The Cycles of Revelation Series

The Medellan Conspiracy: Understanding (A Queer Sci-Fi Thriller)

Episode 72: The long-awaited revelation of why the Medellans were abandoned on Med’nor.

The video continued, as Mari and the others explained how all the O-negative people began rapidly growing old and dying after the age of thirty. Their scientists and doctors had tried everything to cure them, but after a couple of generations, they gave up. They had even sent some of those affected back to Earth, but the genetic damage persisted in their offspring.

Mari shifted uncomfortably before looking back into the camera. “That’s when the unthinkable happened. In a joint decision between the Global Earth Government and the United Colonial Federation, all O-negative humans were to be culled from the population. At first, they wanted to just murder all of us, but in a moment of ‘compassion’…” Mari said that last word in a snide tone, bringing up her hands and making a gesture, curling the index and middle fingers on both hands twice. “…they decided to ship us off to this godforsaken rock. They left us here with just the clothes on our back and two bags of luggage each. Some of us were smart enough to pack survival gear, so at least we had the tools to build some rudimentary shelter…