C. J. Cherryh - Gene Wars 02 - Forge of Heaven

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Forge of Heaven -- C J Cherryh - Gene Wars 02 -

FORGE of

HEAVEN

C. J. Cherryh

the gene wars 02

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Reference
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History
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Positional Map
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Power
FORGE OF HEAVEN
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Reference

History

Consider two bubbles in space, one the shape

of ondat territory, the other the shape of what is

human. Earth sits, not at the center of its bubble, but

off center at the farthest side.

This is the shape of things. The bubbles forever

overlap, thanks to a human action.They forever

overlap, since humans let the Gene Wars reach the

ondat homeworld… since ruin overtook the heart of

ondat culture, and the ondat went to war with

humankind.

Concord Station sits in that zone of overlap. At

Concord, humans and ondat keep anxious truce and

watch, a situation older than all extant governments,

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all extant culture, all extant languages but one, in

both spheres of influence. Time moves incredibly

slowly here. But since ondat are patient, humans are

compelled to be.

The Gene Wars ended here, ages ago, in a cold

peace.The ondat maintain one observer at Concord

Station—perhaps one. Humans, sharing the same

station, have no way to be sure.

Cross deep space, now, to the deep places of human

territory.

In the Inner Worlds, farthest bubble within the

human bubble, Earth floats in a sea of biological

change, still obsessed with keeping dry. Inner

Worlds Authority, residing on Earth, restricts even

the simple biotech that Outsider Space regards as a

useful, even a trivial instrument. The Inner Worlds

jealously protect what it calls the pure human

genome, and frown on genetic modifications even of

a medical, lifesaving nature. Every use of

bioengineering technology in this region must pass

slow and painstaking review.

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Go back to the beginning of this situation, however

In the larger bubble, and long, long ago, within that

region of human territory that Earth calls the

Outside, an anti-Earth splinter called the Movement

broke from local authority, and broke in a way that

forever alienated them from Earth.The Movement

bioengineered humans, livestock, and agriculture—

specifically to fit colonists for three difficult planets

it hoped to claim.

Movement science had joined nanotech with

biotech. It changed humans in ways that could be

passed on. The Movement claimed worlds, and it

meant to govern Outsider territory.

Earth quickly slammed down a total quarantine

against everything Outside.

That meant that the far greater number of Outsiders

who wanted Earth’s help in this ongoing crisis were

abruptly and without consultation, cut off from

direct trade.The next decades were a struggle for

moderate Outsider governments to keep their own

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settlements alive, to organize some sort of

government without Earth—and simultaneously to

fight the Movement, which was mobile and difficult

to track down. Earth began to use Outsider

assistance in its own hunt for Movement bases, and

reasserted its unifying authority over Outsider

governments, but still refused any direct personal

contact with places it considered contaminated, and

that by then included the entire Outside.

It was not love of mother Earth that kept the

beleaguered Outsiders fighting against the

Movement. It was pure self-preservation, the

knowledge that if biochange produced a disaster it

would happen in their laps. They formed a union of

their own, centered at a station named Apex, and

laid down laws that would keep trade going,

independent of Earth and the Inner Worlds.

Driven farther out by a series of Outsider military

successes, the outlaw Movement spread nanotech to

another world, to secure a base there.

But another species existed here, previously

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suspected, but never encountered. Ondat landed on

the world during this period, contacted these

aggressively adaptive Movement nanisms, and

unknowingly let loose disaster on their own species,

a calamitous runaway that spread from them to their

homeworld.

Ondat went to war; seeing no species or behavioral

difference in Movement, Outsiders, or Earth.

Earth and Outsider forces understood at least that

Movement actions, specifically the Movement

intrusion into ondat territory, had touched off this

war—and they moved quickly to dissociate

themselves from the Movement They joined the

ondat attack on the Movement in space, they hunted

Movement bases down to the last, and gradually the

ondat seemed to accept that not all humans were

hostile.

But in the economics of the war; badly hammered

by the ondat attacks and Movement alike, the

Outside had lost its newfound autonomy. In the

process of protecting the Outside from infiltration

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