There’s nothing like a page full of exposition, is there? It might be a bit dense, I know, but I can get wordy sometimes. Or laconic, as needed. Right now we’re getting things underway, so some fast-forwarding is a good idea.
I’d like to point out the technology of the 22nd century, which we’re getting our first look at here. Holographic (but still 2D) computer display. A pistol with suspiciously thin looking ammunition. And a cute snowmobile with a personal canopy. Nothing too advanced. The world of Genocide Man is 100 years in the future but mechanical technology hasn’t changed that much. Ah, but the ‘wet’ technologies of genetics…that’s where the advances have been.
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Jacob: Send a message to Lola Lamb at the Genocide Project. Standard Encryption.
Lola, the news is good, bad, and worse.
The good: I found our deviant. Tribal name is 'Girii', no last name. Lives in a village to the north. She's got modifications from AIPL1 to XP07, all genes related to brain function. Never seen anything like her before. I'm attaching an analysis.
The bad news is, chromosome drive indicates she's probably second generation.
But worse than that, this is Tatsushiro Fumiaki's Handiwork. It's got his signature intron tweaks. We didn't get all of his monsters.
I'm going to drive up there tomorrow. A couple hundred people there is better than ten thousand here. Guess I got lucky this time. Jacob out. Send message.
Narrator: Of course, I didn't know what Jacob was doing until much later. But I do know what happened the next day. I interviewed survivors. Yeah, I said survivors.
Jacob: Wonderful. They don't rent cars up here, because they don't have any roads. I need a secretary to tell me these things. I may be packing a portable medical lab...but I'm getting way too old to play Balto.
Lola, the news is good, bad, and worse.
The good: I found our deviant. Tribal name is 'Girii', no last name. Lives in a village to the north. She's got modifications from AIPL1 to XP07, all genes related to brain function. Never seen anything like her before. I'm attaching an analysis.
The bad news is, chromosome drive indicates she's probably second generation.
But worse than that, this is Tatsushiro Fumiaki's Handiwork. It's got his signature intron tweaks. We didn't get all of his monsters.
I'm going to drive up there tomorrow. A couple hundred people there is better than ten thousand here. Guess I got lucky this time. Jacob out. Send message.
Narrator: Of course, I didn't know what Jacob was doing until much later. But I do know what happened the next day. I interviewed survivors. Yeah, I said survivors.
Jacob: Wonderful. They don't rent cars up here, because they don't have any roads. I need a secretary to tell me these things. I may be packing a portable medical lab...but I'm getting way too old to play Balto.
Interesting artwork… great job on the holographic 2-d display. Though, am I seeing it wrong via optical illusion that it’s curved away from him, rather than towards him? That would make for annoying transparent positioning problems at the edges. Interesting story developing!
Yep, I meant it to be curved away from him. Maybe it’s not optimal for the user, but it’s more realistic for it to follow a curvature of a sphere centered on the projector. I don’t think the display is wide enough for much distortion on the edges. I aimed for realism. Making Jacob’s life easier is *not* my goal. 🙂
True enough on it following the curvature of a sphere — though I would hope that if that’s commercial technology, the manufacturers would build it for the convenience of the user, Jacob or not. But that description works for me too, maybe that’s all they’ve gotten to work yet and they’ve gotten used to it in the 22nd century.. 🙂
Looking forward to more. Keep up the great art.