America Version 2.0- Part Two

The days leading up to to the break-up of the former America made for a lot of strange bedfellows, but it was too little, too late. People who still called themselves "Americans" were broken down into different types: The Seers, The Mandroids and The Sleepwalkers.

The Seers- The Ones dispatched to Earth to record humanity's collective death rattle by way of a biological, internal black box like the ones found on airplanes to capture the final moments of disaster. The Seers had advantages that the New Owners wanted to either employ for Their own ends, or to simply wipe them out so that they could not be used against Them. The Seers had abilities that The State was very interested in, so They tracked the Seers from birth. In addition to having photographic memories and the ability to remember any voice after hearing it just once, the Seers had biological paranormal abilities such as telekinesis, telepathy, psycometry (the ability to glean data just by touching an object, especially metal) and remote viewing. The Seers were targeted as potential assets or outright threats to the New America, so it was not advantageous for them to fly their freak flags so unabashedly. If the Seers did not agree to work in the employ of The New Owners of America (to become "Mandroids"), then the Seers were subjected to lifelong harassment until they willingly lobotomized themselves via psychotropic drugs and prescription medicines that either genetically altered their abilities or neutered them of their gifts. If they opted for neither route, they were outcast to the fringes of mainstream life where they tried to fly below the radar and to rise above the Mandroids and Sleepwalkers.

The Mandroids- The Mandroids were once Seers who made the decision to use their abilities in the employ of the New State. The Mandroids lost the use of their organic paranormal abilities by consuming vast amounts of synthetic substances that chemically enhanced their abilities to make them synthetic super humans. The Mandroids were half cyborg, half human chameleon like creatures who had cameras installed in their retinas, recorders implanted in their ear canals and programming chips embedded in their tongues.
The Mandroids had no choice but to continue mining data for The New Owners, for they were dependent on the prescription drugs fed to them by State Medics. Once they stopped taking the drugs, they lost ALL of their abilities both organic and synthetic and were as harmless as defanged pitbulls. If they got to this unfortunate state, they became a food group known as Sleepwalkers.

The Sleepwalkers- The Sleepwalkers were the vast majority of former human Americans. They were the ones who not only never questioned authority, but they were trained like attack dogs to go after all who did. The Sleepwalkers raged against any and all who tried to explain that the old American dream was now the New Nightmare. The Sleepwalkers were too comatose to care. The Sleepwalkers believed that the New Teevees were the word of God and that the Teevee News was the gospel. The Sleepwalkers counted burning books in their dreams. The Sleepwalkers did as they were told and told on those who didn't.

-to be con't