Surveyors

Prologue

300 years ago, Edward Tower, a globally recognized scientist, declared that he would do the impossible, create a cure for all human diseases.  

Shortly after this however, Elise, his wife, died in a fatal car accident, crushed by his loss and mourning, he decided that simply curing all diseases was not enough but rather curing death itself, was the best course of action. Called "the resurrection", Tower stated the elixir would rebuild and revitalize the cells and tissues of the dead, allowing their bodies to heal and to live once more.  At the time, Tower was the greatest scientist ever known, so there was no doubt that he would succeed in his research, but what people did doubt is it's benefit for society.

Many believed that without the consquence of death, the world would become chaotic and could no longer be controlled, others feared overpopulation,  and many worried that because of the cure no one would want to buy medicine anymore, and unemployment rates would soar. Riots broke out, on more then one occasion people have tried to murder Tower but this never worried or fazed Tower and he continued his research often hiding for months at a time.

 After 10 long years, Edward Tower announced that the cure was completed and ready to be used. He set up his experiment in his lab of which he broadcasted across the world, using a recently deceased elderly man as his specimen. He inserted a the serum into the corpse and within seconds the corpse began to move. The excited man even began his celebratory speech but stopped when the corpse turned black and scrawny and growled at the scientist, and with no reaction time Tower was killed by the dark figure. The corpse escaped the lab and began devouring everyone in it's path, changing the entire world.

There are many speculations about what occured that day. It was concluded that Tower was a perfectionist and that the cure must have succeeded in prior tests for him to show it the world.  Some believe that he accidentally combined it with another chemical, which must have had a negative effect on the corpse. Causing it to come to life but completely different, both physically and genetically. While others believe that someone had purposely sabotaged the cure so that it would fail during the broadcast so he would stop creating the cure in shame. To this day, it is still a mystery.

This corpse was the catalyst of a species now know as dusks that have since reproduced and evolved in many ways. In defense,  governments united and are now known as the world government with a sole ruler whose subordinates look over portions of the earth. To defend the humans, the world government decided to create a new species of human that would become their pawn- I mean protect average humans from the dusks. This species of human is known as surveyors. It is systematically decided who becomes a surveyor based on how many kids a couple already has, their fertility levels, and how wealthy the family is (which shouldn't be the case). This is decided before the birth of a child. Chosen fetus' are then injected with a serum that enhances an average human ability or perhaps even giving it a new one, which is rare. Once born, chosen babies are removed from their family, likely to never be united again, and are then trained to be supernatural dusk killing machines.

Surveyors are owned and bought like things. They have little rights and must listen to whatever their "master" tells them to do. Every human who owns property begins with one low tier surveyor and if they wish to buy more they can. Suveyors even have their own seperate town in which, with "permission", they could go into. 

I am Sandrine. And I am a surveyor.