural interface is. These tryp'At are mostly biological, but their upper motor neurons are all replaced by femtobots." Tyhry stood and walked to the wall. She pointed at two tryp'At who were engaging in sex-play, one of them effortlessly bouncing up and down on the other's erect penis in a graceful display of self-levitation. "An individual tryp'At with standard femtobot endosymbiont might lift and manipulate objects up to a few hundred kilograms with precision. That alone is formidable—you could even kill someone by telekinetically crushing their throat or stopping their heart from beating. However, all of these people have a femtobot endosymbiont that only deploys kinites into a person who is loved. Deeply loved. Thus, it becomes impossibly to use telekinesis to harm others."

Tyhry cupped her two lower breasts in her hands and rubbed her erect nipples. "Galaxia members, linked through their collective consciousness, can coordinate their telekinetic abilities. Imagine a million minds working in perfect synchronization, each using their femtobot endosymbionts to manipulate kinites that have been deployed at specific coordinates... say inside the bodies of rebels, anyone who resists joining the Galaxia group mind. They would be a formidable source of pressure on those rebels, forcing the rebels to defend themselves. Thus, the galaxy now is divided into separate clusters of habitable planets: those occupied by members of Galaxia and other worlds controlled by the rebels."

Manny told Asimov, "Once relocated to worlds that were not Galaxia-controlled, the resisters, naturally, developed telekinetic countermeasures. They learned to use telekinesis defensively—creating barriers by manipulating electromagnetic fields, disrupting the hierion particles that enabled Galaxia's technology-assisted telepathy. The galaxy is now like Swiss cheese with Galaxia cheese and rebel holes."

The tryp'At phenotype.

On the video display, the couple ended their public sexplay session and went on their way. Tyhry stopped playing with her breasts and returned to her seat. Asimov could see that Tyhry's penis was now out of its abdominal sheath and fully erect. Manny reached out across the little triangular table and took hold of the tip of Tyhry's penis. "The Telekinetic Arms Race continues, with both sides developing ever more sophisticated techniques."

Manny commented, "Sometimes I simply prefer old fashioned methods." She began to vigorously slide Tyhry's foreskin back and forth over the glistening head of her penis.

Tyhry muttered, "Excuse us." Tyhry proceeded to ravish Manny. Manny's chair transformed into a platform that facilitated sexplay. Asimov got a fairly good view of Tyhry's back vagina while she rode Manny to a climax. After ejaculating into Manny's vagina, Tyhry sat up and Manny continued bouncing up and down, sliding the full length of Tyhry's erection in and out of her hot wet vagina. Tyhry told Asimov, "I do have two vaginas if you would like to join in our sexplay."

Asimov shook his head. "I'll have to explain everything I do here to Mary."

Tyhry suggested, "Bring your girl Mary into this simulation. I'll ravish her and then you won't feel so bad about having ravished me."

Manny and Tyhry

Asimov laughed. "That kind of logic might work for a tryp'At, but regular humans have a thing called jealousy. Even if you gave Mary a spectacular orgasm, she's still be lamenting any orgasm I gave to you."

Tyhry shook her head and again ejaculated. Manny stood up and watched the great spurts of tryp'At semen that shot up from Tyhry's penis. Anthony used his nanites to wipe up the semen. Manny took Asimov by the hand and pulled him to his feet. She patted his bulging penis where it made a big lump in his pants. "Well, if we can't get you to play with us, I'll take you back to Observer Base and your beloved Mary."

Asimov found himself back inside Observer Base, just outside on the Writers Block. He found Mary still in the Grand Rotunda. Mary was now flushed and sitting with her legs spread. Asimov announced, "I'm back." He sat down across the little table from Mary.

Artep fluttered into view, emerging from under the table. Artep was naked and glistening with a coating of Mary's vaginal secretions. Asimov realized that Artep had been functioning as a living vibrator to give Mary a vaginal orgasm. Mary told Artep, "Thank you for the orgasm, that was amazing."

Asimov took Mary's hand and asked, "Is it my turn?"

Artep went off in search of Robyn, calling, "See you later!" As she flew off.

Mary took Isaac by the hand and they strolled towards their apartment. "Did Robyn and Grean get this telekinesis business ironed out?"

Asimov shrugged. "We'll see. My guess is that the sy'Paz of Seelie are the only residents of Observer Base who Manny trusts with telekinesis."

Mary asked, "What about Tyhry?"

"She does not count as resident, she only drops by for an occasional visit."

"Well, I'm glad she does, I love what she can do with both her tongue and her penis."

Once back in their apartment, Asimov soon had himself inside Mary's hot vagina. After a long kiss he told Mary, "Maybe some day you'll invite me to join one of your play sessions with Tyhry."

"Never. I fear that if you got a taste of tryp'At sexplay, you'd lose interest in me."

"That's a risk we can't take." Asimov proceeded to pleasure Mary the old fashioned way, but he attempted to do his best imitation of a sy'Paz bounding around in her vagina while wondering if his femtobot endosymbiont was of the correct type to facilitate technology-assisted telekinesis.

Greatly enjoying the feeling of Asimov's penis bouncing around inside her vagina, Mary asked, "Wow how are you doing that?"

Asimov speculated, "I got a bunch of infites from Manny today. Maybe she gave me... gave you... a small gift."

"That does not feel small to me? What's this about Manny?"

And so while answering Mary's question, Asimov was forced to tell Mary about all he had seen during his excursion inside the Foundation Reality Simulator. He never did learn exactly what Manny had done to his penis and his motor neurons, but Mary had no complaints.

______The End_____

Related Reading: an older story about telekinesis.

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