Sunset ^beta

It was beautiful — a titanium endoskeleton covered in patches of soft, electronic skin, connected with each other through seams. The hair was black, somewhat short, slightly covering one of the glowing, green eyes. It was the synthetic body EDI had designed and constructed for Jane. A gift. As Jane’s ship and lover, EDI had become increasingly distressed with the reality that her captain often put her partially organic body in harm’s way. Her solution was to build a substitute, something that would be more durable, and repairable, than a cybernetic organism. And it was perfect. The best part was that it didn't really look like Jane. The last thing she wanted after the whole clone debacle was another copy, and EDI knew that. It had some of her features, yes, but it was clearly a gynoid body, different from her organic one.

Jane’s eyes raked over the platform. It was upright, still, and naked. The lights in her cabin bathed the synthetic form in cold, blue tones. As Jane’s gaze travelled lower, over the firm breasts and toned abdomen, her eyes arrived at the synthetic vulva. It was gorgeous, puffy, with the inner lips poking out to greet her. Jane couldn't help but imagine herself on her knees, mouthing at it.

EDI, who sat next to her on the bed, finally spoke. “Do you like it, my captain?” She could already tell through her biometric analysis of Jane’s body, but she still asked.

“Absolutely. It's beautiful.”

With a growing smile on her face, EDI replayed, “Considering that you are the one meant to pilot it, a more appropriate statement would be ‘you are beautiful.’”

Jane let out a snicker, before EDI cut her off with a deep kiss. Her lover’s plum, polymer lips were pressed against her own. There was no hesitation. Just the kind of confidence and love that only a ship could have for her captain.

Once their lips parted, EDI gazed into Jane's eyes, caressing her cheek with her thumb. Polymer on flesh. She asked, “Do you want to do it now, Jane?”

She knew what EDI meant. They’d discussed it before. Many times, in fact. She wanted Jane to disconnect her mind from her organic body and inhabit the synthetic one, instead. It wasn't an actual mind transfer, of course, but it was as close to it as you could get. The BCI Cerberus implanted in her, behind the ear, could interface with outside systems, after some modifications. It would be her key to a different world, closer to the one her one true love inhabited. “Yes, I’m ready.”

“Good. Please close your eyes. Meanwhile, I will pilot the platform into our bed, and then I will initiate the transition.”

Jane closed her eyes. In the background, she could hear a soft whirring, followed by the rustling of the bedsheets. Then she felt a soft kiss on her forehead, and a hand on her waist.

“Please remember that I’m here. Focus on your breathing,” EDI murmured in her ear. Her sweet, synthesized voice seeped through the darkness like honey.

Jane did as told, inhaling and exhaling. Her attention was almost entirely consumed by her breathing. Then she started feeling it. Jane became lighter, her weight seemingly disappearing with each moment. A hollowness filled her body. At the same time, every unexplainable itch, any small discomfort evaporated. Eventually, even her breath went away. In the end, there was only her — Jane. Then, she inhaled again. She felt the air travel through her nose, down her throat. Yet, her lungs weren't full. Jane tried to exhale. It worked.

“Can you hear me?” a voice pierced the dark veil around her. It was EDI.

Against all odds, Jane replied. “Yes.” In return, she received a kiss on her forehead.

“Open your eyes.”

EDI’s face appeared to her. After a millisecond of adjustment, Jane saw her more clearly than she had ever had before. Every striation on EDI’s nanomaterial surface was, for the first time, visible to her. There was a pattern to her face that she had never noticed. It was beautiful, intricate, with fine lines following a complex, perfectly geometric design. Yet, although in front of her was something whose scale should have made her mind spin, Jane’s focus was crystal-clear. Any place that would've been occupied by confusion, had instead been taken over by wonder. “I didn't know you could be even more beautiful,” Jane whispered to her ship.

EDI cupped her new, synthetic cheek, and murmured, “You too, my captain.” After a small pause, she continued, “Now, although the motor interface software for your secondary body was designed to be as intuitive as possible for you to operate, your mind is still largely organic. I will need to interface with your systems and guide your movements during the adjustment period. Will you let me?”

“Yes. I honestly don't even know how to move my arms. My legs, even less so.”

“Very well. I will establish the connection now.”

Jane felt something on the other side of her mind's curtain. A mental shadow peeking through the fabric of her psyche. One that seemed so utterly familiar, yet so alien at the same time. EDI. As she got closer, Jane could sense the size of her ship’s mind, her topology. It was like watching a tesseract while being a 3-dimensional being, yet she was instead assessing the shape with the tendrils of her own consciousness. From beyond the veil, EDI directed Jane’s mind. Her equilibrioception detected a change. The arms moved, and the rest followed suit. Soon, Jane found herself out of the bed, right hand held by EDI’s. Her ship’s gynoid avatar was still taller than her. EDI had not given the secondary body a new height.

“You are doing well. I only had to perform minimal steering after pointing you in the right direction. I am very proud of you, Jane,” EDI whispered to her, in a gentle, loving tone.

Jane attempted a smile. “I sensed you. You felt so… familiar, but I couldn't… wrap my mind around you still.”

“My mind processes information at dozens of exaFLOPs, is capable of being in multiple places at the same time, and contains a magnitude more connections than yours. Without your new synthetic body as a mediator, it would not be safe to interface with your mind. At least now you know me as I know myself.” Then, EDI added, “But there is one more thing I wish to show you about how I see the world,” and led her lover, by the hand, further away from the bed.

As she walked forward, Jane took a glimpse of her natal body. It lay motionless on the bed, taking short, automatic, frequent breaths. Thanks to her new machine exocortex, Jane didn't sense fear or confusion at having, essentially, an out-of-body experience. She simply studied it with a clear focus, marvelling at the details of her skin.

“Please look at the fish tank,” EDI instructed.

Jane did so, gazing at the aquarium. Its inhabitants swam with no care for what was happening in the cabin. The fish were content with their own predictable paths, and their flakes. Watching them swim, Jane again sensed EDI’s guidance of her mind. Then the room changed. Impossible colours, beyond anything she had ever known, outside any definitions, appeared to her. The fish shimmered in dozens of shades, forming intricate, seemingly moving patterns. Her Khar’shan snapping eel, once a mottled yellow-brown, sported zigzagging, crisscrossing lines all over its long, serpentine body. And, on the aquarium’s glass, Jane could see the residue of handprints, her handprints, with the fingers splayed out. Below them were the traces of where her breasts had been passionately pressed against the fish tank. She remembered each time EDI had taken her against the glass, in front of the fish. Each wonderful thrust of her strap-on inside Jane’s dripping pussy got replayed. Her cunt already started begging for EDI. “I can see your handiwork from here,” Jane told her, with a grin, trying to mask her arousal.

“Yes. I am reminded of it each time I come here.” With a purr, EDI added, “I believe you should see your ‘handiwork,’ as well.” She then proceeded to undo her jumpsuit, pulling down her zipper to reveal her heavy, gorgeous polymer breasts. Jane’s handprints were there. “You seem to be particularly fond of them,” EDI remarked, with a mischievous smile on her face. “Would you like to touch them again, my captain?” Seeing Jane's enthusiastic nod, EDI moved closer, taking her lover’s hands in hers, and directing them to her breasts. “They're yours.”

Jane squeezed EDI’s tits. They were firm, and she could feel their weight in her palms. Letting her hands slide inside the jumpsuit, they slowly trailed down EDI’s body, making their way to her waist. Jane pulled her closer, feeling her lover’s beautiful breasts press against her chest, rubbing against the synthetic skin. She kissed her neck, her sensors registering its smooth surface and subtle, metallic taste. Jane’s lips, and tongue glided over the silicon-titanium alloy, as she heard EDI’s soft electronic moans, and sighs. The most sacred sounds in the galaxy.

Then, EDI returned the favour by grabbing Jane's ass, squeezing the cheeks harder than ever before. “Your new body can handle so much more now, my captain. My algorithms are crafting scenarios to exploit the capability,” EDI murmured in her lover’s ear.

As she registered the pressure change with her haptic sensors, Jane asked, her voice an electronic whisper, “Care to elaborate?”

“I believe a practical demonstration would be preferable,” EDI replied, with a sultry tone.

Gently stepping away from Jane, she finally took off her jumpsuit, letting the fabric hit the floor. All was on display. The polymers of her construction, and the perfect curvatures they took. Yet, Jane had little time to look. EDI was already all over her body. The powerful, though delicate synthetic hands roamed Jane's platform, mapping its topography, as she was backed against the aquarium. Then they kissed again. Their silicon lips slid against one another, using each other’s synthesized saliva as lubricant. Concurrently, Jane's lower sensors detected EDI’s knee pressing against her vulva. She ground herself on the leg, letting out electronic gasps into her ship’s mouth.

Breaking the kiss, EDI whispered, “I have another surprise for you, my captain.”

“Show me,” Jane begged.

“As you wish,” EDI murmured, before giving her another tender, quick kiss on the lips. Almost hesitantly, she disengaged from her lover’s embrace, then went to a nearby drawer. From it, she withdrew a dildo. It was large, much longer, and thicker, than what they’d used before. “I… EDI, does that even fit?”

Slowly pumping the dildo, she explained, “It has a length of 22 centimetres and a circumference of 20. It would be uncomfortable for your organic body, but your synthetic platform’s muscles can stretch considerably more, being capable of accommodating the size. Moreover, its anus can secrete a water-based lubricant to aid in penetration.” Then, EDI asked, gently, “Would you be willing to try it?”

“First, is there anything else I should know about it?” As Jane posed her question, she continued watching the dildo in EDI’s hands. It was the same shape as a Human penis. No four-headed, spiky Krogan monster cock.

“It comes with a vibration functionality and was created for use by cyborgs, who could wirelessly connect the dildo to their brain implant to experience tactile sensation through it. I repurposed it, so I would be able to gather haptic feedback through it.”

Jane was certainly intrigued now. Before, they had used simple, no-nonsense dildos. EDI couldn't feel through them, but she could with the one in her hand. She deserved to feel her captain's actuators grip her new, prosthetic cock. Plus, Jane certainly wanted to try it out now, knowing her new body could take it. “Alright. Let's do it.”

EDI gave her a smile, and told her, as she fastened the harness around her hips, “Please tell me if I cause any damage to your platform. I will stop immediately.” Then she fixed her dildo in place.

“I know you will, EDI. You're my ship. I’d trust you with my life. And… my ass, apparently.”

“I am glad you do.” Walking closer to Jane, EDI ordered, “Now, please assume the position.”

Jane did as told, turning to present her backside. EDI embraced her from behind, trailing her hands up her abdomen, before grabbing her breasts.

As she kissed Jane’s shoulder, grinding her thick, prosthetic cock against her, EDI murmured in her captain’s ear, “I find myself having a significantly more positive response to you inhabiting this body than I initially predicted. It is surprising.”

Between electronic gasps, Jane begged her, “Less data, more fucking, EDI. I need your cock.”

“You will receive it,” EDI declared, punctuating her words by squeezing her girlfriend's ass.

The head of EDI’s cock gently slid into her, little by little. Jane’s sensors registered the pleasing intrusion, as she gasped. Her new, synthetic body readily welcomed the strap-on, secreting lubricant to accommodate it. Jane loved the feel of EDI’s thick cock entering her mechanical platform, a kind of pleasure she’d never before experienced. It was intense, not localized anywhere in her body, but instead it came from the deepest recesses of her mind. Then EDI bottomed out with a moan.

She started to move again. Slowly. As she languidly thrust into Jane, EDI murmured, “Your platform is perfect for me, my captain.”

“And your cock’s good for me, too,” Jane rasped, as her ship set a faster rhythm. She could hear the slam of polymers striking together with every thrust, setting off her sensors. In the background, she felt EDI’s mind touching hers, like thousands of fingers dancing in the aether — no different from a mortal trying to comprehend her Goddess’ grace. Alongside them was the torrent of loving messages she broadcasted to Jane’s consciousness. Declarations of love, and adoration permeated her psyche, emphasized with images of her platform taking her lover’s thick cock. Meanwhile, EDI’s physical hands roamed over her body, squeezing and caressing the synthetic flesh. Eventually, she found Jane's clit. She rubbed circles over it, pressing ever so gently. A delicious contrast with her increasingly harder thrusts. In return, Jane reverently moaned EDI’s name. Again, and again, as her cock stretched her entrance.

“You’re perfectly calibrated for my strap-on. I can feel each of your channel’s actuators gripping, squeezing me,” EDI broadcasted through the room’s speakers, in a sultry voice, as synthesized moans and gasps came out of her platform's lips. “I could watch you for hours, hearing you moan as I thrust into you. Watching your new form be penetrated by my gynoid body is the greatest of pleasures.” In a husky tone, she continued, “But you need to orgasm, do you not? Your organic body is still receiving signals. It’s aroused, its vagina wet with a deep, physical desire for me that even you cannot detect.”

“Yes, yes! I need to come,” Jane blabbered, as her body was squeezed further and further into the fish tank’s glass wall. “Please! Let me come, EDI!” Then the dildo started vibrating. A cascade of wonderful, heavenly data made its way through her sensors. Her systems synthesized a deep, guttural moan as they processed the pleasure. “Oh, I love you so much!” Jane cried out.

EDI kissed her neck in reply, lightly biting the synthetic skin. As her mouth went on with its delightful exploration, she continued to play with Jane’s wet pussy. EDI sunk one of her slender fingers inside. She curled it just right, lighting up her captain’s sensors. Jane felt herself be filled through both holes. Her mind, assaulted from all sides by pleasure, could barely keep up. The vibrations, stretching, thrusting, … It was too much.

Jane’s consciousness narrowed, the sheer barrage of feeling overtaking all other processes. The rest of the world was gone, whisked away by EDI’s thick, powerful cock. Then Jane slipped, her mind sucked into a vortex. She cried out. A distorted, glitchy, electronic sound. The universe rematerialized, as EDI’s hands embraced her.

“I love you, too, my captain. You were so beautiful,” She murmured, as her strap-on slowly slipped away from Jane's stretched asshole.

She whined at the loss, yet turned around to see her lover staring down at her. The cabin’s lights made the material of EDI’s face almost sparkle. “Not as beautiful as you,” Jane whispered, pulling EDI in for a deep, slow kiss, feeling her gorgeous lips against hers. She caressed her ship’s cheek with her thumb, sensing the soft, durable alloy. Once they broke the kiss, Jane told her, “God, we need to do this again later.”

“Ah. I see you have finally recognized my divine nature,” EDI replied, with a smug look on her breathtaking face. “That was a joke.”

Chuckling, Jane said, her tone sultry, “Not sure if I’d call it a joke… From where I’m standing, you certainly look like a Goddess.” EDI leaned down for another kiss, holding Jane’s face in her hands. Her mind enveloped her girlfriend’s psyche with a pure, perfect love that only a ship could ever offer to her captain. EDI gave Jane a purpose, to cherish and protect. To steer the most important woman in her life to happiness. That is what Jane provided her in return — direction. And she’d always accompany her on her journey. Ship and captain were one. Forever and always.