Details of the Salutary- the Complement and Opposite of Daleks.
Terms: 'Dead Skaro' = the Skaro that Salutaries originate from
The Integrated Empire = the 'default' Skaro that Arkreli answers to. This Skaro boasts the deepest gene pool of not just Daleks, but of Kaleds.
Salutaries = Bio-Cybernetic, female Kaleds meant to bolster the dwindling Kaled gene pool in the Thousand Year War. They have several sets of carefully moderated genetics that make them chimeras, even able to have children with different maternal sets of DNA. Bold hair and eye colors made them visually distinctive and difficult to conceal.
Trigenics = The bio-technology company based in the Kaled City, producing medicines, conducting experiments, and gathering and storing genetic materials for theLegacy Project and Doomsday Lifeline.
Legacy Project = Pre-dates the Genesis of the Daleks, and is a eugenics campaign to secure the genetic strength of the pure Kaled race. In the Integrated Empire, Legacy Project is a constant presence in the Kaled City.
On the dead Skaro, a fast-moving, Thal-created meningococcal disease swept through Kaled territory, even killing all 50 Dalek Embryos and Davros himself. Vess and Saan were left behind (with Saan badly injured). Survivors fled the planet with the Salutaries.
Most in the Empire, Dalek and Kaled alike, thought the Salutary was a mere concept with only a few individuals alive.
In truth, there are possibly hundreds to a few thousand Salutaries.
The life of a Salutary on the 'dead' Skaro is regimented since day of decant as adults. Their lives centered around planned pregnancies, births, and their children going into the Kaled population. They lived cloistered away, most children conceived artificially. Some others, like Vess and Saan, were moved to other experimental tasks that a typical Kaled couldn't (or wouldn't) safely accomplish (Temporal experiments and caring for an alt-Davros (including making immunoglobulins for him), respectively)
The facility that creates and decants Salutaries installs arrays of plugins on the back to allow for computers to monitor and edit them. With the right programs running, a Salutary's entire life and body can be viewed on a monitor. Things like independent desires, identity, thoughts, and memories can be edited or deleted. This makes for a placid, obedient subject.
The main facilities that hold Salutaries operate like hospital prisons- sterile, controlled, and devoid of any personality. Salutaries are on strict diets and schedules.
Uniforms- Outer jumpsuit 'shell' in gray. Bands on chest and arms have the serial # of the Salutary. Underneath, Salutaries wear gray T-shirts and drawstring shorts. In pregnancy, the Salutaries wear dark blue maternity scrubs to be easily spotted.
Day to day, Salutaries are inspected, monitored, and edited as needed. They are employed as sweatshop labor to produce goods for the Kaled City, mostly garments. No talking, no laughter, nothing but the hum of machines. Pregnant Salutaries are on light duty but constantly monitored, segregated out from the main group.
Among the Kaleds, the Legacy Project would stage kidnappings of young adult Kaleds, before their bodies and DNA could be destroyed by radiation, and take blood, eggs, and sperm for storage. This is then used to propagate Kaled offspring (sent to Military Orphanages) as well as create new Salutaries and keep the Doomsday Lifeline stocked.
Killing a Salutary is a process. They, biologically, refuse to die and can recover from otherwise fatal injuries. Their bodies produce specialized cells that move like tiny, tiny, translucent spiders (Spinner Cells) that extrude structural and stem cell silk (Spinner Silk) to rebuild any damaged tissue. These cells, upon detecting damage, descend on the wounds to wrap and rebuild. To regenerate injuries, the Spinner Cells take from healthy but non essential areas for energy, starting with fat stores and then muscle. Without support, lethal injuries take months to kill a Salutary, her body eating itself until it is nothing but dust and old silk.
Trigenics, if needing to kill a Salutary, often chooses to use Thal weaponry and then abandon the injured Salutary in ruins. Soldiers who have happened upon them have spread ghost stories about 'The Silk Maids', passive, dying women who are unable to speak, just whistling softly and listlessly reaching out.
💋 (abnormal-and-impossible) It was done! Priya fitted the new silver 'tail', cuff, and legs to the little drinking horn, having to restrain the construct's excited wiggles as she finished attaching the rim. A good polish, final inspection, and Priya went to find Cronus.
As soon as he caught sight of the repaired drinking horn, Cronus seized Priya by the shoulders and planted a big kiss on her forehead.
"You are a wonder, my dear, simply a wonder! I'm so glad you came to join my temple!"
Priya, blushing, handed the excited little horn to Cronus. She had even carefully applied small enameled details to add color that complimented the horn's natural colors. It looked better than new now.
Was that cheeping?
"Ah... I take there are other horns that need fixed?"
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"Magic... It is a good tool, but here?" Priya stroked the horn in the cup, "Perhaps when I have cast the silver, to increase the chances it will cast correctly? But the carving I wish to do on my own. It's what this construct deserves."
"Your sense of compassion is truly admirable." Cronus stated, resting his hands briefly on Priya's shoulders, "I'll leave you to your work, but if you need anything, just say the word."
"Magic... It is a good tool, but here?" Priya stroked the horn in the cup, "Perhaps when I have cast the silver, to increase the chances it will cast correctly? But the carving I wish to do on my own. It's what this construct deserves."