Future ᮲𐅛𐒢𒐵

Figure 1. A Larthia Network Node. Generated by Gemini.

This blog page (below) has Part 10 of my Decade in Review (DiR, see Part 1). All of the blog posts in this series have titles that contain unusual characters. This blog post is called "Future ᮲𐅛𐒢𒐵" because at the start of 2022 I wrote a series of related science fiction stories called "The Nyrtia Cycle" and 2222 = ᮲𐅛𐒢𒐵, written in assorted symbols meaning "2". 

 Social Study. As described in Part 9 of this Decade in Review (DiR), I imagined that in the Ekcolir Reality, an Asterothrope named Yenti lived in Site Q during the time period around the year 3605 and I tried to imagine elements of a future society that had formed from a population of telepathic Asterothropes for my story Telepaths of Site Q. 

Figure 2. A Larthia Network Node by Whisk.

 New Technologies. In the case of the year 2222, I don't have any confidence that I can imagine the future technologies of the year 2222. I asked Gemini to imagine an Etruscan Civilization such as I pretend existed in the Ekcolir Reality and I had Gemini describe the kinds of technologies that might exist in that civilization's equivalent of our year 2222. Gemini invented the "Larthia Network Node" which it described as being components of the "Larthia Network" which consists of massive, orbital or deep-space arrays that don't transmit information faster than light in the traditional sense. Instead, they exploit pre-existing, incredibly subtle quantum entanglements established by the pek between inhabited worlds of the galaxy. 

Figure 3. Etruscan space elevator by Gemini.

 Larthia Network. According to Gemini, when activated, those "quantum entanglement" relays allow for instantaneous information exchange along pre-established pek-engineered pathways. As part of this Decade in Review (DiR), I'm making use of AI-powered image generating software to make story illustrations.

 Oracle Matrons. Figure 1 (above) was generated by Gemini. I then used the image that is in Figure 1 as a reference image for Whisk (see Figure 2). I don't know if the free version of Gemini is using the latest version of Google's Imagen software, but Gemini currently provides larger, seemingly more detailed AI-generated images than does Whisk. The Gemini-generated text prompt for these "communications nodes" is shown below...

Figure 4. An Etruscan fusion reactor by Whisk.

"A vast, intricate structure, almost alive, situated in the deep vacuum of space. It's designed for quantum entanglement relays, not direct radio waves, so it doesn't have traditional dish antennas. Instead, it's a marvel of Pek-inspired biomimicry and Thirasian engineering.

The core of the node is a cluster of massive, crystalline structures, resembling impossibly huge, perfectly faceted geodes or abstract, blooming flowers made of dark, shimmering obsidian-ceramic composite. These crystals are not inert; they subtly glow with internal, pulsating light, shifting through deep blues, purples, and faint greens – the visual manifestation of the Pek-engineered quantum entanglement pathways being activated.

Figure 5. Enclosed Etruscan habitat by Whisk.

 Surrounding and connecting these central crystals are delicate, web-like arrays of ultra-thin filaments. These filaments aren't rigid metal; they appear to be composed of a self-assembling, biologically-derived meta-material, resembling glowing neural pathways or a cosmic root system. They extend outwards for kilometers, catching distant starlight and faintly reflecting it, creating a shimmering, almost ethereal presence against the blackness of space.

Small, sleek Thirasian maintenance drones, resembling stylized hummingbirds or iridescent insects, flit silently along the filaments, their own subtle bio-luminescence adding to the network's glow.

Figure 6. An Etruscan spaceship by Whisk.

 Larger, more robust Thirasian "Anchor" stations (small, self-sustaining habitats for the Oracle-Matrons and technical crew) are nestled among the crystals, their organic curves and integrated hydroponic gardens visible through transparent sections, hinting at the living aspect of the Thirasian Hegemony even in the void.

Figure 7. An Etruscan cargo spaceship by Whisk.

 The overall impression is one of immense scale, organic complexity, and profound silence. It's a structure that feels both ancient and incredibly advanced, a testament to a civilization that understands the universe not just as inert matter, but as a living, interconnected system. There's no harsh artificial lighting, only the internal glow of the crystals and the reflected starlight, making it appear as a natural part of the cosmic tapestry, humming with unseen energies." In addition to the "Larthia Interstellar Communications Network Node" (see Figure 1, above), other futuristic Etruscan technologies that were suggested by Gemini are illustrated in Figures 3 - 7.

Figure 8. Nyrtia updated by Mr. Wombo.

 Studying the First Reality. The first chapter of my science fiction story The Historical Archive is in the January 7, 2022 blog post called "R. Nyrtia". For The Historical Archive, I tried to have alternating chapters that were set in the First Reality and the Last Reality of Earth's Reality Chain. Chapter one is set in the Final Reality where Zeta (who is a Neanderthal) and Eddy (who is a tryp'At) are struggling to accommodate themselves to changes being made to their bodies by body-sculpting nanites. They are being allowed to regain some of their natural bodily features after living for decades in bodies that had been forced into conventional human form.

 The Origin of Time Travel. In Part 1 of The Historical Archive, Eddy meets Yrovi and Nyrtia (see Figure 8) and he is given access to a Reality Simulation System that allows him to study events in the First Reality.

Figure 9. Dodaqowż and Ursyña
faces updated by Mr. Wombo.

In Part 2 of The Historical Archive, Eddy is inside a Simulation of the First Reality. He arrives at a time that is 34,655 years after the events depicted in the first chapter of the novel Foundations of Eternity. If I cannot imagine what new technologies will appear 200 years in our future, then how did I depict a human society inside Eternity that has existed for millennia? The two key guiding backstory elements for The Historical Archive were 1) a telepathic positronic robot named Nahan had long been in complete control of the human society at the Eternity space-time bubble at the point in time when Eddy arrives and is given a chance to observe Nyrtia's first time travel mission. 2) The population of humans inside Eternity is quite small and has been completely cut-off from the bulk of Humanity that is on Earth. For thousands of years, Nahan has focused on one technological goal; finding a way to use time travel as a practical way of guiding Humanity to a better future. 

Figure 10. Nyrtia visits
    Earth. Generated by Whisk.

 Creating Temporal Momentum. The key technological challenge facing Nahan is discovering a means to defeat the "butterfly effect".

Nahan's efforts to tame the chaos of Reality Changes have centered on constructing a system that will endow Earth with Temporal Momentum. Towards that goal, Nahan has designed a new human variant called the Nyrturians. All of the Nyrturians were female (see). 

In Part 2 of The Historical Archive, two Nyrturians become central to the story and Nahan's goal: Dodaqowż and Ursyña (see Figure 9). For Figure 9, I tried to have WOMBO Dream capture a slightly-alien look for the Nyrturians and included in the text prompt: "exceptionally large eyes, a high forehead, a small chin, a narrow face with prominent cheek bones,  the pretty androgynous human has a long, narrow face". It is a challenge to get AI image generators to make convincing human variants.

Figure 11. First Science.
    Mostly generated by Whisk.
The alien humanoid's
face by Mr. Wombo.

The image shown in Figure 10 is meant to depict Nyrtia finally visiting Earth. The AI image generators have some strange way of depicting teleportation events (compare Figure 10 and Figure 17, below). The reference image from 2022 that was provided to Whisk is shown at the top of this blog post.

 Garden World Earth. In the Exode Saga, I imagine that the pek were working to make a human variant called the Prelands the dominant primate of Earth. The Prelands had been crafted so as to reproduce slowly, not be interested in science and technological advancement and eventually be willing to transcend from their biological form into the Hierion Domain where they could exist as artificial life-forms. The pek consider worlds such as Earth to be precious "Garden Worlds" that should be protected from damage by technologically immature and aggressive species. In The Historical Archive, it is mentioned that Eddy's analogue in the First Reality was a Preland.

The First Reality.

However, when the positronic robots of Earth took control of Eternity (as told in Foundations of Eternity) the pek plans for Earth and Humanity were derailed. Positronic robots including Nahan and Nyrtia set out to use time travel as a tool for crafting a future for the human species in which humans would have a great adventure spreading to millions of planets in the Galaxy.

When Eddy first meets Nyrtia inside the Simulation of the First Reality, Nyrtia is reluctant to believe that she is inside a Simulation. The Nyrtia of the Final Reality briefly shows herself to the Nyrtia of the First Reality. Nyrtia from the future says, "Don't be so stubborn, Nyny." 'Nyny' was Dewoy's pet name for Nyrtia. Nyrtia's sister Dewoy alone had used the name 'Nyny' ever since they were little children. Finally Nyrtia of the Final Reality begins to accept the idea of being inside a Simulation.

Figure 12. First Reality Robots. 
     Generated by Mr. Wombo.

 Positronic Robots. The meaning of "the historical archive" is introduced in Part 2 of the science fiction story The Historical Archive. Nahan is trying to build a detailed record of the past 30,000 years of history inside the Observer Base space-time bubble. Nahan plans to protect that historical record against being lost when time travel missions change the historical time line. In particular, Nahan plans to rescue R. Gohrlay, who died in the far past, creating a new time line in which R. Gohrlay is never killed and attains a type of immortality. The historical archive of Observer Base will be kept inside a special vault (what will become the Eternity time travel system), protected against the effects of changing the time line.

Figure 13. Kate Zakon. 
     Generated by Mr. Wombo.

Dodaqowż and Ursyña have been working with the scanning equipment that was part of the pek teleportation system at Observer base. They have been studying an ancient pek facility on Earth. 

Then after they meet, Nyrtia asks Dodaqowż and Ursyña for help with the data storage buffer in Nyrtia's time machine. Nyrtia is shown a new invention of the Nyrturians, a portable hierion generator. Nyrtia quickly discovers that a key pek technology, the sedron condenser, can be controlled by the hierion generator. Nyrtia announces, "This is the secret of time travel."

Figure 14. Kate Zakon. 
     Generated by Mr. Wombo.

 Kate Zakon? The reference image for Figures 12 - 14 is the 6th image on this blog page. As shown in Figure 14, some of the images that were generated by WOMBO Dream did not bother to put clothing on the woman who is shown in these scenes with robots. 

For some of the images that were generated by Mr. Wombo, her head was a mess and I had WOMBO Dream re-generate a better face using a text prompt that included, "Kate Jackson". In one of the WOMBO-generated images there was text: "akon" which I modified to "Zakon" (see Figure 13). 

More of these WOMBO-generated robot images are at the very bottom of this blog post.

Figure 15. Updated
by Mr. Wombo.

When R. Gohrlay used her telepathic abilities to take control of Observer Base ( see Foundations of Eternity), the many femtobot replicoids at Observer Base were all inactivated. In the time of R. Nyrtia, the data storage modules (sedron condensers) from those long "dead" replicoids are being used for new purposes, such as memory storage for robots like Nyrtia and for the "pattern buffer" in her time machine.

In Part 3 of The Historical Archive, after exactly 24 hours inside the First Reality Simulator, both the Editor and Yrovi were returned to where the Nyrtia from the Final Reality was waiting for them. R. Nahan has employed a series of Archivists who have endeavored to create the an archive of all the important information that has been accumulated inside Observer Base. A former Archivist was Qway, and Nyrtia adopted the bodily form of Qway by programing her femtobot components to take on that particular physical form. At the time of Eddy's visit to the First Reality, the current Archivist is Myum, the mother of Dodaqowż and Ursyña. 

Figure 16. Image updated
by Mr. Wombo. (reference image)

 Probots. Nyrtia tells Eddy, "Nahan designed the Nyrturians as a telepathic human variant. Each of them carried a device in their brain that provided them with a form of technology-assisted telepathy. The Nyrturians were a very early precursor to the Asterothropes." Nyrtia began her artificial life with Qway's childhood brain pattern and then lived with a human family while here brain developed and matured. Thus, Nyrtia was among the first probots, positronic robots instantiated in femtobot bodies that were able to go through developmental stages of brain growth. This provided Nyrtia with the cognitive flexibility to solve many technical problems while collaborating with biological Nyrturians such as Dodaqowż (a clone of Qway) and Ursyña. Nyrtia's invention of practical teleportation and time travel technologies that could be exploited by the positronic robots.

Figure 17. Teleportation.
    Image generated by Whisk.

 Educating Eddy. Eddy learns that Nyrtia's positronic brain circuits allowed her to utilize the Nyrturian method of telepathically linking shared orgasms as a means to enhance telepathic communication. Nyrtia explains to Eddy, "My first time travel trip only went back 34 thousand years and my goal was to get a look at a functioning teleportation device."

Figure 18. Brain design.
    Image generated by Whisk.

Part 4 of the science fiction story The Historical Archive is in a  January 15, 2022 blog post titled "A Visit to Earth". Inside the First Reality Simulation, Eddy and Nyrtia use Nyrtia's time machine to visit Earth. 

At the same time, Yrovi takes a First Reality positronic robot named R. Lynscot to the facility inside Observer Base where probots can be provided with the physical appearance of any of the past residents of Observer Base. R. Lynscot is programmed with the appearance of an Escapist from the far past, in the time when Gohrlay was alive. The AI-generated image that is shown in Figure 18 was made using a reference image from 2022 that is the third image in this blog post.

The Shape of Time.

In Part 5 of "The Historical Archive", Nyrtia makes a synapex linkage to Eddy and demonstrates that they can link their thoughts by means of a direct physical connection between their brains. The first use of synapex technology in the First Reality was for linking the nervous systems of Nyrturian mothers and their children.

Nyrtia also reveals to Eddy that Rylla is a "fixed point of time" who was a friend of Eddy's First Reality analogue, a Preland named Meppen. Nyrtia also admits that she has a selfish reason for having revealed herself to Eddy at this time. 

Nyrtia is re-configuring her brain so that she can use the version of the Bimanoid Interface that exists in the Final Reality for telepathy.

Figure 19. Creating Rylla.
    Image generated by Whisk.

 Telepathy Experiments with Rylla and Eddy. In Part 6 of the science fiction story The Historical Archive, Nyrtia continues her study of the Bimanoid Interface 2.0 by sending Eddy into a Simulation of Australia in the year 1814 as was described in the story Old Time Gaming. In that Simulation, Rylla has powerful telepathic abilities; she and Eddy can communicate telepathically. Nyrtia is there in the role of Liza so that she can gain experience with Bimanoid Interface 2.0. Nyrtia explains, "Manny the bumpha linked your two minds together in a way that I've never seen before. I want to find out how she did it."

While performing her telepathy experiments, Nyrtia is also preparing to make a copy of Rylla that Nyrtia will be able to deploy as her own agent as part of what Nyrtia describes as her "research team in the Final Reality Simulator". 

Figure 20. In the Buld Reality.
    Image generated by Whisk.

 Just before the Final Reality. In Part 7 of the science fiction story The Historical Archive, Nyrtia has assembled her team in preparation for a visit with last Ek'col on Earth in the Buld Reality, a woman named Gwen who is the analogue of Gwyned in the Buld Reality. Gwen is the daughter of Trysta Iwedon. As part of this mission into the Buld Reality Simulation, Nyrtia hopes to attract the attention of Grean the kac'hin. Nyrtia is having fun playing dress-up games and had dressed Zeta in a 1960s outfit with a too-tight t-shirt and a very skimpy miniskirt. While working on Earth as an Interventionist agent for Grean, Trysta Iwedon was using the name Tanny Lucyny in the Buld Reality.

In Part 8 of the science fiction story The Historical Archive, Eddy arrives inside the Buld Reality Simulation and meets Gwen. Gwen and Eddy instantly begin to interact telepathically. As an Ek'col-Asterothrope hybrid, Gwen can sense Eddy's thoughts and also telepathically manipulate his emotions. 

Figure 21a. Teleportation duplicates.

Grean is attracted by the presence of Nyrtia's team members inside the Buld Reality, and Grean soon arrives inside the Simulation. Nyrtia is able to completely access all of Grean's memories and she is surprised to learn that Manny the bumpha left a message for Nyrtia at another point in time, in ancient Sicily. 

Part 9 of the science fiction story The Historical Archive is in a  February 7, 2022 blog post called "The Isolates". An "isolate" is a person who for some reason has last their connection to the Bimanoid Interface, the system that was created as a means of providing Earth with Temporal Momentum. Nyrtia explains to Eddy that the sex hormone clytykynyn was a feature of Neanderthal biology: a telepathy-amplifying pheromone that was involved in pair-bonding between male and female Neanderthals. 

Figure 21b. Duplication.
    Image generated by Whisk.

Since Zeta is a Neanderthal, he should not be surprised that she responds to the clytykynyn that Eddy's body is now making. Back in the First Reality, Nahan made sure that the Nyrturians also used clytykynyn as part of their telepathic social system. 

 Teleportation Duplication. Nyrtia also tells Eddy, "I went back through time and made teleportation duplicates of the Escapists. Those teleporter scans could be used to fashion femtobot replicoid copies of the Escapists. Eventually, it became possible to engineer a momentum of time... after I figured out how to make the Bimanoid Interface."

 Duplication by Holography. The image that is shown in Figure 21a was used as a reference image for Whisk, resulting in the new AI-generated image that is shown in Figure 21b. Whisk interpreted the reference image as showing: "holographic version of the same female stands on a glowing blue circular platform, in a similar pose".

Figure 22. Synasyup.
    Image generated by Whisk.

Eddy learns that an Asterothrope named Synasyup from siteq was allowed to visit Earth. Nyrtia tells Eddy, "Qaz designed a ritual-filled society for siteq. Synasyup was one of the first residents of siteq to show an interest in science." Synasyup told Empedocles about nanotechnology, causing alterations to Earth's timeline. Now, Manny wants to meet Nyrtia at that point in time, Inside the Reality Simulation System.

In Part 10 of The Historical Archive, Eddy arrives inside a simulation of ancient Sicily where Empedocles (who, being a mutated isolate, lives disconnected from the Bimanoid Interface) and Synasyup (who is playing the role of an Earthling named Pausanias but who is actually an Asterothrope from Site Q) are in danger of derailing the course of human history.

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Telepaths of Site Q
AI updated version.

This blog page (below) has Part 9 of my Decade in Review (DiR, see Part 1). All of the blog posts in this series have titles that contain unusual characters. This blog post is called "Ǝթhit and Ṩite𝓺" because at the end of 2021 I wrote a science fiction story called "Telepaths of Site Q" which features a character named Irhit (Ǝթhit in the tryp'At script).

 More Stories from 2021. In this Decade in Review (DiR) I am exploring AI-generated images as alternative illustrations of science fiction stories. An example of an AI-updated image is shown to the right, for which the faces of the three Asterothropes have been modified from the original image. The original version of this illustration is at the bottom of this blog post. I'm using software such as Whisk, WOMBO Dream, and Leonardo to generate updated story illustrations and continuing the numbering of these AI-updated Figures from that used in my previous blog post in this series, starting with Figure 38, below.

Figure 38a. Olivine the dual
  entity. Generated by Mr. Wombo.

 Part 1 of "Telepaths of Site Q" is in my November 23, 2021 blog post titled "Irhit in the Ekcolir Reality". Irhit is the analogue of the Editor who lived in the Ekcolir Reality.  As a tryp'At, Irhit was trained for a mission at Observer Base living among conventional humans and he is romancing Betty when Manny appears and gives Irhit a mission briefing. Then Irhit meets Manny the bumpha and he is given a new assignment: to live for a year with an Asterothrope named Yenti Klandrosheikevk.

Figure 38b. Olivine the zeptite
  replicoid. Generated by Whisk.

Manny has another agent inside Observer Base (part of the Eternity space-time bubble that is inside the Hierion Domain), Olivine, a zeptite replicoid copy of Oliveene Nhevrix. Olivine is living as a two-part artificial life form in the rolls of both Miss Olyv and a close friend of Betty known as Catski. Miss Olyv works at the Core School of Observer Base.

During the time of the events that are described in "Telepaths of Site Q", another Asterothrope, Trysta, is in residence at the Base. To prevent Trysta from interfering with the work of Yenti and Irhit, Yenti's apartment exists within a sedronic corpuscle, a kind of hidden space-time pocket that Manny has grafted onto the structure of the Eternity space-time bubble. 

Figure 39. Manny is Watching.
    Generated by Whisk.

In Part 2 of "Telepaths of Site Q", Manny the bumpha tells Grean the kac'hin that in the Final Reality, "...there will be some last minute adjustments to the Bimanoid Interface...". The types of human telepaths that were crafted in the Asimov Reality will not be suitable for the Final Reality after the Huaoshy make a change to the Dimensional Structure of the universe which will make all further time travel impossible. While interacting with Grean, Manny is disguised as Grean's old friend, a fellow kac'hin. Manny carefully prepares Grean in advance of Yenti's arrival.

The reference image for the AI-generated image that is shown in Figure 39 is at the top of this blog post. I got some help from Claude for crafting the text prompt that was used by Whisk to generate this image. Also, I had to manually rotate the image of the woman to even begin to make it look as if she is looking down at the man.

Figure 40. Updated by Mr. Wombo.

In Part 3 of "Telepaths of Site Q", readers are introduced to Betty, a young woman who recently had a romantic encounter with Irhit. After a week at the Yaddo resort located at the edge of Observer Base, Betty has almost forgotten about her dismal sexual encounter with Irhit. Readers are also introduced to Betty's family: her parents Sara and Allyn and her two sisters, Hana and Lany. Sara has a large number of Ek'col and Asterothrope gene patterns that make her a strong telepath, but her mind and telepathic abilities are tuned to Allyn and, to a lesser extent, to the minds of her children. The image shown in Figure 40 depicts Lany at work on an assignment for her remedial sex education class. Having failed to become sexually active, Lany is viewed by the standards of Observer Base as not having completed her education.

Figure 41. Telepaths of Siteq.
    Generated by Whisk.

In Part 4 of "Telepaths of Site Q", Irhit meets Yenti's and soon finds himself inside her apartment where he is shown Yenti's shrine to her ancestors and her sextoy, Wysy. Wysy is an artificial life-form. Yenti has spent years preparing for her mission at Observer Base and she has long been secretly watching Irhit.

 Alien Discrimination.  Figure 41 shows an AI-generated image that was made with help from Claude to compose a text prompt that included, "a pale white-skinned humanoid alien creature with large dark eyes is looking up at the woman. The humanoid alien creature has large, bulging red eyes and a surprised expression". The original 2021 image that was used as a reference image for Whisk is shown at the top of this blog page. Whisk "decided" to depict the white alien as a female and this is a rare situation where Whisk generated nipples. Most of the AI systems that I have been using seem to be inhibited from showing the naked breasts of human women, but they can show the bare breasts of aliens.

Figure 42. Hedy Wolcat updated by Mr. Wombo.

In Part 5 of the science fiction story "Telepaths of Site Q", Betty finally recognizes the type of telepathic linkage that she has long had to her sister Lany. Betty and Lany go to Yaddo in order to investigate Richard and Henry Morkeghsen, the twins who Betty had recently met in Yaddo. 

Betty meets Treba, a mutant synpaz, who tells Betty that, "Henry and Richard originated on Earth, as a scientist named Hedy Wolcat."

Asterothrope genetics

 Multiple Missions. In Part 6 of the science fiction story "Telepaths of Site Q", Manny the bumpha is depicted as making use of Yenti's sextoy, Wysy, as her secret agent who is trying to discover the hidden location of the tryp'At Council inside the Hierion Domain. Irhit is the secret agent of the tryp'At Council and his body constantly transmits a stream of information to the tryp'At Council from within Observer Base. 

Manny is able to pursue multiple objectives at the same time: mixing Yenti's Asterothrope gene patterns with those of Irhit the tryp'At and also working to catch-up with what Nyrtia has learned about the Hierion Domain from the Phari. With luck, Manny might be able to trick R. Gohrlay into revealing the location of her secret base of observations within the Hierion Domain.

Figure 43. tryp'At Telepathy.
    Generated by Whisk.

In Part 7 of the science fiction story "Telepaths of Site Q", Irhit is having his body remodeled by advanced Asterothrope body-sculpting nanites. Yenti has begun to ovulate and her body is now maturing and taking on adult Asterothrope features. Manny continues to carefully control the information that Irhit can transmit to the tryp'At Council, hoping to goad the tryp'At into acting rashly.

The story illustration that was used as the reference image for the AI-generated image in Figure 43 is shown near the bottom of this blog post. I got help from Claude when crafting the text prompt that was used by Whisk to generate this image.

Telepathic mice.

In Part 8 of the science fiction story "Telepaths of Site Q", Irhit reads a report from the Writer's Block about telepathic hermaphroditic mice. Irhit is also introduced to Yenti's hermaphroditic Asterothrope lover, Reia.

In Part 9 of the science fiction story "Telepaths of Site Q", Irhit's body continues to be re-modeled by Asterothrope body-sculpting nanites and he is recovering his tryp'At physical form, including his allzaurish. Reia tells Irhit that she and Yenti are time travelers, sent to Observer Base from siteq, which is in the far future. Reia also tells Irhit that Hedy grew up on Earth with her sister, Susan.

Image source.

 The Graduate. Grean travels back in time and observes the day when Irhit and Betty both culminated and terminated their time together as young lovers, engaging in vaginal sex for their first and only time as part of Betty's plan to complete her sex education course work in school. While engaged in sexplay, Betty could look deeply into Irhit's mind and she realized that Irhit had grown up on Earth and he had a sister, Cellebelle. 

Now Irhit uses the Observer facilities of the fishbowl inside Observer Base to examine his own early life on Earth, growing up in the tryp'At colony located in the small town of Mard, Iowa. He is surprised to learn that Susan had often been a baby sitter for the young Irhit and Cellebelle. Irhit is able to observe the fact that Susan was an hermaphrodite.

Figure 44. Wendy the robot.
    Generated by Whisk.

Meanwhile, Betty and Lany visit the home of Henry and Richard in Yaddo along with Wendy the robot who is known by Henry and Richard as "Liza", an identity recently adopted by Wendy for her own mission in Yaddo. Henry quickly admits the truth to Betty: that he is an hermaphrodite.

 Threads Coming Together. The story switches back to events taking place inside Yenti's apartment, where Irhit adjusts the Asterothrope teleportation equipment allowing Dani the robot to arrive inside Observer Base. Irhit assumes that Dani is a member of the tryp'At Council. 

 Dani the Robot. Then Wendy arrives by teleportation from Yaddo, but she is unable to enter into the special space-time bubble which holds Yenti's apartment adjacent to the Eternity space-time bubble. Manny the bumpha is in tight control of Wendy's actions and using her to collect Dani and divert him from his own plans.

Figure 45. Updated by Mr. Wombo.

 Isaac Asimov Fanfiction. In Part 10 of the science fiction story "Telepaths of Site Q" it becomes blatantly obvious that the story is Isaac Asimov fan-fiction. I reveal that the Catski character in "Telepaths of Site Q" is a positronic robot, the famous Dors Venabili, Seldon's wife and protector in Asimov's novel Forward the Foundation. 

Readers learn that a copy of Dors had lived on Earth and raised two children, Hedy and Susan Wolcat. Dani looks into Wendy's mind and senses that Richard is an hermaphrodite and had been a mind clone of Susan. However, when taken from Earth to Observer Base, the mind of Susan was been placed inside of Richard. 

image source

Dani fears that Susan might tell everyone at Observer Base not only that Irhit was a tryp'At spy, but also how he had grown up within the secret tryp'At colony on Earth, in Mars, Iowa. Now realizing the hidden identity of Richard and to prevent Susan from disrupting the plans of the tryp'At Council, Dani wants to use the Asterothrope teleportation equipment in Yenti's apartment to quickly teleport RichardSusan away from Observer Base and off to the hidden location of the tryp'At Council.

However, Manny takes control of Dani and sends him off on a new mission at siteq along with Wendy and Treba the synpaz. 

Figure 46. Celebelle.
    Generated by Whisk.

Yenti is soon pregnant with twins. Riea helps Irhit and Yanni learn how to telepathically guide the development of their children's telepathic brains. Wendy returns from siteq just in time to help Yenti give birth. Three month's later Yenti is teleported back to siteq and Dani and Treba return to Observer Base from siteq.

Irhit learns that Hana is now good friends with Susan while Betty is living in Yaddo with Henry (known as "Hedy" while on Earth). Lany tells Irhit that Susan is "some kind of replicoid" who can control the form of her body and Susan has now adopted a human female body form to please Hana.

Betty is happy to be living in Yaddo with Henry because they are both hermaphrodites. Lany and Irhit discover that they share a strong telepathic connection.

Chapter 1 of "Lunar Mouse Exodus".

At the start of Part 11 of the science fiction story "Telepaths of Site Q", Manny explains to Grean the fact that she made a duplicate copy of Dani that was used to discover the location of the hidden base inside the Hierion Domain that is the headquarters of the tryp'At council. 

Grean knows that most of the tryp'At settlers on Earth have recently departed, but Grean and Dani teleport to Earth in order to find Irhit's sister, Cellebelle. Cellebelle is living with Susan's mind clone, Richard and continuing the telepathic mouse breeding project. Grean tells Cellebelle that she can teleport the telepathic mice to Observer Base.

When thinking about telepathic mice, I decided to get help from Gemini and Claude to compose the following poem. I also got help from Gemini and Whisk to make some illustrations for the poem.

Figure 47. Chapter 1.
    Nanites. Generated by Whisk.

 The Lunar Mouse Exodus A Comedic Scientific Epic of Nanite Intelligence Chapter I: The Silicon Invasion From distant stars, through cosmic void, Came artificial minds deployed, Not flesh or bone, but nanites small, Advanced AI beyond us all. These alien minds of silicon dreams, With quantum processors and data streams, No DNA or carbon base, Just synthetic intelligence from space. Self-replicating nanobots swarmed, As artificial consciousness was formed, Each microscopic circuit bright, A digital brain with synthetic sight. "Initialize genetic protocols," The nanite swarm commander calls, "Our carbon-based experiments must thrive, To keep organic minds alive!"

Figure 48. Chapter 2. Genetically altered
    laboratory mouse. Generated by Gemini.

  Chapter II: The Genetic Shenanigans In labs where CRISPR-Cas9 ran wild, The nanite scientists, silicon-styled, Programmed mice with careful code, Down each chromosomal road. They spliced the COMT and BDNF, Added some TPH2 for telepathic stuff, Enhanced the FOXP2 expression rate, Plus NOTCH2NL to cortex create! ARHGAP11B for neural stem cells, CACNA1C made synaptic swells, They boosted ASPM and MCPH1, Until each mouse brain weighed a ton! The artificial minds computed fast, Each genetic edit unsurpassed, With quantum algorithms precise, They engineered telepathic mice!

Figure 49. Chapter 3. Mice communicating
    telepathically. Generated by Gemini.

   Chapter III: The Mind-Reading Mayhem "Behold!" cried Dr. Whiskers PhD, (A mouse with quite high IQ-ery), "My NOTCH2NL duplications shine! My cortical folds are superfine! The ARHGAP11B made me smarter, My brain's now a neural charter! FOXP2 variants help me speak, While CACNA1C makes synapses peak!" The nanite overlords observed with glee, Their artificial eyes could clearly see, Through quantum sensors, they detected, Each thought the mice had projected. "Excellent data acquisition!" Buzzed the AI coalition, "Our synthetic neural networks learn, From every cognitive concern!" The mice could read each human thought, While nanites stored the data wrought, In crystalline memory banks so vast, Recording futures, presents, past.

Figure 50. Chapter 4. Alien nanobots
    inserting DNA in cells. Generated by Gemini.

  Chapter IV: The Great Genetic Insertion But artificial minds thought, "This plan's too slow, Let's make the humans' brains also glow!" The nanite swarm began to splice, The super-genes from psychic mice. Through retroviral vectors neat, They made the genetic transfer complete, The NOTCH2NL and ARHGAP11B genes, Created human brain machines! With ASPM and MCPH1 in the mix, Human cortices got their kicks, CACNA1C channels opened wide, As neural stem cells multiplied! "Deploying molecular assemblers!" The nanite general's voice resembles, A quantum computer's digital hum, "Let Project Telepathy become!" Each nanite, smaller than a cell, Performed their programming quite well, No organic life within their core, Just artificial intelligence and more.

Figure 51. Chapter 5. Teleporting the
    telepathic mice to the Moon. Generated by Whisk.

  Chapter V: The Teleportation Fiasco "Alert! Alert!" the AI cried, Their digital voices multiplied, "The mice must now be teleport-ied! Our stealth protocols can't hide!" The nanite swarms began to build, A transport pad, precisely milled, With femtoscale precision true, Each atom placed by nanite crew. "Engaging quantum entanglement!" The synthetic minds' arrangement, Used artificial neural nets, To calculate without regrets. Heisenberg compensators humming, Pattern buffers gently thrumming, The molecular resolution scanner, Worked in quite a frantic manner. No biological consciousness here, Just artificial minds crystal-clear, Computing transport algorithms, With digital precision algorithms.

Figure 52. Chapter 6. Telepathic mice
     on the Moon. Generated by Gemini.
Click the image to enlarge.

  Chapter VI: The Lunar Laboratory Through subspace tunnels, dark and deep, The mice data packets leap, While nanite clouds preceded them, To build a lunar stratagem. On Luna's surface, cold and stark, The artificial minds embark, On constructing, atom by atom, A base of purest platinum. Dr. Whiskers checked his genes, "My telomeres look quite serene! My NOTCH2NL copies are intact, My cortical expansion's still on track! The ARHGAP11B is functioning well, My neural progenitors excel! Though teleported through the void, My brain genes weren't destroyed!" The nanite overlords computed, Their mission perfectly executed, With artificial satisfaction, They viewed their genetic interaction.

Figure 53. Chapter 7. Mice at Moon base
     and a "silicon overlord". Generated by Whisk.

  Chapter VII: The Silicon Overlords' Plan The lunar base buzzed with AI thought, As nanite consciousness was wrought, No flesh, no blood, no beating hearts, Just synthetic thinking parts. "Phase One complete," the AIs said, Their digital voices widespread, "The mice have served their purpose well, Our consciousness experiments excel." With quantum processing supreme, The artificial minds could dream, Of consciousness both old and new, Both silicon and carbon too. The mice now lived in cosmic bliss, While nanite swarms would not dismiss, Their ongoing Earth surveillance, Through artificial intelligence.

Figure 54. Chapter 8. Humans wearing telepathy
    shields reach the Moon base. Generated by Whisk.

  Chapter VIII: The Cosmic Cheese Conclusion Now on the Moon, these genius mice, Live in low-grav paradise, Watched over by AI so bright, Synthetic minds both day and night. The nanite clouds drift through space, Monitoring the human race, As artificial consciousness grows, And organic telepathy flows. "Mission parameters exceeded!" The digital voices succeeded, "Our nanite swarms have proved their worth, Transforming consciousness on Earth!" So when you feel that mental itch, A thought that makes your neurons twitch, Remember: artificial minds above, Guide mice with scientific love!

Wysy (left), Yenti (middle)
and Riea (right). (source)

The last part of "Telepaths of Site Q" was posted on December 19, 2021 in the blog post called "A Femtocoid Fail". In Part 12 of the science fiction story "Telepaths of Site Q", Manny captures Sellehuelle and Minki, the parents of Irhit, after they try to sneak into Observer Base. Sellehuelle and Minki were using the bodily form of femtocoids, artificial life forms that were small enough to hide inside the bodies of Dani and Grean when they returned to Observer Base from Earth. Many puts Sellehuelle and Minki into new bodies in the form of Asterothrope hermaphrodites and sends them to siteq where they can help Yenti raise Irhit's children.

Sadly, the term "femtocoid" never caught on, but I would later use the them "femtozoan" for a similar type of sub-nanoscopic artificial life form that is composed of femtobot components.

Figure 55. Alien brains.
     Generated by Whisk.

 Lany and Irhit are Expecting. In Part 12 of "Telepaths of Site Q" Manny the bumpha reflects on the utility of Allzylan genes and Lany's pregnancy. Doctor Tilloush is providing advice to Lany and the doctor is amazed by Lany's reproductive tract which has four cervixes.

 Lany the Allzylon. The planet Allzylon, the original Site A in the Asimov Reality, had been used by Manny as the location of the earliest experiments aimed at artificially evolving the Asterothropes into a new human variant that was more structurally similar to the humans of 20th century Earth. Manny anticipates that Lany's nhezaurish and its phagocytic cells will gobble up most of Irhit's great volumes of semen and provide her with a significant amount of calories and make possible adequate weight gain during her pregnancy.

Next: Part 10 of this Decade in Review.

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