Intergalactic Summit

I dunno, the whole 'Listen, buck-o, you torque me off, I have an army of nanites in a freakin' tube over here just itching to rewire your brain to let you remember your whole life, but be completely lobotomized from inside' thing? That's kinda terrifying right on its own, it doesn't need much in the way of metaphor.

Culome. No 'b'. But otherwise, no thanks needed, Doc. I've got some feelers out for other survivors who might turn up in Deklein, just in case pilots didn't get them to the transport to jita in a timely manner. If any turn up, I'll let you know.

I don't think you're actually sorry about that.

Respectfully, while I do see your point, there may be some types of attention he'd rather not have quite so much of.

I'm not sure "become something the entire IGS agrees on" was on his list of victory conditions.

Indeed. He came perilously close to engineering a temporary ceasefire between prominent Amarr and Minmatar capsuleers, which I'm pretty sure is precisely the opposite of what he desires.

No no, you're supposed to snarl and say 'And I would've gotten away with it if not for you meddlesome Goons and your mangy Scorpion.'

Don't you watch holos? At long last, sir, have you no culture?

Liberal thinking is for the spawn of a False race to consider themselves one of the Chosen, as you do.

Wayward thinking is to reject traditional scripture in favor of imaginary revelations, as you do.

The faithful are tired of dealing with you, pawn of the Deceiver, servant of the Beast. The red-bathed towers you envision are simply the spires of hell atop which all heretics and traitors are impaled. You are forsaken, and God shall afford you no mercy or forgiveness. May you drown in the blood you drink, kilm'ach.

Another quick update for everyone,

Everyone is much more sedate now. Sedate, specifically; not calm. We've identified that most of the TCMC units implanted in these individuals are CDC-15 Mindstate Modification Devices, manufactured by Creodron. They're one of the least expensive perception-altering implants available. I think they're commonly used in the Federation as an entertainment device, and we also see a fairly large volume of sale going to the Republic for ritualistic purposes.

Implantations are poorly done, in general - side effects we're seeing include seizures, loss of voluntary muscle control, memory loss, and in two unfortunate cases, total aphasia. I would chastize Mr Nauplius on his sloppy medical team, but I suppose they call him The Butcher for a reason.

Around 85% of the implants have completed their neural meshes, making removal very difficult. We're going to be doing a number of autopsies on those who haven't made it to see if we can determine any protein markers we can use to target a network eroding agent without harming the surrounding brain tissue. For the other 15% with incomplete nets, we're putting them through a set of ten Slingshot systems to record their mindstates, and then putting them into a reduced metabolic stasis to slow the network construction. That will likely be enough to let us develop custom solutions for these individuals.

Vitoc requirements have leveled off as the individuals have been put under sedation. We're supplementing with antibiotics, as most of them have severely damaged immune system responses, and we worry that they may become disease vectors. We know that three of them have very severe pulmonary illnesses, which isn't our specialty. We're pulling in some specialists from Todaki SAK to assist in this. Our station annex is considered a Class A Contained Environment, so an outbreak of a virulent disease here could be catastrophic. We've enough antibiotics to last us around six months at this rate, and vitoc supplies for a month.

It may look grim, but we're much better than our initial reaction. No screaming and violence at this point! So that's nice.

Now for a couple hours of sleep, and then to the autopsy lab. I will keep you posted on updates, if you are interested!

- S

This is to get a high-fidelity reproduction of their brain structure for analytical purposes. We don't clone individuals outside of a contract or a corporate order. We *could* rebuild a softclone with the stored data - that's what the Slingshot system is for after all! - but that isn't the reason we're doing it.

Umm, what now ? I don't want all the Minmatar ! I don't even want one !