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 As of recent, I have been reading a lot of dystopian science fiction novels. I read George Orwell’s 1984 before Christmas break, and I just recently finished Aldous Huxley’s tour de force novel Brave New World. While I find dystopian novels to be quite fun to read, I’ve come to realize that they’re also kind of scary because there’s this sense of realism and inevitability about them. When reading Brave New World, I could not only see how our society could become like that one, but how it is becoming like that one. We really do live in a world of instant gratification, where happiness and sensory pleasure is pref

Once upon a time, two men were walking at night down a long country road. As they walked under the light of the moon, they came to a hill which had been washed out by the rain. A cart laid overturned at the base of the hill, and a small old man draped in black robes sat at the bottom. Seeing that the man was old and frail, lacking the strength to pull out his cart on his own, the two men walked down the hill and pulled the cart from where it was embedded in the mud. As the man bowed to thank them, his face transformed into the visage of a skull with eyes that burned like fire. At the opening of his hand, a wicked black scythe appeared. They r

The beating of a wild drum resonates within my skull and rudely scrambles all my thoughts; it shrouds them in obscurity. As I struggle through the light My mind cries out for sweet relief. My vision blurs my world to grey, My ears, with ringing, torment me. The anguish tears apart my mind I surrender myself to gravity. The concrete rushes up to greet my flailing form, then all is dark. I awake in safety’s arms With darkness gently cradling me Keeping sight and hearing still Until my head begins to heal.

Basic Overview: There are two different sub-species of Seytanbalik that exist, one natural (True) species and one genetically modified (Lesser) species. The True Seytanbalik are creatures standing on average 6’0” and weighing on average 170 lbs. They are a strange cross between a reptile, mammal, and fish, with a body structure similar to a primate. They have large, broad chests and long ape-like arms that end in four-fingered clawed hands. Their legs are slightly shorter than their arms and end in prehensile feet which also have claws. The head of a True Seytanbalik is barracuda-shaped, with a long snout lined with razor-sharp

Basic Overview: Mizrians are on average three feet tall, and get no taller than 4 feet. They weigh on average 220 lbs in Earth’s gravity. They come in a wide variety of colors., with black, dark red, white, pale yellow, and grey exoskeletons. These colors separate different tribes from one another, and are attributes of each tribe’s gene pool. The Mizrians have compound eyes like a fly. These eyes come in red, blue, cyan, dark violet, and white. As they are controlled by multiple alleles, these colors vary from Mizrian to Mizrian. Mizrians are covered in hairs as well, which act as feelers (I’ll talk about them more later).

Basic Overview:  The Lumien is a primate creature, resembling that of early hominins. They have an average stature of around 5'3". Firstly, the genetic material used by Lumiens is not DNA, though it is very similar. Lumien DNA has a very similar scaffolding structure to DNA, but has six nucleotides instead of four, causing much more variation in coding. It is organized in a chromosomal structure, like Earth DNA, but functions in a triple-helix form instead of a double helix. This mechanism keeps what is known as a Master Set to every gene. Lumien DNA polymerase latches on to both the 3' end of the DNA and the master set when it codes. The mas

Name: Lumien Consulate Date of Founding: 4300, which was approximately 500 years ago. I don’t know much about your date system. Majority Species: Lumien, though there are also two other lesser slave races that inhabit their planets. Culture: Lumien culture is pretty much in a constant state of flux, with a few core beliefs that have stuck around for a while. They are a very imperialistic people, and since their findings of other races they have prized themselves as the superior race. They are usually pro-military, and like flexing their colonial muscles. Much like Human culture, Lumiens are addicted to mass media. They are constantly