Life Recycling Act

The Life Recycling Act, also known as the Life Recycling Law is a law in the Xenosaga series. It was drafted in T.C. 4590 by the Galaxy Federation and approved in T.C. 4591. The term "Life Recycling Variant" describes anyone who had their biological components modified as a result of this law. Due to the many controversies surrounding it, it was eventually repealed in T.C. 4754. The Species Preservation Act was later enacted to counter its harmful effects. 
==History==
===Enactment===
The Life Recycling Law was initially proposed as a bill in T.C. 4590 as a counter-effort to the dwindling of human resources; one that detailed the process of recycling the bodies of the dead. However, after the law was put into effect in T.C. 4591, it wasn't long before it gave way to a plethora of controversies. The law itself went on to expand, condoning experimental procedures involving the human body that were previously illegal. In actuality, the law was put forth by none other than Dmitri Yuriev in order to legalize his otherwise covert creation of genetically modified humans with the ability to counter the Immigrant Fleet's use of the .
===Drawbacks===
As a direct result of the Life Recycling Law, various facilities like that of Jacob Medical Imprinting began popping up in the 47th century T.C.; facilities that allowed for parents to hand-pick the DNA of their children through the use of artificial placentas. Yuriev, while not having been born from one of these facilities, endorsed the creation of more Designer Children (also known as Salvators). His ease of control over Federation government is most likely made possible by the sheer number of Salvator Faction-aligned politicians born from said facilities. Yuriev's own research organization, aptly named the Yuriev Institute, was founded around this time in the T.C. 4660s. Yuriev went on to use this organization to create the U.R.T.V.s and, subsequently, the U.R.T.V. Pods as weapons to use against the Immigrant Fleet and U-DO.
As was planned, companies like Ziggurat Industries were now in the business of recycling the remains of body donors to create Cyborgs. Jan Sauer, a police officer who took his own life in T.C. 4667, was one of these donors. Although he was brought back to life, he was now legally designated as Galaxy Federation property with no human rights. Jan was a special case, as he worked in Federation law enforcement in his previous life. Body donors who bore no such background were similarly treated as second-class citizens. However, their work often varied between harsh manual labor and dangerous terraforming activities. Other Cyborgs were subject to menial labor like housekeeping.
In T.C. 4730, the Zoar Incident broke out and, thanks to the Life Recycling Law, a multitude of biologically altered super-soldiers were created to fight in the conflict. Andrew Cherenkov was one of these soldiers, and was created via artificial insemination only a year after the incident broke out. However, after the incident concluded, he and many others failed to integrate into society with the way they were biologically altered. Cherenkov in particular went on to commit multiple homicides, resulting in him being subject to Personality Reconditioning. 
===Repealment and countermeasures===
The human race was beginning to become increasingly biologically fragile. People like Cherenkov, who had been created to exist in specific environments, were unable to have their needs met in their current living spaces. As a result, many of these genetically modified humans began to engage in land disputes over planets that could support their unique genetic makeup. The casualties resulting from these disputes prompted the Federation government to repeal the Life Recycling Law in T.C. 4754. In its place, the Species Preservation Act was put forth to repair the damage caused by life recycling. 
In T.C. 4755, The Kukai Foundation was created by the Second Miltian autonomous state in direct response to the Miltian Conflict. Over time, much of its membership came to be composed of victims of the Life Recycling Law. This could be in part due to the Foundation's efforts in rescuing and offering livelihoods to said victims. Most notable are the Foundation's representative trustees, Gaignun Kukai and Gaignun Kukai Jr., both of which are U.R.T.V.s created by the Yuriev Institute. Also notable are the Foundation's First Strategy Division Chief Mary Godwin and Gaignun Kukai's secretary Shelley Godwin, both of which are Überhumans. The Kukai Foundation continues to help affected parties of the Life Recycling Law to present day (T.C. 4767-4768). 
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==See also==
*Cyborg
*Designer Child
**Überhuman
**U.R.T.V.
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