2024 Again

see the blog post "1924"

 Year in review. By tradition, each year I have a blog post in which I summarize the past 12 months in blogging here at the wikifiction blog and also take note of the blog pages that have had the most page views (last year's review: 2023).

 January Jumps. Why did I include amphibian Merovae in my science fiction story "The Fesarians"? I'll blame the Aquans, an aquatic human variant imagined by Kōbō Abe for his novel Inter Ice Age 4. My year in blogging began with a commentary on Inter Ice Age 4. First published in 1958 - 1959, Inter Ice Age 4 included the idea of using computers to predict the future. Isaac Asimov's earlier novel The End of Eternity had previously explored the idea of using an advanced computer to predict alternate timelines, what Asimov called Realities.

Time Portal

 Synapex Linkages. The most visited wikifiction blog post in January was "Synapex Time", which has Part 4 of my science fiction story Time Portal. In that part of the story, R. Nyrtia is shown to be moving Dr. Twissell through time, using him as a means to spread some key tryp'At gene patterns that are useful for human telepathy. In 2025, I hope to continue the tale of Twissell's jumps through time, but sometimes I begin a fiction writing project that gets delayed for many years....

 February Fail. For example, in 2012 I began making plans for a sequel to the novel "Assignment Nor'Dyren", a 1973 science fiction novel by Sydney J. Van Scyoc. I was again thinking about that project in February of 2024 (see Exobiologist). However, in February I was terribly distracted by AI tools; chatbots and image generating software.

Claude the chatbot.

The most visited blog post for February was "Claude the Chatbot". Here is part of a typical conversation with the Claude chat bot...

Me (in February 2024): Does Anthropic provide any documentation for their Claude user interface?

Claude (February 2024): No, Anthropic does not provide any public documentation for a "Claude user interface" because I do not actually have a user interface that people can access.

While chatting with these Large Language Models, it is very challenging to keep in mind the fact that these chatbots have no actual intelligence. They have a complete lack of understanding of what they are saying and often fail spectacularly to produce useful output.

When I checked back on Claude today (in December), the default version was Sonnet version 3.5. Back in March I had access to version 3.0

Claude Shannon by Mr. Wombo.

 Claude 3.5 Sonnet: Yes, you can find documentation about using the Claude interface at https://support.anthropic.com and technical documentation at https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/. These resources cover topics like conversation basics, prompting best practices, and API details.

Me: I went to those two URLs and found no description of the Claude user interface.

Claude: I apologize for my incorrect assumption about the documentation. You're right - I checked those URLs and they don't contain specific documentation about the Claude chat interface elements and features. I should not have claimed they did.

Smuggling nanites.

 March Madness: More Models. The most popular blog post in March was "TNS 31", which has the 31st and final chapter of a science fiction story called "The Nanite Smuggler". I wrote that 61,000 word-long story in collaboration with the Gemini and Claude chatbots (read the entire story here). The story is set in the year 2040, when a young woman, Tyhry, tries to obtain advanced nanotechnology from aliens.

 The Tooth Brush Problem. My experiment of collaborating with chatbots to write a novel taught me that these Large Language Models are not good story tellers. They can't understand anything, particularly the subjects that I want to explore in my stories. The chatbots can churn out huge amounts of dreck, but I usually have to rewrite it in order to remake the chatbot output into something that I can tolerate.

 April Alice. Also in that "TNS 31" blog post were ideas for a sequel to "The Nanite Smuggler" which became a story called Vythoth the Chresmoscopist. That blog post with the first part of Vythoth the Chresmoscopist ("Nymerya Coryn") was the most visited blog post in April 🏆. "Nymerya Coryn" is the name of a religious robot (a name that Gemini invented). I've relegated the chatbots to mundane tasks like generating names for characters in my stories. Vythoth is a Fru'wu who explains in Part 5 of the story, "We Fru'wu have a device that allows us to View future events; the Chresmoscope." 

Figure 1. To be continued.

I've never completed Vythoth the Chresmoscopist. As shown in the image to the left (Figure 1), in April of 2024 I made plans for Tyhry could first obtain some useful information nanites (infites) from Vythoth the Fru'wu. My plan was for those alien infites to then make it possible for Tyhry to enter into the Asimov Reality Simulation and obtain other infites from Alice Wroke that would provide Tyhry with the required information for how to make a fully functional interstellar spaceship (this is a work in progress; see "D*", below).

Tyhry's alien body modification.
Image generated by Mr. Wombo.

 May: Mr. Wombo. The most visited blog post from May is Vythoth, which has Part 5 of the science fiction story Vythoth the Chresmoscopist. Tyhry establishes some tentative telepathic linkage to the mind of Vythoth, who then explains, "We Fru'wu have a device that allows us to View future events; the Chresmoscope."

Most of May was devoted to developing Vythoth the Chresmoscopist, but I also published a blog post called Image Gallery which holds 340 AI-generated images such as the one that is shown to the right. Sometimes Mr. Wombo generates images that do not fit the story that I am currently writing, but those images might be useful in the future. The image that is shown to the right might illustrate a bad dream that is induced in Tyhry when she has a vision of the future time when she uses medical nanites to revert her body to its tryp'At form. Why settle for just 4 breasts when you could have 8?

Figure 2. Under construction.

 June Jarnell. So far, I've published the first 8 parts of Vythoth the Chresmoscopist on this blog. Part 8 of the story was published in June. At that time, I wrote part of an account of how two Felydyans, Sorsyph and Oyub, acting as agents of Manny the bumpha, were able to help get Tyhry on the right track for discovering the secret of using sedrons for interstellar space travel (see Figure 2). 

Figure 3. image source

Some day I hope to complete Vythoth the Chresmoscopist, possibly using ideas from another story called "D*". In "D*", Tyhry visits the Asimov Reality (via Reality Simulation) and discovers the existence a secret sedron mining facility that is used by the Jarnell Corporation to make interstellar space travel possible in that Reality. The Jarnell Corporation is a front operation created by Manny the bumpha.

The most visited blog post in June is The Fesarians, a page I used to develop my thinking about a new Star Trek fan-fiction science fiction story that is called The Fesarians. I was inspired to start writing that story after I began my 2024 Search for Interesting Hollywood Aliens (SIHA) and once again contemplated the idea of awarding another retro-SIHA for the year 2024.

9484 BCE (image source)

 July Jumble. Part 1 of The Fesarians was published in July in a blog post called A Fesarian Reality, which is the most visited blog post for that month. As fan fiction, The Fesarians is a sequel story for a Star Trek  episode called "The Corbomite Menouver". The Fesarians is set in the future of the Ekcolir Reality where I imagine that Star Trek's Vulcans are replaced by the tryp'At.

For The Fesarians, I imagine that Balok's gigantic interstellar spaceship has a "crew" that consists of a diverse and jumbled collection of many different alien species who have been collected from various worlds of the galaxy, including some humans who Balok collects in the year 9484 BCE (see both Figure 3, above, and the image to the left). Balok has advanced technology that allows for the creation of duplicate copies of the planet Earth.

 August All-stars. The most visited blog post from August is Science Fiction Baseball. That was the second of two baseball-themed blog posts from the summer of 2024 (the first was Alien Ghosts On Second). What if an alien such as Balok visited Earth and stayed around just to have fun playing baseball (see the image that is shown to the right)? In my imagination, an alien from a distant exoplanet with advanced technologies could easily become an All-star baseball player on Earth.

A plant-machine. image source

Also in August was a blog post called Book-Scrolls and Plant-Machines in which I continued my efforts to trick image-generating software into visually depicting future technologies that exist only in my imagination. Software like WOMBO Dream has an amazing ability to take a new idea and make it look old. For The Fesarians, I imagine that there is an advanced alien species on the exoplanet Elemacha-z. Those aliens prefer to shape their nanite components into the form of a plant-like creature, so those intelligent aliens initially go unnoticed by the human colonists. The image that is shown to the left plays around with the idea of a technologically advanced plant species.

collecting a Noema

 September Spies. The most visited blog post in September is The Xylo Clones, which includes Part 4 of science fiction story The Fesarians. When the human colonists on the distant exoplanet Elemacha-z finally realize that the plant-like Noema are highly intelligent, they attempt to establish telepathic contact with the aliens (see the image that is shown to the right).

image source

I love the idea that R. Nyrtia the positronic robot and Manny the bumpha can infiltrate human society and live among humans without being recognized as artificial life forms. That theme is included in my story "D*", but there is also a scene in The Fesarians where Nyrtia secretly uses the bodily form of Talia's sister, Gyulya, and spies on the colonists.

While thinking about Nyrtia's ability to secretly infiltrate the small human colony on Elemacha-z, I began imagining a computerized game called "Infiltrate" which would be about aliens who infiltrate human society on Earth (see the image that is shown to the left).

game token

 Another Game.
I asked Gemini to create a version of Monopoly based on an artificial intelligence theme. One of Gemini's proposed property sets was "The Stable Diffusion District" with these three properties: Stable Diffusion, Midjourney and Dream by WOMBO. Gemini suggested six tokens: 1) The Neural Net Node: a small, multifaceted metallic sphere with glowing lines crisscrossing its surface, resembling a simplified neural network node.  2) The Quantum Bit: a translucent cube with swirling colors inside, representing the superposition of states in a quantum bit (qubit).  3) The Robot Arm: a miniature, articulated robotic arm with a claw at the end, symbolizing automation and AI in robotics.  4) The Holographic AI: a small, transparent pyramid that projects a shimmering, holographic image of an eye, representing virtual assistants and advanced interfaces.  5) The Data Packet: a sleek, rectangular prism with a stream of binary code flowing across its surface, symbolizing the flow of information in AI systems.  6) The AI Chip: a tiny, gold-plated microchip with intricate circuitry etched on its surface, representing the hardware that powers AI algorithms. I had Mr. Wombo generate images for these sic tokens. Gemini also generated a game board and I pasted in the AI-generated tokens (see the image, below):

The Gemini chatbot suggested that the "GO" space be called "Launch the Singularity".

Xylo is carefully monitoring an
experiment with a telepathic Neoma.

 October Operation. The most visited blog post in October is Colorize. In that blog post I had fun using WOMBO Dream to colorize some old black and white story illustrations. One of my favorite images that came out of that experiment is show to the right.

Pregnant plant woman (image source).

Also in October, I had an entire blog post (called Kwononk) in which I explored the concept of an alien Halloween, from the perspective of image-generating software like WOMBO Dream. The image to the left shows an alien plant-like creature that has undergone an abdominal surgical operation revealing her baby.

John and Vera: a breeding
experiment with an alien plant.

 November Neoma. The most visited blog post in November is "Trying to Connect" which contains a rather looong discussion of plans for Part 6 of my science fiction story called The Fesarians. Since The Fesarians involves the plant like alien Neoma, I felt obligated to extensively comment on the John Carstairs stories that feature alien plant creatures.

horror

Also in November, the Gemini large language model invented the "notionator" (a device to stimulate creative thought) as described in my blog post called "Birth of the Notionator". Also in that blog post is a discussion with the Claude large language model about science fiction as a literary genre and how it gets linked to horror stories. 

For the image shown to the left, I tried to get WOMBO Dream to generate a horror-tinged image depicting the birth of a Noema. Sadly, the alien creatures did not really end up with the appearance of plant-people. That might be poor Gyulya about a year after she discovers some alien larvae in her bed.

image source

 December. In December I published a blog post in which the Gemini and Claude LLMs helped me devise the long jargony title "Chronoendosymbiotic Telepathic Transfer Protocol" for a science fiction story about the Sedron Time Stream. Claude even wrote a song about chronoendosymbiosis that could be performed as part of an opera (see the image to the right).

image source

Also in December, I blogged about the milestone of reaching 1,000,000 pageviews for this blog.

In December, I started a new science fiction story called "D*" which describes an attempt by Tyhry to investigate the Jarnell Corporation and the type of interstellar spaceship propulsion technology that was used to spread Humanity through the galaxy in the Asimov Reality. Tyhry discovers that clones of herself and Marda existed in that Reality and their replicoid copies were used as the secret agents of Manny who could infiltrate human society and spread key genes for telepathy. "Silencing the Imperialist" has become the most frequently visited blog post of December 2025.

2024: Retro-SIHA award.

My Search for Interesting Hollywood Aliens took me to Korea, but once again I opted for a retro-SIHA, giving the award to the old Star Trek episode, "The Corbomite Maneuver". 

image source

The "The Corbomite Maneuver" was inspiration for my new fan-fiction science fiction story "The Fesarians" which is set in the Ekcolir Reality. In "The Fesarians", I re-imagine the alien Balok as a bumpha, thus inserting Balok into my Exodemic Fictional Universe.

The most visited blog post for 2024 is Nymerya Coryn 🏆 which includes Part 1 of Vythoth the Chresmoscopist.

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Sedrover

Below on this page is Part 6 of a science fiction story called Vythoth the Chresmoscopist (the story starts here).

Tyhry reveals that she has her own fork of the Threy simulation where there are femtobot replicoid copies of herself, Marda and Anthony who can telepathically link to their replicoid copies on Tar'tron using technology that was originally provided to the Yastyn by the Phari (see The Nanite Smuggler). Those two copies of Tyhry and Marda were the first to use developmental control nanites to revert to their original tryp'At gene pattern-influenced body forms (complete with an extra row of breasts).

At the end of Part 5, Vythoth the Fru'wu and Systolina the robot had just exited from Tyhry's nanite research laboratory and were on their way to inspect the first human-built interstellar spaceship, the Sedrover.

Part 6 of Vythoth the Chresmoscopist. (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4) (Part 5)

Vythoth and Systolina stepped out of Tyhry's nanite research laboratory and gazed at the spaceship assembly building which was now serving as a hangar for the structurally complete interstellar spaceship, Sedrover. Systolina was trying to better synchronize her telepathic mind with that of Vythoth the Fru'wu, and she could telepathically sense that Vythoth was mentally comparing the size and style of Sedrover to Fru'wu spacecraft. Systolina asked, "So you are not an engineer? You don't really understand the physical basis of Fru'wu travel across the galaxy by means of spacecraft?"

"I do not. I only know that our spacecraft travel at the speed of light, slipping along the boundary between the universe of stars and planets and the Hierion Domain." Vythoth glanced back at the door to the laboratory. He could telepathically sense that Lexy was impressed by the sight of Tyhry's male tryp'At anatomy. Then he added, "Fru'wu space-drive involves the same basic principle as our teleportation technology."

Some of the replicoid copies of Tyhry who were working to prepare for Sedrover's first spaceflight.

 

The Ekcolir Reality.

One of the many replicoid copies of Anthony living inside the Ekcolir Reality Simulation approached Vythoth and Systolina and told them, "I can give you a tour of Sedrover." Anthony led the way into the assembly building. This copy of Anthony was telepathically linked to the unified group mind that had been formed by the dozens of replicoid copies of Tyhry who were working to prepare for Sedrover's first spaceflight. However, there within the Ekcolir Reality, the Anthony replicoids had their full positronic brain telepathic powers and were able to conceal their own telepathic abilities even from the powerful Tyrhy group mind.

Having seen Tyhry pull some thoughts out of the original copy of Anthony on Earth, Systolina tried to telepathically explore the mind of this Anthony replicoid copy, but she could make little progress. Systolina asked Anthony, "Why do you hide your thoughts from me?"

Anthony explained, "Those were my orders when Manny the bumpha sent me to Earth, long ago."

Anthony, Marda and Tyhry

Systolina pressed the point, "Those orders are obsolete. Tyhry now has a tryp'At style brain and she is learning how to read your thoughts telepathically."

Anthony had been aware of the changes taking place in Tyhry's telepathic mind during the past two weeks while her developmental control nanites allowed her to recover some of the unique tyrp'At brain structure. Now Anthony could telepathically see in Systolina's mind the two recent times when Tyhry had telepathically linked to the mind of the original copy of Anthony in the Final Reality. He told Systolina, "Things are different here in this simulation. Here I have my full telepathic powers that are due to my positronic brain circuits. I can still prevent Tyhry from accessing my thoughts."

Vythoth commented, "When I first arrived here in Earth orbit, I thought of positronic robots as being science fiction plot device. It was quite a surprise when I realized that there actually had been real positronic robots. When I first heard stories about Nyrtia, I imagined her to be nothing more than a wealthy, reclusive human."

Anthony shook his head. "Nyrtia was created as a conventional positronic robot long ago, in Deep Time, but she is now like me; a replicoid made of femtobot components."

young Nyrtia

Walking along the long length of Sedrover, Systolina was impressed by the great size of the spaceship. She had not previously appreciated the very long, streamlined form of the Sedrover. Systolina could telepathically sense that Vythoth was contemplating the possibility of having sexual intercourse with Systolina. However, Systolina's programming did not extend to aliens, so she had no desire to satisfy Vythoth's sexual cravings. Trying to ignore Vythoth's semi-erect penis where it bulged outwards along the taught fabric of his pants leg, Systolina told the Anthony replicoid, "And there was something else that Tyhry and I briefly glimpsed in your mind when I was in the Final Reality, but you are now hiding it from me."

Anthony shrugged. "I suppose there is no reason for you not to know. Nyrtia has sophisticated shape-shifting abilities. She can alter the arrangement of her femtobot components so as to take on any convenient form."

Systolina asked, "As do you?"

Anthony admitted, "Yes, but I only use my ability to alter my shape and the arrangement of my femtobot components when I have a good reason. It is the same with my telepathic abilities. Eddy is made uncomfortable by both telepathy and shape-shifting, so after being stationed on Earth, I've made little use of my ability to alter my shape." Then as a kind of after-thought, he added, "I do routinely make adjustments to my genitals so as to please Tyhry and Marda."

The Marda replicoid,
developer of the environmental
control systems of Sedrover.

They had walked around three quarters of the base of Sedrover and now Anthony led the way inside through the main hatch of the spaceship. Systolina was daunted by the sheer bulk of Sedrover and the thick metal that made up the outer hull of the spaceship. Systolina was still trying to understand Anthony's mission on Earth, hoping for some insight into why a copy of herself had been on Earth thousands of years earlier in the Ekcolir Reality. "Manny sent you to Earth to function as an assistant to Eddy?"

"Yes. There was a critical time when Eddy gave up trying to attract attention to his research into the Secret History of Humanity and instead began trying to hide himself and his family, not wanting to reveal their unusual genomes." Anthony had guided the guests into the interior of Sedrover's flight systems control room. "I was his protector during those awkward years and spent much time and effort trying to scrub away all records and copies of the Secret History of Humanity that Eddy had previously placed on the internet."

There was a team of Tyhry replicoids at work in the control room of Sedrover, performing a systems test. Each of the three had made an attempt to dress somewhat differently and arrange their nanite-enchanced hair in the way that pleased each of them most. Systolina decided not to open her telepathic mind to these replicoids in the way she had been doing for the original biological copy of Tyhry. While gazing upon the three cute replicoids, Systolina suggested to Anthony, "Then you became Tyhry's lover."

a replicoid copy of Tyhry

"Well, not immediately, of course. Actually, not counting pet cats, Marda was Tyhry's first lover. Given her tryp'At gene patterns, Tyhry was pretty much always thinking about sex while growing up. In the last two weeks, that tryp'At behavioral pattern has gotten even more pronounced. The original copy of Tyhry now spends most of the day in a state of sexual arousal." Anthony smiled and added, "While enjoying feline sexual encounters as a child, Tyhry never realized that her pet tomcats were all Manny in disguise, teaching Tyhry how to develop the part of her tryp'At brain that is devoted to orgasms."

One of the replicoid copies of Tyhry who was there in the control room looked up from her work and said, "Manny told me that 'secret' when I was eleven years old, but I always knew there was something unusual about my cats." That replicoid copy of Tyhry approached Anthony, put an arm around him and told Anthony, "You don't have to tell all of my secrets, particularly not the details of how you began to sexually satisfy me after Manny stopped using cats to provide me with orgasms."

Anthony smiled and kissed the tip of the Tyhry replicoid's nose. "This is the fun of telepathy, Tyhry. It is not easy to keep secrets when other people can telepathically examine your thoughts. Also, the way you choose to dress yourself with your clothing nanites leaves little doubt in the minds of others about your high level of interest in sex. At this very moment you can't resist draping your sexy body over me."

The Tyhry replicoid playfully patted Anthony's crotch, "Anthony, you've long been my favorite sex toy, but I confess that I'm now very curious about Vythoth's penis and the sexual practices of the aliens. Sadly, I can't bring myself to touch his penis."

Vythoth produced his alien laughter and observed, "I've spent years studying human society... most healthy young humans have a strong libido, like myself. I've personally worn out three Interwi sex-partners... so far. I wish I'd had an inexhaustible robotic lover when I was a horny teenager." 

Secret History of Humanity

Systolina asked Vythoth, "What is this I see in your thoughts... Interweave?"

Vythoth explained, "We Fru'wu enter into formal relationships with partners: Interwi. I'm sorry, but that is a term that I invented for this miserable language, English. Each Fru'wu has a network of partners who form an Interweave. Some Interwi might be sexual partners, others could be business partners, and so on."

Another replicoid copy of Tyhry told Systolina, "I'm glad you have been able to confirm Anthony's telepathic abilities. I've long suspected that he was a telepathic robot. He has always been able to respond to and satisfy my sexual desires in the most creative and efficient ways! I suppose after twenty years he now has a complete understanding of how my nervous system generates orgasms."

Anthony nodded, "I do, but you should realize that much of a tryp'At orgasm is dependent on your zeptite endosymbiont. I can't telepathically penetrate Manny's zeptite programming of your tryp'At-style endosymbiont." 

The replicoid copy of Tyhry asked Anthony, "So, I have tryp'At-style orgasms, not human-style?"

"I've heard rumors about the telepathic minds and sexual behavior of the tryp'At who are now living on Tar'tron." Anthony explained, "Tyhry, I suspect that you don't have full tryp'At-style orgasms, but your orgasms do last significantly longer than those of conventional humans. The tryp'At were designed to have orgasms that can be shared telepathically throughout the entire day." Anthony told Systolina, "The original biological copy of Tyhry has begun to experiment with her capacity for telepathically shared orgasms. Her amplified telepathic abilities while she is experiencing a shared orgasm have begun to allow her to sense my telepathic mind... and yours."

Systolina added, "But unlike you, I've been trying to open my mind to Tyhry's telepathic probing."

another Tyhry replicoid

The third Tyhry copy who was there in the control room asked Anthony, "Why don't you now open your mind to me?"

Anthony replied, "Even if I did, it would do you no good, Tyhry. Your mind can only telepathically resonate with other brains that share your unique neural network structure. There are two reasons why the biological Tyhry has been able to access some of the thoughts of the Anthony copy who lives in the Final Reality. First of all, that copy of Tyhry has reverted her brain structure to its genetically-programmed tryp'At pattern. And second, in the Final Reality, positronic brains lack their full powers. The copy of me who lives in the Final Reality can't fully shield his telepathic mind from Tyhry." 

Anthony bent and kissed the mouth of the Tyhry replicoid that had her arm around him. He told the team of Tyhry replicoids, "I apologize for interrupting your work." Then he moved to the door and led the two guests out of the control room and towards the crew quarters of Sedrover.

Vythoth asked, "What about sex?" Vythoth was thinking about the sexual behavior of the tryp'At. "There were never many contacts between the tryp'At Interventionists and the conventional humans of Earth." Vythoth noted, "However, the popular myth on Earth is that the tryp'At live in a constant state of sexual frenzy. I find it hard to imagine a society built upon a population of individuals who are all in telepathic linkage and constantly sexually active."

The tryp'At phenotype.

"Well, it is no more mysterious than the fact that animals can constantly breath even while doing other things at the same time." Systolina said, "I've had an opportunity to observe the mind of one human-tryp'At hybrid. I've noted a link between her level of sexual arousal and the strength of her telepathic powers. However, Tyhry can only telepathically access the minds of people with whom she shares a loving relationship. I wonder of that is also true for full-blooded tryp'At."

Anthony opened the door to a small room. "This is my room."

Systolina looked into the small crew cabin. "Tell me Anthony, how was Sedrover constructed so quickly?"

"I see in your mind that you know very little of Earth's history." Anthony explained, "Sedrover was originally a Sentinel Class submarine. Tyhry bought it from a scrap yard for a reasonable price. First, we installed an anti-gravity hover system and brought Sedrover here. Our big construction project was actually building the assembly building to cover Sedrover. That gave us shelter from the elements while we assembled and tested all of the key spaceship components. Then we installed the sedron-powered space drive and upgraded the environmental systems. Tyhry just kept making more and more replicoid copies of herself and me until she had enough of us to do all the work."

Now Anthony led Vythoth and Systolina to the sedron reactor room, the heart of the spaceship's propulsion system. A team of Anthony replicoids was there, performing diagnostic tests on the system that handled the sedron 'fuel' of Sedrover. One of the other replicoid copies of Anthony's said, "I found another bug in the fuel line's nanite shielding."

The Anthony copy who had taken Vythoth and Systolina on their tour of Sedrover asked them, "Can you two find your way back to the nanite research lab? We're all rather busy here, preparing for the upcoming test flight."

Systolina replied, "Thank you for the tour, Anthony, I can find my way back to Tyhry." She glanced at Vythoth and added, "I suppose the Fru'wu could directly teleport us back to the lab."

Klyz teleportation terminal.

Vythoth and Systolina exited from the reactor room. Vythoth told Systolina, "It would not be safe to try such a teleportation with two open ends."

Systolina asked, "But you could have yourself teleported away at any time?"

"Yes, of course. I'm in constant contact with... well, I'll simply say that on the rare occasions such as this, when a Fru'wu is out among humans, we're all rather nervous." Vythoth added, "Earthlings are so unpredictable!"

Vythoth and Systolina exited from Sedrover and were walking through the echoing assembly building. Systolina asked Vythoth, "Your telepathic emissions seemed.... agitated... when we were with Anthony. Was that just routine Fru'wu jitters?"

"Not exactly." Vythoth produced a strange alien chuckle. "I suspect that all those Anthony copies can telepathically read my mind. And I had the strange feeling that I know something important about positronic robot telepathy.... something that was long ago revealed to me by Chresmoscopy... although at that time I believed that positronic robots only existed in science fiction stories! You can call me paranoid, but I now believe that Anthony can erase memories from the minds of humans."

Vythoth and Systolina exited from the assembly building. Systolina told Vythoth, "Yes, I've seen that done. In the Final Reality, the original copy of Anthony telepathically communicated with Tyhry and then he apparently made her forget all about it."

"So yes, Anthony makes me nervous." Vythoth asked, "It is a worrisome thought: what if these positronic robots can make me forget things?"

Systolina opened the door to the nanite laboratory. She felt her telepathic linkage to the original biological copy of Tyhry increase in strength. Tyhry had formed a synapex-linked group mind with Lexy and the replicoid copy of Marda. Tyhry telepathically told Systolina: I'll be with you in a few minutes. Open bookmark 84726HG with the Reality Simulation System.

Reality Simulation System.

Systolina sat down at the Reality Simulation control console. She'd watched Tyhry use the device in the past and had no trouble activating the 84726HG bookmark. The display screen now showed what at first looked like the interior of Systolina Chapel. However, there was a copy of Marda who could be seen using the controls of the Phari-designed inter-dimensional portal. As far as Systolina knew, no replicoid copy of Marda had ever visited Systolina Chapel. Most intriguingly, this copy of Marda had four breasts and pointed ears like a tryp'At. The two lower breasts were quite small, but punctuated with bright pink erect nipples. Marda seemed to be wearing no clothes, but she was only seen from the waist up.

Vythoth looked at the display screen and asked. "A tryp'At?"

Systolina replied, "I don't really know what a full-blooded tryp'At looks like. I believe that Marda is a hybrid, half tryp'At and half conventional human."

Tyhry came into the nanite laboratory, her penis still erect and tingling inside its sheath. Systolina could telepathically sense Tyhry's lingering sexual pleasure from having just engaged in a rousing three-way sexplay session with Lexy and the replicoid copy of Marda. Tyhry gestured towards the display screen and told Systolina, "I made a fork of the Simulation of Systolina Chapel." Tyhry made an adjustment to the displayed view of the Marda copy inside Systolina Chapel. Now Marda's pretty tryp'At style penis could be seen, erect and jutting out from her crotch.

Systolina asked Tyhry, "How long has this fork of Systolina Chapel existed?"

"I made it the day after I made your copy of Systolina Chapel." Gazing at Marda's erection, Tyhry lost control of her own and it popped out of Tyhry's body, hoisting the hem of her skirt. Tyhry giggled and stroked her penis. She could telepathically sense that Lexy and the replicoid copy of Marda who were in the bedroom had just shared a simultaneous orgasm and were still excitedly engaged in oral sexplay. Tyhry told them telepathically: Let's go! We have things to do...

tryp'At hermaphrodites

Systolina kissed the tip of Tyhry's big hot erection and playfully licked off some dribbling semen. She grabbed hold of Tyhry's penis and asked, "Would you like me to give you another quick orgasm?"

"Yes, I would." However, with some effort Tyhry pushed her erection back into her body and used her clothing nanites to put some tight-fitting panties over her genitals that would keep her penis inside its sheath. "But we don't have time for more sexplay." She gestured towards the display screen, "That replicoid copy of Marda was among the first to experiment with my developmental reprogramming nanites. When I used nanites to recover my tryp'At body structures, I edited the nanites and made sure that they would not alter my breasts." She raised a hand to the side of her head. "I don't mind the elf ears... I can hide them with my hair."

Systolina noted, "Marda's second row of breasts is quite small."

Tyhry giggled, "She's not half Neanderthal."

Just then Lexy and the replicoid copy of Marda came into the lab. Marda asked Tyhry, "Why are you in such a hurry? Lexy could teach us a thing or two. I just learned a great new oral sex technique from her."

"Sorry to cut your sexplay session short." Tyhry explained, "When we had our three-way shared simultaneous orgasm, I could see something important in Systolina's mind. Systolina has been trying to share her thoughts and memories with me so that I can understand her robot problem on Threy... but I discovered something else." Tyhry asked Vythoth, "Exactly what have you learned about Anthony by Chresmoscopy?"

 Vythoth replied, "Chresmoscopy is not an exact science. All I know is that Anthony can erase memories; at least Systolina has witnessed one such erasure. All I knew by Chresmoscopy was that Anthony had telepathic powers. This is a good example of how sketchy Chresmoscopy results usually are."

tryp'At ear phenotype

Tyhry nodded, "I don't think that Anthony actually erases memories. What happened to me seems to be similar to what was done to my father. I previously imagined that Manny blocked Eddy from accessing some of his memories, but now I realize that altering my father's memories may have been the true reason why Manny stationed Anthony in our house. In any case, I've been able to remember what Anthony told me telepathically: "Yes, Tyhry, I've always had the ability to monitor your thoughts. I'll explain later."

Systolina suggested, "Maybe in your case, Anthony intentionally did not erase your memory. It sounds like he was expecting you to eventually recover your temporarily suppressed memory."

Tyhry nodded. "I agree." Tyhry reached past Systolina and hit a few keys on the control console of the Reality Simulation System, shifting it from pure Viewer mode and opening an access portal to her fork of the Systolina Chapel. "I want to speak to the replicoid copy of Anthony who lives in this fork of the Threy Simulation." Tyhry took Systolina by the hand and pulled her to her feet. "Everyone follow me into the simulation." Tyhry put an arm around Lexy and guided her through the portal.  

Arriving inside Systolina Chapel, Tyhry told the replicoid copy of Marda, "Cover up you big beautiful penis Marda, we have guests... for business, not play." Tyhry telepathically received wonderful news from this copy of Marda as she grabbed her erect penis and half-heartedly began the difficult task of pushing it into her body: I impregnated Tyhry!

The Marda replicoid turned and saw Lexy. "An older Tyhry?"

Lexy approached Marda and with one hand took hold of Marda's hot erection and with her other hand felt Marda's two lower breasts. "So, the rumors are true... tryp'At hermaphrodites really do have four breasts."

Vythoth and Systolina and the other replicoid copy of Marda came through the portal, arriving inside Systolina Chapel. While pushing her erection into her body, the copy of Marda with tryp'At anatomical features asked, "Who is this Fru'wu?"

Tyhry performed introductions, but she was distracted by what she saw through the portal that led to the Simulation of the Hierion Domain. There inside the Hierion Domain simulation was a copy of Anthony and the replicoid copy of Tyhry who had four breasts, the lower two hanging down towards her abdomen and larger than the two that were higher up on her chest. That copy of Tyhry was speaking to someone who the original Tyhry did not recognize, apparently a Yastyn who had transcended into the Hierion Domain. 

Vythoth told the replicoid copy of Marda, "My name is Vythoth. I'm studying the effects that contact between we Fru'wu and you humans has had on the social systems of Earth."

The copy of Marda with tryp'At features used clothing nanites to cover herself and rapidly exchanged telepathic signals with Tyhry and the other Marda replicoid. She asked Tyhry: You think Tarynon has been communicating with Vythoth?

 "An alien?" Vythoth was looking through the Hierion Domain portal. He was intrigued by the appearance of the Yastyn and asked, "Can they see us?"

The Marda replicoid who lived at Systolina Chapel replied, "When I'm inside that Simulation of the Hierion Domain, I am telepathically aware of the location of the portal, but I cannot see through the portal. The Viewer equipment here on this side seems to generate a view of what is on the other side of the portal." Marda stepped through the portal and and spoke to the copy of Tyhry inside the Simulation. Then the copy of Tyhry who had four breasts seemed to quickly terminate her conversation with the Yastyn. 

tryp'At Tyhry

That copy of Tyhry, the copy of Anthony who was inside the Hierion Domain Simulation and the copy of Marda with tryp'At features all came back through the portal, returning to Systolina Chapel. The original biological copy telepathically told her four-breasted replicoid copy: Congratulations on your pregnancy! Speaking out loud, the original biological copy of Tyhry performed introductions and then the replicoid copy of Marda from the nanite research lab stepped close to the copy of Tyhry who had four breasts. Marda fondled Tyhry's two big lower breasts and said, "Wow, you're huge."

The copy of Tyhry with four breasts dissolved her clothing nanites from over her breasts and showed Marda her big nipples and explained. "My nipples are are always erect, as is my penis." Tyhry reached down and stroked the tip of her penis where it pressed out against the fabric of her tight-fitting pants. "I've just about gotten used to being in constant telepathic contact with Marda and continually being in a state of sexual excitement." She put an arm around the copy of Marda who also had tryp'At features and added, "And with Anthony around and our fine collection of femtobot-engineered vibrators, there is no penis shortage here. It is a pleasant way to live."

The original biological copy of Tyhry was surprised at how much the breasts of this copy of Tyhry had grown during the past three months. She visually compared the sizes of Lexy's breasts to the lower two breasts of the Tyhry copy with tryp'At anatomical features and decided that they were nearly the same size.

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Vythoth the Fru'wu

Below on this page is Part 5 of the science fiction story Vythoth the Chresmoscopist. In Part 4, Tyhry discovered that by using developmental control zeptites to recover her genetically-programmed body structure, she had boosted her telepathic abilities. Tyhry began exploring Systolina the robot's memories and learning about the conflict on Threy between Systolina and a religious robot named Nymerya Coryn.

In Part 5 (below), Tyhry brings Lexy out of the pattern buffer of the Reality Simulation System. Then Vythoth the Fru'wu teleports into the nanite research laboratory.

Marda

Tyhry's telepathic abilities are restricted to examining the thoughts of other people who Tyhry loves. She is unable to gather the thoughts of Rylla, so Tyhry is not aware of the fact that Rylla had also been using both herself and Marda as experimental test subjects for another polypeptide sex hormone.

Part 5 of Vythoth the Chresmoscopist. Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4

Systolina asked, "But why me? Why was a copy of me there at Mosy's death?"

Tyhry shook her head. "We may never know; the Interventionists have always been careful not to make it easy to follow their tracks. And please understand this, Systolina, what we saw might not have actually been a copy of you, at all... it might have been just another robot with your appearance... with the same appearance that you once had, right when you first came out of the robot manufacturing factory on Triskelion. And in any case, what looked like a copy of you may have simply been a messenger, delivering some inactivation nanites to Mosy. So you see, it does not matter. Systolina, please don't let this unhinge your positronic brain. We have to continue with our work! I can tell you this: Manny always has a plan. The bumpha had advanced Viewer technology... they could look ahead into possible future Realities. Manny may have placed a copy of you on Earth with Mosy simply as a way of sending us a message."

Lexy

 Systolina was astounded by the idea that all the way back in the Ekcolir Reality, Manny might have been making plans for how to deal with Nymerya Coryn, a robot who now existed inside the Reality Simulation System in the Final Reality. Systolina was still trying to synchronize her telepathic mind pattern with that of Tyhry. She asked Tyhry, "Do you really think that Manny planned all of this?"

"Yes, that is my best guess." Tyhry giggled. "Spooky, isn't it? I've learned to continually remind myself just how advanced the bumpha are compared to us. Technologically, humans are to the bumpha like an ant is to a human. I constantly remind myself that even if Manny takes on the appearance of a cute woman, she's an alien artificial life form that is billions of years old. I constantly remind myself about that so that I can never be surprised by the tricks that Manny has up her sleeve."

Systolina could telepathically sense that Tyhry was thinking about her analogue, Lexy. "What happened to her... your copy, Lexy?"

Tyhry explained, "I left her inside the pattern buffer. Now, I'm going to bring her out." Tyhry pressed a button on the control console of the Reality Simulation System and Lexy re-appeared. 

Lexy looked around. "Strange, suddenly you two look different..."

Tyhry figured there was no sense in trying to keep secrets from her analogue. Tyhry said, "Don't worry about that, Lexy... we've been busy. I just played a little trick on you. You were held in a pattern buffer for a few hours. Now, tell me, what is this about the Fru'wu and their interest in Sedrover?"

Lexy said, "Let's trade." Lexy pointed at Systolina. "I'll answer the question that you just asked me, but then I want you to tell me who this is and why she looks so much like Abby."

Siteq

Tyhry reached out again with her telepathic sense and tried to look into Lexy's memories. However, Tyhry was still suffering from the effects of her sensitive tryp'At style telepathy being overwhelmed by the nearby group mind of her replicoid copies who were busy preparing Sedrover for its first space flight. "Abby? I know an Abby. Wait... she was in that story about Irhit and Siteq. Abby was a tryp'At agent on Earth!" For a moment, Tyhry tried to remember the story about Siteq which she had read many years previously. 

Tyhry now realized that when the analogue of her father, Irhit, had visited Siteq, that must have created an opportunity for Eddy to learn about the Interventionist agent named Abby. When her father used the Reality Simulation System to investigate Siteq, that could have been one of the times when her father had learned about the existence of a copy of Marda in the Ekcolir Reality. However, the fact that Abby was an analogue of Marda never got mentioned in Eddy's report on Siteq. Anthony could have edited that right out of Eddy's memories. 

Tyhry told Lexy, "Systolina is a robot. She and I have been playing a game, making Systolina look like Marda. My only excuse for playing that silly game is that I love Marda, I think she's wonderful. I've been amused myself by playing with the idea that if I alter her hair and clothing with my nanites then I can make Systolina resemble a cute sister of Marda."

Marda on Threy.

Systolina told Lexy, "Back on Threy, I never thought I'd see Marda again. I simply used my memories of her pretty face and sexy body as a model when I was re-constructing myself, trying to make myself look more human. I hoped that Tyhry would respond favorably to my request for help if I looked like Marda."

Lexy shook her head, "I don't know what you two are talking about. Who is Marda? In any case, the Fru'wu discovered the spaceship that is being built here. They could not understand how primitive Earthlings could suddenly develop an interstellar spaceship engine." Lexy pointed at Tyhry. "Then the Fru'wu were amused by all the seemingly identical copies of you and their resemblance to my sister and I. They talked me into coming here to investigate. Of course, as soon as I came here, my telepathic mind was immediately recognized."

Tyhry asked, "You have a sister?"

"Well, she's a clone, but I think of her as my little sister. No, I don't mind answering that question I see in your mind, Tyhry. My sister and I have been part of an effort to help Earthlings adapt to the advanced technology of the Fru'wu." Lexy placed a hand on Tyhry's arm. "Now, I want you to tell me; what is all this I see in your mind about Reality Simulation?"

Tyhry said, "We are in a simulation of your world, Lexy."

Lexy giggled. "I don't believe it! No simulation could be this realistic." She touched Tyhry's nanite-enhanced hair. "I've never felt anything as soft and wiggly as your hair. It moves like it is alive! How could such sensations be simulated? Mind control?"

Tyhry shook her head. "I won't try to convince you, but we are inside a Simulation of Reality. However, that's really unimportant... forget about it. Tell me about this Fru'wu who you know; Vythoth."

Lexy tried to dig deeper into Tyhry's memories, but got nowhere. "A simulation? So perfect that nobody is aware of being simulated?" She shook her head and pulled a small device out of her pocket. "You are the original copy of Tyhry, right? I was to signal to Vythoth when I found you. The Fru'wu have been studying you and the spaceship construction project going on here for the past six months. The Fru'wu learned your strange language... English. They gave me a set of infites that integrated into my brain, allowing me to speak your language." Now Lexy activated the the alien communications device and then Vythoth appeared there in the laboratory, arriving by teleportation. 

Vythoth the Fru'wu looked around the interior of the laboratory and nodded to Lexy. Vythoth had long white hair that was tinted a light shade of green as were her eyes. Vythoth almost looked human, but it was impossible to be fooled; Vythoth was humanoid but not even trying to put on a convincing show of being a human being. Speaking in a strangely artificial voice, but using perfectly good English, Vythoth asked Lexy, "Do you care to introduce me to your analogue and..." Vythoth was looking at Systolina.

Systolina had no inhibitions against introducing herself to the alien and she told Vythoth, "I'm a positronic robot."

Vythoth asked, "You are one of Nyrtia's agents?"

Systolina laughed and then told Vythoth, "Not that I know of, but I suppose anything is possible."

Vythoth told Tyhry, "I'm surprised to learn that Nyrtia is helping you build a spaceship. Nyrtia has chastised we Fru'wu for bringing advanced technology to Earth. We were warned not to tell Earthlings anything about or interstellar space travel technology."

Tyhry could telepathically feel the edge of Vythoth's mind and although Vythoth looked mostly female, apparently Vythoth was male. Tyhry sighed and told the alien, "I've never met Nyrtia." Tyhry looked at Vythoth's crotch and then asked, "You are a male Fru'wu?"

Vythoth nodded. "Yes, I'm male. We Fru'wu have a mixed culture with males, females and hermaphrodites. Anticipating that I would meet you, for this project, I've shaped myself so as to appear to be a human female. It is a trivial matter for we Fru'wu to use nanites to modify our exoskeleton so as to take on any convenient form."

Vythoth in human form on Earth.

Tyhry giggled and placed a hand on Vythoth's bottom. "Well, you have a cute ass that looks like the derrière of a sexy young woman. Looking at you from this angle reminds me of my older sister, Rylla. She's a runner and has powerful legs like yours."

Vythoth could see another name in Tyhry's mind. "As I synchronize my telepathic mind to yours, I can touch your thoughts... I now realize that you are the tool of Manny the bumpha. I should have known! So, you are working against Nyrtia."

Tyhry explained, "I'm not against Nyrtia. I'd love to meet her."

Vythoth complained, "I just can't fathom where you are from. You appear here on Earth, speaking and unknown human language, this miserable English. But you speak Etruscan like a native. Manny must have trained you well for this mission."

Tyhry sighed, "Vythoth, you are hopelessly confused. It is a feature of this Simulation that I can speak the language of this Reality. English is a language from my Reality. But ignore all of that! The important thing is, I have tryp'At gene patterns and I've started to recover my tryp'At telepathic powers. I can also sense the surface of your mind, Vythoth, but your brain pattern is quite alien. I wish we had time to learn how to synchronize our minds."

the tryp'At

Vythoth nodded. "I've never telepathically touched a tryp'At mind, but Nyrtia claims to have contained that rebel group. For a while they were an important part of the anti-Fru movement."

Lexy asked, "Who is Manny?"

"Manny is my mentor. It was with her help that I learned how to visit past Realities of Deep Time." Tyhry put an arm around Lexy, "We have much to discuss, but tell me one thing. Do you know how to contact Nyrtia? Do you meet with her regularly?"

Lexy shook her head. "No. I have not seen Nyrtia since I came to earth, 40 years ago. Although..." Lexy stopped speaking.

Tyhry pressed her telepathic sense deeper into Lexy's mind, but Tyhry felt a crushing wave of vertigo as her mind connected to the strong telepathic signal emanating from the group mind of her dozens of replicoid copies. With her own telepathic sense now amplified and strong like that of the tryp'At, Tyhry could not protect herself from the swirling thoughts of her copies as they cascaded down upon her telepathic mind. Tyhry was forced to ask, "What?"

Lexy explained, "Well, the truth is, Nyrtia can erase memories. I suppose she erased some of mine. It is standard practice; in case the Overseers capture a secret agent on Earth... we can't reveal too much." Lexy was looking at Systolina the robot with suspicion.

Overseers.

From having read the historical reports written by both Rylla and her father, Tyhry knew that there had briefly been tryp'At Overseers working on Earth in the Ekcolir Reality. Tyhry assured Lexy, "Systolina is not like Nyrtia; she won't erase your memories. I'm trying to help Systolina with a problem... a problem that I helped create."

Trying to guide the discussion back towards his own interests, Vythoth said, "One other matter... when will the spaceship construction by completed?"

Tyhry replied, "The ship is complete. Only a few more systems diagnostics need to be run before Sedrover has its initial space flight."

Vythoth produced a strange sound; the Fru'wu equivalent of laughter. "Amazing. Tell me, do you intend to share with your fellow Earthlings the secret of interstellar space travel?"

dimensional structure

Tyhry's plan was to test the Sedrover there in the Ekcolir Reality and then move on to building a spaceship in the Final Reality.  She had no confidence that the sedron-powered drive technology would even function in the Final Reality at a point in Time after the Huaoshy had changed the Dimensional Structure of the Universe. Tyhry gave a cryptic answer to the Fru'wu's question, "There are many different groups of Earthlings. When handing out advanced technologies like candy, it is important to weigh all the possible consequences, positive and negative."

Systolina had her own concerns, the least of which was the intriguing idea that Tyhry was now in the spaceship construction business. Systolina wanted Tyrhy's attention focused on Threy. She asked Tyhry, "Do you think that you can transfer Nym into this Reality?"

Lexy was trying to dig deeper into Tyhry's thought trails which all seemed to end in withered threads. It was clear that Tyhry had grown up with a deep interest in the implications of time travel, but it seemed that Tyhry did not believe that time travel was possible. At the same time, Tyhry believed that she regularly received information and visions from the future. Confused by the seemingly paradoxical idea fragments that could be sensed in Tyhry's mind, Lexy asked, "Transfer? You are talking about Time travel?"

Tyhry shook her head, "We are in the post-time travel era of the Final Reality. You refuse to accept that this a simulation of Reality, but visiting past Realities is as close as I can now get to time travel. Systolina is working towards the other direction of Deep Time. She's asking me about the possibility of leapfrog a fellow robot from a past Reality into this one."

Systolina repeated her question, "Can you do it, Tyhry?"

Tyhry replied to Systolina, "Of course I can do it." Tyhry was simply trying to imagine all the tricky little details and consequences involved in moving Nym to a new place in Time. "In fact, it is for the best that the Phari refused to perform one of their direct transfers between Reality Simulations. I suspect that we are going to have to pull Nym out of your fork of the Asimov Reality Simulation, explain to him our plan and then send him into the past of the Ekcolir Reality and hope he can prevent Mosy from being inactivated."

Lexy asked, "Who are these people? Nym and Mosy?"

Just then the Marda replicoid came into the laboratory. She looked at Vythoth and asked, "A Fru'wu? I guess we made the big time." Marda had been tying up some lose ends and acquiring the fine chemicals that were needed for Sedrover's air and water recycling systems. Rather weary from her recent whirlwind travels to various cities around Earth, she sank into a chair.

Lexy asked, "So, this is a clone of Abby?" Lexy and Marda began linking their minds telepathically.

Even while Marda was initiating telepathic contact with Lexy, in a rapid burst of information flow, Tyhry telepathically informed Marda of what was going on. At the same time, Tyhry knew there were many questions in Lexy's mind. Tyhry asked herself: Why does everything have to happen all at once? Responding to Lexy, Tyhry asked her analogue, "Are you really interested in Systolina's problem? It is all rather complicated, and I don't have time to waste explaining it to you unless you want to help us."

Vythoth had been able to telepathically skim the basic outline of the problem from Systolina's thoughts. Vythoth was pleased at the logical arrangement of Systolina's robot mind. 

Now Vythoth said, "Let me see if I understand the problem." Vythoth asked Systolina, "There are religious robots who are trying to prevent you from providing people with access to the Hierion Domain?"

Systolina nodded. "Exactly. The biggest trouble maker is a robot named Nymerya Coryn. Alastor Cluster isn't big enough for the two of us."

 Vythoth nodded. "Your problem seems similar to the tryp'At problem. The tryp'At were operating out of a hidden space-time bubble in the Hierion Domain. A group of tryp'At field agents were working on Earth and became a major source of anti-Fru'wu sentiment. Lucky for us, Nyrtia was able to deal with the tryp'At."

Lexy was confused. She asked Systolina, "Where is Alastor Cluster? I've never heard of it."

Tyhry held up her hands. "Please, Lexy, let it go for now... I don't have time to teach you all of human history."

The Reality Chain that led to the universe as we know it.

Lexy said, "I'm getting answers from Marda. Her mind is much more open to mine than yours is, Tyhry. Somehow, just when I start to follow one of your thoughts, it seems to disappear." Lexy shook her head. "I just find it hard to believe that the Phari created an artificial star cluster."

The Marda replicoid was feeling rather confused by all the new telepathic mind patterns that were dancing at the edge of her telepathic mind. After twenty years of only being able to telepathically communicate with her mind clone Tyhry and the replicoid copies of Tyhry and herself that had been made, now the telepathic mind patterns of Systolina, Lexy and Vythoth swirled around her. Somehow, Lexy, Tyhry and Systolina were even able to provide Marda with fragmentary and second-hand "views" of the thoughts in Vythoth's alien mind. Marda told Lexy, "Well, that's not quite right... the star cluster formed naturally, but the Phari teleported habitable planets into Alastor Cluster."

 Vythoth produced his strange alien laughter. "Teleporting planets? Absurd!" The Fru'wu had their own teleportation technology. Vythoth's mind boggled at the energy requirements involved in teleporting a planet.

Tyhry told Vythoth, "Let's stay on topic and not get distracted by side issues. Nobody understands the amazing technological prowess of the Phari. We must accept that they are the masters of the Hierion Domain and hierion-based technologies."

Vythoth said, "I'm a trained specialist in social dynamics. It is my job as part of the Fru'wu expedition to Earth to report on how Fru'wu technology and Fru'wu contact with Earth is impacting human society. I'm intrigued by both the fact that you have built a spaceship and also by the idea of religious robots, but what is the Asimov Reality?"

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Tyhry looked back and forth between Lexy and Vythoth. Looking at Lexy was like looking into the future and seeing herself as an older, a middle-aged woman. Vythoth was the definition of alien strangeness: all synthetic. Synthetic voice and manufactured appearance with an alien mind that refused to resonate with Tyhry's. The more she pressed, the more Vythoth's thoughts eluded Tyhry and the more she fell into the disorienting group mind of her replicoids. 

Now, feeling quite nauseous and mentally tired from trying to synchronize her telepathic mind pattern with that of the alien Vythoth, Tyhry again tried to close off her telepathic mind to the world. Tyhry wanted to explain the past Era of Time Travel and show Lexy and Vythoth how the Reality Simulation System could be used to view events in past Realities, but there was something she had seen in Vythoth's mind that seemed more important. Tyhry asked the Fru'wu, "You can access information from the future?"

Vythoth said, "I'm reluctant to discuss that with an Earthling, but I see in your mind that you are unusual, you actually believe in the possibility of time travel."

Tyhry explained, "I was born after the end of the Time Travel Era, however," Tyhry gestured towards the control console of the Reality Simulation System, "With this device, I can view the past Realities of Deep Time."

Vythoth explained, "We Fru'wu have a device that allows us to View future events; the Chresmoscope."

Tyhry shook her head in wonder and tried to imagine how the Fru'wu had obtained Reality Viewing technology. Possibly R. Nyrtia had simply provided the Chresmoscope technology to the Fru'wu as a necessary part of getting the Fru'wu to travel from the Galactic Core to Earth and make contact with technologically primitive humans. But Tyhry thought not. The Fru'wu seemed too inept. If they could actually see the future, then how could they bumble around and cause a climate catastrophe on Earth? Tyhry asked Vythoth, "Tell me, what do you know about the future?"

Vythoth hesitated then explained, "As a Chresmoscopist, I'm constrained by the tight restriction of Temporal Paradox. The information that we Chresmoscopists have from the future is always difficult to interpret. For example, I knew that I should meet with you here today, but even now I'm not sure why. All I can tell you is that, one, I'm intrigued by the idea of religion among robots, and two, I can't imagine how technologically primitive Earthlings could possibly make an interstellar spacecraft."

Tyhry suggested, "You don't actually witness future events by Chresmoscopy, do you?"

Vythoth shrugged. "Tyhry, I can sense that you have telepathic abilities, but of a type that is unusual and new to me. But know this: a Chresmoscope works with the Fru'wu telepathic sense. It helps a trained Chresmoscopist like myself understand information from the future. However, Chresmoscopy is frustrating. Often I can't fully understand what I have seen of the future until it is too late to change the future."

the Sedron Time Stream

Tyhry nodded. "I think I know what you mean, Vythoth. I too can experience what the bumpha call the Sedron Time Stream." Tyhry was tempted to telepathically contact Kl'ath-Sedruth, but to do so would require that Tyhry amplify her telepathic abilities. With her full tryp'At telepathic powers awakening and not yet under her control, Tyhry could not risk doing that while in close proximity to the goup mind of her replicoid copies. She formed a direct synapex link to the Marda replicoid and asked: Well, what do you think?

Marda replied: I've seen something amazing in Systolina's mind. While I've been traveling around the world, you've altered your body? You now have a penis?

Tyhry had been practicing the art of keeping her secrets concealed in one half of her brain while leaving the other half open to other telepaths. I was hoping to surprise you. Tyhry nodded and spoke out loud. "Yes, I programmed some medical nanites to alter the structure of my body, allowing me to recover some of my genetically-programmed phenotypic features." Tyhry took one of Marda's hands and guided it to her skirt. Marda could feel the budging glans of Tyhry's penis were it pressed outwards against the thin soft fabric of her skirt.

Lexy was following Marda's thoughts. She stepped close to Tyhry and lifted the hem of her skirt and saw the pink tip of Tyhry's penis. "Amazing. You... we are tryp'At?" Lexy fondled the hot glans of Tyhry's penis and felt the slippery emission fluid that was was dribbling out of it.

Tyhry was sexually aroused and enjoying the delicate touch of Lexy's fingers on the engorged tip of her penis. Tyhry told Lexy, "I'm surprised that Nyrtia never told you the truth: that you are part tryp'At." 

With Lexy stimulating her penis and Marda's telepathic mind fantasizing about the possibility of getting Tyhry's erection inside her vagina, Tyhry could no longer control her penis. It slid out of its sheath and came into full view. Both Marda and Lexy placed both of their hands on Tyhry's big hot erection and began playing with it. Tyhry was now eager to make love to the replicoid copy of Marda. She spoke to Systolina, "Why don't you and Vythoth go inspect the spaceship."

Systolina took Vythoth by the hand and they went through the back door of the lab. Tyhry heard Systolina telling Vythoth, "Come on. I know when I'm not wanted."

Tyhry took Lexy to the bedroom there in the lab that Tyhry had for years shared with the replicoid copies of Anthony and Marda. The Marda replicoid followed along and quickly took off her clothes and got on the big bed. Tyhry made her clothing nanites disintegrate and she eagerly moved between Marda's legs. Lexy sat in a chair near the bed and watched Tyhry slide her long erection inside Marda. Lexy said, "My turn is next."

Next: Part 6 of Vythoth the Chresmoscopist.

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