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__SONIC GENOME:__READING BETWEEN THE LINES

Sonic Genome is, I have to admit, a complex story even for an original work. I have written two full-length novels in the series, and am estimating that I shall have to write another 18. The fact is that there is a lot more to this story than a cherished hero battling a familiar enemy character and kicking his ass. This is a story that reaches into my soul and pulls out humanity: All the things I hate about it, everything that has puzzled me ay one time or another, things that have made me feel that there is hope in my fellow man, and things that have made me feel that there is no hope for my kind. We as a race are very peculiar, illogical, and even at times... just simply stupid. There are constants in humanity that one has to look at and see reflected throughout history to a level that makes me think it an attribute that cannot be reversed, no matter what changes our society undergoes: Our fear, our hatred, our inability to live with our neighbors who are not under our control.

DISCRIMINATION IS ILLOGICAL, YET SOMETHING THAT EVERY HUMAN ON EARTH DOES

I don't know if it is because catagorizing everyone around you makes you feel safer, more secure, and you feel better when you can say that all your problems are caused by a particular group of peopl, animals, or ideas, but discrimination is something that almost every human does. Every human I have known, including myself, has discriminated against someone or something, taking a blanket statement and sumerilly applying it to a large group of people. Whether it be on the basis of what ideology/theology a certain number of people subscribe to, or something as asinine as the color of their skin, every group of human beings on this planet has had one of these discriminatory "stereotypes" applied to them. For crying out loud, we have an entire rank of sterotypes to apply to an individual because his skin color is #40250D!

In the year 2955 of the future era, humans seem to have set aside most of their stereotypes of their fellow man (although not all of them, and in the next book you're going to see that the rogue demographic known as "fur artists" are as persecuted as ever for their love of anthropomorphic legend characters) but why is this? Is it really because humanity, after staring down the barrel of it's own extinction, has learned to cooperatively live with his fellow man in harmony? I'm sure that's what President Wilson (the leader of humanity at the time) would like to think. It is more likely however, that humanity is united simply against the alien threats in the universe. During the Destructive era, which is more casually referred to as the 400 year long World War III, Humanity was reduced to a mere fraction of a fraction of what it is today. All Nations were destroyed, all countries were laid to waste, and when the bunker-hiding paranoid humans emerged from their holes in the ground they saw a burnt, barren wasteland. From that day forth, supposedly, humanity no longer concerned itself with it's petty DISCRIMINATIONS, and set about exploring the stars, inventing giant star cruisers and impressive deep space engines. Humanity had supposedly defied its fate as a self-destructive lifeform.

But Humanity also met an enemy in deep space, the likes of which was startlingly like the "little green men" that paranoid humans wrote about so long ago. The humans immediately joined an interstellar conflict, even alligning with those who had a common adversary in the Gremlin-like aliens, and won their first space war. The Problem was that humanity was not satisfied afterward...

ABOVE ALL ELSE, HUMANS WANT POWER-EVEN WHEN THEY ALREADY HAVE IT.

Mankind had plenty of presence in the universe without setting up waystations, outposts, orbital defense grids, and lockdowns in every populated solar system in the universe. But humanity was paranoid of its neighbors in space, and also wanted to take advantage of its recent victory- in all consideration, it was only because of humanity's forced intervention and domination of the sector that the sly Grimlok were able to rally their former enemies to their cause... and the TRIAD "alliance" was formed.

Almost immediately after the TRIAD war began, the human empire tried to regain its ground with their deep space army, the Terran Deep Space Authority.

Now, the entire galaxy was strung up in an intricate web of hypocracies: the alliance known as TRIAD was never truly an alliance at all: it was a sub-union of enbemy races simply throwing their efforts together to eradicate humanity. Mankind had become united entirely, however this was likely only because everyone else in the universe was an enemy-enemies that we, ourselves, had made out of our own need to control everything around us. And in the year 2950, the Emperor of Earth proved that above all, that need to be in control was absolute- when he commissioned a group of rogues on the sly to create a doomsday weapon against the TRIAD to re-establish his domination of the universe. Because of this greed, the Terran Allied Science Commission would go on to create an army of thousands of constructed super-humans that would eventually reduce this galactic sector to mere ashes. Because of the urgency and haste in which Emperor Dorian demanded that his conquest of the universe be made absolute, these constructs were programmed quickly and suffered several abnormalities that made them, in the end, a nuisance to humanity. And because of mankind's need to be the most powerful force in the universe, the constructs would eventually be used to eradicate the alien vestiges of this galaxy, only to be turned upon by their creators, and have that which was promised them taken away...