Thread: The Future is Bleak (Swirl+Draith)

The world had evolved, its inhabitants had too changed, evolution never ceased, sometimes the changes just take a while. The world had become largely unsustainable for plant life, the only way the world existed as a habitable world was largely through the use of mankind and its use of technology. Large factories worked furiously to emit fresh oxygen into the planets atmosphere. The oceans too had evaporated and much of the mountains that once existed had eroded, humanity had flourished despite the death of life in the earths soil. They traveled the stars, Mars was the primary farming planet, what they grew on mars was sent back to the earth, several other planets and moons had been utilized for such things. After all, the Earth now hosted 35 billion people, it had become a hive world. Every inch of earth had been covered, it was a planet city now. The world was less dangerous as it was entirely urbanized however it was not exactly safe either. Crime was rather high, Feral animals such as cats, wild dogs, wolves and foxes roamed in packs, Much of the wildlife had died off, those that could fend in urban environments survived, some monkeys, bears and other wild life existed too. Gangs took up areas to call their own and the general morality of humanity had shrunk away. If one thought Reality TV was bad, things had gotten far worse, violence and sex were more prevalent, few taboo's were unexplored, incest for instance was prevalent however off springs were aborted to reduce the number of mentally incapable. The world was not too friendly for kind, innocent or the meek people, the strongest and most dominant ran things, bullying people into submission. The only group that truly could put the fear of god in such men was the Army Police. A police record meant two things, you were either going to die and be used as fertilizer for farms, or you were going to be collared and enslaved for life. Amongst the rich and powerful was James, a well to do noble. He had branched off from his family when he was 16, he had taken a woman to be his , in what was now the effective version of marriage, he was 19 when he had the papers filled out. Unfortunately she had died two years later from a mugging gone wrong. James was 6'4 he was no bean pole, he worked out in his personal gym but was by no means looking like John Rambo. He was muscular yes, however he did not take training seriously, he did it for fitness, not for the biggest biceps he could get. He was probably 220 lbs. Caucasian in appearance, dark chocolate brown hair with auburn steaks at the front. James had recently won the latest Lottery, it would pump his social rating up slightly, but he was already a noble, one of the social elite. It wouldn't assure him any change in friends or social groupings. He had been online for an hour, shopping for things he might like when he came across the advertisement for slaves. His parents had many slaves, he had grown up with them. He hadn't gotten any yet because unlike his father he had yet to make a name and a bank account for himself. Things had changed, he had a bank account and his name was far from dirt. Browsing the site, he narrowed down the list until he found a select few that he considered, in the end it was a coin toss that decided whether he picked the first one of the second. It was a pity the site had been skimpy on the details, he would have preferred to know more details about them all. The one he picked wasn't terribly expensive, although one had to factor in the expenses cost of them over time, much like buying a puppy, the initial fee wasn't the only one.