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Sons of Cerberus 2016-10-30 12:33:00 October 24th, 2013Back to my chamber at last. The reports were more grueling than usual. I don't see why they feel it necessary to extract every single detail from us when standard documentation procedures would suffice. But, regardless of their motive, and perhaps it is simply to ensure my easy replacement should an...accident occur, I am required to detail each and every step of progress before Markus and his reapers.Yesterday's report, an all consuming tirade of interrogation, detailed the progress of Group C1F2356. This is a particular breed of dog, once of Rottweiler descent that is...grown here at Chrysalis. C1F2356, or C1F for short, is most important to our work here as it was one of the first breeds, and many a breed there are, to show dramatic improvements in most of the desired physiological areas very early on in the mutagenesis process. It was, I believe, after only 320 generations that C1F began to exhibit the desired auditory and behavioral adaptations that Chrysalis r Read more:Cerberus
A Suitable Backup Medium 2016-10-29 13:06:00 October 23rd, 2013Why do I, former program lead of the Chrysalis Research Facility, feel it necessary to document the undertakings of this facility, unofficially, within this log whilst a vastly more detailed version exists within the computer systems? The answer to that is neither simple nor easily believed, but let me assure whomever may be so unfortunate as to find this...this diary of a condemned man, it is a necessary redundancy, for I have a growing sense of distrust towards my masters here in Chrysalis, and I fear that if I did not chronicle what is occurring here, in this form, then all will have been for nothing; my life's work that is.You see, two years ago I lived what I thought to be a normal life. I was twenty-seven then, and had completed my doctoral thesis on the effects of various site-specific mutagens on DNA when Chrysalis, a VC funded pharmaceutical company with enough investors to build a bridge to the moon, first approached me for a position as lead Research Manag Read more:Medium
Fungus on the Brain 2007-11-03 20:03:00 October 27th, 2013 Another development in the Zoo has occurred. I have been closely monitoring the progress of several colonies of neuronal fungi, and as of this morning we have successfully coaxed colony NF23B into cooperating with our own interface electrodes. This task has been extremely difficult, as the neuronal fungi's immunosystem responses were initially rejecting outright the electrodes for quite a few generations. Eventually we managed to coax the fungi into co-existing along side electrical circuits, provided they had an ample supply of nutrients, but communicating with the circuitry has proven to be the most difficult aspect of this task.Neuronal fungi originated as a means of creating self-repairing circuitry, and diverged, for my imagination soon saw other purposes for a fungi whose structure modeled that of a neuron. Now, with the help of my chief assistant, James Seneca, we have succeeded in this new goal of interfacing the fungi itself with communicative electrodes.Th Read more:Brain
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The Situation as it Stands 2007-11-02 17:09:00 October 26th, 2013I suppose now that I am feeling more comfortable in divulging information within this log, that it would be a good time to describe in more detail the facility of which I am imprisoned in.Chrysalis, established under the guise of a legitimate pharmaceutical company, began as a good thing, I believe. However, once Markus and his thugs took over, my team and I have had no choice but to sacrifice ethics for money, or power, I am not sure of which he is more interested in.Initially we began work in a large enough warehouse, but we were told that was only a temporary position, as a new, larger facility was under construction. Where this place was being built, we were not told. Then, soon enough, we received the news that all work was to be transferred to this new facility. We were all rounded up, and...asked, to step into ominous, black vans whose passenger area held no windows. It was these vans we rode to work each day, never knowing the true location of Chrysalis.Overti
The Zoo: Powering the Future, Today 2007-11-01 23:07:00 October 25th, 2013The Zoo
, as I have so aptly named it, is my primary workspace. It seems only reasonable, that when applying the concepts of Darwinian selection to any number of species within a controlled environment, that one must take the utmost care to separate and isolate each individual species so that a maximum amount of variables may be controlled. The Zoo itself consists of several levels, each stacked atop the other, within the Chrysalis facility. I should also mention that Chrysalis itself is underground, as I have verified through some...minor experimentation. Where, I am not yet sure of. But I digress. Back to the Zoo.I shall speak of the upper-most level first. This level houses various forms of terrestrial and aquatic plant life. One of my primary goals with the plant species was to create highly efficient producers of solar energy. Moreover, I set out to create plants of such high photosynthesis efficiency that an abundance of solar energy would be harvested, much more Read more:Future
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Military Industrial Complex 2007-11-01 12:44:00 October 25th, 2013Another day gone by in this prison. Markus, hellbent on expanding the corporation into new markets, has ordered me prepare the C1F group for tactical military use. That's right, we're sending the dogs to war. You see, while the deaths of mechanical drones are cheaper when it comes to political currency, as opposed to the costly loss of actual soldiers, the financial cost of drones remains excruciatingly high. However, and I think it a most unfortunate consequence of my success at breeding C1F, the cost of raising a single member of group C1F pales in comparison to the cost of one multi-million dollar advanced scout robot. In truth, one could raise an entire brigade of bloodthirsty, loyal, and ultimately self-sacrificing, demon-hunters for a fraction of the cost of a UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) or mine-field rover.I will be ordered to tripple the amount of operational breeding chambers dedicated to the production of C1F2356, and several others to be used explicitl Read more:Complex
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The Devil's Workshop 2007-11-08 13:08:00 October 30th, 2013More military contracts. It seems as if Chrysalis is to become a supplier of "new and innovative tactical weapons of precision", as General Kosch put it.In return we will receive a line of federal credit, off the record, for use in experimentation and prototyping. We are to produce prototypes of various weapons that shall "serve the purposes of the United States Military" in the most efficient way possible. To help carry out this...pact, phrased as if it were some sort of mutual friendship, the General has leant us a team of his ow n to perform oversight tasks, of which to me arouses a sense of dread, moreso than aroused by the brutish tactics of Markus. No, brutes do not scare me so much, it is the calculated, psychologically inclined type which I fear most. It will be more difficult to resist this bunch, I fear, and their first requests are already appallingly inhumane.Not satisfied with solely the C1F breed becoming a purely military beast, they now want to convert Read more:Devil
, Workshop
The Circuitry of Life 2007-11-10 22:37:00 [I have uncovered a small number of drawings from the Dr.'s journal, some of which I think are important to post here. This image is one of his earlier works, as it describes the function and structure of a Capacityte cell, as described in his entry on October 27th, 2013. -James]