Wouldn't it be nice?
Tardigrades are astonishing critters. They can tolerate all sorts of horrible conditions with several different forms of 'seeding'. They have distinct cysting strategies for vacuum, drought, heat and cold.
Wouldn't it be nice if humans could 'seed up' at will? When the world is taken over by demonic psychopaths, we could go into suspended animation in hidden places.
Only the psychopaths would be visible and moving. The billionaires and governors and mayors and presidents and Public Death Officers would have no visible victims except other psychopaths. They would quickly kill each other, and then the humans could de-cyst and resume normal life.
[Graphic footnote: I was surprised that no tardigrade models were available in the usual Poser places (Daz, Rendo, ShareCG). So I made one.
Released at ShareCG.]
Labels: #desistance, Alternate universe