Feodora Oksana Riley often missed her home planet, Earth, but she knew that there was no going back until she managed to complete and perfect her cloning experiment. You see, Earth was abandoned thirteen years ago after a bomb was detonated, killing trillions of humans and animals. A select few doctors and scientists managed to escape the fiery explosion on a ship known as the Northern Marpuer with DNA samples from the people of Earth. Their job was to repopulate the planet by making clones of the people who were lost during that devastating day, but all the attempts have failed.On July 20th of 2012 Feodora was brought on the ship by her father Tyr who was the claimed to be the best scientist to ever live, but unfortunately he fell apart and became a drunk after her step-mother, Jerica, and her brother, Milan, were murdered on the ship. Feodora took over her father's work and after ten more years of study she became one of the best doctors on the ship.
On June 5th of 2022 She began working on the cloning experiment with her colleagues, Kiska, Sezja, Martine, and Nigel, when she turned twenty-two, but so far they haven't gotten anywhere. The clones they managed to make didn't know how to cooperate physically, socially, or emotionally, and sometimes it put the safety of the workers at risk.
On August 13th of 2025 Feodora made fantastic discovery, however, that could change the outcome of all of their clones. A certain chemical they found located in one of the medical herbs could be used to make the brain function normally. The first time they used the chemical it caused the subjects to act out in bizarre ways, but It wasn't dangerous, just strange. The clones calmed down after a few hours and began functioning normally. Being the leader of the experiment, Feodora decided to continue making them. Unfortunately they were too blind to see how unstable they were.
On September 3rd of 2025 the clones snapped causing mass destruction on the ship. It was like something out of a horror movie. They acted out in violent ways, destroying technology and murdering the residents of the Northern Marpuer. Feodora and her group became distant and locked themselves in their lab until they could find a way to fix their mess. They tried reading the hundreds of books in the lab to find something that could fix their mistakes, but nothing showed up. Hundreds of people waited outside, but in fear of their reactions towards them Feodora wouldn't open the door.
On April 3rd of 2026 the lab doors were finally reopened only to reveal an empty ship. The human population was lost once again, and this time so was the ship.
On April 16th of 2026 the remains of the clones and humans were found floating outside the ship. With food and water running critically low, Feodora and her group met the same fate.
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Science Fiction#writewithzo The story of a doctor whose cloning experiments have gone too far. Set in a small spaceship with no destination.