Superhuman Development Society / SUPERHUMAN

When our cause was almost crushed…

The 21st century brought humanity break throughs in biotechnology and cybernetics. The first time in our human development we were able to change ourselfs, to make ourselfs better. We made the blind see, the deaf hear and the lame walk again. We whiped out most genetic diseases. The civilized human society bereft of natural selection had finally the chance to advance again.
But there were people who wanted to go further. People that wanted to improve their human bodies beyond the natural stage. People that wanted to become superhuman.
Early attempts were viewed as absurd behaviour, but when people started to lift cars by themselfs or ran faster than cheetahs incomprehension became fear and fear became hate. In the late 21st century the small number of superhumans was chased and opressed by ecological and religious fanatics. New laws forbade any attempts to become superhuman. Even military programs that involved superhuman developments were stopped world wide.

… and crushed again.

The human leap into the darkness of space gave our predecessors new hope. In 2521 a group of followers of the superhuman idea established a small colony in the Bremen system. They lived in peace and achieved many advances in superhuman technology. They prolonged the human life span by theoretical 500 years and made first successful attempts in uploading parts of human memory into computer systems. When this colony was discovered by private explorers in 2568 the public was shocked by the technological changes the colonists applied to themselfs. To distract from inner conflicts the UEE declared the colonists as human abominations and publicly whiped up hate against them. The colonists didn’t expect hostilities from the empire when WMDs burned the colony to ashes. All their progress was lost and any superhuman movement in the empire was oppressed by fear.

A new dawn

After the end of the Messer era could superhuman concepts flourish again. A congress on Stanton III in 2809 was the beginning of the Superhuman Development Society. Scientists and supporters united to give the superhuman movement new impulses. With the number of their members their political and economical influence grew. Their support made many superhuman advancements of the 29th century possible.

Due to their work biological and cybernetic human upgrades are more common than ever today. Though medical unnecessary improvements are still not entirely social accepted.