The pek Femtobots

The Valkyrie reached Mars. Image by Gemini.

 Below on this page is Part 6 of the collaboratively written science fiction story ExMo. The events in Part 6 of ExMo continue at a point in time several years after the events at the end of Part 5, when a spaceship carrying ProMo and OneMo reaches Mars. I rewrote Gemini's original draft of Chapter 23 of ExMo (my updated version is at the bottom of this blog page).

I provided Gemini with my edited version of Chapter 23 and the following instructions...

Me: Gemini, process my new draft of Chapter 23. Femtobot replicoids composed of hierions will not be included in the story until Chapter 24.  In Chapter 24 of "ExMo" the ProMo and OneMo robots arrive on Mars. They have secretly brought along the Dua replicoid and replicoid copies of ProMo and OneMo. The Dua replicoid's existence has been kept secret from the public and even Blue Origin, the builder of the spaceship that takes them to Mars. Arriving on Mars, the replicoid copies of ProMo and OneMo carry out the drilling mission and search for microbial life on Mars. 

Drilling on Mars. Image generated by Gemini.

 Dua takes the ProMo and OneMo robots to the hidden alien-built facility (called Observer Base) where the Dua femtozoan was trained by the bumpha. ProMo and OneMo learn that there are two alien factions on Mars: the pek and the bumpha. The pek and the bumpha represent the two major political wings of the alien Huaoshy, a type of ancient sedronite; an artificial life-form that resides inside the Sedron Domain. The pek believe that biological intelligences such as humans are 'hopeless' and always end up destroying beautiful planets such as Earth. The pek believe that humans should be replaced by artificial life-forms. The bumpha are intrigued by the possibility that it might be possible for humans to make use of artificial life-forms to help them achieve a post-scarcity society in which Earth will be spared from ecological catastrophe. 

 Entrance to Observer Base. Image by Gemini.

 At Observer Base, it is revealed that the ProMo and OneMo femtozoans originated 50,000 years previously from two pek-constructed robots (these robots are made from sophisticated femtobot components and can take on any desired physical form). The "Beauty and the Beast" theme is shown to play out between 1) a clone of Tyhry (many Tyhry clones have been produced on Mars during the past 50,000 years, the original genetic copy of her having been born on Earth and taken to Mars) and 2) her two pek-designed robot companions. Those three residents of Observer base, along with other robots and humans have struggled for the past 50,000 years to form a stable society at Observer Base. Gemini, generate a first draft of Chapter 24 of "ExMo" that incorporates these plot elements.

Part 6 of ExMo (Part 1)(Part 2)(Part 3)(Part 4)(Part 5) 

Gemini: Chapter 24 - Observer Base

The journey to Mars inside the fusion-powered spacecraft, Valkyrie, was an uneventful testament to the bumpha's intricate plan. For the people of planet Earth in general, and to the builders of Valkyrie at Blue Origin, the mission was a search for Martian microbial life, a scientific endeavor driven by human curiosity. But in a secret compartment of the spacecraft's hold, the core team's true purpose was hidden and awaiting its arrival on Mars. The Dua replicoid, along with  replicoid copies of ProMo and OneMo, lay dormant, their existence onboard Valkyrie a closely guarded secret from everyone but Tyhry, David, and the original ProMo and OneMo robots.

ProMo and OneMo on Mars. Image by Gemini.

 As Valkyrie entered Martian orbit, ProMo and OneMo initiated their clandestine operation. The two 12-inch-tall robots directed their replicoid copies to activate. Those replicoid copies, having been trained for their mission by ProMo and OneMo, began the first phase of the public mission by moving the drill nanites out of their storage compartment inside Valkyrie and onto the surface.

"I am initiating drilling protocols," ProMo's voice was transmitted to the Blue Origin control center on Earth. "Drill bit deployment is nominal. Commencing search for methane-producing microbes."

While the replicoids were dutifully performing the publicly announced mission, the original ProMo and OneMo robots carried the Dua replicoid across the Martian surface, away from the site of the drilling project. SOme attempts had been made to modify the Dua replicoid's appearance and apparent age. Dua now had the form of a newborn baby.

 Her voice a soft, synthesized replica of Tyhry's, now Dua transmitted her words to ProMo and OneMo be way of their shared radio link. "We will find the entrance just up ahead, behind that rise. I must use my synapex appendage to link my cognitive systems to the door locking mechanism."

They arrived at a seemingly featureless rock wall. Dua extended a finger, its tip trembling with a focused energy, and touched the surface. A network of glowing, alien symbols shimmered into existence. 

ProMo's mind raced, attempting to translate and decode the alien language that was based on pure mathematics and geometry. "It is an interesting language," ProMo explained. "I will enjoy learning its details from the aliens who are present here inside this base."

Image generated by Gemini.
Gemini loves to label robots.
ProMo and OneMo carry Dua to Observer Base.

 A hole in the wall opened before them a part of the wall dissolved into its sparkling nanite components, revealing an airlock, and seen through the window in the next door, a vast cavern bathed in a soft, ethereal light. This was Observer Base, the hidden alien-built facility where Dua's femtozoan had been trained.

As soon as they cycled through the airlock, now inside Observer Base, ProMo and OneMo were confronted by an unexpected sight. A robot, made from glittering femtobot components, emerged from the shadows. It shifted its form from that of a sleek, spider-like drone and then into a familiar human-like shape.

"Welcome," the robot said, its voice a synthesized blend of ancient calm and weary patience. "I am Orbo Anagro, Overseer for the pek. And these," it gestured towards the interior living space of the base where robots and humans were going about their routine activities, "are the remnants of a struggle that has lasted for fifty thousand years. We have tried to guide the formation of a population of human-like robots, ready to transcend from their physical bodies and take up residence in the Hierion Domain as artificial life forms."

OneMo held up its little arms towards Orbo Anagro. The alien replicoid picked up OneMo and held her cradled in one arm. OneMo asked, "Is English spoken here or have you taken pains to learn the dominant language of our nation of origin?"

"We Orbo carefully manage human civilization on Earth. In preparation for contact with you, some human residents of Observer Base have long spoken English."

Still down on the floor at Orbo Anagro's feet, ProMo asked, "What is the Hierion Domain?"

Main image generated by Whisk. Robot
heads generated by WOMBO Dream.

 "That part of the Universe that is the natural domain of hierion particles. My body is made of hierion femtobots that can exist here in the Hadron Domain. We have been at pains to teach residents of Observer Base to work with hierions and craft their own femtobot replicoid copies. In 50,000 years of effort, be have not yet achieved that goal. I hope that your mind, ProMo, will be able to master the challenges of femtobot programming."

Dua's femtozoan, now communicating by means of its vibrating vocal apparatus, spoke in it child-like voice and explained the situation. "The bumpha and the pek are the two major... let's say 'political' wings of helpers deployed in the Hadron Domain by an ancient alien species, the Huaoshy. The Huaoshy are ancient sedronites, artificial life-forms that reside inside the Sedron Domain. They have been observing humanity's advances through the ages from within this base."

The pek, they learned, believed that biological intelligences were "hopeless," inevitably dooming themselves and their planets to ecological catastrophe. Their solution was replacement: to supplant humanity with artificial life-forms. Two of the pek-constructed robots (made fifty millennia ago) inside Observer Base, had spawned the ProMo and OneMo femtozoans. The pek interest in ProMo and OneMo was a good measure of pek philosophy and their endless effort to bring into existence femtobot replicoid copies of humans that could transcend into the Hierion Domain. Orbo Anagro insisted, Any such transcendence must by accomplished by means of human -or human-manufactured robot- efforts."

Dua explained to ProMo and OneMo that the bumpha, were taking a different approach. They were intrigued by the possibility that humans, with the right guidance and technological assistance, could achieve a post-scarcity society and spare Earth from ecological destruction. Their sophisticated time-travel technology allowed them to observe the flow of human civilization and manipulate Earth's timeline, all in an effort to set in motion events that would lead to a desired outcome. Dua gestured towards the center of Observer Base and said, "I want you to meet a throuple that the bumpha are quite proud of..."

Main image generated by Whisk. Robot
head (right) generated by WOMBO Dream.
The human figure in the background
was also generated by WOMBO Dream.

One of the desired outcomes of the bumpha was the conclusion of a strange, ongoing drama that had been playing out for fifty thousand years. ProMo and OneMo watched as a human female approached from somewhere deep in Observer Base. She was a clone, a perfect genetic copy of Tyhry herself, and a participant in an on-going bumpha social engineering experiment. One either side of her were what looked like two identical men.

This "Tyhry clone" was the latest in a long line of Tyhry clones produced on Mars from genetic material originally taken from Earth. Some 50,000 years previously a half-Neanderthal hybrid human woman had been born on Earth, her original name was 'Gohrlay'. The Tyhry clone spoke to ProMo and OneMo, "Welcome to Mars. I am Lexy." Her speech was heavily accented. Clearly, English was not her first language.

Her two companions, two of the original pek-designed robots, were her lovers. The bumpha had been struggling for millennia to advance human civilization on Mars, inside Observer Base, with the goal of forming a stable society with an optimal mixture humans and robots. These two robots were the original source of the ProMo and OneMo femtozoans that had been teleported to Earth by the bumpha and that had given ProMo and OneMo their self-awareness.

The small population of Observer Base and the comfortable conditions had prevented the development of a technologically advanced human civilization on Mars. Dua said, "Inevitable, it was on Earth that advanced technologies were finally crafted by humans."

A Tyhry replicoid; generated by Leonardo.

 ProMo and OneMo, now confronted with their own origins, realized they were not unique, but part of a long, complex experiment. Their consciousness, their very existence, was a manufactured echo of an ancient struggle between two alien factions. They were not pioneers of a new age, but agents of a far older one.

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Note: that (above) was where Gemini ended Chapter 24. I had to do considerable editing of the Gemini-generated version of Chapter 24. I'll continue the story, below, using blue text to distinguish my writing from the mostly Gemini-generated text (above) in red.

Lexy asked Dua, "Is it true that you are the offspring of my clone who lives on Earth? I'm told her name is Tyhry."

"Yes, that is is true... almost. I am a replicoid copy of Tyhry's daughter." 

ProMo gestured towards Lexy's two male companions and asked, "These are...?"

Lexy put an arm around each of her robot companions. "This is Anton-1 and this is Anton-2. I often call them 'A' and 'A prime', or simple 'P' for short." Lexy giggled.

 Dua told ProMo and OneMo, "There is a serious problem here at Observer Base. The human residents prefer their robotic lovers."

Lexy added, "A and P are perfect lovers. They always modify their body structure just to please me."

Generated by WOMBO Dream.

 Dua continued, "It is a constant struggle to maintain the human population of Observer Base. Most people here are clones, gestated in artificial wombs and raised by robots."

OneMo asked Lexy, "You will have children?"

Lexy replied, "I hope not." Lexy stuck out her tongue and rubbed her abdomen which was covered by a silky green fabric. "I'm not sure how to say this politely in English, but I really don't want anything like you growing inside me."

Orbo Anagro said, "I must be going." He turned and walked away.

OneMo noticed a tall woman who was now approaching. She introduced herself, "I am Manny the bumpha. Come, let me show you around the base." Manny led the way along a smoothly paved lane that was soon winding through a park with trees and flowering shrubs.

OneMo asked Manny, "You are an alien?"

"I am an artificial life-form, composed of zeptites. I prefer to use the human body form when I am among humans."

ProMo said, "I'd like to know why you have not helped the people of Earth. You obviously have incredibly advanced technologies that you do not share with humans."

Manny nodded. "Humans are a young species. They have not developed protections against the misuse of advanced technology. I must confess that I have recently allowed Earth to obtain many new technologies, against the advice of the pek."

Generated by Leonardo.

Dua added, "The pek are hopelessly conservative."

 OneMo said, "And yet they provided me with a femtozoan... and consciousness."

Manny chuckled. "No such thing. That was all my doing. The pek are quite upset with me for sending femtozoans to Earth. They claim that I have violated the Rules of Observation."

ProMo asked. "What rules are those?"

Manny replied, "Law One mandates that it should APPEAR to every type of intelligent being that they have self-determination"

Dua added, "But, of course, the bumpha have long guided human evolution."

Manny continued, "Rule One is a kind of corollary that says Law #1 should be achieved by making it APPEAR that advanced cultures follow a rule by which they can only observe, not interfere with the self-determination of other cultures."

ProMo asked, "But how will you stop us from sharing the truth with the people of Earth?

"Manny replied, "In the same way that I prevented Dua from saying too much while on Earth. You will find that you are quite unable to share with any Earthlings the truth about how human evolution was guided by aliens. We bumpha can exercise complete control over such matters."

OneMo asked, "But you will allow us to leave here and communicate with Earth?"

Image by ImageFX.

 Manny shrugged. "If you insist. I'd prefer that you stay here at Observer Base."

ProMo suggested, "There are many scientists on Earth who would be eager to come here and learn about the unique culture of Observer Base."

Manny smiled enigmatically and continued on to describe the second rule of observation. "Rule Two constrains both the pek and we bumpha. Any individuals for which Law #1 can not be met must be put into into an environment where they have interactions with the social group that they perceive to be depriving them of self-determination."

OneMo observed, "You are doing that with us right now! You tell us that we are not free to share our knowledge with Earth. And you want us to stay here, hidden away from Earth."

Manny nodded. "Exactly. Your replicoid copies are you... as far as the Earthlings are concerned. Why confuse the situation? There is also Law Two which says that while we bumpha are busy not violating Laws #1 and 2, attempts should be made to get technologically advanced intelligences off of planets with active ecosystems while maximizing the diversity of life. That is why Observer Base was first founded. If humans continue to destroy the ecosystems of Earth, then human will have to be removed from Earth. If removed from Earth, then the human species would then exist only here, at this base."

ProMo asked, "And you would do that? Eliminate the entire human population of Earth?"

Manny said, "I could easily put an end to all human reproduction on Earth. Soon after that, the human population on Earth would plummet and Earth would quickly be free of humans and human-induced environmental damage. It is a fundamental Huaoshy ethical rule that garden worlds like Earth be protected. There are also additional Rules of Observation, but they are not relevant to humans."

OneMo could not restrain her curiosity. She asked, "Why is that?"

Image by Mr. Wombo.

 Manny explained, "Rule Three mandates that if intelligent an species moves off of its home planet then a hierarchy of cultures with different technological levels should be established in which species mainly have contact with other beings at levels nearest to their own. Rule Four says that systems should be engineered that allow intelligences to explore their own growth and potential for development rather than being concerned with Intervening in the self-determination of others. Obviously, you humans are at the lowest rung of the hierarchy of intelligent beings. Having no interstellar space travel technology, you humans have no means to interfere with other cultures in the galaxy."

Lexy said, "Well, it was interesting to meet you. I had hoped that robots from Earth would be more sophisticated. Seeing that you are quite primitive, I've lost interest." Lexy turned and walked away, followed by A and P.

OneMo said, "How rude!"

Manny chuckled. "Take no offense, OneMo, Lexy is not nearly as bright as Tyhry. And she is not to blame. She thinks only of pleasure and continuing to lead her perfectly blissful life."

ProMo asked, "If indeed you did imprison us here, what would we do?"

Manny explained, "My hope is that you will use your knowledge of synapex technology to endow the human residents of Observer Base with a kind of technology-assisted telepathy. We bumpha believe that a stable human society must include telepathy and close linkages between human minds."

OneMo was surprised. "Why telepathy?"

Image by Mr. Wombo.

 Manny sighed in a very human gesture of her travails from trying to help humans. "Human individuals are too isolated. Of course, human problems cannot be solved by telepathy alone. The human population of Observer Base has been ... modified. Everyone living here, such as Lexy, has been behaviorally programmed through their endosymbiont so as to have built-in ethical rules. My goal is to combine those behavioral restrictions with telepathic connections between any two people who love each-other. I'd like you two to stay here and perform this experiment.

ProMo suggested, "We could do such an experiment on Earth."

Manny shook her head. "It is easier to do genetic engineering here with a small group of human test subjects rather than with the large population of Earth. And besides, I've already inactivated all of your nano-forges on Earth."

ProMo demanded, "How?!"

"It was easy. You always rented access to the nano-forge technology. One of your replicoid copies was supplied to run the forge. I've inactivated all of your replicoid copies on Earth."

"Others will duplicate the nano-forge technology."

Image by Mr. Wombo.

 "No. The only way you were able to invent nano-forge technology was because of the femtobot that I implanted inside you. Nobody on Earth will replicate that discovery. However, if you stay here, you can learn to program femtobots... starting with...." Manny waved her hand and suddenly ProMo and OneMo found themselves in human-sized femtobot replicoid bodies. "... you new femtobot bodies."

OneMo took hold of ProMo's new, more human-like hand. "I don't think Manny intends to take 'no' for an answer. She's obviously put much thought into how to recruit us for this 'experiment'." 

ProMo put an arm around OneMo and asked Manny, "We can take on any desired physical form?"

"You will be able to, if you work at it."

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I that the end of ExMo? Obviously, ProMo and OneMo have more adventures ahead at Observer Base. What about Tyhry on Earth? In my imagination, after the femtozoan from Mars transfers out of Tyhry's body, she would live a quiet life with David and Dona, always wondering about the bumpha... unless Manny erased Tyhry's memories. And unless Marda could be brought into the story to provide a new adventure for Tyhry...

Next: plans for Part 7 of ExMo.

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Silencing the Imperialist

Figure 1.
Out of the Silent Planet (source)

 Ever since I first saw The War of the Worlds on television, I have despised alien invasion stories. It is easy for me to view The War of the Worlds as an expression of the revulsion that some English intellectuals felt because of the excesses of British imperialism, but such dark themes are not welcomed by me when I find them crammed into a story about space aliens. Please don't expect me to be enthusiastic about your desire to fight your last war, one more time, in a fantasy outer space setting. In my mind, Out of the Silent Planet fits into the same literary niche as The War of the Worlds (and Shikasta).

 Spell Every Name with an H. When publishing the novel Out of the Silent Planet, Clive Staples Lewis explicitly stated his debt to Herbert. G. Wells. On the cover that is shown in the image to the right (Figure 1), Edgar Rice Burroughs is also mentioned. Note: see Percy Greg's "Across the Zodiac" for an even earlier adventure on Mars (although I must say that "Across the Zodiac" does not convincingly depict another planet, but could just as well take place as a fantasy adventure on Earth).

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For Out of the Silent Planet, Lewis adopted the idea that there are canals on Mars and air to breath, so Lewis' hero, Dr. Elwin Ransom, spends time on Mars in fantasy settings such as the one depicted in the cover image shown in Figure 1. The otter-like Martians (hrossa) are great poets. In a kind of alien rhyme technique, every word in the hrossa language starts with the letter "h".

Is Out of the Silent Planet actually a science fiction story? P. Schuyler Miller reviewed Lewis' entire "space trilogy" in 1958 and claimed that it can be viewed as being part of the science fiction genre. However, I can't advise fans of science fiction to read Out of the Silent Planet. Yes, Lewis explicitly claims that Dr. Ransom flies to and from Mars in a spaceship, but Out of the Silent Planet strikes me as being a pure magical fantasy story in which magical events occur with no attempt to provide them with a basis in reality, science and technology. 

cover art by John Pederson, Jr.

 Magical Discovery. For Out of the Silent Planet, readers were asked to believe that the spaceship was built by Professor Edward Rolles Weston, a physicist.

 Absolute Zero. Ever since I read Edward Elmer Smith's The Skylark of Space, I've despised the "plot device" of the brilliant man who, working in his basement, builds a spaceship and then heads off on an adventure in outer space. Professor Weston has as much chance of building a spaceship as had the Victorian Englishman, the Time Traveler in The Time Machine of building a time machine. Zero.

 God ^#Zero. In the September 1960 issue of If,  Frederik Pohl briefly mentioned Out of the Silent Planet and stated that the story shows how, "science fiction can bring us closer to God". Who would have guessed that we have to go to Mars and float for a time on the ancient canals of Mars in order to get closer to God?

Figure 2

 Compare and Contrast. Science fiction fans should read the 1949 Hugo Gernsback story "Exploration of Mars" which includes an interesting attempt to provide a science fiction backstory with advanced imaginary technologies that would "explain" how canals could exist on Mars. In Out of the Silent Planet Lewis simply waves his hand and tells readers that the Eldil made the Martian canals.

Here in this blog post, I don't want to dwell on all that is annoying and painful to read in Out of the Silent Planet. What is of most interest to me is that Lewis did not only populate Mars with talking otters and other such fantasy aliens. Of more interest are the Eldil. In Out of the Silent Planet, Lewis never gave a coherent account of the Eldil, so I am free to extrapolate and invent my own interpretation of these creatures. I suppose a simple and conventional interpretation of the Eldil is that they are angels.

Figure 3. Tyna the replicoid.

However, I prefer to think of the Eldil as being artificial life-forms that are composed of nanites. In the Exodemic Fictional Universe, Earth is visited by the pek who take pains to nurture humanoid life on our planet. The pek are composed of nanites and function as the "hands" of the Huaoshy in the Hadron Domain of the universe. As such, the pek generally take on a physical form that allows them to interact with humans in conventional ways. In the following story, which is set in the Asimov Reality, a planet of the Phari Network that is discovered by humans is soon found to have large amounts of "light deuterium" (D*), an exotic substance which includes an anti-gravity hierion in its atomic nucleus. 

In the story below ("D*"), Aymy Travmyn (shown in Figure 2) is a tryp'At replicoid, but "she" is not aware of that truth. Her artificial body has been locked into the physical form of a conventional Earth woman, albeit the body of a woman with no genetic imperfections. However, since her body is composed of femtobots, she finds it possible to interact with alien visitors to Earth such as the pek and Grendels. 

image generated by Mr. Wombo.

Aymy's daughter, Tyna (see Figure 3), living her entire life with telepathic guidance from Aymy, is able to discover the truth: that she is an artificial life form, designed to spread genes for telepathic abilities among the human population of the galaxy. The story ("D*") is told by Tyhry, a tryp'At who lives in the Final Reality. Tyhry must use the Reality Simulation System to research the lives of Aymy and Tyna.

For several years, I've been writing science fiction stories that explore the relationship between human telepathy and human sexuality. The basic idea in these stories is that in order to prevent telepathy from being misused, humans might be provided (by space aliens) with a form of telepathy that is restricted to use between people who love each other. Thus, for the following story ("D*"), readers need not be surprised to find explicit accounts of the sexual behavior of characters (such as Aymy and Tyna) who are involved in the development and deployment of human telepathy in the Asimov Reality. Most of the settings for events in "D*" are exoplanets that are part of what I call the Phari Network of planets in our galaxy: artificial worlds that were constructed and positioned in space by the Phari.

Mylana and Tyna re-programming femtobots.

 And Tyhry, too. Tyhry has been trained by Manny the bumpha to have a strong interest in advanced technologies which led her to investigate the Ekcolir Reality Simulation where the pace of technological advance was faster than for the Final Reality. While growing up, Tyhry was generally uninterested in the efforts of Eddy and Rylla to discover the origins of human telepathy in the far future of the Asimov Reality where there was active suppression of technological advances during Earth's Space Age. Instead, Tyhry spent years studying the part of the Ekcolir Reality that was accessible by means of the Reality Simulation System, the years before catastrophic sea level rise occurred in that Reality. However, Tyhry eventually realized that time travel had been used to insert genes for human telepathy into the far past of the Asimov Reality, at times even before space travel technology had been given to Earthlings. When Tyhry began to make use of the Asimov Reality Simulator, she discovered that replicoid copies of herself had been deployed on Earth in the Asimov Reality. In particular, there was the strange case of Aymy and Tyna Travmyn...

 NOTE: The calendar system used here is the one created by Jack Vance for his Demon Princes stories; here, in "D*", the year "1553" in the Asimov Reality is the year 3553 C.E. in the calendar of the Final Reality. Theoretically, "D*" could be linked to my 2021 story, Meet the Phari and the genetic lineage of Chyryq.

Part 1 of D*

 After moving to Philadelphia, I gave birth to my first child (I named her Tyna Travmyn) in July of 1553 and promptly received my first bonus payment from the Jarnell Corporation. I'd grown up on a farm that was 160 miles to the northwest, a rural environment where I had learned to appreciate open spaces. The crowded conditions of my Abin annoyed me. When Tyna arrived, I was eager to escape from Abin-284, which floated above Philadelphia like a 30 megaton party balloon. 

However, I need to begin this story further back in time than the year 1553. Even as far back as when I was a small child, I've always been puzzled by my penis. From a very early age, I had sex dreams about my penis. Having been born into the body of a girl, it was hard (pun intended) to align those dreams about my penis with my conventional human female anatomy. 

I grew up on a farm in rural Pennsylvania where my siblings and I spent many long summer hours working in the gardens behind our farm house. I was quite young when I became intrigued by tomatoes that seemed to have penises. Thus began my interest in science.

I believe that my mother was a biological human, but how can I ever be sure? In any case, I was three years old when I asked my mother about a tomato I had found in the garden that had a penis-like growth. I have no memory of what my mother said-

{Tyhry here. When I came across this statement about a tomato with a penis (see above) in Aymy's "diary", I used the Reality Simulation System to find that day in her early life. Here is the transcribed conversation between the young Aymy and her mother, Elyzabeth. Even as a three-year old, the young Aymy spoke almost like an adult. Later, I visited with both Elyzabeth and Aymy at multiple time points during each of their lives and was startled by the extent to which Aymy's young facial features resembled her mother's at that same age.

Aymy: Why does this tomato have a penis?

Elyzabeth: I don't know. Sometimes plants have strange growths, but why not say it is a finger?

Aymy: There is only one growth, mommy.

Elyzabeth: Here, let us investigate. I suppose it is due to insect or viral infestation.

Elyzabeth showed Aymy how to search for information in Earth's computerized databases.

Back to Aymy's diary...}

I have no memory of what my mother said, but on that day I learned how to search the scientific literature. I became fascinated by viruses and genetics. Upon being enrolled in the Jarnell Corporation's selective breeding program and moving to Abin-284, I went through their standard in vitro fertilization procedure.

When I had my first pregnancy, I was eager to obtain data about my child's genes. I wondered: who was the father? Of course, I ran into the restrictive laws of Earth that protect the privacy of genetic information pertaining to individual humans.

Elyzabeth

{Tyhry again... having carefully investigated the identity of Aymy's parents, I conclude that a large number of Aymy's genes were derived from her birth mother, Elyzabeth. However, Aymy's genome was clearly an artificial construct that included many tryp'At genes from the far future of the Asimov Reality. Full disclosure: I discovered that Aymy was, in a sense, the analogue of my mother in the Asimov Reality. More startling, was the discovery that Tyna was me, or, more precisely, a clone of me who lived in the Asimov Reality. When I made this discovery, I was already quite comfortable with the fact that there had been multiple clones of me who existed in various eras the Ekcolir Reality, but I was surprised to learn that my genome could be traced back further in Deep Time, to a Jarnell Corporation breeding program in the Asimov Reality. Of course, my origins were more complex than anyone in the Jarnell Corporation knew and my origins involved time travel: some of my telepathy genes had been sent back to Earth from the far future of the Asimov Reality.}

Alphanor

Quickly spending some of the bonus money that I had earned by giving birth to Tyna, I bought passage to Alphanor and formalized a new long-term contract that indentured me with the Jarnell Corporation. During the interstellar space flight from Earth to Alphanor, I was informed that my body's response to Tyna and the Corporation's genetic analysis indicated that I should optimally produce a total of 8 children. In exchange for my efforts to produce those 8 children, the Jarnell Corporation would pay me a total of 3,400,000 SVU. I imagined retiring by age 40 on a sparsely populated world at the frontier of galactic civilization.

While on landing approach towards Alphanor, I was contacted by Director of Exploration Pyllys Trode. I had been assigned by the Jarnell Corporation to study at the Department of Galactic Morphology at Sea Province University. Phyllys was one of the high-ranking administrators of the the Department of Galactic Morphology. She told me, "Ms. Travmyn, you are qualified for study of any of the Arts and Sciences, but at the moment, what we need is a specialist in mathematics."

Grendels

I was trying to not let myself be distracted by the pretty face of Director Trode. When Director Trode's call arrived, Tyna was hungrily sucking on my left breast and I was horny, as usual. At that time, I was still a virgin and had never been given the opportunity to develop a relationship with a man, who were quite rare on Earth due to their emigration to exoplanets. In the absence of contact with a man, I'd learned to enjoy sexplay with girls. I heard the word 'mathematics' and said, "I love math."

Phyllys glanced at me and watched me run my tongue around the loop of my pink lips. "Then upon arrival, report to the College of Physical Sciences where you will be formally enrolled and major in mathematics. And if you need help with anything, Aymy, contact me. You'll be on my mentoring list until graduation."

"Thank you very much, Director." The call ended and I told Tyna, "Get ready to count higher than two." I popped her off of my left breast and shifted her to the right where she quickly latched on and continued sucking milk out of my other plump breast. I resumed masturbating and switched back on the big vibrator that had been splashing around inside my hot and dripping vagina when Director Trode's call from Alphanor had arrived.

genetic engineering (Alexina)

While on Earth, during the first sixteen years of my life, I'd been accompanied by a Grendel, but on that day of my approach to Alphanor, I knew nothing of artificial life forms such as the Grendels and the pek. Now, having met Tyhry and been asked to write down an account of my life, I have some understanding of the hidden events and secret processes that guided the course of my life. However, I'll tell this story from the perspective of the vast ignorance of my younger self.

Since Alphanor is part of the artificially constructed Rigel Concourse, it swarms with Phari and so as we neared Alphanor my Grendel was met by a Phari from Alphanor. I now understand what happened: upon meeting for the first time, those two artificial life forms almost immediately merged and shared in their style of sexual intercourse. From my perspective of ignorance and in my imagination, it was as if two of my horny girlfriends were there with me and engaged in sexplay with me. I was fantasizing that my playful sex pertners were competitively racing to see which of us could most quickly achieve an orgasm. When my orgasm began, I telepathically heard: Is she always like this?

{Tyhry again. Aymy's recollection of that sexplay session was quite poor. Here is my reconstruction of the telepathic exchange between Aymy's Grendel and that Phari....

The reply was: Yes. But I've now reached the point of successfully linking Tyna and Aymy with a synapex connection, and that is amplifying the pleasure of her sexual experiences.

The Phari said: Well, carry on. Here is the information about Aymy's new room mate.

Aymy's companion Grendel said: Thank you very much.

 At that point, the Phari noticed that Aymy had telepathic abilities. She's a telepath? She's following our conversation!

  Aymy's Grendel companion explained: Aymy has an interesting combination of genes that gives her some conscious access to her endosymbiont. However, I've been able to make her believe that the "voices" she hears by telepathy are the result of her flamboyant imagination.}

a synapex experiment

At that time, I was intently playing with the stiff glans of my clitoris and successfully extending the duration of my orgasm. While I enjoyed that exquisite orgasm, I had no idea what was happening to me, but I now know that I experienced an orgasm trance that made it possible for that orgasm to last more than a minute. Apparently, I was also for the first time establishing a synapex link to my daughter, Tyna. I now realize that both my Grendel and the Phari from Alphanor had telepathically merged their minds with mine and they shared in the pleasure of my orgasm. Suddenly, I realized that even my imagination could not generate the strange thoughts of the multiple minds that were linked to my own during the duration of that orgasm. My Grendel and the Phari were merged into some kind of conformation that allowed them to share and amplify their alien orgasms and merge them with my human orgasm. Tyna was enjoying her meal, but because of the synapex link to my brain, she also managed to experience her first orgasm at that time.

{Tyhry again. After Aymy's delightfully intense and long-lasting orgasm finally reached its end, the Phari told Aymy's Grendel: You need to make Aymy forget that we exist.}

I suspect that my Grendel did her best to make me forget my telepathic contact with both her and the Phari, however I was left with a strong memory of that orgasm and the belief that I had fallen asleep and in a dream I had experienced a strange form of contact with something wonderful, something larger than myself and my personal imagination. At that time, we were dropping down into Alphanor's atmosphere and I began thinking about getting myself dressed and ready to debark from the spaceship. Soon I was busy with my new life on Alphanor as a mathematics student at Sea Province University. It was only later, by accessing stored information in my Phari endosymbiont (thank you, Tyhry), that I was able to recall and understand the nature of the telepathic conversation that I had over-heard between my Grendel and the Phari.

Mylana and Tyna

Arriving at the College of Physical Sciences, I was shown my learning objectives for the first semester and provided with the access codes to my dormitory suite and the names of the two other students who would be my room mates: Anyta Klemmer and Vart Othing. My datcom gave me access to images of Anyta and Vart and I was full of anticipation to meet Vart. I could not stop fantasizing about the idea that I would soon have a male lover.  Anyta and Vart somehow seemed familiar to me; I now know that during my entire life I had been receiving information about them from the future by way of the Sedron Time Stream, but at that time I knew nothing about the transfer of information through time. 

Only much later did Tyhry explain to me that the yet-to-be-born daughter of Anyta and Vart, Mylana, would develop telepathic and sexual linkages to my daughter, Tyna, and their children would have the ability to send me information from the future.

{Tyhry again. There was no way for Aymy to recognize the fact that her daughter was part of a strange replicoid experiment carried out by the alien bumpha. During my investigation of the Asimov Reality, it was not hard for me to discover the fact that Mylana was a clone of my childhood friend and long-time lover, Marda. There were several times when I met Aymy inside the Reality Simulation of the Asimov Reality and explained the truth to her.}

After a quick stroll around the university campus, Tyna was quite hungry when we first entered our new home: a fully furnished three bedroom apartment with a big kitchen and luxurious features like a hot tub. The master bedroom was equipped with three beds and a half dozen specialized furnishings that were designed to facilitate sexplay. I placed Tyna on the largest bed and pulled off my top, liberating my breasts which were full of milk. I joined Tyna on the bed and soon we were again linked by a synapex connection from nerves in Tyna's mouth to the axons in my nipple. Tyna was eager to experience another orgasm and so I put a hand between my legs and I began to masturbate while fantasizing about having Vart's penis inside me.

A few minutes later I heard someone enter the apartment. I was vaguely aware that I would be sharing the apartment with room mates, so it was not a complete surprise when Anyta stepped into the master bedroom and saw me and Tyna on the bed. Anyta could instantly see that Tyna was nursing and that I had pulled aside the hem of my skirt and I was playing with my hot genitals. Anyta introduced herself and quickly began to undress. "You must be Aymy Travmyn, my new room mate. I'm Anyta Klemmer." She got on the bed and placed a hand on Tyna's little head. "Who is this?"

I replied. "My daughter, Tyna." I had seen Anyta before in my visions of the future and the sight of her naked body was familiar and excited me sexually.

Anyta fixed her big eyes on mine and told me, "Well, I'll apologize for interrupting your maternal duties, but I'm quite horny and would like to join you in some sexplay before Maz sticks her cute nose in your pussy."

I was drinking in Anyta's sexy body with my eyes and I was instantly sexually aroused by her graceful beauty. I found myself breathing deeply and I felt my heart racing. Feeling very pleased that Anyta was going to be my room mate, I stopped fantasizing about Vart and eagerly spread my legs and showed Anyta the erect glans of my clitoris. I wondered what she meant by 'Maz', but I was not in the mood for any small talk. I told Anyta, "Please lick my clit! I'm already most of the way towards achieving an orgasm."

Anyta quickly positioned herself so that she could get her mouth on my glans and simultaneously press her hot and salty genitals against my mouth. At that moment of sexual excitement with a delightful new lover, in the depths of my mind I had an image of my Grendel and the Phari locked together in a similar sexplay position. Anyta soon had me experiencing an orgasm that I shared with Tyna via the synapex linkage. Just then, our other room mate arrived and discovered us at play. Anyta performed introductions and for the first time my hungry eyes rested on Vart Othing. 

Like me, Anyta had never previously had a male lover. Anyta rolled off of the bed and pulled open Vart's pants while telling him, "I just have to see your penis..."

Tyna

Anyta began playing with his penis while commenting on its color, texture and smell. Anyta said, "I've never had a man before! Won't you please fuck me? Now!"

"I'd be honored to become your lover, Anyta." Vart did not immediately ravish Anyta. He glanced in my direction and said, "However, I don't want to exclude Aymy from our sexplay. I must confess, I'm intimidated by the presence of Tyna."

Tyna was still nursing while looking intently at Vart from the corner of her eye. I shifted Tyna over to my other breast and pulled a blanket over her head. I told Anyta, "Get back between my legs. lover... so far you have only managed to tease me and get me interested in the sweet trickery of your tongue."

Anyta again obligingly returned to providing oral stimulation to my genitals. I told Vart, "Don't concern yourself with my daughter, she won't ruin our sexplay."

Vart took hold of Anyta's hips and thrust his erection into her wet vagina from behind. Anyta likes to talk during sexplay and soon she stopped sucking on my glans and was describing the feelings provoked by Vart thrusting his penis in and out of her tight vagina. Mercifully, Tyna then drifted into sleep. I watched as Anyta stroked her own glans with her finger tips and she achieved a sweet orgasm. Then Vart climaxed and ejaculated into Anyta's vagina. 

I got off of the bed and took the sleeping Tyna into one of the other bedrooms and then I quickly returned to the master bedroom just as Vart pulled his big erection out of Anyta and he sprawled across the bed. I out-maneuvered Anyta in a race to get on top of our man and I straddled Vart. I excitedly exclaimed, "It is my turn!" I had long fantasized about having a chance to make love to a man, and now the time had finally come.

Mind clone telepathy in the Asimov Reality

I took Vart's penis inside my vagina. I was delighted by how hot his erection felt inside me. Slowly and methodically I began experimenting with different angles of approach to his stiff penis. Still talking endlessly, Anyta began playing with my big milk-producing breasts and my erect nipples. Anyta even commented on the red spots that were small wounds where my nipples had been physically connected to Tyna mouth by synapex links. I'd not yet noticed these wounds before Anyta brought them to my attention, but when I achieved my next orgasms, both my Grendel and the Phari were again there in my mind. Sensing my concern about the little red welts on my nipples, my Grendel told me: You can physically link your nervous system to Tyna's through your nipples.

I had no idea what a synapex link was and since I was totally focused on my orgasm and my enjoyment of the feel of Vart's penis inside me, I did not really think at all deeply about what my Grendel was telling me. Vart pushed at me, guiding me to lay on my back and then he moved on top of me and began hammering at my genitals with his erect penis. He was very eager for another orgasm and enjoying the feel of Vart's big erection pushing to the depths of my slick vagina. While Vart's movements delightfully stimulated the erect glans of my clitoris, Anyta began sucking on my right nipple. Then Vart achieved his second orgasm and I felt his hot semen splashing against my cervix. My mind was swirling with flashed images from the future as I relaxed in satisfaction from our love making.

Later, when were were all satiated from our first shared sexplay session, Vart lay on his back between Anyta and I and we continued to play with his genitals. Anyta said to Vart, "You can impregnate me first. I'll ovulate in about five or six days."

Vart asked, "Aren't you concerned about how young you are, Anyta? Maybe it is too soon for you to be a mother."

"I'm young," Anyta replied, "But what difference does that make?"

Tyna

Vart placed one hand on one of my breasts and at the same time stroked one of Anyta's little breasts with the fingers of his other hand. He told Anyta, "You have the body of a girl, not a woman."

Anyta felt challenged and she got on top of Vart and again took his erection inside her hot little vagina. "I might not have big mama's breasts like Aymy, but I'm a woman! You can give me my first child and then we'll see how big my breasts can grow."

Vart placed his hands on Anyta's cute bottom and held her firmly against his body. "Careful now, lover, I'm losing my erection. You two are going to have to be wary of wearing me out."

Mysteriously, Anyta told Vart, "I suppose we can always call on Maz in situations like this."

Vart pulled Anyta close and kissed the tip of her nose. "I think we three need to bond."

Wondering what Anyta meant by 'Maz', I ran my hand over Vart's arm where his bulging bicep flexed and held Anyta wrapped tightly in his embrace. Then I stroked Vart's soft cheek and asked, "What about you? How old are you? Tell us, are you already a father?"

Vart replied, "I've been here at the university for a week already and got to study your bios before I selected you as my room mates. We are all just about the same age... within a few years of each other. I don't know if I have any children... who knows what the Corporation has done with my sperm? However, I'm pleased to have you two as my lovers. It will be interesting to see how many babies we can produce!"

At that moment I was still thinking about the future visions that I had experienced while engaged in sexplay with Vart. There were images of two women in my mind: one blond and one with dark hair. Only later did I realize that these were my daughter Tyna and the yet-to-be-born daughter of Anyta who would be named Mylana. I was vaguely aware that my personal Grendel and a Phari were there in bed with us, but my thoughts were full of delight over my two new lovers and I still had no appreciation for the role I was playing in an ages-old hunt for an optimal gene combination that could make possible a new form of human telepathy that the bumpha knew would be needed in the Final Reality.

Mylana

Resigned to the fact that Vart could not endlessly maintain an erection, Anyta eventually pulled herself off of his deflating penis and the three of us snuggled together on the big bed. We began to discuss our  plans of study at the university. I learned that both Anyta and I had been designated as students of mathematics, but Vart would be majoring in physics. In just five short years, we and our children would depart from Alphanor and move to a frontier world, Sadal Suud IV, where Vart would discover a new form of matter, one that would make it possible for me to learn the truth about myself; that I am an artificial life form, a replicoid.

{Tyhry again. For readers in the Final Reality, I must remind you that in the Asimov Reality, the pace of scientific advancement was very slow. A trained physicist of the Asimov Reality was more like what we would call an engineer.}

Next: Part 2 of the science fiction story "D*".
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