Aerotica 80085 | A flash fiction story

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The Aerotica 80085 is an Aether rig developed for… well, sexual activities. It’s a porn rig, is what I mean. Not a thing you see in every household, you know? But an incredible piece of technology, nevertheless.

People usually just have the Standard Aether Rig and, for the most part, it will give you a decent enough experience navigating the simulated worlds of the Aether. Most adults won’t need anything else.

You can get an Adventure Aether Rig for the kids if you’re feeling generous, but many can’t churn out the creds for it — not in this economy. The Adventure Rig can fit smaller people and is capable of more movement. The extended range allows it to better simulate stuff like flying and walking on different gravities, which is pretty fun. It also has more feedback endpoints, which is even more fun.

These features make it the perfect rig if you want to really feel the rocky wall while you’re climbing a mountain in the Aether. Or maybe you want to feel a fireball bursting through you while you’re in midflight, having a magic battle. My bet is you won’t have many of those after you’re 40, though, so you don’t want an Adventure Rig.

You want the Aerotica 80085.

The Aerotica 80085 — or A8, for short, because you obviously don’t want to say its full name every time — was named after its 80085 high-definition haptic feedback endpoints. With this thing, you can feel someone running a feather on your lips, their breath when they whisper in your ear, their arm hair stiff and upright when you rub their skin. You can also feel that fireball. Shit! You can feel anything in the Aether! You can feel anyone.

The A8 has dedicated endpoints in the genital area, and specific parts that can mold themselves into different shapes. These parts — aptly named “dildos” and “fleshlights” — also have moisturizing capabilities, using whatever fluid you load into the machine.

The A8 means you can have (simulated) sex with anyone you want, whenever you want. That is, as long as you have access to their body map — we call it “skin”. A simulated body can take their shape, and haptic endpoints will simulate their kiss on your neck, their hand on your leg, and their gentle touch in more sensitive areas. Of course, skins are sold separately in the Emporium.

The Emporium sells pre-made skins, but anyone can create a custom skin — or even map one out of their own body — and sell it there too. Some people make a living off of it. Get ripped abs. Map your body into a skin. Profit.

When you buy someone’s skin, you’re able to touch it however you like — if you know what I mean.

I won’t lie to you, it’s not like actually being with the creator of the skin. The AI can’t come up with their exact actions and reactions so the whole thing is kinda wonky. You’re interacting with their body, not with them, if that makes sense. Sure, you can pick different personalities for the AI, but I mean… it’s not the same, you know?

So the good thing is the Aerotica 80085 also allows people to record their movements and train an AI model to reproduce their behavior — smart skins. You just need to let the rig record you while you go through a few simulated… sessions. An AI model is trained and you’ve got your own smart skin to sell. That’s where the real money is.

It doesn’t matter how advanced a piece of technology becomes, humans will try to use it for sex. We’re animals. That’s what animals do. But we also don’t necessarily like having sex with a machine, you know what I mean? People like to know there’s a person on the other side, somehow.

In fact, some people use the A8 to make long-distance relationships work better. With the A8, you can spend a sexy night with the love of your life, even when you’re here and they’re on a space cruise. I find it a bit lame considering you can have sex with the hottest sex models in the world, instead, but each to their own.

I told you the A8 is a phenomenal piece of technology, but I haven’t even talked about its most groundbreaking contribution to humanity. With the Aerotica 80085, for the first time in human history, you can have sex with yourself. Yup. You just have to map your body into a skin, train it to be smart, and you can use it in a session. Don’t even need to spend a single cred in the Emporium. With this breakthrough, for the first time ever in history, you can, literally, go fuck yourself. Ain’t that awesome?

Now, I did the self-fuck thing for a while but I’m over it. At first, it was creepy. Then I tried a few times more, and I kinda enjoyed it. At some point, it got good and, at some other point, I got really into it! No one knows what you like better than you, am I right?

But at some point, I got bored of it. It’s too repetitive. Like, cool, but now what else do you guys have? Right now, I’m really into tentacles, but the A8 can’t simulate a lot of them very well.

I’m really hyped for the Aerotica 90000, though. It comes out next year. I heard it can do thirty-two tentacles easy. Hot!

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