The Inheritance Project

At this point in history, the survivors have agreed that the Ultimate Coca-Cola wasn't worth it. Though vindicated, its detractors found small comfort in being proven correct by the twitching bodies of their ideological opponents—once the disaster occurred, the planet found itself facing heavy questions and with sparse time to answer those questions.

These were the conditions that birthed the Inheritance Project, a gathering of humanity's wisest to determine what of civilization would pass on. Contemporary accounts indicate that the Inheritance Project was expected to culminate in sublime actualization for the human race. What actually occurred was bickering and factionalization.

In the words of Inheritance Project Director Kim Il-Sung, "Welp, I guess we die as we lived."

Despite various attempted compromises, what ultimately succeeded was a gambit attempted, naturally, by a representative from the Elon Musk Clonarchy. The facsimElon pointed out that the Clonarchy had installed "a big bag of legacy" on their escape ship, and they got to decide what went in their bag by virtue of owning the ship.

This rhetoric changed the framing of the Inheritance Project. Where before it had been a movement of worldwide harmony, the clonarchs laid bare the realpolitik of the situation. It was no longer a question of what legacy humanity should leave behind: it was a race to convince anyone with a genelake to put your favorite stuff in their bag before they ran out of cargo capacity. This understanding gave rise to the use of the term "bagship."

Which brings us to an important question. Records indicate that Earth's collective manufacturing capacity was barely sufficient to create twelve bagships—to the point where the twelfth had to be completed with organic components because they didn't have enough genelake refills to do a traditional biosteel (i.e. bacteria-assembled steel; people get confused about this) print. Each bagship has a unique, documented legacy, so we can—theoretically—detect the anomalous thirteenth by its paper trail.

So why do we have paper trails for thirteen ships?

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