Jurassic Park Genesis

by Dilorex

Take a look at Jurassic Park before it was built. See how Hammond made certain decisions regarding the park and how he got it the way he did before the night of that fateful accident in the park.

1. Prologue

Prologue

"Is it working, how is it coming along?" asks an impatient man, in his mid fifties. He's looking down upon a man in a lab coat, using a fine instrument to dig into a piece of shiny rock, known as amber, with a small insect trapped inside. He leans heavily on his cane, which has a piece of similar rock on the top of it, with a small mosquito inside.

"Almost there Mr. Hammond, just a few more sec- done, there it is!" exclaims the technician, as the drill pieces of the tool connects to the insect, after drilling through the fossilized tree amber all morning.

"Good, let's move onto the next step."
The technician picks up the vial with the matter extracted from the insect, and brings it over to a supercomputer. He pushes a button, and the computer screen begins flashing 1's and 0's. After about twenty minutes, Hammond speaks up:
"Well, how is the strand, is it complete?"

The technician, still staring at the screen, replies sadly, "I'm sorry sir, it's only about 50 complete."

Thinking for a minute, Hammond slowly, "Well, what can we do to patch the strand?"

"Well, there a few things sir. For starters, we need to choose another type of DNA to fill in the sequence gaps. We were discussing this just yesterday actually. We came up with a few ideas, but after looking at some sample strands, the only ones that seem compatible are the gene sets of frogs. The species we have on file is known as the West African Tree Frog. The genome compliments at about 90."

"Good, good" Hammond replied, still pacing somewhat.

"How long before you fill in the gaps?" he finally asked, stopping from his pacing.

The technician shrugged.

"It is unknown sir. Could be anywhere from an hour to a few weeks. Depends on the size of the gaps and the amount of DNA we have to work with."

Hammond took a few more steps before turning back towards the door.

"Well, get on it and I'll be back in a few hours to check your progress."

Hammond pressed down on the sensor pad and left the lab.

The technician swiveled in his chair and sighed, looking at the computer screen and took a swig of coffee before plunging into the work in front of him.