Mundus Serum

The **Mundus Serum** is a lore page.

## Summary

The Mundus Serum is a medication give to Humans to boost their abilities. After the treatment they are transformed into Mundus Hominum.

## Early Stages of Transhumanism

Even in the early days when Humanity was still living on Earth Humans were searching for ways to enhance themselves and their abilities. Be it in constructing machines to assist them to the invention of handheld devices. Those handheld eventually merged with the bodies of their users for early cybernetic technologies.

Not all factions of the early Human expansion into the Solar Sytem were happy with the wide usage and reliance upon technology though and were ultimately proven right when Eden rebelled against its makers.

## Early stages of the Mundus Serum

The first steps towards creating the Mundus Serum were undertaken by Prof. Graelon, an notable scholar among the Pantheon Empire.
Assisted by an elite team of scientists with prior experience in experimental biotech they worked on *Project: Vigor*.
The progress of the Project was greatly aided by the deployment of clones. In the end they only managed to enhance a limit amount of superficial physical abilities of the human genome with the narrow abilities of the human mind being the main hindrance causing subjects to die from strokes and tumors.

Eventually this hurdle could be overcome by utilising *Cerebral Transmogrification*.
The means by which this state was achieved were highly unstable though causing initial subjects to display a wide array degrees of success. With some clearly outperforming the necessary standards while others suffered horrible deaths caused by a devolution of their physical state.

## Further Development of the Mundus Serum

After **Prof. Graelon** had passed away the development of the Serum nearly halted completely with the **Pantheon Empire** focusing on Artificial Intelligence once again.
The definite breakthrough was achieved by Dr. Francis Lucon based on notes recovered from **Prof. Graelon**.
Suspecting that the main fault with the cerebral issues his predecessor was facing in the creation of the Mundus was based on the adult age of all used test subjects this time a trail was conducted in the neonatal unit of a hospital.

This test phase was not without fault either though. Although all treated children displayed a vast increase in their physical abilities the extend of this increase was highly unstable. Ranging from 1.1x to 4x relative effectiveness. With such unpredictable results making treatment very hard to control a lot in infants died still in the hospital and **Dr. Lucon** was threatened with the death sentence for his unethical experiments. Striving to demonstrate the success of his theories and a newly developed correction to the serum he injected his own newly born daughter with it. She went on to not only survive but demonstrate a stable 3x increase in all physical abilities.

Following the Authorities granted **Dr. Lucon** 3 further test to demonstrate the serum could operate within a tolerance of 0.005x or face his death penalty. The changes to the Serum proved successful though and lead to its quick sent off to mass production of administration among many Humans.

## Implementation of the Serum

Allowing the first Human to reach the age of 1000 Years in 21,092 AD the **Pantheon Empire** soon made the serum compulsory for all newborn humans. This lead to the extinction of the old *Homo Sapiens Sapiens* in 22,514 AD with the last regular human dying peacefully of old age.

Development on the serum would not cease though with countless perfections being made in the following years.

## Reintroduction on non-Mundus genes

With the reign of the Consistorium Republic one might have forgotten of the existence of non Mundus humans altogether. But reappearing from the depths of space came long lost human colonies and brought with them their original genetic information soon deluding the Mundus strains.

They were duped the **Terra Hominem** in tribute to Humanities original home whose inhabitants they most closely resembled.

## The Mundus Serum in the Sol Supremacy

Each Mundus is required by law to donate reproductive cells to the Legion allowing for the cloning and birthing of new Mundus while administering them various medications, the **Serum** itself as well as genetic treatments to allow them to fully adapt and utilize the Mundus genes.
Along with the administration of vaccines against a lot of known illnesses this ensures a Mundus has not to suffer from any regular illnes past humans had to battle against.
A regular Mundus is fully grown up at the age of 15 Years thanks to optimised growth processes.

A thus born Mundus has a life span of up to 1,300 Years with additional shots of **Mundus Boosters** and **Cerebillum Vaccince** against the Consciousness Disease.

Administering the Serum and guarding over the next generations of Humanity are the elusive engineers of the Legion, the Novus Doctrina.

## Trivia

Although the Mundus Serum has been engineered for Humans specifically its general biological properties can be applied to other species as well. Using this and the Mundus Serum as a basis lesser version of the Serum have been created that can be used by other species like the Rao or Deskar.