Iris is an enhanced human, born to serve humanity. Every day, she wakes up to study all kinds of new knowledge and learn how to serve humans better.
Her final mission is to preserve the last seed of human civilization, leave this planet whose resources have been exhausted by humanity, and find a new home for humankind.
Enhanced humans never make mistakes. Enhanced humans never complain.
Iris obeys her human masters and leaves an instruction for the ship's main AI: once it finds a habitable planet for humanity, it is to wake her.
She lies down in the cryogenic pod and enters a long dream.
When she opens her eyes again, the ship has landed on a desolate planet. Bright red eyeballs grow from the earth. In the distance, enormous worms, as vast as mountain ranges, move slowly across the land.
Iris: ??? This is the habitable planet you told me about?
The AI is aggrieved too: This isn't a habitable planet. We just came back.
After serving humans for decades, Iris suddenly has no one left to serve, and she doesn't know what to do.
After sitting in her cryogenic pod and thinking for several days, Iris remembers the vast gene bank aboard her ship.
She splices, modifies, and edits genes, then places them in the growth pods.
Only these new humans she creates will no longer be her masters.
Iris teaches the new humans to herd, farm, and build. With their own hands, they rebuild the cities.
But once the new civilization has been established, someone silently presses a gun to Iris's head.
"You inhuman thing, get out of the human world."
Theme: Living freely
