Post by Konja of Clan Korm on Jul 30, 2021 20:08:01 GMT -8
The CONTingency for the INtegrity of the Entire Nation of Tuffles, or CONTINENT for short, was the last major push to ensure the survival of the Tuffle race. It was established by Royal Edict 17153, issued by the Tuffle King in the 13th official year of the Saiyan-Tuffle War for Planet Plant. As the ultimate contingency plan, the idea that became CONTINENT was initially drafted as a hypothetical scenario where the war would last until the next Twin Full Moons, a once-in-a-century event that was soon approaching. Here, the Saiyans would decisively end the war through the power of their Great Ape transformation. This gave them a hard deadline of 7 years. The King instated his Chief Advisor, the world-famous Dr. Lychee, as its primary architect.
CONTINENT was a massive undertaking involving every sector of Tuffle civilization. It sought to approach the threat of extinction from the perspective of rebuilding, rather than preventing their demise. The lynchpin of this effort was the Master Index, a universal database that would be used to preserve the genomes and memories of every Tuffle still living at the time of its completion.
In addition to this, the information and schematics for technologies considered vital to rebuilding their civilisation were also preserved on the Index. This included the various types of fusion power already developed, foundational drone technology and its various offshoots, basic weapons, machines, AI, agriculture, and many others.
Multiple copies of the Master Index were made and entrusted to the Custodians, a select group of the thousand best and brightest Tuffles, who were selected to execute the contingency. Their purpose would be to use the information on the Master Index to rebuild the Tuffle population on distant colony worlds through cloning. This itself was a rapidly advancing technology under development by multiple individuals and organisations from a myriad of sectors, from private enterprise to the military, and everything in between.
A key moment in the Master Index’s development was Dr. Lychee’s perfection of the NeuroJumper, a device that would transmit a perfect recording of its user’s consciousness to the Master Index upon their death. In this way, even the soldiers fighting on the front lines would have a second chance at life after the war, as clones.
A number of private interests and government projects would ensure these people would have a home. What was formerly a network of military bunkers and laboratories on various uninhabited planets and moons was rapidly expanded to support a fully self-sufficient viable population.
These same interests supported the development of these colonies, selecting qualified personnel to serve as their initial population and maintenance. Certain corporations that had bankrolled such colonies offered habitation slots for sale, and even held raffles to select ordinary families who could not afford to pay the expenses involved.
As the years went by, a trickle of colony ships left Planet Plant ahead of the apocalypse to get the seeds of their renewed civilisation sown.
In parallel to the Index, every last vestige of Tuffle knowledge was uploaded into a number of Hyperservers that were launched to the darkspace outside of the galaxy, where they could be remotely accessed via Quantum Entanglement. The Dark Servers were more difficult to reach, and most colonies would be unable to access this information. That knowledge was reserved for select installations given the highest priority.
At the end of the day, their preparation paid off as their fears were realised. On the eve of the Plantian Twin Full Moons, a fleet of ships carrying copies of the Master Index and a thousand of the best and brightest Tuffles were launched into space, intent on populating the various top secret bunker networks built on other worlds and moons.
The Tuffle race had survived, if as a shadow of its former glory.