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Umma Kurtha |
Being on top of things has a great flaw. When the balance shifts, when competitors are one step ahead of you, when luck leaves you, the only movement in your position is downwards.
One day Interplanetary Siba launches a new product, a clone-kit. With that, any child can create his own living creature, program or teach it things as long it has no will of its own. This development meant the end of the need for freaks for entertainment. And Umma was out of business. But she hadn't come this far to give up easily and together with her best friend, the blonde and sexy Lordy, (real name Valya), she started working out plans to get back in control.
The clone-kits were sold by the millions and earth, a weird place anyway, soon found out that with the clone monsters a new player hat entered the arena of global control.
Soon after the introduction of the clone-kit ethical questions were raised. It was the Blue Vatican, a powerful opponent of multinational Siba, who openly suggested that, despite the guaranty that genetic manipulation on human tissue was not possible , with the clone kit, genetic engineering had fallen in to the hands of the ordinary man and crooks and, worse, respectaable organizations. And they challenged everybody to prove this point, to find a human clone made with the kit. The reward would be enormous.
Bounty hunters, crusaders and private investigators smelled money or honor or blessings and the hunt for illegal clones was on. Umma Kurtha was among them. With the help of her large network of connections the sexy lady went through the dungeons of modern society, the stinking rotten pools and immoral illegal markets in genetic material and disgusting porno. It was she who, at great costs and sad losses, unraveled the dirty schemes that lay at the basis of this world gone wrong.
for the Dutch edition series Grunge Genetica, © Uitgeverij Prestige 2002
Artwork taken from album 1, Openbaringen (Révélations) and album 2, Time Out
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