The Rewop Chronicles: Base
Book Details
Author(s)Douglas D Memler
ISBN / ASINB003OUXBJA
ISBN-13978B003OUXBJ9
MarketplaceUnited Kingdom 🇬🇧
Description
There are 4 high-school friends who thoroughly enjoy doing “dangerous†activities like white-water rafting, bungie jumping, and base jumping. After taking a trip together during the summer after their senior year, they slowly realize the beauty of God’s creation. However, they also get into some trouble, which puts their safety in danger. During their adventures, they realize interesting things about themselves, grow closer together, and have to stick together to survive. In addition, one of them is not like the others.
The first chapter:
The top-secret facility looked like a typical, multi-unit office building in the suburbs of Baltimore. The outside door housed a normal keycard-activated lock and precious few were allowed inside. In the basement of this building was the Clone Research Center (CRC), which had higher tech security than the pentagon. It was a joint venture between Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and not even the President of the United States knew of its existence...for his own protection. The main laboratory was the second door on the right, was monitored 24/7 by closed circuit cameras and had invisible lasers every few inches. When these were compromised, a silent alarm was triggered in the security room. The entrance to the lab was secured by steel doors that were 3 feet thick and had 3 1-foot diameter, cylindrical, steel rods that extended into the frame as a nuclear silo might have. Entrance through the impenetrable door and into the lab was gained by using a secret code entered onto a nearby keypad.
The CRC is a conglomeration of the best minds in existence today. The goal of the group is to clone a human being. Obviously the ramifications of such a feat are far-reaching and have significant opposition within the general population. This is partly the reason why very few knew about the existence of the CRC. However, if successful, the progress for the human race in terms of curing incurable diseases and extending human life outweighed the risks…or so reasoned Dr. Chuck Pietrika, head of the project. He was appointed directly by the Vice President and formerly headed MIT’s cloning program. He is assisted by Dr. Hans Voltivik from Germany and Dr. Beth Atolka from Sweden, both known experts in the field of cloning.
Up until this point, the best of the best researchers had only been able to clone sheep. However, sheep are far different from humans, both in DNA and in neurological complexity. Their progress over the 18 months they’ve been on this mission has been minimal at best…that is, until 1 month ago.
During a test conducted to combine the DNA from a 13-year-old boy and a 12-year-old boy (who had an inoperable brain tumor and was not expected to live another 2 months), they had a breakthrough. The resulting DNA was a perfect match with the results they had calculated and from that of the sheep that was successfully cloned not 3 years before. Dr. Pietrika has an ‘inside’ contact at the county coroner’s office and was told about the 13-year old who died late in the day. Samples were sent to the CRC from the coroner’s office, but no details were given of the circumstances surrounding his death, per their agreement. Their excitement from the breakthrough was tempered somewhat, so as to not give away the results. The next day they decided to conduct the test to attempt to clone the 13-year old (bringing him back to life) by using the DNA from the 12-year old with the inoperable brain tumor.
None of them could sleep that night.
The first chapter:
The top-secret facility looked like a typical, multi-unit office building in the suburbs of Baltimore. The outside door housed a normal keycard-activated lock and precious few were allowed inside. In the basement of this building was the Clone Research Center (CRC), which had higher tech security than the pentagon. It was a joint venture between Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and not even the President of the United States knew of its existence...for his own protection. The main laboratory was the second door on the right, was monitored 24/7 by closed circuit cameras and had invisible lasers every few inches. When these were compromised, a silent alarm was triggered in the security room. The entrance to the lab was secured by steel doors that were 3 feet thick and had 3 1-foot diameter, cylindrical, steel rods that extended into the frame as a nuclear silo might have. Entrance through the impenetrable door and into the lab was gained by using a secret code entered onto a nearby keypad.
The CRC is a conglomeration of the best minds in existence today. The goal of the group is to clone a human being. Obviously the ramifications of such a feat are far-reaching and have significant opposition within the general population. This is partly the reason why very few knew about the existence of the CRC. However, if successful, the progress for the human race in terms of curing incurable diseases and extending human life outweighed the risks…or so reasoned Dr. Chuck Pietrika, head of the project. He was appointed directly by the Vice President and formerly headed MIT’s cloning program. He is assisted by Dr. Hans Voltivik from Germany and Dr. Beth Atolka from Sweden, both known experts in the field of cloning.
Up until this point, the best of the best researchers had only been able to clone sheep. However, sheep are far different from humans, both in DNA and in neurological complexity. Their progress over the 18 months they’ve been on this mission has been minimal at best…that is, until 1 month ago.
During a test conducted to combine the DNA from a 13-year-old boy and a 12-year-old boy (who had an inoperable brain tumor and was not expected to live another 2 months), they had a breakthrough. The resulting DNA was a perfect match with the results they had calculated and from that of the sheep that was successfully cloned not 3 years before. Dr. Pietrika has an ‘inside’ contact at the county coroner’s office and was told about the 13-year old who died late in the day. Samples were sent to the CRC from the coroner’s office, but no details were given of the circumstances surrounding his death, per their agreement. Their excitement from the breakthrough was tempered somewhat, so as to not give away the results. The next day they decided to conduct the test to attempt to clone the 13-year old (bringing him back to life) by using the DNA from the 12-year old with the inoperable brain tumor.
None of them could sleep that night.
