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GMCs (genetically modified creatures) are less known than GMOs, but are quietly becoming a reality.
You may recall a news feed blurb a few whiles back, which claimed that a calf born with snakelike skin died only three days after birth. The death was apparently due to lack of mother’s milk, not because it was a mutant hybrid. The mother got freaked by the throngs of superstitious visitors hoping to taste the saliva and make holy water through contact with the snake cow.
I’m sure over millennia that genetic anomalies of every variety have occurred, but I contend that a cow born of snake skin is a military black op experiment passed off as a real world coincidence. The human clone has been perfected (news of which is fed piecemeal through various publicly consumed media and in less potable mediums like legitimate science magazines). The goal is to create a super soldier where one aspect of their genetic enhancement will be an ectodermis, such as a snake, bug or spider skin, thus creating another level of defense for ground troops.
The myth has been started. A Snake Cow is now considered a godlike creature. In ever more frequent intervals we will see creatures only dreamed of, showing up in cultures that will revere them. In the very near future, we will see a platoon of soldiers imbued with semi-impervious skin. Snakelike qualities (faster in the heat), sharklike alertness (never sleeping), the indestructible relentlessness of a cockroach, the spatial sense of a spider, and the hearing of a dog …
… all mounted like cavalry on Snake Cows.
Vitriol