Planet of the Orange-Red Sun Series Volume 10 Guilds, Genetics, and Gods

ISBN-13: 9781941415276 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 530 str.

Vic Broquard

Opis

With the Imperium now taking extreme measures to safeguard this terrible bio genetic agent, new methods were found to steal samples. It began with an interception of a delivery from Aquila Prime Genetics Research Laboratory, acquired by Father Janos of the True Believers, who delivered it to Jan Rumani, was the grandson of the late Bindaz Rumani, founder of Mal Dynamics and a member of the old Consortium and whom Zarita had killed, along with his two compatriots. Jan wanted revenge the rare earths found on the heavily populated planet of Aquila Prime, but that world charged exorbitant prices for this critical component of the engines his vast enterprise built. Now, he had a cheap way to get all the rare earths for next to nothing. The year, 1325. At this time, many research facilities on many worlds now had ongoing research using this bio genetic agent; hence, secure shipments of the agent were routinely made, allowing this recent theft. Jan Rumani duplicated the cylinders, installed them in one of his new drones, and secretly dropped it into orbit around Aquila Prime, becoming the first planetary test of the effectiveness of this bio-genetic weapon. That ten billion people would perish was of no concern to Jan, only that world's rare earths were. The breakthrough genetic modification of arm re-growth was attributed to Doctors Alex and Ruth Hammil, living on Ashford-5. This procedure worked on the victims, but it was expensive, costing ten thousand credits per person. During the past two decades, many of the victims had their arms back, namely the wealthy and the senators, but there were many who couldn't afford the cost. However, no one had any idea how to handle ten billion victims at one time, the whole planet, especially since the only way they could live was in assisted living complexes. By the time that the hasty rescue operation finished, around a hundred thousand survived out of the original ten billion inhabitants of Aquila Prime. Genocide began within the Imperium. Then, four on Proxima Prime executed another bio genetic attack, wiping out nearly all of the two hundred billion people living here, very nearly brining the Imperium to an end Legate Mary Smith, along with Emperor Kino of the Ataro Empire, stepped in to keep the Imperium alive. Ashford-5 accepted a thousand survivors, who were bright Academy students. Thus, in time, Ashford-5 gained a cadre of highly educated, young people. Ancient rivalries among the Big Five worlds rose. Instead of using the bio agent samples to help develop more genetic cures, they chose to make ultimate weapons out of them, a mutual deterrent system. Naturally, they weapons were used, and each of these heavily populated worlds endured four attacks from their enemies. One was sufficient for planet-wide genocide. With so many overcrowded assisted living centers housing these mutants, these freaks, these helpless hermaphrodites, something had to be done. A robotics inventor stepped in and created a group of robots assistants for these people. Subsequently, all worlds shipped off their population of these freaks to their own world, reusing the intact infrastructure of Aquila Prime. While the worlds of the Imperium now forgot all about these victims, Emperor Kino didn't; fearing for their safety, he accepted Aquila Prime as a member world of the Ataro Empire. By 1332, the Imperium bureaucracy was back in operation, but would it actually survive?