#The Gene-Splice Wars

[fortunaestalta]

[phoenixremix69]

I think the funniest part of Orochimaru's character is that he desperately wants to be in any kind of genre except ninjas

Like, don't get me wrong, he's an incredibly competent ninja, but he seems to love doing everything except being a ninja more

He's the closest thing the series has to an actual wizard. While everyone else is throwing fireballs around and calling it a day, he's just casually raising the dead and deleting people from existence

When he's not doing that he's doing actual sci-fi shit like cloning and gene splicing

and in his spare time he's doing slice of life shit as simultaneously the most and least gendered person in Konoha. Look at this war criminal raise his 50 clone monstrosities alongside his husband that runs the local orphanage(seriously, who gave him that job?)

[lightparty-fullparty]

Can't possibly be me Zenosposting again - what is this a day ending in Y?

Anyway, I've been thinking about the murder boy again. This has mostly spawned from my replaying of the Stormblood patches and seeing Amnesiac Yotsuyu, which sparked a bit of a Nature vs Nuture debate between me and my friends.

Basically, my question for this post is "How much of Zenos' whole deal is Nature (aka He was just born like that) and how much of it is Nuture (aka the enviornment he grew up). Some of you might content to say Nature and leave it at that, which is a completely valid outlook to have. But for me there's just one... teeny... tiny... little detail that has sent me on a wild consipriacy theory of a ride that's resulted in this post. Emet-FUCKING-Selch.

Listen to me, listen okay? I cannot, CANNOT ignore the fact that this absoulete motherfucker (affectionate) is Zenos's cannonical Great Grandfather. Who was very much alive and kicking during his childhood. Emet-Selch or Solus zos Galvus whatever moniker you wanna give the man, is an Ascian. One of THE Ascians. Not only that, he's 'The Architect" the guy who's job it is to design and engineer the calamities meant to rejoin the Shards of the World back together again. What does he do to achieve this? He builds empires, he starts wars, manipulates people and situations to result in untold elemental chaos. Iirc correctly he's responsible for causing all eight calamities that have occured so far in FFXIV. (Eight got undone but I'm still counting it).

Now for this post I'm going to be focusing mainly on the Seventh, Eighth, and Fourth Umbral Calamities. (Which are the ones coincidentally we're told the most about in game). This Calamities all involved Empires. The Allagan and the Garlean, both of which Emet-Selch was responsible for creating. From the Allagans we have the creation of Dalamud, Cyrus Tower, and the Ultima Weapon. As well as an extensive history of biological research. Cloning, Gene Splicing, Mutation and so on. (A sundered mortal's attempts at creation magjicks perhaps?) The Garleans too, have a notible history of biological research, they draw a lot of their modern technology from Allagan design. No coincidence there given Emet-Selch's involvement. But we've seen them use genetic mutation, cyber augmentation, and cloning (Emet-Selch's shadow the hedgehog ass clone bodies because he refuses to look like anyone other than his unsundered self). The also so a lot of research into the Echo. Hydalyn's mark for her champions, and soul maipulation. (Ala Mihgo Dungeon and In From the Cold Duty both points of note for examples of the Soul being manipulated here - physically torn out of the body).

"Now Gengar " - I hear you ask - "What does this have to do with Nature vs Nuture or Zenos?" Well, I tell you, everything really. Hear me out. Emet-Selch designed the Garlean Empire to be the perfect chaos causing conquest force. They have no ability to use either, making them initially vulnerable as a people to the rest of the races. Building up a tasty, tasty resentment and need to feel superior. He sent them marching to 'reclaim their home' and then to 'unify the three contents under their superior peaceful, organised leadership'. The 'Savage Races' summon evil primals and weild evil distructive magjiks. He gave them a perfect cause and reason to hate everyone else. He gave them magitech to level the field and make them supieror at combat. Garlemald as a nation is the perfect war machine. Allagan 2.0 if you would. And Zenos is the perfect 'Champion' to lead that nation into battle. To spark that next Calamity. Look at the guy. Garleans might be on the taller side (depending on the character. Cid is a shorty), but Varis and Zenos are HUGE. Emet-Selch isn't nearly as tall as either of them despite being a blood relation. Which makes me think there was some of that Allagan/Garlean/Ancient playing with genetics and form at work. Make them bigger, more durable, stronger, more intelligent.

It's like Captian America. You want the perfect solider. And a perfect solider for Emet-Selch would also need to be cold, ruthless, manipulative.

There was a post I saw a while again about Mecha Pilots. And OP pondered on the idea of physcially having your brain and body contiditoned to love battle. To love destruction and killing and fighting.

Do you see where I am going with this?

You want someone bloodthirsty enough to cause a Calamity for you, you need them to feel nothing for their fellow man. (Insects all of them. Disappointing. Found Wanting.) You need them to find such overwhelming joy in battle that no other earthely pleasure can compare to it. (Brilliant. Blinding. Trandsenant Moment.)

No attatchments. No emotions, Just violence. I offer to you dear readers, that Emet-Selch carefully modified Zenos' litterally brain chemistry. Making him predisposed to a lack of empathy and his brain releasing those pesky joyous chemicals during battle. Inflicitng and feeling pain. I offer the theory that Zenos has literally been built for combat. If you cut him open, his bones and muscles and organs would be so alienly perfect. Denser, perfectly optimised. Exceedingly perfect. His brain remapped for pattern recognistion and quick skill building, Easy to train in the art of slaughter and tactics. Unable to forge the emotional connections that would only serve to hinder him. (To isolate him from family).

What evidence to I have? Outside of Emet-Selch's known history of building Empires? Easy. I already know he's done this kind of thing before.

Vauthry. The baby Emet-Selch mutated into half a Lightwarden. Able to command the Sin Eaters and ensured would be raised into a tyranically, childish, king. To keep the First from Uniting. To ensure the Eighth Umbral Calamity would continue along it's march to completion.

Why wouldn't Emet-Selch have done as much to Zenos too?

[loudblonde]

A recount of war

Logbook: 1-10-52 – Layla Bogazi: Recount of war, “My recount of the war is muddy at best. During the best days I can recall more and on the worst days my wife barely lets me leave the bed in fear my abused body gives in, and I won’t be stubborn enough to stay alive… So, you will have to take this with a grain of salt.

To understand why the war even happened, outside of the obvious reasons, you need to understand a few things about the galaxy.

Blood. The foundation for most sentient life. The very building stones and our protection against disease. Many forget the importance of remembering our roots, our ancestors, they forget what we came from. Assets. Was the name given to my kind. Genetic freaks of nature, with old human DNA spliced into us, alongside a choice few other “warrior species”. How I came to despise that term. “Death worlder” a being or species whose planet was so hostile 94% of the galaxy wouldn’t survive it as a cradleworld. I often scoffed at the idea, I knew my genetics and knew how flawed they were.

A single genetic defect and two species were created, both good soldiers, Homo Sapien Amatura Aurum and Homo Sapien Nocturnus Aurum, The Amatura, or armour, as the old human lab coats called them, were the perfect unit, perfectly braindead and mindless beings that were just happy to be born into a family, point and say kill and they would kill anything in their way, with little to no care if they were enemies or not. Thusly a very cheap, very effective group of cloned soldiers. Then, the defects, nocturnus were created. No one quite new which genes folded wrong or didn’t present itself, but we were created, one in a million, perfect assassins, spies, whatever we would be trained for we would master. Unlike our armoured counterpart, we didn’t need the vast hivemind that connected us. Well… I call it a hivemind but really it was more of a connection beyond words. I could be half a galaxy away and still feel my brothers and sisters.

I was on a job when it happened. The destruction of our species. The home world of the facility was a small dwarf planet, barely able to be called a dwarf planet with how small it was. I only read the specifics years after the fact. A PO-8272 series Class-A cruiser appeared, armed with ion cannons, they bombarded the planet, killing everyone on the surface and below it, taking out 80% of the remaining and the only healthy human population left. We didn’t know at the time how important that 80% was.

To make a very agonising year incredibly short and any reasons for why it was decided we would die even shorter. What we knew then was that the imperial palace had decreed that our two species and all hybrid species created for the explicit purpose of war, would be hunted down and culled, starting with the one species with a hivemind were killing so many in one go would kill the rest. This would send a message to every planet under the empire and outside it, to willingly give up the threats against the empire and sentient life as a whole or die defending them.

 I, alongside the rest of the nocturnus, were hunted down and all but 3 of us eradicated. 3 out of millions. We may not have needed the bond with our brothers and sisters, but it was still a huge toll to suddenly loose it all. Red hair, gold eyes and black nails suddenly became a very very attractive bounty of 80.000 gold orlea for bringing our head to any registered imperial bounty clinic, that could set someone up for a lifetime.

Naturally, within that year, not that I noticed it, I was busy mourning and running for my life, the imperial palace made a portion of the imperial army train to hunt down and commit genocide in their name. the following 10 years were known as The Red Decade.” Recording ended.

[yes-i-write-fanfiction]

How about the tfp decepticons reacting to the sparkling blobs ?

Megatron is... relieved, in a sense. Despite everything he's done, what he's become, he's not completely heartless and he's been worried about the future of the cybertronians. But here, in his hand, are the next generation. Cybertron's legacy will go on. It's a relief to know that his generation won't be the last. At the same time, he's completely at a loss with how to deal with the sparklings. He's not soft or nurturing so he decided to leave the caretaking to others. He will visit and impart his wisdom to the little ones from time to time but generally he'll stay away.

Starscream's first reaction is panic. Sparklings are small, fragile and totally defenseless. As much as he enjoys feeling superior to others, he's suddenly so hyperaware about how... pointy he is. He feels awkward around the sparklings, small and incapable of reason or to be negotiated with. Yet he can't help but care for them. Not that he would ever admit that. Will sneakily look out for them and loudly criticize anyone who doesn't meet his standards. Pretends to hate them but doesn't.

While generally viewed as emotionless, it's clear to everyone that Soundwave enjoys the presence of the little ones. He plays calming music for them along with recorded fairy tales (both human and cybertronian) and uses his visor to entertain them. He's sure in his movements, how he handles them and would never, ever hurt them, even by mistake. Loves to hold the sparklings and it's hard for anyone to get him to hand them over, even Megatron if he asks to.

As the only real medic on the Nemesis, Knockout is forcefully given the position of main caretaker. Soundwave was the first choice but due to his heavy work load (as if Knockout has it any easier) he was ultimately not picked for the task. Now, Knockout don't dislike sparklings, it's just that they are quite messy. And loud. And fussy. And he doesn't deal well with any of that. Still, he will take care of them and he does genuinely care for their wellbeing but feels completely lost when they start to cry. Please, someone help him.

Completely enamored by the sparklings, Breakdown is one of the best caretakers on the ship. He's loves to play with them, from peek-a-boo to reading out loud. Gets so invested in taking care of them that he momentarily forgets that he's a decepticon and that there's still a war going on. Likes to receive updates about them while he's on the field and will bring random things he found for them (he steals toys from human stores and yards).

Now, Shockwave technically knows how to raise a sparkling. Key word here is technically because while he knows what they need, when it comes to practical application of this knowledge he's completely useless. Tries to teach them science, despite their young age, but they all just end falling asleep listening to him droning on about gene splicing. Tries his best though and does want the sparklings to be happy. Just... don't touch his lab equipment.

Dreadwing will kill for these sparklings. This is not an exaggeration. They are the future of Cybertron, young sparks uncorrupted by war and death and he genuinely finds them to be absolutely spectacular. Endlessly patient with them and is very gentle when he handles them. When taking care of them he mostly spends the time telling old tales of Cybertron, most of them about heroic warriors and epic battles.

Who the fuck allowed Airachnid to interact with the sparklings? In fact, who allowed her to even get within a hundred yards of them? She's a bad influence and if she were to act as a caretaker then undoubtedly some of them would die and she wouldn't even feel bad about it. She would just call it "survival of the fittest". She wants to raise them into becoming her loyal little minions. She would show them actual snuff films.

[narswriting]

So I have a lot of ideas and most of them are game crossovers

one of the ones im currently focusing on is subnautica/life series smp cause i love subnautica but i hate below zero. thats a different subject, anyway-

the idea i had focuses on jimmy as the main character trying to survive in the first game but the other lifers are (basically) mermaid versions of the resident fishies. not *actual* mermaids, mind you - the architects visited earth presumably for war reasons and not much else - but there was a lot of genetic manipulation they did on that planet. Its not a far reach to think they would have tried splicing the emperors genes with other creatures to get enzyme 42 in a more manageable, easier generator that has an easier time making babies.

ergo, sea emperor hybrids that can 'talk' and have cultures of their own based on the other half of their bits. Mermaids! (really alien mermaids!) I'd imagine them to have technology and languages and dialects of their own as well based on where they live. Its a fun idea to explore.

[xenopoem]

"Shanghaied into nano-devolutionary journey, Blood Electric junkies become the theatre of quantum war of genes, metaphysically manipulated by unthinkable carnage of sodomite rape virus that splices into our species’ code matrix mesh and disgracefully rapes it into catastrophic cellular zombie extermination. Designed for the dubious purpose of intoxicating pleasure pulling towards self-destruction, Blood Electric biotechnology is produced exclusively by Sato Corporation automatons. The intended effect is textual overdose." - Dr Piotr Bockowski

[science-sculpt]

A snip, a splice : Power of rDNA Technology

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the blueprint of life, holds the secrets to the intricate workings of every living organism. But what if we could manipulate this blueprint, adding, removing, or tweaking its code? This revolutionary concept forms the core of recombinant DNA (rDNA) technology, a powerful tool that has transformed biology and medicine.

The story starts in the early 1970s with two brilliant scientists; Stanley Cohen at Stanford University and Herbert Boyer at the University of California, San Francisco. Cohen, a microbiologist, had been studying plasmids – small circular DNA molecules found in bacteria. Boyer, a biochemist, was an expert on restriction enzymes – molecular scissors that could cut DNA at specific sequences. Their collaboration proved groundbreaking. They envisioned combining these tools to create the first ever recombinant DNA molecule. Cohen provided the plasmids, which would act as vectors to carry foreign DNA into host cells. Boyer, on the other hand, used restriction enzymes to cut both the plasmid and the desired foreign DNA, allowing them to be pieced together. Through meticulous experimentation, they successfully created the first recombinant DNA molecule, forever altering the course of biology.

Cohen and Boyer's work wouldn't have been possible without the earlier discoveries of restriction enzymes. These "molecular scissors" were independently identified by three separate research groups in the 1960s. Werner Arber in Switzerland, along with Hamilton Smith and Daniel Nathans in the US, unraveled the role of restriction enzymes in bacterial defense mechanisms. These enzymes helped bacteria defend against invading viruses by cutting up their foreign DNA. Recognizing the potential of these "genetic scalpels," the groundwork was laid for their application in rDNA technology.

Here's a simplified breakdown of the rDNA process:

Isolation of DNA: The journey starts with isolating DNA from a donor organism.

Cleavage with Restriction Enzymes: Specific enzymes cut the DNA at defined sequences.

Selection of Vector: A carrier molecule (often a plasmid) is chosen to transport the recombinant DNA.

Ligation: The DNA fragments and vector are stitched together using DNA ligase, an enzyme.

Transformation: The recombinant DNA enters a host cell (usually bacteria or yeast).

Selection and Expression: The transformed cells are selected, and the gene of interest is expressed, leading to the desired protein production.

Since its inception, rDNA technology has played a pivotal role in several groundbreaking advancements. Let's take a whirlwind tour through some of the most significant moments in R-DNA history:

1978: Birth of Insulin on the Factory Floor: Scientists achieved a feat of genetic engineering by using R-DNA to produce human insulin in bacteria. This marked a turning point for diabetics, offering a readily available and more consistent source of this life-saving hormone.

1980s: Gene Wars and the Rise of GMOs: The 1980s saw the development of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Plants were engineered with genes for insect resistance or herbicide tolerance, sparking debates about the safety and ethics of this technology. R-DNA research continues to be at the forefront of discussions regarding genetically modified foods.

1990s: The Human Genome Project Sets Sail: This ambitious international project aimed to sequence the entire human genome. R-DNA techniques played a crucial role in deciphering the 3 billion letters of our genetic code, opening doors for personalized medicine and a deeper understanding of human health and disease.

2000s: Gene Therapy Takes Center Stage: The first successful gene therapy trials for inherited diseases like severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) took place. R-DNA technology offered a glimmer of hope for treating genetic disorders by introducing healthy genes to replace defective ones.

2010s and Beyond: CRISPR Takes Over: The emergence of CRISPR-Cas9, a revolutionary gene editing tool based on R-DNA principles, has ushered in a new era of genetic manipulation. With unprecedented precision, scientists can now edit genes in various organisms, holding immense potential for gene therapy, crop improvement, and even the eradication of diseases.

But with great power comes great responsibility, and R-DNA raises a host of ethical concerns.Tinkering with the building blocks of life carries the risk of unintended consequences. Engineered genes could escape and disrupt ecosystems, or modified organisms could have unforeseen health effects. The ability to edit human genes opens the door to designer babies, raising questions about social equity and the potential misuse of the technology for eugenics.

Who Controls the Tools? Access to R-DNA technology could be restricted to wealthy nations or corporations, exacerbating existing inequalities. Biosecurity is also a concern, as the technology could be misused for bioterrorism. Creating entirely new organisms forces us to confront what it means to be "natural." Should we modify plants and animals for human benefit, or preserve their original forms? R-DNA technology is a powerful tool, and we must have open discussions about its ethical implications. Scientists, policymakers, and the public all need to be involved in shaping the future of this technology. As we move forward, open dialogue and collaboration between scientists, policymakers, and the public are crucial to ensure the safe and ethical application of this powerful technology.

The journey of rDNA technology is a testament to human ingenuity and its potential to reshape our world. From decoding the secrets of life to creating solutions for healthcare, agriculture, and beyond, rDNA technology continues to evolve, promising a future filled with exciting possibilities.

[the-determined-sparks-au]

Change is coming, praise the coming sparks, welcome them into your hearts yet take heed for you may burn when confronted by their flames

In Gatali, siblings Ardere and Fuligo have lived in the ruins all their lives, but both have felt their dreams pulling them towards the Strath, the places where the Kingdoms live. The occupants, that many in the Ruins hated due to the War between the neighbors. But soon those pulls became too strong and soon both them deep into many things, danger and turmoil around many corners.

Fumo had a good life in her honest option even if she didn't feel satisfied or whole. But then one day, a cat by the name of Locustpaw, who boasted stories of his heroism and bravery, a life that she had only lived in her dreams.

Sasha feels alone, after her twoleg had stop moving she had no choice but to leave the only place she called home. Though she didn't make it far until she was snatched up by this group that calls themselves The Sun Swallower, who are trying to strip everything that makes her, her dreams that promise her a better life makes her steel her heart to try and find a way to escape.

These four cats, in ways different from each other, will answer the call, the pull. They will embrace their new homes, learning from them, gaining new friends and families, challenges from all sides, from bullies, harsh weather and even death. ~~~~~ Drawing massive inspiration from many other fanworks such as @strelles-universe, @cats-of-eden-valley, @oldfacesnewdawnoffical, @shatteredpaths, @aiilurociide, @bonefall and the @the-world-of-ignavus alongside with works such as Guardians of Gahoole, Puss in Boots, Bioshock, Cult of the Lamb, this is the Determined Sparks Au… a kinda fix it fic kinda not of the first arc of Warriors. This Au takes place in a post apocalyspe world where thanks to the humans, dogs, cats, and rats have been mutated due to gene splicing. Humans still exist, but they too have been mutated, gene splicing their own dna, but they are not the main focus. I'm not going to erase all the bad stuff that warriors cats did but I hope that I can acknowledge it in a better narrative. Thank you all for the mention above for giving me so much inspirataion and I hope you all enjoy when I finally get this stuff written down.

Gods of Gatali

FAQ

[battleangel]

PLANNED PURGES & PLANE CRASHES

FOUR PLANE CRASHES IN FIVE DAYS!

ALL BOEING PLANES!

WAKE THE FUCK UP!

FOG FILLED SKIES MAKING PEOPLE SICK ALL OVER THE WORLD — EXACTLY LIKE THE SMOKE FILLED SKIES BLAMED ON THE “CANADIAN WILDFIRES” EARLIER THIS YEAR OVER THE SUMMER!

WAKE THE FUCK UP!

ONGOING GENOCIDE IN PALESTINE PERPETRATED 200K DEAD CIVILIANS BRUTALLY MURDERED BY ISRAEL FUNDED BY & WEAPONS PROVIDED BY THE UNITED STATES — TRUMP WON & HE TOLD NETANYAHU TO FINISH THE JOB — US TROOPS HAVE ALREADY ARRIVED IN ISRAEL. 

WAKE THE FUCK UP!

ONGOING WAR OF ATTRITION WITH EXTREMELY HEAVY LOSSES & CASUALTIES BETWEEN UKRAINE & RUSSIA — NORTH KOREA HAS ALREADY SENT TROOPS TO RUSSIA.

WHAT WAKES YOU UP?

DOES ANYTHING WAKE YOU UP?

Starseeds awaken!

Starseeds activate!

Crystal Children! 💎💎💎

💎Were you born in the 1980s like me & Youneekk?💎

YOU WERE SENT HERE FOR THIS PARTICULAR MOMENT IN TIME & IN HISTORY!

A hard reset & planned purges are about to happen!

Star children!

Light beings!

Remember who you are!

Open your third eye!

Awaken!

Self actualize!

Remember who you were for an eternity on the astral & etheric planes BEFORE your VERY temporary manifestation as a human!

You are a limitless energetic eternal being!

You are wearing a human suit!

We need all starseeds, star children, CRYSTAL CHILDREN BORN IN THE 1980s, light beings & indigo children!

Induce your ego death!

Have your third eye realization & awakening!

Self actualize!

Self ascend! Then receive your transmissions & accept your mission as a starseed, starchild, CRYSTAL CHILD, indigo child & light being!

WE MUST COUNTER THE ENERGY OF THE DARK EMPATHS THAT CONTROL OUR CURRENT 3D PHYSICAL REALM!

WE MUST COUNTER THE DARK WITH THE LIGHT!

WE MUST AWAKEN AS EMPATHS!

WE MUST RECEIVE THEN SEND OUR TRANSMISSIONS!

RECEIVE YOUR DOWNLOADS FROM THE AKASHIC LIBRARY!

EYES WIDE OPEN!

Eyes wide open. 

There is a VERY hard reset coming as 80% of all current jobs in the next 3 to 5 years will be replaced by AI, robotics & automation. 

The earth will also be uninhabitable by 2100 so global elites are preparing to colonize a local planet in our solar system. 

Only fellow wealthy humans will be allowed to come. 

Everyone else — billions upon billions — will perish on earth as they wont be able to afford the extremely exorbitant prices to go to the planet being colonized.

Since they know most jobs will be gone soon, most humans will die within 75 years when the planet becomes uninhabitable & the elites leave earth to colonize a local planet in our solar system and earth itself is going to perish — 

There are going to be MANY PLANNED purging & culling events by the global elite (world leaders, heads of state, military leaders, celebrities, billionaires, CEOs, founders, investors, entertainment corporate & tech industry elites & insiders) — in order to prepare for the majority of humanity and planet earth to perish within 75 years — within one lifetime — 

It is happening that soon!

Wake your ass the fuck up!

There will be PLANNED & SCRIPTED purging & culling events to thin humanitys population over the next 75 years.

The elites will also formally introduce UFOs to the public although they have been with us for hundreds & thousands of years as the elites have made their deals with aliens in exchange for alien weaponry & technology which includes technology like alien human hybridization, gene splicing, cloning, etc. 

Purging & culling events PLANNED & SCRIPTED by global elites include fires, mass shootings, plane crashes, terrorist attacks, World War III, viruses created in labs & unleashed upon the public, poisoning the public food supply, fatal toxins in herbicides fungicides & pesticides, contaminating local water supply, false flag events that turn real complete with paid actors as well as hand picked psychotic individuals provided with high capacity guns, etc.

HAVE YOUR EYES — & YOUR THIRD EYE — ALL THE WAY FUCKING OPEN!

WAKE THE FUCK UP!

WE ARE NEEDED!

WE WERE SENT TO THE PHYSICAL 3D EARTH REALM IN THIS PARTICULAR TIMELINE TO MEET THIS PARTICULAR EXACT MOMENT!

THE DARK EMPATHS RULE OUR CURRENT 3D REALM!

THEY ARE REPTILIAN!

THEY ARE ALIGNED WITH THE DARK ENTITIES THAT INHABIT THE CENTER OF OUR EARTH WHO PLACED A GRID ON OUR PLANET SEVERAL MILLENNIA AGO TO STOP OUR PLANET FROM ASCENDING TO A HIGHER LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS!

THE GRID KEEPS US STUCK IN DOG EAT DOG HYPERCOMPETITIVE HYPERCAPITALISM KILLING RAPES ASSAULTS EXPLOITATION RACISM FALSE DIVISIONS FALSE AGENDAS MISINFORMATION HATE CAMPAIGNS TRIBALISM TRANSPHOBIA MISOGYNY WHITE SUPREMACY WARS VIOLENCE SUBJUGATION GENOCIDES ETHNIC CLEANSINGS!

IN THE ASTRAL & ETHERIC PLANES, THERE ARE NO DIVISIONS! 

WE ARE ALL ONE CONSCIOUSNESS!

ALL BEINGS  — ASCENDED BEINGS ELEVARED SELVES CONSCIOUSNESS UNICORNS ANGELS WHALES ELVES DOPLHINS FAIRIES WITCHES WARLOCKS SIRENS MERMAIDS MAGES WIZARDS DRAGONS BUTTERFLIES — ARE ONE CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE ASTRAL & ETHERIC PLANES!

We are in the upside down! 

THERE ARE VERY DARK REALMS — EVEN LOWER & DARKER THAN OUR CURRENT 3D REALM — & THAT IS WHERE THE DARK ENTITIES WHO CONTROL THINGS IN OUR EARTHLY PHYSICAL REALM PAY THEIR KARMIC CONSEQUENCES FOR AN ETERNITY & IT IS WHERE OTHER EXTREMELY DARK ENTITIES, DARK EMPATHS, MALIGNANT NARCISSISTS, TOXIC ABUSERS, VERY DARK ENERGY BEINGS POPULATE THESE REALMS — ENERGY VAMPIRES & DARK EMPATHS…

WE MUST DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO AWAKEN HUMANITYS CONSCIOUSNESS ON A MASS LEVEL SO THE PLANET CAN ASCEND!

!!!!!!!!!!!SO THE AGE OF AQUARIUS CAN BEGIN!!!!!!!!!!!!

SO THE GRID CAN BE REMOVED FROM OUR PLANET!

As Youneekk said, No more children dying. The Little Bible (2017). The end of war.

Four plane crashes in the past five fucking days!

Three plane crashes within 24 hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All Boeing planes…

They are setting up for their big end game with many smaller end games along the way.

They have sufficiently numbed the populace.

Everything with the extreme weather changes, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, back to back freeze then fire warnings, 80 degree weather halloween weekend, 60 degree weather the week of christmas, 40+ degree weather changes within 1 day, the “canadian wildfires”.

👁️EYEs wide open👁️

Nearly 60 fucking degrees today less than a week after Christmas in New Jersey.

Its a nearly 60 degree high today — ONE WEEK later — next Monday, the high is THIRTY ONE DEGREES, the low is TWENTY TWO DEGREES & its fucking SNOWING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

From a DISGUSTING high of nearly SIXTY FUCKING DEGREES today at the end of fucking December a fucking day before New Years Eve — to ONE FUCKING WEEK LATER — a high nearly CUT IN HALF of THIRTY ONE DEGREES and its fucking snowing.

From 60 degree weather at the end of fucking DECEMBER to fucking SNOW in ONE FUCKING WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hurricane Helene dumped an UNPRECEDENTED 40 TRILLION GALLONS of water earlier this year.

Hundreds of people were BURIED ALIVE IN MUD!

ENTIRE TOWNS WERE WASHED AWAY!

DEAD BODIES WERE LITERALLY STUCK IN TREES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Back to my Amazon Prime order…

Does anything wake you up?

200k plus dead Palestinian civilians murdered by the Israeli & AmeriKKKan Regime in a little over a fucking year!!!!!!!!!!!!

Civilians buried alive in mass graves!

Civilians burned alive & incinerated in tents! 

Journalists murdered & burned alive in their sleep! 

1 year old infants with bullets lodged & buried in the base of their skull! 

Children, infants & women with perfectly aimed sniper kill shots to the head, heart & stomach!

Tens of thousands of Palestinian children missing trafficked into sex trafficking rings!

Infants dying from heart attacks due to relentless Israeli bombing!

Infants in single digit temperatures freezing to death in tents without electricity, heat & many do not even have blankets.

Millions of Palestinians enduring a forced famine & starvation campaign due to Israel purposely disrupting their internal local food supplies, burning their olive trees, destroying their farms & disallowing food aid trucks filled with life saving food to cross Egypts border into Palestine.

Elderly men handcuffed & ran over by IOF tanks!

Disabled men buried alive in mass graves!

Innocent Palestinian civilians — as young as 12 — being indefinitely detained, beaten, assaulted, raped to death, starved & tortured at IOF detention centers!

Kamal Adwan hospital — like Al Shifa hospital a few months ago — was besieged by Israel, surrounded, bombed, fired upon, food medical supplies & water were cut off for 75 fucking days!

The doctors & Director were then ordered to leave by the IOF & they all bravely & courageously refused to abandon their patients!

Then the IOF late last week stormed Kamal Adwan hospital, forced all the patients even the critically ill & injured & ones on life support to vacate the hospital & they were advised they would be forcibly transported by ambulance to another hospital — without oxygen masks, nebulizers, ventilators etc. which patients were not allowed to bring with them so many of the critically ill patients forced to evacuate Kamal Adwan hospital will not survive the trip to the next hospital.

Just like Al Shifa hospital a few months ago, the doctors at Kamal Adwan were then rounded up & forced to march out of the hospital with their hands in the air. 

There is no confirmation yet on their fate however with Al Shifa hospital, the doctors were detained, arrested, beaten, abused, tortured then some were killed & the rest were released. 

A similar fate tragically & terrifyingly awaits the brave & courageous Kamal Adwan doctors who refused to abandon their patients.

The director of Kamal Adwan hospital, Dr. Safieh, was arrested by the IOF. Very recently, when Dr. Safieh refused to leave the hospital & abandon his patients, the IOF murdered his son — also a doctor — in front of Dr. Safieh at the entrance of the hospital. Dr. Safieh was brought to Sde Teiman detention center which is an infamous hellhole known for literally raping Palestinian civilians to death, brutally torturing them, beating them & humiliating them. Reports from inside the prison confirm that Dr. Safieh has already been stripped naked, humiliated & brutally whipped.

Given the IOFs genocidal maniacal homicidal track record — over 100+ fucking years — of killing innocent Palestinian civilians with complete & total impunity with US supplied funding, weapons & endless “moral” backing & support — while the US also disgustingly threatens sanctions against any countries like Spain & international governance bodies like the ICC & ICJ that dare to actually speak out against Israel & the United States for these utter & complete abominable human atrocities & despicably inhuman & inhumane disgusting depredations in this absolute genocidal holocaust.

STARSEEDS!

STAR CHILDREN!

CRYSTAL CHILDREN BORN IN THE 1980s LIKE ME & YOUNEEKK!

INDIGO CHILDREN!

LIGHT BEINGS!

YOU NEED TO AWAKEN, ACTUALIZE, ASCEND & RECEIVE YOUR TRANSMISSIONS & ACCEPT YOUR MISSION!

WE MUST DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO COUNTER THE DARK EMPATHS & DARK ENTITIES HIDEOUS LIES, ATROCITIES, FILTH, DEPREDATIONS, DEGRADATIONS, LIES, FETISHES, FIXATIONS, OBSESSIONS, CHILD RAPES, SEX TRAFFICKING, RITUAL SACRIFICES, HUMAN SACRIFICES, ORGY RITUALS, RAPE RITUALS, HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION, ALIEN HUMAN HYBRIDS, GENE SPLICING, CLONES…

They are gearing up for World War III next year with Trump back in the White House.

WW III

Ukraine + United States & UK

VS

Russia + China & North Korea

WW III

Israel + United States & UK

VS

Palestine + Lebanon & Syria & Yemen & Iran & Iraq

There are already US troops in Israel!

There are already North Korean troops in the Ukraine!

THIS HAS HAPPENED TOO MANY TIMES ALREADY — WARS ARE ALWAYS FOUGHT TO FURTHER SERVE ENRICH EXPAND LAND & EXPLOIT RESOURCES FOR GLOBAL ELITES —

— BUT THE WARS ARE NEVER EVER FOUGHT BY THEM — 

— WARS ARE ALWAYS FOUGHT BY THOSE DEEMED EXPENDABLE — POOR IMPOVERISHED EXPLOITABLE BLACK BROWN FOOLHARDY BRAINWASHED DRANK THE PATRIOTIC KOOL AID WANT TO BE A HERO WANT FREE COLLEGE WANT FREE HEALTH INSURANCE WANT A FREE DOWN PAYMENT ON HOUSE WANT 5% INTEREST RATE ON A FHA MORTGAGE LOAN WANT TO BE THANKED FOR THEIR SERVICE BELIEVE THE LIE LAWRENCE OF ARABIA WANDERLUST ADVENTURE SWASHBUCKLING ERROL FLYNN SEE THE WORLD — 

— TRAUMATIZED HAZED BULLIED BROKEN BEATEN ASSAULTED PSYCHOLOGICALLY TORTURED DRUGGED SLEEP & SENSORY DEPRIVATION TORTURED EXPERIMENTED ON CANNON FODDER SAUSAGE FOR THE SAUSAGE FACTORY NIGHTMARES PTSD RAPES SEXUAL ABUSE KILLING CIVILIANS SLEEP DEMONS SLEEP PARALYSIS NEVER THE SAME INSOMNIA PANIC ATTACKS DRUGS ADDICTIONS OPIOIDS ADDERALL PSYCHOSIS FLASHBACKS VISIONS HALLUCINATIONS SCREAMS TERROR FLOWN HOME IN A CASKET FOLDED FLAGS PRESENTED TO BROKEN MOTHERS... 

DARK EMPATHS CONTROLLED BY THE DARK ENTITIES THAT ARE MILLENNIA OLD THAT INHABIT THE CENTER OF THE EARTH & CONTROL OUR POLITICS, WARS, GLOBAL ECONOMIES & ENSURE THAT HUMANITYS CONSCIOUSNESS NEVER RISES ABOVE 3D & THAT HUMANITY ON A MASS LEVEL NEVER ASCENDS THEIR MASS CONSCIOUSNESS BECAUSE IF THAT HAPPENS THE MILLENNIA OLD GRID IS REMOVED & THE PLANET WILL THEN ASCEND ITS PLANETARY CONSCIOUSNESS FROM 3D TO 10D WHICH IS THE ASTRAL & ETHERIC LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS VS THE 3D PHYSICAL REALM.

AWAKEN, ACTUALIZE, ASCEND, RECEIVE YOUR TRANSMISSIONS , ACCEPT YOUR MISSION & SPREAD YOUR LIGHT YOUR ENERGY YOUR VISIONS YOUR DREAMS YOUR PSYCHIC ENERGY YOUR AKASHIC DOWNLOADS YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN!

The planned purges & culls have already begun!

[gallifreyinstituteforlearning]

War Form, Inf-Regen and Weremoths. Why did they not crop up during the Last Great Time War but do during the War? Also what interesting biology facts about them can you tell us?

What are Regen-Infs, Weurmoths, and War Forms?

🔫 Regen-Inf: These are biologically altered soldiers of lesser species, designed to serve in the War in Heaven. They're armed with built-in weaponry and have the ability to regenerate. Their mental makeup is also altered for war-readiness, complete with time-awareness and self-destruct protocols.

🐘 Weurmoths: Weurmoths are specialised Regen-Inf, engineered to act as field carriers for other troops. Picture a humanoid the size of an elephant that went to military school and got decked out with heavy artillery. That's a Weurmoth for you. They're big, they're loaded, but they're also unwieldy due to some laws of physics they can't ignore.

👾 War Forms: War Forms are the stuff of nightmares, engineered to look like monsters. They represent the far edge of Gallifreyan military adaptations, offering both terror and functionality in one monstrous package.

Why didn't Regen-Infs, Weurmoths, and War Forms appear in the Last Great Time War?

Well, it's anyone's guess, but here are some ideas:

Theory 1 - Ethical and Temporal Constraints: Maybe the Time Lords had moral and temporal reservations, leading them to sideline these war assets.

Theory 2 - Resource Allocation: Creating these bio-engineered warriors might have been like constructing a Rolls-Royce for every soldier - impressive but impractical and far too resource-intensive for a war that was already draining Gallifrey's reserves.

Theory 3 - Strategic Focus: The Last Great Time War possibly focused more on tried-and-true tactics at times. Perhaps the Time Lords were too busy using the old playbook.

Theory 4 - High Risks: The self-destructive and highly unstable nature of these beings could have been considered too risky to deploy in a war of such high stakes.

What are some interesting biology facts about Regen-Infs, Weurmoths, and War Forms?

🔫 Regen-Infs

High-Tech Scar Tissue: The 'scar tissue' is an organic blend of biological matter and technology. Maybe they have cells that function like nanobots + nanogenes combined, repairing and upgrading armour in real-time during combat, so every time it's hit, it grows back stronger and instantly.

Dimensional Brain Structures: Their brains are altered to have a level of 'dimensional extrusion,' enabling them to perceive time differently, an invaluable asset in war. This is likely to be a neural network that can process multiple timelines, just like Gallifreyans.

Biochemical Self-Destruct: Should a Regen-Inf soldier find themselves in a compromising position, their bio-engineered physiology can enact a self-destruct sequence. This is likely controlled by a biochemical trigger that induces an instantaneous catastrophic cellular breakdown.

Genetic Splicing: In some cases, the genes from these soldiers can interact with other species, as evidenced by Timon, born to a Regen-Inf and a human. This would involve a sort of gene editing on the fly, causing some … unexpected results.

🐘 Weurmoths

Size vs. Stability: Due to their enormous size, they likely possess specialised skeletal and muscular systems to support their mass. This could involve a lattice structure of incredibly dense but lightweight material, bio-engineered for maximum efficiency.

Firepower and Energy Consumption: Housing the firepower of a battalion means that their cells are likely akin to miniature reactors capable of generating immense amounts of energy. Their metabolism would need to be highly efficient, possibly extracting energy from unconventional sources.

Physical Instability: Maintaining bodily functions and actual movement at such a large size becomes increasingly unstable. They might have multiple redundant systems to manage this, including 'backup' organs and decentralised neural networks.

👾 War Forms

Adaptive Physiology: Their bodies could possess some sort of 'adaptive biology,' where their cellular structure can morph in real-time to counter threats. Think of it as an immune system on steroids, capable of changing the physical attributes of the entity to best handle the immediate threat.

Monstrous Design: The 'monstrous' appearance is not just for show; each aspect of their form could be engineered for a specific function. Spines might serve as both armour and weapon, while multiple limbs could offer greater dexterity and manoeuvrability.

Neurological Networks: Given that they are indistinguishable from monsters, their brain structure might be an intricate mesh of networks capable of running multiple operations at the same time. It's feasible that they could operate autonomously or in a hive-mind setting for coordinated attacks.

Genetic Backdoors: It would be reasonable to assume that they contain 'genetic backdoors,' allowing them to be controlled or disabled if they ever go off-script.

🏫 So ...

The biology of these war-time entities isn't just about splicing genes or grafting weapons onto flesh. It's about crafting organisms specifically designed for the horrors and complexities of multi-dimensional warfare. It's about crossing lines that are not just ethical, but also biological and even temporal, to create entities that are truly abominations of science.

On a lighter note, have a banana.

Related:

Is there any prejudice towards individuals stuck in war forms, during and after the war?: Perceptions of genetic alterations during and post-Time War.

Factoid: Could post-War Time Lords have biological hangups from the conflict?

Hope that helped! 😃

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[thefalloutwiki]

Fallout: The Roleplaying Game: Deathclaw

“Created through the genetic engineering and gene splicing of the Jackson’s Chameleon, the pre-War U.S. government created these monstrosities to replace soldiers on the battlefield.”

- Deathclaw description, Fallout: The Roleplaying Game

The Fallout 2 Official Strategies & Secrets guide iterates that they are additionally derived from “mixed animal stock.” You can read about Deathclaws and Jackson's Chameleon here:

https://fallout.wiki/wiki/Deathclaw

https://fallout.wiki/wiki/Jackson%27s_Chameleon

[oddlyunaware]

"Where Art Thou?" A LMK Apocalypse AU.

So a few weeks ago, I had the grand idea of making a Fallout/Mad Max-themed AU for Monkie Kid. I don't know why I had this idea, I just did.

After developing it for a while with a friend via RP, I think I have a pretty good idea of how I want it to work. Read the main explanation for the AU below!

How Did The World End?

In the year 2085, World War III had begun.

Nobody exactly remembers how it happened, only that tensions rose and the countries, armed with nuclear weapons from the Cold War, started depleting their stocks by using them on each other.

Many cities and countries were hit, but by this point nuclear defenses had been created- and the damage wasn't as bad as it would have been, say, 60 years ago. People survived, and moved on with the war.

The lack of proper fear and high ground prompted many countries to violate the BWC and create biological weapons to wear down the populations of other countries. "Gene bombs" were created, and dropped on major cities. People fled in fear, spreading the contamination and ultimately dooming the fighting forces of each country. Sadly, humanity itself was also doomed because of this.

Super-soldiers and "tube babies" became common, all created in an effort to turn the tides of the war. The most prominent of these programs was Project NUWA, a super-soldier project that tried to force evolution onto human embryos, and Project LOTUS, which attempted to splice human DNA with that of plant genes and create stronger soldiers.

In a last ditch attempt between America, Russia, and China, they fired three thermonuclear warheads at once, which hit and created a massive explosion- the force and heat of which speeding up the melting of the ice caps and casting most of the world in water. Tsunamis and earthquakes destroyed what was left, and people's DNA was so fucked by the prior gene bombs that humanity had practically gone extinct.

In the year 2100, the old world was gone. A new world, the Wastes of Aurala, began to prosper terribly.

So... What Happened After That?

The gene bombs coupled with the leftover radiation from the thermonuclear warheads left the remnants of humanity... fairly dead. Instead of regular old humans, three new variants emerged:

Demons, Dirt-bloods, and Beasts.

Dirt-bloods were humans who just looked... wrong. Eyes too small, mouths curled up just a bit much, fingers elongated and legs backwards. The uncanny valley was strong with these folks, and they gained the name "dirty blooded" in reference to their irradiated genes.

Demons, on the other hand, were humans whose genomes had copied and mutated to resemble that of animals. They typically had beastly features, and were very clearly inhuman. The type of animal they were depended on the person and the area they grew up in.

(Humans miraculously saved from the genome-scratching were referred to as "pure-bloods", due to their genes being unfiltered with radiation or animal DNA. They were unique, regular humans, different in all the perfect ways they needed to be.)

And then there were Beasts. Beasts were people changed too much, losing themselves and turning into feral monsters. It's recommended that you leave these creatures alone- and if you do see one, put it out of its misery. God knows how long they've had to endure hell.

How Did Society Change?

Society changed greatly- television was a commodity for the dreamers, food was dried and served with little fanfare, and clean water was a precious resource only the hardest workers could find and drink.

Most groups devolved into nomadic tribes, full of those who had a fickle reason to survive, and they typically put trust and "pack mentality" first, reasoning that they survived better if together. Survival became the common instinct of everyone on the world's surface, and the idea of procreation was adamant. Marriage was a forgotten concept, people instead "mating" to preserve their remnant generations.

The animal genes also led to a lot of animalistic contest between finding mates. Many, both men and women and non-binary alike, battled for the affections of another.

(Sexuality and gender remained a fluid thing. Same-sex couples weren't uncommon, and asking for one's pronouns had become a form of greeting in this day and age.)

Children were a protected people. Every mating couple was expected to either bear or raise children, in hopes that the remnants of humanity could continue on. For those that were rendered infertile, they typically parented and doted on others in the form of surrogate families, often growing in size and becoming clans.

The idea of continuing what little was left was important. Even the sickest of the sick deserved to survive, if only to carry on the future for a little while.

Wait, What Happened To The Remaining "Pureblood" Humans?

Well, one day, a bunker full of pure humans was discovered, somehow saved from the bombing and radiation. They had been monks, who agreed to meditate in an underground monastery in defiance of being recruited as soldiers. Upon emerging in a distasteful world, many were quickly killed by raiders and cannibals, jealous that they survived the horrors of the war with little conflict.

One monk was rescued, and word got out that he could be used to save humanity- to fix everyone's genes and turn the world back the way it was. The only issue is that the lab with the required material to conduct such an experiment was in what was left of India, and the bunker they had been discovered in was far up by Northern China. The monk, named Sanzang, was ill equipped to handle a journey there.

So, he found some help in the form of an ex-Project NUWA soldier, codenamed "Wukong".

So What Now?

Well, I'll cover where Monkie Kid's cast fits into this in a later post! for now, feel free to read over this one and make your own ideas and theories! Thanks so much for reading this far!

Detailing the Cast in "Where Art Thou"

[chingizhobbes]

heeeeeeeeeeeeeeey my debut space opera novel is available on kindle unlimited and paperback now! check it out!!!!

Kalaiapi’s job as a post-human space privateer is hard enough. But when the data drive connected to her brain malfunctions, Kalaiapi suddenly finds herself the potential source of exactly the kind of extinction event she is tasked with preventing.

As the Universe, Predatory Omnia, wages a perpetual war of extinction against the progenasi species, Corsairs are the elite, gene-hacked agents tasked with taking the battle to the enemy; Kalaiapi has 600 years of experience doing just that.

But when the data drive spliced into Kalaiapi’s consciousness goes haywire, Kalaiapi fears she may have inadvertently become the source of exactly the kind of species-ending cosmic phenomenon she has spent her whole life trying to stop.

Driven to the edge of the known galaxy while wrestling with a sentience inextricably connected to her own, Kalaiapi discovers a mysterious colony of enslaved bio-automatons and must battle to protect fragile lives from a malevolent planet, warring galactic imperia – and even entropy itself. Against the cold abyss of malevolent nature, what chance does one Corsair have?

[buzzdixonwriter]

Eyewreck [FICTOID]

The SMS Novara slid along the solid surface of the Lakes of Glass. 

Centuries earlier two mighty empires hurled their armies at one another across the trackless Sahara.

Human nature being what it is, things soon escalated.

What once had been sandy impassable desert now became interlinked craters filled with glass.

The ///SMS Novara/// did not look like a conventional ship.  It looked like a giant water-strider bug, only each of its legs ended in thick furry pads of satin.

The satin let the SMS Novara slide across the Lakes of Glass to sub-Sahara Africa, propelled by giant sails spread like wings out the wide.

The crew remained cooped up in the small cabin of the ship, a thick lead floor beneath them to absorb radiation still emitting from the Lakes of Glass.

It took two and twenty days to cross the Lakes of Glass, but at last they reached the fringe of vegetation that marked the beginning of Africa proper.

Once they reached the southernmost portion of the Lakes of Glass, the captain and crew furled their sails then started the mechanism that let the SMS Novara walk further inland.

They came looking for any signs of human life.

Instead, all they found were twisted, burned out cities; skeletal fingers reaching for the sky, unable to escape the grave.

They looked so terrible and tormented and ugly that the crew dubbed them “eyewrecks” and made mystical gestures to ward off any bad luck associated with them.

“Should we turn back?” the crew asked.

“No,” said the captain.  “South.  We must go south.”

Five more days they traveled south.  They came to a point where they knew they could travel no further, that they most conserve what little fuel remained so they could go north, back to the lakes of Glass, and use their sails to take them to the now dead and putrid Mediterranean Sea.

They parked the SMS Novara near one wrecked city. 

“We have two months of food left,” said the captain.  “We’ll wait here a month to see if anyone comes to greet us, then we’ll go back.”

At the next full moon, a guard on deck saw something moving among the nearby trees.

A pride of lions emerged, but not like any specimens the crew of the ///SMS Novara/// knew from their books.  There seemed bigger, darker, more majestic. 

They approached the SMS Novara and sat in a semi-circle facing it.

“They want to speak to you,” the crew told the captain.  He felt frightened but knew he must go down to them.

“Greetings,” he said when he stood face to face with the leader, a magnificent female.

“Greetings in return,” said the leader.

“You speak our language,” said the captain.

“We do many things,” said the leader.

“We come looking for survivors.”

“We survived.”

“So did we,” said the captain.  He quickly recounted how through a fluke his native country of Austria was spared the worst ravages of the great war, how they gradually rebuilt themselves, and how they now came looking for any place on Earth where more humans might dwell.

“There are no humans here,” said the lioness.

“Forgive me, but if there are no humans, how did you learn to speak?”

“There were humans,” said the lioness.

“Once,” her mate commented ironically.

“They’re gone now.”

“Where?”

“Absorbed,” said the lioness, stretching.  “Unlike your country with its protected valleys, all of Africa became tainted by radiation.  The last humans on the continent saw to it that as many native species as they could save received genetic treatment to make them immune to radiation, then they spliced their genes into our ancestors’ to create…us.”

“That…explains the language,” said the captain.  He stood erect, remembering his mission.  “We want to establish relations with you.  Trade, diplomatic, literary.  We want to help you rebuild this world.”

“Thank you, but no,” said the lioness.  “We are content with this world the way it is.  Leave us in peace, but leave us.

“What do you expect us to do?” said the captain.  “We’ve found no intelligent life elsewhere.”

“Not our problem,” yawned the mate.

The lioness gave him a wry look then said to the captain.  “Do whatever you wish, just don’t do it here.  We come to you in peace because you came to us in peace, but now that you know our mind on this matter, you know any return visit will be viewed as aggression.

“We will not have that.”

The captain bowed his head, knowing what the lioness said to be true,

With what it took for the remnant of Austria to build the SMS Novara, he knew they would be no more ships like her.

The sentient lions of Africa would remain safe and secure.

“What did they say?” the crew asked as he reboarded the SMS Novara.

“She bid us good-bye and wished us a pleasant journey back.”

“Back where?” the crew asked.  “Home?  Or hell?”

“Makes no difference,” said the captain, “they’re one and the same.”

 © Buzz Dixon