Mutant Fossils

The mutant fossils have been revealed to belong to a highly spiritual post-apocalyptic society, one that lived in a wasteland of chemical and nuclear fallout on …, hundreds of thousands of years ago.

It is unclear whether this lost society was comprised of the remnant survivors of a space-age civilization that succumbed to thermonuclear war, or if these mutants evolved on the ravaged planet afterward.

The long-lost post-apocalyptic society of mutants on … appears to have worshiped sources of radiation as godly, tying evolution as a process to the existence of radioactive substances.

From what we can glean of their pictographic language, radiation is referred to as the 'Source,' from which the 'true state' of all creatures could be revealed. Our archaeologists theorize that prolonged, willful exposure to such radiation sources for spiritual reasons may have led to the species' rampant mutations, and eventual downfall.

At last, our archaeologists on … have had their suspicions confirmed. The discovery of an irradiated, ruined complex that once stored vats of highly radioactive chemicals has confirmed the theory that the lost species of mutants subjected themselves willingly to excess radiation, in a sort of coming of age ritual tied to their spiritual faith.

In what must have been a painful ceremonial procedure, members of this long-lost society on … would expose themselves to near-lethal doses of chemical mutagens, in the hopes of revealing their 'true selves.' The skeletal remains found at the bottom of many of these vats suggest not all supplicants survived the ordeal.