[lineage. bloodlines. things like that...they're long outdated in the society Blue was born in. what matters most for the SD government is finding the most efficient and ideal traits to breed between people...something the machines are beginning to identify themselves, now creating humans from complete scratch.

Blue's gaze drifts away as he ruminates on these things, simply musing aloud:] There must have been a time...a long time ago...before humans left the Earth...when they, too, had such beliefs. Not of powers...but of promise...