The Children of Inzanami

Have you heard of the theory of panspermia? The concept that life was seeded by some distant, unknown architect? Imagine if you will, a universe where humans started seeding earthlike planets with flora and fauna, long before they arrived on a planet. These were the Gene Arks, seed ships of Izanagi Incorporated, and the sci-fi reason why so many animals and aliens look so strange and yet so familiar.
== Phases ==
=== Phase One: Remote Genesis ===
* Scan systems for Earthlike planets
* Release secondary probes to scan nearby, non-Earthlike planets
** Sell data to mining corps
* Become biotech company
** Produce bioengineered labor through ethically dubious means
** Sell labor contracts as part of the contract with mining corps
=== Phase Two: Alien Edens ===
The Inzanami-class Gene Arks would scan an earthlike planet and autonomously bioengineer a "test batch" of creatures that could, theoretically, live and work on the planet. This whole process is Westworld-like levels of dark sci-fi opera, as it involves a lot of failed mutant prototypes, mass die-offs, and creating a whole religion based on the ship's AI--and the ship AIs were far from perfect. 
=== Phase Three: New Testaments ===
Here's the twist--by the time humanity shows up to these worlds in their fresh, FTL-enabled ships, Izanagi Incorporated was long forgotten, along with many of their records of the seed-world plans. Warp-age spacers would be terribly surprised to find planets that had long hosted their own, human-like species--some following their AI gods, some rebelling against them, and some, perhaps, surpassing them.
== Trivia ==
* This entire article may be a typo, as the Japanese goddess of creation and death is Izanami no Mikoto, not Inzanami.
** Perhaps the spelling changed over vast millennia.
== See Also ==
* Seedships, such as the TL11 Johnny Appleseed, are featured in Spaceships 5
== References ==
* Pyramid 3/24: Bio-Tech
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