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The Spermification Process

After the disappearance of men, humakind was faced with a new challenge — how to survive as a species without men. After making peace, and establishing a UN with the power to stand up to any nation, humanity scrambled to live. Cloning was attempted, but because male genes were weakened from the virus, and cloning was not yet perfected, it was not a viable option. Because women were carriers of the virus, stored sperm was not an option either, women passed on the virus to their sons.

Additionally attempts to use stored sperm to bear male children failed, women were carriers for the disease though they didn't suffer symptoms, they passed it onto male offspring.

A geneticist, Dr. Andrew Vanderbeek, perfected a process that had previously only worked in lab animals (in the past experiments were done on animals rather than a biosynthetic test body); sperm can be made by extracting the bone marrow from a woman and manipulating it, which can then be used to impregnate another woman. The doctor died of the virus just six months after his discovery.

This new society of women was unlike any seen before, more than half of the population near-dead from the virus, and from the rest of the war left the human population at less than 2 billion. As the years passed, the men that remained died out.  No new men were born because there were no fathers to move on the Y-chromosome. It wasn't long until the human male was all but legendary; there was nobody left who even remembered seeing a man. Male animals were still present of course, but a human boy was something that was taught in school alongside the Wooly Mammoth.  Thanks to the more powerful UN, conflicts were less prevalent and less violent. When they did occur, they were resolved much more quickly, and rarely led to much destruction. Suddenly, resources were spread more equitably, hunger and famine were all but a thing of the past. Socialism spread, and nearly all governments adopted at least some Marxist principles, meaning the inequality that helped to lead to the great war was primarily a thing of the past. The human population remained stable at around 2 billion, not fluctuating, either way, more than ten or twenty million.

On July 14th, 2230, in Lexington, Kentucky, an event changed everything……. A baby boy was born.