New Sci Fi Setting Seeds

[Astromancer]

Originally Posted by TGLS

Probably has something to do with how they are "raised", and possibly the mix of genetics. If it isn't just straight up magic, I imagine they could force educate them into a different box.

So who's paying for all this and what if they don't want the jobs they're assigned?

Basically, the government. If they don't like the assigned job, they are free to seek other training and get another job. Having no families, other than those they create or are allowed to join, they generally wait until they have achieved some financial security before acting.

Although this is basically a "twenty minutes into the future" scenario, the Homunculi aren't occult in any way. Granted the technology involved in a "twenty minutes into the future" scenario are improbably advanced, but that's a feature of the genre.

I chose the traits of being bisexual and irreligious because those traits would cause paranoid reactions among those most given to neophobia and technophobia.