[ENG] FCL: Faeger population

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The first attempts to scientifically explaination of aging phenomenon were made by humans in the end of the 19th century. The pioneer of gerontology, the German biologist Weismann, considered aging to be an evolutionary phenomenon and was right like no one before him.

At the time of writing this historical review, there is no genetically engineered way to eliminate the aging of the body as a phenomenon neither for adults, nor for children, or even for genetically modified zygotes.  The aging program is tightly woven into the genetic code. An attempt to remove causative genes, alleles, structural-complexes with a simulated replacement of associated lost functions leads to the development of non-viable embryos phenotypically unlike human ones.

In 2067, the European Biological Agency published an article entitled “Modeling mammalian ontogeny in a virtual environment”. The work served as the basis for the commercial project "Sonma" of the company "LookIn" specializing in virtual environments. With the support of the UN Small Technology Assembly, the project received significant private and international budget funding in its first year, creating an unprecedented machine cluster for modeling virtual environments.

In parallel, one of the working groups was engaged in the selection of candidates for virtualization. In total, over 4 years, 692 candidates over 95 years old were selected, who provided samples of their fabrics for the project. (421 women, 271 men)

Induced totipotent stem cells were made from the skin fibroblasts of these people. The most viable zygotes of each person were digitized by the method of multiple resonance into a virtual environment, where they were incubated in a digital analogue of the Jeis camera until the fetus was fully ripe.

Babysitting programs met the basic needs of children up to an average age of five.

The virtual environment was built on the landscape of northern South America and covered an area similar to 300,000 square kilometers. The main representatives of the flora were genetically modified perennial fruit self-pollinating shrubs. There was always one season and the temperature did not drop below 17 and did not rise above 32 degrees.

In order to maximize objectification of life expectancy, only some non-pathogenic microorganisms were transferred to the environment. If any colony passed into the category of conditionally pathogenic or pathogenic, then it was eliminated programmatically. For the same purpose, mechanisms of protection against death triggered by exogenous causes, for example, accidents or violence, have been developed. In the event of such a death, the person was recreated from the data log files as he was at the moment 5 minutes of server time before the beginning of the chain of cause that caused death at a point located at a random distance from the place of death.

There was a possibility of offspring in a natural way, but the very first death associated with pregnancy or childbirth after recovery programmatically turned off the possibility of the natural appearance of offspring in this individual.

After the death of the last individual of the first generation, the following begins to form according to the scheme:

The copied genetic material from each man was used to create 10 zygotes for each woman of his generation. Zygotes were created and incubated in the Jeis chamber. Thus, 1,140,910 zygotes were created for the second generation. By the time the incubation was completed, 385,917 fetuses were preserved. All individuals of the secondary generations that appeared naturally returned to a state corresponding to newborns and developed postnatally together with those created in the chambers. The number of offspring from the first generation was 3156 individuals. Postnatal support did not fundamentally differ from the first generation.

Further collection of genetic material was carried out only in 0.1% of centenarians.

The average population of one generation was thus about 400,000.

Over 14 years of work, it was possible to simulate 83 generations and increase the average life expectancy in a virtual environment from 78 to 131 years for men and from 89 to 146 for women. The last 30 generations have brought an extremely small increase in maximum life expectancy, and therefore the shareholders of the company decided to freeze the virtual environment and start developing a commercial product.

In July 2087, a 10-year non-exclusive sale of cell information banks was announced to Faeger, the manufacturer of Jeis cameras.

Born on September 10, 2090, a girl named Flora Faeger became the first person raised from a virtually sectioned zygote. It brought the company wide advertising success. Six years later, Flora's meeting with 121-year-old Italian Anna Korna, who was actually the girl's great (80 times) great-grandmother for several months, became the most talked about event in the world network and formed the basis for a number of works of art.

The second child born on March 2, 2091 by this method was named Mark Faeger. A few months later, a sad fate befell him. On August 7, a child and 46 others were killed in a bomb explosion in the banquet hall of the Technology 2091 conference held in the Montparnasse tower in Paris. The radical Christian organization "Voluntatem Dei" claimed responsibility for itself and declared that "it will not allow any damned child to turn the world into Hell."

Already 11 years after the birth of the Flora, the creation of long-lived children with the external phenotype of the parents became a commercial service. But only wealthy people and a few from the middle class could afford to have a child in this way. This feature was indicated only in the documents accompanying the transaction for the child and was not transferred to the population registration authorities. Civil documents for a child in the authorities were drawn up in the same way as for other incubated children.