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Agent Jim Kirk sat in a dive bar in Riverside, Iowa nursing a beer. He wasn't drunk, but he was on a mission, and Jim never got drunk while working. His new assignment was to enter Starfleet Academy, again. He couldn't believe that he was going to return to school after he graduated a few years before. Of course, no one knew he was a graduate of Starfleet Academy except his boss and the current President of the Federation. Jim was after all the top undercover agent for the F.B.I., or the Federation Bureau of Investigations.
He was mulling over how to get accepted into Starfleet Academy when a beautiful woman sidled up to the bar and ordered. She was drop dead gorgeous with her dark skin and dark eyes, if she had been an Omega, Jim would have slobbered all over her, but alas she was beta. Well, all woman were betas, omegas were all men, as were alphas, like Jim. Jim was a rare alpha, born with his alpha genes activated instead of dormant until puberty. The majority of Alpha's were born with their Alpha gene, or AG, inactivated until puberty hit. Jim was an unlucky small minority of the Alpha population that had their AG active at birth; the unusual nature of his birth activated Jim's. His father's death and his premature birth while escaping the Kelvin along with the unique radiation he was exposed to during delivery enabled his Alpha Gene.
Jim was the first Alpha born in his family in nearly one hundred years. Jim's parents were both betas and never expected to have an Alpha son. Jim's status was a shock to his mother, and in fear, for her son, she chose to have Jim take Alpha inhibitors from birth. Inhibitors were not illegal but were not commonly used among Alphas as they would limit the Alpha's ability to attract an Omega mate. Winona concerned that her son would become a science project, started him on inhibitors and Jim never looked back. Jim didn't care about his Alpha status except at times when he was attracted to a beautiful person, then it just sucked. Alphas and Omegas could only become sexually aroused by each other; a beta would not work. It didn't stop Jim from trying.
Jim hadn't understood his mother's concern for his Alpha status at birth. It wasn't until Jim was older that he finally realized and forgave her for what she did. Alphas were rare now, in the past Alphas were the dominant sex on the planet, but after the eugenics wars and the great purge, Alphas only made up approximately fifteen percent of the population on Earth. The problem was that many were born with the Alpha gene, but most would never activate leaving them betas for life. Scientist spent countless hours trying to find a solution to the problem only to come up empty. If anyone in the Federation discovered that Jim was an Alpha at birth, it would mark him as useful to the cause.
Omegas, on the other hand, had not been as affected by the eugenics wars and the great purge, so they made up about twenty-five percent of the population, leaving the remaining community of betas at sixty percent. In the past, Alpha's made up about forty percent of the human population, while Beta's and Omega's made up the remaining population equally. Because of the higher number of Omegas, it was not uncommon for two or more Omegas to share one Alpha. Alphas were highly sought after by Omegas. One Alpha had the potential to impregnate one omega every twelve to eighteen months and Alpha's and Omega's life expectancies along with their fertility was longer than Beta's, the potential for large families was tremendous but rare. Most Alpha's only sired ten to twenty children in a lifetime. Jim hadn't sired one. Even with the higher capacity for births with Alpha and Omegas many of the children born were betas.
Beta's were an oddity; they hadn't appeared in Earth history until sometime after the first atomic bomb was detonated. Before that time female children were born and considered defective as they could not produce children with either alphas or omegas, but after the bomb detonations, the first beta male was born. Beta males could breed children with beta females, and so a new gender was added to the human genome. Beta males were weaker than Alpha and Omegas; they also had a shorter lifespan.
In 1946, the first beta male was born. After the first male beta's birth and the end of the second world war, there was a baby boom resulting in a significate increase in beta males and females. Those children came of age in the mid-1960's and began to have children of their own, and most of those children were betas. By the mid-1970's the world was embroiled in a cold war between genders; Omegas and Alphas against Beta males and females. With the beta population on the rise at an ever-increasing rate, the idea of eugenics returned but instead of Betas fearing for their lives it was Alphas and by extension, Omegas. Beta's wanting to eradicate Alpha's out of fear began to experiment with enhancing their genetics leading to the first augments and in turn to the augment wars.
By the 1980's betas wanting to be stronger and smarter than Alphas had discovered a way to enhance their strengths and intellect but forgot morality. Enhanced strength and intelligence do not necessarily mean better or more ethical. With the fall of most of the world's governments by the mid-1980s, the Augments rose to power and ruled most of the world until they were overthrown by Alpha's, Omegas, and a group of betas’ who felt the augment project was a failure. Unfortunately, this would not be the end of war or hatred on Earth or among humans.
A mere one-hundred years later the great purge started. It was the start of many wars on Earth and ended in the final conflict before Zephrine Cocrine discovered warp drive. The Great Purge was stated by a small group of Betas who saw Alphas and Omegas as a threat to their survival. As Alphas were more aggressive in behavior and possessives towards their mates, they often encountered problems relating to Betas. Betas tended to be far less aggressive and were more promiscuous; once an Alpha and Omega mated they rarely strayed unless the Omega agreed to add another Omega to the partnership. Omegas were often more willing to share their Alpha if they had equal time and children with the Alpha. This ability to share Alphas led to the common practice of triad marriages between one Alpha and two Omegas.
By the end of the Great Purge, millions of Alphas and Omegas were dead. Viruses were created to kill Alphas and Omegas and were believed to be the reason many born in Jim’s time were born without the natural ability for their Alpha or Omega Gene to activate at birth, leaving millions, potentially billions inactivated Alphas and Omegas. And while it may advance scientific knowledge and helped all the potential Alphas and Omegas, Jim did not want to be a lab rat.