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File Available: Logan's Matrix

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Subject: Logan's Matrix

Time Stamp: 10.22.0001AW <Post Nuclear Winter. Approximately 3040AD>

_"Ash. Ash and more ash cover what was once humanity. Ash has many trace elements found within almost every living being. Ironic that the evolutionary wonder child of ash, Homo-Sapiens, built many wondrous things that every living creature on Earth was in awe of. Irony that Homo-Sapiens built the very things that made the ash rain down for thirty five years bringing the bite of a winter only the dinosaurs were privy to feeling. Further Irony that most of our funeral rites are now our opening ceremony chants. . . Ash to Ash, Dust to Dust, Children of Wars, We Turn Eyes to Stars, Ash to Ash, Dust to Dust, Escape Our Floating Coffin, We Must." _

~Geneticist Logan Radgramon

The horror of war was seared upon the minds of Earth's last surviving colonies. World War IV would do that to every living creature on Earth. Nuclear craters pockmark every continent; large swaths of land have sunk bellow the irradiated oceans now full of rotting life. The remaining devastation saturated our lands with enough radioactive isotopes to last more generations than we will see live. Most of mankind regrouped on what was left of the Australian continent; in such a gathering the typical hatred, bigotry, violence, greed and murder that plagued humankind were all stripped from minds and hearts steeped in the severity of war. We were left with nothing but demise, horror, survival and somewhere in the darkness, hope gasped with thread bare life.

Our hope was found in the scientific breakthroughs of mankind that were banned during the Genetic Purge of 2750AD <Pre-WWIV>. Grand Pope Louisten Gredorie proclaimed that any human mutated or augmented from their natural, God given DNA was not of God, but of the Devil. These heathens were to be eradicated from the face of the Earth; the 'Devil's' science be put to the torch and rendered extinct. A new dark age had come from that decree ushering in a regression of mentality. Zealots, lobbyists and politicians backed the Grand Pope. Science faltered, cures for every disease and genetic defect found under the sun were destroyed, health care was set back to the early 20th century, and all genetic progress seemed decimated, almost.

Mankind as a whole was all too familiar with the cycle of societal sects that could destroy achievements sparked from the burning light of short sighted zealots; a growing group of scientists and advocates simply known as the Knights of Aethar, rumored to have formed in1985AD established an underground network of storage facilities around 2030AD <Scientific Renaissance> and called the network of vaults, living quarters and industry, Terra Exodae. It is here, at Terra Exodae, as the nuclear winter blows radioactive ash over the husk of humanity and nature that we found it. What did we find? We had found our hope clutching a double edged sword for our continued survival on this cold world floating in the black void of space; salvation at the hands of mankind playing God with DNA.

Geneticist Logan Radgramon had been working on solving the dilemma of how mankind was to survive in the radioactive waste lands we had created. The answer to this dilemma lay locked in a research program back in 2650AD<Age of Genetic Freedom> that dealt with Mutative Viral DNA. The scope of this breakthrough is beyond a simple archival journalist to properly pen but the main gist was the breakthrough in getting Human DNA to mutate and accept DNA from any creature or plant on Earth. As once explained to us all at a public lecture:

_"To elucidate this subject, Human DNA, with its standard Double Helix is filled with genetic markers like ladder rungs. In this formation it cannot readily accept new genetic markers unless the ladder is split and the markers removed. This happens during mitosis when a fetus is begun in the womb. By using Viral DNA we will be giving our DNA a third Helix strand anchored to spheres of reactive Enzymes that have been stripped from the Small Pox virus and rendered stable. This combination will allow us to create a Matrix of gene markers from different species of animals and plant life to harness their various genetic traits from the Gaia Vault. We can then create and swap out the Matrices and find the right combinations to allow us to take back our Earth. One day it may even allow us to find a new Earth; to find that mythical utopia known as Sliinkaa where all are free and equal." _

~Geneticist Logan Radgramon

There was thunderous applause at the end of his lecture. Current feelings among many of the Exodites express faith being placed heavily in the Gaia Vault as the savior of our species. It is easy to be jaded as an Archivist dealing with facts and not science. When one didn't understand the viability of Crystal Lock Gene Samples or how they have kept us all alive being fed into the industrial sized replicators of Terra Exodae; all of our food and scrubbed air arrived from the network processors from those large machines of wonder. Once Dr. Radgramon gave his lecture, at the mere hint of needing test subjects willing to brave the first waves of test matrices within their bodies, and applauding 5,000 Exodites volunteered. It was a win/win scenario in most of our minds. One side of the coin, if the experiments worked, soon we could start cleaning up Earth or at least find a new way to live on it. The flip side, if the experiments failed, that meant 5,000 less mouths to feed, and 10,000 less lungs to fill with scrubbed air.

We were not prepared for the eighteen years of ghastly experimentation that lurched by with a collective gasp and wheeze from Terra Exodae. The first 5,000 Exodite volunteers witnessed new ways to die or new forms of existence that begged for death. Mankind was never meant to be meshed with the DNA of animals, insects or plants. However, push on the Geneticists did until they had succeeded in reinforcing the human skeleton with strands of carbon similar to carbon fiber in the 21st century of industry. Mixed in mitochondrial pores to allow a human to intake pure carbon dioxide from the environment and convert it to oxygen directly to the lungs and the byproduct of carbon to reinforce the carbon fibers in the skeleton. A human now could hold their breath indefinitely and never die. However tests proved that a human could forget how to breathe and the lungs adhered together from lack of positive pressure keeping the delicate air sacks in the lungs separated and viable. The nervous system was enhanced to allow redundant nerve centers placed among the major organs of the body giving a human a vast network of awareness allowing the mind to function faster and the body to continue to move and work for several days if the head was removed. Who know we'd soon share genetics with the average cockroach.

Year after bloody year, Dr. Radgramon explained why things failed, what things succeeded and as always asked for more willing volunteers. Terra Exodae had started with an overburdened population of 1.5 million survivors of all walks of life and ethnicity. We were now down to just over a million survivors. 100,000 souls braved the experiments, 400,000 more died from either starvation or the needed 'Living Purge' to reduce the strain on the replicators. So many lives were paid to acquire our new salvation, humorously dubbed Logan's Matrix.

DNA rewiring was a live hell and an endless nightmare for any person already born. It was a 50/50 chance when you were shoved into an induced coma that you'd either wake up or never wake up at all. Your body went through a pupae stage like butterflies, remolding, oozing, creaking, breaking and ejecting organic matter as the DNA was rewritten. Logan's Matrix sped up evolution's perfect method like a rabbit on Meth. Logan's Matrix weeded out the sickly, the genetically frail and anyone that wouldn't be compatible with a wide variety of genetics. We now look upon our irradiated Earth, the first time we'd seen the light of the sun in 35 years, as a new species of human; we here Humaran. Ethnic diversity was gone and the hatreds bred from genetic defects and mental retardations had vanished. Upon the white powdered remnants of Earth, 600,000 Humarans spread upon the world in a new hope to reclaim home.

~Jeffery Butel, ex-Human, Humaran, Terra Exodae Archivist, 8th Order of the Word~

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