The Farm — a series by fertile_kitty

The homo-sub-neanderthalus (otherwise known as "subs") were a Neanderthal offshoot that successfully fended off extinction by their homo-sapien cousins but were pushed far up north to nearly inhospitable arctic regions in northern Canada, Alaska, and Russia. Largely left in isolation for most of human history, they were officially declared a protected species by United Nations treaty resolution #23 in 1949 and available only for academic observation and study.

In 2018, research biologists working at the University of Southern California were astounded to discover a revolutionary breakthrough in the field of aging. Mixing core nutrients from the breast-milk of a female sub with commercial pharmaceuticals, the researches were astonished to find a dramatic reduction in the appearance of aging, temporarily suspending cellular decomposition as human skin cells absorbed the skin nutrient.

Immediately, the enormous commercial value was realized and U.S. industry (pharmaceutical and cosmetics companies in particular) launched a massive lobbying campaign targeting politically vulnerable government or elected officials officials to withdraw from the UN resolution on economic grounds. Within months, the United States announced its unilateral withdrawal from the sub-neanderthal treaty and the sub-ranching industry within the United States heartland was born.

This series follows the story of Bill's breeding farm, one of the first sub-breeding ranches pioneering many of the cutting edge breeding techniques as he strives to break out and become one of the industry's first successful entrepreneurs.