Picking up where we last left off...
Day 7: Mandala Anomalies (Navarino Island)
The designs appeared gradually and innocuously enough that they were considered at first to be a sort guerrilla art project, painted on walls and rock faces by punks in the night. That the symbology on display was not actually from Tibetan Buddhism was not remarked upon. This was until they were found carved into stone and concrete in their hundreds, emblazoned on individual leaves, gouged out of the flanks of animals. Then, out of people.
Day 8: Repurposed Soul: Star
As as matter is the cast-off remnants of stars, so to are matters of the spirit. All souls are, while reduced, still star stuff, and still inextricably linked to the canonical spectral types.
Day 9: Calcium Hyperproficiency
The formation of small, bony scutes under the skin is the primary symptom of the condition- these will typically be small enough to retain flexibility and range of movement, and dense enough to provide a decent amount of protection from minor injuries.
Day 10: DNA Forge
Three functioning forges remain - one damaged (in the possession of the World Government), one swiftly deteriorating (controlled by the Demarchist Panoply), and one rampant (currently floating around the mid-south Pacific). Scraps of the five destroyed models resurface on occasion, though not enough has been recovered to successfully reverse-engineer the devices. With the death of their inventor and his team, and the destruction of all documentation during the War, it is unlikely that this state of affairs will change.
Day 11: Amniotic Tank Experiment (2001)
While the initial test run of the technology was a resounding success, the decanting of Dorothy Hill was swiftly overshadowed by World Trade Center attacks less than two weeks later. Subsequent legal challenges to exowomb technology delayed public rollout until 2014. While never officially banned after this point, it has remained a luxury for the ultrarich due to a combination of med-tech patent fuckery and access restrictions placed upon them by Congress in 2017.
Day 12: Radial Symmetry
The body of Homo radiata consists of a fleshy disc containing the internal organs, four limbs evenly spaced, a central mouth, and two large eyes. Due to the positioning of the eyes, they possess a wide range of vision but poor depth perception. The limbs are flexible and possess and expanded range of movement compared to those of bilaterals. Changes to jaw structure make cross-clade communication difficult.
Let's keep this ball rolling.
ReplyDeleteGlorious. The Amniotic Tank Experiment has been further delayed, I assume, due to child labor laws and tax implications. A 'family business' able to mass-produce and raise its own workforce would provide credible competition to big-box giants, who have thus far successfully lobbied against the technology.
ReplyDeleteI would love to hear more about the Mandala Anomalies. I am sure fractals are involved at some point.