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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Kŷrt, Alẙs and Jẏm of Alo𝓎sⓨus

Figure 1. Alys of Aloysyus.
   Image Generated by Mr. Wombo.

This blog page (below) has Part 12 of my Decade in Review (DiR, see Part 1). The blog posts in this series have titles that contain unusual characters. This blog post is called "Kŷrt, Alẙs and Jẏm of Alo𝓎sⓨus" because in 2022 I started a science fiction story called The Cythyrya Investigation which has Kyrt, Alys and Jym as characters who live on the planet Aloysyus. I imagined The Cythyrya Investigation to be part of The Nyrtia Cycle.

 Science Fiction Story Illustration. In this Decade in Review (DiR) I am exploring AI-generated images as alternative illustrations for my old science fiction stories. I'm using software such as Whisk, WOMBO Dream, and Leonardo to generate updated story illustrations. An example of an AI-generated image is shown to the right, for which Mr. Wombo (my 'pet' name for WOMBO Dream) generated an image depicting Alys of Aloysyus, which is the title of the blog post where I placed the first chapter of The Cythyrya Investigation.

Extant cover. Trapping Treesong.

 The Cythyrya Investigation should be viewed as fan fiction because Alys was inspired by Jack Vance's character Alice Wroke.  I had long wondered about the fate of Alys and Kyrt (Kirth) after the end of Vance's novel The Book of Dreams.

At the end of Edison's Endosymbiont Experiments, Rylla had experienced the adventure of exploring past Realities by means of the Reality Simulation System that was accessible to her grandfather, Eddy. Twenty years later (note that 'Tihri' is now called 'Tyhry'), while exploring the Asimov Reality Simulation and visiting the planet Aloysius (Aloysyus), Rylla met Alys and discovered that Alys greatly resembled Rey. Rylla had met Rey the femtobot replicoid during her first use of the Simulator and visiting Earth in the Ekcolir Reality. Eventually, Rylla and Eddy would come to realize that both Nyrtia and Manny often used their special Interventionist agents in multiple Realities of Earth's Reality Chain.

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When Rylla meets Alys inside the Asimov Reality Simulation, the telepathic abilities of Alys quickly become apparent (she is an advanced femtobot that was planted into human society and then passed through human developmental stages, maturing into the young woman who helped Kyrt subdue Treesong). Alys readily admits to Rylla that she was assigned by Nyrtia with the task of helping Kyrt Gersen prevent Treesong from becoming Emperor of the many planets that had been settled by humans. Alys is able to confirm that upon Treesong's death, several artificial life forms exited from his body. One ended up in Kyrt and one went first into Alys and then into her son.

Knowing that Rey had been taken out of the Ekcolir Reality Simulation system and brought into the Final Reality, Rylla now hopes that it might be possible to find programmable nanites inside the Simulation System that can be used to re-activate the teleportation system at Observer Base.

Zodiac

In Part 2 of The Cythyrya Investigation, the events describe the arrival of one of Manny the bumpha's agents on Earth, a woman using the name Jutta Holgenner, at the home of Eddy and Zeta. Jutta claims to have used online clues from Eddy's blog to locate Eddy. Having completed her mission on Earth (which involved time spent with Eddy's copy known as "John Smith"), Jutta is irresistibly attracted to the the Reality Simulation equipment that can be accessed through Eddy's personal computer.

Jutta is a clone of Jyryl Tynzy. She and Rylla use the Simulation System to visit the planet Sogdian in the year 3923 of the Asimov Reality, at the time when Viole Falushe was experimenting with clones and clytykynyn polypeptides for a bizarre form of mind control. Working with Falushe was a man named Retz (an agent for Zodyac) who had some advanced training in nanotechnology.

the Ivory infites

At the start of Part 3 of The Cythyrya Investigation, the fate of Jutta is revealed: she was able to rescue her clone sisters from Sogdian. Retz had isolated some nanites from the dead body of Jheral Tinzy and was trying to use them to give Viole Falushe the ability to exercise telepathic control over the clones of Jheral.

 Studying the Future. Eventually, I would depict Tyhry (the grownup Tihri) as having an innate ability to regularly make use of information obtained from the Sedron Time Stream. In 2022, I imagined that Ivory Fersoni and her sisters also had access to the Sedron Time Stream. Because of infites that Ivory had passed on to Eddy, he could sometimes access information from the future that Ivory had previously obtained from the Sedron Time Stream. The events in Part 3 of The Cythyrya Investigation center on Eddy's attempt to compose a coherent account of events from the far future of the Final Reality, at a time when telepathic humans are beginning to form a stable society.

Myllyr's Planet.

 G-syms for G-world. In that future society, some planets of the galaxy resist using robots for labor and some people (such as Fraunz Wylsyn) are reluctant to use technology-assisted telepathy. Fraunz is a golfer who arrives on G-world, the planet where all of the galaxy's golf champions assemble and compete. Fraunz is a strong telepathic transmitter, but he has no ability to tune his telepathic mind to that of another person. That could be changed if Fraunz used a G-sym implant, but he is not interested in doing so. 

At the end of Part 3 of The Cythyrya Investigation, Fraunz meets his future wife, Tya. Tya will give birth Rytya, a woman who is able to send information from the future back to Eddy via the Sedron Time Stream.

Myller's planet ocean cruising.

One of the goals of the Decade in Review is identifying old stories that I never completed. I did begin writing Part  4 of The Cythyrya Investigation, which shifted back to Rylla and her efforts to re-activate the teleportation system at Observer Base. Here in 2025, I finally caught up to that goal as described in my story "D*". In July, I completed Part 4 of The Cythyrya Investigation, which describes a mission by Rylla and Rey to the first "Phari planet" (Myllyr's Planet) and the nanites obtained by Rey that will, in the future, allow Tyhry to re-activate the teleportation equipment at Observer Base.

Rylla's and Marda's children (source)

The first part of my science fiction story The Nanites of Love appeared in a September 1, 2022 blog post titled "Guess When?" The Nanites of Love is another story from 2022 that I have not yet completed. The events described in The Nanites of Love begin in the year 2022 when Eddy receives memories from the future (from the year 2040).

 Part 1 of The Nanites of Love provides information about two probots who are on Earth: Rey and Anthony. By 2040, Rey has long since moved to Australia to help raise the many children of Rylla. Anthony remains in Arizona and becomes Tihri's companion.

Bonny

At the end of  Part 1 of The Nanites of Love, Eddy receives a mysterious invitation to enter into the Reality Simulation System. In Part 2 of The Nanites of Love, Upon arriving inside the Reality Simulator, Eddy finds himself in the body of a tryp'At hermaphrodite. Eddy is introduced to Carrin, Rylla's grandmother. Carrin raised Vendela (Rylla's mother) in Europe. It was in Europe that Eddy's son met Vendela.

Also inside the Simulation with Eddy and Carrin is Jymzy, who Eddy has previously known as Bonny Lynn and who claims to have originated as a Grendel. Jymzy identifies herself as one of the agents who works for Manny the bumpha and who has been working to guide human evolution on Earth for more than a million years.

creating Brak

 A two year gap. Part 3 of The Nanites of Love was not published to the wikifiction blog until January 1, 2025. In "Making Vendela" there is an account of some recovered memories from Eddy's youth. Eddy is now allowed to remember that one of his childhood friends was a descendant of Trysta Iwedon, disguised by developmental control nanites as a human being. Eddy is now allowed to know that Carrin is his daughter and the grand-daughter of Trysta.

Jymzy then shifts Eddy to a simulation of the Erre district on Tar'tron where Carrin had been trained for for her mission on Earth. Eddy now realizes that by means of a complex time loop, he contributed genes to the creation of Marda's son Brak, the first fully telepathic human on Earth.

on Tar'tron

Jymzy and Eddy then use the Reality Simulation System to visit the planet Mothyng in the Asimov Reality where the human population had large numbers of Asterothrope gene patterns. While observing the telepaths of Mothyng, Jymzy tells Eddy that the only telepathy worth having is the kind that requires the telepaths to love and trust each other.

Part 3 of The Nanites of Love makes reference to the planet Threy, but Eddy is allowed to remember an alternative timeline in which his family vacations on the planet Kyrstynyte. During that vacation, Marda has a romantic interlude with a lover who has large numbers of Asterothrope gene patterns. This "temporary vacation" in the Asmov Reality allows Marda to be impregnated and start her Brak pregnancy.

Long-range teleportation - image source

In Part 4 of The Nanites of Love, the idea is mentioned that critical telepathy genes had been provided to the human population of Earth by Ekcolir and Grean, but sports like baseball had been used to maintain positive selection for those genes over the course of thousands of years.

Figure 2. Blastipositor by Whisk.

Eddy and Rylla travel to Mt. Picachu and try to determine the location of what my be a hidden Grendel base under the mountain. They use Eddy's blastipositor to establish a synapex link between their nervous systems, hoping to amplify their telepathic abilities and detect t-particles coming from the alien base that is located under Mt. Picachu.  I never completed Part 5 of The Nanites of Love, but in May, in Part 9 of the science fiction story "D*", Elyrix the Grendel took Tyhry into the secret teleportation facility under Mt. Picachu. Hopefully, some day I will be able to complete The Nanites of Love and provide an account of what happened to Eddy and Rylla during their visit to Mt. Picachu. Potentially, what they learned was erased from their minds, as part of a 20 year delay in reactivation of the teleportation equipment at Observer Base. 

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 2040. In my December 3, 2022 blog post titled "Observing Mars", there is Part 1 of a new science fiction story called "Someday Mars" that begins at a time shortly after Eddy's daughter 'Tihri' has changed her name to "Tyhry". At this time, it is possible to use the teleportation equipment at Observer Base to move hierions, but not conventional matter. Tyhry is making use of negative mass hierions for her experiments in transportation and with clothing nanites. A story is found by Stacy in the archives of the Writers Block at Observer Base: "Remember Phobos", an account of a Phari base inside of Phobos.

 The Search for Teleportation Technology. Tyhry and Marda are both soon to graduate from college and they are planning a celebratory vacation inside the Reality Simulation System. But first, Manny the bumpha provides Tyhry and Eddy with Reality Simulation coordinates for a visit to Observer Base in the Ekcolir Reality.

Manny the bumpha

In Part 2 of "Someday Mars", Eddy and Tyhry arrive inside Observer Base, Eddy having been placed in a younger body and Tyhry is now is a more mature body. At Observer Base inside the Ekcolir Reality Simulation, Eddy and Tyhry meet John Vance and Alice Turing and Wendy sends them to a chamber inside Phobos by using the Asimov Reality Simulation. 

These copies of Vance and Alice are both femtobot replicoids and Alice delights in altering the shape of her body to please her lovers. Alice has previously received information about Phobos by way of the Sedron Time Stream and she was removed from Earth because of the stories that she wrote about future technologies. Tyhry hopes to find Phari nanites that might be useful in fully activating the teleportation equipment at Observer Base in the Final Reality.

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Inside Phobos, the four explorers are greeted by a Phari artificial life-form that explains how this hidden base was long ago used as observation post to monitor the Nereid civilization on Ver'la, before Ver'la was teleported out of the Solar System. 

Everything that they see inside Phobos is exactly as Alice had seen it in her vision of the future, including the teleportation equipment. The teleportation equipment only responds to Alice and Tyhry believes that control nanites for the teleportation equipment are inside Alice's replicoid body.

Figure 3. Tyhry by Whisk.

Alice forms a synapex link to Eddy and is able to find clues in the infites that he carries which allow her to extract the teleportation control nanites from her body. Eddy and Tyhry return to the final reality with the alien nanites now held inside a hierion containment vial. 

The teleportation control nanites that were obtained from Alice's artificial body are teleported to Observer Base, but they do not allow for full activation of the teleportation equipment and subsequent teleportation of conventional matter. 

Figure 4. Tyhry's hierion
confinement experiment.
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However, the visit to Phobos was not without some advancement. Eddy discovers that he and Tyhry have now acquired the ability to keep secrets from other telepaths. Rylla concludes, "Manny gave you and Tyhry the bookmark for that little adventure with Alice. She must have wanted you two to learn better telepathy control." In later stories, Tyhry will have need to hide her thoughts from other telepaths in some situations.

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 Fiction in 2023. The first new science fiction story of 2023 appeared in a Jan 7, 2023 blog post titled, "Dethevicinelec". The story is called Echo of Cynym, and it begins with a visit by Eddy to Alastor 2672, a "water world" since it has no continents, only scattered volcanic islands. Eddy investigates rumors of what is called call "teleculture", a way of allowing an alien biological organism to maintain a symbiotic relationship with a human and amplify that person's telepathic powers. 

The human-alien hybrids of Alastor 2672 were known as the Chyntos and Eddy arrives on the planet hopeful of meeting some Chyntos. However, he is met at the spaceport by a telepathic robot from the planet Triskelion. Bisop the robot has the physical form of a conventional human woman, but Eddy can telepathically sense the mind pattern of a robot. 

Travel poster featuring the Chyntos of Dethevicinelec.

Eddy soon has a chance to see some Chyntos and they have the physical appearance of a tryp'At hermaphrodite, with two rows of breasts.

Bisop the robot takes Eddy to the laboratory of Dr. Elyn Arky. Eddy gets his first look at the native creatures: the aquatic and telepathic Stateorea. Some gene patterns from the Stateorea have been added to the genomes of the Chyntos in an attempt to make human bodies compatible with an alien endosymbiont. However, some of the Chyntos spontaneously revert to a phenotype that is incompatible with such an implanted endosymbiont.

Figure 5. Echo of Cynym.
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 The Telepathic Stateorea of Dethevicinelec. In Part 2 of Echo of Cynym, Eddy is under telepathic attack by the Stateorea because his undisciplined telepathic mind emits signals that annoy the natives. Eddy is unaware of the fact that he has been enticed to visit Alastor 2672 in order for the Stateorea to have an opportunity to modify his brain structure. 

Dr. Arky is intrigued by the idea that she is inside a simulation, but she must quickly deal with the telepathic conflict between Eddy and the Stateorea. Towards that goal, Eddy is introduced to Onky, a Chyntos whose body rejects implanted Stateo-symbionts. Onky is not happy on Alastor 2672 and immediately begins to hope that Eddy might take her out of the Simulation and to Earth. Although Onky's body rejects implanted Stateo-symbionts, she temporarily takes one into her thoracic pouch so that she can work with the Stateorea to alter Eddy's telepathic mind.

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In Part 3 of Echo of Cynym, Dr. Arky explains to Eddy that she was trained in advanced genetics by Nyrtia and tasked with finding a way to link the genetically modified Chyntos into the Phari Network by telepathically connecting to the telepathic group mind of the Stateorea on Alastor 2672, the world that the natives call Dethevicinelec.

 Communication with the Phari. In Part 4 of Echo of Cynym, Dr. Arky explains to Eddy that she is a Cynym, a human variant that Nyrtia described as, "telepathic fossil... incompatible with the Phari telepathy network." The Chyntos were crafted as a new human variant that was designed for teleculture. Dr. Arky has tried to craft the Chyntos and their biological telepathic endosymbionts into a tool, a telepathic human culture that can achieve telepathic communication with the ancient Phari.

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 Cynym Anatomy. Dr. Arky tells Eddy, "Finding a way to block telepathic signals is one of the fundamental problems that must be solved when creating a society of telepaths." Dr. Arky explains to Eddy why the Asterothropes were designed with two rows of breasts. "The big top row shields the smaller bottom row. Thus, the telepathic signal detectors in the bottom row are protected from a person's own telepathic brain signals." Although Dr. Arky's body was altered and shaped so as to have the superficial appearance of a conventional human female, she explains the special anatomical features of a Cynum female which included six breasts, two vaginas and two tails.

After a week on Alastor 2672, Eddy departs with Onky and they have a brief encounter with Manny the bumpha. Manny repairs Eddy's neural networks, but informs him that he is now capable of shielding his thoughts from Zeta, despite the strong telepathic linkage they have developed through many years of practice learning their mind patterns.

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In Part 5 of Echo of Cynym, Eddy and Onky are in Arizona, back at Eddy's home in the Final Reality. For the first time, Eddy can now prevent Tyhry from telepathically accessing his mind and thoughts. Eddy is surprised to learn that the copy of Onky that he brought back to Earth has a functioning Stateo-symbiont that she can use to form synapex linkages to her lovers.

Zeta is intrigued by the idea that it might be possible for her to now visit Alastor 2672 and have the Stateorea alter her telepathic brain as had been done for Eddy. However, they learn that they cannot us the Reality Simulation System to return to the mini-society of telepathic Chyntos that Dr. Arky made on Alastor 2672. That version of Alastor 2672 was carefully crafted by Manny, apparently for two purposes: 1) to alter Eddy's telepathic mind and to bring a copy of Onky to the First Reality. 

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 The Amplification Fork. The first chapter of a new science fiction story called The Hua Nanites appeared in a January 14, 2023 blog post titled "𐀲hang𐀟 23". The events of The Hua Nanites are told by Tyhry. Tyhry takes Onky into a fork of the Final Reality Simulation in which she has made extensive use of the capacity of the Reality Simulation System to make duplicates of people. While in a telepathic trance with one of her femtobot replicoid copies, Tyhry is able to briefly 'enter into' the Sedron Domain, where Manny the bumpha is waiting for her. Manny tells Tyhry, "You'll get better with practice. Onky will use the stateo-symbiont to tune your mind to the Time Stream."

Tyhry soon discovers that it is now possible for her to access a Simulation of the far past in the First Reality. Manny has left a 'bookmark' in Eddy's Reality Simulation System that will allow Tyhry and Onky to visit the alien Hua. Tyhry hopes that programmable Hua nanites might be used to completely re-activate the teleportation equipment that is inside Observer Base of the Final Reality.

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In Part 2 of The Hua Nanites, Manny reveals the fact that she instantiated a copy of Onky in the form of an artificial life-form composed of zeptite components. Eddy speculates that this will allow Onky's body to act as a zeptite containment system, allowing her to bring back to the Final Reality some programmable Hua zeptites.

Arriving on Sermyth, the home planet of the alien Hua, Tyhry learns that Manny arranged for them to meet the family of Quyn Vye, one of the leading developers of Hua nanotechnology. Tyhry quickly explains that she is hoping to repair teleportation equipment, but the Hua have rules against sharing advanced technology with other species that might be harmed by such technology.

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 The Sedron Swap. In Part 3 of The Hua Nanites, Tyhry contemplates the possibility of "trading" Onky for some Hua programmable nanites. Quyn Vye has previously been visited by Manny and Quyn decides to not inform government officials of Sermyth about the mysterious arrival of Tyhry and Onky and their goal of obtaining Hua technology.

In Part 4 of The Hua Nanites, Tyhry learns about Hua cervical sex. The thin tip of the Hua penis is designed to penetrate a sex partner's cervix. Under the influence of sex hormones from the body of Onky, Quyn Vye's child, Fyrryx begins to sexually mature. A week later, Onky announces that she is moving in with Fyrryx. Onky's sedron body components attract the attention of government officials on Sermyth and they find in her body a type of sedron that is unknown to Hua science.

Then Vye's other child, Mym, who has become Tyhry's lover, discovers that she is pregnant. Then Onky discovers that she has been impregnated by Fyrryx.

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Manny leaves copies of Tyhry and Onky inside the Sermyth simulation and returns Tyhry and Onky to the Final Reality along with a zeptite replicoid copy of Mym programmable repair nanites. Completely composed of sedrons, Mym can be teleported to Observer Base. Once there, Mym adjusts the teleportation equipment and makes it possible for Nora, a femtobot replicoid, to be teleported to Observer Base. However, Nora is happy on Earth and she returns to Australia.

The copy of Onky that returns to the Final Reality has made the choice to not continue the pregnancy that was begun inside the Reality Simulation System. Manny removes Sermyth from the destination targeting system of the Reality Simulation System. With the help of memory editing nanites from Manny, Tyhry quickly begins to forget about her copy that remained inside the Simulation.

 Next: Part 13 of this Decade in Review.

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