"What? There are some people who don't think bioroids should be in charge, but they mostly have ulterior motives, like Imperial America," Deunan clarified. "The Act is just to shut them up about 'the extinction of humanity.' It doesn't stop anyone from getting the bioroid hybrid gene treatments if they want."

She shrugged. "They're going to be outvoted by history. We can't keep going the way we have been. World War III nearly destroyed us," she said, quietly. That had been a long time ago, but the aftereffects had lingered more than a century--the world didn't see blue sky again until the year Deunan was born.