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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. 

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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.

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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.

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 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. 

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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.

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 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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