The Pawn Series Book One: The Pawn

By Rik V. Sandman

In the dystopian world, the population of the Earth, Moon, Mars and Asteroid-belt battles a new enemy, the Venatores. They are the escaped Super soldiers whose DNA had been altered, and their descendants. Companies had produced Super soldiers in their military Labs. The descendants of the Super soldiers attacked the humans, the Venatores had inherited the abilities of their parents. Some of them looked like humans, but most of them were like monsters to normal humans.
The Planetary Trade Association issued a purge order for each Super soldier. Under its supervision, the military killed all product Series except the few, who had managed to escape the purge. These were the N-, O- and K-Series. There was also another Series in development, the P-Series, they were all female Super soldiers.
The P-Series was a secret military Lab project, and the last production Series, before a rogue military group purged it. It was even more advanced than the Venatores, that participated in purging of the P-Series, preventing them to become the most powerful military group on the battlefields.
The P-Series soldiers were 12 years old when they all were terminated... Except one.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rik V. Sandman
• Release date: Dec 3, 2021
• ISBN: 9789526987200

Rik V. Sandman

The author is Nordic who has worked on computers and networks most of his career. He has also done some odd jobs, served his conscription in the Army, worked in a steel factory and studied in the USA.His favorite things are reading, sports and hiking in nature. He collects graphic novels and is a friend of Japanese culture.

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The Pawn Series Book One:

The Pawn

By

Rik V. Sandman

The Pawn Series Book One:

The Pawn

By Rik V. Sandman

Copyright 2021 Rik V. Sandman

Cover Copyright 2021 P. Santala

Published 2021 by Pekka Santala at Smashwords

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Contents

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 01 THE NOTEBOOK

CHAPTER 02 THE PLAYER

CHAPTER 03 THE BROTHERS

CHAPTER 04 THE FIRST GAME

CHAPTER 05 THE MOON LAB

CHAPTER 06 THE CAVE

CHAPTER 07 THE FIRST KILL

CHAPTER 08 THE NEW WORLD

CHAPTER 09 THE FROZEN HELL

CHAPTER 10 THE STRAY CAT

CHAPTER 11 THE FOUR RED SNAKES

CHAPTER 12 THE 13th MAN

CHAPTER 13 THE M45

CHAPTER 14 THE MONSTER

CHAPTER 15 THE GAME END

Terminology

About the author

INTRODUCTION

Earth’s population was over 10 billion. The medical development were at a level preventing most of the diseases that had killed people centuries earlier. The scientists had begun to repair the non-coding DNA in the human genome to get rid of the diseases. About half of the Earth’s population had altered or repaired their DNA.

The shortage of fresh water supplies caused the use of both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets as a source of fresh water. When drilling reached over 10,000-year-old layers of ice, it released microbes, viruses, and bacteria that had been encapsulated in ice for thousands of years. Three major global pandemics spread to the Earth’s population. More than half of the 10 billion people died because they did not have immunity to the old diseases. The only survivors from the pandemics were those whose DNA had not been repaired. In the aftermath of the pandemics followed several wars that killed more than 3 billion people.

The wars had collapsed the civilian, national and state structures, and the company structures replaced them. As the wars progressed, the governments of Earth, Moon and Mars changed and the international companies took control. The companies had their own defense forces and armies and used them to resolve their disputes with the other companies. The disputes escalated, and eventually a full-fledged war broke out, a war still going on without an end to be seen. To date, more than 3 billion people had died, and the war still continues after 130 years.

The companies produced human Super soldiers in their laboratories. The scientists replaced some parts of the Super soldiers body with animal tissue. The Lab scientists made DNA changes to make the soldiers more agile and stronger. Controlling of the new Super soldiers failed, some of them fled and began to gather forming a new force on the battlefields. The children of the escaped Super soldiers brought a new human race, the Venatores. They are the descendants of the Super soldiers born with the abilities of their parents. Some of them looked like humans, but most of them were like monsters to the normal humans.

The Planetary Trade Association issued a purge order for each Super soldier. Under its supervision, the military killed all the product Series except the few, who had managed to escape the purge. These were the N-, O- and K-Series. These Series were the foundation for the Venatores population, which grew rapidly and began to hunt humans. There was also another Series in development, the P-Series, they were all female Super soldiers.

The P-Series was a secret military Lab project, and the last production Series, before a rogue military group purged it. Dr. Luka Popov was the project leader who had developed the DNA enhancement to a higher level than anyone else before. The P-Series was ten times more advanced than any other Series before it. It was even more advanced than the Venatores, that participated in purging of the P-Series, preventing them to become the most powerful military group on the battlefields.

The P-Series soldiers were 12 years old when they all were terminated... Except one.

CHAPTER 01

THE NOTEBOOK

DR. POPOV

The young assistant was nervous and constantly glancing at towards the Lab doors. The sweat dripped from his forehead as he worriedly looked the time on the display above the door. His mind shouted out that he should flee this place, but his military honor kept him in place. He was just over twenty and had worked for the company for two years, and this was his first high-profile assignment. The pay was better, and they had promoted him to his new assignment after the assassins had killed his predecessor. Their target was his new boss, but the attack had failed, and now he was the new assistant. The orders of the young assistant were clear, he must protect his boss.

He glanced at the brown-haired man who was still standing by the display and writing the last commands into the system. Dr. Popov’s eyes focused on something on the screen. He was over thirty and not like any other military Lab scientist, he was an athletic and well-trained man with an ingenious mind. He had a reputation of being a cold and cruel person to anyone who did not follow his orders or his time schedules. Several of his former Lab assistants have said that the man is as cold as ice, he has no feelings at all. The assistant could not understand why his boss can be so calm. Outside the Lab, the explosions came closer and the building shake every few seconds. The assistant said nervously:

Sir, we need to go!

Not yet! I have still something...

The older man could not finish his sentence, a powerful explosion took half of the Lab’s roof and knocked down the wall next to the men. The sudden wave of pressure from the explosion threw both men towards the other end of the Lab, and the smoke and flames filled the room immediately. It was quiet for a moment in the Lab’s darkness, dust and rubble were everywhere. Most of the Lab lights had gone out when Dr. Popov managed to crawl out from the debris, he coughed hard dust and blood out of his mouth. He was shocked, and he looked around in the sunlight coming from the holes in the ceiling and wall. In light of it, he saw the assistant lying on the floor under a steel beam. The blast had destroyed most of the Lab, and he limped over to the assistant, but there was nothing he could do, the young man was dead.

He heard the explosions outside, the enemy was still bombarding the base and the areas around the Lab. The enemy’s attack was quick and accurate and their target was clear to him. Dr. Popov looked around and searched for the only thing that must not fall into the hands of the enemy. It was a painful search, he had several wounds in his arms and left leg from the explosion. Soon he found what he was looking for, the black briefcase was under a broken display and covered with the debris of the wall, it was still intact. He wiped the dust off the briefcase and looked at the name tag, Dr. Popov shone from the silver plate. The briefcase was a gift he got from his wife, and it contained his research data he had done to develop the DNA. The information that must not fall into the hands of the enemy. Now he must find her before the enemy brings its ground troops into the area, and there was not much time left.

The sound of the self-destruct count echoed from outside the Lab, it had initiated just before the explosion. Soon its explosives will destroy the Lab resources and buildings in the area. He looked at the Lab for the last time and then walked to the opening, which the enemy’s bomb had torn from the wall, and he stepped out.

Dr. Popov run as fast as he could with his injured leg towards the building on the other side of the small plaza, where the Lab of his wife is. The building had taken a hit, and it was burning from its southern part where the Labs and the test subjects were. He saw the Lab faculty and soldiers running away from the buildings towards the Transporters that were waiting in the plaza. Some Lab workers had been injured, and the soldiers were helping them to get in the planes. He got in front of the building and saw the destruction the enemy bombing had done. The explosions had blown out the doors and windows of the building. He entered the building through the broken main entrance doors. Smoke and flames were everywhere, but he continued towards his wife’s working place. The emergency lights made the place look eerie, the light shone through the smoke filling the building’s corridors. Dr. Popov coughed in the smoke until he found a gas mask in one of the hallways. With the gas mask on, he could breathe more easily, and he moved towards the south end of the building where the test Lab located. There he stood next to the glass doors and windows that separated the Lab from the rest of the building.

It was strange, the bulletproof glass windows and walls seemed intact, but thick smoke had filled the room on the other side of the glass. As he got closer, he saw strange marks in the glass, as if hundreds of little stars had been drawn to it. The shrapnel of the explosion had engraved them on the glass on the other side. Several of the little stars were red, they were full of blood that had splattered on the glass. He saw the sunlight shining in the Lab behind the glass, the smoke twirling as if it were stirred with an invisible hand. It was the only reminder of an ongoing attack of the enemy. Dr. Popov walked to the Lab’s glass door and opened it with his control card. He stepped inside, and the glass door closed behind him as he watched the destroyed Lab. He did not need any protective gear, the sunlight shone through the hole in the ceiling and the outside air had already contaminated the Lab.

It was quiet, the bombings were over. It was a sign of the enemy’s next phase of attack, the ground troops were coming. Dr. Popov walked through the Lab and found several bodies of the Lab technicians, the explosion and shrapnel had killed them all. Most of the smoke escaped through the hole in the ceiling, and the Lab’s still-functioning ventilation system took care of the rest. Dr. Popov took the gas mask off his face and began looking for his wife.

He found her at the other end of the Lab. She was lying on her back on the floor, holding her red notebook in her hand. It was too late, she had died like everyone else, she had several shrapnel wounds in her upper body. The death had come quickly, her Asian face looked peaceful, as if she was sleeping. Dr. Popov just stared at her lying on the floor. Her long black hair was on a loose ponytail, moving slightly in the draft of the Lab’s ventilation. He went to his knees, took the notebook from her hand and put it in his pocket. His eyes filled with tears as he took her into his arms and hugged her in despair.

First they had lost their daughter Chuntao due to a DNA related disease, and now she was also gone. As he held his dead wife, he heard a sound from the small cage under the table next to him. Dr. Popov glanced towards the sound and could not at first see what it was, the tears in his eyes and the smoke had impaired his eyesight. Then he realized what it was and carefully lowered his wife to the floor. He looked at her for a while before he kissed the last goodbye on her lips.

He then took the small cage from under the table and look at the small animal inside it. It was the only survivor from the explosion in the Lab. It was his wife’s favorite pet, a little bunny. The bunny had once been one of her experimental animals, all the other animals had died in the tests. This little bunny was different, it had endurance that was better than any other of the test subjects. Their little Chuntao had taken it for herself from among the other bunnies, the sick girl somehow felt herself happier with this bunny. After Chuntao’s death, his wife, Meihui, was stricken with grief, and she took the little bunny as her pet. She rewarded the bunny for helping her, it comforted her after she had lost her daughter.

He took the little bunny from its cage and put it in his open briefcase, he knew how much his wife had loved the little bunny. There was not much time left, he has to leave before the timer for the self-destruct runs out and the Labs explode. Dr. Popov sat next to his wife’s body and looked at her for the last time. His hand made one last light touch to her long black hair and caressed her cheek gently. Then he got up, took the briefcase, and walked out of the Lab. A few minutes later, several explosions destroyed the Labs in the area, the self-destruct timer had run out.

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The ocean was cold, the dark waves kept coming steadily to the shore. Wave after wave without any hesitation or mercy, the water hit the rocky shoreline. Dr. Popov sat on the wet grass above the shoreline and just watched towards the ocean. There was no warmth in his eyes, his gaze was as empty as his heart. He had lost them all, the reason to live, there was nothing left here for him anymore. So many times he had walked to this beach and looked out to the ocean as if he could find the answer from there. There was nothing, absolutely nothing, just the same darkness day after day. He kept staring at the ocean, numb in his mind.

He felt a movement inside his jacket, something pushed its head out of his pocket. It stared to where he was looking at, the little bunny was looking out at the ocean. He glanced at the bunny and saw its red eyes staring at him, and he remembered his wife. Their pain of losing a daughter and the grief after that. The years of searching for the cause of her death and their dedication to finding a cure through the DNA research. It was their way of making sure no one else would suffer the same kind of pain as they did. Then came the Venatores attack, the descendants of the enhanced humans, whose anger towards the normal humans killed his wife. The same enhanced humans whose DNA he had developed through his research.

It all started several centuries ago when the Earth’s population was over 10 billion. The scientists began to repair the non-coding DNA from the human genome to get rid of diseases. Within a few decades, about half of the Earth’s population had their DNA altered or repaired. The population grew uncontrollably, and the fresh water supplies began to run out. The companies began using both Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets as a new source of freshwater. When the drilling reached over 10,000-year-old layers of ice, the problems began. The drilling released microbes, viruses, and bacteria that had been encapsulated in ice for thousands of years. Old deadly diseases caused epidemics among the miners and drillers, who then spread them to their families and friends. In a short time, three major global pandemics spread to the Earth’s population. More than half of the 10 billion people died because they did not have immunity to the old diseases. The only survivors of the pandemics were those whose DNA had not been repaired, they had the non-coding DNA intact in their DNA. Several sequences of the non-coding DNA could confer resistance to the old diseases.

In the aftermath of the pandemics followed several wars. The pandemics basically wiped out entire nations out of their population. The neighboring countries took advantage of the situation and attacked on them. All these wars were just a foretaste to the 4th World War. The wars caused the collapse of the country, national and state structures, which were replaced by the company structures. As the wars progressed, the governments of Earth, Moon and Mars changed and the international companies took control. The companies had their own defense forces and armies, and they used them to resolve disputes with the other companies. They began hiring military personnel or small military groups for the smaller companies as a licensee forces. The companies grew, and they began to have problems with the other companies, which caused disputes to be resolved by using the companies military forces. The disputes escalated, and eventually a full-fledged war broke out, a war still going on without an end to be seen. To date, more than 3 billion people have died, and the war still continues after 130 years. The 4th World War is about companies and their greed for power.

Early in the wars, when injured soldiers came back, the doctors first replaced the damaged organs and limbs with the artificial body parts. The technological advances produced the modern cyborg soldiers who were sent to the battlefields. Later, the old DNA repairs began when the BIO components of the laboratory-bred animals replaced the artificial body parts of the soldiers. To avoid rejection problems with the new physical BIO components, the scientists began manipulating the DNA to fix it. This eventually led to the laboratory-bred test tube humans, and the scientists replaced several body parts of the test tube humans with animal tissue. The DNA changes made the test tube humans more agile and stronger.

The military sent the first Super soldiers to the battlefields. They were superior fighters compared to normal soldiers, but there was also a problem with that. The control of the new Super soldiers was unsuccessful. Some Super soldiers ran away and began to assemble, forming a new force on the battlefields. Years later, a bigger problem arose when the first second-generation Super soldiers appeared. The children of the runaway Super soldiers had brought a new breed of humans, the Venatores. The Venatores had Super soldier parents, and they inherited the abilities of their parents. Some of them looked like humans, but most of them were like monsters to ordinary people. The Planetary Trade Association issued a purge order for each Super soldier. Under its supervision, the military killed all the product Series except the few who had managed to escape from the purge. These were the N-, O- and K-Series. These Series were the basis for the Venatores population, which grew rapidly and began to hunt humans.

Dr. Popov felt the raindrops hit his face, and he looked at the sky, its dark and ominous clouds. He stood up and took the little bunny in his hands and looked at its red eyes. It was finally clear to him what he has to do, it had taken some time, but there was no other way. It was not a statement or declaration, just a comment:

We have some work to do, my little friend.

He put the bunny inside his jacket and walked back to the old lighthouse where he had lived for the past six months after the Venatores attack. The little bunny curled up inside the jacket and closed its eyes, it was cold outside, and it was trying to save its energy. The bunny fell asleep quickly, Dr. Popov’s walk rocked it gently, and it dreamed of a future with a warmth and light.

THE NOTEBOOK

Dr. Popov stared at the DNA-sequence and calculations on the page of the red notebook, it is impossible, there must be an error. He looked at the numbers and calculations over and over again, but he still got the same result. Then he glanced at the little bunny who was looking at him from the nest he had made for it from the cardboard box. Little red eyes stared at him, as if observing how he reacted to the new info. The sweat shined on his forehead as he read the pages over and over and calculated the numbers repeatedly. Eventually, he dropped the pen from his hand, leaned against his chair, and just stared at the notebook. There were no errors, no false deductions, she had done it correctly. He just sighed:

Meihui, what have you done!

This changed everything, she had actually found a way to do it. The answer to what they had been looking for years was finally there, the perfect sequencing. Her last achievement, her last entries in her notebook. Dr. Popov looked at the bunny and said:

Bunny, you helped her, I’m grateful.

Dr. Popov looked at the notebook and thought of her, and all the years they had searched for a cure. After they lost Chuntao, they had nothing left but their research. They both tried to find the cause of her death so hard that everything else was left aside. For them, there was no civilian life, just constant work in the Lab. Should he regret anything after all these years, could it all have been in vain? He was not sure what to think. Meihui and Chuntao were the ones to whom he had dedicated his life, they were gone and what did he have now? Nothing, a life without purpose... until now. She has given him the gift he will use, a weapon against the creatures that killed her. There was a new spark in Dr. Popov’s eyes, he now knew what he has to do. The dark thoughts of the last six months had taken over his mind, this is the moment when he begins his crusade to destroy the Venatores.

He still had some contacts in the military who were interested in his skills. The kind of expertise that thrived in the shadows behind the official facade. The Army’s interest in the Super soldiers had not diminished, they needed an enhanced human to fight their battles. It was a resource that was expendable and just a tool for their goals. He was soon hired for the Army’s secret laboratory projects. At first, it was difficult because of all the memories he had of all his previous work, but he had a goal, revenge on the Venatores. Dr. Popov played with several decks of cards. He did what the Army wanted, but he also had his own line of research and test subjects that the Army did not know about.

Dr. Popov knew the Army would help him in his task, but they want to keep it under the radar. If the civilian administration finds out about the tests, they will intervene and end the project. The Lab resources, specimens and the co-workers he needed were much easier to get when he used the secrecy card. It was exactly what Dr. Popov expected. He needed a secure place for the Lab and the Army provided him with one, a heavily guarded old Army base. The Army gave him the latest Lab equipment because the requirements for the BIO operations were high.

There were several errors and disappointments in the tests, but after months of hard work, he finally got results. He had succeeded in developing a batch of DNA sequencing that did not degrade after the test subject’s birth. He had examined the little bunny his wife had kept as her pet. Its DNA was so complex and strange, even he had trouble understanding what Meihui had done with it. From there he had found the answer, again Meihui had helped him after her death. He tried several DNA solutions before finding the right one, strong enough for his purposes. One problem still existed, he needed a human DNA that was compatible with the DNA alterations he used. The Free Trade Commission Act strictly registered and regulated all activities involving the human DNA. The FTCA was enacted and became law after the Venatores incidents and the Purge Act.

He understood what Meihui had tried to achieve, the answer was in the notebook, he could read it from her calculations. Another Chuntao, a clone of her DNA. Her sorrow knew no bounds, she had tried to bring Chuntao back to her. It all was so heartbreaking, and it made him try harder to find a solution. Then he found the bloodstains in the notebook. He had not noticed it before, when the shrapnel killed her, some drops of blood had stained the pages of the notebook. He thoroughly researched the notebook and found more potential DNA resources, Meihui’s hair.

In the days that followed, Dr. Popov worked hard to extract the DNA and cultivate it for his experiments. It took almost three months before he found a perfectly working solution. He used Meihui’s DNA and available animal DNA, and the results were promising. He succeeded to produce a batch of fertile superhuman eggs that grew in the test tubes. The first produced Super soldiers were the P-Series. It was named after the resource DNA Dr. Popov used in the enhancement. He derived the enhancement DNA sequences from several felines in the Pantherinae subfamily of the Felidae family of cats. Most of the test subjects died before birth, with a success rate of less than 7%. The ones who lived after the calculated incubation period died in just a few weeks. He was in trouble, but the answer looked at him straight into his eyes. With its red eyes. The bunny who had been with him ever since he lost his wife, gave the answer. The persistent little bunny had the DNA with the necessary information for Dr. Popov.

His next test batch with the repaired DNA was better, the P-Series x1 was in every way better than any other Series, purged or escaped. Under Dr. Popov’s supervision, the military laboratory managed to produce 64 new P-Series x1 Super soldiers. All the P-Series soldiers were Asian girls, Meihui’s DNA was in use and the panther side worked perfectly with bunny’s DNA repair info. Dr. Popov now created Super soldiers for the military, which he had previously opposed. The descendants of the Super soldiers were the ones who killed his wife, and he was now creating more of them. He had a plan, he was going to fight fire with fire. The next batch of 32 Super soldiers was the P-Series x2’s. The ultimate challenge, his perfect weapon against the Venatores, breaking all the boundaries known to science. A chimera, who can fight against the Venatores with its own weapons and abilities and still be human. The task was almost overwhelming, and he had to have full control at all stages of the production.

Immediately after the birth of Super soldiers, the BIO operations began and continued until the specimens were about 7 years old. Several alterations enhanced the body of the specimens to maximize their abilities. The Lab technicians made all the alterations under the supervision of Dr. Popov. Usually, they changed the specimen’s eyes, teeth, parts of the skull, muscle tissue and some of their internal organs. The military Lab used replacement organ transplants grown in DNA modified animals. With his new P-Series, Dr. Popov was confident he could produce a Super soldier who is stronger than any other Super soldier produced to date. The P-Series would be even stronger than the Venatores. The small red notebook had changed everything, Meihui had done something no one else had succeeded to do. It was now possible to produce a Super soldier whose DNA alterations were more than 10% of their DNA. A true Super Human with a perfect DNA sequencing.

He had a goal for his P-Series. He had to fight against the odds, literally. About 1/64000 of the Super soldiers have abilities that make them exceptionally stronger or mentally superior to others. The military calls these individuals Pawns and Queens. They are the Monsters, which are an anomaly among the Super soldiers. To produce a Pawn level Super soldier was 1/64000 and producing a group of them was even harder task.

The evolution of the human species is the cause of this phenomenon. From time to time, individuals have emerged with a mutation that benefits its species. The biological process for the development of the Pawns and Queens is unknown, it is a mystery to the scientists. Several studies have tried to find out what is causing this phenomenon, but the biological cause behind the phenomenon was still unclear to the researchers. The studies have shown that a strong emotional experience of the specimen can activate the change. According to them, the process that causes the development of the Pawns and Queens occurs only when the specimen is between 11 and 16 years of age. The military tried to control the Super soldiers by preventing them from getting any emotions. If there was any doubt that the specimen was developing to a Pawn or Queen they were purged immediately.

Every Super soldier has a Code that tells you the strength and source of their DNA. The Code is the direct rank of their abilities, the higher the Code, the stronger the Super soldier. These anomalies in Super soldiers may be in lower Codes in their Series, but still are physically and mentally stronger than their peers. The strongest Pawns and Queens are those who also have their Code at the top of their Series, the higher the Code, the stronger the Pawn or Queen is.

The female Super soldiers who change and become the Queens have exceptional mental abilities that they can use to control others. When the first Queen appeared the scientists named this ability as MP, the Mental Pressure. The Queen uses the Mental Pressure to control other people. It is like a telepathic way of giving orders to others. The Queen’s MP is like a computer virus, she sends a thought pattern to the person she wants to control. The human brain is an electrochemical organ, and the Queen’s thought pattern alters its neurons signaling. All brain activity depends on electrochemical processes of the neurons and their signal connections. The MP creates new connections, and it changes or removes the old ones. The Queens thought pattern makes the brain more receptive to additional thought patterns. After this, the person is under the Queen’s control.

The Queen can make a normal person a walking corpse, she can disconnect the external connections of a person’s mind and close it to inside the brain. After this, the person cannot communicate with the outside world, the person's body works only on basic functions. It is like the brain had been drained off, the person dies of hunger or thirst. The person cannot defend or protect him/herself, he or she has no knowledge of danger. The person cannot drink or eat, he or she is in a vegetative state. They are doomed to death, there is no cure for the disease. The Queen can also kill a person instantly by using her MP. She can send a thought pattern to a person, and then the person’s own muscles tear them, breaking their bones and preventing them from breathing.

Later the scientists realized that also the Pawns used the Mental Pressure, but the Pawns way of using it was different. The Pawns used it to slow down their opponents to make them easier to kill. The Pawns and the Queens radiate the Mental Pressure around them, it makes normal humans act nervous and even feel nausea. The stronger the Pawn the stronger the effect radiates around Them. They can also switch the ability off when they want to hide among the crowds. That is why they are so dangerous opponents to face, when you realize that a Pawn is near, you have already lost.

The ratio between the Queens and the Pawns is 1/9. Among the Super soldiers produced so far, an average of one Queen and 8 Pawns per 576000 Super soldiers have emerged. Only about 25% of the Super soldiers reach the age of 16, their battle age when they are sent to the battlefields.

To control these anomalies, the military needed people with exceptionally strong mental capabilities. They are individuals who can keep the Pawn under control and get them to follow their orders. Humans with particularly strong mind are the only ones who can block the Mental Pressure. The ability to produce MP is dormant in normal humans, but in rare cases the ability becomes active. They call the person with this ability with a name, the Player. They have a sense of something, a warning mechanism that allows them to avoid danger, the so-called sixth sense. This ability uses the same DNA sequencing as the Queen’s MP. The difference between the two is that the Queen’s MP has a two-way connection, the human sixth sense is just receiving one.

It was soon clear the Players could not control the Queens, the mentally superior Queens killed most of the Players. There could be only one leader in the Hive and the Queens first task was to eradicate their competition. It was the survival of the fittest. If the Player was mentally at least as strong as the Queen, then there may be a mutual working relationship between them. The Queens become uncontrollable, they had