Songs without Words

For many years, the new installment of Cell Wars has been brewing in my mind. However, it’s been relegated onto the back burner due to time constraints (since it will almost certainly be a 100+ page story). However, the fact that I’m taking 7.23 (Immunology) this term has made it inevitable that I start thinking about Cell Wars all over again, this time hopefully armed with the necessary scientific knowledge to paint the picture I want.

I’m just going to take a few notes down from today’s lecture as reference material for later; this is by no means a story sketch.

On the production of the perfect cell army.

– birthing mothers (stem cells) produce millions of baby soldiers

– the baby soldiers are randomly mutated in hopes of achieving the perfect soldier, and they sometimes turn out okay (the rest of them die).
– the soldiers who have the potential to be traitorous are forced to commit suicide

– training consists of fighting dummy enemies. the best soldier is promoted (only 1); the inferior soldiers are not worth wasting resources on, and they are fed to large cannibals.

– the perfect soldier is cloned millions of times, creating the perfect army (for this enemy).

– after the war is won (it is a war of total annihilation: either the home country kills all of the invading army, or the entire home country is killed), most of the army dies off because there are no longer resources to commit to it.

While the heroes of the cell wars series have traditionally been red blood cells who escaped getting their brains sucked out, I may end up also involving a white blood cell as a main character. Probably a B cell, but we shall see.

Cell Wars is of course ultimately not about cells, but about humans.  What do I wish to convey?  I want to show first that emotionless, evil totalitarianism can work – I want to show this because there are too many people who say, “It won’t happen because it will never work.”  That’s not good enough.  One has to be aware that evil can exist in order to stop it before it gets so far that there’s no turning back.  The point after which, as in this story, a rebellion’s only successful end will spell the death of everyone.