Hi all, I published this story on Literotica a couple days ago but I figured the Scat crowd here would like it as well

Prologue: Jake

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The prologue introduces one of our main characters, and how he got to where he is in the beginning of chapter 1. If you're just here for the juicy parts you might want to skip this bit.

Jake enjoyed his life on Earth. Well, at least for the most part. Nothing less was expected of him. He lived in the utopia created by the United Federation of Planets, after all. Jake got a lot of free time which he spent hiking and playing adventure games in his town's holosuite. His desk job cataloging alien cultures was perfectly serviceable too. But he wasn't quite satisfied. Jake preferred to be in a monogamous relationship with a woman, and he tried it a few times but it never quite worked out for him.

You see, Earth had evolved to a point where people were basically free to have whatever type of relationship they wanted and do whatever they want, but even so, a couple of things where so out-there, that it was nearly impossible to bring up in a relationship without destroying it. Jake had one of those things. He'd discovered during puberty that the only way he could truly enjoy sex was if piss and poop got involved. He wasn't ashamed of this, but this kink was just completely unacceptable in the clean and pure society of the Federation. He even went to talk about it with a Federation counselor. She just suggested he'd forget about the fetish and go and enjoy his life without ever indulging. But this part of his sexuality was just so important to him that he found he couldn't have a satisfying relationship without it.

One day, close to his 25th birthday, he suddenly got an idea. He looked around to see if he was alone in his working room, activated his console and put in a query: "Computer, list all known sapient species that involve their own bodily waste in their courting rituals."

After some processing time, the computer showed a list of about a dozen species. Looking through it, most of them weren't very compatible. A species breathing sulfide gas and peeing concentrated sulfuric acid? No thanks. A species whose body structure was made of some sort of stretchable diamond? Sounds rough. He found one single species that was described as mostly humanoid. Not too much was known about them, but their atmosphere and food requirements were almost exactly the same as that of humans, so that was good news.

The computer showed that they were first discovered in the 26th century by a vessel exploring the far corners of the Delta quadrant. They were only encountered in an independent deep space trading station. The computer had no information on the location of their home planet. The species was named the Kbraxi.

Jake thought it over for a couple days and then decided he had nothing to lose. He went to his manager and told her he was bored of his desk job. He said he enjoyed learning all kinds of facts about alien cultures but wanted to be closer to the action. And he said he wanted to learn about the cultures on the far side of the Delta quadrant.

Jake's manager looked surprised when she heard that last bit. She tried to convince him to start out closer to home, just to see if moving away from the comforts of home wouldn't be too stressful for him. She actually suggested doing an internship at the Vulcan science academy, if you can believe that! In any case, Jake was adamant that he wanted to go to the Delta quadrant, and at the end his manager shrugged and said: "Well I can't stop you if you really want to go, it's a free galaxy after all. Just be careful, okay? And try to send messages - we like to hear how you're doing."

And with that it was settled. In the next two months, Jake settled his earthly affairs, emptied out his apartment, said goodbye to a lot of people, and then took a shuttle to a Starfleet deep space explorer vessel that was waiting in space dock over Earth. With the technology Starfleet had gotten from the remains of the destroyed Borg, they actually managed to build a couple of ships that could make their way across the Delta quadrant in only 11 months time. This vessel was going out to explore the very far part of the galaxy, the area Voyager had beelined through centuries ago. The ship's first mission was to get to Ocampa to bring a Federation ambassador there. But that was not quite the right direction for Jake. The space station where the Kbraxi were first encountered was in a part of space where Starfleet vessels hardly ever came.

So, instead, he arranged to be dropped off at a friendly waypoint station after about 10 months into the trip. Once he was there and the Starfleet explorer ship had jumped back to Transwarp, it took him a couple days to get used to the fact that he was the only human - heck, the only Federation citizen, in hundreds of lightyears.

The species running the waypoint station were friendly though, if a bit unusual. Jake asked around about the Kbraxi, and found one person who had heard of them. A Merchant. The universal translator implanted in Jake's ear had some trouble with his language but managed to work it out in the end. "Dun worry," said the merchant, "Kbraxi owe me one. I message send, you wait."

A couple days later, the merchant called him: "Jake! Now come! Message got, is arranged!" The translator couldn't make much of the merchant's attempt to explain what had been arranged, but he made clear that Jake had to go to a place about 10 light years from the space station where the Kbraxi were first seen by the Federation explorers. The merchant even offered to drop him off - for a price. Jake had brought a small stash of Latinum exactly for this kind of thing, and after paying, the merchant quickly got his space barge in order and brought Jake to the right coordinates.

On board of the barge, the merchant gave Jake a report on the Kbraxi. The translator still couldn't make much sense of the merchant's language, but he put together bits and pieces about their culture. The Kbraxi seemed quite secretive. For some reason, outsiders had only ever seen female Kbraxi. Something like that was common in single-sexed species but scientists figured out from a Kbraxi DNA sample that they must have at least two sexes to reproduce.

There was also a mention of a diplomatic incident long ago, where some diplomat had been flirting with a Kbraxi in a pub, and when he went in for a kiss, she smiled at him and started urinating on him. The diplomat ran away in disgust and before anyone could react, the Kbraxi walked away with tears on her face and was never seen again. Jake read this part of the report several times, trying to make sure he got the translation right.

The ship slowed down as it approached the given coordinates. There was a class-M moon orbiting a gas giant there. The merchant, who was piloting the barge, told Jake: "You beam down. I not allowed. Is goodbye."

Quite nervously, Jake thanked the merchant and stepped onto the transporter pad. He saw the merchant press a couple buttons, and a few seconds later the sound of the transporter filled his ears.