Extreme Measures

The alien apocalypse was averted by Earth's super-powered community three years ago. Heroes and villains alike stood against a massive armada of alien invaders. They won the day, destroying every alien ship, and sending the few remaining stragglers back to wherever it was they came from. Victory came with a price, however. The vast majority of humans with super powers were killed in the invasion.

The rare recessive gene that allows the existence of supers is an evolutionarily recent mutation that occurs in less than one one hundred thousandth of a percent of the world's population. this means of Earth's seven billion people, only about seventy-thousand people carry the gene. The gene spawned independently in every culture and ethnic variety of humanity; leading to the speculation that it had been engineered. No force or being has been identified as having done so, however. The problem is that seventy-thousand people with the gene does not equate to seventy-thousand people with super powers. First, it is a recessive gene. This means that you have to have inherited the gene from both parents for it to be expressed in your genetic makeup. Only twenty percent of those with the gene carry two copies. That puts the total number of possible supers in the world at just about fourteen thousand . . . worldwide. The gene also has to be "activated" as they term it, by outside stressors. Sometimes just the physical stress of puberty is enough. Sometimes a person can be put through all manner of physical, mental, psychological, and chemical stressors without developing powers. The mechanism behind activation of the gene is still not understood very well, but powers often, but don't always, align with the nature of the stressor.

There were ten thousand four hundred thirty-two known supers when the invasion happened. Two thousand one hundred two of these could not join the battle, because they were either too young, had unsuitable powers, or had extenuating circumstances. That left a force of eight thousand three hundred thirty supers taking on an entire alien fleet. One hundred twenty one of them returned from the battle.

All would have been well and good. The world would eventually recover from such devastation. It was not to be. It was discovered that the alien menace was recovering far more quickly that humanity. They seemed to be rebuilding and repopulating at a tremendous rate. At the rate of expansion they would easily overwhelm us in just forty years. It wasn't numbers that won the day the last time they came...it was supers. The problem with creating a higher percentage of supers in the world was in the scarcity of the gene coupled with the social norms of society. To make more people with the super gene, you need them to fuck one another. You need them to ignore the fact that they are gay, or related to one another, or barely know each other. They just need to breed. The best way of doing this is to increase the number of carriers. This means that people with the gene need to breed as many people as they can with or without the gene. This is a moral quandary. Faced with annihilation, mankind had little choice...extreme circumstances calls for Extreme Measures.

The World

The world knows that some things need to change to allow humanity a chance when the aliens return. Each nation has addressed the issue in different ways. Below is the rules, regulations, and laws instituted in various countries and some stories about the breeding efforts therein:

The United State of America

As the so called "Leader of the Free World" the US was expected to lead by example. Mandatory gene and fertility testing was imposed, and an unprecedented 100% testing program was established. All individuals with the super gene (called S-Factor in the US) were added to a list, and given an identification card with the highest level of security to prevent forgeries when they become fertile. Fertility is tested each year at a mandatory examination for every US citizen that has not yet been determined to be fertile or sterile. Once an individual is considered fertile, they must attend a two week seminar on sex and consent. Fertile individuals with the gene enjoy a reduction in reproductive restrictions compared to those without the gene. Those with an expressed gene (thus guaranteed to pass along at least a recessive gene) have an even greater reduction of restriction than those with a recessive gene. These benefits are as follows:

Recessive S-Factor Those with a recessive (single instance) of the S-Factor Gene have the following benefits:

• Donation of genetic material (sperm or eggs) can be made one per week at fertility clinics for a $1000 dollar payout.
• If the individual is underage but fertile, they will legally be able to give consent regardless of physical age after their mandatory sex and consent seminar.
• Incestuous relationships are permitted, to increase the likelihood of creating an Expressed S-Factor child.
• Extramarital heterosexual sex is not grounds for divorce if the individual has an S-Factor Gene.
• Anyone with an S-Factory Gene is allowed to marry as many people as they like to allow the spread of the gene within the limits of religion.

Expressed S-Factor Those with an expressed (double instance) of the S-Factor Gene have the following benefits in addition to those above:

• Financial compensation for genetic material is doubled.
• They may ignore age of consent for anyone that is fertile and has attended their mandatory sex and consent seminar.
• They may request the right to attempt to impregnate (or be impregnated by) anyone who is fertile, not pregnant, and has gone through their sex and consent seminar. Such a request must be honored unless there is sufficient medical, psychological, or religious reason to deny the request. Such reasons should be confirmed ahead of time, and be recorded on the individual's federally issued ID.

Mother/Surrogate Mothers of S-Factor Children

• Anyone using donated S-Factor genetic materials to have a child will have free quality medical care for the duration of the pregnancy.
• If a mother/surrogate mother using said materials has a child without the S-Factor, that individual will receive a one-time payment of $1000 and may opt to have the child put up for adoption and/or raised by the new Federal Creche System (a system that combines child care and education into small communities of caregivers that raise and educate the children as a group).
• Anyone having a child (by natural, artificial, or any other means) with a Recessive S-Factor will gain a $2500/month income for life for each child so born.
• Anyone having a child (by natural, artificial, or any other means) with an Expressed S-Factor will gain a $5000/month income for life for each child so born.
• Any parent of a child born with an expressed S-Factor that gives that child over to a Federal S-Factor Creche System to be raised will gain an additional $5000/month for each child provided.

Stories from the US

Portrait	Character	Age	Gender	Genes	Powers	Story
pic	Sample McName	##	Gender	Recessive / Expressed	Powers	Play as Sample
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