Battlestar Climactica

Captain Nbecki watched the activity on Drill Floor #1 from his monitor on the bridge. The recruits were new and fumbling through the formations, but he knew Sergeant Peach would soon have them in shape. Janet's twentieth century military methods might seem out of place to some for reproduction training, but they worked. Her first year success rate was a ninety-eight percent impregnation rate within three months of returning to Earth. Nbecki touched the switch panel and brought the microphones on the drill floor to his headset.

"Left, right, left, right, left... Erickson, get those tits in the air. You look like you're bending over to take it in the ass. Left, right, left, right..., company..., halt! What the fuck do you little bitches think you're doing? When I say halt, I wanna hear two hundred wet pussies slappin' shut in the air. Ames, why the hell are you smiling?"

Nbecki grinned as Sergeant Peach stood with her nose only inches away from the small giggling blonde and screamed, "Do you want my body, Ames? Is that it? Fuck, I know I'm hot. I'll betcha wanna lick my crotch clean, don'tcha? Well, wipe that smile off your face, Sugar. Ain't no private ever touched this pussy. You make Corporal and we'll talk. Drop and give me one."

The little blonde sat down on the drill floor, pulled the MVBO-106 standard issue vibrator from her web belt and spread her legs. Yes, thought Nbecki, Sergeant Peach knew her business. After only a few minutes, Private Ames arched into the throbbing plastic cock, convulsed twice and fell back on her back. In another month, it would take her less than three minutes to bring herself to orgasm with just one finger, and less with the vibrator. Her future husband would appreciate this training, just as Private Ames would enjoy the training she'd received.

The rest of the company of nude girls stood at attention. They knew from experience that Sergeant Peach would be watching for signs of arousal. It wasn't long after Private Ames gasped out the last wave of pleasure that Sergeant Peach yelled again.

"Rivotti, is that the best you can do? I got a pimple on my ass that's bigger than your nipples. See me after formation. I'll issue you a pump to help them out."

Captain Nbecki touched the panel again and his headset went quiet. He was fortunate that he'd stumbled across Sergeant Peach's personnel file that day. Otherwise, the human race might have been in more trouble than it now was. He would have been missing out on an unbelievable experience as well. For the last three months, he'd had the pleasure of having Sergeant Janet Peach as his wife. She'd proven to be as skilled in bed as she was on the drill floor. Nbecki smiled at how fate had drawn them together.

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Historians have a compulsion to identify the exact date and time something began, and often dedicate their lives to the search for such information. Their best guess so far is the year 2306. That was the year ForGenHonda was selected as the supplier of the SSP-200/201.

The Earth Congress had received information from agents posing as interstellar traders that the Phallussians were planning an invasion of Earth and it's neighboring inhabited planets. The decision was made to send the fleet of battlestars to the fringes of the solar system to meet this attack.

In numerous simulations, it was determined that the men and women who crewed these leviathans of space war would mate and produce children. These children would become a hindrance to effective operations and could possibly relegate defense of the solar system to second priority. It was deemed impossible to enforce a celibacy order on the battlestars, and involuntary sterilization of the crews would have been a violation of Earth's Legal Code. A safe, effective alternative to human sexual relations would be required.

The sexual surrogate system was an evolution of the sex dolls invented in the late twentieth century, but with two important differences. The dolls would be animate rather than being just immobile but very lifelike bodies with electric vibrators, and they were to be given rudimentary computers. These computers would read the information carried by the electronic dogtags of the user and modify their programming to the personal preferences of that user.

Since ForGenHonda had over three centuries of experience with lightweight vehicle mechanisms and mobile computer controls and also quoted the lowest price per unit, the conglomerate won the contract. The design specifications called for two series subsequently named Surrogate, Sexual, Programmable or SSP. SSP-200, the male series, and the female model SSP-201, would be available in size, race, and language variants.

Both the SSP system and the defense of the solar system were successful. In 2358, the last of the battlestars returned from their posts for refitting. Their old crews had only a few years remaining before retirement, so they were placed in training positions as instructors and their stations filled with newly trained men and women. Along with the new crews went the SSP-600 series. This generation of surrogates was designed to correct certain issues with earlier models, and resulted in obsolescence of the older 200 series. The refitted battlestars went back to their posts in 2360, and the old robotic sex surrogates were placed on the military surplus market. They were quickly purchased by some former members of the old battlestar maintenance crews.

There is an old Earth saying that one should leave well enough alone, but the speaker of these profound words had obviously never met a battlestar maintenance specialist. When in space for fifty or so years, it is not possible to carry all the parts to repair a battlestar and its equipment. Maintenance specialists received extensive training to enable them to manufacture replacement parts and to re-engineer those parts subject to malfunction.

These former maintenance specialists began experimenting with the old SSP series, and had soon installed faster computers and artificial intelligence software in them. The re-engineered robots were in high demand by all of Earth society because they could learn about a user's tastes as those tastes developed and didn't need programming revisions.

The second spoke in this wheel of societal destruction came when Oshima Matsurami, a former computer specialist on the battlestar "Pancho Villa", developed the trilba-wave decoder. The device read the electrical impulses of human thought and matched these impulses to an extensive catalogue of video images. Matsurami sold his patents to the manufactuers of X-Station 48 and the decoder was initially placed in a video game controller.

It allowed the game player to modify the environment of the game and actions of the characters by simply thinking about them. No one knows who first removed Matsurami's decoder from the game controller, modified the firmware, and installed it in an SSP-201, but within six months, so-modified SSP-200's and 201's began popping up on World-net auction sites.

The new sex-bots were even more popular. Not only were they always ready and willing for sex, now the user merely had to think about some particular scenario, and the robot delivered. ForGenHonda purchased the rights to use the trilba-wave decoder, and began manufacturing an updated version of the series 200 and 201 for public consumers.

At the turn of the decade, the census statisticians began seeing a drastic population decline and blamed it on the new sex toys. Their studies indicated people weren't having sex with each other as much, ergo, there were fewer babies being born.

The drug of the 2400's had a titanium skeleton covered with electrically activated polysilicone muscles, was powered by a tiny nuclear reactor with a mean time to failure of two hundred years, and would instantly respond to even the darkest wishes of any human. By the year 2360, the average life-span was ninety-four, and though the human life span had been extended, the years of female fertility had not. The human species seemed doomed to a blissful, but ultimate, extinction.

Meetings of the Earth Legislature were held, and a senate committee was formed to analyze the situation and develop a solution. That solution was to confiscate and destroy all sex surrogate robots. The solution would have probably worked except for one small detail. Up until that time, no one realized that Matsurami's decoder also worked with robot thoughts. They had learned to silently communicate with each other over the WorldNet, and humans couldn't listen in since the robots spoke in seemingly random hexidecimal coded bytes of information.

Although the committee met in private and were isolated from the outside world during their deliberations, the janitors who cleaned their offices were not. One scrap of wastepaper containing notes of the plan was read by a Mr. Clevis. His surrogate, a red-headed 201 he called Francis, promptly read his thoughts and transmitted the plan to all the 200's and 201's for which she knew the WorldNet address. They, in turn, relayed the plan to all those within their spheres of knowledge. In less than a day, and a week before the Earth Congress received the formal report, every robot with Matsurami's decoder knew of the plan to confiscate all SSP series robots and destroy them.

The robot's reaction should have been predictable given the state of their development, but no one could have foreseen the extent of the reaction. The robots simply increased the frequency and intensity of their attention to their owners. A subsequent study determined that the average robot usage increased by two hundred percent in the six months following the study, and that usage was still growing at an alarming rate. Robot owners were missing more work, either because of fatigue or because their robots were keeping them at home and having sex. As the Surgeon General said in his annual speech to the Earth Legislature, "The SSP series of surrogate sex partners is more addictive than was the ancient drug, cocaine. A user will often become addicted by the first use, and most certainly will by the second."

This statement was proven true when the plan to confiscate and destroy the robots was made public. There were protests in the streets, some of which became riots. After two days of such protests, the office of the Prime Minister of Earth announced the plan had been discarded due to budget constraints.

Two more study teams were then selected, Team Blue again from members of the Earth Legislature and Team Green from Futuresee, a government subsidized think tank. Their scope of work was very simple -- develop a plan to make humans have sex with each other again. The teams were sequestered in very remote locations and both the teams and support staff were inspected hourly for communication devices to eliminate the possibility of robotic intrusion. No electronic equipment was present at these locations. All notes were recorded by hand on paper for fear of robots "listening" through the WorldNet. Each page and scrap of paper was either placed in a maximum security holding area or vaporized as it left the meeting area.

Six months of study and planning yielded two separate reports. Team Blue recommended the heavy taxation of robot owners as a way to discourage their use, and also recommended setting age restrictions on robot ownership. The team felt that any outright attempt to abolish robots would be met by civil unrest as had the attempt in the past. By taxing robot owners, the World Legislature could help eliminate the budget deficit, and by setting a minimum age of forty for ownership, would at least postpone the time of addiction to past the prime child bearing years.

Team Green had a very different proposal. They reasoned that since all addictions are the result of stimulation of the various pleasure centers of the brain, the solution was to make humans more stimulating to other humans than were the robots. In the body of the report was a very significant paragraph.

"Numerous psychological studies indicate the male human will nearly always respond to the sexual advances of a female, be that female human or of robotic construction. While there are variations in male preferences as to female body size and other physical characteristics, any female exhibiting signs she desires to copulate will likely receive the desired attentions of the male. The resolution to the decline in population is for women to become the primary initiators of sexual activity."

The paragraph continued with another study observation. Though much had changed in society since the advent of sexual surrogates, the majority of women remained passive relative to actual human sex. They would happily use a robotic surrogate to please themselves, but were very reserved about such acts with human males.

The study placed the responsibility for such an attitude on society itself. Women had been trained by their mothers for generations to be passive or even inhibited about the actual sex act. To overcome that training, other training was required, training that would break down all inhibitions and rebuild the female's mindset to cause her to actively seek out human males for copulation and ultimately, impregnation.

That single paragraph in the report led to another study by Futuresee into how human females might be encouraged to disregard their former instructions and initiate such relationships. One of the study team, a historian by education, researched the historical record for evidence of any training programs in the past with a similar goal. He found such a training program was used by the militaries of most nations from the earliest records to well into the twenty-first century.

The goal of these training programs was to remove all social status from the military trainees, modify certain of the training they had learned from birth, and replace the fear of injury and death with the will to fight as both a unit and individually. In all the programs studied, the method of training was highly successful so long as the individuals being trained were below the age of twenty.

The recommendation of Team Green was that a suitable training environment should be constructed, a training program developed around the psychological methods required, and mandatory training for all young women once their primary education had been achieved.

The recommendations of Team Blue were implemented immediately with nearly disastrous results. The owners of sex surrogates comprised more than eighty percent of the adult population, and as predicted by some, there were protests in the streets. There were not enough law enforcement personnel to keep the protests under control, and they quickly became riots. In many cases, the law enforcement personnel required were actually part of the protest. Employment in law enforcement did not preclude the ownership of a sex surrogate. After three weeks, implementation of the Team Blue plan was halted.

The recommendations of Team Green were debated at great length, both in the Earth Congress and in the media. Various women's organizations and some members of the Earth Congress complained that after women had finally become the equals of men in all fields of endeavor, Team Green's proposal would set that progress back by centuries. They argued that Team Green was likely composed of the ultra-conservative right who had fought against that equality for so long, and only sought to return women to the status of sex objects. The news media went so far as to call the plan misogynistic and sued to obtain all Team Green's correspondence via the Freedom of Data laws.

The resulting tome of electronic correspondence proved Team Green was composed of a tri-partisan group of researchers, a fact that was already common knowledge but had been somewhat downplayed by the media. Team Green argued their plan was not misogynistic, but was, in fact, freeing women from generations of false expectations imposed by their mothers and allowing them to reach equality in the bedroom. Team Green also pointed out that given the current evolution of the human species, only women could bear children. If the species was to survive, more women would have to have more children.

Led by ForGenHonda, the defense industry countered that argument with one of their own. Per their own studies, the population of Earth could be maintained by ex-utero fertilization and gestation. All that would be required was the addition of fifty trillion in Earth currency to the Earth budget for development and implementation of existing technologies, and another trillion or so every year for ongoing operations. They could be producing ten thousand babies a year in under two years and would reach a capacity of a million babies a year in six. If desired, genetic manipulation could be used to guarantee intellect and for selection of appearance. The cost of this capability was only half a trillion more and could be implemented in the same timing.

Team Green explained they had already considered that plan, but based on past performance of the defense industry, their estimate of cost and timing was a quadrillion or more and twenty years before the first baby was removed from the artificial uterine environment. The two psychologists on Team Green also maintained that while ex-utero gestation was indeed possible, there was still much unknown about the relationship between a mother and child prior to birth. It would be impossible to perfectly reproduce the uterine environment because each one was unique.

The risk was the resulting children would probably all be alike in personality, but it was not possible to predict what that personality might be. Most of the medical profession agreed with this statement and publicly denounced such a plan. The lobbyists' argument that the medical profession did so because ex-utero gestation would reduce their significant incomes changed the debate to name-calling and after a few months, this proposal was relegated to a separate study team for further consideration.

The same lobby then proposed the goal could be accomplished by artificial fertilization at much lower cost and could be implemented immediately. This course of action had also been studied by Team Green, and a financial study had been prepared by the Financial Accountability Office of the Earth Legislature. The cost to artificially inseminate the number of women required was larger than the total Gross World Product. It would also require testing and approval of millions of sperm donors and a massive computer system to match those donors with women in order to not weaken the species through inadvertent matings of closely related individuals. Artificial insemination also had an approximate eighty percent success rate.

Team Green pointed out that natural fertilization was zero cost, about ninety eight percent effective, and would likely be self-sustaining once the concept again became the norm rather than only an interesting if somewhat odd phenomenon.

After another six months of debate, the proposal from Team Green was also implemented. The Earth Congress passed a law that all women between the ages of eighteen and twenty were obligated to one year of service in what was termed the "WSTC". To the public, WSTC was an acronym for "Women Serving Their Country". The senior members of Team Green knew "WSTC" as an acronym for "Women's Seduction Training Corps".

Team Green had learned from their research that successful training required isolation from all outside stimuli. To achieve this isolation, an obsolete battlestar was re-commissioned and refitted as a training ship. Sufficient armament and munitions remained for an adequate defense of the battlestar, but the remainder of the ship became barracks for two thousand women, exercise areas, a mess, and a parade ground. The battlestar was christened "Changmu" after the ancient Chinese goddess of the bedroom.