Saturday Matinee - The Colonies

With the discovery of the Hawking Drive distant stars became reachable!!!
Men went out from earth to colonize the galaxy.....they sought out new worlds where they could prosper and build!!!!!
It became clear very early on that the residual effects of traveling in Hawking space was somehow harmful to human females.....it damaged them on a cellular level and none of the first wave of women survived the journey to the first colonies!!!!
But the men still went out in ships of gleaming steel....to tame these new worlds....
They were sure that science would unravel the mystery of the women....
Years turned into decades as the flow of men to the new worlds increased...and the pressure on the scientists grew....these colonies could not survive without women....
Some entrepreneurs had brought men to the colonies and did the surgery to make them into women.....and they were accepted as sex partners but what the colonies needed were women who could bear children.....to make a real home on these savage new worlds!!!!
The demand was so great that some scientists cut corners and skipped the governmental regulations on their research.....
He had been studying DNA and genetics.....and he had actually found a way....
He took a man.....and after several treatments he could manipulate his chemistry and make him completely a woman.....a woman that could bear a child.....a real woman....
After his first attempt was shipped out he was crushed to discover that when the ship came out of Hawking space.....his new woman hadn't survived!!!!
He despaired....perhaps the problem was unsolvable.....but how could humanity survive if they couldn't spread their seed over the new worlds????
He considered the problem.....women die in Hawking space.....men don't....it had to be some as yet unknown effect that females only were susceptible to......if he couldn't send a female perhaps he could go himself and use his transformative method on one new world at a time.....
That would take forever......but what if he stopped the transformation process before it was complete.....what if he could freeze them when they were only halfway to female???
He advertised for volunteers and none appeared....he appealed to the Prisons and they refused to allow their prisoners to be used in his experiments...
In desperation he hired gangs to bring him men against their will.....and he used his transformation technique on them......it was for the future of all humanity.....he put aside all of his morality and used these men in a way that none of them wanted....
He stopped their transformation process when they had begun to appear more feminine....it was then......with them frozen in time as a being halfway between male and female....that he sent them off to the outer reaches.....to the edges of the galaxy....where the men were waiting for wives.....to establish families....to make the colonies permanent....
Even though it worked....even though he had found the answer on how women could be sent to the colony worlds.....when his experiments had been discovered he had been imprisoned for kidnapping and transforming men against their will.....
However as the years of his imprisonment crawled by, his technique had been adopted as the standard.....and it was rare that a colony ship ever left without a cargo hold full of men who were going to become women when they arrived at the new worlds!!!!
They didn't have to kidnap anyone anymore.....every time a ship was readied for one of the outer worlds  there were thousands of volunteers for the transformation!!!!
As a very old man he was released from prison.....and he found that he was considered the father of all the colony worlds.....and he was granted his wish to undergo the transformation himself and to travel to the furthest world......he felt nothing but elation as he stepped out onto the new world and a huge crowd was there to welcome him....welcome her!!!!