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Message Log 95, 07/28/2052 - JEWL 3-1-2

Dear Transitioners,

As resources dwindled and population decline began to accelerate in the 2040's, world leaders resorted to the unthinkable. And it turns out, this was their terrifying plan all along. A dark secret weapon was about to emerge on the battlefield. And they activated this weapon right at their own people.

While most of the major countries were dictatorships or autocracies fighting for their claim to be the dominant race, the threat from their own people became clear. They needed a way to get rid of individuals who had the least to offer to their future domination. As a result, they used a massive strike to cleanse their own populations of their impurities.

They employed DNA-based bioweapons to target particular people for elimination, and private DNA-testing firms such as Ancestry.com and 23 and Me made it feasible by selling customers' genetic data they had collected starting in the early 2000s. These weapons of mass destruction killed over one billion people in only one week.