As mankind’s curiosity continued to grow alongside their goal for omnipotent control, so too did the invasiveness of their experiments. One such clinical trial on unwilling subjects, pioneered by a disgraced and exiled biologist, sought to customize the human genome and unravel eons of natural evolution.
The subjects awoke in similar fashion to how they entered this world; disoriented, clothesless, and amongst a tangle of intravenous tubes. Among the dull hum of fluorescent light and HVAC systems, all that could be heard were a set of approaching footsteps...