Humans and the Company's Research Space Station
Welcome to the world of Alien Monsters! Abéline is a genetically modified baby, part of an experiment to give humans the terrifying Alien monsters' psy abilities. She and her siblings have grown up in a research space station, forced to go through deadly experiments. When Alien monsters suddenly appear and start eating everyone, the babies take their chance to try to escape. Come read about her struggle!
Introduction to the story | Abéline | Novel upcoming
Introduction to the story | Abéline | Novel upcoming
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The place where the babies spent their entire life before the Aliens' attack, and where the Company carries out its worst experiments out of people's eyes...
The Aliens
The discover of the Aliens in space by Company [name] have given them the key to those discoveries. Those Aliens can enter hibernation and can then survive with no oxygen food or water for what seems to be infinite amounts of time. To make thinks better, they seem to have what scientists call psy abilities that the Company owners would be delighted in stealing for themselves. The only problem is that Aliens are a deadly species that kills and eats any humans it encounters, making all experiments on them extremely dangerous.
Humanity
Origin
All humans come from the planet Earth. Earth itself is controlled by a miriad of governments. However, only a few companies have access to space travel, and they have use it to establish all gigantic colonial empire into space. Inside their domains, they are all powerful, with their employees little better than serfs or even outright slaves. Space travel is relatively slow, as humans have not yet managed faster-than-light travel. Instead, they have used a mix of cryosleep and generation ships to create their colonies. Messages are faster but it can still takes months for communication to travel between the headquarters of one of the company and the outreached of its colonial territory.The research
Goal
Given that the Space Companies are all powerful and have an infinite space over which to expand, the rivalries between them are not their main focus. Instead, they all care the most about technical progress, foremost among them expanding humans' lifespan.
Given that the Space Companies are all powerful and have an infinite space over which to expand, the rivalries between them are not their main focus. Instead, they all care the most about technical progress, foremost among them expanding humans' lifespan.
The discover of the Aliens in space by Company [name] have given them the key to those discoveries. Those Aliens can enter hibernation and can then survive with no oxygen food or water for what seems to be infinite amounts of time. To make thinks better, they seem to have what scientists call psy abilities that the Company owners would be delighted in stealing for themselves. The only problem is that Aliens are a deadly species that kills and eats any humans it encounters, making all experiments on them extremely dangerous.
The babies
The Company has seize the opportunity presented by the Aliens by triggering the Baby Experiment: they mixed Alien and human genes to create babies so as to find ways in which to successfully take the benefits of Alien genes without harming the human species. There has been several generations of babies, but the current one is the most promising, and they have been allowed to grow up so as to see if they can be made to manifest psy abilities. To that end, the babies are constantly pushed through dangerous experiments (to distinguish from the Experiment with a capital letter), calling them challenges for better optics. The question is whether the babies will all die during the challenges before they show any signs of psy abilities or whether the company will get bored of them and "terminate" them so that they can create a new generation of babies. Currently, only 13 babies are left alive. The research space station where the story starts is dedicated to this research.
The Company has seize the opportunity presented by the Aliens by triggering the Baby Experiment: they mixed Alien and human genes to create babies so as to find ways in which to successfully take the benefits of Alien genes without harming the human species. There has been several generations of babies, but the current one is the most promising, and they have been allowed to grow up so as to see if they can be made to manifest psy abilities. To that end, the babies are constantly pushed through dangerous experiments (to distinguish from the Experiment with a capital letter), calling them challenges for better optics. The question is whether the babies will all die during the challenges before they show any signs of psy abilities or whether the company will get bored of them and "terminate" them so that they can create a new generation of babies. Currently, only 13 babies are left alive. The research space station where the story starts is dedicated to this research.
The space station
Location
The space station is an enormous structure that has comfortably been housing hundreds of people for decades. It is located in an isolated avant-post in space, far away from the rest of civilisation, with nobody to truly oversee what the Company gets up to. Because of the distance, messages to and from the company and supply takes months to arrive.
Despite the isolation, there is no real external danger for the inhabitants of the station, as Alien sighing are rare and not specific to the region. Instead, when an Alien is sighted anywhere in the known universe, the Company sent troops to capture them and then bring them to the station. The soldiers stationed in the station are there to guard the Alien prisoners and the babies and to maintain order and loyalty among the other inhabitants.
Composition
Security
This space station was been built especially for research on the Aliens, and so security is its main feature. An entire section is dedicated to a prison for the Alien, and many security process are in place to limits their movements and the number of casualty should they escape - as well as to ensure their recapture without killing them. Such features include a fully automated control of the surveillance system, the doors, the gravity, air composition and pressure, as well as special electric and magnetic fields that can form shields and prisons.
This space station was been built especially for research on the Aliens, and so security is its main feature. An entire section is dedicated to a prison for the Alien, and many security process are in place to limits their movements and the number of casualty should they escape - as well as to ensure their recapture without killing them. Such features include a fully automated control of the surveillance system, the doors, the gravity, air composition and pressure, as well as special electric and magnetic fields that can form shields and prisons.
Control
The command section of the space sheep is dedicated to :Piloting of the space station, as it can move slowly through space.
Controlling of all automated system of the space station to ensure surveillance and security.
Controlling the physical coming and going from the space station through ships and emergency pods, none of which are allowed to land or take off without authorisation.
Communication with the exterior world, as it's the only place in the space station that can send and receive message. There is a direct message line to the Company's owners to send report and receive their orders, a line to the Company headquarters for more mundane things like ordering supply and new personnel and for employees to contact any family they left behind.
The command section of the space sheep is dedicated to :
Research
The main purpose of the space station is to house experiments on the Aliens, and especially the Baby Experiment. As such, most of the station is dedicated to labs and offices to plan and conduct all of those experiments, as well as to rooms with sophisticated technology allowing for customisable configurations to build obstacle courses and escape rooms for the babies for the Experiment.
The main purpose of the space station is to house experiments on the Aliens, and especially the Baby Experiment. As such, most of the station is dedicated to labs and offices to plan and conduct all of those experiments, as well as to rooms with sophisticated technology allowing for customisable configurations to build obstacle courses and escape rooms for the babies for the Experiment.
Living quarters
The last section of the space station is the living quarters for all of its inhabitants. They are spacious and comfortable for a space station, as all personnel working and living there are elite employees of the Company, treated with the respect owed to their skills to ensure their loyalty and dedication to their mission. The babies are housed with their "parents", i.e., the scientist couples who gave them their genes. This is done to ensure a better control over them as well as a better education and mental stability.
The last section of the space station is the living quarters for all of its inhabitants. They are spacious and comfortable for a space station, as all personnel working and living there are elite employees of the Company, treated with the respect owed to their skills to ensure their loyalty and dedication to their mission. The babies are housed with their "parents", i.e., the scientist couples who gave them their genes. This is done to ensure a better control over them as well as a better education and mental stability.
Inhabitants of the space station
All inhabitants of the research space station are employees of the Company—or their possessions, like the babies and the Aliens. They are the very best in the galaxy, chosen especially to carry out the Company's most important Experiment and to pursue its goal of immortality and power. And as time goes by without the Experiment succeeding, all those clever and ambitious people are starting to get worried for their career...The scientists
The scientists are the one taking care of the Baby Experiment, designing and carrying out smaller sections of it to answer the Company's objective and feedback. They are the ones who first came up with the idea, the babies' "parents" are among their number.
Most of them are curious and fascinated by the babies, and they like to prod them or put them in different situatino to see how they react. They get so absorbed by these feelings and carried on by their enthusiasm that they even the "parents" tend to forget the implications and danger for the babies.
Head scientist
He is also Abéline's father. Despite being head scientist, he's not fully in charge of everything in the space station. Him and the head of the soldiers and caretakers constantly spy on each other and report to the company's owners, forcing the three of them to rival in loyalty and obedience for the company and tying their hand in how they can behave with the babies. His main goal has always been to explore and push the limits of science. He's a ruthless and ambitious man ready to sacrifice almost anything for what he wants. Nevertheless, he's very attached to his wife who's his non-scientist assistant, and through her, he's slowly grown attached to Abéline until she's become more than an experiment in his eyes. This has made him conflicted, yet he hasn't found a way to fully protect her from the company's intentions beyond giving her hints to better survive the experiments.
He is also Abéline's father. Despite being head scientist, he's not fully in charge of everything in the space station. Him and the head of the soldiers and caretakers constantly spy on each other and report to the company's owners, forcing the three of them to rival in loyalty and obedience for the company and tying their hand in how they can behave with the babies. His main goal has always been to explore and push the limits of science. He's a ruthless and ambitious man ready to sacrifice almost anything for what he wants. Nevertheless, he's very attached to his wife who's his non-scientist assistant, and through her, he's slowly grown attached to Abéline until she's become more than an experiment in his eyes. This has made him conflicted, yet he hasn't found a way to fully protect her from the company's intentions beyond giving her hints to better survive the experiments.
The soldiers
They are the people protecting the space station from bands of roaming space criminals and Aliens. However, these encounters are so rare, their main role is as jailers for the Aliens, the babies, and the other test subjects in the station. They also take care of the maintenance of the station and occasionally carry out some exploration mission in nearby systems of space.
Head of the soldiers
He hates the Aliens for killing so many of his soldiers during their capture and for still continuing to cause problems, injuries and occasional death while being cages and supposedly defenseless. He also loathes the babies for being mixed species and sharing genes with them. He's sadistic and likes to take his pent up aggression on them. He's the one insisting on making the experiments as deadly as possible despite the company still needing the babies. He prevents his soldiers from attacking the babies, openly, but just barely, and he doesn't care if anyone sabotages the experiments so long as they it's also not too overt and they have plausible deniability in the eyes of the company that anything untoward happened.
He hates the Aliens for killing so many of his soldiers during their capture and for still continuing to cause problems, injuries and occasional death while being cages and supposedly defenseless. He also loathes the babies for being mixed species and sharing genes with them. He's sadistic and likes to take his pent up aggression on them. He's the one insisting on making the experiments as deadly as possible despite the company still needing the babies. He prevents his soldiers from attacking the babies, openly, but just barely, and he doesn't care if anyone sabotages the experiments so long as they it's also not too overt and they have plausible deniability in the eyes of the company that anything untoward happened.
The caretakers
The caretakers are everyone not a soldier or a scientist living on the space station. Their actual job ranges from high career bureaucrats ruling over the company to janitors. They include a few nannies and child psychologists brought in specially to help care for the babies. The name "caretaker" is not official but is what the babies call them.
Most of them act coldly towards the babies, simply trying to get on with their job and progress in their career without getting bother with cumbersome emotions like compassion for them.
Head caretakers
He loathes the babies for being lower life form and considers them as little better than animals. He likes order and for things to be meticulously in their place and working as required. The babies frustrate him for "refusing" to work properly alongside the experiments to make them successful. He sees the failure of the Experiment in making them manifest psy talents as a personal failure and so as an affront on his competence and the vision he has of himself.
He loathes the babies for being lower life form and considers them as little better than animals. He likes order and for things to be meticulously in their place and working as required. The babies frustrate him for "refusing" to work properly alongside the experiments to make them successful. He sees the failure of the Experiment in making them manifest psy talents as a personal failure and so as an affront on his competence and the vision he has of himself.
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