Things had been tough for Steve, a farmer of many years. The virus had killed off his entire stock, and ruined an old family livelihood. The Farmland Regeneration Act had revived some of the business, with animals returning to his farm in small quantities, but it just hadn't proved enough. Steve struggled to make a living, and even with a rigorous breeding program in place, he just didn't have the numbers to make a good profit.
Steve had heard about some unscrupulous individuals taking shipments of vials for their personal gain, to be sold to people looking for inexpensive orders of transformed animals for private business. Struggling to keep up on rising costs, Steve decided to look into this practice, and would soon find himself transforming unwilling individuals into new members of his livestock...