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As he finished smoking the cigarrete end, he knocked again the door, a bit impatient. He have tried calling several times before arriving -without answer-, and he have been knocking since five minutes the door. He knew they where there, as he could hear a TV program and some muffed conversations.

He doubted a moment, shifted the weight of his backpack, and ringed the bell -just in case: he very well knew it was busted since three months at least-.

Finally, when he was about to knock again, the door was opened:

First he was struck by the strong smell of paint, cold pizza, hot tea. and pot. A girl -clad only in a T-shirt with a corporate logo, panties, garter stock and a mug of tea.

She smiled at him. The same smile of thousands if not hundreds of other clones of her same model that lived in the city. What marked the clone different from others -as she was proud to point out in almost any conversation, he remembered- were her dyed hair and numerous tattoos, reaffirmation of herself as individual rather than just a corporate, mass produced clone. He never thought it to be ironic that most of the rebel clones got tattoos -often them as well, being the same tattoos, as there too were trends and fashions, often orchestrated by the corporations-. She wore glasses that she didn't needed, because she said, "it made her look interesting"

"Come in!" she said, leaving him enter the flat he had visited hundreds of times. One of the first things to see, was the ever present was the poster of the famous anarchist rebel simply known as Number-Seventeen, who had become an icon of rebels all over the Nebula of Ots. He didn't thought it to be ironic, the poster was a mass-produced merchandising, sold again by the corporations-

"We were painting signs" the clone girl explained.

He frowned as he saw the mess in the flat, with signs thrown all over, garbage, dried brushes and spilled painting. Normally, clones where very clean, so this was unusual: the explaination was laying lazily on the coach, skipping TV channels.

He turned to the tattoed clone girl -his girlfriend- "Eassy?" he whispered. "Hadn't we talked that we wouldn't leave her coach crash here anymore?"

"Oh, come on!" the clone girl said with a smile. "She's a martyr of the cause, and she came to help!"

"A martyr to the cause my balls" he said, biting the words. "She got fired due negligence, and only afterward she began to show up in the meetings for free food."

Eassy was a nickname. While she was too a clone -a corporate clone, produced by the corporation Azimuth Pharmaceuticals, known as an aFra-, unlike his girlfriend -a Jako, mass produced clone worker heavily modified- Eassy was a Regult, a regular, unmodified clone, made rather more of chance than careful genetical design... and in his opinion, in her case, chance produced a sloppy individual -as sloppy individuals happened as well in nature.- Lazy and a freeloader, unlike other clones -specially the very strict Azimuth Pharmaceuticals about the looks of their products- she left herself go in apathy and negligence... coming to the point that Azimuth Pharmaceuticals, the company that cloned her, unlike all the other clones of the company, didn't renewed the contract that bounded her as indentured worker...

basically, they gave her a kick in the butt to the street. Few clones actually got such treatment -and many where precisely claiming in the Cause to end such contracts and indentured work as happened to her-, but instead Eassy claimed to be a victim of the stereotypes of how a clone should look and act. Since then, she hadn't worked a single day, he could assure that.

"Only one day" said the university student -and biological born human, thought both his parents were clones- to his girlfriend.

"One day!" she smiled.

He looked around at the protest signs. One caught his attention.

"Pretty Please, dear corporations" He read out loud. "We -the Artificial Human- would like to have Human Rights. If it's not a bother. Please?" The sign was decorated with flowers, and above the letter i instead of a point, was drawn each time a hearth. 

He raised an eyebrow. 

His girlfriend drinked a sip from her mug of tea. "The Jakos where here" -recently, arrived a batch of freshly cloned girls to the Chemical Plant where she worked "They were happy to help... but sadly you don't win revolutionary points by being adorable.

That's why we needed Eassy! She knows how to be mean!"

Yes she knows, he thought. Yet other reason to, rather to stay the day with his girlfriend in the flat as he originally planned, to leave. 

"There's a political meeting down in Lysbeth's Tea Saloon." he said, turning to his grilfriend.

"Who's organizing?"  she asked.

"Jakie from the Movement of Artificial Human Rights" he answered. "Want to come?"

"Yeah! Leave me change and we can go!"

"...change? I thought aFras go around like that always"

"What? No! I'm on underwear and with an old T-shirt!" she then saw him raise an eyebrow. "What?"

"What about the garter-stocks?"

"D'UH! These are CLEARLY underwear garter-stocks!! Not the Garter-stocks for exteriors!!"

"And what do you plan to wear to the meeting?"

"D'uh. A light blue leotard and garter-stocks, of course"

He sighed. "I thought you are in these meetings to fight for the rights of clones, including the right to wear whatever you want"

She rolled her eyes. "UGH. Whatever. Okey, I won't be wearing the stupid Azimuth Pharmaceuticals garter-stocks... but neither you should tell me what to wear!

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MOVEMENT FOR ARTIFICIAL HUMAN RIGHTS, MDHA.

The MDHA was the Movement for Artificial Humans Rights, created in the Nutk Union at the 3351 a.a.H, and it was originally an ONG created to defend the rights of the "artificial humans", being them the ones who popularized the term –instead of "clones"-, which was one of their first victories.

While in some nations –as in the Empires of Stornkold and Norodor- was seen that was being created some sort of “caste” system due to the genetic conformation and origin of clones or biological humans, or the phenomena of neo-slavery as clones were assimilated to property rather than as people –as in the Nutk Confederation or the EUS -United States of Spotzen-, the first efforts of the MDHA were against such measures, creating some important lobbies in Nortenz, the Auswelt.ICR, the Nutk Union and Neue Münzen, which resulted in the creation of many new legislation that regulated the cloning and the legal status of the now called, artificial humans.

And so, while they reached important progress in some nations, in others the advances were only marginal, or even deepened the problem of neo-slavery and genetic-caste-systems, being in great part responsible of this some of the great Megacorporations who had been expanding, along and beyond the new states of the Nebulosa of Ots.

These Corporations, owning governments and their own feuds, ignored the demands of the MDHA because it was determined it would go against their economic and political interests, and when some nations where they have been acting approved laws inspired in the MDHA, often they will mean heavy economic sanctions, as well migration of industries and companies away from these legislation, or the corruption of the local authorities so they don't apply the laws.

As well, due the advances achieved by the MDHA in some nations, the Artificial humans entered in direct conflict with the biological humans in labor fields, being often better prepared –genetically and physically- which created even further hostilities between these groups, protests, strikes, demonstrations of unions, extremist anti-cloning parties and some demagogic politicians who made use of this malcontent to gain votes and push their own agenda, reserving some works to biological born humans, excluding artificial human from university, arts academies, technical schools, some scientific knowledge and sports, for gaining support of the biological born, or abused of the system with the artificial human:

-One of the worse examples being Jorge Münzenmay, elected at the 3408 a.a.H as president of Neue Münzen (NM), after his political campaign expenses were only dedicated to get the conditioning program in maturation chambers of all the new clones being produced for the nation -86,000,000 of them left the maturation chambers during the campaign-: they were conditioned while in the maturation chambers to vote for him, granting his unpopular campaign a lead from 3% to 36% of the votes, and winning the Presidential elections of NM.-

After these sorts of examples, in many nations where they had granted some rights were once again reduced the artificial human to second class citizens, or if they gained some rights, they never achieved the full rights, but had all the obligations.

And so, despite the efforts of the MDHA, the panorama was of neo-slavery, genetic caste systems, hostility and opposition between many biological humans –most of them, being only first or second generation biological humans-, being the artificial human with luck second or third class citizens.

And meanwhile the Megacorporations produced and sold Artificial humans as cattle or simple tools, having them live in inhumane conditions, Biological (or natural) humans tried to grow apart from the artificial humans: In Nutkia for example, the Nutks reclaimed their ancient traditions, as tribes, clans and tribal tattoos, as means of self-identification, meanwhile in other states was banned even the relation of Biological and Artificial humans, and in other colonies or planets where the Artificial Humans were even pursued, hunted or exiled, as those states claimed themselves proudly to be really pure “HUMAN colonies” rather than having clones among them -which was actually a claim that didn't contrasted with historic reality, as most of all the colonized planets had been on a basis of clones, ancestors of most of these biological born humans-

Because of this, the MDHA main efforts were to reconcile the two halves of humanity, biological and artificial born humans, and as well, to grant the Artificial Humans some basic human rights, as the right to live, to have a fair treatment and for dignity: To achieve this, they demanded as well the elimination of conditioning and programming to control the behavior of the Artificial humans, so the only difference was how they were born, and so the Artificial Humans could have really their own free will, to develop freely and independent.

However, due to the strong opposition met by the MDHA, some factions of this ONG thought the only way to achieve results was to radicalize their postures, and so was created a underground arm of the movement by extremists, to achieve by all means the rights for the Artificial Humans, being created Front of artificial Human Liberation, the FAHL.

It should be noted, that due to the limitations of the Artificial humans and their conditioning, most of the members of the MDHA and FAHL were biological humans, rather than artificial ones, but who had taken as their own the fight for the rights of artificial humans:

And due to the conditioning of many artificial humans, their speeches and propaganda often fell in closed ears and shut down minds –especially among the corporative artificial humans-.

Because of that, in their frustration, the FAHL became an armed faction of the MDHA, beginning with hacker attacks to the sites of the corporations dedicated to cloning, escalating quickly to street demonstrations –which often ended in street violence-, and placing bombs in empty offices: and after that –some point more as mistake that a conscious decision- one of the explosive devices to be put in an empty office of Gentek exploded too early, causing several dead and wounded in the personnel of the building –and the bombers.-

After that first lethal attack, there was no back way, and aside of the police and legal systems of the nations, the extremist FAHL –and the peaceful MDHA- became a target of the Corporations, beginning a covert war, of espionage, sabotage and assassinations.

This persecution, and banning of the MDHA as a terrorist organization in many states, made the radical members of the FAHL to gain hegemony in the group...

these where the first steps to what will be the Rebellion of the Clones, conflict that raged between the 3428 to the 3436 a.a.H both in the Inner and Outer Core Worlds of the Nebula of Ots.

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I'm running out of inks! Horror, the Horror! D:> So for now, a WIP!

My idea is to have this aFra -corporate artificial human or clone, cloned by the mega-corporation Azimuth Pharmaceuticals- to have several tattoos, and dyed hair -and the background will be a messy room-.

While I get some non-dying inks, it's YOUR chance to suggest!!

What tattoos could I give this -rebel!- clone lady, and where?
What could be her dyed hair colour?

You are free to suggest!!

Hope I don't went overboard with the tattoos! : U