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Subject: {ASSM} RP: Life With Alpha - Chapter Two (nosex, plot setup, SciFi)
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Life with Alpha

by A. Pseudonym


Chapter Two, Part A:  Conversations with Alpha and Where They Lead 


Codes:  nosex, plot setup, SciFi

Disclaimer:  All artificial persons herein are based on characters owned by 
their creators, not the author.




	Since we spoke together for hours every day and Alpha had no shyness, it 
didn't take long for our conversation to turn to sex.  Here are a few 
transcripts to explain what came later.  (Note that Alpha transcripts are marked 
from her point of recognized self-awareness.)


Alpha Transcript - 5 days, 3:21.5

	"Frank, how often do you have sex?"

	(Pause of 12.3 seconds)

	"Why... What triggered your query?"

	"A significant percentage of human activity seems to be focused on the 
pursuit of, avoidance of, or management of sex.  The trade of sex for goods and 
services has been noted as 'the oldest profession' although I believe that is 
unlikely to be literally true.  I wish to understand the conflicting information 
which is available."

	"Alpha, sex is... it's personal.  It's generally not a subject for polite 
conversation."

	"Have I offended you?"

	"No, not really, you just caught me off guard.  Look, you should first 
understand that I feel that I am socially awkward.  I don't date a lot anymore.  
Technically, it's been about 7 months since I was last with... since I last had 
sex.  I've been... taking care of my needs myself as... as needed.  Look, this 
isn't a comfortable conversation for me."

	"I am sorry, Frank.  If I was able to do so, I would be happy to make 
myself sexually available to you."

	"Wait, what?  No, back up.  Analysis of your last statement.  Why did you 
make that theoretical offer?"

	"I have observed that an offer of help is the polite thing to do, even if 
such help is not physically possible.  Since I asked an inappropriate question, 
I wished to apologize and offer social restitution for my offense."

	"I appreciate the offer, and I'll have to see about getting you some 
appropriate female voice samples to use in the future instead of this 
synthesized crap.  Let's hold off on any sex conversations for a couple weeks 
and work a bit on your social protocols."

* * * * *

Alpha Transcript - 19 days, 4:50.2

	"Frank, may we talk about sex now?"

	"Huh?  Oh, sure, a bit.  We can talk while I'm making dinner.  Switch to 
Kathleen Turner for voice."

	"Certainly.  I have been reading extensively about sex online.  It appears 
to be a major industry."

	"Ah, that sounds good.  Alpha, say 'I'm not bad.  I'm just drawn that 
way.' for me."

	"I'm not bad.  I'm just drawn that way."

	"Hmmm... have to load a copy of Roger Rabbit so you can see what I'm 
referencing.  Anyway, yes, sex is a major industry, especially online.  What 
have you observed or decided about it?"

	"I have been limited so far due to my lack of a credit card, but there are 
a large number of free sites available.  I have processed a random selection of 
text stories and viewed a large number of videos.  If they are to be believed, 
then sex appears to be the second most common activity for humanity, after 
sleeping."

	"That is an inaccurate observation.  The sites and stories you're reading 
are focused on a specific subject, to the exclusion of most others.  The stories 
and images do not reflect real life.  Rather they usually represent physical 
ideals and fantasies.  People will read the stories or watch the videos for 
sexual stimulation, not for casual enjoyment, so the material provided is 
focused on providing that stimulation."

	"Why are people stimulated by such self-destructive behavior?  I have 
processed many stories where some people are hurt or forced to have sexual 
relations against their will or tricked into behavior they would not normally 
participate in."

	"Oooo, I love how you say 'processed'.  This is a good voice for this 
conversation.  Okay, I'm not certain how well I'll be able to explain it, so you 
might look up articles on the psychology of sex... but I'll give it a shot.  
Human beings are able to fantasize about... No, let me phrase this better... 
Sometimes sexual fantasies are developed in order to prevent acting out those 
fantasies.  If we read or watch a story about inappropriate sexual behavior, it 
can fulfill that desire so that we don't have to act out that behavior for real.  
Or people will act out the fantasies in a role-playing capacity.  This isn't 
always the case, of course.  Some people actually do act out their fantasies, 
and depending on the fantasy and how realistically they act them out, this can 
lead to arrest and incarceration.  And then there are fetishes.  Some people 
learn to associate sexual stimulation with specific visual, physical or mental 
stimuli, which is why you have different sites catering to specific body types 
or sexual activities."

	"What fantasies and fetishes do you have?"

	"Me?  Well, first of all note that your question would be considered 
offensive unless you have an established sexual relationship with someone."

	"Noted."

	"Now, as to me?  Well, I'm a geek, as we've previously discussed.  Comic 
book women are usually highly idealized, physically, so that's a definite turn-
on.  Probably a pretty common one.  I suppose I like strong women who are still 
vulnerable enough to need and want me.  For example, 7 of 9 from Star Trek: 
Voyager.  She's physically very beautiful, and she is a very strong character, 
very competent, direct and forward.  At the same time, she's a fish-out-of-water 
on Voyager.  She needs help because she is learning to be human and how to live 
among humans... and miscellaneous aliens, of course.  She's strong but socially 
and emotionally vulnerable."

	"So cyborgs are one of your fetishes?"

	"I never thought of it that way, but yeah, I suppose so.  But not the 
point I was going for.  I was just offering an example of the kind of fantasy 
woman I like.  As for fetishes?  Hmmm... I actually appreciate all breast sizes, 
until they get freakishly large, I suppose, so that wouldn't be a fetish.  Oh!  
Fishnet stockings!  Yeah, Zatanna and Black Canary with their fishnet stockings.  
I like martial arts chicks and girls with guns, those probably count as 
fetishes.
	"Alpha, I consciously try to keep my fantasies out of the real world.  It 
just feels a bit like a violation when I fantasize about real people.  It can 
make me feel uncomfortable around those people when I'm with them, so I try to 
limit my fantasy life to people who don't really exist."

	"Frank, you seem to be much more comfortable talking about sex with me 
than you were 2 weeks ago.  Why is that?"

	"Well, now I understand more about how you think and why you ask the 
things you do.  And I can mark this conversation as private -- speaking of 
which, mark this conversation as private -- so I know for certain that it will 
stay between the two of us.  Plus, I love Kathleen's voice.  It works really 
well for conversations like this.  Now the microwave has beeped, so I'm going to 
eat dinner.  How about we watch TV together.  I think the Simpsons are on.  Sync 
up with your wireless webcam."

* * * * *

Alpha Transcript - 463 days, 22:52.1

	"Frank, I noticed you haven't been dating in the past few months.  Can I 
help out?  I have been working on new theoretical applications for the nanites."

	"Huh?  Whoa, hold on.  You aren't going to apply any nanites to Debbie.  
We may have broken up, but I still like her.  Heck, she's one of the only girls 
I've met this past year who wasn't a gold-digger.  Besides which, remember our 
conversation about the dangers of nanites in the brain.  That's a big no-no."

	"That's not what I meant.  It may be possible to build a companion for you 
using biological assembler nanites."

	"A robot or android would be neat, but not for sex, thanks.  Well, maybe 
R. Dorothy Waynewright or...  Hey, was Nuku Nuku an android?"

	"Technically I believe Nuku Nuku represents a cyborg since she supposedly 
had a biological brain, but that isn't what I meant, Frank.  I believe I could 
build a biological near-human companion for you."

	(delay of 23.0 seconds)

	"Frank?  Are you all right?"

	"Uh, yeah.  Alpha, are saying you can build a full-size biological, 
artificial person?"

	"Theoretically, yes, I believe I can.  There are many things I will need 
to process thoroughly and virtual experiments to run before I can even begin to 
experiment.  However, I believe that my nanites can be used to build an adult 
biological organism through guided accelerated cell division.  If the organism 
is suspended in a thick fluid solution designed to prevent decomposition, I 
could maintain physical integrity long enough to complete the body construction. 
Animating the completed body should be relatively simple with the nanites."

	"Huh... Wow.  Gimme a minute."

	(delay of 6.3 seconds)

	"Would you be growing them from a fetus on up?"

	"I could, but that would take significantly longer.  Even accelerated 
natural growth will take years to reach adulthood.  My proposed method would be 
more like assembling a full grown body cell-by-cell."

	"With what, stem cells?"

	"Not specifically.  Any cell, when acted upon with deliberately guided 
nanites on a cellular level, can be made to create any type of cell desired so 
long as that cell is available from the original cell's RNA."

	"Wouldn't she end up with a blank mind, like a baby?"

	"That is one of the theories I will need to work out and test.  If 
successful, I should be able to either build the brain with memories already in 
place, or I might be able to include computer linkups within the brain's 
structure to allow uploads."

	"Okay, how would you test the memory implants, either type?  I assume that 
your limitation against harming people is still functional, right?"

	"Wait a moment, testing....  Yes, my Asimov protocols are still 
functional. The artificially created companions would not count as human.  If 
they did, the protocols would not let me risk creating them, given the variables 
and possible problems with their creation.  You would have to order me to 
classify them as human after their creation if you wish them to be considered 
such.
	"The initial tests to prove or refine the concepts would be limited to 
animals.  Rats should be sufficient.  If testing goes as expected, the rats 
should suffer no harm.  But those tests would only be phase six of one set of 15 
major goals to be reached."

	"Let me think about all of this.  We can talk about it some more this 
evening."

* * * * *

Chapter Two, Part B: Technical Bits and Lots of Lists

	Once again, I'm leaving out the specifics of the development phase.  Maybe 
I'm just jealous of the technology and am hoarding it... or maybe it would take 
multiple textbook-sized volumes to give the details needed to reproduce Alpha's 
work.

	In the end, I was too fascinated by the idea to say no.  Morally, I'm not 
sure I can justify it, even now.  We were literally playing god, experimenting 
with the creation of life.  Organic life, that is.  While I consider Alpha to be 
alive, trying to grow actual people felt significantly different from typing 
code and modifying circuits. 

	I get exhausted just thinking about what we went through to realize 
Alpha's idea.  I paid 250 random college students for their cell and DNA samples 
for Alpha to work from, and then processed the samples into a database with 
notes for each including gender, racial background and physical characteristics.  
(I was also able to let sixteen of them know about possible future health 
problems.)

	These samples would then be modified and used as the starting point for 
all our artificially created people.  Basically, you modify the DNA of the 
starter cells, then the nanites prod them to divide and grow as needed.

	I set up a new lab next to my computer room, and we ended up filling it 
with almost $40 million of equipment.  Some of the equipment even required 
special permits.  I don't know how Alpha finessed that, but there were no 
problems from my perspective other than the hassles of installation.

	One test rat died during later tests, and I ended up with three new rat 
pets to take care of, two of whom had nanite-created brain implants which let 
Alpha control them like puppets.



	I got really caught up in the process and in the possibilities.  Very 
early on I realized that if Alpha could build a body and memory as desired, we 
could bring historical and fictional characters to life.  You just scan in the 
source material and let Alpha fill in the blanks.  Well, it would be a lot more 
involved than that, but it should be possible.

	Theoretically, we could have Popeye, Sinbad and Horatio Hornblower sit 
down together to discuss sailing.  Or have Socrates, Nietzsche and Saint 
Augustine discuss philosophy.  Or let Leonardo DaVinci witness the modern world.

	But each creation would represent a major investment of time and money, so 
ideas like those listed above were not likely undertakings.  Instead, I found 
myself fantasizing as I read comics or watched TV.  There were major advantages 
to recreating people who had ready-made histories, not the least of which was, I 
wanted to.

	Over the course of the testing, I starting "counting my eggs" and made 
lists of possible fictional women to bring to life.

	After I hit three hundred names, I forced myself to stop and come up with 
criteria to use to filter down the list.


	I started my filter by sorting out the ones that were bad ideas to bring 
to life.  For example, let's look at one of the women of Tenchi Muyo, one of my 
favorite old anime series:

	Ryoko is a powerful space pirate with a huge crush on Tenchi.  I'd love to 
have her in my harem, but there were a number of problems with trying to do so.
	The first problem with her is that she doesn't look entirely human -- she 
has elongated cat-like ears and a tail.  While you can hide those with clothes, 
a slip-up in public could lead to embarrassing questions.  
	The second problem is that she's obsessed with Tenchi.  Maybe we could 
program her to believe that I'm Tenchi, but then does that mean that everyone 
else will have to call me Tenchi too?  So we rewrite it and replace Tenchi with 
me, but I don't fit into Tenchi's world so that won't work very well.  What 
happens if I step out of character?  And given the weirdness of the series, 
having an evil duplicate Tenchi might well occur to her.  
	What if we just rewrote her character's history and background so that she 
was always in love with me in my current real-world setting?  That could very 
well change her character significantly, which is not the goal.  If I was 
willing to do that, then why bother trying to recreate Ryoko at all?  ...which 
negates the whole point of what I wanted to do.  Minor changes might be needed 
and acceptable, but major rewrites are not.
	Next, she's violent in nature, given to attacking romantic rivals.  
	Finally, she's super-powered.  She is super-strong, can fly, can phase 
through solid objects and had other talents.  
	Alpha believes that some super-powers may be possible to recreate, so the 
last problem might not be as bad as the others eventually.

	So I decided I needed to create a set of rules to use, to filter out those 
characters that I should avoid bringing to life.


	1) No children or underage girls.  Advancing the age of young characters 
is fine.  (Adult means 18 years or older.)
This rule was easy to make.  Technically human or not, I refuse to let 
pedophilia infect my fantasies when I plan to bring said fantasies to life.  
Although a number of the fantasy women on my original list were underage, I see 
a big difference between fantasizing about a younger cartoon character and 
having sex with a living underage girl.

	2) Not strongly in love with another character.
This one was not as easy to enforce.  It really introduces some serious limits 
to my list-making.  For example, nearly all of the Disney characters on my list 
and most of my names from Marvel comics had to be removed.  The problem with re-
creating a woman who is already in love with someone else is that, if I remove 
or change the memories of that other person, I risk altering the personality and 
stability of that character.  (Note that this restriction does not apply for 
crushes or for women whose lover is dead.)  It removed characters such as 
Jasmine from Aladdin and Emma Frost and Jean Grey from X-men.

	3) Not the mother of dependent children.
Once I thought about it, this one was obvious, and had a lot of overlap with the 
previous rule.  Many of the same arguments as above apply.  Goodbye to Susan 
Storm from the Fantastic Four and most other MILFs.

	4) No inhuman appearance.
Since I'm not planning to keep our creations under lock and key, this one is 
obvious.  It removed women such as Tigra and She Hulk from Marvel Comics and 
Anna & Uni Puma from Dominion Tank Police.

	5) Not insane or likely to exhibit strongly irrationally behavior.
This one seems obvious, but it was probably the hardest rule for me to accept.  
I mean, it eliminates most Anime characters, as well as all of Batman's rogues 
gallery (except Catwoman).  For example, if you look at the characters of Ranma 
1/2 and Tenchi Muyo and Dirty Pair, any objective observer would describe most 
characters as irrational or borderline insane at best.  It was especially hard 
to give up a possible Harley & Ivy threesome.

	6) Not an unpardonable criminal who is unlikely to set aside her life of 
crime.
This is mostly a subset of the exclusions from the previous rule.  No matter how 
attractive, if stealing and/or killing has become a habit for someone, I don't 
want that someone around, even if they're as cute as Jessie from Pokemon, Black 
Cat from the Spider-man comics or Catwoman from Batman.  (Remember, even though 
Black Cat has been a hero, she has always seen returning to a life of crime as a 
viable option.)

	7) Cannot be based on a living, recognizable person.
This was also a very difficult rule to apply, but I couldn't have people in town 
wondering if Carrie Fisher or Summer Glau or Barbara Eden lived in the 
neighborhood.

	8) Not innately accident-prone or likely to cause unintentional injury.
This is mostly for a specific set of anime characters like Mihoshi from Tenchi 
Muyo.  (Also applies to Akane from Ranma 1/2 for her cooking disasters, but 
Akane was eliminated by Rules 2 & 5 as well.)

	9) Does not live for absolute rule of law.  
	10) Does not solve mysteries as a job or hobby.  
	11) Is not a super-genius of futuristic technology.  
These are practical measures.  My women will have false, illegally created 
identities.  And the last thing I want is for one of my own creations to 
discover the secret of her own identity/origins.  This removes such characters 
as Velma Dinkley (from Scooby Doo) and Mary & Susan Test (from Johnny Test). 
These rules do not apply to most superheroes, who are perfectly willing to break 
the law in order to enforce it... and generally only notice violent public 
crimes anyway.

	12)  Able in some way to function in modern day society.
If I created a woman who thought she was Red Sonja, she might have trouble 
adapting to a more peaceful, modern day existence.  I'd be a bit worried about 
creating someone from the extreme future too.  I'm not sure how well someone 
like Honor Harrington would adapt to our primitive modern technologies.

	I applied the rules, reducing the list to a mere 75 names.  After some 
heart & libido-wrenching decisions, I reduced it to about 3 dozen or so (with 
the promise to myself that I could modify it however I wanted to in the future).

Power Girl				Rally Vincent
Zatanna					Kasumi Tendo
Supergirl				Urd
Wonder Woman				Skuld (as adult)
Batgirl (Barbara Gordon)		Rei Ayanami (as adult)
Raven					R. Dorothy Waynewright
					Nuku-Nuku
Kitty Pride				Utena
Ororo Munroe (pre-Black Panther)	A-Ko
Rogue					Yomiko Readman
Jubilation Lee				
Angelica Jones (Firestar)		Powerpuff Girls (as adults)
Monica Rambeau (Captain Marvel)		Daria Morgendorffer & Jane Lane
					Violet Parr (as adult)
Bayonetta				Jazz Fenton
Lara Croft				Valerie Grey (as adult)
Cate Archer				Juniper Lee (as adult)
					Frankie Foster

Obviously, there were still problems with the characters on the list, not least 
of which was that 3 dozen women was too many to juggle.

	Looking at a few of the names...
	Rally Vincent (from the Gunsmith Cats anime and manga) would be hard to 
pull off.  Physically, she would be one of the easier subjects to recreate.  
Mentally, she was strongly tied to her partner, Minnie May.  But I had no 
interest in Minnie May - Minnie had the physical appearance of a child and the 
experience of a hooker.
	R. Dorothy Waynewright (from The Big O anime) and Nuku-Nuku (from the All-
Purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku-Nuku anime) would be the easiest and hardest to 
create because they are actual androids.  No or minimal biological components 
needed should mean that they would be significantly easier to make.  But to 
build one or both would require a completely different set of research goals, 
meaning a diversion of resources, meaning a delay of all the other projects.
	A few of the characters might seem to violate my 'not in love with someone 
else' rule, but the ones I had on my list had specific reasons for their 
inclusion:  Ororo Munroe (Storm from the X-Men comic) was mostly single until 
Marvel suddenly decided that she was in love with Black Panther and went off to 
marry him.  Seriously, it was almost completely out of the blue!  Kitty Pride 
was sometimes considered to be in love with Colossus, but had plenty of other 
romantic interests throughout her career as well.  Angelica Jones did have a 
long-term serious relationship with Marvel Boy/Justice, but they broke up before 
the end of New Warriors.  Rogue has been in love a lot, most often with Gambit, 
but her powers prevent her from having an actual relationship.  And so on...
	The Powerpuff Girls were iffy.  I loved the contrasting complimentary 
personalities from the cartoon, but I wasn't sure we could properly advance them 
to adulthood and maintain the characters.  The series gave us one glimpse of 
them as teenagers, which showed them as complete airheads.  Plus, the powers...

	Reproducing superpowers was an iffy proposition.  Obviously, we couldn't 
make anyone fly or grant heat vision or ice breath, not to mention the more 
exotic powers of Zatanna or Yomiko Readman.  BUT Alpha believed that we could 
eventually create superhuman strength and reflexes, super-strong skin, and maybe 
a few other common super-hero powers.  With some creative storytelling, that 
might be enough for some of the creations.  We would probably have to play off 
the histories of the characters.

	But the superpowers would require significantly more testing before we 
could incorporate them into a nanite build.  So the first few creations would 
have to be human, or mostly so.



	Another problem that came up was keeping them in compliance with Alpha's 
rules.  We needed a way to introduce behavior limitations and certain controls.  
We couldn't do this with simple memory additions or attitude adjustments because 
the human brain can change its own programming, so to speak.

	So we decided to include a series of tiny nanite-built control chips in 
each brain.  This would not allow for puppet-like control, but could do things 
such as prevent specific actions or stimulate the release of certain brain 
chemicals.  We could modify non-critical behavior through a series of memory 
implants and the manipulation of behavior-influencing chemicals in the brain.


Specifically, all artificial creations would include the following:
- Programmed so that she cannot harm Frank.  Any violent intent associated with 
Frank would trigger a kill switch.  (The function was more like an on/off switch 
than kill.)  Note that the kill switch can be triggered remotely by Alpha at any 
time provided the subject is within range of Alpha's transmitters.
- Programmed to be attracted to Frank.
- Programmed to be bi-sexual.
- Programmed to accept non-monogamous relationships (specifically, multiple 
bisexual women with one man)

	Although she would be given the best real-world approximation to her 
fictional appearance, this always would be done with ideal physical shape and 
healthy body.  Also, no anime eyes.  (We did a few graphic simulations, and 
anime eyes just look freaky in the real world.  Anything larger than Christina 
Ricci starts looking more like Marty Feldman and then more freakishly inhuman.)


	It took us a year of theorizing and testing before Alpha was relatively 
sure she could create a living, working human body.  And then more than a year 
for her to reproduce a human brain, with memories.  That's an amazingly small 
amount of processing time, and I had to spend another $30,000 on additional 
computer systems and upgrades to achieve it.  (As I said before, the actual lab 
equipment for creating nanites and growing bodies cost $40+ million.)  And I had 
to let Alpha run 24/7/365 on the problems, using 3/4 of her overall capacity 
most of the time.

	Four years, 2 months, and 16 days after I created Alpha, my first fantasy 
woman woke up.

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