The end goal of the Genetic Puritans was the reduction of those races of mankind deemed inferior. It was of course for the betterment of the human race in general that those inferior breeds had to end. Evolution at its finest. Survival of the fittest. What the Genetic Puritans underestimated was the basic humanity of most humans. What most of humanity underestimated was the methods the Genetic Puritans were willing to use to further their goal.
Gamma Hydrae is an odd system. We hadn’t colonized it yet when the Peloran made Contact. It was over a hundred lightyears from Earth, and nearly as far away from other inhabited systems. It was in a dead-end region of space that we just didn’t bother with. After we got the Peloran hyperdrives though we finally managed to go there. Of course there wasn’t a lot there. Just a bunch of asteroids and some old planets. Nothing special. Or so we thought.
The irony of their names has never been lost on Sherlock and Watson. In many ways they actually played on the irony when they recreated their avatars for a Second Great Depression-Era world. Sherlock’s London Fog trenchcoat, Christy’s of London fedora, and Fly London boots both harkened back to those old novels and gave him a look all his own for modern times. Watson even echoed that look for a time, and he still wears it in London and other British metropolitan areas.
We met some good people when we went out with Third Fleet. Gabrielle, Faith, and so many others. We lost a lot of people too, but that’s the way of War. The friends we made determin the future far more than those we lose. And in the end that has always been our mission. Make friends. Allies. People we will stand up and defend when they need it. And people who will stand up to defend us. We made good friends. And with them we made a better future.
Most people did not recognize the true end game of the Racial Supremacists and Genetic Puritans. They cloaked their beliefs with clinics that promoted the public health as one example. With modern technology we have actually achieved much of the publicly stated goals of those days. We are the healthiest generation of humanity ever born. But the true tragedy of those days was the belief that if some wished to rise they must drag down the others.
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