7. Inside the Program

The ever-growing expanse of breakaway civilizations requires a vast workforce ranging from menial labor to intelligentsia. Some people are recruited under false pretenses, some are genetically engineered, and others are outright abducted from their lives on Earth. None, however, are prepared for what they will face during their tenure inside the program. Those who have returned convey that their involvement challenged the range of human experience from the awful to the unimaginably awesome.