The original Wuppista was a bioborg neogen male with enhanced and
enlarged genitals who would put on public performances in which nearby
property (storefronts, public service terminals, nonsentient art work,
etc) would be trashed, and bystanders would be sprayed with blood,
urine, semen, saliva, feces, and, worst of all, wupple, a sort of
half-sentient revolting and fowl-smelling greenish-yellow-brown biogoo.
While non-lethal in itself, the goo is very resilient, remains stuck to
whatever it is attached to, and becomes highly aggressive when treated
(turning into a sort of acid disassembler). Untreated wupple degrades
into a harmless and easily removed hydrocarbon residue after a few
metric days
Although the Wuper alpha was soon apprehended, psychoprobing and
nanoneuronal analysis revealed no information regarding his background,
so he was given social reconditioning and released, renamed Bertwell
Gelan (Zar Gelan was a model citizen and never reoffended, nor was he
linked to the later wup movement). But soon after, a swarm of Wup
clones appeared, along with Wupi (female), Wupo (hermaphrodite), Wupp
(neuter), resulting in an aggressive crackdown by authorities
Even before the Wuppista infestation had been removed from Negentropy
Alliance polities, not only Wup emself but memetic and morphotypic
imitators like Wup Lord, Wup Squared, Wuphead, Wupbot, Wupcock,
Wupborg, etc, began appearing elsewhere
There is a huge amount of urban folklore around Wup. One memeticity has
it that Wup is an advance wave for an alien invasion, another that Wup
is a single high toposophic perversity, another that the AI Gods
themselves (even the Judge
of the Negentropy Alliance!) planted Wup to stir up the SI:<1's, or
to serve as a teaching device (a sort of super koan), in the same way
that they believe the Version War did. But really, no-one knows what
Wup is.
Nowadays the amount of genuine Wup in the civilized galaxy is very
small (and in very high demand!), almost all that passes for Wup and
Wuppistas are the imitators and wannabes
