'Rumspringa' is an Amish tradition of sending off 18 year olds to live in outside world for 1 year, after which they may choose to return to their community

The people of Tigray, the northernmost region of Ethiopia, comprise 6 percent of the country’s 110 million people yet have enjoyed disproportionately large power and influence for nearly three decades. In November, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of the Prosperity Party ordered a violent military offensive after he accused the regional ruling party, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), of attacking a government military base. This follows a long-simmering feud between the federal government and the TPLF, and came at a turbulent time with Ahmed trying to steer the country from ethnic federalism to a unified nation. Ahmed has declared emergency rule in the Tigray region which is occupied by state forces and now facing a humanitarian crisis.

There exists a scientist whose dream was to create a machine that would allow them to clone themselves (creating a replica of a human that has all of the biological and cognitive traits of the replicated human as well as the ability to grow old just like an average human would after creation). After many years of isolating themselves from society and secretly focusing on their work due to the scrutiny of the scientific community that made them feel misunderstood and alone, they have finally perfected the machine that would work in such a way.