New Sci Fi Setting Seeds

[Astromancer]

The Homunculi Solution

I'm not done with Strange Dawn yet but here's a different idea. Basically, take the cloning technology from Transhuman Space and have it applied to a real world problem.

The problem is the demographic crisis. The social problems that prevent young couples from becoming parents. The birth dirth is threatening real world nations even now. In this scenario the technology to create large numbers of Eighteen year Olds within two years is being used to create large numbers of citizens.

These new people (the Homunculi of the title) have the zero point advantages of No Genetic Defects, No Mental Defects, and No Unattractive, from Transhuman Space. They also have base stats of eleven in all four attributes. They are decanted as high school graduates with a solid education. They are then trained in skills needed by the economy.

The rest of the population fear these new people. It's a combination of something new, technophobia, and fear of being replaced. It doesn't help that due to issues not clearly understood, the Homunculi all tend to be bisexual and not religious.

The PCs would be recently decanted Homunculi attending Nursing school and working in a hospital as orderlies. Innocents meeting the world, when the people in that world are under massive stress.

Look at old Twilight Zone and Outer Limits episodes for inspiration.