Made of Scraps

In a world, once eutopian, governed by the law of natural selection, every aspect of the biotic strives for their survival to sprout through the ever changing eras. Man, a species much familiar with the dangers of the unforeseen, would learn to court astuteness and shrewdness to anticipate, or perhaps remedy the controversies of life- disease, pain, death. Science, one of the most indispensable footholds to the survival of mankind, focused on data collection, assimilation and processing to innovate routes to a life free of all these controversies. Yet, this crutch to the human kind would only lead to an evergreen handicap. In the state of Vlot, resides a lab- BLOOM, renowned for her prowess in innovations yielding to the betterness of us all, humans. This definition would soon change with the discovery of a resident scientist- Professor Zult. His research involved blending the concept of acceleration of particles and that of evolution. He believed that because organisms were subjected to stressful conditions, they would eventually grow and bear offspring with traits that combat the precedent stress. These genes responsible for such traits were known as "Alpha genes". However, it would take years, decades or even centuries for such an accommodation to surface. The concept of particle acceleration was there to remedy this inconvenience. By subjecting humans to the conditions they'd want to negate, and accelerating the cell particles, this could shorten the time for the evolution. A process he coined "accommodation." However him and his followers, blinded by the prowess of this milestone underrated the associated risks, and soon this long dreamed eutopia ovulated a parallel dystopia, separating the world of humans into different classes, as per their level of accomodation- the alphas, betas, gammas, deltas, epsilons and the zetas. The alphas were now at the top of the society while the zetas were the common citizens with the lowest level of accommodation. Among these, those who offended the laws of the new world- New Vlot, were bestowed the name "Omicron ." New Volt was besieged by two immense and almost unshakable walls know as the "great walls." The first, "Mu" resided within the beauty of New Volt, the heart of leisure and peace. The less privileged resided within "Nu"-the slums and less pretty. Those who gravely offended the law would often venture there, and were known as "omicrons". But life wasn't limited to just within these walls. Those presumed or confirmed with zero level of accommodation became rejects, often referred to as "scraps" and the name "lambda" was bestowed on them. These were sometimes used as lab rats of Mu, hence the name "scraps". Outside the great walls was an almost barren land, rich in hazards of diverse varieties. But from these, one would survive to ascend to a level no one would fathom, in the least expected ways- upgrading with scraps. From scraps, a new level of accommodation will be unlocked- the Omega. This name will be bestowed upon he who strived in the opposite pole to gain a level that would compare to an alpha.