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It was a Tuesday when the Invarrie came. A single ship high in the atmosphere, transmitting a message of peace and asking to meet with the world's leaders.
They meet with presidents and prime ministers, with kings and queens, almost indistinguishable from humans, at first glance. The case they plead is one for help, having been forced to leave their home planet due to a natural disaster. They found a viable, uninhabited planet just outside of the solar system, and have decided to settle there. Their issue now is that the disaster means that the carriers of their species can no longer carry and incubate their eggs. Those who are bearers lay eggs into their carrier. The egg takes DNA from both parents, and the carrier incubates and then births the child. But none of the eggs are implanting, the carriers' bodies rejecting them.
We are facing our own extinction, the Invarrie say, words carried by technology that translates into a hundred languages. And we turn to you for help.
Humans are compatible with Invarrie, they say. Compatible both as surrogate carriers for full Invarrie children, and as parent carriers, where human DNA will combine with Invarrie, for those bearers who decide to take on the challenge of parenthood alone.
There are discussions and suggestions, and offers and counter-offers, and in the end, the Breeding Programme is established for any humans who wish to volunteer. It's well paid, and the volunteer carriers are well looked after until they give birth.
The Breeding Programme starts slowly; a single Breeding Centre in a single city. But soon, that expands. And with expansion comes more co-operation between the species. The Invarrie offer technology and medical advancements, some of them settling on Earth to share their expertise and the knowledge gained over a lifespan that outstrips that of humans.
Before long, there are Breeding Centres in most major cities on Earth, with more people choosing to sign up to the Breeding Programme and volunteer as carriers.
And time moves on…