Secret Pens (Term)

At Unity, Year Zero of the Unity calendar, the Kill was officially abolished yet unknown to Gens living out-Territory,  secret Pens were established to keep renSimes alive who would have died because they were too old to disjunct and could live on channel's transfer only for a few months at a time.  These Pens were stocked with Pen Gens who could not make the transition to independent life.
Given the curtailed life expectancy of all juncts, and the stress of attempting to live, even partially on channel's transfer, it did not take long for that entire generation of Sime adults to die off.  The Secret Pens were abolished between the years 10 Unity and 15 Unity.
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