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Changes.
There wasn’t a darn thing, they didn’t somehow, contrive to change! Oh it started off, innocently enough. The means to end starvation? Feed the world. An opportunity for those who had profited previously to capitalise again.
Patents, licences to produce the crops. "No licence, no crop. You have to buy the seed, the special fertilizer and other, what they deemed essential and compulsory purchases under the terms of the contracts. "From us. Only us."
Strict controls and monitoring of crops, NOT to ensure Genetically Modified foods got out of control but were kept in control and to that end, they built in sterility to the seed. One crop and that was it.
In the end the governments backed down and instigated organic programs aimed at creating home grown crops allowing the people to select their option on seeds? The people it seemed had won? Until the population grew and grew to the levels where the Scieste’s were hailed as heroes delivering solutions to the hunger. They mutated the seeds to produce massive crops. Triple the normal amounts.
Crops appeared on store shelves, same size, harder skins, toughened resistance to pests and disease. All the same size, bananas thicker, longer, straight. New fruits formed from genetically modified trees, fruit bushes. You could buy, crops of anything, out of season.
So you ask, what was a season on Earth ? Well the year, was split into four of them. Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn (or fall). Before crop genetics, you bought things through the year as was, you know what I mean ? No of course you don’t do you? Well take the humble ‘potato’ you had that as a NEW potato in the spring , it was full of flavor and could be eaten, with the skin on, boiled in water, not so much these days because water is an expensive commodity!
But I digress, as the potato headed towards summer its skin started to age, if kept in the right conditions out of the light and cool it would be ok to eat but the skin would be much tougher? Sure you could peel it, boil it and mash it, or you could leave the skin on and ‘bake’ it in an oven to crisp up the skin which was often the case until the problems with the soil contamination scares back some forty years ago ? That caused people to think twice about leaving the skins on.
Geneticists had wanted, for a long time, to meddle with food. An ideal opportunity to experiment, create the perfect crop, cure the hunger issues and help improve the harvests? It pushed them ever more, towards their autocratic controls, until finally, GM foods were more than common place. It was not widely accepted, by the more concerned environmentalists.
Prepacked, precooked, reheat or rehydrate to consume; goods that encompassed full meals, to snacks. Shove it in the micro unit and eat. But the concentrated vitamin and food pills were gaining popularity. Especially amongst the affluent who were too busy to stop and eat a full meal.
Some could contain additives that were the equivalent of Cocaine or Ecstacy and or Cannabis enhanced.
What you have to understand that food is at the core of the populace. Control the food supplies and you control the bulk of the people. Governments, politicians, military. All of the things that offer you the power, the control, the ability to dominate. Throw in some exclusive luxuries only made so by restriction WHO could have them and you gain even more power.
You can by pass normal rules and protocols to get the certification to do this, or that at will. Untouchable. BUT Geneticists also concerned themselves in other aspects of life.
Change the sex of your child, the color of its eyes, skin pigmentation. Experiments on animals. cloning, regenerates with strength, the ability to take orders, to replace military personnel. To enforce the growing power of the geneticists to levels they had never dreamed of.
It can be said that some were responsible for their actions. Caring, attentive and concerned. Others were not. Out to capiltise on every opportunity thrown their way. Wealth, power, influence. Terrible, terrible wars with biochemical weapons. Clone armies. Starvation, disease until your enemy capitulated. No mercy. Enslaved.
Their attempts at giving those who wanted total subjugation of the lower classes? It was a worm.
They had altered its DNA construct. Placed into the blood stream by an innocuous injection, for the health and wellbeing of the host, so it was maintained.
It produced a sub neural toxin that subdued all of the normal emotions to do with will and that included opposition, free thought. Needed little to keep the thing active except the host being fed, watered and kept in reasonably good health.
You could expect a good thirty years or so from adolescence until the parasite took over the brain completely. Unfortunately, dying shortly after. The host became vegetative, loss of motor functions. unable to move, incapacitated, brain dead.
The bodies collected, incinerated. Ah yes it was a time of peace. No rebellion, no insurrection or discord. The select few enjoying the bounty of others blood, sweat and tears.
But even amongst them? They grew greedy for more power. Boredom bred a hunger for what lay beyond Earth. All that the Sciestes had laid before them of planets similar to our own, few and far between BUT?
Then the worm turned. Something was to happen that would see it, killed off by a mystery virus. Those who were normally complacent, docile? Turning on their masters, slaughtering them. Earth became once again, a place of wars, of disease, starvation, famine.
Those who had thought about escaping, seized upon the means to venture into worlds beyond, that offered them the respite to be free of this nightmare.
New technologies that allowed them to build craft that could take out into space had long been available including the subjugated labor forces to do so.
They had craft, the means. All that was needed were those brave enough to take on the challenge.
The new world order came about overnight. Rebellion against those who had used the worm, those who had profited at the expense of the people. At the core of their discontent. Certain geneticists who they classed as the harbingers of this evil. Arrests on a scale hitherto unknown.
Seizure of mounting evidence against them. On the spot executions.
In the beginning when all this had begun?
Hesat. A multi billion enterprise that had geneticists involved in projects that were revealed when their laboratories were stormed. Mutations that made several of those present looking on physically sick.
They had never seen such acts of perversion, of evil. Beyond two headed beings, beyond disfigurement. Those who were now wanted for crimes against Humanaity.
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