New Innovations in the Human Genome

New marvels in the human genome allowed for the limits of what could be called human to be tested. A joint venture between several laboratories, funded primarily by the Crane (and some say the Scorpion) led to the development of new techniques.

These innovations were helmed by the Genetic Enhancement Research Team Daidoji Soh, Yogo Hiyori, and Asako Ren

While these were greatly beneficial to human kind's progress, they marked the formation of a rift that would come to a head but a scant few years later at the Winter Court of XX54.

On one hand, there were those that enthusiastically supported it, namely Toturi 新[Sara], alongside the Crane and the Crab.

The Crane viewed these new adjustments as ways of reaching new standards of beauty and grace in the courts, while the Crab saw the potential of physical modifications as a way to further bolster themselves against the shadow lands.

By contrast, they were harshly opposed by Toturi 伝[Tadashi ], The Lion, and Phoenix Clans. As strict traditionalists, they viewed violating the human body with foreign modifications was a crime against both the Kami of Nature, and the Ancestors. Mechanical Augmentations would be one thing, but to change the very fabric of what one was would be sacrilege!

The Unicorn, Dragon, and Scorpion made no official stances on the matter at this time, but they certainly had opinions on the matter.