==Saurians and the single Autopilot== Ch.1
âHereâ she said tracing the circuits of the main induction lines. The second engineer watched the female Saurianâs hand and understood what she was saying.
âI see so by powering up the reaction chambers to super conductive levels your space drive is made many times more efficient and more powerful to boot!â Second engineer William exclaimed.
âAre you ready for the shake down voyage?â She asked.
âIs Lt. Mcgivvers aboard yet?â The second engineer wanted to know.
âYes, she boarded some time ago.â
âThen we should close up these maintenance hatches and begin at once.â William concluded.
The Saurian deep space module accelerated under power from her conventional space drive engines. The engines quickly moved her out of her parking orbit and out into the cold emptiness of interplanetary space.
The space ships of most of the interstellar traveling races all had two types of engines the first an engine designed for use in normal space which could drive them at only some portion of the speed of light and a second for crossing the vast distances of interstellar space in the blink of an eye known as a Point Drive which folded space, but was disrupted by gravity and useless inside a stellar system hence the need for a conventional engine. The Saurian vessel that Lt. Mcgivvers and William were aboard for the demonstration of human computer systems interfacing with Saurian navigational systems would be run inside the stellar system and so would rely solely on her conventional engines.
The ships new human made autopilot was in control through out this stage of their journey. The ships newly installed system worked so flawlessly, the Saurian captain lost interest in monitoring its performance. âI am gong to the wardroom.â He stated, âCall upon me at once should you have any need for me. I will be studying your porn files, again. Tell me, are you and the female officer you brought aboard with you going to be mating soon? Are you experiencing any discomfort at not being able to mate for so protracted a period because of the lengthy duty shifts in preparing the ships Human-Saurian hybrid technology?â
The junior engineer cringed. The Saurian obsession with human sexuality was embarrassing enough as is, but the captainâs timing couldnât have been worse. Since his last few sentences were spoken just as Lt. Mcgivvers had entered the command deck. The Saurian engineer made a sharp hiss, had she been human it would have instead been a quiet cough.
âOh yes.â The captain said realizing his mistake. âWhere are my manners, we were informed that discussing explicit sexual behaviors is a taboo topic amongst you. I apologize for any offense I may have offered. I do beg your pardon.â He finished and he stepped off of the command deck.
Mcgivvers giggled as she slipped into the captains vacated seat and looked at the young human engineer âSo tell me Will how is your discomfort going? Needing to mate at all times must be such a burden.â She gently chided. âI so wish all those porno files had never fallen into their hands. At least Doctor Phillips was able to get them to understand that talking about porno in polite company is forbidden.â
âYes Maâam, now if only we can convince them we are not always in some kind of constant state of mating frenzy.â William offered. Though truth be known he wouldnât have objected to a roll in the hay with the Lt. Mcgivers all the same!
Mcgivvers giggled and said. âIf only! Though you wouldnât know it from what I hear about Daniels and Macsten. She was in the officerâs mess yesterday andâŠâ She droned on at some length with all the details and gossip.
The irony was that despite his protestations to the contrary about human mating frenzy that as the Lieutenant spoke at length about the latest scuttle-butt aboard the Prometheus the second engineer was thinking about how to have sex with her.
Will listened with only half an ear, gossip just didnât interest him. Instead he read with great interest all the self diagnostics on the computer console that he had installed to run the Saurian ships navigational systems. So far the earth expeditionâs offer of technology exchange was working well. The earth computer systems were much more refined and robust in performance then the Suarianâs own. Unlike the data file exchange the two races had made this was going letter perfect.
A deal had been struck, the Saurians would trade one of their FTL Point Drive equipped ships in exchange for the Prometheus. Now all that had to be hammered out were the technological details, like the compatibility issues that they were here to work out with this flight.
When Mcgivvers finally ran out of chitchat she checked the navigation and autopilot, satisfied, she left to report in to the captain. At least thatâs what she said, more then likely she was off to talk his ear off too.
The two engineers one human the other not, remained on the command deck long after the officers had left. She politely didnât speak of humans and sex, and instead asked about him. He told her of how he had gone into the interstellar flight program, of the endless training that had honed him and his skills, making the crew of the Prometheus the best and brightest that humanity had to offer.
And that during the 21 months of relative time spent in travel across the depths of interstellar space they had kept themselves sharp, spending time in the ships gym doing gymnastics, swimming and even engaging each other in all manner of marshal arts to keep their skills honed. Though he didnât mention the reason was so that the Prometheusâs crew could kill in hand to hand combat should it come to that.
âAnd the Prometheus is such a grand vessel your swimming pool is a marvel I had not dipped my tail in so very long.â She commented
âThe Prometheus is one fine ship, I agree But itâs really not a swimming pool, we need vast quantities of water for the hydroponics systems and we recycle all the water so it only makes sense to use the water storage system for more then just storage.â He said with no small amount of pride in his voice.
Ordinarily Saurians think of sex very little. Their prurient interest in human sexuality was really just a matter of their amazement that such a thing could be. It was to them a bit like learning of a race of creatures that could defy gravity or turn invisible.
So there was a genuine irony that as the human second engineer spoke on at length about the Prometheus the Saurian was thinking about how to have sex with him.(See Appendix 1)
==The Shower Scene== Ch.2
I need a human name the female Saurian engineer thought. After a few moments she came to choose Doxy and with that she then practiced her giggle again. She made sure to do this alone as Lt. Mcgivvers had thought the Saurian engineerâs exact imitation of her giggle was done to deride her. Doxy, had no such intention of mocking the Lieutenant but rather because she had noticed how it always caught Willâs attention and put him at ease with Mcgivvers.
Human speech was so limited in the sounds their small nearly immobile (by Saurin standards) tongues could produce but were ever so easy for Doxy to replicate. But which was why the Suarianâs had so quickly learned the human language while only those humans who were expert linguists could speak any of the Saurian language at all.
Doxy then turned her thoughts on to how she could make her self appear to be more like that of a sexually desirable human female. The two species were similar after all, two arms and legs a head atop. Her eyes, tiny nose and face were close to the humanâs in appearance. (And truth be known Saurian women have remarkably lovely faces with clear smooth complexions the coloring of which they can change like a chameleon.)