Chapter 5
Physician's Log
London, England
Stardate 1994.60
The subjects created by Rowen Eugenics Labs are truly remarkable and unique. They are built like humans, they act like humans, but they are, for lack of a better term, better. I have witnessed the awakening of 73 of these incredible men and women within the last week, all of them capable of stunning feats of strength and intelligence. They are the pinnacle of human creation—a shining example of the mastery of the human gene. I have had the pleasure and joy of working and interacting with all 72 AHL's, but none of them fascinate me like Khan.
Upon awakening for the first time, all of them were calm, contemplative, and relatively docile. Except for Khan. He was vicious and dangerous from his very first breath, attacking two laboratory technicians, and later assaulting me. He is the same as the others, yet different. His personality is alpha to the extreme, and he seems to have very little restraint when it comes to violent contact with regular human beings. During his first meeting with the other 72, he wholeheartedly embraced them—saw a kinship within those who resembled and behaved like him.
It is unclear to me just what, exactly, he learned from the AI network provided to all of The 73, although I think I am beginning to understand. While Khan and his counterparts are made to understand and think as though already learned, I see them thinking in different ways from me. Where I consider moral dilemmas and social construction, as I was taught to do, The 73 disregard such constraints. It makes their thinking free, yes. But it also makes their thinking dangerous.
And yet, they are remarkably human. After an initial "test" of my cognitive reasoning, he seems to have accepted my ongoing presence. At first, I was met with resistance in the form of uneasiness and distrust. Now, it seems I have proven myself to whatever standards he has deemed to judge me by. I can only hope that those standards are ones I would approve of.
Dr. Mara McGivers, MD