Ǝթhit and Ṩite𝓺

Telepaths of Site Q
AI updated version.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Figure 39. Manny is Watching.
    Generated by Whisk.

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

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

Figure 40. Updated by Mr. Wombo.

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

Figure 41. Telepaths of Siteq.
    Generated by Whisk.

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

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

Figure 42. Hedy Wolcat updated by Mr. Wombo.

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

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

Asterothrope genetics

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

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

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

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

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

Telepathic mice.

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

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

Image source.

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

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

Figure 44. Wendy the robot.
    Generated by Whisk.

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

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

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

Figure 45. Updated by Mr. Wombo.

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

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

image source

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

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

Figure 46. Celebelle.
    Generated by Whisk.

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

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

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

Chapter 1 of "Lunar Mouse Exodus".

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Figure 55. Alien brains.
     Generated by Whisk.

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

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

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Telepaths of Site Q

Below on this page is a new science fiction story called "Telepaths of Site Q". The story is about the origins of human telepathy and it is set in the Ekcolir Reality during the time when Irhit was working as a tryp'At agent at Observer Base. In the Final Reality, much care had been taken to prevent the Editor from learning exactly how much control his analogue Irhit had exercised over the course of his life, so his finding a story about Irhit was a big surprise for the Editor. 

2021. However, at a point in time when the Editor was over 60 years old, an account of what took place when Irhit met Yenti (a member of a group of Asterothropes) finally reached the Editor. That information about Irhit's romance with Yenti had first been discovered in the archives of the Writers Block at Observer Base. The story of Irhit and Yenti was found in the future of the Final Reality and sent by Brak back through time from 2051, finally reaching the Editor in the year 2021.

Asimov enthroned by Rowena Morrill

 Fan-fiction. I don't mind labeling "Telepaths of Site Q" as fan-fiction. The story includes a character named Dani who is a modified form of Isaac Asimov's famous robot, Daneel. Also appearing in "Telepaths of Site Q" is another positronic robot named Wendy. Three additional positronic robots, R. Ghorlay, R. Nyrtia and R. Nahan are mentioned in passing during the course of the story. 

Furthermore, in "Telepaths of Site Q" I make use of Isaac Asimov's idea of Reality Changes as introduced in his time travel novel, The End of Eternity. In that novel, Asimov did not restrict himself to a strictly linear progression of events unfolding through time. Similarly, "Telepaths of Site Q" features time travel and time loops and some slightly out of sequence events in Time as discussed here.

______ Prelude - Part 1 - 2051 ________

The Akufowofiro ceremony.

I've always had a special telepathic rapport with Brak, so it was disturbing when we had our first argument. Brak was telling me about a story (called "Telepaths of Site Q") that had recently been found in the archives of the Writers Block. A story about me.

Well, not really about me... although it began with me as part of a larger story. To be more accurate, the story was actually about Irhit, my analogue in the Ekcolir Reality. And, to be honest, the story was only about Irhit because he was a well-documented example among many participants in a vast human telepathy breeding project. Mostly is was a fictionalized account about a community of Asterothropes that existed in the Ekcolir Reality at a place called Siteq; only the first 9 chapters were about events inside Observer Base. One of the Asterothropes who was mentioned in that story was a woman named Yenti and it is only because of her romance with Irhit that I learned of the role played by the tryp'At in contributing genes to Manny's genetic recombination project that was aimed at creating human telepaths.

Having heard just this much about Siteq, but being personally obsessed with any available information about Irhit and not suspecting that an argument was brewing, I casually told Brak, "I wish I had know about Siteq long ago."

Qaz Nivsaham

Brak is good-natured and at that moment he chuckled. "I suppose you can blame the weirdness of the Etruscan language for the delay in discovering this Site Q story. The crew at Observer Base is still working to finish translating the story, but they knew you would be interested in anything concerning Irhit and your life in the previous Reality."

I knew that the ancient Etruscan Empire had dominated the course of Western Civilization in the Ekcolir Reality. In 'Telepaths of Site Q' it was not actually called "Q". There was a different letter that does not even exist in this Reality. More importantly "Irhit" was spelled Ǝթhit and so searches of the archives for the name "Irhit" had long failed to find "Ǝթhit".

I suggested to Brak, "Maybe when the translation is complete, you could send this book back through time..... so I can read it at an earlier point in my life."

Brak must have thought I was becoming senile. He looked at me incredulously and said, "Don't forget, old man, time travel has been impossible during this century."

I'm over 90, but with the help of good genes and Zeta's medical nanites, I am not senile. I explained to Brak, "I'm not talking about physical time travel. You can access the Sedronic Domain. Just use your telepathic ability to store the text of 'Telepaths of Site Q' in the sedronic time stream. The Ivory clones will find it and Ivory will make sure that I receive the story."

Brak knew that I had once received some information nanites from Ivory. With a touch of rising hysteria in his voice, he told me, "We can't change time! The fact that you never heard from Ivory about 'Telepaths of Site Q' can't be changed now."

Suspecting that Brak harbored a type of irrational fear of time travel, I asked, "Why not?"

"You know why not... because the Huaoshy made time travel impossible. We live in the post-time travel era."

nanotropy

"This isn't time travel. This is just..." I stopped speaking. Not at all certain that I knew what I was talking about, I paused to think. Maybe information flow back through time was now forbidden by the dimensional structure of the universe. I had a hunch that was not so. "New information goes into the Sedronic Domain all the time. What could it hurt if you put 'Telepaths of Site Q' into the Sedron Domain? Humor me, Brak."

"Sure, I could do that, but what if we are playing with fire? I like how things are going in the world these days. What if placing this book into the Sedronic Domain does effect the past? What if it changes the course of human history... messes something up and gets Humanity into trouble?"

 "Well, I see your point, Brak. So just include along with the text of 'Telepaths of Site Q' a description of our worries and provide me -the me of the past- with a warning about not misusing this information about Irhit."

Brak laughed at me, "As if that would do any good. I know you grandpa... you'll do whatever you want to do, regardless of any warning I provide to you." 

I like that Brak calls me grandpa, even-though he is not actually my grandson. I think of him as being like a son, but he had never hesitated to sass me and tell me when I am wrong in my thinking. I could tell by both Brak's voice and his telepathic transmissions that he thought I was making a big mistake in trying to alter the past. My emotions got the better of me... as usually happens any time I think about Ivory. I started lecturing Brak about Ivory's good sense and intelligence, trying to make him accept my belief that Ivory and her clone sisters would not do anything to disrupt the course of human history... after all, they had vast experience pulling information out of the Sedronic Domain and sharing it with me... that was all part of creating the Final Reality.

Ivory

The more we argued, the more I felt certain that there was a solution to the problem of causing unwanted changes to the timeline. Suddenly the answer was there in my mind. "Tell Ivory not to share 'Telepaths of Site Q' with me. Tell Ivory to pass the story on to Gohrlay."

"What good will that do?"

"Gohrlay will be able to find out (by Viewing the future) if I -me in the past- should get a chance to read 'Telepaths of Site Q'. If there is danger, she will never tell me about the story."

"Okay... assume that I do put 'Telepaths of Site Q' into the Sedronic Domain where Ivory can find it... we must conclude that Gohrlay will then view the future and decide that you can't read the story, and that explains why you did not know about the story until I told you about its discovery in the Writers Block."

"No! Now that we have discussed this, I have the feeling that Gohrlay did let me read the story and then she later erased my memory of the story from my mind." As I spoke, I became quite confident that I knew what I was talking about. "In the end, I was left only knowing that I had read a story from the future."

"If that is true, then why should I bother sending 'Telepaths of Site Q' into the Sedronic Domain? Nothing would be accomplished."

"You don't know that, Brak. Something important might be accomplished... maybe even bringing you into existence. You have to do this Brak. You have to complete the time loop!" In my imagination, 'Telepaths of Site Q' had already been in the past and reached me and Ivory and.... I took a deep breath. Who knows what other people of the past had played a part in this Time Loop? Now all that remained was for Brak to do his part in the process. However, the harder I pushed at Brak the more he dug in his heels. What gave me confidence that I was right and we could not harm the shape of the Final Reality is just the looming fact of Temporal Momentum. It is hard to change Time..... that is, if Earth's replicoid system is still operational.

My argument with Brak had impressive momentum of its own. Even after 'Telepaths of Site Q' had been fully translated into English, Brak refused to place the story in the Sedronic Domain.

Zeta with the infite bottle.
Image (Zetana) made using
"shadow hunter portrait 6"
by Gretchen Byers

Brak and I periodically argued our opposed positions and our dispute burned on for the better part of six months. Then, finally, Zeta found out something new about 'Telepaths of Site Q'... something that she learned from another source. She refused to identify that source, but it is my belief that Yōd had exited from the Asimov Reality Simulator and is living in retirement either at Observer Base or maybe even on Earth. I'd be willing to bet that Yōd convinced Zeta that the "Q Time Loop" should be created.

Maybe like me, Zeta has fragmentary memories of a time in the past when I had been given an opportunity to read 'Telepaths of Site Q'. In any case, even if I don't know what broke the log-jam, the day finally came when Zeta sided with me and told Brak to put 'Telepaths of Site Q' into the Sedronic Domain along with a warning to Ivory Fersoni not to directly tell me about 'Telepaths of Site Q'.

______________Prelude - Part 2 - 2021_________________

It was a cool morning in the fall when Zeta spent an extraordinarily long time making love to me. Finally, having exhausted herself, she collapsed upon me and we held each-other tight. I could sense that her thoughts were in turmoil and she was getting ready to tell me something... something that she had been keeping as a secret. I waited, enjoying the feel of my erect penis inside her and finally she said quietly, "I have to tell you something."

I asked, "Are you pregnant again?" 

"No!" She seemed startled by the idea. "Why do you ask?"

I explained, "You vaginal secretions are particularly rich and luxuriant this morning. That's the way your vagina gets when you are pregnant."

Photograph by Gretchen Byers.
(image credits)

Her vaginal muscles squeezed down on me. "Its not me, its you. I did not know your penis could get this big and hard." She again began stoking my erection with her hot vagina then she said, "Stop distracting me. I have something important to tell you!"

For some reason she was angry. I tried to lighten her mood, "Tell me. We'll deal with it together."

"Yes, we will, but this could all go terribly wrong. We might be caught up in some sort of time paradox."

"Tell me what you know, Z."

"I'm going to let you read a story. Don't ask me how I got my hands on it or where it came from."

I complained, "You know I don't trust information unless I know its source and even then..."

"Shut up! Don't tell me what I know. Just do as I request. I won't tell you where this story is from. And that is not the worst part."

My imagination faltered. "What could be worse?"

"After you read this story, it is going to be necessary to erase your memories of what you just read. You can't be allowed to carry what you learn from this story into the future."

"Are you crazy? Then why bother telling me about this story in the first place?"

"I don't know. The only reason I'm doing this is because you (in the future) asked to let you (here in this Time) read 'Telepaths of Site Q'."

I asked stupidly, "Telepaths of Site Q?"

Temporal Momentum

"That's the name of the story."

"I've never heard of it. How could I have asked to read it?"

"You do that in the future. You did it. Oh, you know what I mean."

I did understand the situation and that Zeta was trying to tell me about some kind of time loop. "But you are not making sense, Z. If you erase this story from my mind, then why will the future me tell you to let me..."

"Just shut up! Stop asking questions! I'm not going to tell you anything about the future. That's the problem. We can't risk derailing the future. We can't create a temporal paradox... so don't ask questions. Read the story and then the infites will erase your memories and we'll be done with this."

Zeta did not really mean "read". Information nanites would insert the story into my endosymbiont and I would not actually read anything. I was genuinely confused and I sighed. "It sounds like a waste of time."

Zeta asked, "What do either you or I know about Time? We've always been at the mercy of those who could travel through time. The you in the future wanted you to read this story, so just do it. There is danger involved, so when you are done reading, your memories of the story will be destroyed. Then we'll get back to living our lives."

It is nearly impossible for me to do something unless I understand why I should do it. "But Z, what can possibly be accomplished..."

"Just do it, you stubborn mule. I don't know what is going on, but I have an idea. Ivory provided a set of infites that will-"

Ivory! Zeta had uttered the "I" word. It was rare as hens teeth to hear Zeta speak that name in our bed. I sat up and Zeta rolled off of me. I was about ready to speak when I glanced at my erection and was impressed. My penis somehow seemed larger than usual.

Zeta's telepathic daughter: Tihri.

Zeta nodded. "So, that changes everything, Eh?" Zeta could telepathically sense my thoughts come alive at the mere mention of Ivory's name and I could sense that Zeta's mind was burning with jealousy. However, she was also looking at my penis and she could not resist grabbing hold of it and then she began sucking on the tip. After a minute, she licked her lips and told me, "I'm not sure which I love most, the taste of you, or the feel of you inside me." I thought she was going to again take my erection in her hot mouth, but then she pulled her head back and cried out, "Damn it! Stop distracting me!" Telepathically, I could sense that Zeta was on the verge of commenting on the new larger size of my erection, but instead she looked into my eyes and asked, "Could Ivory have used infites to transfer her lust into my mind?"

"An amusing idea, my love." I laughed at the idea of using infites for such a purpose. "I'd like to imagine that you lust for me without the help of any infites."

She shook her head in dismay. "Of course I do! However, I don't know what came over me this morning, I can't seem to get enough of your sexplay. But that must wait! We must complete the Time Loop. These new infites will give you the story of Siteq and then the infites will erase the story from your mind. However, there will be something left behind. 'Telepaths of Site Q' will interact with the rest of your mind and there will be changes remaining in your thoughts even after the details of the story are all erased from your memory. This will not be a waste of time." It sounded like Zeta was speaking just so as to convince herself that what she was saying might be true.

infite-mediated memory transfer

I nodded. "That must be it." In my imagination I could picture me at a future time, bringing this whole Time Loop into existence. "Or maybe this is really about you. You'll be allowed to remember that I was..." Actually, I was thinking about Ivory and her sisters and how knowledge of 'Telepaths of Site Q' must have changed their behavior and Earth's historical timeline. However, I was trying hard not to utter the name "Ivory", which I knew would only irritate Zeta.

Zeta rolled off of the bed and pulled an infite bottle out of a drawer. She turned back towards me and admitted, "I tried to take these infites into my brain, but the Siteq story is coded specifically for you." She sat on the edge of the bed and handed me the bottle. "All I got from these infites was a set of instructions from Ivory. Those instructions were originally intended for my sister, Alpha, but she must have Viewed the future and decided that this was the optimal time..."

I was staggered by the idea that Alpha Gohrlay could have given me these infites long ago. However, Alpha had eventually departed from Earth, leaving me in the care of Zeta. Feeling rather daunted by the scope of Zeta's early morning revelations, I sat there staring at her in surprise. At that moment, I felt that Zeta had never looked more lovely.

Gazing upon her sexy body, I was completely distracted by Zeta's beauty and particularly her pretty breasts that were bobbing there in front of me. I began to say something about there being no need to rush into letting the infites jump into my brain, but the lid of the bottle opened automatically at my touch and a swarm of infites moved into my head. My penis was still very hard and my unusually large erection was a lingering distraction, so I was still thinking how sweet it would be to pull Zeta back into bed for some more sexplay when the infites took complete control of my mind. Just then, I was not imagining that the nanites from Ivory included more than just a set of infites encoding 'Telepaths of Site Q'..... how could I guess that there were also body-sculpting medical nanites that had first gone into Zeta and then migrated to me, nanites that were at work tweaking the structure of our two bodies?

Telepaths of Site Q

Irhit was tired. He'd worked a full shift in the fishbowl observing current events on Earth and preparing reports for the Writers Block staff. Then there had been a physically grueling tunnel-ball game followed by dinner and dancing downtown with team mates. Just before falling into bed, he heard a persistent high-pitched tone. Glancing around, Irhit saw his local part of Observer Base blink and suddenly he was elsewhere. Standing in front of him was a cute blond girl.

Irhit felt some dizziness and disorientation from his sudden teleportation. The girl reached out and took hold of his arms, steadying him. Irhit's tongue was tied by the sheer perfection of the girl's physical form. He suspected that she was an artificial life form, too perfect to be a biological human. After feasting his eyes on her exquisite features, finally, he muttered, "What's going on?"

She grinned and apologized, "Sorry for the rude abduction, but I need to provide you with a warning. Most of what I tell you will be erased from your mind while you sleep tonight, but enough will remain to help you through your coming transformation. My name is Manny, but you won't be left with any memories of me, so don't bother asking who I am or where I come from!"

He muttered, "Transformation?" Sensing that Irhit was now completely under the control of her infites and her telepathic mind, Manny knew that Irhit was eager for information and not going to collapse. She released his arms and activated a nearby view screen. An image of a very tall, dark haired woman appeared on the screen... he guessed she might be twice his own age. Irhit gazed at the projected image of the woman and felt a steadily growing sensation of infatuation. However, there was something inhuman about the woman's features and body form. Irhit looked back towards Manny and saw that she seemed perfectly human except for the unnatural perfection of her features and the odd swaying mass of hair that swirled restlessly around her head.

Manny said, "Watch this!" Irhit obediently turned his eyes back to the projected image. Now the image of the woman shifted, suddenly revealing her nude body. She had four breasts, the lower two much smaller than the upper pair.

an Asterothrope (see also)

Irhit knew that supernumerary nipples were fairly common among the tryp'At, but he'd never heard an explanation for why that was the case. Manny explained, "She's an Asterothrope, unmodified and with the normal phenotypic features of that human variant." Manny was monitoring Irhit's brain and adjusting synaptic connections. "Her name is Yenti." By editing synaptic connections in Irhit's brain, Manny was carefully removing any tendency for Irhit to be made to feel uncomfortable by the Asterothrope body shape. "This is Yenti in the future, after she has had a couple dozen children."

Irhit stared at Yenti and he licked his lips. The displayed images now shifted again, quickly showing her Asterothrope features from all sides and multiple angles. The longer he looked at her long lean body the more beautiful she seemed. He noticed that his penis was engorge with blood and he asked Manny, "I thought the Asterothropes were lost in the past... except for Trysta Iwedon." And he had never imagined Trysta with four breasts. 

Manny was using nanites to enhance Irhit's emotional and sexual response to the images of Yenti's sexy body, making sure that Irhit would gleefully participate in Manny's planned hybridization experiment. Manny explained, "Yenti's tribe of Asterothropes exists in a future time... in a far-away place where I'm experimenting with the creation of telepathic human variants. The tryp'At have many Asterothrope gene patterns and are physically more like the conventional humans of Earth, but I'm still at work trying to perfect a telepathic variant that is morphologically identical to the people of Earth." Manny reached out and ran her finger tips over the lump in Irhit's pajamas that concealed his stiff penis. "You are useful to me in this work because among all the members of the tryp'At tribe, you were born with the most nearly human morphology."

Irhit enjoyed Manny's delicate touch and he could not stop himself from contemplating the possibility that he and the cute Manny might become sexually intimate... possibly in the very near future! However, Manny was telepathically guiding Irhit's thoughts and keeping him on task. He ignored the tantalizing prospect of sexplay with Manny and asked, "Nearly? None of my friends has ever suspected me of being tryp'At."

Ferronexus

"Developmental control nanites were used to hide your obvious tryp'At features.... so yes, with the help of those modifications you have the appearance of an Earthling. You are the tryp'At wolf who can mingle with the sheep of Observer Base." Manny inactivated the view screen. "I'd like your cooperation in my human breeding project. I want you to father Yenti's first child."

Irhit could sense that Manny was prowling in his mind, but he had no useful information flow arriving from her by way of their telepathic connection. Irhit was intrigued by Manny's proposed breeding experiment but also suspicious. "Who are you? Where are we?"

"We don't have time for me to explain such things. You've had a long busy day and I'll soon send you back to your home so you can have a good sleep period before meeting Yenti. I want to warn you: be flexible and agree to her requests, even if they seem crazy. Her tribe has some unusual rituals... just play along and have fun. If, a year from now, you are unhappy with the changes that Yenti makes to you, well..... I can reverse those changes." Manny smiled enigmatically and added, "However, keep an open mind... you might like the new you."

Irhit shook his head in dismay. "I don't understand what you are trying to tell me. It is going to take a year for me to impregnate this woman?"

"No." Manny shook her head and her golden hair swirled and shimmered. "The biological incompatibility between your sperm and her egg cells will not cause any problems. Your body is equipped with a fully functional ovipositor that will be used to micro-inject your DNA into Yenti's egg. I'll allow you two to remain together during the pregnancy so that telepathy experiments can be performed..... but don't worry about such details."

"It sounds like you don't really have to waste a year of my life on this project if all you need is one of my sperm cells." He could still feel Manny playing around in his mind. "I know very little about telepathy, having been shaped and trained for my mission among the humans at Observer Base."

"This one-year-long project won't greatly disrupt your life. Your education and your work in the fishbowl will continue while you and Yenti collaborate to bring your little hybrids into existence." Manny grinned and held up two fingers. "Yes, Yenti will give birth to twins. Your main role in this project will be keeping Yenti happy during the time she is at Observer Base."

Irhit sighed and then asked, "What if she doesn't like me?"

"That's not going to be a problem. Yenti grew up watching you from afar and now that she has finally become sexually mature, she is very eager to meet you. I've carefully made sure of that, just as I have now made sure that you are sexually attracted to her!"

Irhit was still doubtful that there was a hidden population of Asterothropes. He asked, "Where is this tribe of Asterothropes being hidden?"

"I will soon establish this new Asterothrope tribe on a distant planet. Asterothropes reproduce with startling efficiency, so in the far future when Yenti is born, there will be a very large population of Asterothropes... but you need not concern yourself with such details, Irhit. By the wonders of long-range teleportation and time travel, Yenti will be able to visit you at Observer Base during the coming year."

"Why do you specify just one year? What if I fall in love with this girl and we want to remain together as a couple?"

"As you will soon find out, this project concerns nothing as simple as a couple." In fact, the recombined gene patterns would come from more individuals than just Yenti and Irhit; most would come from several humans, but Irhit needed to know none of these details. "Yenti already has a lover. And I need not remind you about how you ravished your friend Betty just last week." Manny giggled and replied, "Believe me: a year with you two together will be perfect and if there are any lingering problems, large or small..." She laughed rather hysterically and then continued, "...I'll make things right."

tryp'At: almost human

"You'll just erase my love for Yenti if I'm heartbroken at the end of this year?"

Manny nodded. "Exactly."

Irhit knew that Manny had been reprogramming his memories and mind so that he would "willingly" participate in the breeding project. He could sense that much from their telepathic connection. Still, he asked pointedly, "Who are you that you imagine I'd agree to such a thing?"

"I know you inside and out, Irhit. You won't be able to resist Yenti's charms. You'll have a great time with her. Now, you are sleepy and getting cranky so I'll send you back to Observer Base." Manny waved her hand and before Irhit could utter another complaint, he was back in his bed asleep, his brain being massaged and his memories being edited by synapse-modifying nanites. 

R. Oliveene Nhevrix

For a short time, Manny monitored the progress of her memory editing nanites as they adjusted the structure of Irhit's brain. Manny was still in the process of studying the tryp'At brain and Irhit was the first available tryp'At test subject for her studies. Satisfied that his unusual tryp'At brain structures would be successfully re-patterned, Manny turned her attention to other elements of her hybridization project.

Manny had previously positioned a zeptite replicoid copy of Oliveene Nhevrix inside Observer Base. That copy of Oliveene was known as Miss Olyv and now, as Manny telepathically linked into Olyv's mind, Olyv diverted much of her attention away from Manny's other secret agent inside Observer Base, CatX. In a sense, CatX was just an extension of the Olivine artificial lifeform and currently existing as a young woman, the close friend of Betty known as Catski. With a profound flavor of approval in her thoughts, Manny told Olyv: You have done well in your handling of Betty.

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 Thank you, Manny. Olyv reflected on how it had once been such a challenge for Oliveene to learn how to live as two independently existing creatures. That had been back in the Asimov Reality and at that point in Deep Time, Manny had simplified matters by asking Oliveene to simulate a cat who could function as a telepathic secret agent within the royal household of the Connatic. Now, after many years of experience, Olyv felt quite confident in having her mind split between two humanoid bodies. In the past she had even managed three, as long as one was only performing mundane tasks. Olyv asked: Am I now done with my role in this Intervention?

Using her advanced telepathic abilities, Manny could easily detect the differences between Olyv's mind and that of a human, but it was impressive how closely Olyv could now imitate normal human behavior. All of the robots within Observer Base were now replicoids, composed of either femtobot or zeptite components. In either case, their nanites assembled into molecules and cells, making them indistinguishable from living creatures... at least when examined by the limited tools available to the humans of Observer Base.

the cats of Lusz

Manny telepathically sensed that Olyv had been giving much thought to the possibility of quitting her job at the Core School and slowly dissolving her various social connections that she had established in that role. No. Due to the effects of Temporal Paradox, I have previously been unable to inform you of the next important part of your mission. I need you to visit the Serothic and arrange for a play session with Betty's parents. Manny quickly fed details of that "play session" into Olyv's mind.

Olyv giggled and said: Well, this is a surprise! I'm actually going to get to play with Allyn's spectacular genitals! His penis is such a hot topic for discussion around Observer Base and, well... I have fantasies...

Manny warned: Don't get too excited, my dear. It is only going to be for one night. While you have Allyn and Sara distracted, I'll be adjusting their memories. Let those two have their brief interactions with me and Yenti, then you can move in and get your hands on Allyn.

Olyv was surprised to learn that Manny would herself be seen in public, cavorting at the dance hall. Isn't there a danger that Trysta will notice you and Yenti?

Asterothropes and time travel

Yes, Trysta will notice Yenti's telepathic mind pattern, but then Yenti will quickly return to the protection of her apartment. Manny was confident that she could shield her own mind from Trysta and Yenti's apartment existed within a sedronic corpuscle, a kind of hidden space-time pocket that Manny had grafted onto the structure of the Eternity space-time bubble. As long as Yenti was inside that corpuscle, Trysta would be blocked from any telepathic resonance between her mind and that of Yenti. Manny had the delicate task of making certain that Trysta was aware of the presence of another Asterothrope at Observer Base while at the same time preventing Trysta from interfering in the human telepath breeding project.

Olyv had completed her processing of the new information that had just been inserted into her mind by Manny. She was saddened that she would only have a few hours to play with Allyn. But I can have additional sexplay sessions with Sara?"

That is up to you and her. Manny added: Sara does like to keep a stable full of young, energetic sex partners. 

Olyv suggested: And I could alter my anatomy so as to become sexually compatible with Allyn.

Manny cautioned: You could, but think it through. Sara is rather jealous and likes to keep Allyn on a short leash. You would have no way of explaining how a small woman like you has an Allyn-sized vagina.

Olyv suddenly realized why Manny had insisted that she use the physical form of a short brunette woman for this intervention. You knew all along that I'd want more than a one night fling with Allyn.

Yes, I know you and your sexual appetites quite well, Olyv. And with that admission, Manny withdrew from Olyv's mind.

Next: Part 2 of The Telepaths of Site Q

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