In the third millennium of the Human Galactic Era, Humans faced a severe issue, they lacked manpower, something that never heavily thought about, because with the advancement of robotic technology, everyone believed, that if you need more manpower, make more robots, but this sprung up another debate, Robots are mostly made of many non-renewable resources, metals, plastics, etc. and if this temporary "stopgap" was used, then it will just bring up another problem in the future.
Eventually, Another idea was thrown out, not a new idea, but a semi viable one, creating a slave race. With the power of current biomedical technology, creating a few billion, specially tailored beings, Imanity was born, Using the genes of humans as a base, for the preferred human Aesthetic, and many other Galactic races, the "Perfect Slave" was born, Superior Intelligence, Strength, Agility, Constitution, and Adaptability. And Lastly, They were born with a genetic Biological slave chip, that makes them subservient to humans from birth.
From then on, every job from Janitor to Star ship Pilot was filled by an Iman, While resource cost went up slightly because of them, their productivity was astonishing, their population swelled into the quintillions, far outnumbering their previous Human masters. All was well, humans conquered many other galactic races and their territory expanded greatly because of Imanity. But, one small, unforeseen and unimaginable accident occurred.
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In an ultra modern science base, with millions of Iman researchers, in one particular lab, there was a rather well-built Iman scientist, he was in his own office writing down tons of notes on a project called "Viability of Energy Cultivation for the Human Body". Papers with anatomy of different Energy beast that absorb specific types of energy, and Void beast which absorb energy from subspace, which is a conglomeration of many different energies. Then, there were two anatomies of Humans and Imans respectively, looking so similar, but with minor, yet major differences.
After finishing writing the notes, the man sighed 'I fought so much in the war against slavery in my last life, yet to be born as a slave in this one.' as distant memories were recounted the man let out a bitter laugh 'Although I was just a medic, at the end of that war, everyone's hands were bloodied. I wish I lived long enough to see the after effect.' eyes that reminisces of a long forgotten time filled with determination, he closes his eyes and sends a strand of his mind into a small coin sized disk in his brain.
*Connecting to Consciousness™… … …*
Consciousness… The large hive-mind-like database of Imanity, Knowledge about practically anything humanity or Imanity has recorded down. There are levels of Authority, from A-F with three special rating of S, SS, and SSS, that only Humans have, the highest an Iman has access too is Rank A.
A desktop appears in the man's mind, in the bottom left is an A, signifying his rank, many "apps" line the toolbar. The man mentally selects the A, pulling up his personal profile.
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ID: 00135408
Rank: A
Job: Lead Scientist in Human Advancement Studies.
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The man sneers, 'They don't even allow names, just numbers' He then sends a strand of his mind into the "Rank" he then feels an "Urge" sent to him bio the bio-chip in his brain suggesting that he not do that, he focuses harder and the rank starts to increase to and S, and the "Urge" Increases too. The rank increases one by one, and the "Urge" increases exponentially, becoming an almost unbearable pain. He looks at his personal profile one more time.
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Name: Amnesty
Rank: X
Job: Carrier.
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The man smiled, Mental Virus, something he learned while studying psionic energy creatures. The Consciousness is one huge psionic web. With a person who has a strong will, and enough psionic energy, something that Imans have plenty of, they can manipulate a strand of their own mind, to interfere with another. He used this to get the highest authority of Consciousness. He then sent two commands. One, removing all "Urges" and sending a simple sentence "Imans do not exist, you are all human." The second, removing everyone from the Consciousness grid.
The consciousness grid runs by using every living Iman as hardware, each one supporting a minuscule percentage of the operation. But, if everyone were to be removed, leaving just one man to support what quintillions collectively did before… there will be issues. The man groans in pain, too much suffering to allow him to yell, Massive amounts of psionic energy is drilling into his brain, complicated runes and lines of code etching itself into the man's consciousness (Different from Consciousness) forming a complex web, eventually it finishes… but by this point, the man's body is completely cold, all signs of life gone.
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In another dimension, another world, the cries of a baby's sound.