// FIELD BRIEF

After the asteroid, Earth was a clean slate — and a contract opportunity. Big Pepe Industries, holder of the planet's last viable genome, had no intention of repopulating it themselves. They put the job out to tender. The winning bid came from the lowest qualified contractor on file: Mallriot Corp.

Working from a salvaged dump of the old human internet — NFT collections, fashion magazines, corporate headshots, perfume ads, sitcom reruns — Mallriot Corp spliced a new workforce from whatever still rendered. The result was not quite human: amphibian eyes, a salesman's grin, a lanyard nobody asked for. They were classified as corporate slops and shipped by the thousand. Repopulation is ahead of schedule. Morale is not a deliverable.

// MALLRIOT CORP — REPOPULATION DIVISION