DEMRES (Degenerative Mitochondrial Ribonucleic Expression Syndrome) is a hereditary human genetic disease, carried and passed on by the females. Carriers have a 50% chance of the disease expressing itself when they reach puberty, causing massive corruption in the transcription of RNA within the mitochondria of the body. The aftermath is a slow, horrifically painful death over the course of months that is both incurable and untreatable. The disease is beyond dreadful, for not only do the parents endure the agonizing death of their child, but as it is completely undetectable they risk the same happening if they were to bear another. The only way any person knows if they are a carrier is if a sibling or child passes away from it.
Felsians are a mysterious hybrid of human and their alien counterparts, the Fel. Human couples that gave birth to felsian children used a special black market genetic splicing tool known as a ‘kit’, although no one knows the origin. The felsians were the supposed answer to DEMRES, but there exists no information on who created them. Either way, not a single felsian has ever exhibited the disease, indicating that the hybridization of human and Fel may be the key to beating DEMRES. This concept is highly controversial as any and all non-natural hybridization of sentient species is strictly forbidden under the United Systems Charter. Because of this, felsians fall between the cracks of legislation, regarded as ‘unregisterable’ and having no access to social benefits or formal employment.
Felsians have a few curious characteristics. The most notable, apart from their wonderfully colorful eyes, is their complete lack of reproductive organs. Once again it is a mystery why this is, but the result is a whole race who are completely naive to the concept of sex. Although felsians still have distinctly identifiable genders (male and female), they experience no sexual response (females also have a much reduced bust size). Compared to humans and many other species, felsian relationships are instead based on emotion and feeling rather than sexual attraction.