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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.

What's going on with you and Domingo? The flirting is obnoxious. Just fuck already.

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He's already spent his frustrations on news of the neuroplastic aftershocks, I can say with certainty that he'd throw me out of the airlock if I even implied I was at all interested in this trial.

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He cares about you. It's a burden but one you're stuck with.

I'm aware.

That's hardly a burden, Adrían.

~~She's barely had the opp~~ ~~There's~~ She was my last recruit. I'm feeling sentimental.

Give it and his mothering tendencies a year.

I see.

That warning's better turned onto him; none of you have had to deal with me in a long-term way since [...] ever, as it happens.

[...] She can make her own decisions, of course.

Niko doesn't listen to warnings.

Of course.

Perhaps he'd be more likely to listen if you wrapped it up like a fable? In The Peacock and The Bowerbird, the former's rather taken with the latter's bower but when he attempts to display his tail indoors he knocks down the walls, which ruffles all of his feathers. Preening them back into order and prior loveliness takes far longer than they ever got to share together and the whole encounter is ultimately deemed a failure.