A Series of Unfortunate Mistakes

My name is Kiera Drake, and I want to know everything. That's not such a bad life goal, is it? I don't think so. I spent my entire college career studying every subject I could possibly imagine. I used experimental brain-enhancing technology, I barely slept and almost never ate, and I even managed to trigger a small meteor shower over the campus. I engineered a special fruit to begin a massive biological change in my being, mutating it from so much sentient meat into sentient plant matter. Then I reversed the transformation, and did it again, just to prove I could. Human testing isn't ethical, but no harm comes of trying things out for yourself, you know? So I did. It suits me, and I find this state of being to be most enlightening. While working on that, I created several random by-products. I'd thought initially to try radiation - all I managed to do was turn a handful of water beetles into an extremely radioactive, bioluminescent version of themselves. The scientific community applauded my efforts - I earned a moderate amount of fame, even -but that wasn't the end goal, not at all. I messed around with fruits and vegetables - that was amusing. I created some of the best empanadas this world has ever seen. At least, so I'm told - I didn't get the chance to eat any myself. Consuming them yielded some unfortunate side effects in my dorm-mates, but nothing that I wouldn't be able to reverse - I thought. The subjects got away from me, though. I'll go over that a bit more later on. Of course, once I succeeded in crafting the "forbidden fruit" seeds, I needed to create the means to reverse the transformation. The secret of 'super spice' was trivial to obtain, after all the work I'd already put in. I've still got my masterpiece to complete - the vessel for all of my knowledge, but I'm confident I'll realize that goal shortly. The station has just enough power left for me to engineer the perfect being. So. If you're reading this, then know that I have made some grave mistakes. The first mistake involved the empanadas I mentioned. They sort-of killed my dorm-mates, the ones who ate them. But they didn't just kill them - they, too, experienced massive cellular change. Instead of plants, they - well, they rose as the undead. Zombies, if you will. It was purely accidental - an incidental side effect of my research. But they escaped the dorm, ravaged the college, before fleeing to parts unknown. The virus spread exponentially, until most of the world was devastated. My second mistake? That was the meteor shower. The brilliant white beam that kicked off that fiery display in the sky? That ... apparently that attracted unwanted attention. When the aliens came, they found our world devastated, on the brink of utter ruin. They decided to 'uplift' us - sharing their superior knowledge, technology, and strength of arms by conquering our civilization. I've taken great pains to ensure no one knows what I've done. Now I just need to undo the damage. I'll start with the zombies. How hard could it be?

Second, third, fifty-sixth, who's counting really? I'm not. Shush. So I'm doing this thing again Easy start, attempting Alien Tech via Think Tank method for an interesting challenge. Accidentally had the game set to all winter so the first semester is winter this time, rather than the third. Succeeded in all the collegiate requirements and brought home the science research station, down to one more DNA sample and actually creating the clone. Then I just need to make some viable plantbabies to be my heir. Week 1, Day 6: Military 7, almost done with three lifts. So far, so good.