Re: Enquiry A8992bc8-1114EE

Persecuted, shunned, hunted down like prey. No longer human, no longer living, just a curse to be wiped off the face of this planet, Stradio.

A monstrosity, that’s what they are. Freaks of nature.

This is their story, this is their tale. This is their suffering, this is their pain.

Centuries after humans adapted to our planet’s greater gravitational force, becoming more stout and strong than the original settlers, a genetic monstrosity was born in our country of Jorgan: a human whose weight would normally have meant his death. The baby died, unable to withstand the gravitational pull. But technology came to the aid of the following ones: their bones were artificially strengthened, so were their organs.

These babies, whose numbers seemed to be growing every month afterwards, were far too underweight to be considered normal. Then government-funded research came along and revealed the unthinkable: those of them with long and strong limbs could defy gravity and pull away from the ground. The media nicknamed them “fleaks”, as a mashed-up version of “freak” and “fly”.
The fleaks were hunted down by a large radical “anti-fleak” group (with strong political ties), who considered them to be so non-human that they did not deserve to live, to be given life by technology.

Years passed, and only a fistful of fleaks managed to survive and reach adulthood. By then, if a foetus was identified as a fleak, abortion was not only legal, it was mandatory under punishment of death: the “anti-fleak” group had such a league of followers that the government had been overthrown. Fleaks were not only hunted down by civilians, they were also on the government’s blacklist, considered to be “dangerous aliens” to be “isolated” when caught.

The few fleaks still alive went into hiding, but their exile led to their death, as they could only give birth to fleaks like themselves, and without the scientific community to help them, these babies did not survive.

One day, an army patrol found their hiding place, and saw that all had passed over.

So the government and Jorgani society in general forgot, and turned its attention to other matters, such as creating better machines, at first androids that would be capable of reproducing, thereby creating new machines.

This project has occupied and will occupy the government and the scientific community for many years to come, but we live in a time of peace and serenity, inside (in our home country) and outside (with the other country, Bargam).

The civil war of “normals versus fleaks” is over.

There are rumours, though…

May I ask why you are interested in this story?

 

Émilien Shu’pra
Presidential Archives of Jorgan

 

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