Post by johnny on Jul 28, 2008 16:04:47 GMT -5
In a reality alternate to our own, Dr. Rodney Thomas invented a formula that, with just a single drop, would stop the appearance of aging in humans. Eternal youth. Just what everyone in the world wanted. It was a perfect plan, and Dr. Thomas whipped up batch after batch of the stuff to be auctioned off (illegally) to various different medical institutes for the highest amount of money he could possibly get.
The doctor didn't do proper research before auctioning off the formula to drug companies all over the world for an unbelievable amount of money, and when research was finally done on on the medication it was found out that the formula would render humans incapable of reproduction.
In an attempt to get rid of the evidence, Dr. Thomas burned the supply in a large bonfire and headed for the hills with all the money from selling the deadly drug to medical facilities. He hoped to just live a life of solitude, with his cash and anonymity, and never think of what could've happened if the drugs had been distributed throughout the world.
Unfortunately, Dr. Thomas failed in the research department on a second account. He didn't know that the drug was distributable via air just as well as through ingestion, and burning the stuff released it into the atmosphere.
Cases of barrenness slowly cropped up, without explanation to doctors and scientists alike, throughout the world. Generations ended, and no new generations came along to replace them.
Suffice to say, humanity was doomed.
The drug, however, had a strange effect on the animals of the world - some, such as chimpanzees and monkeys, were genetically close enough to humans to be affected in the same way as humans and soon died off as well - but others were simply changed.
Evolved.
Canines were particularly effected by this evolution - they grew abilities unlike anything else seen before, their appearances changed unnaturally, and their intelligence grew to extreme levels. They kept their animal instincts, but along with these instincts evolved what were usually described as "human" tendencies - conscience, humility, empathy, strategy, analysis.
And, most dangerously: ambition.
Some canines were eager to use the new advantage to take over everything round them, to rule over the world like the humans had before them.
These canines were called the "Chaotics." They were hedonistic, wanted little to do with anything unrelated to power, and held little value in the traditions of the past. They desired to be the "new, better humans," with a monetary system, a religion, a government, and army. Some were less sin-based than others, but the basic plan remained the same.
Then, there were those who didn't want to change the things that, they felt, made them them: the "Ancestrals". These felt that past traditions should be kept in place - that their new abilities should be seen as a blessing, but not as a definition for a "new breed." These canines were said to be afraid of change by the Chaotics, and mocked for their down-to-basics beliefs.
Caught in the middle were the Impartials - those who hadn't seen enough evidence from either side to make an educated decision.
The sides were split, and a battle for the future of canine kind - and perhaps the world - began.
The doctor didn't do proper research before auctioning off the formula to drug companies all over the world for an unbelievable amount of money, and when research was finally done on on the medication it was found out that the formula would render humans incapable of reproduction.
In an attempt to get rid of the evidence, Dr. Thomas burned the supply in a large bonfire and headed for the hills with all the money from selling the deadly drug to medical facilities. He hoped to just live a life of solitude, with his cash and anonymity, and never think of what could've happened if the drugs had been distributed throughout the world.
Unfortunately, Dr. Thomas failed in the research department on a second account. He didn't know that the drug was distributable via air just as well as through ingestion, and burning the stuff released it into the atmosphere.
Cases of barrenness slowly cropped up, without explanation to doctors and scientists alike, throughout the world. Generations ended, and no new generations came along to replace them.
Suffice to say, humanity was doomed.
The drug, however, had a strange effect on the animals of the world - some, such as chimpanzees and monkeys, were genetically close enough to humans to be affected in the same way as humans and soon died off as well - but others were simply changed.
Evolved.
Canines were particularly effected by this evolution - they grew abilities unlike anything else seen before, their appearances changed unnaturally, and their intelligence grew to extreme levels. They kept their animal instincts, but along with these instincts evolved what were usually described as "human" tendencies - conscience, humility, empathy, strategy, analysis.
And, most dangerously: ambition.
Some canines were eager to use the new advantage to take over everything round them, to rule over the world like the humans had before them.
These canines were called the "Chaotics." They were hedonistic, wanted little to do with anything unrelated to power, and held little value in the traditions of the past. They desired to be the "new, better humans," with a monetary system, a religion, a government, and army. Some were less sin-based than others, but the basic plan remained the same.
Then, there were those who didn't want to change the things that, they felt, made them them: the "Ancestrals". These felt that past traditions should be kept in place - that their new abilities should be seen as a blessing, but not as a definition for a "new breed." These canines were said to be afraid of change by the Chaotics, and mocked for their down-to-basics beliefs.
Caught in the middle were the Impartials - those who hadn't seen enough evidence from either side to make an educated decision.
The sides were split, and a battle for the future of canine kind - and perhaps the world - began.