America’s Ku Klux Klan was one of the most powerful Genetic Puritan organizations of the late 1800s and early 1900s. They were created after the Civil War to keep the black race in their place through murder and terror. Their political influence expanded in the 1900s and they successfully banned all colored people from government service. But despite their successes, the true goal of their plan could never be achieved in America. Europe was another matter.
The truly odd part of Gamma Hydrae is the star. She’s a mostly normal G-type giant star towards the end of her lifetime. But she emits some particularly nasty forms of non-visible radiation we did not discover until the first colonists traveled there. It causes rather dramatic premature aging in anyone it zaps. It cooked the first colonists real good before they figured out what was going on. There were very few survivors.
After regular datanet access between England and America was restored, Watson decided to embrace his American nature more fully. He began to wear cowboy hats and boots, western-style trenchcoats, and other accoutrements that left no doubt he was from the North American Mid Western region. Along with Sherlock’s Londoner attire, their essential civilian natures were projected to everyone. They did not work for the government. But they did often come to help.
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.
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