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Perhaps it was a bad break for mankind that the basic techniques for gene selection were developed immediately after the last of the neo-nationalistic wars. It would be interesting to speculate whether or not the institution of modern finance structure after the downfall of the Madagascar System would have been sufficient to maintain peace if no genetic experiments had been undertaken. But pacifist reaction was at its highest point at this time; the technique of para-ectogenesis was seized on as a God-given opportunity to get rid of war by stamping it out of the human spirit.
After the Atomic War of 1970, the survivors instituted drastic genetic regulations intended for one purpose alone--the Parmalee-Hitchcock recessive of the ninth chromosome and to eliminate the dominant which usually masks it--to breed sheep rather than wolves.
It is wryly amusing that most of the "wolves" of the period--the Parmalee-Hitchcock island is recessive; there are few natural "sheep"--were caught by the hysteria and co-operated in the attempt to eliminate themselves. But some refused. The Northwest Colony eventually resulted.
That the Northwest Union should eventually fight the rest of the world was a biological necessity. The outcome was equally a necessity and the details are unimportant. The "wolves" ate the "sheep".
Not physically in the sense of complete extermination, but, genetically speaking, we are descended from "wolves," not "sheep."
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