Who: Nugoya: greying Japanese, joints large beyond normal human proportions, muscles snaking like steel cable, artificial Japanese eyes w/ chrome irises, missing two fingers on right hand, artificial left arm, scarring on neck, small-time pimp, killer ego, killed by Hassan for selling Flush against orders. Hired Nohar to find one of his girls. Speaks Japanese. Nugoya's people: moreaus: tiger: 2nd generation Rajasthan, Indian special forces, dead ursine, dead vulpine bartender: Brit fox, Ulster antiterrorist, dead 3 rabbits with unit tattoos and some heavy scarring Infantry, and they saw combat. dead Nohar Rajasthan: tends to rake his claws on his chairs. A morey tiger PI. good sense of smell, 260cm, 300kg, not great at reading human expressions, can't read lips. Normal sized handcuffs won't fit. Hassan: shaggy Afghani dog moreau, killed Nugoya and his people for selling Flush against orders. Mandvi Gujerat/Manny: has a Medical Examiner's van + notebook-sized computer. a small guy with a thin, whiplike body. Short brown fur, a lean, aerodynamic head, and small black eyes. A mongoose moreau Irwin Harsk: bald, police, face resembles cinder block, detective in charge of Moreytown. Drinks coffee. Cat: Nohar's pet tomcat. "missing link, little fuzzball" Robert Dittrich: Nohar's friend. Red-bearded. Hacker John Smith: Alien posing as a frank. Morality supervisor. Congressman Binder: campaigning Edwin Harrison: Binder's legal council. Acting campaign manager Philip Young: Binder's finance chairman Russell Gardner: Former Cleveland mayor Dr. Bensheim: lives in Stockholm. Founder of the Bensheim Genetic repositories. Father Sean Murphy: a British fox, one of two ordained morey priests in the US. Where: Zero's: flashy, shiny, cheap. vinyl seats. booths, bar. relatively high ceiling. east side of Cuyahoga River. far out of Moreytown Cuyahoga River: smells of algae Morey Hill: East side. Only newscasters still call it Murrey hill. Been Morey hill for nearly a decade. Nearly completely blocked off from the rest of the city by traffic barriers, dating back to the riots. Only place a morey can walk around and not be stopped by the cops on general principles Nohar's apartment: holes in the wall, a leaky roof, a sagging floor in the kitchen, ancient wiring, a huge stainless-steel shower, nearly-dead couch Coventry Lakeview Cemetary ...battlefields of Asia... Japan: made artificial eyes, one of the few countries to ever defy the UN ban on the manipulation of human genetic material Tokyo: nuked by China a long time ago China: nuked Tokyo a long time ago Britian: ID their forces under the tongue Economic Community: just voted to remove most internal restrictions on nonhuman movement. The French and German states don't like it. economically troubled. Had a few combat morey designs in response to the war, but never produced many moreaus. Most nonhumans designed for police and hazard industrial work. When: When Nohar was five: Orai, his mother, dies 1966: Eliza Wilkins born c.2000: Race begins involvement in terrestrial affairs. 1999-2005: Worldwide breakthroughs in genetic engineering. Start of the biological revolution 2008-2011: War for Korean unification; despite the South's technical advantage the North overwhelms it with Chinese assistance. The U.N. is bogged down in nationalist conflicts in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Republics. The United States begins its policy of diplomatic nonintervention. 2008: The first moreau is engineered in a South Korean lab. It's a large dog breed with an increased cranial capacity. Even though the war is short-lived, an intensive breeding program results in nearly ten thousand of these smart dogs slipping north to plant explosives and otherwise harass the enemy 2011-2015: The aftermath of the Korean War begins an international debate on the military uses of genetic engineering. The debate culminates with United Nations resolutions banning genetically-engineered disease organisms and any genetic engineering on the Human genome. The U.N. deadlocks on banning the engineering of sapient animals - bu the time it reaches a vote, four out of five nations with a substantial military have their own "Korean dog" projects. 2013: wiring installed in Nohar's future apartment, not up to code 2013: ET signals discovered 2014: Daryl Johnson born 2017: On a tide of public opinion fueled by anti-Japanese sentiment (by 2017 the Japanese have the most high-profile genetic program, notably ignoring the U.N. restrictions), there's a constitutional convention to draft the 29th amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The amendment bans any genetic engineering on a macroscopic scale and, in a effort to prevent any possible atrocities like the ones in Korea, gives the sapient results of genetic engineering of animals the protection of the Bill of Rights. 2019-2023: Iranian Terrorists slaughter the Saudi royal family, sparking the Third Gulf War. The war eventually envelops all the Arab states and marks the beginning of substantial nonhuman immigration into the United States. 2023: The Gulf War ends forming the Islamic Axis. The Axis is a fundamentalist Pan-Arab union. The price of oil triples even over wartime levels. A small company in Costa Rica, Jerboa Electrics, begins production of the Jerboa - a small, cheap electric convertible that now costs less than half to run as the most effecient gas vehicle. 2024: Start of the Pan-Asian war. It begins around a Pakistan-India border dispute and snowballs almost instantly. By the end of the year it involves the Islamic Axis, most of the former Soviet republics, and China on one side, India, Japan, Russia, and most of North Africa on the other. The United States continues its hands-off foreign policy. 2025: The Ford Motor company buys Jerboa Electronics to avoid an international lawsuit over Ford's wholesale swiping of the electric-car design. Proceeds to sue GM motors and Chrysler for doing the same thing. BMW is producing its own electric design. 2027: United American Bio-Technologies is indicted for breaking the ban on macro-genetic engineering. They've been producing moreaus for the Aisian war effort (both sides) and, worse, they've been working on human genetics as well - though there's no evidence that ever went beyond the computer-simulation stage on their human project. The Fed seizes all of UABT's assets in an unprecedented move against a corporate criminal. Rumors persist that the Fed Intelligence community wanted UABT's nationwide facilities for its own uses. 2027: March: Rajasthan Airlift 2027: New Delhi nuked as the Indian national defense begins to crumble. Mass desertions are rampant and whole sections of the country lay down their arms and suuender. In March, from the Afghan frontier, an entire company of moreau Tigers from the Indian special forces seize control of a cargo plane and fly to America. It is called the Rajastahn airlift, for the strain of tiger involved. The airlift is an American media event, the officers of the company become celebrities. Especially Datia Rajastahn, the officer in charge of the airlift. He's eloquent, charismatic, and the first major voice for the moreaus - not only in America, but internationally. 2028: Nohar's car (in 2053), a Ford Jerboa, is built. 2029: The American space program reaches its apex. NASA has an orbiting space station, a temporary lunar base, an orbiting radio telescope that may be picking up alien radion signals from the vicinity of Alpha Centauri. The peak is reached when appropriations for NASA's deep-probe projects are approbed. The deep-probe project is to inbolve a half-dozen unmanned nuclear rockets to fly by the nearest star systems. 2030: The Israeli intelligence community, the Mossad, conducts a raid into Jordan and captures a secret training base for Jordanian franks. The Mossad, with domestic legal constraints on a par with the American bans on macroscopic genetic engineering, destroys the Jordanian base, but takes the immature franks (100 girls from Hiashu Biological ranging from 3 to 18 years in age) and secretly trains them as Israeli agents. 2030: The last Indian national defenders fail. The subcontinent falls to a Pakistani/Afghani invasion force. 2032-2044: The African pandemic, genetically engineered viruses, race across the continent in waves that resemble the Black Death that swept Europe in the Middle Ages. Entire villages are wiped out in weeks, governments collapse, and the entire continent is under virtual quarantine. The worst is over in three years, but it takes nearly a decade for a central government,the United African States, to repair the damage to the African economy. The rebuilding of the continent is due, in large part, to a husbanding of the indigenous genetic diversity Africa is home to. By 2044, the U.A.S. genetic programs rival any on the globe and are a billion dollar industry. 2033: Nohar and Bobby carve their names in a wall 2033: quality of living starts degrading 2034, Jan 8: The "big one" hits California. The quake is a 9.5 and centers about 30 miles south of San Francisco. Aftershocks in the 5-7 range echo down the coast as far south as Los Angeles. The urban landscape of California is altered forever. 2035: end of the Pan-Asian war 2037: Morey immigration tops at 1.8 million (10 million total) 2038: Jan 12 newspaper: NASA has just gotten appropriations to test the nuclear engines for its deep-probe project. The end of the Pan-Asian war is news, two years after the fact. Balkanized India. Saudis finally kill their last oil fire, but everyone's driving electric. Most of the occupied territory in Isreal is radioactive. Russia signs peace treaties with Tirkmen and Azerbaidzhan-finally. Moreau population over 10 million 2038: Manny starts trying to get Nohar back 2038: the Pope declares that moreys have souls 2038: a heck of a lot more gems start entering the country than can be accounted for 2038: Midwest Lapidary Imports incorporates 2040, fall: Daryl Johnson recruited out of Bowling Green by Binder. As are the rest of his inner circle: Edwin Harrison, Philip Young, Desmond Thomson. 2042: Aug 4: the Dark August riots: a bloody incidence of cross-species violence Eliza Wilkins, beloved wife of Harold, dies 2043: Nohar gets liscrnce for Vind. 2043, Dec 2: MLI buys NuFood, which owns Mirrorrotein patents 2043: NASA's nuclear rockets start sitting on the moon. Binder starts leading a policy of government inaction 2048: Phil starts living with Daryl 2053: now Sat Jul 19: Daryl Johnson attends a political fund-raiser. Killed later. Thu Jul 24: Violent thunderstorm this night. Hassan & Zipperheads destroy Stigmata, Angel's gang. Hassan shoots out window Fri Jul 25: Johnson's body found Tue Jul 29:2am: start of novel. Hassan shoots Nugoya. rain starts 4am: Nohar showers 10:05am: John Smith calls Nohar 3:05pm: Harsk calls Nohar Wed Jul 30: Vixen gang destroyed. Nohar accepts job. Thu Jul 31: sun comes out, Nohar interviews Stephanie Weir. Angel caught Fri Aug 1: still no rain, Nohar blowed up. Angel flushed. Sat Aug 2: 11:55pm: Nohar wakes up Sun Aug 3: 8am: Nohar calls Manny. Nohar rescues Angel Mon Aug 4: 6-9am: Nohar & Angel search lot. 10:30: Smith calls. 12pm: Zips attack Nohar, Angel, Steph. Manny fixes Nohar. Tue Aug 5: Nohar visits Bobby. Nohar takes taxi around town. Hassan blows up Thomson. Taxi crash. Caught in sewer. Overnight at police station. Wed Aug 6: Binder's plane shot. Smith killed. Hassan kills hospital staff and Manny, gets killed by Nohar. Nohar kills Zips, rescues Angel and Stephie. Visits NuFood. FriAug29/WedAug26: Epilogue. End of novel. What: Artificial eyes: made by Japan, chrome irises Pink: slang for human of any race Frank: human frankensteins, few if any rights, a human would not be caught dead working for one Moreau: have a constitutional amendment in their favour types: tiger: Rajasthan, Indian special forces ursine/bear: Turkmen, Russia or Kazakhstahn parthenogenetic adaptation vulpine/fox: British, Ulster antiterrorist rabbit: Peruvian Lepus strain: white fur + characteristic skull= Pajonal '35 or '36 canine/dog mongoose 1st generation vs 2nd generation street kids Most species are catalogued, some species aren't. unique experiments and the few dozen species that fell through the cracks during the war INS: has tight restrictions on letting Franks into the country Flush: A drug. Bad trip classic symptoms: near catatonia, chills, dehydration, voiding the bowels, rolling up of the eyes, shallow breathing, slight nosebleed. In truly severe reactions, the nervous system goes, and the person dies. Darkness tends to perpetuate the hallucinogenic effects. The person could be psychologically unable to move long after the physical effects wear off, "brain-lock". Home procedure for bad flush trip: lower face of person into toilet so side of face touches water, talk reassuringly along the lines of "Listen to my voice. It was a bad trip, but you're coming back. It wasn't real. You can relax now. It's important to untenst your muscles, slowly...". The running joke is, the comedown in the head was the way the drug got its name. The drug has a symmetrical molecule. Police: "half these kids are just out of the Acadamy and tend to sh** if they see a moreau." Gangs: Babylon: Vixen: foxes, destroyed by Zips Hellcats: Nohar's old gang Stigmata: Angel's gang, destroyed by Zips Zipperheads: Spanish rats, flush peddlers. Like exploding cars Bensheim Genetic Repository: a foundation storing nonhuman semen, claiming "The right to reproduce is fundamental and should not be denied on the basis of species." Comm: combination of TV/radio, videophone, and computer. Voice controlled. Vehicles: Inductors can explode, but don't burn very well. Harsk's car: puke-green Dodge Havier Manny's Medical Examiner's van prewar Japanese compact, an ancient Subaru Weapons: Glazer rounds: if the internal injuries don't get you, the Teflon blood poisoning will