Exo-Genesis is a three-part short story written by Raymond J. Foldhazi in the Refractions anthology at 1992. This is maybe one of the stories that deals with the Creators at more personal level since it deals about the persons involved behind the project who created the species and how the surviving members of the poject went stranded in a inhabitated planet after the take-off went wrong. After they awakened from their cold sleep, they found out they in the middle of the first ILR-EDF war when the ILR invades the Planet Toma-Aki, the planet when the humans are stranded right now.
Tropes associated with the whole story:
- Ambiguous Time Period: Other that the whole story takes place in the future, we don't know in which era takes place so far. The project log described at the beginning of the story sets the date of the story in the Standard Date calendar, the same one used in the setting, but it's very probably the humans use their own version, since the date is described as "SD 723", while the the First Lepine War who takes place in the second episode began at SD 167, canon-wise.note . The topic went moot at March 2018, when Gallacci stated this story and anything not made by him is not canon.
- Anti-Villain: Charles Ambrose Komatsu III, since his actions are somewhat noble, but he had to kill the other members of the project before they could to stop him. Overlaps with Well-Intentioned Extremist.
- Arc Welding: Despite being technically a pseudocanonical story, Exo-Genesis tries it best to explain the origins of the anthropomorphics and their links with the human race, aka "The Creators", and how the actions of Charles Ambrose Komatsu, the man responsable for creating the anthropomorphics or "Aybees" as they are called by their human creators, affected in one way or another the course of the story of the whole Albedo universe. It also explains the theory behind the Matter Conversion Cannon the EDF will create decades later and how such a weapon could be a very terrible thing for every single living being in the universe, including humans.
- Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": The anthropomorphics are described by the humans as Aybees, the phonetic spelling of A.B. or Anthropomorphic Bioforms.
- Cold Sleep, Cold Future: When the humans wake up a century later after they crashed in Toma-Aki, they found out not only the planet is now populated, when a century beforewards it was desolated, but Toma-Aki is now invaded by the ILR, they are in the middle of their war, to boot.
- Everyone Has Standards: Many human characters are really disgusted with the sole thought of leaving intelligent beings to their fate in some inhabitated planet of the universe, not to mention the fact all the experiments and chemical memory-wiping.
- Fantastic Racism: Some of the most amoral humans behind Project Prometheus (the project who created the species) treat them in a very unethical way.
- Fantastic Slur: One of the human characters call the Aybees as Critters and he's called out for this by Bettings, who happens to be black, and he even insults himself to make a point about it.
- Foregone Conclusion: Since the story takes place before Erma was born, and the way how the story is developed, it's more than obvious none of the human characters will survive long enough to be rescued by the UHCS, leaving only Komatsu's fate as uncertain.
- Foreshadowing: In the second episode, it's mentioned that a fusion weapon could be potentially deadly for everyone, even soldiers using Powered Armor, although the device is still theoretical at this point. This anticipates a story in the comic where the EDF builds a Wave-Motion Gun from the technology of a derelict human spaceship.
- Longevity Treatment: Many humans, especially Bettings and Komatsu, are very healthy people despite being in an age they're NOT supposed being able to be working, much less working in the harsher enviroment of outer space, thanks to this. Komatsu is a very egregious case as thanks to both those treatments and a mix of both cloning and Brain Uploading he's 127 years old.
- Meaningful Name: Many of the names of the ships and the project itself come from Classical Mythology. Special mention on the name of Project Prometheus, who was named after both the Titan who created and protected mankind, and also [the full name of the novel Frankenstein.note
- Mecha: The PANIC suits, described in the story as walking tanks, and basically the only instance of this in the whole Albedo universe, albeit it's supposed to be powered armors.
- Nightmare Fetishist: An unintentional and Enforced Trope, due to their job: They are forced to watch all the atrocities the ILR army does in Toma-Aki just to be able to know what kind of people they are dealing with now, after they awakened from their cold sleep.
- No Ending: Since the fanzine was cancelled at the third issue, the whole story ends unfinished and many plot points are unexplained, including the final fate of the human crew.
- Parts Unknown: None of the characters, with the exceptions of Dr. Komatsu (Japanese of Western ancestry) Bettings (African-American), have official nationalities, excluding a minor member who appears in the third issue, named Tonkap Prilavterba, whose name implies she hails from Thailand.
- Prequel: For all practical effects, the story is basically a prequel of the comic, since it takes place a century before the events of the Erma Felna EDF saga.
- Space Marine: All the human characters, barring Komatsu and Wendy, are professional soldiers working in the space in order to bring the Aybees to their designed target.
- Staying Alive: Since the human crew stranded in Toma-Aki are the only living humans in that region of space, and the fact the whole crew had a fair balance between males and females, any potential loss of lives by violent, accidental or otherwise means is considered unacceptable, since it would affect the potential gene pool in the case they want to live in the planet and left some kind of descendants there.
