#InTransitMonsters. Humanity's last best hope, could also destroy it. It all begins with the regretful phrase "Once we were kings..."The start of a #ScienceFiction story recasting Frankenstein and the stories we tell of monsters as something else. A dark look at what could be the last days of humanity... A first draft story of war, regrets and troubled choices.
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Dramatis Personae (In Order of Appearance)
Martin: Aging co-Director of the Pygmalion Program. Tired, Martin is reaching the last of his days- much like humanity around him.
Ghale Putnam: Co-Director of the Pygmalion Program. Had a falling out with her younger sister Miri a decade before. Ghale has avoided the Hecate Project, mostly out of fear of having to deal with Miri.
Charlie: Subject 003 of the first generation of Homo Sapiens Hecate, the end result of the Hecate Project. The first successful progeny of the Hecate Project.
Whiskey: Subject 023 of the first generation of Homo Sapiens Hecate. The twentieth and youngest of the first generation. Charlie's best friend.
Miri Putnam: Head researcher and admin for the Hecate Project. Prefers to not use the title of Doctor, despite having a Ph.D in human genomics.
Hecate: Artificial Intelligence created by Project Hecate for designing the genomes of Homo Sapiens Hecate, per the specifications of Miri Putnam. Often appears as a ancient crone rolling bones.
Nasr al-Muntaqim: Major in the UN forces that have been decimated by repeat theaters with the Enemy. Doubts Project Hecate can even work.
Davyd Samuels Whyte: CEO of the EpicVentures Corporation. Quiet and young, only he and his uncle remain as major shareholders of various Corporations. He has a vested interest in the Hecate Project, although for its success or failure remains uncertain.
Rick Whyte: Davyd's Uncle. He and Davyd are among the few remaining living shareholders of EpicVentures and many other corporations- with so many dead from the War, he and Davyd have consolidated most Corporate in themselves. Rick sees this as a opportunity to squeeze even more from the world, to make as much money from the end of humanity as possible.
Foxtrot: Subject 006 of the first generation of Homo Sapiens Hecate. Redhead. She and Charlie do not get along; is part of a tight trio of friends with Uniform and Kilo.
Uniform:
Kilo:
Moira/Morgan Hobb: Ghale's spouse. Livestream Reporter for Stellar Broadcasting Corporation or the SBC.
Lhyst:
Lexicon
Transiting, Transit: Method of travel invented thirty years prior, that enabled humans to fold space and move objects through space over vast distances instantly.
Dreamspace: Conscious, induced dreamspace. A form of simulated environment taking advantage of the human brain's capacity to dream.
Oneiros: A elaborate form of Dreamspace technology. User can invade and create dreamspaces, along with some supercomputer predictions, of all kinds.
Goetia:
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