Sword Saint Of The Omniverse (On Indefinite Hiatus)

Starless Ether

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A ball of pure darkness began to taken shape, looking at it would be no different than looking at a black hole.

And just like a black hole, the objects around me began to be sucked into it, space around it began to distort and mosaiced, shredding the walls of the room as more and more space becomes perverted, topology became mazes. Space began to stretch so much that what was a single step now became a hundred.

Light started to go crazy, the light that came from the bulb above now also shone from underneath the ball.

Just how did it come to this?

That question ever lingered as I grabbed the unconscious Mikoto and...Ugh, Kihara, he'll face the Constitutional Court, bolted out of the room before press the big red emergency evac button.

The ball began to expand

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Minutes earlier.

There exists a moral dilemma amongst the more ethically-inclined scientists within Academy City.

The dilemma being:

"If life can be created and manufactured at the push of a button, then is it at all that precious?"

If something is rare, that thing is precious. It's the sole reason why mining an asteroid and bringing all the material to earth would crash the metal market. A single multi-kilometers sized asteroid contains more metal than the mundane world has ever mined throughout history.

Now take that example to biological organism. Life was always precious because it was so rare, raising a child to adulthood required 18 years and a lot of resources.

However, with the combination of Testament and advancement in cloning technology, we can perfectly recreate a person down to their memory, literally making a copy of a person, down to the very memories with barely any cost other than the initial biomass and energy input used to operate the machine.

Ignoring the potential for abuse, this seriously raised the question of whether or not life is that precious.

The Esper Scientific Community is extremely divided in this, some Scientists still think that life is precious, even those of a clone. Others think if they are capable of higher thoughts and function, then, and only then, are they considered precious.

However, most of the Kihara family consider any life created from artificial means, sapient or not, are tools to be used to advance science and achieving Utopia

Bismark: "enough! Kihara Gensei, I find you to be in violation of Article 4, Section 1, subsection B of the Esper Constitution. By the power vested in me as the Vice Director, I hereby place you under arrest."

I announced as I burst into the room, seeing the Railgun bound and unconscious on the operating table with another girl off to the side, emptiness in her eyes, a clear sign of mind control.

Gensei immediately turned around to face me, he smirked before a look of confusion appeared.

Gensei: "it would seem you are immune to Mental Out..."

He muttered and Bismark scoffed.

Bismark: "I am the Vice-Director, a simple Esper Power emulation device cannot possibly mimic the real deal... Although if I wasn't here to arrest you, I would've commended on your achievement of being able to recreate a Gemstone's power through- using lower Espers? And amalgamating them into a singular hive mind-like computer!?"