Imperial Envoy
Copyright© 2025 by Ogreface
Chapter 6: Return to Secundus
Science Fiction Sex Story: Chapter 6: Return to Secundus - The final book in the Imperial Dilemma trilogy. There is another story, mentioned in this book. Dysfunctional Imperials is not a sequel, but also not quite a stand-alone story.
Caution: This Science Fiction Sex Story contains strong sexual content, including mt/ft mt/Fa Science Fiction Cousins
If Lacy or the three Aspen sisters were overawed at being taken off the planet by Jason, their level of awe increased drastically when they descended into the first ring of the Empress Olivia. The other females all scattered to their usual hangouts or sleeping accommodation as Erin and Nina took the newcomers on a tour of the ship. Jason didn’t go down into the ring but just watched the general activity for a few minutes before he went to the bridge.
“Commander, as soon as you are ready, we can depart,” Jason said. Lieutenant-Commander Gill Wilson pointed at the screen which was showing the shuttle slowly entering the shuttle bay, which was the rearmost quarter of the ship.
“As soon as the shuttle is secure, we will drift away, Your Grace,” Wilson said. “With the ladies are all over the place, so we will do it slowly and gently.”
“You are the boss, Commander,” Jason said as he waved at the captain and turned around, bumping into Riley, who was looking around at everything while floating right behind him. Jason noticed that Ron, back in his regular black clothes, were just inside the hatch of the bridge watching Jason and Riley. “I guess you never saw this before,” Jason said, causing Riley to blush as she desperately tried to grab onto something. Jason grabbed her by her ankle and pulled her towards him, wrapping his arm around her slender waist as he nudged her towards one of the observation seats behind the captain’s console. “Sit here and watch until you get bored. Then you can come and look for me.” Jason said as he pushed the petite girl into the seat and fastened her harness. She subtly tried to trap his arms against her as he wrapped them around her to buckle the harness, so he gave her a subtle hug from behind before letting go.
“Sam and Lady Erin had a word with me about Riley, Your Grace,” Ron said as he and Jason made their way towards Ring-One. “I guess I should have sent her back when she first tried to cheat on her real assignment. I also guess that now it is too late,” Ron added with a smirk as he looked Jason in the eyes. “You like having her around, as does Lady Erin. I kind of like the suggestion to alternate the females in who they protect.”
“I think if anybody tries to attack me, he or she will have to wade through a bunch of screaming angry or scared females,” Jason said with a shrug.
Wilda and Nina already knew each other from when they were much younger. Together with Erin, they had become close friends already, which soon included Clarissa, Penelope and Corinne. Lacy and Wilda’s two older sisters were also friends and hung out together. No prize for guessing where Ada slotted in. She seemed content to let Megan take control of her life.
Jason had already noticed earlier, on the trip to Glamor, that the girls had formed what might have been labeled as cliques, except they behaved more like friendship groups. The girls from Grendel, especially those of the same age group, tended to stick together while the servants formed their own friendship group. Similarly, Sylvia, Maggie, and Sara, Sylvia’s assistant, formed a friendship group. Trista and Jade were still outsiders in the larger group. Jade was not limited in where she could go but where the others would claim Jason’s lap if nobody else was sitting there, she usually glared at him until he caught the hint and lifted her onto his lap.
Jade stuck close to Jason for most of the time but when it came to girls and friendship, she and Lotus have become gossip-buddies, which seem to exclude Mia. Mia’s mother, Lois, who was Jade’s caretaker/nurse, had become friends with Ron’s wife, Maria Bright. Trista spent most of her time with baby Helen, but she also had made friends with Elena.
It was nearly five weeks later with the Empress Olivia approaching the jump gate, that Jason was surrounded by the Aspen sisters as well as Erin, Clarissa, and Nina. Trista was with them because Jason had Helen on his lap. As usual, all the females over twenty loved to play with Helen, especially when she was on Jason’s lap.
“Why don’t you ask him?” Erin said to Wilda. “He is as much your husband as any of his other concubines,” Wilda was not shy towards any of the others, just towards Jason.
“She is wondering about your level of education, Your Grace,” Wendy, the middle sister, explained.
“He is too shy to explain that” Carmen said. “I was there, I know all about his level of education.” She went on to explain that weeks away from turning eighteen, Jason already had a bachelor’s degree in military science, having earned the rank of Imperial Marine Lieutenant on his own merit.
“Do you have a wish to go study instead of getting a husband?” Jason asked. Wilda smiled shyly as she nodded her head.
“Both of us would have loved to attend a university but as daughters of an Earl, or Head of an Imperial House stuck on Glamor, that would never happen.” Wendy added.
“And you?” Jason asked Wanda, the oldest sister. She smiled as she blushed at the same time.
“Unlike those two, I am actually hunting for a husband, Your Grace,” she said. “Looking at baby Helen, I know exactly what I want.”
“Half a dozen of her type?” Erin asked with a giggle.
“No offense, Your Grace but I also don’t see myself as the sharing type,” Wanda said. “When I find myself a husband, he will have to be satisfied with me alone, no concubines.”
“You can start by practicing on this one,” Jason said as he gave Helen a puzzled look and then held her out towards Wanda. “I think she needs a new diaper.” The girls all giggled as three of them, Wanda, Trista, and Erin, all reached for Helen. With Jason’s lap empty, Jade, who was sitting in her hoverchair, turned the chair and came charging at him. She was good at stopping on a dime, and then getting flung out of her chair to land in Jason’s arms. Wilda and Wendy both gasped in surprise as Jason cuddled the thirteen-year-old on his lap.
“Make space,” Jade demanded as she liberated one of Jason’s legs. “Ada, come join me.” Jason was surprised at two different levels. To find that Ada and Jade had decided to team up, and to notice the surprised and slightly hurt look on Mia’s face. Jason assumed Mia felt left out by Jade picking Ada rather than missing a chance to sit on his lap since she had never been invited to sit there.
Ada came forward but didn’t do much except stand there looking shyly at Jason and Jade. Jason reached out, took her by her wrist and pulled her onto his free leg. Once she was in his arms, Ada relaxed against him.
“How do you fit into Lord Jason’s household?” Wendy asked Jade.
“I was born like this,” Jade said. “My father was the duke of Mynos, until my mother and her boyfriend killed him. Jason made my one brother the new duke and then the new duke gave me to Jason. Officially, he is supposed to find me a husband, except I have already decided I want to be his. He is not going to ever be rid of me.”
“You are so lucky,” Ada commented as she shot Jason a shy look.
“I guess I had better find you a handsome young baron as well,” Jason said to Ada, causing her to blink in surprise.
“Your Grace, love,” Gwendolyn said as she came up and kissed Jason on the cheek. “The captain wants me to tell you that we will be going through the jump gate in about twenty minutes. Have you ladies ever traveled through a jump gate?” she asked as she turned to Wilda and Wendy.
“No, we were born on Glamor,” Wendy said. “Can we watch?”
“Every time we go through a jump gate, people suffer from a bit of disorientation,” Gwendolyn said. “Sometimes it causes severe nausea.”
“Can we also watch?” Jade asked. She didn’t wait for a response as she struggled off Jason’s lap and back into her chair. Ada also jumped off his lap and gave him a shy smile before she followed Jade.
“Let’s go have a look,” Jason said as he stood and bowed to Wendy and Wilda, then offered his arms to them. Both shyly stood and hooked arms with Jason.
“Go watch,” Erin said to Wanda as they finished changing Helen nearby on a patch of grass.
“Lieutenant Commander Gill Wilson, Lieutenant Roger Amherst, meet my wards, Miss Wanda, Miss Wendy, and Miss Wilda, the three daughters of Earl Victor Lupus of Glamor,” Jason introduced everybody as they floated onto the bridge Erin actually claimed the lovely Miss Wilda as another of my concubines while I have been tasked to find husbands for her sisters.” Gill was behind his seat as they floated onto the bridge. The three sisters were clinging to each other while Riley, Jade, and Ada clung to Jason’s shoulders.
“Welcome on the bridge, ladies,” Gill said as he made a mid-air bow to the girls.
“It’s their first time,” Jason said. “Do you have a vacuum cleaner nearby?”
“I will take care of that, Your Grace,” Gill said. “Lieutenant Amherst can take us through the gate. Allow me, ladies,” he said as he helped them to strap themselves into the row of observer seats behind the two navy officers controlling the ship. He stayed floating next to Wanda as he explained to them what was happening.
On the main navigation screen, the jump gate was shown as a blue cross hair and the ship as a green dot. The forward viewing screen showed just black space with a couple of faint stars. Then the ship slowly turned, causing one of the main stars to move into view.
“The blue cross hair is the jump gate,” Gill said. Jason noticed he was talking directly to Wanda, who was not looking at the screen but at Gill. “That small white spot on the viewing screen is the navy frigate that is guarding the gate. The gate itself is currently edge-on to us and much bigger than the frigate.” After a while, as the frigate started looming big on the view screen, and the main star drifted away again, the gate itself became visible. What Jason saw was a huge ring with a total blackness inside it.
None of them vomited when they went through the gate. Lorena, Clarissa, and Chloe also joined them, with Clarissa hugging Jason while Chloe and Lorena softly talked to each other. Jason noticed Gill was very much taken by Wanda, ignoring the two other sisters as he fussed over the oldest one.
“Your Grace, may I have a word,” Gil asked a couple of days later. As usual, Jason ran every morning, sometimes in the Ring-One with Erin, Rina, and all his body protectors, which now include Riley. That morning Jason was running in Ring-Two with the marines. Greg Delano, the Imperial Marine lieutenant in charge of the two platoons of marines on the ship, decided to have the monthly fitness test, and invited all military personnel to join them for a three-kilometer timed test. The test was done with full marine battle gear. Rina had a sneaky smirk on her face that morning as she laid out Jason’s battle-dress uniform, with the rank of Imperial Marine Colonel on it.
“Sure, Commander,” Jason said. He was done with his test and passed among the top ten in the detachment. Gill Wilson was also done as he walked up to Jason. Jason was never really alone since he had four ADCs with him.
“I’m not sure how to say this, it is a bit awkward,” Gill started. “I guess what I really want to know is how you see my involvement with you and the Empress Olivia in the long run.”
“Are you concerned about how I feel about having you as the captain, or are you worried about your long-term career in the navy?” Jason asked.
“I already know that my navy career is in very good condition, because I got selected for this assignment,” Gill said. “Promotion to the next level is nearly non-existent, there just are not enough cruisers around and I am already a frigate captain since the Empress Olivia is classified as a specialized frigate, I am sure working under you will result in me eventually getting my own cruiser but only after somebody else retires or dies. I have second thoughts about making it to cruiser captain. Working under you is immensely satisfying and I would love to do so for a very long time. In short, I was thinking, since you tend to take your entire family with you, that it might be possible to maybe get married, and have my wife accompany me on this ship.”
“What does Wanda think of that?” Jason asked softly. Gill blinked a few times and then smiled sheepishly.
“I guess I was a bit obvious, Your Grace,” he said.
“What I do not know, is what will happen if I have to settle down and rule a dukedom,” Jason said. “As imperial heir, I guess I will never be stuck in one system for very long. It is anybody’s guess what tasks the navy will think up for the Empress Olivia if I have to take the place of my grandfather, the duke of Grendel.”
“While the Empress Olivia is a private ship, the navy assumed responsibility for her because of who her owner is, Your Grace,” Gill said. “I guess they can use her for specialized tasks but if her home port is wherever you are, and if I stay her captain, then I don’t see a problem if Miss Wanda stays with your family if I have to go away for a short task.”
“Have you discussed all this with her already?” Jason asked.
“No, Your Grace, I wanted your opinion first,” Gill said.
“Since I intend to take my extended family with me whenever I can, I don’t see any reason you or any or the other people attached to me can’t do the same,” Jason said. “Go ask her.”
“Message from the Imperial Council, Your Grace,” Shelly said very formally as she gave a slight bow. “They would like a report on your Glamor trip at your convenience.”
“Can we spend a few days at home before we leave for the Saturn system?” Erin asked. “Believe it or not but I actually miss mom, ah..., your mom.” She was sitting on Jason’s lap at that moment. Both Wilda and Wendy were sitting close to them, with Erin and Clarissa discussing life on Secundus and on Grendel with the two sisters.
“I guess it is a good thing if you like your mother-in-law,” Wendy commented.
“Oh, she is great,” Erin said. “My father-in-law is also a great guy, far less stuffy than my own father.”
“If the two of you want to go study, we should try and get you into the Secundus university before we leave,” Jason said.
“I had a long discussion with Mister Gray, Your Grace,” Wilda said shyly. “He actually gave me other options, the same options as Clarissa and Andrea decided to take.” Andrea was close by with her nose pointing at her tablet. On hearing her name, she looked up with a questioning look on her face.
“What options are you talking about and why are you so formal towards your husband?” Andrea asked.
“Tell your husband what you are reading,” Erin said to Andrea.
“Organic chemistry,” Andrea said as she put the tablet down. “Mister Gray gave me a study list of all the premed courses I need. He even suggested that I plan to write the premed exams on Grendel, their university is recognized as one of the best in the entire cluster.”
“Premed?” Jason asked.
“Being the more independent of your many wives, Andrea decided to be a wife as well as a medical doctor,” Erin said. “I was thinking, one sure way to get Wilda to be less formal would be to rid her of a certain pesky little object, generally called her virginity.” The other girls all giggled as Wilda and Wendy both blushed to their ear-tips.
“You had better keep an eye on your protege,” Clarissa said. “Wanda seems to be spending a lot of time in the company of a certain navy commander.” She smirked as she pointed straight up. Jason looked to where she was pointing, to see Gill and Wanda walking along the circular path around the ring. At that moment, the couple were right above them and walking while holding hands.
“I told him to ask her,” Jason said. “If she is not a virgin anymore, then I will just marry them.”
“What options did Mister Gray give you?” Clarissa asked Wilda.
“He suggested I do all the college entrance preparation classes with he and Major Emerson as my tutors,” Wilda said. “That means I get to stay near his grace. I have not decided what I would like to study yet.”
“I had a look at all the degrees we can do,” Wendy said. “I guess growing up on Glamor means I have a more than normal interest in crystals and other rocks. Mister Gray suggested doing courses in inorganic chemistry and geology. Unfortunately, he will not be able to tutor me past the basics. He suggested I consider studying on Secundus. He said I stand a very good chance of getting in, because of who my guardian is. I assume you have some influence at Secundus University, Your Grace?”
“I have the idea Mister Gray has more influence there than I do but I’m sure I can convince them to listen to me,” Jason said. He shrugged when Erin gave him a look and an eye roll. “What?” he asked her.
“Nothing,” she said as she smiled and stroked over his face. “I just find it quite endearing when you are so utterly modest.”
“Something wrong with my upbringing, I guess,” Jason said as Wilda and Wendy gave him confused looks.
“Makes you so much more approachable,” Clarissa added.
Three months after leaving Secundus, the Empress Olivia slowly drifted closer to her permanent berthing dock at the top of the space elevator orbiting Secundus. Jason again watched the approach and docking from the bridge, mostly because Gill invited Wanda to watch; she has been spending a lot of time on the bridge since they came though the last jump gate. Jason decided to let Wilda, and Wendy watch the approach to Secundus, the first ‘normal’ planet they ever saw. When more people wanted to watch, Gill suggested they watched from the conference room behind the bridge where the one entire wall was a display panel that was fed the image from one of the hull cameras.
“Major Ruth suggested going down the elevator, Your Grace,” Greg Delano said.
“I will make arrangements,” Shelly said as she turned away and made her way towards the door.
“The navy wants to inspect the Empress Olivia, and the shuttle will have to go to the navy yards before we can join you at House Taurus,” Gwen Revere, Jason’s naval aide said as she clung to Greg’s arm to keep her orientation in respect to Jason. With the conference room being weightless, nobody was sitting. It was also a bit crowded. Then Jason felt somebody subtly but gently pushed her hands through his belt. He knew it was a female because Jimmy was on the bridge. Looking down, he looked into the huge eyes of Grace, Ron’s oldest daughter.
Grace was eleven, and according to Erin, had had a huge crush on Jason ever since he ‘rescued’ her and her sister from the hospital day-care center when their mother was involved in an accident while her father, Ron Bright, was guarding Jason. There were a few other preteens close to Grace in age on the ship, and while she often hung out with Megan and Maggie’s older daughter, Jessica, Grace was seen often helping Erin with baby Helen, a ruse to stay near Jason, according to Erin.
“We keep drifting away,” Grace explained with a shy smile. Jason reached back and lifted both preteens into his arms. They most likely would not have been able to see much before. Grace gave him a big grin as she anchored herself with her arms around his neck.
The trip down the elevator was very much like the previous trip on their initial arrival in the system several months earlier, except Jason’s group had grown since then. Jason was a bit concerned when two females dressed in white pants and jackets and carrying what looked like bulky toolboxes, arrived as the group was about to exit the newly docked Empress Olivia.
“Don’t worry about it,” Clarissa said when he gave the two females, who seem to be in their upper twenties or lower thirties, a questioning look. Both ignored Jason as Carmen led them onto the ship. “Mom is a bit close to her time, they just want to check up on her and stay close in case she needs help.” Jason understood, and then he realized that it must be nearly nine months since he lost his virginity to Sylvia and got her pregnant at the same time. The last he saw of her, a few days earlier, was when she, Chloe, and Lenore were floating inside the water tube. Unlike some of Jason’s younger ladies, they wore clothes as they floated in the Perspex torus filled with water.
“Shelly, think about hiring a couple of medics, a doctor and a nurse, for when we are on the ship,” Jason said.
“On it,” she said with a smile but didn’t move or even grab her tablet. “The marine detachment has two corpsmen with them, but I also think we need a proper doctor, maybe a female gynecologist, since you are taking pregnant females into space.”
“Yes, Erin might feel more comfortable with a woman doctor,” Jason responded. Erin was floating above him while clinging to his hand but other than rolling her eyes, she didn’t comment.
Once they were in the elevator car, Jason searched for Sylvia. She just smiled at him as she stroked over his cheek, claiming that she was fine, that this would be her fourth child, and even if he was the daddy, he should let the experts do their thing. The two female doctors were not exactly rude but didn’t seem to care about Jason’s concern for Sylvia’s condition. Only after Sylvia mentioned that Jason was the father, did they stop glaring at him for interfering with them.
The two doctors had Sylvia on her back on a hover bed long before they started feeling gravity. One of the marine sections were escorting the group down the elevator but even with a section of marines to escort them, there were few males in Jason’s group. Ron and Steve kept their hands free so when Gerry, Ron’s younger daughter, needed a daddy-figure, Jason took her hand. That resulted in Grace grabbing his other hand, and all the other young girls either pouting or ignoring them.
Three rail shuttles were waiting for them, two in the colors of House Taurus. Jason figured out that Shelly must have called the two private Taurus shuttles while they were in space. With everybody on the shuttle train, they headed for home, and this time they went straight to House Taurus, with no interruptions.
It was mid-afternoon when Jason, with his wife, concubines, and body protectors walked into House Taurus, and came face to face with an imperial welcoming party. Jason was holding Erin’s hand with all his concubines in the V-shape formation behind them. The V-shape looked grand and formal, but Jason knew they did it automatically. When he glanced back at the females, to see if there were any new introductions needed, he noticed that the girls were not in any order. The three Aspen sisters were scattered among the girls.
“Welcome home,” the emperor said as Jason and the entire party bowed. Then Erin let go of his hand and rushed forward to hug Jason’s mother as the emperor hugged Jason. “I am burning to hear about your trip, but I will force myself to wait until you report to the council. They called a special meeting for tomorrow morning.” Then the emperor pulled a grinning Erin closer and hugged her. “I hope my son is treating you well,” he asked.
“For an arranged marriage, he is an amazingly loving and considerate husband, Your Majesty,” Erin said before she gave the emperor a kiss on the cheek.
“I see some new faces,” Empress Olivia commented as she hugged Jason.
“A side-effect from our visit to Glamor, Mother,” Erin said as she grabbed Wilda’s and Wendy’s hands and nodded to Wanda to step forward. “After getting to know her, I decided to order my husband to take Wilda, fourth daughter of Earl Victor, head of House Lupus on Glamor, as his concubine. As a result, the earl asked Jason to act as guardian for his two oldest daughters, and to find them husbands. Mother, father, meet Wanda, Wendy, and Wilda. Girls, meet my in-laws, Emperor Jason and Empress Olivia.” All three girls blushed as the empress hugged each one of them. By the time they had hugs from the emperor, they were nearly back to normal.
“I knew exactly who my new husband was going to be when we left Glamor,” Wilda muttered when Jason took her hand as they followed Erin to show the girls where they would stay. “He would be the next emperor, something that didn’t really make much sense at the time. I should have realized I would end up having the current emperor as my father-in law and get to hug the empress.”
“It still seems unreal.” Wendy added as she shot Jason a shy look.
The next morning, Jason, all their combined body protectors, as well as Rina, Erin, Jason’s military aides, and the off-duty marine platoon, gathered on the beach for their regular morning run. The three Aspen sisters were on the beach as well. They were not geared to run but they were up, and on the beach. They were fascinated by the environment since they have always lived under a dome. The look Jason got from Wilda before they set off after doing some stretches was one of eager anticipation.
Jason was not sure why Erin picked Wilda as another concubine; he didn’t need more of them, and so far, Wilda seemed much too shy and withdrawn to even flirt with him. He assumed that the idea of being married to him seemed to have taken root in her mind and her natural feminine instincts started taking hold of her fantasies about him.
When they got back, the three sisters were still next to the pool, enjoying the sea breeze and the warm sun. All the females who ran with them went up to shower but only a few, Erin, Riley, Sam, Rina, and Liza joined Jason in the huge shower in his room. Wilda followed them and was watching.
Jason ignored her, while being woman-handled by some of the females under the shower with him, until he was done. He usually showered much quicker than any of the females so they were still washing their hair and gossiping with each other as Jason walked out, past Wilda where she was standing just inside the doorway of the bathroom from where she could see the entire shower stall.
As he walked past her, Jason leaned closer and gave her a chaste kiss on the lips before grabbing a towel. Wilda didn’t move or make a sound except to stare after him as he walked to the basin while drying himself.
After breakfast with his parents and all his concubines and lovers, Jason and the emperor headed for Imperial City. The two made up a sizable group, with their combined protection group, aides, and personal assistants. Earlier Jason checked up on Sylvia, who seemed her normal self even if she was bulky enough to waddle around. The two female doctors were still with her and doing a great job of ignoring the emperor and empress as they kept close to Sylvia.
“Relax, she will be fine,” the emperor said as the rail shuttle started moving. “She will give birth here; it is usually a case of the hospital coming to her instead of she going to the hospital. There is a whole medical suite on the ground floor of the staff building in preparation for your mother giving birth.”
“You found a source of crystal on the land I gave you?” Duke James asked in surprise after Jason related the events of his trip to the imperial council.
Besides the regular four dukes who had their dukedoms in the Pleiades Prime system, there was another new face. He was introduced at the start of the meeting as Duke Wilbur of Ceres, who recently took over the Ceres system after his older brother was killed in a failed uprising attempt. Ceres was the third system that was colonized in the cluster nearly a thousand years earlier. The new duke was rather old, in his seventies and looked out of place, kind of shy for a duke of that age.
“It is assumed that we found a source of crystal, Your Grace,” Jason said. “I only know for sure that the Scorpius wand, which seems to be tuned to black crystal, vibrated when the shuttle flew over that spot.”
“How did you figure out that the wand is tuned to black crystal?” Duke Cullum asked.
“A simple test, which resulted in me also discovering a new source of crystal near the Scorpius dome, a source which turned out to be good quality black crystal. We flew to the dome of House Lupus and neither of the wands were so much as twitched but when Victor Lupus came out to fly with us, his wand vibrated near his dome as well. He mines communication crystals,” Jason explained.
“You mentioned that the new source is black crystal. How do you know that?” Duke James asked.
“The new source was close enough to the Scorpius dome for the miner working the Scorpius mine to drill a test tunnel to the source,” Jason explained.
“We were quite concerned about the future of the empire when we started hearing stories about black crystal mines running out or changing properties.” One of the other dukes said. “We should let the people on Arcadia know as well, none of them ever mentioned finding crystal with vibrating wands.”
“I would like to suggest that this council formally acknowledge Jason Cosgrove as the official new Head of House Scorpius, but what about the still non-existent House Phoenix, which now also seems to have a source of black crystal.” Duke James said.
“As it is, I do not see myself residing on Glamor in the capacity of head of the house, either house,” Jason said. “The niece of the previous head of House Scorpius wants to be the new Countess of Scorpius. She didn’t specify me to be the head of the house.”
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