Three Square Meals Ch. 70

Oh yeah

18 pages of yummy goodness

One of Your Best

While this chapter might disappoint the tech fiends and those that love the gratuitous violence of a good space battle, this is definitely one of your best.

Well done Tef.

The other Dave

WOOOOO-HOOOO!!!

It's UP! YES!!!

Just for voting

THX loved it.

I really like the change in style

To me this chapter was in a different style to previous ones. It is now a perfect mix of story and sex and both elements blend well to advance the tale.

Re: anon - change in style

I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I wanted to try something a bit different with this chapter, with it being basically a training montage interspersed with character development. Also, with all the balls to the wall action recently, it was nice to focus on the character relationships for a bit. :-)

Tefler

Re: nekronom and Dave

Thanks guys, It's great to hear you enjoyed it!

Tefler

At last...

Usually you upload one new chapter in about 10 days. I've become restless waiting for Ch 70. Thank you for uploading it... superb as always.

Lol @Anonny "At Last..."

Another Tefler addiction victim surfaces...
You might as well create a login ID and identify yourself "properly" - it'll be necessary for the 12-step addiction recovery program (yet to be formed) eventually anyway...
heh
"Hi I'm GrandPaM, and I'm a Tefler addict."

...a great 'high' as always, Tefler. ;-)

Once again,

Exceptionally well thought out, written, and presented. Congrats!

Great chapter tefler, worth the wait. It would be amazing if you include some pictures in your major edit after the conclusion of this series.
Good luck.

Ah a travelling and training chapter

Thats why I don't like the idea of them getting a wormhole drive. If they can travel instantly, then there won't be space for these chapters

This was really damn good tefler
I hope the next chapter will be as good

Chapter 71

I've got something quite different planned for the next chapter. I'm about 3/4 of the way through it at the moment.

Cheers

Tefler

and this chapter

suggests yet another way for Faye to get a body. If John goes across into the network, and then makes Faye one of his girls with the usual treatment there, then we could see Faye developing a telekinetic skin for he body, and the ability to interact with all the crew physically on the outside. plus a psychic link as all the others have. with Fayes much faster processing speed, it might only take day to connect and develop her power

Hmmmmmmmm

I think I may have figured some of this out.

How the Progen's ship was disabled and crash landed on that planet is completely unknown. I suspect it was an unassimilated group of women from inside the ship.

John's Progen father had to have been at least partially incapacitated. With no or limited mobility he would have no way to regenerate due to no Matriarch or Thralls who survived the crash. This fits or he would have just taken over the Terran ship on the planet right then and there. We know his mother was not ordered to leave or she would not have fought the Terrans.

For this reason: I believe John was to be a body for him to inhabit. Not a son for him to have to deal with later. Mom being kidnapped caused him a great deal of anger yet provided a way for her to steal a ship and bring it to him so he could get back to home base and create a new body and ship for himself.

In this way, the Progen is BOTH father and brother to John since his mother gave birth to another male child for him to inhabit. This explains why it has taken this long for the Progen to begin his machinations at domination.

His anger is so great he is going to put each of the species he has created back into the dark ages and subjugate them all. The appearance of John is, at this time, just something that is interesting to him. But, when John grows enough to become a challenge to his power, he will just take him out as his usefulness against his boredom will have dissipated.

1hand

You said, "Thats why I don't like the idea of them getting a wormhole drive. If they can travel instantly, then there won't be space for these chapters."

Tefler would just provide such atmospheres on Genthalis or some other venue. He really is that good.

Hmmmmmmmm cont'd.

And this explains the Astral Plane Leviathan(s)...Killed Progens who had to escape into the Astral Plane for survival.

And why the Leviathan tried to get a foothold in normal space....to inhabit a body again.

@ re: pussylickersrus

i think u might be wrong.
the progen has telekinetic ability thus motility is not a issue here.

the progen-john has vast reserve of eldirtch energy.if a 40 year old without any
experience has this much energy then some 60000 + year old would have certainly had more energy reserve or would have found a way to store it as a last resort.

the progens have ability to heal using their own energy reserve or using their thralls.
thus he could have kept jessica without impregnating her to heal him in case he lost all the thralls.

let us assume all this matriarch and thralls are dead.In that case when jessica becomes his matiarch and he can access her memories through which he could have found some more women to enthrall and snuff out their lives to recover his health and overpower men to take the ship and return to his base of operation.

in case he has some thrall left in his base of operation(which could be possible to take care of the experiments)he can directly tap the energy reserve or snuff out their lives as distance does not matter.

in case he assumed the ship left jessica and went he could have communicated with his thrall in his home to send a ship instead of waiting for jessica to kill and bring a ship back which took months (approx 1.5 years to return back to the planet assuming she had fuel for the journey).

@ Tefler

i visited this site many times but whenever i saw this story title i ignored it like what the hell does this mean . finally when u posted ch 69 i thought what the hell !! how can a story have 69 chapters and started from ch 1.

and i got hooked into the story.it took me 2 days to fully complete reading till ch 69 and started waiting for ch 70 and IT IS ONE OF THE BEST SCI - FI STORIES.made me feel like shit for ignoring this story for this much time (lesson learned don't judge a story by its title) hats off to you . u are at par with silkstockingslover in this section of literotica (BEST WRITER IN INCEST/TABOO section).

anyway i had a doubt
why dana did not use the medical bracelet inbuilt in the suit to leviate alyssa when she fainted during the fight with kindralax(i sent the same question to u in private as anonymous).

hope u can post the chapter 71 without any delays(u nearly killed me with the suspense while waiting for ch 70).any help many persons (including me) are ready to help with editing the story.

@ GrandPaM

if u find any program for addiction recovery send me a msg.

i would also like to join the program

another tefler addict present here : - )

Re: vn7199

Thanks for the kind comments, it's great to hear you've enjoyed the story so much!

Yes, the title is rubbish and puts people off. I'll change it as and when I decide to sell it as an ebook, but I'll leave it as it is here (edits take weeks to be moderated).

I got your email, but I couldnt respond as it was anonymous. There's actually a detailed technical reason they didn't use the medevac functionality... I forgot about it! :-)

You're right though, it would have made their exit from the lair easier. It was probably because I was in a -they are clear to escape now- mindset, and got distracted by the Invictus coming along to pick them up.

Chapter 71 is coming along well. It'll probably be up on here in a week or so.

Tefler

Personally

Tefler far surpasses Silkstocking. Albeit that's largely because I'm not fond of the levels of s/m she goes to.

Fuck yeah

I was right. Sort of. About Sakura getting psychic powers I mean. It's interesting that the rest of them are getting powers too, and I'm curious as to what they're gonna be. Also, Dana's secret project? I figure that's got somethingto do with whatever they picked up after the fight with the cobras. I'm thinking radically advanced mech type thing piloted by Faye? Anyway. Great chapter as usual, tefler. I loved the balls to the wall action of the last few chapters, no doubt, but this was a nice change of pace and some good character / plot development.

@ vn7199

There are two ways to combat the addiction withdrawal symptoms, the first being to take part in the speculation about where Tefler is taking us and also about what tech will be developed, how this will impact on the story and, as a third thread to the placebo, how the existing story tech works. The second method is to put yourself into stasis with controls set to bring yourself back when the next chapter arrives. Unfortunately the latter is not a viable option given real life tech.

my two cents

@Plrus, I disagree with you. I think his first son tried to take him out. Jessica became a lifeline for him. I think we will see a team up with father and son against bad son fighting for all of the universe. I think bad son is playing with John because of some hatred.

@grandPAM,. My name is texanguy1 and I am a TSM Tefler adict and junky.

@Tefler keep up the great work.

Personally, I just deal with my addiction...

by reading story after story after story on this site while checking back OFTEN for the next chapter...

I try not to "suppose" where the story will lead in posts (though I have) as I have a contraire personality issue... And recognizing that facet in myself and worrying about it in others, I'd hate to make ANY suggestion I'd like the story to have and have our glorious author avoid it because of that....

If he goes a way I'd like all the more lucky me...
Or better yet, if his mental acuity surpasses my own, I can just await his incredible results...

As always, I've loved your story and can't *tic* wait *twitch* for more *nervous shudder*... =)

New possibilities hinted?

Well what can I say apart from brilliant as always, over half a book in one chapter.
100,000 being the standard length.

Now onto the reveals you made.

Yes Tashana has a role to be decided upon, baited breath on that one.

A need to navigate all the new press interest leans heavily towards the Dusky Communications officer Jehanna,

Then we have Felicity, somebody who knows about trade. After all Alyssa tends to like to start things for others to take control of later so that she can learn her next skill.

So looking forwards to how it all plays out.

Noticed

The lack of going into detail for every sex scene is a nice touch. That way they are not boring. If you follow the story you know what is going to happen. Of course those looking for jerk-off material might be disappointed. Still the ones you do go into detail with there is a reason to for advancing the story. So much character interaction in them. The upcoming one with Edraele should be one of epic proportions. And I'm waiting to see a bonding between Edraele and Alyssa. Now with the new abilities will the girls be able to mind read between them?

I also notice a bit of referencing the previous chapter/s instead of making the reader remember what happened. Practicing for when you break the story into books?

Awesome as always!

Can't help but think of a Billy Idol lyric, "More, more, more, more, more, more!"

Hi vn7199! So glad you joined us!

Hello! After careful consideration I would like to reply to your individual points. (Please understand I intend this just as a fun intellectual debate. Please let me know what you think.)

1. i think u might be wrong.
the progen has telekinetic ability thus motility is not a issue here.

I understand your point. And I may be mistaken, but a Progen actually requires a LOT of energy to repair bodies. While we do know John can do that through his sperm for others, we do not know that a Progen can do that on himself without pulling a great deal of energy from his thralls...which is the only way we have seen a Progen do this so far. Additionally, we have not seen anyone just enthrall or enslave anyone, or even 'mind meld' with them (other than linked persons) at any distance. While all that might be possible, I did not give it serious thought because, well, we just have not seen it.

2. the progen-john has vast reserve of eldirtch energy.if a 40 year old without any 
experience has this much energy then some 60000 + year old would have certainly had more energy reserve or would have found a way to store it as a last resort.

I am not sure we know that eldritch energy reserves build over time. I have seen nothing to substantiate that in the story so far. You may be right, I just don't see it. What we have seen is his stores of energy are encompassed in his Thralls...and such a catastrophic crash as was described could have easily killed them all.

3. the progens have ability to heal using their own energy reserve or using their thralls.
thus he could have kept jessica without impregnating her to heal him in case he lost all the thralls.

Perhaps. But why create a male child then? It seems counter intuitive for a Progen to create his own adversary of equal abilities who could one day supplant him. There has to be a reason for a Progen to decide to create a male child, on a planet where he is marooned, take Jessica as a thrall, and not just take over the Terran ship to get off the planet.

4. let us assume all this matriarch and thralls are dead.In that case when jessica becomes his matiarch and he can access her memories through which he could have found some more women to enthrall and snuff out their lives to recover his health and overpower men to take the ship and return to his base of operation.

I agree, so why didn't he? Has to be a reason. The only one that makes sense is that he was vulnerable and too weak to do so. Otherwise he would have, and it is well within his nature to do so.

5. in case he has some thrall left in his base of operation(which could be possible to take care of the experiments)he can directly tap the energy reserve or snuff out their lives as distance does not matter.

Agreed about the distance not mattering with Thralls/Matriarchs, but I can easily see, in a battle with another Progen in the physical as well as astral planes, he used all his Thralls up and was left vulnerable to psychic/physical attack and left for dead on an uninhabited planet. He could very well have put himself in a cryo chamber to preserve what was left of his body. And this is what Jessica found, only to be mentally forced to impregnate herself with his sperm that had survived.

6. in case he assumed the ship left jessica and went he could have communicated with his thrall in his home to send a ship instead of waiting for jessica to kill and bring a ship back which took months (approx 1.5 years to return back to the planet assuming she had fuel for the journey).

Ok, but why didn't he do that long before Jessica showed up if he could have done so? And why waste the time to go through the trouble of making and keeping and recalling Jessica to him as a Thrall or Matriarch? It is not as if it is in his nature to care. And Jessica would only have left the baby if she were told to because there was a more important mission for her in the Progen's eyes. A Progen is a natural born user and disdains other, lower life forms which exist only for his pleasure.

And, I am thinking it would have taken the Fool's Gold, a very slow freighter, about two, maybe three months at most to return to Terra, and a military Cruiser a good bit less time.

This whole thing only makes sense if the Progen is alone and physically vulnerable. Thoughts?

Texanguy1

@Plrus, I disagree with you. I think his first son tried to take him out. Jessica became a lifeline for him. I think we will see a team up with father and son against bad son fighting for all of the universe. I think bad son is playing with John because of some hatred.

I can see that as a possibility. What about the other things I posited?

New possibilities hinted?

I can see John and Co. going on the talk show circuit soon to even increase his popularity and eventually be Overlord of both the Terrans and Maliri....(Lit does not have a sarcasm font, so I do hope you all can see it dripping from this post....lol)

Texanguy1

If Hades is his dad, that would be very interesting indeed since John and the girls are on there way there. It would also explain Tashanna's ability to survive in the Unclaimed Wastes.

Amazing chapter

I agree with some previous comments here, that toning the sex down is great, because this is such a good story. Long sex scenes just adds boredom to it and makes at least me scroll down through it without really reading it. So, well done on reducing that part.

Then there is Faye. I believe that in the next chapter we'll see Faye and John meet in the cyber realm, and that is something I look forward to. Then - probably some chapters later - they will enable a physical representation of Faye that can be touched and act as a human. However, I doubt she'll become disconnected from her current 'home' all together. She's become way too valuable with her near omnipresence on the ship and ability to do so many things at the same time. So to me it seems more likely that she'll have one body that is physical and keep all the other virtual ones too. However, it is a great twist to the story, and one I'm looking forward to see the continuation of.

Then there is the matter of John's parents. His mother was obviously under the influence of the progenitor, and cannot be held accountable for her actions in escaping, and John has to come to terms with that. If not, he's not living the way he is preaching. Maybe someone should spank his butt to make him understand it ;)

All in all an amazing story, with no end in sight something I'm very happy about. Keep up the good work, and keep us mesmerised for a long time to come. Thank you for our great muse that you willingly share with us.

Oh boy....

Damn good chapter mate, i just spent the last 3 hours reading it and just finished it now (For those of you that don't know look for updates on stories every day 7 am UK time) You've been building up the Maliri thing well and i think the shit is gonna hit the fan when John finds out just how exactly Adreale has went about getting peace, Irillith obviously suspects something big has happened and i canna blame her for keeping her mouth shut. As for John's mother i think we all may have figured out who she is by now, if not then no spoilers from me lol... Keep up the awesome work pal it's MUCH appreciated by us literature junkies needing our fix :)

Tazzy

Tazzy

Are far as Edraele's actions he might come down to a understanding of how that might have been the only course of action. Extreme yes but if the other 4 matriarchs were anything like the old Edraele I do not think there would have been any other way. A awful lot of hate between them and I do not think any thing Edraele could have done except for having John's wonder spunk could have had them joining together with her for the good of all Maliri. When John rebuilt Edraele's mind one of the things was to improve the lives of the Maliri, he didn't set a whole lot of rules on how to do it. I commented on this back then, in the military we have what is called "Commanders Intent". Basiclly you will see it as the commander stating his intent is,, he will lay out his overview and then subordinates know what they have to do to support the commanders intent. A commander could have told me his intent was to eliminate the enemy forces in a village. It would have been easy for me to call in the Air Force and have them level the place. But if there was rules in place by the commander or higher authorities to limit chances of civilian casualties an/or damage to civilian infrastructure then the "fun and easy, no muss-no fuss" way would have been off the table.

So John may have given her the desired end result or his intent but didn't quite put in a whole lot of rules. And she is under the influence is she wouldn't go against any rules John put in.

Finally

That was a long wait and a looong chapter to read.

Faye - when is she getting a body? not a psychic one, but a real live alysium or whatever...

John - another ability learned, I do want to see him rid himself of his dark side sooner rather than later... how much more does he need to evolve?

The invictus - they will upgrade with the new power core(s), new (improved) guns and all, but why not install plasma guns? it seems most effective against both ships (eat titanium for breakfast) and their own armor, and doesn't seem to require ammo

The maliri - can't they share the knowledge and tech and upgrade the maliri fleet? they are basically his, and beside the armor which require the forging (only possible by John or Alissiya) the rest can be reproduced by others.

Wormhole drive - I would let them "have it" = have Dana know how.
it would interfere with the progress as they'll have less "free time" but they still have to fight several races (riled up by the other prog.), take full control of the maliri, re-enslave the greys / or offer favorable conditions, and last set boundaries with the terrans ...

Let the countdown for #71 commence!

A few questions:

"And I've just spent the last hour having a fascinating chat with Forgemaster Gilgrem about metallurgy. Associate Bhaken wasn't exaggerating about the Trankarans having a gift with metals, they really know their shit! They're also mining several metals I've never even heard of before!" She looked a bit evasive, but grinned at him endearingly as she added, "I bought a ton of each, just in case they might be useful. I hope that's okay?"
She gave him a cunning smile, and replied, "They didn't have a use for Onyxium so they happily gave me four tons of it.""

Okay, when are we going to see Dana find a unique use for these new metals? And between the 4 tons of Onyxium from the Trankarans and the 10(?) tons they stole from the Drakkar, I think they have quite enough Onyxium to do a few battlecruiser class ships.

Also: When is Dana going to create a headband for Alyssa and John and Sakura based on the psy-shaper tech from the Ashanath to increase their psycic abilities during battle? It would seem they would use less energy to do what they need to do with that enhancer. Just Sayin.

Anon

take full control of the maliri, re-enslave the greys / or offer favorable conditions, and last set boundaries with the terrans ...

I think I am glad you are not John....lol. :-) Actually it is not his nature to rule that way, though he may reign in T-Fed a bit. He enjoys his relationship with the Greys and is about to reinforce that again. The Maliri will do anything he asks....enslavement of either is totally unnecessary at this point.

Loving it!

Your really fleshing the girls out into independent bad asses. I love the way your holding them all together, keeping me on my mental toes and still keeping the sexy in there. I check for new chapters everyday. Thank you for sharing your work with us.
-Marie

Aaaand with psy-shaper headbands

They could 12 shape the armor on the Invictus, the barrels for the new singularity mass drivers, Nova Lances, Beam Lasers, Pulse Cannons, Laser and Punisher rifles, upgraded Gaus cannons, body armor, etc. etc. etc. On TOP of the battlefield melee enhancements.

Great work!

Amazing story. Love reading it and continue to watch for more. Ever thought about publishing it sometime? Its a masterpiece.

didn't

the amplifier weigh tons and have 30 foot arms? might be that for any noticeable effect they'd be too heavy to wear, and the weekly increase in power seems to me to be much more than the amount they got from the full size amplifier anyway

Unless of course Dana does her magic on the devices

outstanding!

Just outstanding!!

1hand

Unless of course Dana does her magic on the devices.

Exactly. Most of that machine was for materials manipulation which is not necessary for just simply amplifying psionic energy. Take the 'ray gun' detector for example.

I am thinking Dana could create an amplification device which could easily be incorporated into a headband. In fact, I seem to remember one of the Ashanath pictures that may have had one.

Loved it!

Another fantastic chapter. I definitely enjoyed the slower pace as a breather from the bang-bang-bang intensity of the huge number of high excitement actions they've been in since they left Maliri space (I had started listing them all in this comment, but the list length was approaching the length of this chapter :)

One thing that I thought was slightly surprising was that Sakura didn't get any hand-to-hand training. Granted, they haven't been in the habit of getting up close and personal with their enemies (John excepted) but Sakura's role as security officer and bladed fighting make that at least somewhat more likely. John could have delegated Sakura's hand-to-hand instruction to Calara, giving her a chance to become more involved in this chapter.

As far as future "travel"/relaxation chapters are concerned, if they get the singularity drive, I'll just point out that they were offered a comped, two month stay on Oceanus.

Dana gets her "fireball" eyes?

"Unsure what to say, John could only nod mutely in response. Turning away, Talari glided over to the next set of stone blocks. They showed another member of the Progenitor race destroying what looked like a city. Diminutive creatures were shown to be fleeing, as the Progenitor strode through streets, with red rays shooting out of his eyes, killing indiscriminately.....One of the stone mosaics showed the Progenitor using what looked to be psychic powers to slay his enemies."

Ok....so Dana gets the red rays shooting out of her eyes (Miss 'I got dibs on the fireballs') and the whole crew get psionic headbands.

Superb

One of my best stories. Wow can't wait 4 71 to be out. Going to confront hades in the underworld got to be interesting, some action coming up.

Re: PussyLickerRus

i am also taking it a fun debate not a personal one :-)
1.
bro please read the story again.sperm was used to create the active psychic connection between his thralls and himself not to heal them.Through the connection he heals them.

2.
nice point did not think about that.

3.
Time (read as Tefler) will give the answer.

4.
again time has the answer

5.
Hmmm...,this can also be true.mentally people are active in cryo and sperm can be stored and used so no issues here.

6.
we are talking about the ships travel capacity about 40 years before fool's gold.
that time FLT tech might not be that well developed and clearly it is mentioned in the story that by the time the ship reaches terra jessica was heavily pregnant (basic pregnancy is 9 months, we dont know about the gestation preoid for progen hybrid) and she managed to give birth,damage the ship (while unloading which would have taken not more than 5 days at the max),steal a corvette (which would the up to date FLT drive military has).

7. yup the whole thing makes sense if he is alone and vulnerable or he got bored and decided to start a new experiment with jessica and his sperm :-).

anyway i think we better continue all the discussion about this story in forum (literotica discussion board) and inform here if anybody creates the topic so many like minds can start discussing the story and provide out thoughts