They call us “mutants”—implying that our abilities are an accident of birth—but the truth is that anyone can choose to acquire the superpower they desire.
It wasn’t always this way, and it’s gloriously ironic that the possibility was unlocked only by an unlikely accident.
An idle grad student was feeding Human Genome Project data to a waveform visualizer usually used for music, when an anomaly stood out. Investigation revealed that whatever (hitherto hypothetical) elder race that originally uplifted humanity had left a login credential for the Galactic Uplift Genehub hardcoded in a region of “junk DNA”.
Remember to back up your genome before applying any untested patches.
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