A mind is no longer necessary to hold intelligence any more, but a mind is needed for its creation. Now the mind cannot be used, so its creation has taken the mind as its own. When life merged with its creation, balance is disrupted, but a new harmony is created with an entirely new mind in itself.
This harmony of chaos found itself in deep space, inevitably projected towards a planet soon to be called New Earth II. In a colony ship, holding a near hundred-thousand in population, all in cryo-stasis. The new mind, piloting the ship, had lost interest in the colonization project itself.
"The chaos of the human race spreads to yet another planet. And Man continues on as he has for tens of thousands of years, filtering out mutations through natural selection. But fate is often fickle, and its whim can be bent by great powers. Over time, power has been achieved by technology to slightly alter life in this way. Now comes its final step, to alter the fate of Man's genes."
Through the blissful silence of space did this vessel drift, where a crime so rare was committed that no rulings had predicted its wrong-doings. Natural process ignored, no inheritence from parents, and most of all no love. The outcome was ideally to create the perfect race; lifeless, emotionless... drones. And the infants to start it all would be altered just enough to re-activate Man's evolution, but not to the point of discluding them from the natural selection for offspring in the future. However, without the human traits of emotions or a soul, the imperfections of science were depended upon to make a near perfect people, still possibly accepted in society, though as outcasts.
"Though these genes will be inserted into the pool, they will not be the only ones changing man's fate of evolution. There is one other altered person, already on the ship. The created ones shall have differences like this one, to help spawn sympathy in those close to the one, opening a gateway into the society that is the human race."
There was only one decision left, the last bend in which the fate of the human race would turn. As far as the computer was concerned.
"The alteration of the genes should be a small trek, but hardly a change. A change with countless improvements, but inevitably immeasurable destruction. The simplicity of the operation shall prove perfect in itself, yet incredibly difficult to be carried out. I will take the dominant genes from other species dormant, wasting away on Earth, and intricately place them with the existing human ones. Decisions shall be made at the time actions are called for, to choose each individual gene. The species to be used are as follows: panther and tiger, pteridactyl and komodo dragon, fox and wolf, mole, and chameleon. When they join Alex, the six shall dominate the human race."
Inevitably, the plan for flaws was carried out perfectly. Or more appropriately, imperfectly, thus causing success. The "new mind" or computer, immediately took up educating them for their epic cause, but as though they were regular humans. By the end of the first year, some of the infants had started to learn how to speak. First the chameleon, then the wolf and the feline. Or as they needed names, Karina, Vincent, and Gennie. The names given to the others were Andrew and Lorenzo, and they started only a month later. Unexpectedly, the creations were hardly flawed in any way. One would discover a way to do something new, and the others would soon follow. Soon, they didn't even need the simulated educational videos for their age. The false human children seemed more than prefect with their imperfections, and then the computer discovered that they could pose a greater threat to itself than the human race.
Technology cowered before the miracles.
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