Sla Industries - The Surgeons

 

Image is from Marshall Law: Kingdom of the Blind. 

Not all the children who go missing are victims of the Skin Trade. Some suffer a very different fate, thankfully one that is terminal rather than what the Trade does. But it still takes those young and innocent away from the world of the living.

In there are those who have accumulated massive amounts of money. But due to being born in the downtrodden section of the city of Mort they do not have the luxuries available that their uptown brethren benefit from. One of these things they lack is access to custom grown organs, replacement glands and other such things to lengthen their lifespan and health. So they get them in other various ways.

Young children nearing the age of puberty are 'harvested' from the streets through various means. From outright kidnappings to purchasing them from parents and relatives who value money over the lives of their own relations. The fitter and more healthy they are the more they are worth to the surgeons who will use them as resell.

An organization known simply as The Surgeons then have their bounty taken to various secluded locations in abandoned hospitals, warehouses and slaughter houses. There the children are dissected and many of their organs and anything that can fetch a price on the black market is placed in a stasis solution. Whatever remains of their victims is then discarded in various means from simply body dumping operations to being mixed in with actual meat sold to the masses.

The organs and glands are then sold to the “upper class” of Downtown. They are then used to replace their own with the help of the same surgeons who collected the parts. Using an injection of a chemical known as “Alter 15A” the rejection syndrome common from donated body parts is completely negated as the DNA of the foreign body part is slightly modified to match that of the host body. Restoring the health and energy to those suffering from old age, disease and injury. Thus keeping the rich alive longer by taking the lives of the children born to poor.

Most of The Surgeons also operate out of small rundown underfunded medical clinics located all over Downtown. They use their records and connections to locate healthy children so they can be collected when an order comes in. The Alter 15A is actually an abandoned project from Karma used before lab grown body parts were perfected. Once they the people of Uptown no longer needed to rely on organ donors who had died the manufacturing of it was shut down. However The Surgeons have discovered how to replicate and manufacture their own supply now.