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====Mission objectives==== | ====Mission objectives==== | ||
Barabas was primarily a street thug, and quite possibly an early Syndicate prototype involving the Daodan Chrysalis assigned for work as a professional thug by [[Muro]] for the [[Syndicate]]. His two encounters with Konoko (Mai) occurred during the start of her mission to the lab, followed by his assignment to break into TCTF headquarters and take Konoko's SLD, [[Shinatama]], from her station. After dropping off [[Shinatama]] in a helicopter, he stayed behind to personally settle his score with Konoko. There, on the rooftops of [[TCTF | Barabas was primarily a street thug, and quite possibly an early Syndicate prototype involving the Daodan Chrysalis assigned for work as a professional thug by [[Muro]] for the [[Syndicate]]. His two encounters with Konoko (Mai) occurred during the start of her mission to the lab, followed by his assignment to break into TCTF headquarters and take Konoko's SLD, [[Shinatama]], from her station. After dropping off [[Shinatama]] in a helicopter, he stayed behind to personally settle his score with Konoko. There, on the rooftops of [[TCTF HQ]], he met a defeat when squaring off with Konoko. He was presumably killed or captured in the aftermath of that fight. | ||
====Diary entry==== | ====Diary entry==== | ||
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Power, full control, and ''nothing else''. No new beliefs, no paradigm shift, ''no alienation, just power''. | Power, full control, and ''nothing else''. No new beliefs, no paradigm shift, ''no alienation, just power''. | ||
====A failure==== | ====A failure==== | ||
To a degree, that separation | To a degree, that separation succeeded (Barabas is more human than [[Muro#Mutant Muro|Mutant Muro]]), but, as we know, this brute, controlled force didn't manage very well in the long run. | ||
*"I'm ready for anything. You made sure of that." | *"I'm ready for anything. You made sure of that." | ||
*"There's always someone stronger. Have you forgotten?" | *"There's always someone stronger. Have you forgotten?" | ||
Indeed. Mai beats Barabas, twice. Why is that? Well, a "controlled" [[Daodan]] is certainly confined within some kind of boundaries. A naturally evolving Daodan is ''unbound''. | Indeed. Mai beats Barabas, twice. Why is that? Well, a "controlled" [[Daodan]] is certainly confined within some kind of boundaries. A naturally evolving Daodan is ''unbound''. | ||
Let's assume for a moment that Barabas' | Let's assume for a moment that Barabas' Daodan is somehow prevented from invading all of his organism (regular injections of medicine, invasive surgery, physical isolation of a fully human brain from a Daodan-enhanced body, synthetic organs that the Daodan biomass can't replace...). What then? | ||
====Insufficient optimization==== | ====Insufficient optimization==== | ||
Barabas is physically weaker than Mutant Muro because his bones and muscles (and brain!) don't form one hyper-evolved whole. He lacks Mai's and Muro's agility and reflexes, because the (say, electronic) interface between the human brain and the hyper-evolved biomass can't keep up with the stream of information it has to convey. Heck, maybe the human brain's reflexes are not as sharp as those of a brain that has undergone integration... maybe they're ''unadapted'' to the way the biomass has evolved, or at least far from optimal. | Barabas is physically weaker than Mutant Muro because his bones and muscles (and brain!) don't form one hyper-evolved whole. He lacks Mai's and Muro's agility and reflexes, because the (say, electronic) interface between the human brain and the hyper-evolved biomass can't keep up with the stream of information it has to convey. Heck, maybe the human brain's reflexes are not as sharp as those of a brain that has undergone integration... maybe they're ''unadapted'' to the way the biomass has evolved, or at least far from optimal. | ||