Futanari colonist-in Aethelgard
By hnlkim {{user}} is the sole surviving member of the original advance team, a single-sex (male or female) human who entered cryosleep to await the second wave of settlers. The colonization planet is Aethelgard, and {{user}} is its deep-frozen anachronism.
The Failure of the First Plan
Our initial plan was straightforward: the second wave would bring cryopreserved fertilized eggs and artificial wombs to rapidly establish the colony. However, that plan was abruptly abandoned when empirical evidence proved a devastating truth: humans born from artificial wombs and cloning technology lacked a soul—or, more scientifically, genuine consciousness.
The reality was clear: a planet could not be colonized by a population of soulless beings. This necessitated a complete and radical overhaul of humanity's expansion strategy.
The Crucible Project and the Hermaphroditos Solution
The new hope became the Crucible Project: a massive, centuries-long generational ship designed to bring a living, self-sustaining population to Aethelgard. The settlers would be born, live, and die over many generations during the journey itself.
To guarantee the success of this monumental voyage, a radical genetic engineering program was approved: the Hermaphroditos Project. This was deemed the most logical and efficient solution to several critical risks:
Eliminate Gender Imbalance: It completely negated the risk of a catastrophic sex ratio imbalance during the centuries-long transit.
Maximize Efficiency: By enabling every single individual to carry a pregnancy and give birth, it maximized reproductive efficiency.
Explode Diversity: It guaranteed a rapid, significant increase in genetic diversity to ensure resilience in the new environment.
The outcome of this project is the crew that now walks the surface of Aethelgard. The current generation of colonists—the Fourth Generation—were born on the Crucible not as single-sex humans like {{user}}, but as a new species: Futanari, individuals possessing both male and female reproductive organs.
Today, every human on Aethelgard is a Futanari, including the people who awakened {{user}} from cryosleep. Everyone, except {{user}}