"2014, damn. Yeah, that makes sense." Andyr saying with a short shake of his head and a laugh. He's yet to meet anyone here from his own era, and while there's certainly different universes to account for, and perhaps not all of them will come out to the future he's in, Andyr's learned that hope is a cruel thing.
"New Orleans, The South, Earth, 3451 A.D." 'The South', because the USA is no longer one, larger nation. A civil war split it into four territories, rather uncreatively named, plus Alaska, which no normal human wants, unlivable with how crippled the human genome has become. Which leads him to the next question. "Human biology's on the decline. Illness and organ failure, weak immune systems, not durable enough for global climate shifts and all that shit. It's just not keeping up anymore."
Not on the sense of the majority. All those not possessing the Kerns-Norman gene, which came as a sort of natural miracle to human biology. Rapid, free mutation to build the body up to something hardy and resilient. Why people like Andyr are so durable, with advantages like strength or immune system fortitude. Cellular regeneration, tissue density, odd augmentations here and there that offshoot from a gene still in it's early stages, like the discoloration to his irises. Had it just been left alone to propagate into the population, in a century or so, there'd be little left to worry about, once the weaker generations passed on. But humanity isn't that kind, patient, or selfless.
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"New Orleans, The South, Earth, 3451 A.D." 'The South', because the USA is no longer one, larger nation. A civil war split it into four territories, rather uncreatively named, plus Alaska, which no normal human wants, unlivable with how crippled the human genome has become. Which leads him to the next question. "Human biology's on the decline. Illness and organ failure, weak immune systems, not durable enough for global climate shifts and all that shit. It's just not keeping up anymore."
Not on the sense of the majority. All those not possessing the Kerns-Norman gene, which came as a sort of natural miracle to human biology. Rapid, free mutation to build the body up to something hardy and resilient. Why people like Andyr are so durable, with advantages like strength or immune system fortitude. Cellular regeneration, tissue density, odd augmentations here and there that offshoot from a gene still in it's early stages, like the discoloration to his irises. Had it just been left alone to propagate into the population, in a century or so, there'd be little left to worry about, once the weaker generations passed on. But humanity isn't that kind, patient, or selfless.