WhenTheGunsFallSilent/Humans
GenModified
After the Augument war finished, with the Augmnets losing after a nuclear exchange, there were still many who had been modified, and assisted in the rebuilding of United Earth. When the colony boom of Earth Starfleet occured, often, entire cities of genetically modified people left to form their own colonies. While Earth disavowed them, the formation of the United Federation of Planets in 2162 stopped what would have likely been a war or trade blockade, as they joined the Federation as their own planetary governments.[1]
By 2340, they formed a loose coalition between them, representing a power block pushing for "reasonable, small scale" editing being more permitted, but also abiding by the Federation Parliament directive permitting no more research into more genetic engineering by humanity, which is itself, a result of a condition of Earth letting the colonies loose of it's government.[2] Largely, they lie closer to the galactic core than Earth in the Federation space. Most have a tense relation with humanity, due to long memories of the Augment War, and the occasional terrorist action from the Genetic Liberation Front, and United Earth's consistently suspicious attitude towards them as well as efforts to place itself at the leader of humanity in the Federation. While none of them are as augmented as the Augments, this often does not matter to the average politician or citizen of United Earth.
Nowadays, there are only a few broad categories of Genetically Modified humans:
- Cosmetic Modifications
- Comprising of 60% of genetically modified humanity, these are "optimized" genomes to produce specific appearances, or in some cases, add tails or animal like ears.
- Minor/Major Genenetic Modification Strains
- Comprising about 20-25% of genetically modified humanity, these are often descendants of Augment nationalities who were modified to provide specific tasks under Khan's Destiny Plan. They often have an exception to current laws, in order to allow research into stabilizing the genome and remove some of the crippling defects that shorten their lifespan.[3]
- Transhuman
- Only technically human, these colony worlds form a coalition on the edge of Federation space, are known for only barely cooperating with the Federation laws. These colonies also research into cybernetics, and artificial intelligence. A famous Transhumanist colony world is Omicron Theta.[4]
- The Genetic Liberation Front
- Pro Augment Terrorism; rumoured to be led by an augment pulled out of Cryo Storage. Not much is currently known about this organization.[5]
Footnotes
- ↑ One of the reasons for this was the Andorian and Vissian unease at what Earth was proposing. The Vulcan Council concurred, and only the Tellarites were on the United Earth's side of this, with the Axanarites abstaning from this discussion.
- ↑ In truth, by 2353, they were losing their ability to maintain this ban, as more of the underhanded mechanics they were using in Starfleet came to light due to the war.
- ↑ Even with modern 24th century medicine, they often live only in their eighties, compared to the average life span of near a hundred and twenty.
- ↑ While there was a laissez-faire attitude prior the Cardassian Liberation War, post War shows signs of the Federation Security Bureau gaining additional powers to enforce federation laws.
- ↑ There has been several incidents but as of now, the organization's cell structure has prevented any knowledge of it's leader, except his psuedoname, Ericsson