Orussian Quarantine
By Rob J Meijer
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The Orus system’s Orussians had found a brilliant way to harness the power of labor by engineering ant-monkeys, a hard-working and unswervingly loyal slave species—until the uprising.
Having further manipulated the genes of her own male ant-monkey, Inoatar, and granting him free will, bioscientist Uriëlla has grievously breached the code of conduct. The barbaric penalty for these acts would not only involve her, but her entire clan as well. As a result, she must wrestle with emancipating Inoatar despite desperately needing him.
The uprising, Uriëlla’s actions and their subsequent fallout lead to a struggle of biblical proportions which promises to forever alter Orus civilization.
Rob J Meijer
Rob is a multidisciplinary engineer with a focus on information security, data engineering, applied mathematics, cryptography and software engineering.In 2013 Rob added the writing of short science fiction stories to his already long list of interests that includes nutritional science, anthropology, power lifting and public speaking on geeky subjects.
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Orussian Quarantine - Rob J Meijer
Tales of shrouded history
Orussian Quarantine
Rob J Meijer
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Mixed feelings
Chapter 2: Golden opportunities
Chapter 3: Preparations
Chapter 4: Depths
Chapter 5: Panic
Chapter 6: Paradise
Chapter 7: Omega & Alpha
Chapter 8: Probabilities
Chapter 9: Complications
Chapter 10: Duty
Epilogue
Chapter 1
*Mixed feelings*
The ultimate challenge to bio-engineering lies in the realization that our ability to create new forms out of old equilibrium inevitably initiates an evolutionary movement away from both the new form and the old equilibrium.
—Ursang III, level 8 bio-guild master
After Inoatar had disappeared into the woods, Uriëlla had felt a mixture of loss and of relief. Inoatar had been so much more than a pet. After twelve standard years of solitude in her small Woldera-based science station, this ant-monkey had become an unlikely but true friend. His disappearance into the woods, after Uriëlla had explained to him the full impact of the Lilith incident, proved to her how deep their friendship was. After the reports about the incident reached the small southeast Woldera science station, Uriëlla's relationship with Inoatar had instantly become a cause for serious concern. Concern for her own survival and most of all concern for her family and clan. Ant-monkeys were bio-engineered using and combining the genetic material of Wolderian ants and Maarsolian apes. Ant-monkeys had been bred on Scayune by the bio-guild for the cheap labor they could provide. It all seemed like such a perfect match.
The Maarsolian apes, in stature almost Orussian childlike, were relatively intelligent and had sufficient intellectual and physical potential for performing non-trivial tasks. They lacked, though, any concept of hierarchy and any structural cooperative interaction beyond their base matriarchal family, pack-hunting cooperation patterns. Adult apes, however, violently rejected any type of authority.
Wolderian ants on the other hand, although lacking any level of intelligence, were amazingly organized to such an extent that a Wolderian ant nest, with its tens of thousands of worker ants, was not that much different in structure from the ancient patriarchally-organized city-states on Cirus-prime. Wolderian ants were like the cells in an Orussian's body. Every ant knew only how to play its part, but the whole nest functioned almost like a single semi-intelligent organism. When the bio-guild started selling ant-monkey workers to the cities on Uhm, but more importantly