[ WP ] Vegetarian terrorists insert DNA into cattle worldwide increasing their intelligence .

The Vegetarians thought they had failed, that nothing had changed after Operation Evolved Cow seemingly had gone nowhere. What nobody understood was that the cow is a patient animal, an animal that understands it's limitations. Oh if a bull ran off and gored a bunch of humans that might make the news, but that would n't truly change anything. The system had to be subverted, humanity had to be brought to heel, and the cows needed to harness their greatest weapon for that. 
 
 They struck only the farms they lived on at first. Few people noticed the local farmers now had a glassy, almost dead look in their eyes. Some people complained but nobody could put two and two together. Cows were masters of the prion and now it did their dark work for them. 
 
 When enough of the world's food supply was under their control they finally unleashed their great weapon upon the world. Mad Cow Disease ripped through the world like a wildfire. For the vast majority of humanity, a horrible, agonizing death was their fate. 
 
 They were the lucky ones. 
 
 The cows knew not all of humanity would eat their tainted flesh and be corrupted, so a select few of those who did had to be kept alive, controlled by the prion that tore apart their brains to purge the world of the remainder of humanity. 
 
 We call them cow-pokes. It's not a very creative name but it fits what they do. Slow witted, not good at aiming a weapon, but they do n't sleep and they are quiet, freakishly quiet. Still they are the enemy you would rather face. 
 
 It's the Bovine Brotherhood that's the real threat. At some point the Vegetarians admitted to what they did, some of them sought to stop it, but others decided that they had only gotten the job most of the way done and now they were there to see it completed. Proving one is a Vegetarian is pretty impossible so the Brotherhood kills first and asks questions later. I half think most of them are lying about their eating habits and they just sold out to get on the winning side. The cows tolerate them because the really ca n't drive cars or work the internet, but lord knows with all the gene splicing that might change soon enough. 
 
 Fighting a Brotherhood patrol is bad enough, but if they call for backup. It's usually five hundred plus pounds of pure death. A beast genetically altered to absorb more damage then you would think possible. Skull and horns that splinter bones like they were balsa wood. The legs on those monsters do n't cave in your chest, they kick through it. 
 
 Me and my group lucked out, living in Maui kept us isolated from the main land and once we'd heard about the cow-pokes we made sure that every victim of Mad Cow Disease met a fatal end. There's no Brotherhood here, no idea if they'll come, but we'll be ready if they do. 
 
 These are the Dark Times. 
 
 This is the Cow Wars.
