The Lucky 10%

The year is 3216. Science has reached an all-new height. Advancements in technology, medicine, and biology allow the average middle-class citizen to live far into their 150s and cross the ocean in mere moments.

A new, experimental drug has been produced. A single injection gives the patient superhuman abilities. Each participant gains control of one thing, their Factor. The only problem? It is highly unstable.

Before they can be cleared for human experimentation, the scientists must reach the goal of a 95% success rate on animals. However, after they watched they saw the abnormal changes in their subjects, the scientists dropped the human studies and pursued this new path.

The low survival rate of 10% didn't even matter anymore, the average animals had an IQ of 140 on the Stanford-Binet scale. The lowest scored 129 and the highest 156. Lifespans were doubled, but still all-too short. After all, the subjects were lab mice.

Scientists swapped to domestic dogs and cats in order to utilize the longer lifespans, with the successfully injected living into their late thirties and early forties. Deaths for the other 90% were painless, as the animals dropped into a coma and died in a matter of seconds.

The studies would go on for several more centuries, but this is only the beginning. The foundation of what would soon be a civilization of superintelligent
specimens. This is their story.

The lucky 10%.

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