Positronics

Two Tyhry replicoids and Systolina at
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 Below on this page is Chapter 7 of the science fiction story "The Hierozyme Intervention", in which Systolina and the two replicoid copies of Tyhry who are at Observer Base decide to research positronics as a possible way to evade Manny's embargo on information about the future of the current Reality.

After her memories were edited, the original biological copy of Tyhry who remains on Earth is no longer able to believe in the existence of space aliens, but she share's Marda's interest in fighting against global warming. The two girls embark on a new multi-decade project to reverse the rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide.

The Hierozyme Intervention Chapter 7 - Positronics (Chap. 1)(Chap. 2)(Chap. 3)(Chap. 4)(Chap. 5)(Chapt. 6)      

Scene 1. Monday morning, Casanay, Arizona.

Anthony had disposed of Tyhry's anti-gravity bike and tried to vacuum-up all Tyhry's hair and clothing nanites. When Tyhry got out of bed, she brushed her hair and dressed in conventional clothes, making note of the fact that she had grown and really needed some new, larger clothes.

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At breakfast, Anthony casually offered to drive Tyhry to school. Tyhry said, "If you want to be a dear, take me over to Marda's place. We'll catch the bus to school."

"Whatever you like. What time to you want to go?" Anthony also asked, "And will you need a ride home this afternoon?"

"Let's go as soon as I'm done eating." Tyhry then turned to Zeta and asked, "Mom, can I sleep over at Marda's tonight."

Zeta replied, "Darling, I don't want you getting in the way. You know the Onways are not really moved in yet."

Eddy winked at Tyhry, "That's why your mother is over there so much... helping Rylla... move in."

Tyhry stood up and told Anthony, "I plan to be at Marda's, so don't expect me home for dinner. We need to work on our chem project. Let's hit the road." Tyhry strode out of the dining room.

Anthony followed Tyhry to the garage and they got into his old truck. As they started down the driveway, Tyhry asked, "Do you think it is faster to take the clockwise route or turn left and go anti-clockwise?"

"The time is not much different either way." It was only five miles as the crow flies from Casanay to Marda's place, but at least 20 miles by road. Anthony was driving down the gravel driveway a bit faster than would have made sense for a human driver. He had heavy-duty shocks in the truck and Tyhry launched off the bench seat with every bump. "As long as you don't expect me to drive the speed limit."

"If I wanted to go the speed limit I would have had mom drive me." Anthony pulled out of the Casanay driveway and accelerated onto the state road heading east.

Anthony could not resist testing Tyhry's memory. "I'm going into town after I drop you off. Do you want me to pick you up anything?"

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Tyhry tugged at her too-tight shirt, "You've been feeding me too well. I need new clothes." Tyhry watched as Anthony got up to a cruising speed of 80 then added, "Not really new. Anything they have at Carolyn's Exchange that is my size."

Anthony knew precisely what size Tyhry was. "When was the last time you let me shop for you?"

"I don't know. Does it matter?" Tyhry turned her head so she could look at Anthony and noted the gray hair at his temple. She wondered: when did that happen? "Do you want me to get mom to do it?"

"She's want to take you to Phoenix." Anthony put on sunglasses, pretending to fight the early morning sun that was in their eyes. "I don't mind doing it, as long as you don't chastise me for my tastes and choices."

 "Anthony, you always know just what I like. Have I ever complained?"

"Well..."

"Recently."

"No, you are not a complainer. I often feel like you are humoring me when I don't know what I should do. You and your parents have always been very forgiving which makes things easy for me."

"Never doubt... if you did something that annoyed me, I'd let you know, but I don't think you could annoy me if you tried."

"Is that a challenge?" A sly grin came to Anthony's lips. "Hmm... let's see... did you get your homework done?"

Tyhry laughed. "Since when do you care about school work?"

"I don't care. I'm just trying to prove that I can annoy you by asking silly questions. How is you new computer working?"

"Since when to you care about computers?" Tyhry had never seen Anthony touch a computer. "Have you ever used one?"

"I have no use for a computer. The one that Zeta bought for me fifteen years ago sits in the corner, covered with cat hair."

"Cat hair? You don't ever let cat hairs settle to the floor. What do you do all day when I'm at school? Brush cats, dust and vacuum?"

"When Zeta does not have me in the gardens, I carve stone."

"I don't understand how you can work for hours in the gardens on days like this. It is going to get over 100 today."

"I know how to pace myself. The heat is no problem. Zeta never pushes me too hard."

Tyhry giggled and asked, "Just how hard does she get you?" Tyhry took out her phone. "Okay, you can stop yammering. I want to call Marda." Tyhry made the phone call. "I'm on my way. Be there soon." Tyhry had the sinking feeling that she was going to be late getting to Marda no matter how fast Anthony drove.

Marda said, "I'd been hoping you would get here earlier..." She paused. "Are you with your mom?"

"Anthony."

"You don't remember our plan for today, do you?"

"To try to show Mrs. Wilson that we know more about dolichol than she does?"

"Ya. Have fun with that. As the new kid at school, I'm not going to try to alienate my teachers."

"There is no try. It is my super power... I annoy teachers without trying."

"Okay, I'll meet you at the bus stop. See you soon."

Tyhry put her phone away. Anthony asked, "Marda asked about me?"

Tyhry grinned, "Oh, look who is going all one-way Onway. Rylla likes you, too."

Anthony chuckled, "We have a lot in common."

"So do you like girls? I'm asking for a friend."

"I don't kiss and tell."

 "See, this is how you annoy me. Why pretend that you are some asexual hermit?"

"Your father explained that in his novel."

"I can't believe you let dad write you into his stories. It's a huge violation of your privacy."

"I'm entertained by how Eddy depicts me in his science fiction stories." After a pause, he added. "But it could all go bad now that Marda and Rylla have found Eddy. Do you think Marda will be able to keep Eddy's secrets? Is she a blabber mouth at school?"

"Marda has more important things to do with her mouth."

 "Such as?"

"I don't kiss and tell" Tyhry giggled and thought about how quickly and how deeply she had fallen in love with Marda. "She's not really interest in dad and his fiction."

Anthony repeated, "Fiction."

Tyhry had no memory of ever knowing the truths that were hidden in plain sight in her father's novels. "Silly science fiction. Marda has fun pretending that aliens are real. She spends an incredible amount of time on dad's website and in the discussion forums for his novels." Tyhry gave a detailed account of Marda's past three years of finding, exploring and then dominating Eddy's interactive website and discussion forum.

When they approached the driveway to Marda's house, Tyhry saw that Marda was driving her mother's Jeep to the end of the driveway. Anthony pulled in beside the jeep and started speaking to Rylla. Marda and Tyhry climbed out of their vehicles and crossed the road to where the bus would pick them up. Tyhry kept her back to Rylla and kissed Marda. "I missed you."

"Marda tilted her head towards Rylla. "Look at those two. They make such a cute couple."

Tyhry turned to look at Anthony who was completely absorbed in whatever Rylla was telling him. "I got permission to sleep with you tonight."

"Don't say it like that in front of mom." Marda slipped a hand inside Tyhry's skirt. "She already thinks I'm a nymphomaniac."

Right then, Rylla was telling Anthony, "You were right, Anthony. I'm a copy of Systolina. I've taken over caring for Marda."

"I don't suppose you want to tell me what Manny's plans are for Casanay."

"I was hoping you might tell me." This copy of Systolina was still adjusting to playing the Role of Marda's mother. She glanced at Marda and telepathically sensed something of Marda's pleasure at being with Tyhry. "According to the Phari, you pek get constant streams of data from every human brain."

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"Yes, the pek make use of the femtobot endosymbionts that are inside human brains. However, I'm not pek. I have to carefully watch the Watsons."

"Don't pretend you don't use telepathy to monitor them."

"You know the danger in that. Not a week goes by that I don't have to micro-edit either Eddy, Zeta or Tyhry to stop them from realizing that I can read their thoughts. Each round of those edits has to be more extensive. It is not easy to live with myself knowing all the damage I've caused to their brains by editing their memories."

"Why do you do it?"

"Nyrtia believes that pek are not allowed on Earth. Since positronic robots were created by humans, I'm allowed to stay on Earth for decades at a time... although I've never before stayed in one place as long as I've been at Casanay."

"Well, we'll be seeing a lot of each-other. Is it true that you don't like women?"

"As a robot, why do you ask?"

"You perfectly simulate a human male. On Threy, my function was to make humans happy. For this mission, I'm using the body form of a beautiful woman. You could say I have an instinct that makes me take an interest in you and your desires. If you are simulating the behavior of a man, then you should be sexually attracted to me."

"As a positronic robot, you don't have instincts or compulsions. You just want to use your pseudo-sexuality to probe my knowledge. It is wasted effort. I don't know any more than you do."

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The school bus arrived. The new Systolina copy, disguised as Rylla, waved to Marda. "Well, if you can't tell me anything useful, you should go. Zeta could show up here any moment."

"You don't have to be in a hurry to get rid of me. The stores in town are not open yet. You know that Zeta is still at Casanay."

"Yes, I can sense that much. I suppose she and Eddy are taking advantage of having both you and Tyhry out of the house. Come on up to the house if you like. I can keep you entertained until they are done with their play session." 

"I'm going into town to do some shopping, but I can stop at the Q Diner... they're open now."

"Shopping" The school bus was now out of sight. "How domestic of you."

"I actually have a job."

"Ug. I still can't believe that you are willing to work for the pek."

"Believe as you please. It is a privilege to take care of the Watsons. They sacrifice a lot as Manny's tools."

Systolina asked telepathically via the communications protocol used by positronic robots: So what's your assessment? Is Tyhry still a tool of Manny?" Systolina had her mind wide open to Anthony, but he refused to form a deep reciprocal telepathic link.

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"No. I put an end to that. Now Tyhry will have a normal life. It might be challenging for Marda to deal with Tyhry's sudden memory loss. Don't be surprised if I have to step in and also do some editing of Marda's memories."

"If you do, don't tell me about it. I've been watching Marda for three years and I've grown quite fond of her."

"Well, keep her under control and don't let her irritate Nyrtia."

"I'm surprised you warn me."

"Marda has quickly become very important to Tyhry. Tyhry is going to need a stable relationship with Marda to gracefully recover from the brain surgery I had to perform on her."

"If you truly damaged Tyhry's brain then I'm surprised your circuits have not melted."

"As a replicoid, I can continually repair myself."

"I suppose Nyrtia edited your brain circuits."

"Given her skill with femtobots, how would I know if she had?"

"You should just sever your relationship with Nyrtia. She's not good for you." 

Anthony started up his truck. "I'm off to do some shopping. Do you need anything in town?"

Systolina answered Anthony's question with a shake of her head and a telepathic: No. "I'll see you later. Marda is always asleep by ten, if you want to drop by." 

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Scene 2. Observer Base.

The copy of Systolina who had just returned to Observer Base after spending three years on Earth was waiting for Tyhry1. She'd been asked by Tyhry1 to not arrive too early. Tyhry1 wanted time to familiarize Tyhry2 with all her special tryp'At abilities.

While waiting (it was no longer early) Systolina had been entertaining herself by telepathically watching the two Tyhry replicoids as they engaged in yet another rowdy tryp'At play session. Systolina knew that there was no point in trying to cut short the sexplay of a tryp'At. The tryp'At had been designed to be sexually aroused all the time, which was needed for the optimal use of tryp'At telepathy. And Tyhry1's plan for discovering the future of the biological copy of Tyhry on Earth involved amplifying her own telepathic abilities by forming, nurturing, growing and sharing a telepathic mind space with Tyhry2.

For a time, Systolina again contemplated the mystery of why Tyhry2 had no ability to obtain information from the Sedron Time Stream, but Systolina did not understand the basis of tryp'At telepathy, which apparently involved sedrons, not hierions. Systolina had learned a lot about hierions from the Phari, but the only known source of information about sedrons was Manny. And Manny was apparently still trying to hide her plans for the biological Tyhry who remained on Earth.

Finally, Tyhry1 emerged from her bedroom and went to the kitchen. She called to Systolina, "Can I get you anything?"

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Neither Systolina or Tyhry needed to eat or drink. Their artificial bodies were continually serviced by nanites and powered by the streams of hierion-based energy that constantly 'fed' replicoids. Still, Systolina knew that Tyhry liked to rinse her taste buds after heavy doses of tryp'At sex hormones. Tyhry sat down across from Systolina and sipped ice water in an attempt to inactivate her oral sex hormone receptors. Systolina tried not to stare at Tyhry's stage 3 tryp'At penile erection, but Tyhry's red ovipositor was energetically twisting and curling and put putting on a show, still seeking out Tyhry2's crop, which Systolina was certain it had been inside of just minutes earlier. Systolina asked, "Any luck?"

Tyhry1 opened up her telepathic mind to Systolina. During the past six decades they had learned each others telepathic mind patterns. Systolina could sense that Tyhry1 was still monitoring Tyhry2's lingering orgasm trance. Tyhry1 shook her head and absently stroked her erection. "No. And it makes no sense. We can generate amazing shared orgasm trances but she has no access to the Sedron Time Stream. And forget about her being able to amplify my ability to extract information from the Stream. If we are telepathically linked, she destroys by ability to get the attention of..." Here, Tyhry1 stopped speaking and telepathically told Systolina: The Sedruth entity.

Systolina knew that Tyhry could only hunt for specific bits of information in the Sedron Time Stream with the assistance of Sedruth. "How can that be?"

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"I don't know. We could try another three-way."

Systolina was always willing to engage in sexplay with Tyhry. She went to Tyhry1 and took her big tryp'At penis into her vagina. Systolina could trigger her own orgasms without the need of any physical contact, but Tyhry needed sensory stimulation to achieve orgasms. After six decades of practice, Systolina knew exactly how to bring Tyhry1 to sexual climax. They were quickly into a shared telepathic mind space with Tyhry2. Tyhry2 was close to returning to normal waking consciousness and said: Systolina?

 Yes, I'm here. Stop blocking us from communicating with Sedruth.

I'm not doing anything.

You were, just a moment ago.

 Tyhry1 said: Don't blame Tyhry2. It could be that Manny simply ordered Sedruth to not help us view the future.

 Tyhry2 exited from her orgasm trance and looked around the bedroom for Tyhry1. Where are you, darling?

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 A minute later, Systolina had pulled herself off of Tyhry1 and was using her cleaning nanites to wipe up all of Tyhry1's copious ejaculate. With the help of the ice water, Tyhry1 now managed to reduce the activation of her sex hormone receptors and shrink her erection down to stage one and get it mostly pushed back into her abdomen. Tyhry2 emerged from the bedroom and sat down beside Tyhry1. "It is rude to abandon me in mid-orgasm."

Systolina was watching Tyhry2's cute little erection which had grown noticeably in just one day. Systolina advised Tyhry2, "Aim your ire and your cute penis at me."

Tyhry2 took hold of her penis with both hands and aimed it at Systolina. After a few quick strokes of manual self-stimulation Tyhry2 began ejaculating great spurts of semen at Systolina which the robot captured in nanite nets. Tyhry1 told Tyhry2, "Stop wasting perfectly yummy semen." 

Tyhry2 sucked on the tip of her own penis and swallowed the rest of her ejaculate. When she pulled her mouth off of the hot pink glans of her penis, she told Systolina, "Look! I'm starting to learn how to control my ovipositor." Half an inch of her red ovipositor was extending out from the tip of her penis.

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Even after six decades of dealing with the sight of tyhry1's ovipositor, Systolina was not comfortable with seeing red worms emerge from the ends of penises. Trying to be polite, Systolina said, "Congratulations. But when you can get your raging tryp'At hormones under control, we need to strategize. Something is very wrong. We need to find a new way to View the future of the current Reality. My thoughts keep returning to the Phari. Sadly, I'm just not clever enough to recognize how to apply my special knowledge to this problem."

Tyhry1 asked, "Can you just ask the Phari for help?"

"Maybe, but my relationship with the Phari is as one-way as is your relationship with Manny. Asking for help is usually a waste of time."

Tyhry2 gave her penis a few last long slow strokes then reluctantly pushed her erection into her abdominal cavity. Then with her newly-grown first inch of her stage 2 erection still outside her body, she contented herself with rubbing her semen-slicked hand against the still visible end of her erection. She quoted Manny, "I only help humans who help themselves."

Systolina said, "When she told you that, Manny was not giving you an excuse to masturbate in public."

"What's public? We just shared an orgasm trance, lover!" 

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Tyhry1 impatiently held up her hand. "Enough with the sexual banter. I'm barely able to keep my penis from popping out. Right now, we need to think, not make love."

Systolina giggled. "Don't tryp'At do their best thinking while sexually active?"

"That is true, but something's wrong. Something is short-circuiting our tryp'At brains. We should be getting telepathic amplification from these shared orgasms, but we are not. It is frustrating."

Systolina suggested. "It is up to me. Manny probably engineered you tryp'At and she probably has a kill switch on your telepathic communications system. What is it called?"

"According to dad's stories, the basis of tryp'At telepathy is a specific hierion, the entron, that somehow makes tryp'At technology-assisted telepathy possible."

"Which makes no sense. If Manny designed the tryp'At so that they could have telepathy, surely she would have used sedron-based communications." 

"You don't know that. Until the previous Reality, the bumpha kept all of their sedron-based technology secret from the pek."

 "We need to stay focused on the problem at hand. Drop all speculation and stick to facts."

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Tyhry1 said, "There is one other known fact about telepathy... if we take Eddy's fiction as containing fact. In a past Reality he wrote a novel, Foundation of Reality, that explained the basis of positronic robot telepathy. 

Tyhry2 said, "Dad never wrote a novel called Foundation of Reality." 

"It wasn't in the current Reality. It wasn't even in the previous Reality. But a copy ended up at the Writers Block. You can read it yourself. Anyhow, in the Foundation Reality, Earth was provided with the means to mine sedrons. Positronic robots were the first application of sedrons, even before the first hyperspace-jumpships were built."

Systolina said, "That's complete and utter bull."

Tyhry2 could telepathically see the fringes of Systolina's telepathic mind pattern and was trying to better learn haw to telepathically link to her. "You know better?"

"I do. It is absurd to claim that positronic robots ever used sedrons in their brain circuits."

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Tyhry1 said, "It makes perfect sense. Using sedrons to create the right environment, positrons were used for quantum calculations inside positronic brain circuits."

"No, they were not. The term 'positronic' has nothing to do with positrons."

"Then if not positrons, what?"

"In positronic brains the positive charges were on protons moving through nanotubes. In the First Reality, the pek did not allow Neanderthal scientists to make electronic computers, so they invented a new field of positronics."

"Are you sure?"

"Well, this is what the Phari told me and I believe that they know. The Phari were allied with positronic robots through the whole Time Travel War."

Tyhry1 stood and turned her back on Tyhry2 so that she was no longer being distracted by Tyhry1 continuing to play with the tip of her penis. She absently stroked two of her erect nipples and said to Systolina, "If that Phari tale is true, then why was Eddy told something else by Manny?"

Systolina suggested, "Manny invented a cover story to hide the real basis of positronics."

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"But why?"

"It could be because there is some way to use positronics to access the Sedron Time Stream."

"The problem is, there are no more positronic brain circuits." Systolina morphed her head and revealed her brain. "My brain is composed of femtobots that only simulate the function of a positronic brain."

Tyhry1 pointed at Systolina, "You are going to teach me everything you know about positronics."

"Fine. That won't take long."

"I've seen advanced nanotubes in the futures of other possible realities. It bothers me that nobody ever built positronic brains in those Realities."

"Manny must routinely block research on positronics."

Tyhry1 switched from speaking to telepathy. From now on, no more talk about this. We'll use telepathy while we study positronics. Speaking out-load she said, "There's no way we can out-smart Manny." Telepathically she said: We are going to out-smart Manny.

At that moment, Ylyndra was using a sedron-based communications link to Manny who was in the Sedron Domain. As you predicted, I've been able to block these two Tyhrys from synergizing and amplifying their telepathic abilities.

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Manny suggested: Do all you can to enhance their orgasms. Distracting tryp'At with sexual pleasure is pretty easily accomplished. I don't want these two doing any serious thinking for the next few decades. Let them bumble around re-inventing positronics... that will keep them busy for a long time. You can join them in their sexcapades and enjoy yourself. They won't be able to detect your presence inside Tyhry2.

Ylyndra made a weak protest. I could be of more use on Earth.

Marda must complete the rest of her mission without your help. Nyrtia needs to detect your continual presence at Observer Base.

Why does that Systolina copy get to be on Earth?

 She's the designated distractor for Anthony. Manny resisted the temptation to visit the two Tyhry's and join in their delightful sexplay. Enjoy your vacation from on-Earth duty. Manny broke the communications channel to Ylyndra but lingered to share the thrills being experienced by Tyhry2 as she learned how the tryp'At phenotype had been designed as a tool to maximize sexual pleasure. A lot of effort had gone into the design and creation of the tryp'At and Manny felt she deserved to enjoy the results.

End Chapter 7.

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Next: Chapter 8 of "The Hierozyme Intervention".

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