At around 200 A.D., society underwent a rapid change. In the last fifty years, cloning status had become the basis for a hierarchy, and the Beyonders had claimed the small and secure area at the top. They were the wise rulers, the knowers of all. They were the makers of laws and the calmers of fear.
Once the Beyonders wrote the Cee-constitution, explaining all the laws of the cloning process, it did not take long for dissension to arise. After years of small, unorganized terrorist groups and rebellions, the small minority of the population which made up the dissenters, solidified into two diametrically-opposed groups.
The Primes were the first. They didn't like the idea of rules which determined how many re-clonings people were allowed. It was not fair, they argued, to impose a limit on the number of lives anyone was allowed, even if the rules WERE the same for everyone. On the other hand, the Darwinists thought the entire cee-process was to be abhorred. Cloning was wrong - ALL of it. Clones were inhuman, and were forcing humanity itself to become so.
These three groups were the basis of the rebellion against the Beyonders, who believed that cloning was good for society as long as it was governed under their "gentle and undiscriminating" hand. The Darwinian and Prime views paved the way for the future:
Last Modified: 4/29/98
Wendy Elizabeth
Kemp