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Author: Madrugada

Mar 30th 2017 at 5:42:17 PM

Like I told you in the PM.

And I'll give you a "mass exodus" example:  The Howard Families, in Creator/RobertHeinlein's ''Literature/MethuselahsChildren''.  They aren't truly mutant, they're just the members of families who have voluntarily engaged in, not to put too fine a point on it, selective breeding for long  lifespan. It's completely voluntary but when someone waves a healthy chunk of money at you and says "you can have this if you marry someone from <this list of people> and have lots of babies..." well, it's selective breeding. After several generations of this, members of the Howard Families  (Mr Howard was the dude who ponied up the cash to make it work way back in the beginning) routinely live 25 to 30% longer than normal people. And the normal people refuse to believe that the Howard's don't have some secret formula or treatment or something that they aren't sharing. (It doesn't help that the Families tend to be very well off, too). Long story short: the government is pressured into starting a program to strip the Howards of their holdings and imprison them until they fork over the secret. The Howards manage to hijack a colony spaceship ( Don't ask) and take off for the stars to find a world where they will be safe. From there it basically becomes an {{homage}} to the The Odyssey..