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'''founding''' | '''founding''' | ||
Many states were already highly indebted. At same time climate damaged agriculture and immovables. | Many states were already highly indebted. At same time the climate change and fluctuations in the solar cycle damaged agriculture and immovables. | ||
A breakdown was just a matter of time. | A breakdown was just a matter of time. | ||
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'''possible mass-extinction just ahead''' | |||
In the 2030s a special solar cycle brought the [http://phys.org/news/2015-07-irregular-heartbeat-sun-driven-dynamo.html next small ice age.] Humans kept burning fossils to counter the cold conditions. After 2040 the solar activities turned slowly back to normal, while Earth's atmosphere was fill with more greenhouse gases than ever. Due to the rising temperatures in the 2050s the methane clathrate in oceans and permafrost was set free. Some think that a complete blow out could cause a mass-extinction. In that case WCG would have no other chance than to use Silver Dawn. | |||
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Due to her loyalty and excellent skills she becomes selected for the Daodan program. | Due to her loyalty and excellent skills she becomes selected for the Daodan program. | ||
After the cataclysm Kumo calls | After the cataclysm Kumo calls Daya to investigate Green Village. He wants the WCG Daodans since Muro won't share his own capacities with him, all the more since Kumo is pro-BGI. In GV's partial destruction she becomes infected by the Bioc. | ||
After she established the first known symbiosis with the Bioc she becomes abandoned by the Syndicate. A soldier that can control matter scares them. Such a person is simply too dangerous and if she finds out that her parents were killed by Syndicate members, she might become ''unstable''. | After she established the first known symbiosis with the Bioc she becomes abandoned by the Syndicate. A soldier that can control matter scares them. Such a person is simply too dangerous and if she finds out that her parents were killed by Syndicate members, she might become ''unstable''. | ||
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The Syndicate discovers him and gives him a job as human co-processor in one of their illegal RE shops. | The Syndicate discovers him and gives him a job as human co-processor in one of their illegal RE shops. | ||
These employees are wireless connected | These employees are wireless connected to a cheap AI that use and coordinate the brain capacities to do jobs that normally expensive neuromorphic chips require. The technology draws on the Deadly Brain research. The heavy neuronal load damages the brain. Of course this is kept secret. | ||
When the employees discover their decreasing fitness, it’s too late to exit. The shops shut them up with additional medical treatment but that's mostly an appeasement measure. If that doesn’t work troublemakers are simply exposed at backyards after calling a Syndicate-related gang to the place. These occasions are sometimes used to promote a gang member. Striker contenders have a kill count of at least one. These rituals are recorded to have a reinsurance on these guys. | When the employees discover their decreasing fitness, it’s too late to exit. The shops shut them up with additional medical treatment but that's mostly an appeasement measure. If that doesn’t work troublemakers are simply exposed at backyards after calling a Syndicate-related gang to the place. These occasions are sometimes used to promote a gang member. Striker contenders have a kill count of at least one. These rituals are recorded to have a reinsurance on these guys. | ||
Naturally adult neurogenesis is quite limited and most of the new neurons get destroyed again by the continuing work for the shops. Brain functions of damaged areas are temporary restored by still intact neurons. This re-tasking is known as neuroplasticity. As a result the employees keep functioning until they reach a critical number of neurons where they cannot longer work as "co-processors". To delay a breakdown the employees receive pills rich of neuronal growth factors IGF-1 and VEGF. Side effects of these substances are increase cancer risks but also the promotion of new muscle cells and blood vessels. | |||
Brain damage of ''copros'' get crucial after about 15 months. Nishio has already worked for the RE shop over a year until he accidentally finds out that he hasn’t much time left. | Brain damage of ''copros'' get crucial after about 15 months. Nishio has already worked for the RE shop over a year until he accidentally finds out that he hasn’t much time left. | ||