The ℙegasus ℂore on 🤱revik

Figure 20a. Generated by Whisk.

This blog page (below) has Part 7 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 "The ℙegasus ℂore on 🤱revik" because I decided to split what had grown to be a very long blog post with over 60 images into smaller parts and the first break came at the point of describing events in "The Alastor Network" that were connected to the planet Brevik where a telepathic embroid project had secretly existed for 50 years.

Figure 20b. Generated by Whisk.

 Bootstrapping. By the end of Part 6 of this DiR I had gotten through my description of key topics from only the first few weeks of my science fiction story writing in 2021. "The Alastor Network" shows how the inhabited planets of Alastor Cluster were used for the directed evolution of telepathic humans. The human-alien hybrids with telepathic abilities were recruited to help develop even more powerful telepaths.

In Part 12 of "The Alastor Network" an effort is made to save the "body" of the QB5 embroid by implanting it inside Kasya.

In this DiR I am not only searching for old stories that I never completed, but I am also using AI software to generate new versions of some of my old story illustrations. The numbering for the new AI-generated images continues on with the numbering that was used in Part 6. The image that is shown in Figure 20b was generated by Whisk using a text prompt that was generated by Claude. 

Figure 20c. Original version from 2021 - source

Claude was allowed to examine the original 2021 illustration that is shown in Figure 20c. Claude and Whisk often generate descriptions of images that are quite distinctive and which result in unique AI-generated images (compare Figures 20b and 20c).

In Part 13 of "The Alastor Network", the Connatic, his son Heshlo and Lady and Lord Gensifer go to Brevik in order to learn more about the mysterious telepathic embroids that were developed by the Pegasus spaceship manufacturing company. Kasya also returns to her home on Brevik, but with the QB5 embroid now inside her uterus, she is under doctor's orders to rest. The Connatic meets Director Patrycya Menchlex of the Pegasus quantum computing research project that has developed telepathic embroids for the past 50 years with support from mysterious "investors".

Figure 21. Image updated by
Mr. Wombo.

 The Joqueline Time Loop. In Part 14 of "The Alastor Network", the Connatic tells his assembled team of telepaths (which includes Twycky and Mando), "While experiencing sexual pleasure, the minds of telepaths can relax their defenses and can network and achieve positive feedback, amplifying telepathic abilities." 

The planet Brevik is the home of an ancient telepathic alien species called the Brevi. Only a remnant of the Brevi remains, existing mostly inside the Hierion Domain. Lord Gensifer has telepathically felt the touch of the Brevi since he first arrived in orbit around Brevik. Lord Gensifer suspects that the Bryvi of Brevik are guiding all of their minds towards thoughts of obtaining sexual pleasure.  

Maghy (image source)

 The Mysterious Investors. During a group orgasm trance, during which Lady Gensifer brought the Pheni of Yrinna into sync with the Bryvi, Patrycya telepathically discovered that the Joqueline entity has been on Brevik for the past 15 years, providing advanced technology from the future for the Pegasus technology development projects, technology that finally made it possible for Joqueline to come into existence. 

The Bryvi were able to split out a copy of QB5's mind pattern from the Joqueline entity and return a copy of QB5's mind to the embroid brain that was placed inside Kasya's uterus. Kasya finally realizes that her daughter (Maghy) has long had an imaginary friend, 'Joke', that was actually the telepathic Joqueline entity.

Figure 22a. Generated by Whisk.

 Return to Numenes. In Part 15 of "The Alastor Network", Acyreff and Captain Lanting go to Numenes. Captain Lanting discovers that she has a strong telepathic link to Yurahs. The Pheni of Yrinna, the Muu're of Numenes and the Phet of planet Yerophet are all inked by way of the Phari interstellar network and some of the alien-human hybrids in "The Alastor Network" can detect those telepathic network signals.

Original cover art by
Ed Valigursky, Martinez
and Hubert Rogers.

After briefly linking into the Phari telepathy network, Captain Lanting realizes that there are clones of Yurahs' unborn daughter, Lavany, on Yerophet and the Connatic has plans to send Captain Lanting to Yerophet.

 Upon seeing what Whisk had been able to do (Figure 22) when updating the original story illustration that is shown ⇶ to the right, I had Leonardo generate some images with an assortment of humanoid aliens and human variants of the future. 

Figure 22b. Generated by Leonardo.

In the image that is shown to the left, it can be seen that when told to make "bald green aliens", Leonardo often was tempted to provide some hair. In general, Leonardo was happy to adopt the convention of making aliens look ugly. Often there is a green head and the body is a different color.

When working with Leonardo, I ended up using text prompts such as, "A science fiction scene depicting a gathering of humanoids. A beautiful alien creature resembling a caterpillar with a human face, is the focal point, standing beside a tall, slim humanoid woman with light skin, long blonde curls, pointed ears, and large, glowing green anime eyes who reaches out her arms towards another woman with long, flowing lilac hair and a rich brown complexion with blue eyes that sparkle, and her lips are slightly parted. On the left,

Figure 22c. Generated by Leonardo

two light green-skinned, bald humanoid figures with large, pointed ears are embracing. One, partially visible from the back, the other, facing forward holds the first in a close embrace. To the right, a tall slender Neanderthal woman with long red hair hugs another woman who is a tall slender Denisovan woman with long blond hair." My text prompts did not include mention of clothing. Leonardo rarely depicted the humans as being naked, but almost always did not provide clothing for the aliens (for example, see Figure 22c). More of the Leonardo-generated images are shown below...

Figure 22d. The telepathy breeding project of Alastor Cluster. Generated by Leonardo.

Figure 22e. Human variants mingle with alien-human hybrids. Generated by Leonardo.

Figure 22f. Leonardo-generated hands can be free floaters (left). Image generated by Leonardo.

Figure 22g. Generated by Leonardo. A rare Leonardo-generated male human.

Figure 22h. Generated by Leonardo. An alien head on a human body (center).

 Other images related to the ones shown in Figure 22 are at the bottom of this blog post.

image source

 The Robots of Triskelion. In Part 16 of "The Alastor Network", the Connatic goes to Triskelion in hopes of learning about the hierion field generator that Kasya used to telepathically link to her sister across interstellar distances. However, Dr. Ektenor, the designer of the field generator, tells the Connatic that humans are not ready to have such powerful technology.

Twycky has returned the borrowed field generator to Dr. Ektenor and now she has a chance to play with the sexbot Vyky. Completing a deal brokered by Grean, medical personnel that were captured by the Whelm arrive on Triskelion, a world with a shortage of workers.

Marune

In Part 17 of "The Alastor Network", there is mention of the planet Marune. The Connatic has a telepathic vision of a woman named Ariel who had recently transported a mysterious patient the Connatic's Hospital. That patient is a native resident of the planet Marune. This is a fan-fictional reference to Jack Vance's novel Marune which chronicles the life of Efraim. In March, Ariel would return in a new science fiction story called Meet the Phari.

Captain Lanting, now a member of the Whelm, is assigned to capture another space pirate, Captain Tirret, who commands the spaceship Kraken.

Figure 23. Generated by Whisk.

In Part 18, Connatica Eleyn, the mother of the current Connatic, returns to Alastor Cluster after visiting Earth. This is actually a replicoid copy of the biological Eleyn. This "new" Eleyn has impressive telepathic powers and she is able to communicate with Lav, the nanoscopic replicoid who is residing inside the Lavany embryo, guiding its development into a mind clone that will function as part of a mind clone network. 

Back on July 17, 2012 in a story called "Assignment: Marune" I introduced a character called Chief Investigative Agent Joole. 

image source

In Part 19 of "The Alastor Network", Joole is studying data from the newly regenerated Josef AI concerning Phari network data that is being passed between the inhabited worlds of Alastor Cluster. At the time when the Connatic visits Yerophet, Yerophet is the most active node of the Phari telepathic network, however, there is also a big increase in network activity  happening on Marune. The Connatic is trying to understand an epidemic of Cold Fever that has been killing residents on Yerophet.

Lora with her head made up so as to appear human.
Made using Assastudyroom by Eclesi4stiK
available under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.

In Part 20 of "The Alastor Network", Heshlo and his sister Voyt (who has been doing genetics research on Yerophet) chat with Josef. Josef tries to get help from Voyt in finding two telepathic Kerub on Yerophet, Bryget and Snoyl. Josef also informs Heshlo and Voyt that they have a half-sister, Konywhn (Konie), who lives on Yerophet. Through her powerful telepathic abilities, Eleyn that there are nanoscopic replicoids guiding the embryonic development of Lavany, Bryget and Snoyl... forming them into a mind clone network. Eleyn asks Konywhn to take her to see Konywhn's mother, Lora, who the Connatic had met on Yerophet two decades previously.

telepathic positive feedback (image source)

 Part 21 of "The Alastor Network" appeared in a February 22, 2021 blog post called "Lora's Lab". Konywhn's mother, Lora, is Managing Director Lora Shaw of a secret genetics laboratory where telepathic alien-human hybrids have been designed and constructed. This genetics laboratory was founded by Eleyn's father more than fifty years previously. Three embryos intended to grow to be mind clones of Levany were implanted into human-alien hybrids on Yerophet, but one of those implantations did not result in a successful pregnancy. Eleyn must find lo'Whots and perform a second embryo implantation.

Human-Kerub hybrids: Konie and lo'Whots

 Kerub Telepaths. In Part 22 of "The Alastor Network" it is revealed that Lora's friend, another alien-human hybrid named Pepha gave birth to lo'Whots and the Connatic's brother, Wilken was the father of lo'Whots. The recent rise in cold fever deaths is due to increased interaction between telepathic Kerub and humans.The Connatic and his daughter Voyt deduce that Asterothrope gene patterns have been inserted into the population of Alastor Cluster, but Grean is not ready for that knowledge to be widely known.

image source

 Her investigations on Earth have revealed to Eleyn that some women of Alastor Cluster (including herself) now have a second row of breasts that make and secrete a telepathy-amplifying Asterothrope hormone is called oxypathin. As a baby, Wilken consumed large amounts of oxypathin and developed a powerful telepathic linkage to Eleyn. After fathering lo'Whots, Wilken eventually went off on a mission to the Andromeda galaxy in order to hunt for fain DNA on the planet Ret'fai.

In the final part of the "The Alastor Network", there is temporal over-lap with events from the 2020 story "Finding lo'Whots" in which Glisten, Jantiff, Yōd and Azynov visited the planet Yerophet. Yōd and Azynov use the Reality Simulation System as a tool for study of the Asimov Reality, and they are able to alter events and protect Glisten from telepathic over-load.

the Iidi

The Connatic gets to briefly meet an Iidi who explains the goal of the telepath breeding project in Alastor Cluster, but Grean's memory-editing nanites do not allow the Connatic to consciously remember having met the Iidi.

 Telepathy Time Loop. Heshlo meets an alien Phet, the source of the nanoscopic telepaths who are now guiding the embryonic development of the Lavany mind clones. Heshlo is informed that he and Pepha are the parents of one of the Lavany mind clones that was taken back in time by Grean and implanted in a Kerub named pa'Xyget. The Phet tells Heshlo that Wilken will return to Alastor Cluster in the future and that Grean has already incorporated Ret'fai gene sequences into the Lavany mind clones.

Asterothrope features (image source).

The Connatic finally meets Glisten on Yerophet. Grean tells the Connatic that Glisten's developing embryo has been provided with a nanoscopic replicoid who will play an important role in "another mind clone network" (which links Glisten to Yōd).

After the last chapter of "The Alastor Network", I had a blog post about making illustrations for the story. The image shown to the left was used in "The Alastor Network" as a depiction of Berryfial, the wife of Semoy, works at the secret genetic engineering facility in Goslewenn that is run by Lora. Berryfial and Semoy both had large numbers of Asterothrope gene patterns, some of which were used in the genetic crafting of the Lavany mind clones.

Wrap-around cover for The Alastor Network - image source and credits

source: see this comic

 After completing my science fiction novel "The Alastor Network" at the end of February, I immediately began a new story called "Meet the Phari" (see the March 2, 2021 blog post called "The Hui-chi"). I used the term "nanocoids" to refer to nanoscopic replicoids that could guide people through their lives. 

Grean the Kac'hin was a character in "The Alastor Network", showing that Grean had somehow lived for many centuries through the era when humans moved off of Earth to distant parts of the Galaxy including Alastor Cluster. For "Meet the Phari", I explained Greans longevity as a kind of technological trick. When growing old, Grean's biological body was replaced by a teleportation duplicate and her old memories were transferred in to the younger body by means of infites (information nanites).

Figure 24. Duissane. Image
updated by Mr. Wombo.

 Building a Nanocoid Network. The first chapter of "Meet the Phari" begins with a party to celebrate the most recent of Grean's periodic renewals. The "new Grean" implants a nanocoid into the early embryo of Duissane, a character from Jack Vance's novel Trullion and my own fan-fiction story from 2015, The League of Yrinna.

The original image that was used as a reference for Figure 24 can be seen at this blog page. Duissane grows up on the planet Trullion and I like to imagine that she had some telepathic abilities, including sensitivity to alien telepaths who were using the Phari interplanetary telepathy network.

Figure 25. Duissane. Image
updated by Mr. Wombo.

 Prequel to "The Alastor Network". In Part 2 of "Meet the Phari", Grean implants a nanocoid into the early embryo of Glisten on the planet Wyst. The original version of the image shown in Figure 25 is in this 2019 blog post.

Grean's selfi, Delpha, meets some Fwai-chi on Marune and explains the idea of making a copy of Alferica and allowing her to have a "second life" as the wife of the Connatic (as was previously described in "The Alastor Network").

 All Grown Up.  Part 3 of the science fiction story "Meet the Phari" jumps ahead twenty years to the time when the nanocoid-implanted embryos who were introduced in Parts 1 and 2 have now become young adults. Back in 2016, I had introduced the idea of smuggling on Marune. 

Kwystyk - image source

In Part 3 of "Meet the Phari", an entire secret society of alien-human hybrid telepaths is shown to exist in a network of hidden underground cities of the planet Marune. Now working as a smuggler, Grean's child, Kwystyk, is seen to be part of a Time Travel Loop by which a Whelm officer (Special Agent Oqlyn Xybelrough) on Marune is prevented from revealing the hidden Hui-chi telepath development project of Marune. Only later will this hidden society of telepaths be revealed to the rest of Alastor Cluster.

Next: Part 8 of my Decade in Review.

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