The Citizens

THE CITIZENS

The Citizens are a group of genetically modified humans grown in the ‘storehouse’ of the city. They carry the genetic potential of nearly every human civilization from the pre-turmoil period. In essence, they are living time-capsules of human variation.

ADM - The Automated Directive Machine is an organic computer motherboard. Designed by the founders as a self-regulating computer, the ADM ensures that the City is well-preserved and running smoothly. Like all citizens, ADM is five feet tall, with bronze toned skin and white hair.

Z21 – Z21 is five feet tall, with white hair and bronze skin. On its back and wrist is the CAL identification of Z-21 which helps the ADM regulate population and tasks. Like all citizens, Z21 is a hermaphrodite with complete male and female reproductive organs.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE HIDDEN FIVE

When the leaders formed the ADM and the preservation system, they felt that it would be prudent to have one citizen free of the node; both as a fail-safe and as a means to maintain ‘natural reproduction’ in the interest of preserving a living history of genetic variation.

The traditions of the Hidden Five began with a man named Tobias, his adopted daughter Natalie, Natalie’s husband Quilleran, and Natalie’s daughter Mary. This small family was selected by vote- Tobias because he had been instrumental in developing the ADM and could be certain to install the needed programming. The others simply because they were Tobias’ family.

The first couple years, all four were free of the node and their work was peaceable enough. However, the toll of the labor and the confinement lead to discord. Boredom lead to arguments, and arguments lead to copulation with the Citizens, and the copulation disrupted the organization of the system.

The ADM posited that the programming would benefit from only one ‘free radical’ in the system, which would be less likely to disrupt the delicate balance of the system.

“One can maintain the needed order- five will destroy it.”

Tobias resisted the idea at first, dreading the thought of being the only human free of the ADM. However, after a decade of living in the City, there was an incident when Quilleran had a fatal fall into the canal while making use of a citizen.

‘It’s a senseless death,’ reported the ADM, ‘and one which could have been avoided if he’d had the node.’

Tobias discussed the matter with Natalie and Mary, and they agreed- the nodes would make life in the City far more bearable because the node could regulate their more basic desires.

Together, they decided that the Elder would be the fail safe, and that the Elder would pass knowledge to the next Elder until the time was right for the City to emerge.

Their first step was to implant nodes to both Natalie and Mary, and after this Tobias oversaw the reintegration of Quillerans body to form a new help-mate for Natalie.

When all this was over, Tobias decided to it was time to create a mate for Mary. She was nearly 30, and Tobias decided that a help-mate would be a suitable gift for her third decade.

Tobias began preparations to grow the helpmate. They selected features, genetic pairings and made way for the final ingredient- the essence of Tobias.

When Mary turned 30, Tobias removed Natalie’s node then gave her his knowledge of the City and the ADM. After this, Tobias was placed in a growing tank and deconstructed. His essence was used, in part, to construct Mary’s helpmate which they gave CAL “P” and soon after Mary conceived and had a boy which they gave CAL “T”

This began the process of the The Hidden Five, and the role of the Elder as the overseer. Through the generations, the new helpmate has been grown using the essence of the Elder to ensure that there are only Five in the ‘old ways’ and only one without a node.

In this system, the CALs P and Q refer to the mate that was grown, the natural-born is always CAL T, N, or M. Because of this, the genetic expression of the Hidden Five has a broad range.

THE HIDDEN FIVE

T – T is an old man, approximately 73 years old. Unlike the standard-issue citizen, T is the product of natural reproduction with minimal genetic interference. Because of this, he is slightly taller than the usual citizen at five-feet five inches. He has a beard, and a genetic expression closer to the modern Mediterranean.

P – P is an old woman and help-mate to T. though she appears to be 73, she was ‘born’ when T was 30 and by standard years is only 43. She has a fondness for the books and trinkets of the Library. Despite the node, P is very curious of the pre-turmoil times and often discusses history at length with T and the ADM. Genetically, P expresses a person of Celtic-Irish heritage.

N – N is an adult male, logical and brusk. He is the biological child of T and P and is 42 years old. From an early age N enjoyed the mechanical aspects of the city, and improved small features of the filters and the Storehouse. Genetically, N expresses a North Eastern European flare.

Q – Q is an adult female, though grown only 12 years ago she appears to be 42. She enjoys the living library most out of all the City’s features- the quiet of the forests and the calm of the canals flowing past. She tends to pity the citizens, and wonders if her thoughts could be freer without the node. Her appearance is Central African.

M – M is the biological child of N and Q and is 11 years old. Like his grandmother, he has a taste for books and history, and adores biological mechanics. He spends hours discussing the tanks and the Citizens with ADM. Though the prospects of a future world are fascinating, M does not understand why anyone would want to leave the peace of the City.

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