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For the Hawthorn Initiative, augmenting a child is a two-stage process. First, the genetic makeup of the embryo is painstakingly gene-fixed: even without further modification, the resulting child would be healthier and more capable than an ordinary person. And secondly, the foetus – raised in an exo womb – is bonded to a nanorobot hive colony. At every stage of development, these tiny machines work tirelessly to reconfigure, modify, augment, and upgrade every part of the child’s physiology during their growth. | For the Hawthorn Initiative, augmenting a child is a two-stage process. First, the genetic makeup of the embryo is painstakingly gene-fixed: even without further modification, the resulting child would be healthier and more capable than an ordinary person. And secondly, the foetus – raised in an exo womb – is bonded to a nanorobot hive colony. At every stage of development, these tiny machines work tirelessly to reconfigure, modify, augment, and upgrade every part of the child’s physiology during their growth. | ||
| − | With the child receiving patches OS updates and upgrades to their hive like other children receive vaccines it rapidly | + | With the child receiving patches, OS updates and upgrades to their hive like other children receive vaccines, it rapidly becomes almost impossible to tell the difference between man and machine: the point where biology ends, and technology begins. The result is a synthesis of the organic and artificial - something that is undoubtedly human, but capable of so much more. |
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| + | After the first generation matured and were either pressed into service as Lancers (if able) or left to chart their own futures, the Hawthorn Initiative compiled the decades of data it had gathered during their maturation. A checklist of factors supposedly resulting in successful candidates was created and used during the creation of the second... | ||
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| + | Unbeknownst to their parents, the newer children would share none of their DNA. Instead, the genetic templates of successful lancers would be used wholesale and/or combined with other successes to create "batches" of identical clones whose data would be further used to refine the process when they too came of age. The child's hive colony would then be used to "sculpt" the children during development to ensure a "family resemblance" - drawing on the look of both parents and their grandparents during this process. | ||
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Return to Terra's Sheet?
Cellular-Cyborgs
For the Hawthorn Initiative, augmenting a child is a two-stage process. First, the genetic makeup of the embryo is painstakingly gene-fixed: even without further modification, the resulting child would be healthier and more capable than an ordinary person. And secondly, the foetus – raised in an exo womb – is bonded to a nanorobot hive colony. At every stage of development, these tiny machines work tirelessly to reconfigure, modify, augment, and upgrade every part of the child’s physiology during their growth.
With the child receiving patches, OS updates and upgrades to their hive like other children receive vaccines, it rapidly becomes almost impossible to tell the difference between man and machine: the point where biology ends, and technology begins. The result is a synthesis of the organic and artificial - something that is undoubtedly human, but capable of so much more.
Second Generation Children
After the first generation matured and were either pressed into service as Lancers (if able) or left to chart their own futures, the Hawthorn Initiative compiled the decades of data it had gathered during their maturation. A checklist of factors supposedly resulting in successful candidates was created and used during the creation of the second...
Unbeknownst to their parents, the newer children would share none of their DNA. Instead, the genetic templates of successful lancers would be used wholesale and/or combined with other successes to create "batches" of identical clones whose data would be further used to refine the process when they too came of age. The child's hive colony would then be used to "sculpt" the children during development to ensure a "family resemblance" - drawing on the look of both parents and their grandparents during this process.
