1181 submissions
A brief History of the Kahu and a short story
Please enjoy something I am working on.
Also, please provide feedback on this as I want to improve this
This is a brief history of a species I created called the Kahu. The Kahu are a genetically engineered species created by humans in the far future....
The Kahu is a slave race that was created approximately a half million years before freed by their creators. Today there is around 35 different species of Kahu living on Thera after 10 were initially created. The Kahu were created to perform menial tasks and jobs, be organ factories, disposable warriors and pleasure slaves. The first generation of Kahu were:
Felines (Domestic cats), Canines, Vulpines, Lapines, Mephits, Rats, Mice, Otters, Snow Leopards and Weasels.
These ten species were primarily pleasure slaves and warriors for the humans who created them. The original Kahu were created in labs for about 1000 years by one of two processes. The first process only lasted about 200-300 years as the success rate was one in 10 million, and that was hitting the subjects with tailored quantum data beams that slowly and painfully altered that subjects bodies into the new forms. The second process was genetically de-evolving humans (volunteers, prisoners, political rivals, dissidents, and end of life test subjects) by injecting chemical nanobots into the subjects that altered DNA at the quantum levels to force the subjects from human to an anthro-human. Both processes were never pleasant for those getting changed, in the early years once the processes were perfected, the humans getting changed would kill themselves in order to not end up as an anthro-human, not for the transformation from human to anthro-human (sub-human), but for the memory and personality wipe and reinsertion that happened once the transformation was complete.
Unfortunately those who underwent the memory and personality wipe and reimplantation of new memories and personalities retained the terror they experienced before and during the memory and personality wipes. This great fear became a trait of the original ten Kahu species and nearly half of the newer species that has been seen as a characteristic of those species. They are very timid, fearful and scared of anything that is out of the ordinary. This trait was desired by the human slave owners because it meant those particular Kahu would do anything to stay in the good graces of their owners. Thought there have been times when those Kahu with the inborn fear response are threatened, they can overcome the fear response and fight to defend themselves. It also appears that the inborn fear response is slowly fading, but how long before it is gone from the affected Kahu species is difficult at best to determine.
Both the transformation and memory/personality wipe and reinsertion was irreversible once completed. This would be the final punishment for anyone convicted of any crimes (real or imagined) for the next 100 to 200 thousand years. The memory and personality wipe was the last thing done to the convicted before they were reprogrammed with new memories and personality tailored to whatever species they were transformed into and sent to their new owner. The name Kahu from the outset was a derogatory term for the anthro-humans until the Kahu took up the name for themselves. Constructed Anthro-Human was the long version during the early years of the species development but changed to Cahu as both a short version of the name and as a derogatory term for the species as a whole. No one knows when the Kahu adopted the name as their own, but surviving records show that the version of Cahu with a K started appearing about 200 thousands years before the Great Kahu war.
The third process began once the Kahu began to reproduce with viable young that remained in the form of his/her parents. After the original ten Kahu began reliably reproducing their own species, then the humans began taking select females from their families and started to genetically alter the fetus’ into new anthro-humans. After 300 thousand years the humans stopped playing god with the Kahu and criminals and began to heavily regulate and control the Kahu’s lives, status and futures.
Also, please provide feedback on this as I want to improve this
This is a brief history of a species I created called the Kahu. The Kahu are a genetically engineered species created by humans in the far future....
The Kahu is a slave race that was created approximately a half million years before freed by their creators. Today there is around 35 different species of Kahu living on Thera after 10 were initially created. The Kahu were created to perform menial tasks and jobs, be organ factories, disposable warriors and pleasure slaves. The first generation of Kahu were:
Felines (Domestic cats), Canines, Vulpines, Lapines, Mephits, Rats, Mice, Otters, Snow Leopards and Weasels.
These ten species were primarily pleasure slaves and warriors for the humans who created them. The original Kahu were created in labs for about 1000 years by one of two processes. The first process only lasted about 200-300 years as the success rate was one in 10 million, and that was hitting the subjects with tailored quantum data beams that slowly and painfully altered that subjects bodies into the new forms. The second process was genetically de-evolving humans (volunteers, prisoners, political rivals, dissidents, and end of life test subjects) by injecting chemical nanobots into the subjects that altered DNA at the quantum levels to force the subjects from human to an anthro-human. Both processes were never pleasant for those getting changed, in the early years once the processes were perfected, the humans getting changed would kill themselves in order to not end up as an anthro-human, not for the transformation from human to anthro-human (sub-human), but for the memory and personality wipe and reinsertion that happened once the transformation was complete.
Unfortunately those who underwent the memory and personality wipe and reimplantation of new memories and personalities retained the terror they experienced before and during the memory and personality wipes. This great fear became a trait of the original ten Kahu species and nearly half of the newer species that has been seen as a characteristic of those species. They are very timid, fearful and scared of anything that is out of the ordinary. This trait was desired by the human slave owners because it meant those particular Kahu would do anything to stay in the good graces of their owners. Thought there have been times when those Kahu with the inborn fear response are threatened, they can overcome the fear response and fight to defend themselves. It also appears that the inborn fear response is slowly fading, but how long before it is gone from the affected Kahu species is difficult at best to determine.
Both the transformation and memory/personality wipe and reinsertion was irreversible once completed. This would be the final punishment for anyone convicted of any crimes (real or imagined) for the next 100 to 200 thousand years. The memory and personality wipe was the last thing done to the convicted before they were reprogrammed with new memories and personality tailored to whatever species they were transformed into and sent to their new owner. The name Kahu from the outset was a derogatory term for the anthro-humans until the Kahu took up the name for themselves. Constructed Anthro-Human was the long version during the early years of the species development but changed to Cahu as both a short version of the name and as a derogatory term for the species as a whole. No one knows when the Kahu adopted the name as their own, but surviving records show that the version of Cahu with a K started appearing about 200 thousands years before the Great Kahu war.
The third process began once the Kahu began to reproduce with viable young that remained in the form of his/her parents. After the original ten Kahu began reliably reproducing their own species, then the humans began taking select females from their families and started to genetically alter the fetus’ into new anthro-humans. After 300 thousand years the humans stopped playing god with the Kahu and criminals and began to heavily regulate and control the Kahu’s lives, status and futures.
Category Story / All
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 116 x 120px
File Size 29.5 kB
FA+

Comments