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The Onuissance Cells

by Steve Jordan
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The characters in The Onuissance Cells are fictional, and do not represent actual persons, living or dead.
Any similarities to actual persons, living or dead, are coincidental and unintentional. For further
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Thanks to pretty much everyone I know, and quite a few I don’t, who contributed to making me a better
person. To the ones who tried to make me a worse person: Bite me.
Foreword ............................................................................................... 5
LOG CELL ENTRY #28949: Tour of Duty ......................................... 9
LOG CELL ENTRY #29021: Recovery ............................................. 45
PERSONAL CELL ENTRY #1109: Black and Not-Black ............... 60
LOG CELL ENTRY #29083: One With The Land ........................... 82
PERSONAL CELL ENTRY #614: Living For a Living ................... 98
PERSONAL CELL ENTRY #1123: Brothers and Blood .............. 110
LOG CELL ENTRY #29109: Rosettas ............................................ 146
LOG CELL ENTRY #29143: Harlequin ........................................... 184
 Foreword

Onus \n (ca.1640): Obligation; Responsibility.
Onuissance \ onn-uh-sonns\ n (ca.2280): Historic period known as The Age of Responsibility.
In the 21st century, Mankind finally grows out of the infant stages of the Industrial Revolution, and
accepts its own responsibility to protect its common planet. This period became known as the
Onuissance...


What happens when a civilization cannot sustain itself?
It falls.
Such was the case for the Greek civilization, the Roman Empire, the Aztec Empire, and the
Egyptian Empire. Many other civilizations have risen and fallen. There is no reason to suppose that
process will now stop.
Case in point: The empire of the United States and Western Europe, generally defined by the period
known as the Industrial Revolution. Europe and the U.S. owe their existence to the Industrial Revolution,
for without it, they probably would not have had the wherewithal to survive the onslaughts of other
pre-industrial forces, like the Huns, the Native Americans, or the Africans. As a result, America and
Europe have become the de-facto rulers of the world, capable of doing whatever they please, and
frequently forcing other countries to bend to their whims.
However, the Industrial Revolution is also inherently wasteful and dirty. The industrial fallout of the
past 200 years has done more to ruin the ecosystem of this planet than all the efforts of the previous 5000
years of human development. In the early 21 st century, the sheer load of industrial fallout is colliding with
the demands of the population, now approaching 7 billion, and the capacity of the global ecology to absorb