¤ The Divisions ¤

¤ Human ¤

The lowest Division of society within the District, most Humans work as low-wage workers or simply for types of jobs that the other Divisions do not wish to do. However, they are the driving force of the District and the largest population out of the 4 Divisions, and the Committee takes great care to keep the population of Humans high in order to support the economy of the District. All Holograms and Cyborgs must have been born as a Human at one time or another.

Uglies - The youngest sort of humans, the Uglies are usually those under the age of 16. They are taken from their parents before the age of 1 and are kept in dorms with other children and trained to want to become a Pretty. Only knowing that their main goal is to become a Pretty, Uglies have no knowledge of what Pretties really are. Robotic caretakers monitor each children's progress and determine which one will be able to continue to become a Pretty, while those deemed unfit will take jobs as the lowest of the lowest, even among the Humans.
Strengths
Larger creativity capacity.
Able to express any sort of emotions freely.
No reliance on technology.
Weaknesses
Normal immune system.
Normal reflexes, mental and physical capacities.
No additional functions.

Pretties - Encompassing the majority of the Humans, the Pretties are absolutely stunning to look at, with perfectly proportioned and symmetrical features. When an Ugly turns 16, they are taken from the Uglies facility if deemed healthy enough and given their first operation to become a Pretty. Most adults are Pretties, and they can change how they look absolutely multiple times throughout their lives if they have the credits and desire to do so. However, with the operation they receive to change from an Ugly to a Pretty, there is also a secret implantation of lesions in the new Pretties' head to make them much more obedient and rid them of violent intentions.
Strengths
Perfect teeth, symmetrical faces, stronger muscles and bones and perfectly proportioned eyes.
Boosted immune systems and reflexes.
Ceramic bones and teeth.
No reliance on technology.
Weaknesses
Prone to giving in to pressure by society and much more likely to party and be hungover.
Personality can change completely from who they were as an Ugly, becoming simple-minded and shallow in personality.
Unable to process violent emotions.
Uncreative and unable to imagine.

Specials - For those Pretties who have proved to be extremely successful within the District, they are contacted privately and given the option of becoming a Special. A Special is a Pretty who is once again given another operation to remove the lesions from their brains and thus, returning them to the creative state of an Ugly. They are meant to look terrifying and are given abilities that can rival those of the Cyborgs. Their occupations usually encompass keeping the Uglies compliant and making the Pretties stay where they belong and not cause too much trouble by continuing with the jobs they had as a Pretty in order to keep an eye on those around them. However, their memories are lost of their past life (also given new names, no last names) and all they know is to obey the Committee's every command to them.
Strengths
The ability to listen through walls with their hands.
Enhanced senses.
Can digest almost anything and extract nutrients from it.
Orbital alloy teeth, ceramic bones.
Perfect teeth, symmetrical faces, stronger muscles and bones and perfectly proportioned eyes.
Boosted immune systems and reflexes. 
Weaknesses
Cannot pass through electrical fields without natural violent reaction (usually throwing up or dizzy headaches).
All past life memory loss.
Unable to usually show any mercy or loving emotions.
Ways to Identify a Special
Coal-black eyes and hair.
Pale skin.
Lean, animalistic stances.
Colder-than-normal skin.

Before a Human dies and if they have enough credits, there is the option of becoming a Hologram. A Hologram are those who do not possess a body, yet their minds are melded directly into the information system, creating a pool of knowledge that can be used for the District. They have a collective area of knowledge which each Hologram can choose to share their information with others, and their own section of the system where they store their personal memories and thoughts. Even though they maybe located in the computer system, they can still retain their personalities and thoughts, expressing their emotions through projections of screens or holograms. A Hologram can switch back and forth from being a Stationary to a Free-Lancer or vice versa, though they will only have that type's traits when in that form.

Stationary - These Holograms are the most knowledgeable and controls the majority of the information running through the District. Being connected directly to the central core of the District, they possess the most information and can usually find whatever they wish to find in a matter of nanoseconds. However, being only located in the central core of the District, they cannot move around in portable devices or transmit themselves from a screen.
Strengths
Able to possess and control vast pools of knowledge.
Can hack directly into other Hologram's personal memories.
Override security breaches.
Control parts of the District.
Find any sort of information extremely quickly.
Can hijack a body easily.
Weaknesses
Depends directly on the power of the District (power goes down, they disappear).
Can lose their personalities in the community pools of knowledge.
Unable to transmit devices (become portable).
Easily meld together with other Holograms to become corrupted and disappear.

Free-Lancers - The other type of Hologram, Free-Lancers are Holograms who can project themselves into 3-D models of themselves. They are able to switch portable devices that can support a Hologram and interact more easily with other Divisions. Unlike Stationary Holograms, Free-Lancers cannot directly transmit information to themselves without having to hook their devices straight into the central core. They also need others to transport their projecters for them to sense different things, though they are still able to see and hear what they can from their position.
Strengths
Able to disconnect from the central core onto smaller devices.
Can jump from devices and hack them.
If the device has a camera or microphone, they can also see and hear.
Can project a 3-D image of themselves out in mid-air.
Draws energy from solar panels, portable energy source.
Able to hijack a body, though this is extremely difficult.
Weaknesses
Can be easily overridden by other Holograms.
Cannot hack into programs.
Can only donate and receive information from the memory pools from the Stationary Holograms (Cannot control the information).
Requires others to carry their projectors.
Can disappear from existence at any moment.
Easily hacked by Stationary Holograms.

Hijacking a Body
If a Hologram were to be tired and restless of being stuck in a machine without a body, there is the option of hijacking a body from either a Cyborg or Android. By forcing their conscience onto the body, it will either expel the mind already there to become a Hologram or if the mind is weak enough, simply just disappear. The Hologram will then have absolute and complete control of the body, but no memories or thoughts of the mind that previously occupied it. No one has even been successfully able to hijack the body of a Cyborg however, with the many complications presented by the human side and the limit of mechanical parts which will usually kill both Division members. However, they are able to sometimes control the mechanical limbs or functions of the inorganic materials, bending at least part of the Cyborg to their will. For Androids however, the task is much more easier especially for Sims. Since Sims do not have a mind beforehand, the Hologram will have an easier time to hijack the body though most Sims produced nowadays have a self-defense mechanism that will utterly shut-down the body if it detects a Hologram trying to hijack the body. On the other hand, Second-Lifers are most susceptible to hijacking, especially when charging the body to the central core since the mind inside the body is like a Hologram except with a body and no external information. Once a Hologram hijacks the body, they will become the Division member without any of their former Hologram abilities. Even with all of these negative connotations, hijacking a body can potentially be able to revive or jumpstart a dead mechanical body if necessary. Those formerly a Hologram who have hijacked a body are widely respected, for only the most skilled or lucky are actually able to pull off such a feat without terminating themselves. 

The melding of mechanical parts onto a Human, Cyborgs are the middle point between a Human and an Android. However, the amount of inorganic materials fused onto the Cyborg can vary from individual, though none can have more than 75% mechanical parts replacing human parts. They do much of the in-between work, types that require strength yet delicacy though some have entered into the combat and defensive state as well. With both their human capacity to strive and the mechanical parts to do things effectively, they are the powerhouse of the Division, though unlike the Humans, Cyborgs are treated fairly and somewhat respected by the Androids because of their inorganic parts. All Cyborgs are required to display their mechanical parts so that all Divisions may know that they are a Cyborg and therefore, cannot disguise themselves as another Division.
Strengths
Exceed mechanical capacity of 100% with human will.
Requires little sleep.
Can change mechanical parts (not limbs).
Diverse field for work and jobs.
Mental and physical capacity heightened by multiple times with extra mechanical parts.
Extremely heightened senses.
Keeps the strengths of what sort of Human they were before.
Weaknesses
Requires either extreme amounts of food to support both sides of their body or sizable portions of both food and energy.
Mechanical parts can often freeze and throw the Cyborg into paralyzing.
Cannot past through electrical fields without passing out and sometimes dying.
Can be easily short-circuited.
Cannot feel or sense anything through their mechanical limbs.
Cannot survive without the mechanical limbs or parts.

Becoming a Cyborg
 Cyborgs can originate from any status of Humans; either Uglies, Pretties or Specials but they must be at least of 18 years of age before it is deemed safe for them to be fused with the machine. Most of the Cyborgs though, are either Pretties who have been simply taken in to become Cyborgs or have the credits to become Cyborgs or Specials who are so exceptional that they are instantly promoted to become a Cyborg. The process of becoming a Cyborg is a long and tedious one, requiring multiple operations and having to put the Human on stasis for the entire duration or else the body will shock itself. The more mechanical parts that are fixed onto the body, the longer the mind must be put to sleep and therefore, the risk of amnesia increases with every hour. Some Cyborgs awaken again without any memories of their previous lives and though very rarely, some never awaken either.

The top Divisions out of all the Divisions in the District, the Androids are robots who are designed to look exactly like Humans and seem very much like them. Of course, they are not human and therefore cannot reproduce, which has led to the many factories and production lines for them. All Androids are wealthy and enjoy the best privileges there is to offer in the District, being the government officials and those who handle control over all of the other Districts. Most of the Androids that make up the Division are past leaders who have transmitted their minds to these machines or simply machines in themselves who have been made then developed their own consciences.

Second-Lifers - Though called Second-Lifers, some of these minds who occupy the Android body are in their two-digit number lives. These compose of those who are wealthy to actually scan their minds before death and can afford a body to be able to use, unlike a Hologram. Most of the most powerful Second-Lifers are those who have actually pioneered to the Moon and either have been a Hologram then hijacked a body or simply just transferred their mind to a Android then moved onto other bodies when their current one wore down. These Android bodies can be designed to look like how the person was in their Human life, or completely different to make a bold statement to the world. However, when transferring to an Android body, there will always a certain part of their mind unable to scan completely into the body (ex: Unable to listen to music, only hears static) and they will lose a section of their memories. They can also back up their minds onto the central core in case something happens to their Android bodies, though it is a long and difficult task which has led to only the very elite to be able to.
Strengths
Keeps all of their past memories from different bodies.
Mechanical body vastly surpasses all of the other Divisions.
Mental and physical capacities exceed by many times what they had in their Human life.
Able to switch from body to body easily if needed.
Can shut off pain receptors.
Needs no sleep nor rest.
Extremely heightened senses and pleasure receptors.
Weaknesses
Body fails, the mind will die along as well.
Cannot pass through electrical fields without short-circuiting and dying.
Must charge body often or have some sort of energy source.
Loses a certain portion of their mind.
Susceptible to hijacking.
Mind can be overridden by the electrical currents and disappear.
Cannot heal and therefore, must be repaired often.

Simulations (Sims) - Simulation Androids, or Sims for short, are Android who do not have a mind occupying them and therefore, have developed their own consciences. However, they are not able to usually express much emotions and can be programmed to only obey a certain faction or person. Many of them work as personal servants, slaves or pleasure-toys for the wealthy Second-Lifers.
Strengths
Mechanical body vastly surpasses all of the other Divisions.
Able to switch from body to body easily if needed.
Can shut off pain receptors.
Needs no sleep nor rest.
Weaknesses
Cannot pass through electrical fields without short-circuiting and dying.
Must charge body often or have some sort of energy source.
Susceptible to hi-jacking.
Can become 'corrupt' and do malicious things.
Cannot express much emotions past the basic ones.
Cannot heal and therefore, must be repaired often.

Ways to Identify an Android
Glassy eyes, if looked carefully at.
Rigid and jerky motions.
Voices are monotone or very smooth.
Faces do not have the range of emotions as a Human or Cyborg.
No pulse, no breath, skin is absolutely cold.
Metal and circuitry underneath silicon skin.
Odd scratches and marks on the skin without blood or fluids when injured.
No hair on the body except for on head.