Exit Systolina

The tryp'At breeding game. Image by Leonardo.

 On this blog page there are plans for events in the rest of the science fiction story "The Hierozyme Intervention". Also, after those plans have been sketched in outline, this blog page has the text of Chapter 6 (below). 

 Plans. Chapter 6 begins with a scene that takes place in the middle of the night, showing Systolina telling Anthony that she is departing from Earth. Anthony suggests that when this copy of Systolina returns to the Hierion Domain, another copy will replace her on Earth.

Systolina then returns to Observer Base and works with the Tyhry1 and Tyhry2 replicoids to search for information about the future of the current Reality; of particular concern is what will happen to the original biological copies of Tyhry and Marda who are on Earth. However, Manny appears and hints that Systolina and the two replicoid copies of Tyhry are being actively blocked from seeing the futures of Tyhry and Marda. It is revealed that Ylyndra is now stationed inside Tyhry2 and preventing her from accessing the Sedron Time Stream and from telepathically working in tandem with Tyhry1 to get around the block that has been imposed by Manny on access to information about the future of the current Reality.

In a Chapter 7 scene (Monday morning when Tyhry and Marda are on their way to school), Anthony has disposed of Tyhry's anti-gravity bike. Tyhry asks Anthony to drive her to Marda's place. 

Tyhry in her laboratory.

While Marda and Tyhry wait for the school bus to arrive, Rylla and Anthony talk. Anthony's prediction is shown to have been correct: Rylla is now a "backup copy" of Systolina.  

 Positronic robots. “The Hierozyme Intervention” has two characters who are the remnants of positronic robots from the era before the Huaoshy tossed T-particles into the trash-bin of Time. In my imagination, both Anthony and Systolina are replicoid copies of positronic robots. That means that the structures of their original positronic brains have been converted into hierions. They now exist as complex collections of femtobots that simulate robotic bodies that were originally designed to look like human bodies. However, both Anthony and Systolina retain telepathic powers that are similar to their original telepathic abilities that they had as positronic robots back when T-particles still existed.  

 Telepathy. Two years ago in a story titled “The Nanite Smuggler”, I introduced 'entrons' as a specific type of hierion. The tryp'At make use of entrons to share communications signals that make possible a form of technology-assisted telepathy that relies on using the zeptite endosymbiont of the tryp'At. In my imagination, the bumpha would deploy 'entrons' for use by humans and tryp'At because entrons are relatively primitive hierions. The bumpha would reserve other (more advanced) sedron-based communications protocols for their own use (for example, in the mechanism of the Sedron Time Stream ). I have never describe the physical basis for the other technology-assisted telepathy system that is used by the pek femtobots that are components of femtobot endosymbionts. Also, there is yet another communications method involved in the technology-assisted telepathy of Anthony and Systolina. The end of the Time Travel War (between the positronic robots of Earth and the bumpha) came with an agreement that I call the Trysta-Grean Pact (Trysta being the representative of the robots and Grean representing the bumpha). Under the terms of the Trysta-Grean Pact, the bumpha accepted the requirement that humans be allowed to develop space travel and spread through their home galaxy.

Observer Base

 The second scene in Chapter 7 of “The Hierozyme Intervention” can return to Observer Base where Systolina tries to make use of her probot-style telepathy and her connections to the Phari to get around Manny's block that is preventing access to information about the future. Discussion in this scene between Systolina and the Tyhry replicoids can explicitly compare and contrast (1) proton wire positronics to (2) the sedron-facilitated positronics that are included in “The Foundations of Eternity”. Systolina has been informed by the Phari of the true meaning of positronics, but she has to argue with Tyhry1 and Tyhry2 who know a bumpha “cover story”. Intrigued by why there is a cover story, Systolina proposes that by combining “true positronics” with Phari Simulator technology they should be able to learn about the future of Earth in the current Reality. Since Tyhry is now locked out of the Sedron Time Stream (by Ylyndra), Systolina proposes learning enough about positronics to “hack into” the sedron domain. Systolina proposes finding a way to telepathically contact the Sedruth entity by positronic means, a method that will not become known to Manny.

There are three important future time points to be visited (see the timeline of events that is on this blog page): (1) 2013, when Tyhry goes to Hawaii in order to attend college, (2) 2019 when Marda returns to Arizona from Germany, (3) 2027 when Tyhry returns to Arizona where Marda completes work on the bio-engineered microbe that will solve the global warming problem.  

Manny the bumpha.

Chapter 8 can begin by leaping ahead 16 years from the time of the first five chapters of the story (2011). Then, later in the story, I can do flashbacks to events in 2013 and 2019 (see FB1 and FB2, below). In a second scene, Chapter 8 could leap ahead even further to 2040, returning to Observer Base where the Tyhry replicoids finally get around Manny's block against obtaining information about the future of the current Reality. Nyrtia, Manny and three replicoid copies of Tyhry (including the one that went to Tar'tron with Klaudy) all assemble and discuss the fact that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are falling. Nyrtia is pleased that "humans solved the problem". Manny exits from that meeting and finally visits Marda and her Ek'col husband (Nileck) on Earth. Manny explains that humans must eventually transcend into the Sedron Domain and return Earth to the status of a Garden World. Tyhry arrives and asks who Manny is, but she is unable to believe the answer: that Manny is an alien. Tyhry talks about having seen Manny on a beach in Hawaii in 2013 (FB1). Then Marda tells Tyhry about how Manny introduced her to Nileck when Marda was in Germany (FB2). The story ends with the two children of Marda and Nileck meeting with Manny and discussing Manny's plans for her next intervention, which involves introducing a system for technology-assisted telepathy to the people of Earth.

The Hierozyme Intervention Chapter 6 - Success (Chap. 1)(Chap. 2)(Chap. 3)(Chap. 4)(Chap. 5)    

Zeta and Rylla. Image by Flow.

Eddy finally worked himself to a pause point in his writing and he went from the great room to master bedroom suite. Zeta was also still awake and pondering the mysteries of the universe: Rylla's inexplicable physical appearance, so like that of Zeta and Tyhry's strange pronouncements at the diner table that evening. Zeta told Eddy, "I don't know what is going on."

Eddy tossed off his clothing and melted into Zeta's welcoming arms. He knew exactly what Zeta meant. "Clearly, Tyhry's world has been shattered this week."

"As has mine. I find Rylla irresistible." 

Eddy kissed Zeta's mouth then said, "Your sense of self-love is strong. I find it impossible to keep my eyes off of Rylla... it is easy to imagine she's an alternate version of you." He was playing his fingers over Zeta's dripping wet labia.

"Well, I've worn myself out trying to solve that mystery. As far as I can tell, Rylla is some weird and wonderful copy of me right down to details of my unusual external genitalia." 

Eddy stroked the erect glans of Zeta's unusually large clitoris. "You are hard as diamond. Have you been masturbating?"

"Yes. When I start to fantasize about Rylla, I can't control myself."

"Well, I'll do what I can to calm your neediness, but I doubt I can match Rylla's tongue work."

Still, they knew each-others bodies well and after a shared orgasm, Eddy and Zeta were soon quietly asleep.

Systolina and Antony. Image by Flow.

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Anthony was in his studio, pretending to prepare a stone for carving, but he was obsessively thinking about what he had done to Tyhry's brain. The Casanay security system blipped. Anthony was used to no longer responding to the coyotes that wandered through the backyard. Systolina sent Anthony a message: Let me in.

Suddenly, Anthony could telepathically sense the mind pattern of Systolina. He let her in to Casanay through the back service entrance of the west wing and quietly led her to his suite. Systolina was once again in her original robotic form. Anthony was still being blocked from forming a deep telepathic link into Systolina's mind. Rather impatiently, Anthony asked Systolina, "What now?"

Systolina explained, "I'm returning to the Hierion Domain. I just wanted to scold you for your abuse of Tyhry."

"You are late." Anthony smiled grimly. "You should have been here when Ylyndra and Manny chastised me. You can't make me feel any worse than I already do."

Anthony's core positronic brain pattern was open to Systolina. She could see that he was close to a circuit lock-up for having possibly harmed Tyhry's mind. Systolina put her arms around Anthony. "You should quit. Nyrtia will put you in an early grave."

"I can only blame Manny. She's flipped out. Forcing a mind-wipe on Tyhry for nothing."

Systolina giggled. "Anthony, I didn't think you had it in you! You are furious at Manny."

Systolina and Antony. Image by Flow.

Anthony pulled his hands off of Systolina's curvy hips and spun away. He picked up a file and pretended to work on the stone block that stood in the center of his studio. "I'd be just as angry with you, but you don't seem to have a clue as to what Manny is trying to accomplish. Still, you are facilitating Manny's bad actions. You and the Phari are just as much to blame as are the bumpha."

Systolina placed one hand on Anthony's shoulder, feeling the rippling simulated muscled as he worked the stone. "Don't be mad at the Phari, they are just curious. They've used their Simulation technology to predict how this will all play out. They are not certain of their prediction and asked me to visit Casanay and gather more information."

Anthony turned his head and looked into Systolina's eyes. "I've left my mind open to you. Your mission was a waste of time. I can't imaging what Manny is trying to accomplish. It is as if she spent huge amounts of effort to solve Earth's global warming problem in the previous Reality and then flushed it all down into the septic tank." 

Systolina placed her free hand on Anthony's cheek, preventing him from turning his head away from her. "It is obvious that Manny was not satisfied with the previous Reality."

"Neither was Nyrtia, after she realized how she had been duped by Manny."

Systolina suggested, "Maybe that is the explanation. Manny tricked Nyrtia beautifully, but Manny loves Nyrtia. Manny would not expect to continue to work with Nyrtia after humiliating her."

Anthony observed, "Not even Manny can erase the past. Nyrtia's humiliation can't be washed away by forcing me to erase Tyhry's memories."

Systolina and Antony. Image by Flow.

Systolina pulled Anthony's head down. By standing on her toes she managed to place a kiss on on Anthony's lips. Then she sank back on the flats of her feet. "I just wanted to say farewell." 

"You are going to abandon Marda?"

"I'm not worried about Marda. I suspect that Ylyndra has turned Marda into a fully self-actualized tryp'At adult. If nothing else, Marda could move in here and live happily with Tyhry." 

Anthony thought about Casanay turned upside down my Marda's presence. "I'm more worried about Zeta. She's infatuated with you."

 Systolina giggled. "I had fun with Zeta, just like I did when she visited Threy in a past Reality. She'll get over me this time, just like last time. Call it a sweet summer vacation fling." Systolina activated her recall signal and the Phari teleported her off of Earth and back to the Hierion Domain.

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Systolina was immediately teleported into Observer Base. She found herself standing outside of Tyhry's residence. Systolina could sense the telepathic mind patterns of the two replicoid copies of Tyhry inside the house. They were deep in a telepathic shared mind space where Tyhry1 was teaching Tyhry2 what it meant to live as a tryp'At. Systolina let her presence be known and a rather startled Tyhry1 invited Systolina inside.

Systolina joined the two Tyhrys on Tyhry's big bed. 

Tyhry1 was struggling to get her penis back into her abdominal sheath. Tyhr1 asked: Did you bring Marda?

Image by Leonardo.

"No. Nyrtia has not touched Marda." Seeing that Tyhry2 was having trouble pulling out of her deep mindlink, Systolina spoke out loud to Tyhr1. "The whole situation is depressing. Manny has thrown away a perfectly good Reality; Earth's solution to global warming. And for what?"

Tyhry1 was licking semen off of her hands and thinking. She had expected both Tyhry and Marda to be exiled to Observer Base. "I've been watching. Marda was the one who provoked Tyhry into making hierozymes."

"I suppose Nyrtia blames Ylyndra."

"Ylyndra?"

"Ylyndra has been inside of Marda for years."

"I was ready to blame you for getting Marda into trouble. I just found out today that you were pretending to be Rylla."

"I'm glad to hear it was not obvious to you. I put a lot of effort into my disguise."

"How did you explain to Marda the physical similarity between Rylla and Zeta?"

"What's to explain? Ylyndra taught Marda about Manny's penchant for genetically engineering humans. Marda never asked. She probably assumed that Manny designed Rylla for a specific purpose." Systolina nodded towards Tyhry2 and asked, "What's wrong with her?"

Image by Leonardo.

"Nothing bad." Tyhry1 glanced at Tyhry2. "She just got her first big dose of tryp'At sex hormones. She's recovering from her first orgasm trance." Tyhry1 popped Tyhry2 off of her lower right breast. Pink oxypathin-rich fluid continued to dribble from both of her two lower breasts.

Tyhry2 opened her eyes and tried to focus on Systolina. She managed to mutter, "Who?"

Tyhry1 propped Tyhry2 up into a sitting position on the bed. "This is Systolina Kato." 

"A character from dad's novel? The Nanite Smuggler."

 Systolina nodded, "That novel provides a fairly accurate account of your family's visit to Threy. That is when I first met an analogue of you in a past Reality."

"I see. Why are you here now?" Tyhry2 was playing with the secretions that oozed from Tyhry1's lower breasts and finger painting the sticky pink fluid onto Tyhry1's skin. 

"I went to Earth on a mission to find out what the pek know about Manny's current Casanay Intervention. They seem to know nothing. It is up to us to sort this out."

Tyhry1 shook her head. "Sorry to disappoint you, but I detected no amplification of my telepathic abilities, even when in a shared orgasm trance with her." Tyhry1 tilted her head towards Tyhry2.

Systolina had previously seen Tyhry1 work together with another replicoid copy of Tyhry to amplify their telepathic abilities while in a shared orgasm trance. She asked Tyhry1, "How can that be?"

As if in reply to Systolina, Manny materialized there on the bed and began playing with Tyhry2's hair nanites, putting them into an organized and mesmerizing pattern. Manny explained, "I can't allow you meddling do gooders to see the future of the current Reality."

Tyhry1 demanded, "How can you stop us?"

Manny patted her own flamboyant hair. "I could send you off to Tar'tron where you would no longer have access to the bummpha technology I gave you. But I wont do that. I prefer to have you here at Observer Base where you can give Nyrtia something to watch."

 Manny bundled Tyhry2 into her arms and scolded Tyhry1, "You over-dosed this child."

"She asked for it."

Manny teleported Tyhry2 out of Tyhry1's home and over to another location inside Observer Base. Tyhry2 was looking around at her new surroundings when she felt the mind pattern of Ylyndra intruding upon her thoughts: It is true. She insisted on getting a complete tour of the features of her tryp'At body form.

Manny stood Tyhry2 on her feet. Speaking out loud for Tyhry2's benefit, Manny said to Ylyndra, "I suppose I should never have counted on you to protect the poor girl."

Ylyndra was not willing to let Manny criticize her choices as a field agent. Don't pretend to be surprised. Tyhry thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Even now, she's quite irked with you for having cut short her first orgasm trance.

Tyhry2 said, "I hear a strange voice in my head."

Manny told Tyhry, "Get used to it. Ylyndra the zeptozoan will be with you for the next couple of decades, making sure you don't interfere with my plans for Earth."

Two Tyhry's and Systolina. Image by Leonardo.

Tyhry felt a shiver of horror run through her. Ylyndra assured Tyhry: It is not all bad. There will be plenty for you to do. Get integrated into life here at Observer Base, learn how to explore Simulations of past and future Realities, make babies, keep Systolina and your analogue out of trouble... we'll be quite busy. 

Manny patted Tyhry on the head. "I'll leave you to it." Manny departed from the Hierion Domain.

Tyhry asked, "Where are we?"

Ylyndra explained: This is a part of Observer Base called the Writers Block.

Now Tyhry recognized the office of the Director of the Writers Block from its description in Eddy's novels. "Why are we here?"

I suppose Manny wants you to meet some of the local residents. Tyhry exited from the Director's office without remembering that she was naked. Ylyndra suggested: Clothing is optional at the Writers Block, but you might want to cover-up a few of your nipples and tuck your penis back in its sheath. Tryp'At anatomy is a bit much for conventional humans to process.

Two Tyhry's and Systolina. Image by Leonardo.

Tyhry looked down at herself and took hold of her erection. Not yet experienced in the art of pushing tryp'At penises back into their sheaths, it took a minute for Tyhry to make herself presentable. When she had finished licking tryp'At body secretions and sex hormones off of her hands, she stepped out into the busy central plaza of the Writers Block. Ylyndra said: There's Sydney. Let's go say hello. Tyhry was pleased to meet one of her favorite writers. 

Tyhry could not resist asking Sydney if she really believed an alien humanoid species could be as she imagined and written into one of her novels: almost totally lacking a sex drive. Tyhry ended up admitting that she was struggling to control her enthusiasm for making use of her newly discovered tryp'At sex organs. Sydney laughed and told Tyhry2, "I've had the pleasure of spending some long and glorious nights with your sister. Sadly, I don't think I was able to satisfy her needs, but each time she sure wore me out."

Tyhry2 nodded. "I'm just discovering how to be tryp'At, but I'm glad to be here at Observer Base where I'm treated like the consenting adult I am. On Earth I was treated like a human child."

"What's wrong with that? At a glance, and with clothing, you look like a little Earth girl, except for your ears."

Tyhry asked, "Would you like me to show you my penis? You'd no longer call me little."

"Sure, I'd love to see how big you really are."

Tyhry2 stood up and brushed aside her clothing nanites and pulled out her penis. Sydney reached out and fondled Tyhry2's erection. "How cute. I'd say you are about half the size of your sister."

"She's not really my sister. She's me. My analogue. And I'll be as huge as she is when I'm done growing." A small crowd of admirers had quickly gathered around Tyhry. Ylyndra warned Tyhry: You better control your exhibitionism or you are going to trigger an orgy. Remembering Nyrtia's warning to take things slow, Tyhry reluctantly pushed her penis back into its sheath. She had been starting to recognize Sydney's unique telepathic mind pattern, but now in the middle of a group horny writers, Tyhry was feeling cognitively overwhelmed. "Sorry, the show is over!" She took Sydney by the hand and led her out of the commons. "I'm sorry to bother you, but I'm lost. I'm starting to sense your thoughts, and I believe you know where my analogue lives."

"I have not seen her in over a year, but I remember where she lives."

"There's something else. Do you know where Nyrtia lives?"

Sydney laughed. "You are pushing the word 'live' beyond its useful boundaries. Most people try to avoid Nyrtia... she's an alien artificial life-form who interferes with the development of civilization on Earth. I still resent the fact that she exiled me from Earth."

Sensing that Sydney missed her old life on Earth, Tyhry mused, "I think I'm going to like it here... I never felt like I belonged on Earth. Do you ever Observe your copy who remained on Earth?"

"Not anymore. She's dead. It is one of the problems with being an immortal replicoid. We all out-live our biological copies."

"Sorry to remind you of your loss."

Image by Leonardo.

"I don't mind." For a time they walked along the path that led towards the hidden gate that linked the Writers Block to the rest of Observer Base. Sydney tried to answer Tyhry's question about Nyrtia. "I don't think Nyrtia has a home. She comes and goes as she pleases. I'm satisfied to stay out of her way. She never explained to my why I was exiled from Earth."

"I suppose you wrote something about the aliens that got you in trouble."

"For some reason, I was not as lucky as your father. He can seemingly get away with anything. His stories even contain detailed descriptions of Observer Base."

"You know my father?"

"I know of him. Eddy is rather famous at the Writers Block. It seems unfair that he can write anything he likes about the pek and the bumpha... all with no consequences. I've been told that my science fiction stories provided people on Earth with dangerous information about sedrons, but I never even knew that word until I arrived here."

"In a way, dad was responsible for getting me into trouble with Nyrtia."

"What happened?"

Ylyndra told Tyhry: Sorry, I can't let you blabber about me. Tyhry stopped trying to say the word 'Ylyndra' and said, "My friend, Marda, figured out that Eddy's stories contain factual accounts of real aliens. She found us and provoked me into a noble act. Nyrtia took exception to my use of advanced bumpha technology to combat rising greenhouse gas levels."

"The rumor I heard was that Earth's climate woes were solved."

Image by Leonardo.

"Not in the current Reality, but I'm still learning about what has happened in past Realities. My analogue has promised to show me her Simulator. I should be able to explore all of the past Realities of Earth!"

They had finally reached the gate. Sydney showed Tyhry the trick of slipping through the hidden gate. Once on the other side, Sydney said, "Well have to use the rail system. It is a long way to Tyhry's place."

In the distance, Tyhry could now see the tall buildings of the central district of Observer Base. "I think I can find my way now, if you want to go back home."

"I've come this far... I'm curious to see if your sister will play with me." Having spent time with Tyhry2, Sydney was now quite eager to again play with a tryp'At.

"Wow, and I thought I'm horny." Tyhry laughed. "The longer I spend with you, the more I can follow your thoughts. I think you must have some tryp'At gene patterns. That must be why the other Tyhry was interested in you."

"As long as she likes me, I don't care why. She said something about Asterothropes and my big breasts."

"If you don't mind me asking, how many nipples do you have?"

"Four."

"Interesting. But only two breasts?"

"Yes. It is strange, when I arrive here from Earth and found that my new artificial body was equipped with two extra nipples. I can give myself orgasms just by stoking them."

Image by Leonardo.

"There is nothing extra about them. They are critical to Asterothrope and tryp'At biology. My father's theory is that the lower Asterothrope breasts were engineered to make the hormones that support telepathy. Any time you stimulate your nipples youe lower breasts release the sex hormone oxypathin into your blood. That's a feature that was carried over into tryp'At physiology. Sadly my lower breasts are still not growing, so I don't put oxypathin into my mammary gland secretions yet."

"You are talking about that pink stuff that flows out of your sister's lower breasts?"

"Yes, there is oxypathin in the secretions of the two lower tryp'At breasts. That secretion goes on all the time. Until my exo-ducts open up, all of my body's oxypathin goes right into my blood, making me horny all the time."

Sydney laughed. "All the time?"

"Yes, all the time. The tryp'At penis is always erect."

"Wow. That explains why your sister can whip out her erection on a moment's notice. I really enjoy that!"

"I can ejaculate any time I want... internally."

"So how often do you have an orgasm?"

 "That has becoming a real problem since I arrived at Observer Base. All I can say is that it has been too long since my last one. If you wouldn't mind..."

Image by Leonardo.

The two women stopped walking. Sydney said, "I want to watch. I could not believe the volume of semen that your sister produced."

Tyhry pulled down her skirt and her penis popped out. Tyhry resisted the temptation to touch the silky skin of her erection. She saw Sydney lick her lips. "There's another hormone in tryp'At semen. Klytykinin. I suspect you have both oxypathin and klytykinin receptors. Go ahead."

Sydney reached out and began playing with Tyhry's erection. Slippery emission fluid was dribbling from its tip. Sydney took the tip of Tyhry's penis in her mouth and then Tyhry could no longer control herself and she began ejaculating. When Sydney could no longer keep up swallowing she pulled away and watched great spurts of semen continue to erupt from Tyhry's penis. "How long can you do that?"

"I don't know. Normally, I'd be ejaculating into the body of another tryp'At. There is something sad in seeing all of that Klytykinin-laced semen decorating the bushes."

Sydney complained, "Now I'm very horny."

"Its all the Klytykinin you swallowed." The two women sank down on the grass and made love. Latter, Tyhry slowly emerged from her orgasm trance. She realized that she had just shared her orgasm trance with Ylyndra.

Image by Leonardo.

Ylyndra told Tyhry: There's something wrong.

Tyhry replied: That seemed perfect to me. 

There was no amplification. Between the two of us, we should have been able to not only bring Sydney into that orgasm trance, but you should have been able to get deeper into her memories.

Sydney was fondling Tyhry's erection with one hand and exploring her two vaginas with her other hand. "You were far gone. I thought you were not coming back."

Tyhry accused Ylyndra: You planned this whole thing. 

I hoped Sydney would sexually excite you and allow for my experiment. I hate to break the news to you, Tyhry, just when you are learning to love your penis, but Manny must be blocking your full tryp'At telepathic powers. And it is not just you. It is like there is now some kind of telepathy damping field here inside Observer Base... so weird!

Wondering if Nyrtia might be blocking telepathic communications, Tyhry asked, "Nyrtia?"  

Sydney said, "What about Nyrtia?" 

"Oh, nothing. She warned me to take things slow, but I've ravished you after having just met you."

"I don't mind. That was very hot sex. I would not mind doing it again."

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"Let's wait until we get home. I want to ask my analog how Nyrtia could be blocking telepathic signals."

The two women resumed walking and soon reached the nearest monorail station. They tried to retrain themselves and only kiss while in the train car, but Tyhry's erection popped out again and they grabbed another quick orgasm before reaching their stop. Emerging from the train station, Tyhry2 could sense Tyhry1's telepathic mind pattern, which was almost the same as her own. The two Tyhry's and Ylyndra merged into a shared telepathic mind space. Ylyndra commented: Without our normal telepathic abilities, you won't have access to the Time Stream.

Tyhr1 added: And we will have no hope of Viewing the future of the current Reality.

Tyhry2 telepathically asked: Can Nyrtia do that? At the same time, she was re-introducing Sydney to Tyhry1, "I guess you two know each-other."

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Tyhry1 hugged Sydney. "Of course. We share a round of our hot little romance back a year or so ago." Tyhry1 telepathically said: I don't think it is Nyrtia. It must be Manny. Remember what she said? Something about not letting us see the future.

Ylyndra said: Well, I'm not giving up. Maybe we just need to include more minds in a group orgasm trance. 

Tyhry1 took hold of Sydney's hand and guided her towards the bedroom. "I'm so glad you are here." She telepathically signaled to Systolina: We need you, too. All hands on deck.

 Related Music: We Walk the Line and Exile.

Next: Chapter 7 of "The Hierozyme Intervention".

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The Phari

Figure 1. A Pharazen on planet Kwenslo.

 I recently created a blog post titled "Tyhry Watson" in which I mentioned my on-going project of occasionally making some blog pages that are about specific characters and plot devices that I commonly deploy in my stories. This is a blog post in that series and the topic is the Phari. I imagine the Phari to be an ancient life-form that originated in the First Reality. In my science fiction stories, I depict the Phari as having been most advanced form of life in our galaxy at the time when the pek first entered into our galaxy. 

Fan Fiction. The Phari are an alien life-form in my science fiction stories that are set in the Exodemic Fictional Universe, but they were created as a by-product of my obsession with the writing of Jack Vance, as described below in this blog post. 

Map of Port Mar on the planet Marune. - image source

 In the Beginning. Back in 2012, I began writing a fan-fiction story called "Assignment: Marune" which featured Jack Vance's character Jantiff Ravensroke. In Vance's novel Marune: Alastor 933, there are humanoid natives of the planet Marune who seem to totally shun advanced technology, yet they have mysterious abilities, possibly including some kind of telepathic powers. 

 What If? What if these seemingly primitive natives actually have advanced nanotechnology? What if some of their kind, with help from the Phari, has already transcended from biological existence and have gone on to exist as artificial life-forms in the Hierion Domain?

Cover for Meet the Phari. (source)

 Meet the Phari. Near the end of Vance's novel "Wyst", it is suggested that Jantiff might become an agent working for the Connatic, the ruler of Alastor Cluster. "Assignment: Marune" adopted the idea of Jantiff (and his wife, Glisten) becoming secret agents working for the Connatic and depicted Jantiff as being sent on a mission to the planet Marune. In 2012, I completed the first two chapters of "Assignment: Marune". Later, in 2021, in a blog post titled "The Hui-chi", there is the first chapter of another story, Meet the Phari, which can be viewed as constituting the third chapter of "Assignment: Marune". I return to Meet the Phari, below on this page.

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 Communicating with the Hierion Domain. I have also previously imagined that my 2016 Jack Vance fan-fiction story "Gharks and Hoos" should be counted as Chapter 4 of "Assignment: Marune". Due to his ability to efficiently make use of his Phari ensosymbiont, Efraim of Scharrode is able to make contact with a Kac'hin who exists in the Hierion Domain.

 Cloning in Alastor Cluster. In the story "Gharks and Hoos", it is revealed that Efraim is a clone of Alferica, his mother, with just a small chromosome swap having been made to cause Efraim to be a male. In that story, I included the idea that Efraim was provided with a copy of his father's zeptite endosymbiont. If I was writing that story here in 2026 instead of 2016 then I would use the newer concept of a transplantable femtozoan or zeptozoan. 

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 The Phari endosymbiont. In the January 30th 2016 blog post titled "2 Endosymbionts Are Better Than 1" I suggested that the Rhunes of planet Marune long ago became hosts for Phari endosymbionts. I asked: what if Efraim's "first dose" of Fwai-chi shag "disconnected" him from his Phari endosymbiont, causing disruption of his memories?

 The Sedron Domain. I also suggested that later, when the "second Fwai-chi drug" was given to Efraim, it might have "connected him up" to his pek endosymbiont, allowing him access to a "recording" of memories that exists in the Sedron Domain. This proposed use of the Sedron Domain for information storage is an early manifestation of the idea that the Sedron Domain might hold vast amounts of information about the Hadron Domain, including information that can be moved from the future to the past, an idea that I would eventually formalize as the Sedron Time Stream.

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 There was always an extra dimension. The first time I blogged about the Phari was in a September 21st 2014 blog post titled "An Alternate Vance". In that blog post, I imagined that in the Ekcolir Reality, Jack Vance wrote a total of six novels that were set in Alastor Cluster, one of which was Pharism: Alastor 458. However, in my imagination, the Phari were introduced to readers by Vance in his novel Kwenslo: Alastor 950. I imagined that the planet Kwenslo was home to an indigenous humanoid species, the Pharazen, who went extinct (see Figure 1 for an artist's reconstruction of the appearance of the Pharazen). Jantiff investigated the ancient ruins of the lost Pharazen civilization. I imagined that the planet Pharism had been colonized by the Pharazen and Pharism had become a center for the development of advanced technology. 

A summary of events on Kwenslo in Meet the Phari.

 Kwenslo. In 2021, as part of the story "Meet the Phari", I finally depicted some of the characters in the story as visiting the planet Kwenslo.

 The Pharazen. It was on the planet Pharism that scientists of the Pharazen species created the Phari as an artificial life-form. Later, the Phari built Alastor Cluster by using their advanced technology to gather together all of the planets of the galaxy that gave rise to an intelligent humanoid biological species. The Phari became masters of the Hierion Domain and hierion-based technologies.

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 Deep Time. In my imagination, Alastor Cluster only exists in one of the Realities of Deep Time, the Asimov Reality, in which the positronic robots of Earth, led by R. Nyrtia, used time travel to prevent the ancient Phari from being quietly and irreversibly sealed up inside the Hierion Domain by the pek. Thus, in the Asimov Reality, Earth became part of the Phari Network and humans had a Phari endosymbiont rather than a pek endosymbiont. 

 Double Vance. I've long had fun imagining that the person we know as Jack Vance was born as twins in the Ekcolir Reality. Depending on exactly which past Reality of Earth, the analogues of Vance has various names such as Joan, John and Jack. In a September 6th 2015 blog post, I imagined that John Vance wrote the Sessily Trilogy, which included a book called Pharisse which described the Pharisse star system was one of the places that was visited by the Phari, long before humans were created. That 2015 blog post also introduced the concept of a "Phari Network" which includes all of the worlds of the galaxy that had been visited by the Phari and infected by Phari femtobots.

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 2015. On December 2nd 2015, I posted "League of Yrinna" which holds the first chapter of the story titled The League of Yrinna. I was able to complete the first two chapters of The League of Yrinna before the end of 2015, but since that story was written in the Ekcolir Reality, only fragments of the story have made it to the Final Reality. The League of Yrinna was intended to depict actual interactions between human beings and the Phari, but I have never been able to complete The League of Yrinna. A summary of The League of Yrinna can be found in this 2025 blog post. Also, as part of my 2025 Decade in Review, there is a diagram (part of the diagram is shown in Figure 2, above) that seems to show The League of Yrinna as having been started in 2016, which is not the way to read that diagram. The top horizontal line in that diagram marks the start of the reviewed decade in June of 2015.

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 Breeding human telepaths. In the second part of The League of Yrinna, that was placed on a blog page at the start of 2016 (see "The Connatic's Library"), I developed the idea that the planet Trullion was used as a place to breed humans who might eventually be able to telepathically link the the Phari who reside in the Hierion Domain. In particular, Duissane, a Trevanyi, is depicted having been carefully bred and crafted by the Phari. The Trills, such as Glinnes, have also been genetically sculpted and on those rare occasions when Trills and Trevanyi mate, the children are interesting hybrids. In The League of Yrinna it was suggested that such children had routinely been taken away from Trullion by starmenters, delivered to Yrinna and used as breeding stock by the Phari.

In all of my early stories about the Phari, I depicted the Bimanoid Interface as the tool that could be used for communication between humans and the Phari. 

Pheni of Yrinna

 Cryptesthesiology. In "The Connatic's Library", I developed the idea of there being a science of Cryptesthesiology that existed in the Asimov Reality. The science of cryptesthesiology was the study of how some humans and members of some other alien species were able to access the Hierion Domain by using the Bimanoid Interface. Thus, the telepathic ability of Duissane that is depicted in The League of Yrinna is a kind of technology-assisted telepathy.

 The Pheni. The League of Yrinna provided an introduction to the planet Yrinna. Back in December of 2015, I imagined that the planet Yrinna was home to the Pheni, which were described as "flying animals". I imagined that with the help of Duissane, Glinnes would be able to make telepathic contact with the Pheni.

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 Early in 2016, I was thinking about The League of Yrinna as being a kind of sequel to "Assignment: Marune" and I described the story as depicting how: "Glinnes and Duissane become caught up in a struggle between the pek and the Phari for control over the fate of the human species". I've long had fun imagining that in the Asimov Reality, with the Time Travel War raging, the pek, the Phari and the bumpha were all trying to develop telepathic humans.

 The bumpha. It was late in 2014 that I began introducing the bumpha into the Exodemic Fictional Universe. At that time, I was already in the habit of routinely including the pek in my stories. It may be that the best translation of "bumpha" is "renegade", a term applied to the earliest Interventionists by the majority of Huaoshy. 

Figure 4. The humanoid extinction curve.

 Bumpha Interventionism. I proposed that the bumpha were somehow responsible for the ability of the Pharazen to exercise some independence from the pek and bring the Phari into existence as an artificial life-form that eventually came to reside inside the Hierion Domain. In 2015, I created a blog post titled "The bumpha". In that blog post about the bumpha, I described the idea that the positronic robots of Earth traveled back in time more than 1,000,000,000 years in order to create an "all human" galaxy in the Foundation Reality. The bumpha were crafted as meddling Interventionists by the Huaoshy in order to over-come the horrific reality of the relentless extinction of humanoid species (see Figure 4).

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 R. Nyrtia. Later, I imagined that in the Asimov Reality, Alastor Cluster could be used as a laboratory where telepathic humans could be made. Eventually, I specifically depicted R. Nyrtia as having been the robot that went far back in time and made contact with the Phari before the pek arrived in our galaxy. I like to think that the Phari became an important source of information for Nyrtia about the Hierion Domain and hierion-based technologies. It was only by making use of Phari-derived technology that the positronic robots of Earth were able to fight the pek to a stand-off in the Time Travel War. Back in 2015 I was making diagrams such as the one shown in Figure 3. Looking back at those diagrams, I view them as attempts to understand possible roles for the Pharazen in the origins of human variants such as the tryp'At and the Ek'col. 

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I imagine that the telepathic Ek'col were made possible by gene combinations that evolved in Alastor Cluster during the far future of the Asimov Reality. The Ek'col played a key role in ending the Time Travel War. Figure 3 shows that the "Pha" were precursors to the Pharazen, but I have never developed that idea.

When I wrote the first two chapters of The League of Yrinna, I included the pek in Chapter 2, but not the bumpha. I like to imagine that the bumpha were crafted by the Huaoshy in order to function as Interventionists. The Huaoshy had originally avoiding interference in the development of alien civilizations, but eventually the extinction curve (see Figure 4) convinced the Huaoshy that they needed to actively assist biological species.

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At the end of Chapter 2 of The League of Yrinna I outlined some ideas for Chapter 3, but I never wrote that chapter of the story. Later, in 2018, I wrote down some ideas for what might happen to Duissane and Glinnes upon their return to Trullion. I imagined that Akadie the mentor had traced the roots of the Fanscherade movement to the secretive Society of Matriarchs, which had a base of operations on Bellicent Island in the Fens. I imagined that Duissane was pregnant with twins and that Grean the Kac'hin used advanced nanite technology to secretly remove one of the embryos from Duissane's body. The special gene combinations of that stolen child eventually were used to help create the Ek'col.

 2016. Back in January 2016 I had the idea that there was a special "guide endosymbiont" that was crafted by the Phari for use in the humanoid Pheni of Yrinna. The concept was that such a guide endosymbiont could also be used with humans as an aid for making human-Phari communication possible, but I did not continue to use the terminology of "guide endosymbiont"; I usually just made reference to the 'Phari endosymbiont'. 

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 Phari Technology. I've had fun imagining fantastic technologies that were developed by the Phari. One of the characters in The League of Yrinna was a replicoid copy of Arthur C. Clarke. In a 2016 blog post titled "Born Under Europa", I suggested that the Phari may have used their advanced nanites to guide the creation and evolution of life on planets and moons like Europa. An idea that I developed in The League of Yrinna was that the Phari made use of space pirates as tools for helping to breed telepathic humans. In my early 2016 blog post titled "Dark Stars" I described Alastor Cluster as an artificial star cluster that has been "built up" and created by the Phari. Also, as discussed in the January 2016 "Slabar Velche", the  geography of Yrinna was unusual and showed evidence of geological engineering. 

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 World Building. For the Phari, planetary engineering was like child's play. The unusual geography of the planet Yrinna included large numbers of sea bed asteroid impact craters and two dozen large land areas similar to Olympus Mons of Mars (see the January 19th 2016 blog post titled "Artificial Geology" and Figure 5). Those land areas were the domains of a single clan, among them the Rianle, Ambal and Gensifer clans that were all part of the League of Yrinna, an organization devoted to space piracy. 

 Replicoids. In "Teaser Time", I discussed the idea that the Phari had replicoid technology. In the text of Chapter 2 of League of Yrinna it is mentioned that biological species such as the Muu're had transcended their biological existence and they existed as replicoids in the Hierion Domain. 

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 2017. In 2017 I wrote a short story titled "A Future Mystery" in which I depicted the conditions under which Jack Vance wrote about the planet Pharism and the Phari. However, that story did not actually reveal anything about the Phari.

 Teleportation. The idea that the Phari had long-range teleportation technology was introduced in a July 1st 2018 blog post titled "The Exoditions of Cynk". In the story Exoditions on Cynk, I depicted planet Cynk as the world in Alastor Cluster where the Phari had first developed their nanotechnology and crafted femtobot endosymbionts. I described Cynk as a laboratory where the Phari could design endosymbionts for species like humans.

 Creating Eukaryotes. The first precisely described Phari facility on Earth that I included in a story was and underground cavern with cell bioreactors at a Phari Base deep inside the Slave Craton. 

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My first coherent description of the relationship between the Phari, the pek and the bumpha came in a July 22nd 2018 blog post titled "The Hierion Heretic". I described the Bimanoid Interface as Phari technology. I also stated that, "R. Gohrlay discovered how to use the Bimanoid Interface as a means to maintain communications via technology-assisted telepathy with her human field agents in the Hadron Domain while she remained safely within the Hierion Domain." 

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 Teleporting Planets. Explicit mention of the Phari ability to teleport entire planets came in an  October 4th 2018 blog post titled "T Time". In 2018, I also depicted Georgy White as obtaining physical evidence for the presence of the Phari on Earth over 2 billion years ago. However, Georgy was subsequently exiled to Observer Base. I suggested that the Phari helped create the first eukaryotic organisms of Earth.

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 2019. In a blog post of January 12th 2019 titled "Fun with Aliens", I finally formulated what I think of as the complete view of how the the Phari were able to play a major role in our galaxy: When R. Nyrtia developed time travel technology and began investigating Deep Time, she soon discovered the Phari. Working on the theory that an enemy of her enemy could become a friend, Nyrtia secretly rescued from erasure key elements of the Phari civilization and began making use of advanced hierion technologies obtained from the Phari." 

 Telastid-based Telepathy. In a blog post of July 1st 2019 titled "Temptation of the Replicoid" I clearly stated: "The Phari endosymbionts inside humans had become entangled with mitochondria, creating a new intracellular organelle, the telastid. Telastids conferred upon Neanderthals a weak type of telepathy, resulting in a unique type of social cohesion." 

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Possibly in the First Reality, the Phari inserted their femtobots into Earth's ecosystem. I've never written a science fiction story that attempts to depict the actual actions of the Phari in the First Reality, leaving those details to the imagination of readers.

Eventually, the Phari influence on Earth's life forms led to the telastid. The bumpha later developed an interest in the type of weak telepathy that telastids conferred on Neanderthals. Bumpha interventionism allowed the development of positronics at Observer Base. R. Nyrtia eventually searched back through time and discovered the role that the Phari had played in altering life on Earth so as to allow the evolution of telastids. In the Asimov Reality, Nyrtia traveled far back in time and formed an alliance with the Phari.

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In addition to some of the planets of Alastor Cluster, many other planets of the galaxy were engineered and/or teleported by the Phari in the Asimov Reality, among them Smade's planet, Ver'la and Moudervelt. 

 2020. Imagine if in a past Reality there has been an Alastor Cluster novel titled Yerophet: Alastor 1083. In 2020 I wrote a science fiction story called The Yerophet Experiment in which I depicted the Kerub of the planet Yerophet as being retro-evolved by the Phari in an attempt to provide a model of a femtobot endosymbiont that, if transferred to humans, could achieve R. Nyrtia's goal of developing human telepathy.

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For a story titled "The Synpaz of Seelie", I had fun with the idea that, "The Phari went far beyond any other species in study of the Hierion Domain. The Huaoshy skipped over most of hierion physics and went right into the Sedronic Domain." 

Near the end of 2020, I began a new science fiction story titled "The Olivine Intervention" which like The League of Yrinna concerned the telepathic abilities of Glisten and her efforts to telepathically link into the Phari Network. I depicted Yōd as using the Asimov Reality Simulation to explore Alastor Cluster and as saying,"it is clear that Glisten is a tool of the Phari".

 2021. At the start of 2021 I began a new science fiction story titled "The Alastor Network" which explicitly returned to an idea that had been introduced in The League of Yrinna, that the the Connatic was part of efforts to improve human telepathic abilities and a dedicated collector of people with interesting telepathic abilities. 

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 Telepathic Machines. For "The Alastor Network", I also had a character named 'Josef', an artificial intelligence that could intercept Phari telepathic signals. As for The League of Yrinna, "The Alastor Network" includes pirates from the planet Yrinna who are 'collecting' telepaths for their telepath breeding project. Captain Lanting brings Twycky to Yrinna, provoking a response by the Connatic: a raid on Yrinna. I suggested that the telepathic grandchildren of Twycky would be genetically selected humans who would be able to achieve telepathic communication with the Phari.

In "The Alastor Network", Captain Lanting "switches sides" and helps rescue Twycky from Yrinna (see "Visit to Yrinna"), but now she is pregnant. A useful summary of "The Alastor Network" is in this 2025 blog post.

Mixing telepathy genes on Yerophet (source).

The planet Yerophet becomes the focus of Whelm attention in "The Alastor Network". The image that is shown to the right indicates how genes for telepathy, originally found in several different species, had been gathered together and recombined on Yerophet. 

 Mind Clones. I had the idea that Grean was constructing a telepathic mind clone network in Alastor Cluster.

Sedron Time Stream

After completing "The Alastor Network", I began making plans for a new story titled "Meet the Phari" in which the telepathic Konie (Konywhn) would leave Yerophet on a new mission. In a March 2nd 2021blog post titled "The Hui-chi", I introduced what were called 'nanocoids', nanoscopic replicoids which could access to information within the Sedronic Domain. I imagined that information could be from both the far past and the far future (see Chapter 11). Eventually, in later stories, that concept became known as the Sedron Time Stream.

There is a useful summary of my thinking about the Phari in the June 9th 2021 blog post titled "TAT Two". However, at that time, I was depicting the zeptite endosymbionts of humans as having been created by the pek. In later stories, I would usually reserve zeptite technology for the bumpha. I summary of events in "Meet the Phari" can be found starting near the end of this 2025 blog post and continuing here.

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 2022. In 2022, when I began writing a story titled The Cythyrya Investigation, I imagined that in the Asimov Reality, an artificial life form called Jyha Ryys had exited from the body of Howard Alan Treesong and attached itself the Phari endosymbiont of Alys (Alice Wroke). 

In my 2022 science fiction story "Someday Mars", there is the idea that a Phari base existed inside of Phobos.

 2023.  In a December 20th 2023 blog post titled "2 x 3 = Sha", I contemplated the idea of there being a distinct Phari Reality. This was part of plans for a fan-fiction story called "Departure From Nor'Dyren". However, I have never written my imagined Sydney J. Van Scyoc fan-fiction story.

Systolina the robot.

 2024. In 2024 I began to seriously experiment with collaborating with chatbots (such as Claude) to write science fiction stories. From those experiments came the collaboratively written story titled "The Nanite Smuggler". The word 'Phari' appears in "The Nanite Smuggler" 254 times (the story has about 60,000 words). In "The Nanite Smuggler", Tyhry uses the Reality Simulation System to visit the planet Threy in Alastor Cluster where an alien named Kasty the Yastyn is given permission by the Phari to share programmable femtobots with Tyhry. Manny the bumpha is depicted as trying to prevent Tyhry from bringing advanced Yastyn femtobots to Earth, but with some help from the Phari, Tyhry is able to accomplish her nanite smuggling. "The Nanite Smuggler" introduced a humanoid positronic robot named Systolina who described the religious belief that the Phari would someday liberate the positronic robots of Threy.

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Tyhry also uses the Reality Simulation System to secretly make a replicoid copy of herself (named 'F. Tyhry') who she tasks with contacting the Phari. F. Tyhry develops the idea that it might be possible to use Phari teleportation technology to send alien femtobots from the Simulated Threy of the Asimov Reality to Earth of the Final Reality. "The Nanite Smuggler" depicts F. Tyhry as being guided by information that she receives from the future. By forming a synapex link to Systolina, F. Tyhry is finally able to communicate with the Phari. The Phari try to help Tyhry smuggle alien nanites off of Threy by creating a major distraction for Manny.

However, Manny reveals that she has been using Tyhry as a 'honey pot' to gain insight into her on-going effort to contact the Phari and negotiate with them. "The Nanite Smuggler" also included Kl'ath-Sedruth as a character; the entity that could curate the Sedron Time Stream.

 2025. In 2025 (see Ȃî ¢hAInge in 25¢) I set my self a goal of writing a new science fiction story that would resolve the question of the possible existence of Phari technology for long-range teleportation on Earth and still functioning in the Final Reality. As part of my 2025 Change Challenge, I suggested that Tyhry (or her femtobot replicoid) might get to experience long-range teleportation. The ability of the Phari to teleport entire planets was mentioned in the story "D*". In D*, Tyhry learns that there is a Phari long-range teleporter node in Arizona, under Mt. Picachu (see "The Nereids of Ver'la"). Tyhry makes use of that equipment to complete the construction of HySe, the first interstellar spaceship built by humans in the Final Reality.

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 In a June 28th 2025 blog post titled "Linked to Tar'tron" is Part 6 of a science fiction story titled "The Fesarians". Dani, a positronic robot says, "Femtozoans were a design feature of the Phari endosymbiont. Femtozoans are artificial life-forms that aid the early development of human brains, forming neural networks that integrate with the Phari endosymbiont. Whatever telepathic powers you have were made possible by your femtozoan." 

"The Fesarians" is set in the Ekcolir Reality, when Balok the bumpha is trying to find the secret base of Nyrtia inside the Hierion Domain. For "The Fesarians", I imagined that some remnants of the Phari Network persisted into the Ekcolir Reality. "The Fesarians" used the idea of a femtozoan being used as a time traveling agent of the bumpha. In the case of Sopha, this resulted in there being two femtozoans inside a single person.

Also, in 2025, I completed "The Cythyrya Investigation", as summarized on this blog page. The Cythyrya Investigation includes Myllyr's planet, another world of the Phari Network.

As part of the The Cythyrya Investigation, I imagined that the bumpha eventually learned enough about Phari technology so that they were then able to find a way to break the tyranny of the Bimanoid Interface that had been put in place by the positronic robots of Earth.

In a story titled "The Mystery of the Missing Motor Neurons" that was posted to this blog on July 14th 2025, I imagined that for the replicoid copy of a person to attain telekinetic powers when the motor cortex had been converted into a femtobot extension of their Phari endosymbiont.

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 End of a Network. When Tyhry began exploring the galaxy in the Final Reality, she quickly confirmed that planets of the Phari Network which had been close to Earth in the Asimov Reality, did not exist in their  previous locations in the Final Realty (see the December 21st 2025 blog post "Station Y"). Part 2 of "Plūribus ē Spatium", Tyhry is able to learn how to control the Phari teleportation equipment at Picacho Peak.

 More Jack Vance Fan-fiction.  In a December 24th 2025 blog post titled "Probability -2025" I posted a short story called Hot Alien Dinosaurs that mentioned both the Phari teleportation equipment under Picacho Peak and an Earth-like planet in orbit around the Sun-like star Xi Puppis B. The planet Xi Puppis X was known for the mysterious Monument Cliff in the Asimov Reality.

Figure 6. Tyhry on Asha.

 2026. For Chapter 3 of "Plūribus ē Spatium", I developed the idea that there had been a Phari Intervention that altered the course of civilization on Earth in the Asimov Reality (see the February 24th 2026 blog post titled "The Clones of Tiz"). Tyhry was able to use the Phari teleportation equipment under Picacho Peak in a short-range mode, teleporting from Earth to Observer Base inside the Hierion Domain.

 The Asha Simulation. In Chapter 4 of "Plūribus ē Spatium", Tyhry learns that Manny the bumpha has learned from her study of advanced Phari technology how to insert a large object (the interstellar spaceship Sedrover) into a forked Simulation. Marda goes into the Asha Simulation while Tyhry teleports to the planet Asha of the Final Reality along with Naseh, Ely the Grendel and Lori (see Figure 6).

Marda activating the femtotube.

 Femtotubes. In Chapter 5 of "Plūribus ē Spatium", Manny explains to Marda that it is possible to use another Phari technology, an Hierion femtotube, to extract Sedrover from the Asha Simulation.

 The Human Telepaths. In some of my science fiction stories that feature the Phari as plot elements (such as "Plūribus ē Spatium"), I have imagined that the Grendels were used as agents of the Phari on planets such as Earth. However, with Manny having studied the Phari and their advanced technologies, in "Plūribus ē Spatium" Manny is depicted as having taken charge of Ely the Grendel and as using Ely for Manny's effort to devise a civilization of human telepaths in the Final Reality.

Next: a science fiction story titled "The Manikoid Intervention".

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