I sent out for pizza, and listened to some music for dinner. When I finished, I put the remaining pizza in the fridge, and then went to my room to examine and meditate on the talisman to see what the gods added. Since An told me he added something, I looked at his addition first. I could sense the Earth below and to the sides. I could also feel the moon's location to the side and below. Looking it up, I learned the moon was below the horizon at the moment. Then I went back and focused on the smaller things. Soon, I felt many things. Closest was one of the many strings of internet satellites. I sensed they were too small to hold people. Beyond that, I sensed more, and soon I was able to tell the difference between a satellite and a station.
I must have spent hours sensing and studying the heavens above and what they held. I fell asleep, and in my dreams I continued to sense them. When I woke up in the morning, even though I wasn't trying to sense anything, I could tell in the back of my mind what was out there.
After a breakfast of reheated pizza, I meditated on the patio, but this time to see Isis's contribution. I used my own knowledge of her magics to see what was there beyond what I knew. In a few minutes, I saw it. She added a healing field. I felt it was a slow healing to all near me, perhaps to fifty feet away. Thinking about that, I realized that was just shy of one hundred royal cubits. I bet she made it exactly that.
I headed to my secret basement, and talked with Alec about the research I had asked him to do. He showed me all sorts of information on what Red Horizons had in the way of nanotech. He also showed me what others had. It seemed that while I wasn't paying attention, their tech had gone through several iterations. One item was a skin-suit. This was nanotech clothing that doubled as a pressure suit in the vacuum of space. While not quite airtight, it was close. But it put pressure on the skin like air pressure, and thus protected the body from pressure loss.
It still needed an outside source for air, but it had an emergency supply for five minutes. It likewise would enclose the head during an emergency, but allowed you to see through a pair of clear areas over the eyes. When combined with a helmet, it left the head uncovered, and felt and looked much better. It was designed to bleed air across the skin to provide a tiny amount of cooling, allowing the air to escape just below the knee.
For the regular spacesuit, they used a macro nanotech. That is, it used much larger base units. Most were quarter-inch hexagons, but other shapes were there to handle the full needs. It was an armored space suit, with heating and cooling, and was designed to connect to the skin-suit or an old-style under-suit. It used the same stretch technology used in the skin-suit, so you could bend your knees and elbows without difficulty. The helmet was made of blocks with a transparent center. Those blocks could also switch to a bright-sun mode to provide eye protection when needed. The specs showed it was a little stronger than the standard suit others sold, but at a premium.
But what caught my eye was the mini-nanotech. This was designed as a multi-tool for electronics. I noted that it even had the ability to glow and provide task lighting on what you were working on. I had Alec order all three, but I had him ask if the glow could come in different colors, or better yet, variable. I had visions of applying them to my hair, so it could be both a fashion statement, but also pull my hair in when I wore a helmet.
I added a claw tool so I could handle moving in micro-gravity. Then, I was equipped for space. Next up was looking into getting from place to place. There was no point lifting a ship from Earth, as it cost a lot more. Lifting from the moon was far cheaper, and so I looked at Polaris shuttles for what they offered. I needed long range, and full environment for four. I didn't plan on taking passengers, but I felt I should have the capacity.
With those preparations made, I looked into what I would need to make a Martian terrarium. I decided that I needed one of my Atlantean drones to come with me, for technical help. The next step was generating the components I would need. I spent four months duplicating solar panels, plumbing, wiring, seals, and other things I would need. These had to be very exact, so I meditated on the designs so I would be able to generate items that were to specification.
I loaded my storage ring with many assorted plants, most as seed. But I would need insects for pollination, so I looked at what had already been imported. I made a stasis box that used the temporal magics I had used to skip forward in time, but it, instead, slowed time inside the box. Inside, I kept the small boxes of insects I would bring. It took up the final space in the storage ring. In the evenings, I relaxed by learning the Hopi language for my journey.
Finally, my plan was ready. When the nanotech arrived, I programmed a massive wardrobe for it. I had gotten the extra memory and two additional brain units for it. These were neural-net components that were part of the nanotech skin-suit. Their presence meant it was quite potent, as one additional brain made it three times as smart. With two, it was nearly ten times as smart. I used that to program some mobile patterns in the clothing forms.
While I was preparing, Alec was using his interesting internet friends to get me a high quality ID, and I funneled a fair chunk of money into it. I chose the name Kachina "Kat" Pablito. This was a Hopi name from the southwest, and had a fake history of adoption by tribe members with a fake adult life in the Orient. I shaved so I would have a smooth slit, and also lowered my voice and added an accent for my new identity. I went to the Philippines, so I could catch a flight from the spaceport there. The ship was only to get me to orbit, where I would change to another ship. Having been in space before, I knew I could handle weightlessness.
As there was no history for the new me, I got put in dirtside class. This had extra precautions for people who could not handle weightlessness. As we had to spend half an hour weightless as we neared the station, the crew learned who could handle it and who could not. As I managed nicely, they let me into the station with the others that handled it well. Meanwhile, the rest were sent back down or were asked for a surcharge for dirtsider handling.
When they let us off, I was one of the first, as I knew how to use the claw. That caught the eyes of the crew nearby, as did the fact my skirt flared as I landed, showing I didn't wear underwear. My shirt was also loose, and from the side you could maybe spot some nipples. Sensing who was most lustful at my entrance, I headed for them, as they wore a uniform.
"Hi there. I'm new here. Can you help me get to my hotel room?"
He gave me a good long look, and replied, "Well there, young lady, which hotel has your room?"
Activating the wrist comm, I looked it up. "It would be... The Traveler's Rest." I already knew where it was, and how to get there. But I wanted him to guide me, and get even more aroused from my outfit. He took the bait.
"Well, it's not easy to get to, until you learn your way around. Would you like me to show you?"
"Yes, please."
"Hold my hand." He waited for me, then activated his own claw. When we got there, I went to the kiosk, and signed in. I received a scan code, which I added to my wrist comm. I then looked a little lost, and again, he took the bait.
"Need some help?"
"Maybe. But I will gladly take some."
This time, as we could walk down the hall using the magnets in our shoes, he took my hand. "Let me show you the way."
A minute later, we were at my room. I opened my door, and saw a zero-gravity bed, and a table and chair. "Looks kind of sparse."
"That's fairly normal. Mass is expensive, and shielding needs a lot. So what little is left has to go a long way. Unless you pay a serious premium. Sleep in zero gravity only needs to contain the person. The table only needs to be fixed, and the chair fixed and with tie-downs. They also fold up when not in use."
"And what if you want to do something else?"
"Such as?"
"Sex. The way you've been looking at me, and the way your thing is bulging, makes me think you want me now. I'm willing, but not sure how that works in such a small room."
"Well, since you're willing, how about I show you. First, we fold the furniture into the wall." He proceeded to do that. "Now we have some room. Next, we expose ourselves. We can just do the minimum, or go all the way. Vacuum protocol recommends always have your pressure suit close, or know where the emergency suits are. I know where they are, and I can show you."
"No need. Watch." I gave the mental command, and my skin-suit reconfigured into vacuum mode.
His eyes got big. "Does that really work?"
"According to the warranty from Red Horizons, it is rated for five minutes of full vacuum by itself, and days if connected to air and power." I then gave a different command, and it became thicker bands at the base of all my extremities, with the neck band configured like a fancy collar with a thin strip going up to connect to the command interface. That interface appeared as a headband, but had filaments on my scalp that monitored my brain for commands and sent it feedback. It also had thin strips to the other bands that went on my back.
"Nice! And it is out of the way of most sex."
"Yep. And as you can see, I am wet. Since you know the ropes, why don't you take charge now?"
"Yes, ma'am! First, we secure you to the wall. This means a harness of sorts. Allow me."
"Kind of like B-and-D, huh?"
"It can be, but Zero-G sex needs something to hold the couple against their activities."
I nodded, then he picked me up and placed me against the padded wall. Pulling out straps from the wall, so he could connect them on the other side, was next. By the time he was finished, my shoulders were locked down, and also my waist. He then undressed, and placed his clothes in a bag attached to the far wall. Although he floated, the room was small enough that a small-sized person could reach the wall with the bed, and the wall with the video at the same time. This meant he could move wherever he wanted without being attached.
He then pulled out two more straps, not quite like the others, from each side of my waist. They snapped to each other, making a loop in the middle, with him in the loop. Then he reoriented himself, so he was lying on me, and let the straps pull him close. Finally, he told me to push the 'S' button on the wall above my head.
