Note: I don't own Maximum Ride, related charachters, James Patterson (and by extention Maximum Ride), or Neferure (Neferure owns Neferure)
Desert Wings
Prologue: The Technological Gap
Have you ever thought about where our where our technological ideas and advancement came from? Have you ever wondered, for more than a moment, how this world you came to live in became so comfortable and well…user friendly? I really didn't think so.
The short answer is fire. When we figured out fire, we learned to cook meat, and make tools. With tools came the wheel, which allowed us to travel further, until eventually, we found metal. With metal and fire, we made better tools, and then a better wheel and…well, by now you get the picture. You need knowledge to get knowledge, and advancement to get more advancement.
But think about this for a moment. If our race has been here for several million years, why'd it take so long for us to figure out fire? Why has almost all of our innovation occurred in the last couple hundred thousand years? Well, it's kind of complicated…
Basically, it's was a gene defect. Or rather, a lack of one. When our species came into being, we were still closer to monkeys than humans. We had the ability to adapt, but one genetic trait that had served primates well, now turned against us. It limited our ability to invent and innovate. We couldn't advance.
Eventually, we figured out fire. That was the key. With the ability to be omnivorous, we could spare some of our plant eating efficiency. We began to change, and one of those changes affected that faulty gene. Now we could advance.
But another group of people figured out fire thousands of years before us, and guarded the secret jealously. They developed that new gene early, and technologically, they gained a head start. By the time we figured out how to get warm, these others were already living villages filled with mud-brick houses, and they had tamed animals like dogs and pigs.
The decentents of these people still live in our times. They still have technology thousands of years more andvanced then ours.
In fact, they founded the company that would give birth to one of our greatest heros. Not Clint Eastwood, or Chuck Norris, but someone you are all familiar with (given what section on fanfiction you're reading in). The company was Itex, and the hero(ine) was Maximum Ride.
To Itex, Max wasn't as big of a success as the Director made her out to be. They'd been doing this for thousands of years. They'd even mastered the art of stasis by 18th Dynasty Egypt.
Which happens to be where our story begins.