The Ultimate Coordinator Project
Coordinators.
They are genetically enhanced human beings, which can have a number of enhanced traits including faster learning, and stronger and faster bodies that are virtually immune to diseases.
There was a highly respected man named George Glenn announced the shocking news that he was the first Coordinator, being born following a genetic manipulation procedure, resulting in a human 'engineered' to be better. He disclosed the entire process to create a Coordinator to the public.
The genetic modifications that create a Coordinator had to be performed in the earliest stages of embryonic development. The Coordinator embryo was then reinserted back into its mother for gestation. These genetic enhancements are then passed on to the Coordinator's children without the need for more enhancements. When Natural parents have their children turned into Coordinators, the children are described as first-generation Coordinators, whose own children will then be second-generation Coordinators, and so forth.
Those who were born naturally - that is, without this procedure - became known as Naturals.
For many years, after George Glenn's revelation, Coordinators remained illegal. When the ban was repealed, in the CE 30's, the Coordinator Boom started and lasted until the CE 50's. Following the rapid and widespread diffusion of Coordinators, major social unrest followed, throwing the world into chaos. Many Naturals started to shun Coordinators out of jealousy for their abilities and/or for ethical reasons, stating that they were created unnaturally. Anti-Coordinator pressure groups, such as the radical Blue Cosmos, began labeling Coordinators as un-human and declaring they had to be exterminated "for a blue and pure world".
By the mid-50's, the situation had deteriorated to the point that Blue Cosmos members were in positions of power across the Atlantic Federation, and Coordinators had largely retreated to either neutral nations like the Orb Union or into space in PLANTs, where they were more than welcome.
In the early 50's, a renowned scientist, Professor Ulen Hibiki, proposed the usage of an artificial womb to circumvent the natural womb's shortcomings. The project was funded by the arrogant, narcissistic politician Al Da Flaga, who wanted to clone himself. Many prototypes failed, only two failures surviving, before the last and successful Ultimate Coordinator, Hibiki's son Kira Yamato, was born in May 18, CE 55 through the sacrifices of many, many older siblings who were genetic defects varying from bad to worse, until the last two specimens got lucky that while they were 'failed' Ultimates, they wouldn't have health issues like those before them and are still 'better' than normal Coordinators.
The two failures were cruelly left to their fates in their cultivation tanks by cold-hearted scientists, growing in a hidden room where they weren't found for at least, five years even after Blue Cosmos killed everyone involved. By actually stashing them in a hidden room was what protected the last two projects.
It was there that the girl's eyes opened...when nutrients that feeds them ran out.
Huang Beiyue never dreamed that she was reborn in this world after dying in the Ancestral Hall.
However, what she retained from her past life, is the ability to sense and harness ki.
But there's so little in this place. So little.
And her body is weak.
How long is her new body in that glass tank anyway? She and her companion who was in a tank next to hers struggled to move.
The place they were in was clearly attacked and blown up. By who, was unknown.
Beiyue scavenged what she could.
Large shirts for herself and her companion and then tore the bottoms up so they could run...well, her companion has to be taught. She also finds it weird that there's clothing for feet, but she's not complaining. The other shoes are too big for their tiny feet! And to keep them on, she has to tie it up.
They also found food in packets, but they tasted bad...with good reason. Expired.
Disgusted, the children decided to leave the place they were in, for the sake of living.
Beiyue saw that the world she's in, is full of weird buildings and machines.
People wore very fitted clothes and have short hair...and where she used to be, cutting hair is punishment or to be humiliated.
And their fitted clothes! Yet nobody calls females from her age to adult harlots? It's normal here? Eh?
However, their strange appearance attracted concerned curiosity...they were taken by adults in blue uniforms.
They talked in a language Beiyue knows not.
People in white came and used tools to poke and prod them, terrifying the kids...
xxx
'This is bad...the kids don't know language...they were looking at me funny when I talk and cluelessly curious about words I put up.' said a psychiatrist.
'Just where the heck did they come from, walking in the streets with floor-length uncut hair? And the weird way they wore clothes!' an officer wondered aloud.
'That's neglect, I tell you, they're horribly neglected if they can't even talk nor know how to dress properly.' sighed another officer, doing an armfold. 'Unless they learn language, we can't ask where they came from or who they are...this is severe neglect that won't go well in court. Whoever has these kids will lose custody, hands down. They don't even know what chocolate waffles are for pete's sake!' he complained.
'Yes yes, them not knowing your favorite snack is tragic.' the first officer deadpanned sarcastically before going serious. 'So what's the boss gonna do with the kids?'
'Well, what anyone's gonna do. Get a DNA Test run to find the culprits and take them to court. Then it's either orphanage or foster care.'
'Orphanage is much better, foster care is shit these days.'
'Well, we wait for verdict.'
xxx
It was decided that the kids will go to the orphanage in Heliopolis as no orphanage in Mendel will take in two Coordinator Children. It was where Beiyue and her companion lived in for years.
Learning language.
Learning about their new world.
And getting to be children.
Beiyue never got the chance to be a child in her past.
She was scorned and disdained for being trash. Nobody but Dongling was there for her after her mother died.
Dongling.
She's a strong girl unlike her. She would survive.
For kids like her and her companion, they are allowed to pick names they want. Other orphans were orphans due to disasters, thus lost their families thus have names from their parents. However, they cannot have surnames until adoption, unlike the other kids.
So they pored over books and the internet.
Or at least, Beiyue pretended she did. She wants to stay as herself, but changed the meaning of her name. She never did understand why her mother gave her name the boring writing of 'north moon' and not something cuter! Her mean older sisters and younger sister have girlier sounding names! So she chose a new meaning.
Get ready to exceed.
Bei Yue in that order.
"I'm not gonna be trash anymore! I'll show them, even if this world doesn't have martial arts nor magical items!" Beiyue swore to herself.
'You chose a name already?' her boy companion asked her.
'Yeah! I'm Beiyue from now on! I picked a chinese name meaning 'get ready to exceed' in a sentence.' Beiyue chimed, as she lied through her teeth. 'How about you? What name did you choose?'
'I dunno. What would you name me? I can't pick anything.' the boy moped unhappily, causing Beiyue to sweatdrop. 'Just...not chinese, please.' he quickly added. 'That's not my cup of tea.'
'OK! Hmmm...how about Toshiro? Japanese for intelligent one?'
Toshiro liked it.
In another life, his name would have been 'Canard' in the hands of cruel scientists who found him in that lab. Canard meaning 'a hoax' in french, as he was a failed Ultimate Coordinator.
'Un! I like it!' he perked up. 'Let's go tell matron!' he said excitedly as they went to tell matron who told them to introduce themselves, but not to tell the other kids the meaning of their names as kids can get easily jealous and pick on them. This was to avoid fights.
However, time passed by, they got adopted.
Toshiro was adopted by coordinator parents from the PLANTs, and Beiyue was adopted by a family within Heliopolis.
However, her new parents?
"What the hell?! Is she reincarnated version of mother?" her eyes bulged as the woman looked very-much-like her dead mother. But who's the red-haired guy? Whatever! This is great!
'So you're little Beiyue? You look just like Huiwen, except for the eyes!' the man laughed in amusement. Huiwen has black hair and eyes while Beiyue's eyes were purple like Toshiro's. 'She'll be your new mother. She's just talking to the matron and getting papers done while I help you pack your stuff.'
'O-OK! Thank you for picking me, er...?'
'Jun Qihai(ruler of seven seas). I'm your new papa.' Qihai smiled.
Her new parents took her home.
They could not have children due to being 3rd generation Coordinators, that adoption was their only option to their dismay. ZAFT was still working on the mystery behind it but nothing's happening any time soon. They were young and just-married, but nothing they tried worked, hoping to luck out despite what they were. Her new parents are 25 years old to her eight.
The same age she was her mother died.
She hoped her reincarnated mother would have it better here. Beiyue wasn't dumb. She hated her marriage to Yuancheng for being an open adulterer and was a very lonely Xiao-Furen as her awful father doted more on his concubines! In front of her sometimes to boot!
But now, she's reborn and has a loving husband, and she has a much-better father to boot! Beiyue felt the world did her mother justice she deserved.
All's well in Jun Beiyue's world as she finally tasted what a happy life is like for once.
"I'm definitely gonna live long, I like this life better!"
