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It has been some incredible twist of fate – rather a great act of sweet serendipity, that I am in the position I am in now, at this time in our history. Nature has been most kind to me and my needs, as accidental as we both are. They will now allow me anything. I am to them their greatest hope. I am to them their savior.
JH.
In 2023, in response to increasing government intrusions into privacy through partnership with the Information Industry, the right-wing extremist group, Americans for the Protection of Privacy, was formed. The group misused the growing desire for a return to privacy to advance their real agenda: separation from the Union. In their minds, the government had started becoming socialistic, repressive and too powerful ever since President Barack Obama’s election. Initially joined by only a few extreme members of the Tea Party, within a few years the group’s membership had grown considerably and several wealthy businessmen had also come on board. In 2033, one of these businessmen – actually a businesswoman – the head of LabCor Technologies, proposed that the group had enough support throughout the country – over fifty thousand people by one estimate – to finally secede from the Union and form its own state in the western portion of Wyoming. They would have one primary defense against any Federal intervention: a virus that LabCor had engineered, that was communicable for only three iterations. It could be deployed via mines, rockets and grenades and had only the capability to infect a few people. Once the virus was in the host, it would “germinate”, cause the debilitating symptoms of severe diffuse muscle spasms, tearing and bleeding. Once the virus was exposed to the outside world as it migrated from one host to the other, part of it would be de-activated, so that by the time it reached the third host, it was no longer able to transmit. The virus had been tested on monkeys and it was time to make their move.
The western portion of Wyoming was mostly barren before the APP moved in and created their settlements. With the first wave of the national guard came the first deployment of the virus, known as the MK-54 virus. It was successful from the APP’s perspective: it inflicted casualties upon the enemy while not spreading to the rest of the general American public. After several days of fighting, the government called in the US Air Force, and bombarded the settlements. The APP’s project was finished, and the area was quarantined, the virus extinguished, with only a few samples taken back to CDC laboratories for study.
About six months later a new trend was noticed among medical professionals: a sudden increase in the use of infertility clinics on the West coast. This trend spread within a few months across the country, and doctors and others raised the alarm that their offices were filled with young women who were complaining that they were not being able to conceive. Testing at University Hospitals revealed that their eggs were being penetrated by sperm, but no cellular division was occurring. While scientists scratched their heads, the problem spread across the border to other countries. By 2036 it was estimated that fifty percent of the United States’ women had become sterile in this way. Similar high numbers were being arrived at throughout the world. Populations started declining rapidly, even in developing countries which had previously been notorious for lack of population control.
In 2037 the violence began. People were afraid. Men were afraid for their few fertile women, who were now often sought after by force by other men. The cities became hotbeds for violence and rape, forcing many to move out into rural areas. The U.S. government dispatched its own army throughout the country to keep the order as the police were completely overwhelmed. With the population in rapid decline, the cities emptying out, and the rural areas becoming populated with mini-colonies of small groups of people fending for themselves, the face of the country had completely changed.
Around this time a group of scientists in the North East were able to discover that the cause for all of this was a mutated version of the MK-54 virus, and that if a vaccine and cure could be found to treat this virus, perhaps the sterility could be overturned. However the milestone scientific news was overshadowed by the outpouring of rage among the masses when they realized that they were all suffering because of the misgivings of a group of right-wingers - the now eliminated APP. The masses took out their rage on anyone that had been known to profess, or professed, right-wing views.
Historians dubbed what happened next the Second Civil War. During this time the government poured its resources, time and military power into controlling violence throughout the country. Members of the military were not immune from taking sides, and battalions seceded from government command, turning their guns on the Federals whom they blamed for not keeping all of this in check to begin with.
The United States of America had been turned into a post-apocalyptic war zone. In time, individual states were replaced by multiple Regions, each run by a combination of defected military and prominent political and civilian leadership, each with its own rule of law aimed at preserving its own Region and solving with its own resources the problem of the mutated MK-54 virus, now dubbed the Warwick Factor, named after the scientist who had discovered the mutation as the cause for their declining population.
The largest of these Regions, the Patterson District, which spread across the entire West Coast and included the former states of California, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon and Washington, was the most well developed, and had its own very strict rules. It was an entire Region dedicated solely and completely to one thing: solving the Warwick Factor problem. And Machiavelli would have been proud by how they did so.
The Patterson District had become the home to most of the defected military in the country. For this reason, they had set up an extensively guarded Eastern border, protecting its inhabitants from marauders and troops from other regions from entering. In reality however the well-guarded borders also served to keep its inhabitants in. The governing body of the Patterson District was an amalgamation of military leadership and the upper echelon of the scientific community, mixed with some of the tech giants from Silicon Valley. Between the strength of the military, the brains of the science and the tech of the Valley, a system had been set up to solve the Warwick Factor. Screening would be offered throughout the District for all reproductive age women. Those who tested positive for the Factor would be offered to enter into any number of drug trials being carried out to investigate cures. Those who were negative, wouldn’t. The women who carried the Factor would have a chip implanted via hypodermic needle in the back of the hand for the purpose of the trial.
The District’s government guaranteed military protection for all its women – those who had tested positive and were attending trials, and those who were clean. And to this effect there were military stations and patrols set up throughout the region. Military abuse of women was punishable by death, and so happened rarely.
However the general population started noticing that fewer and fewer women who were tested clean were returning from testing sites. Buzz began about a black market that had developed around these testing sites: some women who had escaped had reported that upon being found clean of the Factor, they were held against their will and auctioned to the highest bidder. Once sold, they were chipped, marked as owned by the bidder, and left to his machinations. As the general fear of these reports spread, more women avoided testing centers. As a response to this, the government of the Patterson District mandated that all women must be tested, and then chipped as clean or positive, with all those who tested positive enrolled in a trial (as documented on their chip) and all clean women, officially, allowed to return to their homes – but chipped to keep track of their Factor status.
The public knew this was a farce, and this created wide-spread panic. Many women went into hiding, and as a result, the military patrols and check points were now used to check every woman they came across, in addition to searching out those who were unchipped.
It was in this milieu, this horrible time for humanity, that a scientist by the name of James Hunter was promoted to Lead Investigator of the scientific community of the Patterson District.
JH.
In 2023, in response to increasing government intrusions into privacy through partnership with the Information Industry, the right-wing extremist group, Americans for the Protection of Privacy, was formed. The group misused the growing desire for a return to privacy to advance their real agenda: separation from the Union. In their minds, the government had started becoming socialistic, repressive and too powerful ever since President Barack Obama’s election. Initially joined by only a few extreme members of the Tea Party, within a few years the group’s membership had grown considerably and several wealthy businessmen had also come on board. In 2033, one of these businessmen – actually a businesswoman – the head of LabCor Technologies, proposed that the group had enough support throughout the country – over fifty thousand people by one estimate – to finally secede from the Union and form its own state in the western portion of Wyoming. They would have one primary defense against any Federal intervention: a virus that LabCor had engineered, that was communicable for only three iterations. It could be deployed via mines, rockets and grenades and had only the capability to infect a few people. Once the virus was in the host, it would “germinate”, cause the debilitating symptoms of severe diffuse muscle spasms, tearing and bleeding. Once the virus was exposed to the outside world as it migrated from one host to the other, part of it would be de-activated, so that by the time it reached the third host, it was no longer able to transmit. The virus had been tested on monkeys and it was time to make their move.
The western portion of Wyoming was mostly barren before the APP moved in and created their settlements. With the first wave of the national guard came the first deployment of the virus, known as the MK-54 virus. It was successful from the APP’s perspective: it inflicted casualties upon the enemy while not spreading to the rest of the general American public. After several days of fighting, the government called in the US Air Force, and bombarded the settlements. The APP’s project was finished, and the area was quarantined, the virus extinguished, with only a few samples taken back to CDC laboratories for study.
About six months later a new trend was noticed among medical professionals: a sudden increase in the use of infertility clinics on the West coast. This trend spread within a few months across the country, and doctors and others raised the alarm that their offices were filled with young women who were complaining that they were not being able to conceive. Testing at University Hospitals revealed that their eggs were being penetrated by sperm, but no cellular division was occurring. While scientists scratched their heads, the problem spread across the border to other countries. By 2036 it was estimated that fifty percent of the United States’ women had become sterile in this way. Similar high numbers were being arrived at throughout the world. Populations started declining rapidly, even in developing countries which had previously been notorious for lack of population control.
In 2037 the violence began. People were afraid. Men were afraid for their few fertile women, who were now often sought after by force by other men. The cities became hotbeds for violence and rape, forcing many to move out into rural areas. The U.S. government dispatched its own army throughout the country to keep the order as the police were completely overwhelmed. With the population in rapid decline, the cities emptying out, and the rural areas becoming populated with mini-colonies of small groups of people fending for themselves, the face of the country had completely changed.
Around this time a group of scientists in the North East were able to discover that the cause for all of this was a mutated version of the MK-54 virus, and that if a vaccine and cure could be found to treat this virus, perhaps the sterility could be overturned. However the milestone scientific news was overshadowed by the outpouring of rage among the masses when they realized that they were all suffering because of the misgivings of a group of right-wingers - the now eliminated APP. The masses took out their rage on anyone that had been known to profess, or professed, right-wing views.
Historians dubbed what happened next the Second Civil War. During this time the government poured its resources, time and military power into controlling violence throughout the country. Members of the military were not immune from taking sides, and battalions seceded from government command, turning their guns on the Federals whom they blamed for not keeping all of this in check to begin with.
The United States of America had been turned into a post-apocalyptic war zone. In time, individual states were replaced by multiple Regions, each run by a combination of defected military and prominent political and civilian leadership, each with its own rule of law aimed at preserving its own Region and solving with its own resources the problem of the mutated MK-54 virus, now dubbed the Warwick Factor, named after the scientist who had discovered the mutation as the cause for their declining population.
The largest of these Regions, the Patterson District, which spread across the entire West Coast and included the former states of California, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon and Washington, was the most well developed, and had its own very strict rules. It was an entire Region dedicated solely and completely to one thing: solving the Warwick Factor problem. And Machiavelli would have been proud by how they did so.
The Patterson District had become the home to most of the defected military in the country. For this reason, they had set up an extensively guarded Eastern border, protecting its inhabitants from marauders and troops from other regions from entering. In reality however the well-guarded borders also served to keep its inhabitants in. The governing body of the Patterson District was an amalgamation of military leadership and the upper echelon of the scientific community, mixed with some of the tech giants from Silicon Valley. Between the strength of the military, the brains of the science and the tech of the Valley, a system had been set up to solve the Warwick Factor. Screening would be offered throughout the District for all reproductive age women. Those who tested positive for the Factor would be offered to enter into any number of drug trials being carried out to investigate cures. Those who were negative, wouldn’t. The women who carried the Factor would have a chip implanted via hypodermic needle in the back of the hand for the purpose of the trial.
The District’s government guaranteed military protection for all its women – those who had tested positive and were attending trials, and those who were clean. And to this effect there were military stations and patrols set up throughout the region. Military abuse of women was punishable by death, and so happened rarely.
However the general population started noticing that fewer and fewer women who were tested clean were returning from testing sites. Buzz began about a black market that had developed around these testing sites: some women who had escaped had reported that upon being found clean of the Factor, they were held against their will and auctioned to the highest bidder. Once sold, they were chipped, marked as owned by the bidder, and left to his machinations. As the general fear of these reports spread, more women avoided testing centers. As a response to this, the government of the Patterson District mandated that all women must be tested, and then chipped as clean or positive, with all those who tested positive enrolled in a trial (as documented on their chip) and all clean women, officially, allowed to return to their homes – but chipped to keep track of their Factor status.
The public knew this was a farce, and this created wide-spread panic. Many women went into hiding, and as a result, the military patrols and check points were now used to check every woman they came across, in addition to searching out those who were unchipped.
It was in this milieu, this horrible time for humanity, that a scientist by the name of James Hunter was promoted to Lead Investigator of the scientific community of the Patterson District.
