We thought that bio-structures were the only solution to sustainable cities, ones that could spring up fully formed in a matter of months - roads included! As much as we bolstered, vaccinated and prepared the seedlings for the harshness of the wild world, we never thought the world would react so violently.
At first the outbreaks were few and far between - a pavement gone soft, lamp posts that gently collapsed overnight only to rise in the morning, windows that clouded over milky grey for no damned reason - they were all malformed but pretty much functional.
In hindsight we should have known that these were only minor symptoms of a global plague that would send us all back to the stone age. It was as if the bone-structures were perforating to the point of reabsorption, a known human condition that had somehow adapted itself into our bio-structures.
Whole cities were evacuated as they collapsed in on themselves, softly smothering eight million people to death and injuring countless others. We may never know the full extent of their damage, not until we can trace them all back to the original seedling and obtain a core sample.
It's not stopping at the inorganic either, not with over forty suspected cases being examined. They may not be making their results public yet but they aren't roadkill, no matter what the news says there's no kind of vehicle that leaves bears looking more like rugs than rugged predators.
We haven't found any human cases yet but it works slowly, moving from spasms to full on seizures to eventual asphyxiation as the spine and lungs melt into each other before being completely reabsorbed by the body. It's the kind of death I wouldn't wish on anyone, not with the sheer number of creatures being found utterly boneless and alive somehow.
It's only a matter of time before the cases begin to emerge and then what? We've got no chance of vaccinating against something we haven't even categorized as anything more than a "condition". Not a virus, not bacteria, not anything we've ever seen before outside of late night gore flicks.
The public aren't being made aware just yet but we're already planning the kinds of equipment needed to sustain a human without their skeletal structure. Something low gravity, low movement and just pressurised enough to force the diaphragm and vocal chords to work.
It's far from perfect but as far as survival goes - beggars can't be choosers.
At first the outbreaks were few and far between - a pavement gone soft, lamp posts that gently collapsed overnight only to rise in the morning, windows that clouded over milky grey for no damned reason - they were all malformed but pretty much functional.
In hindsight we should have known that these were only minor symptoms of a global plague that would send us all back to the stone age. It was as if the bone-structures were perforating to the point of reabsorption, a known human condition that had somehow adapted itself into our bio-structures.
Whole cities were evacuated as they collapsed in on themselves, softly smothering eight million people to death and injuring countless others. We may never know the full extent of their damage, not until we can trace them all back to the original seedling and obtain a core sample.
It's not stopping at the inorganic either, not with over forty suspected cases being examined. They may not be making their results public yet but they aren't roadkill, no matter what the news says there's no kind of vehicle that leaves bears looking more like rugs than rugged predators.
We haven't found any human cases yet but it works slowly, moving from spasms to full on seizures to eventual asphyxiation as the spine and lungs melt into each other before being completely reabsorbed by the body. It's the kind of death I wouldn't wish on anyone, not with the sheer number of creatures being found utterly boneless and alive somehow.
It's only a matter of time before the cases begin to emerge and then what? We've got no chance of vaccinating against something we haven't even categorized as anything more than a "condition". Not a virus, not bacteria, not anything we've ever seen before outside of late night gore flicks.
The public aren't being made aware just yet but we're already planning the kinds of equipment needed to sustain a human without their skeletal structure. Something low gravity, low movement and just pressurised enough to force the diaphragm and vocal chords to work.
It's far from perfect but as far as survival goes - beggars can't be choosers.
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