IDEAS ON TUESDAYS 449

Each Tuesday, rather than a POSSIBLY IRRITATING ESSAY, I'd like to both challenge you and lend a helping hand. I generate more speculative and teen story ideas than I can ever use. My family rolls its collective eyes when I say, "Hang on a second! I just have to write down this idea..." Here, I'll include the initial inspiration (quote, website, podcast, etc.) and then a thought or two that came to mind. These will simply be seeds -- plant, nurture, fertilize, chemically treat, irradiate, test or stress them as you see fit. I only ask if you let me know if anything comes of them.
SF Trope: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TranshumanAliensCurrent Event: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200504114131.htm
Igaluk Abumayaleh-Jawai and Godly Freego have been taken for minor crimes and sentenced to months of indenture aboard the cloudwhale Polyakov.
Both have other plans and reluctantly joining forces and plan an escape on the “longest night of the century”, when normal Night and an eclipse of the star HD 23127 will result in a double night – nearly thirty hours.
A “sparkling” airshow celebration will allow for perfect cover, but the two have to overcome their distaste for each other – Iggie is only mildly modified (though technically not Human by Imperial standards); Freego is so highly modified that Iggie thinks they’re a caricature of a Human, and certainly obvious. Their punishment will be far more severe if they’re captured; but they’re going to have to work out their differences FIRST – among them the deeply ingrained belief that all Humans are by nature superior…and that all Transhumans are by nature superior…it is, in a real way, carrying racism to the stars.
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