• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    The other one I was thinking of was Hunger Games … 12 different regions governed over by one powerful region that controls everyone else with military power using all the latest most deadly and most invasive technologies humanity can imagine.

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      I thought Hunger Games used at least, if not mostly, police and intelligence agency powers, much like 1984 and V for Vendetta… post Great War, at least.

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        I don’t remember all the details of the film series … but a feature of it was in seeing genetically enhanced, augmented animals and insects used for warfare … killer wasps, more powerful animals, birds eaves dropping and recording conversations (the mocking jay)

        Imagine a world where genetic modification became unrestricted and used for warfare and used to enhance or modify humans, animals, insects or diseases or conditions.

        • A small correction: Jabberjays were the mutts used for surveillance and reconnaissance, mockingjays were what happened when Jabberjays interbred with wild Mockingbirds. Nature reclaiming its beast allowed for the districts use them as a tool for communication, an insult to the capital who was trying to strip power away from the districts, not give them more. This is why the Mockingjay became the symbol of the rebellion.