Hack away vines. Gain access to the long abandoned facility. The sweating jungle outside is replaced with the fungal rot inside. Pools of biological stimulants have flourished into a menagerie of new species, clinging to the once sterile walls and floors. Orange, predatory mosses hang from dead ceiling lights. Humming blue toadstools sprout from electrical outlets. They were making something here, but what? A cureall? A megacrop? A weapon?
Inside we find our answers. The translation of dead texts reveal the old order’s attempts to revive an intelligent species discovered long ago. Unable to maintain their own habitat, this species doomed itself with endless consumption. The old order thought they’d make for a good saboteur unit within the revolution, given their self-destructive tendencies. The old order called it ‘The Human Project.’
Paddy Dobson
6th March 2021