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aaldana 001.
This has already been approved by Verin and leadership. This is not a debate on if we should. It is a debate on how.
We will be going forward with additional experimentation to further stabilise the Neuroclast. To do this, we will be taking volunteers among those who have had an implant that is not TIF. The process will include baseline and progressive scans, temporary monitored linking to the Veil and exponentially increasing exposure to experimental Neuroclast packets while simultaneously stimulating the dorsolateral and ventrolateral PAG when disconnecting from it. The goal is to get below a 4% risk of side effects when disrupting or destroying a node.
This procedure is not without risk, and the risks include: chronic pain (headaches/migraines, shooting or radiating pain stemming from the neck down), paralysis/spastic limbs, death.
Volunteers would need to understand and accept the risks as well as undergo a thorough psychological examination. We would need 3-5 volunteers, and where to source those volunteers is the current issue at hand. My personal preference would be to take volunteers from onboard Mnemosyne. Others have suggested we take volunteers from the unVeiled cities. There is also an option for a mixture from both.
Neither sourcing is without risk. We already operate at a resource deficit, and taking agents further increases that deficit. If that volunteer is in a leadership role, we risk years of knowledge and experience. If we take from the cities, it's a security risk to bring them onboard. Propaganda will spread further of us being like the Architects in that we are choosing not to experiment from within.
We're leaving it up you all to decide how we source volunteers. Again, this will be happening, so spare me the ethics debate of experimenting on humans. If there was another way, chances are we've already tried it.
NIKO.
We will be going forward with additional experimentation to further stabilise the Neuroclast. To do this, we will be taking volunteers among those who have had an implant that is not TIF. The process will include baseline and progressive scans, temporary monitored linking to the Veil and exponentially increasing exposure to experimental Neuroclast packets while simultaneously stimulating the dorsolateral and ventrolateral PAG when disconnecting from it. The goal is to get below a 4% risk of side effects when disrupting or destroying a node.
This procedure is not without risk, and the risks include: chronic pain (headaches/migraines, shooting or radiating pain stemming from the neck down), paralysis/spastic limbs, death.
Volunteers would need to understand and accept the risks as well as undergo a thorough psychological examination. We would need 3-5 volunteers, and where to source those volunteers is the current issue at hand. My personal preference would be to take volunteers from onboard Mnemosyne. Others have suggested we take volunteers from the unVeiled cities. There is also an option for a mixture from both.
Neither sourcing is without risk. We already operate at a resource deficit, and taking agents further increases that deficit. If that volunteer is in a leadership role, we risk years of knowledge and experience. If we take from the cities, it's a security risk to bring them onboard. Propaganda will spread further of us being like the Architects in that we are choosing not to experiment from within.
We're leaving it up you all to decide how we source volunteers. Again, this will be happening, so spare me the ethics debate of experimenting on humans. If there was another way, chances are we've already tried it.
NIKO.
What's going on with you and Domingo? The flirting is obnoxious. Just fuck already.
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I trust the science. I trust myself. I trust my team. I have to.
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Let Maryle review your research. Hear Ronen's concerns in full. Be explicit that this is not something you want to do — that you don't fundamentally disagree with them — but that, as things stand, it is the only viable option.
Because you don't want to do this. Right?
Noldana.
I will hear Ronen out after he's calmed down. I will give Bone access to the summaries but not the details - she isn't trained to read the results and accurately assess them.
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[...] And I apologize for what I said about convenience. That was out of line.
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What gives me pause is the breadth of what could go wrong. The margin for side effects is wide enough to frighten all of us, and that fear is what you're hearing. This is not the same kind of risk as climbing into a plane to shoot down drones. It touches people we know and love in ways that are harder to predict or contain. I know you can understand that.
So please know this: my reaction was never a lack of faith in you. Of course I believe in you. I spoke badly, it was an absolutely wretched thing to say, and I regret it. But you are my best friend and one of the most important people in my life. Nothing you choose to do — nothing at all — could change that.
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If you think that I haven't been through every damned scenario ad nauseum, or that I don't worry I'm not as smart as I pretend to be and that someone will die as a direct result of my actions, then you don't know me, Novak.
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