Storiesonline.net ------- Breeder World by Cazna Copyright© 2008 by Cazna ------- Description: World War Three has come and gone, most of the world population are dead. The survival of the race is now at grave risk and society has changed beyond recognition. Learn what happened and what was done to keep the human race alive. - This short story sets the background for the rest of the stories in the universe. Codes: ScFi ------- The Disorders In the mid 21st century World War Three finally came around, sort of, but not as expected. The post World War Two Communist versus Capitalist conflict died of bankruptcy. The Arab versus Israeli conflict of the 1950s and 1960s grew in to the Muslim versus Jew conflict of the late 20th century, which then grew in to the Muslim Extremist versus Everyone Else conflict of the 21st century. This unrest was fuelled, literally, by the Middle Eastern oil deposits. The unrest and instability in the region unsettled many countries. This resulted in a major shift to alternative fuels, solar energy, wind generators, but mostly bio-diesel; diesel fuel from non food crops, excess food crops, and crop waste as this was a renewable fuel, while petroleum wasn't. Another important aspect of bio-diesel was you could grow it locally instead of importing it at great expense. As the use of bio-diesel grew the value of petroleum dropped, the money for Muslim religious extremism fell and then that died of bankruptcy too. No funds meant no weapons and the fight for control of the oil died in a whimper as not worth fighting for any more. What finally happened was a group of nationalist religious fanatics in the USA Department of Defence Research Establishments joined with like-minded politicians to take control of the USA, by blackmail. The government gives into their demands and quickly folds, but the people don't, and a civil war starts. A biological weapon's deployed, a variant cross of the Rubella virus with the Mumps. It quickly spreads from continent to continent and from island to island, until the whole world population is infected. It isn't directly very fatal and only 10% of the people die from it. But, its effects cause worldwide social upheaval and civil war breaks out in all countries, resulting in many deaths. Governments break down and companies take control, to stabilise the economy and to protect their investments, they use mercenary troops with no strong national ties. The corporations fight for control of the world economy, and the people fight them too. The bio-weapon was specially designed. It can infect an uninfected person and can move from an infected person to an uninfected person, but can't live within an infected person for more than fourteen days, as their anti-bodies eventually kill it. Nor can it live outside the human body for more than a few hours. Once everyone in the world's infected the virus dies out within a few weeks, and ceases to be. However, it did leave a residual fingerprint in the plasma of all those it infected, and a milder form's passed on to their children; luckily, it weakens with each new generation. During The Disorders, the name historians now apply to this thirty year period, 70% of the world population dies and many survivors are sterile; 45% of the population are sterile, as are 99% of adult males, while 68% of the adult population are female and 65% of pregnancies miscarry - a side effect of the bio-weapon. The figures are different for those born after the virus died out, as they weren't infected by the original form and the rate of miscarriage becomes lower and starts to drop. The bulk of the children born are female and the rate of fertile births once again starts to rise. The result is an imbalance that directly threatens the survival of the human race. However, some people seem to defy the statistics and have much higher fertility rates than others, the reason for this is the subject of intense research, very intense research, but still isn't known why or fully understood. There are major problems and social adjustments are severe. A new government arises (mostly from within the winning corporations), a worldwide one, The World Council; some members are elected every five years, and some are elected for life, in the worldwide elections. The new worldwide social structure's a cross of socialism and capitalism. You can improve your situation by accumulating resources, and you can pass them on to others. However, many functions are seen as essential community functions and handled as such. Access to many resources is tightly controlled and each person has an allocation of essential resources. You can obtain extras when they're available and you've the resources to pay for them. Basic education's a right and anything above that's earned or bought. Much of the extra education's provided as part of employment conditions. Services and goods are now provided at rates set by the World Council, as are wages. Now there's a single worldwide currency based on an individual's work. An hour of unskilled work at the most basic level is rated as one work credit unit, called a unit. Plastic coins of varying values are made and issued, they're called markers or marks. A one unit coin's called a mark, a ten unit coin's known as ten marks. Most transactions are done electronically, the coins are usually used for tips and bonuses for personal services rendered. People are credited with a number of units for their work, based on their skills and the returns from that work. Some rates are based on the benefit to the community, some on the returns of selling the product of their work. Fifteen years after The Disorders the world's preparing to enter the twenty-second century. World population's still falling, but the rate's slowing down as the birth rate grows to near the death rate. Of the live births, 75% are fertile females while 23% are sterile males and 2% are fertile males; these rates have been constant for over ten years now. Only 10% of pregnancies miscarry, and that rate's dropping each year. All people have their DNA checked and registered at birth, and all fertile children are screened for genetic defects as well. One positive side effect of the virus makes any other significant genetic defect result in a miscarriage very early in the pregnancy; thus, the gene pool's now a lot cleaner than it was before the release of the virus. There are no new births with severe genetic issues like Downe Syndrome, Fragile X, Haemophilia, etc. The genetic make up of the fertile people are so clean the Breeder Control Office isn't worried about the possibility of close in-breeding causing issues, as there are no identifiable bad recessives to be worried about. Also, their top genetics experts believe the passed on form of the virus will stop any malformed foetuses from carrying to term. An unexpected windfall is the virus has also killed off all sexually transmitted diseases, the world is now free of them all. ------- A Changed World Fertile males are now a prime resource, and there's a glut of young fertile females. There's a major need to increase the population, so arrangements are made to encourage wide scale breeding by the fertile adult males. The males are given fertility drugs to increase stamina and frequency of performance. Both genders are cleared for sex when the medical board decide the sexually active lifestyle and breeding won't cause any mental health issues, and they're physically able to perform their duties. No artificial barriers of age or social standing are allowed. Parenting skills, or their lack, isn't much of a problem as most children are raised in government crèches run by well trained specialists skilled in raising children, and most men don't know their children unless they've had the mother permanently assigned to them prior to the birth. Because of these arrangements very few men need parenting skills, and most aren't involved with raising their children. The World Council builds breeding establishments which fertile males visit for as long as they wish, engaging in sexual activity with as many fertile females as they wish to. Many of the sterile people dislike having these facilities nearby, as they don't have any sexual urges at all and they resent the intimacy others enjoy which they can't. To avoid civil unrest, the World Council ensures these operations are very discreet, especially in the cities; many are farms in remote areas or just beyond the city boundaries, and the most used are cruise ships. Over the years society develops terms to refer to these people; the males are called Breeders while the females are called Sailors, when ship based, and Sluts when land based. Many men combine holidays with these duties. The ship based operations aren't as noticeable as the land based ones because they're a small fraction of the total number of cruise ships in use, and are always moving; cruise ships are an extremely common form of holiday breaks for both breeders and sterile workers. Nearly all the children are raised in government run crèches and schools. However, some very rich people are able to arrange for private tutors to teach their children at home, from the same training schedules and syllabus. This is usually only reserved for fertile boy children and not all rich families do this as they see joining in with the general training as being better for the children, especially in socialisation skills and getting on with people; some have their kids attend government education facilities as day students. The schools for fertile children are different to those for sterile children, as is the syllabus. From when they're eight years old, all fertile children are trained in the skills needed to be a breeder. A girl's hymen is broken by a doctor when she's ten years of age. Artificial devices like dildos are used during the training, to familiarise them with sexual activity. All their training's in single gender schools. The girls are sent to their first employment as virgins, and, usually, have never met a male as it's common for all school staff at the girls' schools to be females. The Breeder men are assigned a number of units for doing their public duty as breeders. Men and women get paid a bonus for each pregnancy, and another bonus for a live birth - based on the child's gender and fertility status. The females also earn units for each genital sexual encounter. These payments, for both the men and women, are commonly referred to as Breeding Marks. The females can assign up to 25% of their units to assist their families, if they know them, or friends. They may spend 25% per annum for extras during the year. The rest's invested for them to live off after they can no longer work. Working as a breeder gives them little chance to do serious studies or undertake other work, and they've half a life time to live after they can no longer breed. Moving into the general workforce after their breeding time is difficult, to say the least. Many stay working at the establishments in other roles; as trainers, servants, ship crew, etc. Some buy small subsistence farms to live on. Many join together to run larger farms. Some, the very lucky ones, are offered permanent assignment to men who want them as companions or wives. They must continue to breed while they're able, but now only by their husband and his close friends. Favouritism isn't allowed to interfere with the breeding program, nothing is allowed to interfere with the breeding program. Most of the Breeder Facilities are privately run holiday resorts or cruise ships, with all accommodation and services based on the holiday industry grades of A (ultra luxury) to F (tourist class). Most males pay to stay there and treat it as a holiday, while the females are there as casual employees paid for their sexual liaisons, and the children they have. The World Council does run a few basic service establishments in areas where they're needed but no one's interested in establishing a decent facility, usually due to lack of business or a shortage of other suitable entertainment opportunities. All breeding facilities are closely monitored by the Breeding Control Office (BCO) and they usually have a supervisor assigned to each facility and ship. They run breeding and training programs to ensure fertile females are very responsive to sexual advances and very reactive during sexual activities. The main aspect being to condition the girls to reach an orgasm very easily and to recover very quickly after having one. Usually females go with a man for a single sexual activity, part day, evening, or night. Some men pay bonuses for a female to spend extra time with them for companionship on an evening out, etc. The rates for these service bonuses are set by the BCO, they're automatically charged against the men and paid to the females, in full. Some men also give their partners marks as tips; this is not a common practice as the girls are paid and many men give most of their tips to the other service staff for good service. Over the years, it becomes the usual practice for men to spend their Breeding Marks on their breeding visits. Often by paying for more luxurious quarters, entertainment activities, and services, via tips to staff, regardless of the service being offered to them alone or with their breeder girls. Some expend much of their disposable units in this way too. There are no longer any laws about sex, apart from rape - which is almost impossible, as all the fertile females are trained to respond positively to all advances from fertile men and the sterile people have no sexual inclinations at all. The laws are now very heavily biased towards protecting fertile males at the expense of the rest of the population, because they're needed for racial survival. An unwanted side effect of this is a tendency, by some, to see the breeder girls as being disposable servants or slaves. Manners and good behaviour are fast becoming nothing but very dim memories in the very old books and entertainment films, both of which are rarely accessed now. ------- The End ------- Posted: 2008-03-14 Last Modified: 2010-03-08 / 09:07:06 am Version: 1.40 ------- http://storiesonline.net/ -------