The city of Lagrandia on the planet Halvaro is a gleaming beacon of advanced civilization. A sprawling megalopolis covering nearly a third of the planets surface, it is the place to live if you wish to have anything to do with the advancement of any of a hundred different sciences and industries. Gleaming towers of all shapes and sizes, some as large as a three kilometers tall, dominate the skyline. The brightest minds and the most motivated business people push the envelope of life in this quadrant of the galaxy. From the refinement of the fold drives used for transport, to the DNA restructuring tech that adds centuries onto the lives of all manner of living being, Lagrandia has a hand in all of it.

In the east side of the city, right on the equator, stands a five hundred story tower that is the corporate and laboratory headquarters of Genetic Incarnation Technologies. G.I.T. was founded almost thirty years ago by Jensen Oprimo who at the time was a prodigy in the manipulation and reorganization of genetic structures. At only twenty five years of age he had discovered a process that would force DNA to reorganize itself into the most optimal configuration for longevity and health. Respiratory and circulatory systems stayed healthier and resisted diseases and obstructions, bones and teeth were stronger.

Twenty years ago after an abundance of peer testing and reviews the Oprimo Process, as it came to be known, was approved for use by all sentient races in the quadrant. The only downside was the cost. As with nearly everything that helps people, or make their lives better, the initial cost of treatment was far too much for the masses. This was slowly changing though, and many had hope that they could go through the process within the next few decades. As a matter of fact, at this very moment, Jensen just completed testing a process that would use a planets own atmosphere to spread the mutation pathogen without the need for a lot of it's current contents which would cut the cost immensely.

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Raising his head from the microscope Jensen grinned widely, "I think I'm ready. After all these years, only a few things left to do." He said to nobody as he was alone in the lab. He secured his samples into specimen storage units and backed up all of his data. After hanging his lab coat he stepped onto the turbolift and rode up to the five hundreth floor and his office. He poured himself a considerably large glass of alcohol and sat down to check his comms before heading home for the night.

As usual there were about a hundred comm mails awaiting him. Mostly useless productivity reports from middle managers who only sent him the reports to give them something to do. Some progress reports from R & D that contained things he already knew. There was one mail detailing a delayed shipment from the Fornolo system due to a crew issue. Just as he was getting bored and about to close his comms he saw the subject line of one message that caught his attention, "Unknown Alien".

The message was from one of his field agents who would travel across the sector looking for anything that may be considered copyright infringement, or possible opportunities to be taken advantage of. He opened the message and it was just one sentence with a video attachment, "Unknown Alien incident on Uslaw outpost". Opening the attachment he reached for his drink and as he turned back he froze. On the screen he saw a somewhat grainy video that was clearly from a surveillance camera in a bar. He watched as three Blurepcian men were clearly harrassing a Plebescian woman when suddenly he saw it and he dropped his glass. A fourth man appeared and attempted to interject on behalf of the woman.

Jensen paused the video, zoomed in and gasped. It was the very thing he had been waiting for. The one chance to move his plans forward. The bald and slightly red skin man killed one of the assailants in one punch and rendered a second incapacitated with some sort of acid spit attack. He quickly opened a new message and sent off orders to a dozen different people. He stared at the screen for a long time before talking to himself, "Finally, a human being from Earth."