Earthrise Peek #3
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Secretly backed by The Eight, Continoma propagandized Sal Vitas with gruesome images of mutated babies to raise panic and fear among its citizens about the inherent dangers of natural reproduction. Meanwhile, a mineral known as Xcelyte was discovered. It would enable the use of minimal resources during the cloning process, due to its radioactivity and immense energy potential.
Continoma recognized this as a solution to maintain its pure race ideals, and so, citizens were promised a new revolution in genetics - the ascension of man's mind over body - in exchange for mandatory watcher chips that were implanted to store memories and data and to be housed in the organization's Librarium Centre. Reproduction became irrelevant, and eventually forbidden, as cloning facilities were now widely available for instant regeneration of a person's body. The power of everlasting life now lay in the hands of Sal Vitas' citizens, who no longer feared death.
Many resisted accepting immortality through cloning, however, and demanded a cure for their reproductive deficiency. In an effort to bring hope, Continoma introduced a way for them to perfect their minds in order to control their own DNA consciously, with the ultimate goal of achieving purification and births free of mutation. Though it was clear few would reach this goal, the population's attention nonetheless turned to these pursuits.
