Ten numbered moons orbit gas giant Becca. Moons Three, Four, and Ten have been colonized by the usual methods. The colonists of Moons Three, Four, and Ten have recently found reason to celebrate a new era: Year 1 of the New Beginning is pegged to 5943 of the Common Era back on Earth. On Moon Three, Year 1 is associated with the Greening. Hope has returned and the dying trissel colony struggles to recover from its long decline.
Trissels are humans of basic Earth stock, though free of hereditary diseases. Narts and other breeds are genetically engineered, born from templates by way of half-biotic printer-wombs called 'spinsters.' Trissels and narts are wetbrains, in contrast to bugs, shelved souls, and fictoid AI's. Thanks to Luciano Fercho's 21st Century protocols, souls can be copied from one platform to the other, organic to inorganic, and later back from dry to wet. Of all the consequences of PNC technology, the oddest is how Fercho's innovation has perpetuated 21st Century patterns into the future. The 60th Century is less exotic than one might expect. A reborn ancient soul from Earth would recognize the routines of Moon Three life, and marvel that even the language is wonderfully familiar.
Genre: Science Fiction
Trissels are humans of basic Earth stock, though free of hereditary diseases. Narts and other breeds are genetically engineered, born from templates by way of half-biotic printer-wombs called 'spinsters.' Trissels and narts are wetbrains, in contrast to bugs, shelved souls, and fictoid AI's. Thanks to Luciano Fercho's 21st Century protocols, souls can be copied from one platform to the other, organic to inorganic, and later back from dry to wet. Of all the consequences of PNC technology, the oddest is how Fercho's innovation has perpetuated 21st Century patterns into the future. The 60th Century is less exotic than one might expect. A reborn ancient soul from Earth would recognize the routines of Moon Three life, and marvel that even the language is wonderfully familiar.
Genre: Science Fiction
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