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An OOC Note from Three's Creator
12 years ago
For the record, the whole bit about the 'miracle cure' in the recent storyline of Fox's was not something recently created and has in fact been a part of Three's character for about fifteen years. When you design an immortal character, it's fun to come up with unique ways of what makes them immortal. In Three's case, I decided that her endocrine system and a little of her bone marrow produce an enzyme that forces her body to remain in a 'default' state. In her case, unfortunately, that state was AFTER she was sterilized.
Three only knows what she was told about it. That her state was a recessive gene and she happened to luck out. The truth is she was just a side effect of the gene priest's centuries long experiments on the population. The enzyme was purposely meant to be extracted and used on other carbon-based organics easily as the intent of it was to use it as incentive or reward. Immortals who offer bits of their immortality to loyal people, and anyone who thinks to rise up and kill them would end up killing that source.
Had she not escaped, she no doubt would have ended up hooked to machines to keep her alive and constantly filter her blood. The only reason why that was not done to her outright was that she was being field tested. They wanted to see how she handled a 'normal' lifespan under various conditions to see if the enzyme actually worked as it was designed to. The act of mercy that supposedly damned her actually saved her in more ways than one.
As for the chemical itself, yes it makes the body reject nanites and cybernetics. It was created by a race who believed in physical purity and perfection, and cybernetics were only for people who had been maimed and injured. The strength of the effect is also determined by the dose, which is why the effects vary from dose to dose. (Also, it makes for a good plot device, and the more you restrict it the less useful it is as one)
Saying all of this though, I am no biologist and I'm sure that someone determined enough could dismiss the whole thing. To them I remind them of the fact that we were talking about a dimensional hopping kittycat. If the lack of 'realism' bothers you, there are larger points to nitpick, really.
Anywho, I just wanted to explain. We now return you to your regularly scheduled kittycat.
Three only knows what she was told about it. That her state was a recessive gene and she happened to luck out. The truth is she was just a side effect of the gene priest's centuries long experiments on the population. The enzyme was purposely meant to be extracted and used on other carbon-based organics easily as the intent of it was to use it as incentive or reward. Immortals who offer bits of their immortality to loyal people, and anyone who thinks to rise up and kill them would end up killing that source.
Had she not escaped, she no doubt would have ended up hooked to machines to keep her alive and constantly filter her blood. The only reason why that was not done to her outright was that she was being field tested. They wanted to see how she handled a 'normal' lifespan under various conditions to see if the enzyme actually worked as it was designed to. The act of mercy that supposedly damned her actually saved her in more ways than one.
As for the chemical itself, yes it makes the body reject nanites and cybernetics. It was created by a race who believed in physical purity and perfection, and cybernetics were only for people who had been maimed and injured. The strength of the effect is also determined by the dose, which is why the effects vary from dose to dose. (Also, it makes for a good plot device, and the more you restrict it the less useful it is as one)
Saying all of this though, I am no biologist and I'm sure that someone determined enough could dismiss the whole thing. To them I remind them of the fact that we were talking about a dimensional hopping kittycat. If the lack of 'realism' bothers you, there are larger points to nitpick, really.
Anywho, I just wanted to explain. We now return you to your regularly scheduled kittycat.
Then again, they could have felt that observance of their core laws was more important than this amazing resource, which makes them, well, quite honorable, in a way. Certainly not compassionate, but still honorable.
Of course, there's always the possibility that they just shrugged their shoulders and figured that they could always make another one, or even had a few candidates that didn't show quite as much promise, but still worthy of further research. Considering that Three has never heard from her kind again, especially after so long, I suppose they didn't succeed.
Except the parents of the child she saved pooled together a large sum of money and for her smuggled off world with a false identity. She took odd jobs on starships for a few decades before she her her first experience with a dimensional jump.
And I have considered the fate of her race. Tell me, if you found out that what you thought was a beneficial organization was actually experimenting on the populace, including calling for the euthanasia of citizens simply as a means of covering their tracks (under the guise of gene purity)... how do you think that organization would end up once word had finally leaked? And add that the factor to a population that had a great deal of difficulty conceiving children without the aid of that organization...
I think if Three ever knew this, she would have remained an atheist for a great deal longer than she did.