The Future is Hybrids [Jump Start]
Title: The Future is Hybrids
Submitter: Adam Berry
Genre: Sci-Fi
Time Period: 2620 AD
Conflict: Hybrids rule the world and enslave normal humans
Protagonist Race/Species: Cyborg
Antagonist Race/Species: Hybrid human animals
Summary:
In 2045 scientist discovered how to blend the DNA of animals with humans. At first it was only used to give humans a trait that would be needed to keep someone alive; like a lizard’s ability to regrow limbs for someone who lost theirs in an accident. Much like stem cells were controversial around 2000 AD, even though it was beneficial, this blending of animal and human DNA was also very much controversial. Something about not being natural or the way God intended us to be. As time marched on the rising generation were less interested in what “God” wanted and more interested in maximizing this technology. Eventually the blending of DNA became everyday behavior, for the rich. People would often cosmetically add a characteristic of their favorite animal into their DNA, like cat whiskers.
Over a few generations more and more animal DNA was introduced into the human gene pool. Eventually it seemed that these people were more animal than human. Since the merging of the DNA was expensive only the rich, and ultimately powerful, people did it; meaning those who rule were hybrids and those who were ruled were normal full blood humans. This physical divide between the rich and the poor caused another great Civil War. Since the rich were engineered to have more capable and powerful bodies than the poor, this war was bloody and very one sided. That is till the poor found an advantage, cybernetics.
Blending DNA may be expensive, but getting a robotic implant was not. As the war waged on more an more soldiers, and people in general among the poor, started augmenting their abilities with robotics. This change of affairs balanced the war efforts. Now a battle raged to see which type of hybrid would survey; genetic mutation or robotic augmentation.
