Earth/Inhabitants

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* Earth's Alien Species
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### History

By the end of Exodus Century the population of Earth has been decimated; consisting of the stalwart that refused to leave Earth, criminals and the handicapped babies and children.

One in a thousand humans will die within two minutes from anaphylactic shock if they step foot on any other planet then Earth.
Some of the people leaving earth for a new "bright" world discovered once they went to their new world that could not live there and either died or was immediately returned to Earth.
Two of the first settlers on Adonis, Ernst Novak and Esperenza Nadal, died within a few minutes of stepping through the portal to the new planet. The doctors determined it was an Immune system problem so bounce back protocols were put in place.

The midwife for the first baby to be born on Adonis with the same Immune system problem had worked the bounceback duty so recognized the symptoms and rushed the baby to Earth. After that the off world hospitals set up procedures to rush the baby to Earth. This worked for the Alpha system planets. But the portals were failing and the new portals created where much shorter range, so it became harder for the newer planets further from Earth to rush babies to Earth without them dying. The hospitals ended up by hiring runners.

On the worlds where their interstellar portals had failed completely and they were out of range to any other planet to be able to use the new portals, all of the babies born with immune system problems died.

*See also: Runners and Changeling Era*

A group of scientist at Eden, Earth Africa were working on the problem of the immune system problem and whey they could only live on Earth. As of 2408 the only people that lived at Eden were off-world workers there to maintain Earth's Data net, but when the Earth Data net crashed and was corrupted in 2409, the progress that those scientist had made in determining the cause of the immune system problem was lost.

It was finally recovered in 27789 when the scientist's lab was discovered along with the data that was contained in a Stasis Box.

## Overview

New born babies have a slightly longer chance of survival because they are still benefiting from their Mother's immune system but they still need to be portaled on an emergency preempt to Earth.

Hospital Earth rules are that at least one of the parents must move to Earth to raise their child, no other relative is allowed to move in their place. The parents are automatically given Earth citizen ship and assisted with relocation if they decide to move. 92% of babies born with this immune deficiency handicap are abandoned by their parents and are raised as wards of Hospital Earth, the governing body for Earth.

But Earth isn't part of any sector nor do they have the right to govern themselves, their laws and government are completely controlled by Hospital Earth which was created and board members appointed by Parliament of Planets. Hospital Earth board makes the rules regarding the care and raising of the Handicapped.

### Funding

All planets/sectors have to pay into a fund controlled by Hospital Earth to accept and raise their handicapped babies. At this time there has been no particular details beyond a statement.

### Child Care

It is very difficult to get enough people to work in Child Care and Education, there have been several discussions making it mandatory for all handicapped to work for five years in child care, but the law was never enacted due to the fear of escalating Child abuse cases.

*See also: Hospital Earth*

### Age 14

* When the handicap reach age 14 they have the right to ask for the information on their parents and their birth and they can contact their birth parents if they choose too. This usually is a disaster, with few parents ever maintaining contact with their child or ever acknowledging them after this point.
* They also have the right to portal to another planet to convince themselves that there wasn't a mistake and their immune deficiency is real. Few teens take up this right and ones that do end up by being deathly ill with several days of recovery.

### School System

1 in 10 children of a handicapped couple will also be handicapped. As a result Earth has 3 school systems.

* The children that were abandoned and raised in group homes are segregated from the children that are raised by their parents, so they have separate schools.
* The children that are handicapped and raised by their parent(s) attend a separate school from the ones that were abandoned.
* The norm children of handicapped parents are portalled to a school in Adonis, where they attend classes with sector children. This is meant to give them the experience to make their way in normal society.

Because of the need for handicapped babies in Nursery to have the care they need, the older children's teachers aren't necessarily of the best quality but the schools have little choice on who they hire as teachers.

*See also: Education Earth*

## University

All fees to attend University are paid for out of the funds that the sectors give to Earth to raise their rejected children. The students also receive a living allowance while attending university, a bit higher allowance then they would be given if they were doing nothing.

All handicapped are guaranteed the career or job that they want, regardless if they are any good at it.

## Future

At the end of "*Earth Flight*" Earth was invited to join Alpha Sector, a sector that they have long been located in the center of, but not part of.

Once they accepted joining Alpha Sector they had the right and requirement to govern themselves and Hospital Earth transitioned to new responsibilities. This should result in many changes in the laws governing parents of the handicapped and in the ways that they are raised.

*See also: Novak-Nadal Syndrome*

### New Planets

Planet First charter was amended to allow for 1 planet in each sector to have the level of solar storms needed for the handicap to survive on it. As humanity expands it would soon have been needed anyway because of the length of time to get the portal signal to Earth, but this change also allows for the handicap to live elsewhere or to travel and vacation to other planets. It will also allow for more parents to raise their own immune syndrome children if they only have to move to another planet in their sector.

## References

1. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Earth Girl (Earth Girl series Book 1) (p. 8). Prometheus Books. Kindle Edition.