Prologue
It was approximately 100 years after the establishment of colonies when this story began. At first, no one has thought of the possible conflicts between the colonies and the Earth. People from the Earth moved to the space and naturally enough, the space colonies were considered as a part of the Earth. However, once established their lives in the colonies, the residents demanded their independence from the Earth Federation. It was not surprising, since the colonies were designed to be both resource – and financially independent from the Earth, the residents of the colonies began to fight for their independence just after 27 years of the establishment.
The Federation Government of the Earth at that time was quite shocked, and quickly set troops to the colonies to stop their independence movement. This action was not well-received by the people there. Some extremists began to response in violent actions. They attacked the troops sent by the Earth Federation and also sent terrorists to the Earth to destroy important facilities and attack not only soldiers but civilians. Although this step made a huge success in ordering the Federation to retrieve their troops in the colonies back to the Earth, it also started the hatred of civilians on Earth towards those on the colonies. Two years later, the first space war started. This war did not last long, but it set the scene of the prolonged fight between the colonies and the Earth. Five more space wars have taken place since then, thousands of people were killed each time. There was no more demand for peace between colonies and the Earth, since most of the people believed that starting wars was the only way to end the problem. The political environment of Earth was not stable either, since participation of the space wars of different places resulted biased allocation of resources and duties of different places.
Forty years after the establishment of the colonies, there was another exciting news. Scientists announced that a new subspecies of human beings was discovered, homo sapiens neo. According to the scientists, this subspecies was still able to reproduce children when they were married to 'old' species, homo sapiens. The 'newtypes' differed from 'oldtypes' by having extra mental power. They could communicate telephatically; some of them might even be able to control certain types of machine. The government officials were very excited about the news, especially the military officers, who thought of recruiting them as soldiers. They announced the news and received a great response from both the general public and experts of different sectors. There were great controversies about this scientific discovery among the intellectuals. Religious people, creationists, experts of genetics, evolutionary biologists and experts of neuroscience all gave different opinions. Religious people thought that that was a miracle by the Lord, who, by creating a new type of human beings to save the world and to create a new world. Creationists held the same view as the religious people, saying that this was an important evidence that the Almighty created organisms on Earth, since there was no obvious mutations among human beings for thousands of years and then suddenly, a group of humans appeared to have very special abilities which were very different from the ordinary human we knew. For the scientists, they were divided into two parties, one supported the hypothesis of the existence of the new subspecies homo sapiens neo and the other thought this hypothesis was wrong. A fierce debate about the discovery lasted for three years and suddenly, the party denying the existence of 'newtypes' vanished. No papers were published to oppose the idea of 'newtypes'.
According to some scientists, it was the Federation government who played the important role in this debate. In the laboratories of the Federation army, scientists were able to invent some weapons, the most famous one known as the G-bits, to be controlled telephatically in remote or in situ by a newtype called D.O.M.E. Higher officials immediately found the weapons especially useful for the war against the colonies. So, they quickly ordered to hide D.O.M.E. and search for other 'newtypes' who had the same abilities for further investigations. This could not be done when there were still doubts about the existences of 'newtypes' and so the Federation Government started to recruit all the scientists doing researches on 'newtypes' and pay the opposing parties off. Their last step was to declare that researches on 'newtypes' were top military secrets and no one could further investigate this topic unless authorized by the Federation army. So, the news of the newtypes were solely announced from the Federation government. On the other hand, the Federation government supported the religious people and creationists and let them promote their ideas freely. Soon the general public had no more doubts for newtypes.
Since then, the word 'newtype' became not merely a scientific term, but a phenomenon, which led to the different paths taken by different people. Everyone was busy trying to find 'newtypes' and do research of these group of people. But, have you ever wondered … what is a newtype?
It was approximately 100 years after the establishment of colonies when this story began. At first, no one has thought of the possible conflicts between the colonies and the Earth. People from the Earth moved to the space and naturally enough, the space colonies were considered as a part of the Earth. However, once established their lives in the colonies, the residents demanded their independence from the Earth Federation. It was not surprising, since the colonies were designed to be both resource – and financially independent from the Earth, the residents of the colonies began to fight for their independence just after 27 years of the establishment.
The Federation Government of the Earth at that time was quite shocked, and quickly set troops to the colonies to stop their independence movement. This action was not well-received by the people there. Some extremists began to response in violent actions. They attacked the troops sent by the Earth Federation and also sent terrorists to the Earth to destroy important facilities and attack not only soldiers but civilians. Although this step made a huge success in ordering the Federation to retrieve their troops in the colonies back to the Earth, it also started the hatred of civilians on Earth towards those on the colonies. Two years later, the first space war started. This war did not last long, but it set the scene of the prolonged fight between the colonies and the Earth. Five more space wars have taken place since then, thousands of people were killed each time. There was no more demand for peace between colonies and the Earth, since most of the people believed that starting wars was the only way to end the problem. The political environment of Earth was not stable either, since participation of the space wars of different places resulted biased allocation of resources and duties of different places.
Forty years after the establishment of the colonies, there was another exciting news. Scientists announced that a new subspecies of human beings was discovered, homo sapiens neo. According to the scientists, this subspecies was still able to reproduce children when they were married to 'old' species, homo sapiens. The 'newtypes' differed from 'oldtypes' by having extra mental power. They could communicate telephatically; some of them might even be able to control certain types of machine. The government officials were very excited about the news, especially the military officers, who thought of recruiting them as soldiers. They announced the news and received a great response from both the general public and experts of different sectors. There were great controversies about this scientific discovery among the intellectuals. Religious people, creationists, experts of genetics, evolutionary biologists and experts of neuroscience all gave different opinions. Religious people thought that that was a miracle by the Lord, who, by creating a new type of human beings to save the world and to create a new world. Creationists held the same view as the religious people, saying that this was an important evidence that the Almighty created organisms on Earth, since there was no obvious mutations among human beings for thousands of years and then suddenly, a group of humans appeared to have very special abilities which were very different from the ordinary human we knew. For the scientists, they were divided into two parties, one supported the hypothesis of the existence of the new subspecies homo sapiens neo and the other thought this hypothesis was wrong. A fierce debate about the discovery lasted for three years and suddenly, the party denying the existence of 'newtypes' vanished. No papers were published to oppose the idea of 'newtypes'.
According to some scientists, it was the Federation government who played the important role in this debate. In the laboratories of the Federation army, scientists were able to invent some weapons, the most famous one known as the G-bits, to be controlled telephatically in remote or in situ by a newtype called D.O.M.E. Higher officials immediately found the weapons especially useful for the war against the colonies. So, they quickly ordered to hide D.O.M.E. and search for other 'newtypes' who had the same abilities for further investigations. This could not be done when there were still doubts about the existences of 'newtypes' and so the Federation Government started to recruit all the scientists doing researches on 'newtypes' and pay the opposing parties off. Their last step was to declare that researches on 'newtypes' were top military secrets and no one could further investigate this topic unless authorized by the Federation army. So, the news of the newtypes were solely announced from the Federation government. On the other hand, the Federation government supported the religious people and creationists and let them promote their ideas freely. Soon the general public had no more doubts for newtypes.
Since then, the word 'newtype' became not merely a scientific term, but a phenomenon, which led to the different paths taken by different people. Everyone was busy trying to find 'newtypes' and do research of these group of people. But, have you ever wondered … what is a newtype?