Biosymbionce

Biosymbionts, unlike nanosymbionts, don't have an army of nano machines defending their body functions. This is an adult themed story of an old 'off the grid' hacker who risked his life to save a stranger. Who turned out to be a 'renegade' nanosymbiont. Who declined to let the man die for the offense of having foolishly tried to save a 'stranger'. Who, sadly, couldn't share his 'nanosymbionce' with the would be hero. So he devised a biological substitute. Which fused DNA from an aggressively symbiotic thorned plant into the former hacker's grisly remains. To regrow him as a genetically engineered 'biosymbiont' who's 'daggerthorn' plant DNA will eventually make it hard to kill him faster than his body can heal itself.

The new biosymbiont wakes up on a strange planet named Gudjeon, on the other end of the galaxy from his home world. Everything hurts and he remembers being hit by the express tube car. He has to get used to having the body and hormones of a young man again. As he discovers that the doctor who refused to let him die is an infamous renegade nanosymbiont and the most dangerous outcast in the galaxy. Then there's the strange telepathic feelings he's starting to get from the surrounding cluster of the genetically engineered daggerthorn trees, who's DNA his 'doctor' had used to 'save' him.

While his new hybrid immune system is learning how to keep him alive, the biosymbiont must live within the embrace of the daggerthorn super clusters that fairly cover 'Thorn Mountain' and which shelters two distinctly different low tech cultures. Who don't know they are the retrograde survivors of a failed colonization attempt of their dangerous planet. Both of these cultures accept the biosymbiont as an apprentice 'thorn wizard' to the powerful 'Thornmaster'. So named because the daggerthorn usually respond to his will.

Both people are protected from most diseases, including sexually transmitted ones, by the nectar of the daggerthorn. Which sentient flowering plants influence the dreams of both people.

In the absence of medical consequences for promiscuity, both cultures had developed unusual ideas of what constitutes moral behavior. This leads to frequently bawdry, often explicit, occasionally humorous and sometimes even erotic situations that the biosymbiont finds both enjoyable and embarrassing. Until they lead to strange but deeply unconditional love affairs. With both a desert warrior, who is a practicing nymphomaniac and with a
temptatious woodland virgin.

On one side of the mountain there is an elite desert warrior culture ruled by a the 'high mothers' of the 'Sisterhood' Who's 'adepts' are lethally skillful with both their long bow, and their exquisitely carved obsidian daggers. Their most sacred daggerthorn oasis springs out from under their side of Thorn mountain.

On the other side of the mountain, the much wetter climate provides forests and fish laden streams to the very patriarchal society of Woodsman who live within the protective branches of the trees. Which speak to them through their dreams. These Woodsman are proud of their hunting skills using their famous recurved strongbows and there symbolically significant personal belt knives.

This dangerous world, that the biosymbiont comes to love, is home to more than the symbiotic trees who's nectar is an effective antipathogen against a horrific disease that would otherwise have decimated the people on both sides of the 'Barrier Mountains'. Deep in the great desert there is another kind of oasis filled with the impure water that spills from an ancient cave system. Inside which there grows a parasitic nightmare that has learned to turn it's victims into a cannibalistic army of cursed ones.

Which army goes on the offensive while the powerful local 'Wizard' is off planet. So it is that the war for all of Gudjeon has begun and the very survival of all it's people may depend on the biosymbiont's bravery. If his unstable new abilities don't get him killed first.