As a freshly-minted PhD in genetic engineering, you’re invited to work on a highly confidential governmental project due to your commitment to ethics. But as soon as you come on board, secrets that have long lied dormant spring come back with a vengeance, and you’re thrown into matters of life, death, and protecting the ones you hold most dear. ForewordWelcome to this fic! This is cross-posted to my tumblr account.Themes: sci-fi, exoplanet AU, Lucky One/Obsession AU, superheros-ish AU, exo lore canon-ish, romance, drama, cloning, mad science, fluff, angst, conflict, etcSeries Warnings: mild violence between EXO/X-EXO, maybe eventual mature content, ethical science problems?Pairing: Baekhyun/Reader (as Ae Ri/Aeri) ft. sort of BaëkhyunThis idea was brought to me (in great detail) by the vibrant @baek-byunies on tumblr, who shadow-writes plot for me for almost all of my Baekhyun fics. Title inspired by the Martin Luther King Jr. quote: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”