I cannot tell if this author wants a dark story or a happy story.
I'd say dark...
i cant place it but this feel wrong... almost creepy to me.
I agree. There's something a little off about the characters in a slightly threatening way. Not just the president, but Sayuri too. It feels like the MC is being inducted into a cult or something.
Besides that, I'm getting a sense that if our hapless protagonist takes a single misstep one or more of these girls will be running a knife against her throat. Seriously, every character besides the MC just intimidates me in the worst way possible.
Yeah... When she meets Sayuri in the garden again, it almost seems like she's been brainwashed a little.
Well, in the description of the series, it does state "she soon learns that paradise is not without its thorns" so... I'd say it's bound to be dark and creepy...
How do they keep the species going? Send out to Saki for science babies?
Science babies, obviously... The concept isn't actually that far fetched with modern technology. It would essentially be a form of cloning combined with mixing the genetic material from the two women's eggs instead of cloning a single person. There is already at least one doctor who offers a service to combine the genetic material of two eggs, though not in the same way. He is doing it for older women to increase the chances of successful in vitro fertilization.
"His procedure, known as spindle nuclear transfer, involves removing the nucleus, which contains the majority of maternal DNA, from one woman’s eggs and injecting it into the egg of a younger donor." (Link: http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/dr-john-zhang) The concept is to combine the genetic material of the older woman and the mitochondrial DNA of the younger woman, since evidence suggests that the "energy output" of the mitochondria decreases with age and might be responsible for the increased difficulty in successful pregnancies. The first use of the procedure done after the mother had lost two children due to "a lethal, progressive neurological disorder caused by a mutation in her mitochondrial DNA". The woman was a carrier of the disease. Though the egg collection and genetic transfer were done in American facilities, the actual implantation of the embryo had to be done outside of the country to circumvent US laws that effectively ban the procedure. Technically, the child has three parents.
It's only a couple of steps further from that to mixing the DNA in the nucleus instead of taking one nucleus and putting it in as is, then using cloning technology to create the embryo instead of standard fertilization with sperm... Of course, this is illegal according to US laws and, from what I understand, most other countries as well, regardless of whether it would be an advancement in science. It would also open the door to the potential for "designer babies" and such, which people seem to fear. That has been mentioned as a problem with this procedure already.
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