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Walker: "I will let the team work out a solution. We will find a way."
Walker: "I will let the team work out a solution. We will find a way."


==The sample==
(notes)
Kimura, Marburg
----
While Hanna was flying to Russia she received messages from Curtis.
"You wanted me to contact you when we know the source of your MRSA strain. I must warn you, it could be an emotional burden if I tell you."
"Hey I'm no sissy like you."
"Charming as always. Well then, here it is. The strain was from your dying mother in the hospital. There wasn't much left of her immune system, easy game for germs. You were there during her last moments. You hold her hand? Right? Maybe the day before you cut your finger somewhere."
"I peeled potatoes."
He laughed. "That's the world we are living in now, ''watch out for the killer potatoes''. ... Ah ... Sorry."
"It's okay, Curtis. I asked for it. -- Thank you for telling me the truth."
----
(notes)
The chat continues with Hanna being told that something happened to the sample that was send to Marburg.
The fact that the sample was stolen from a high-security lab leads to conclusion that the Syndicate or another highly criminal group looks for a bio-weapon.
Hanna used this conclusion in the meeting with Green Village's human resource manager. The director suspects her to be part of that group as her time of arrival seems an unlikely coincidence. They decided to give her a position in hope to learn more about that terror group.
[1 - At a later time Kimura also succeeded in stealing a sample from Green Village. The incidence has no connection to Hanna whatsoever so her monitoring is set to  standard like that of other GV employees. A nuclear suspicion remains.]
[2 - Hanna visited Walker during her limited days of vacations. She left him messages with reference to GATC, a direct hint to the letters of the genetic code. "Look for GATC." The anti-espionage section of WCG misunderstood this as a reference to GATC, the merc company that partly destroyed GV in an later airstrike. Right after the cataclysm the WCG was in panic and put Hanna due to that misunderstanding on their terrorist execution list. Can Konoko save her?]
[3 - Konoko went to GV in search for her father. Unfortunately, her presence marks the others sci inmates also as terrorists. WCG had jumped to conclusions after finding out that Hanna, Bertram and the others had been using secret communications means. This made the WCG send military into the area.]
[4 - Green Village try to receive outside help by releasing SLD data for mass production. The androids could be used to do outdoor work in the highly toxic environment. The idea is to make technology available to the people so they survive the black season while the civilian support them with things that Green Village does not have. The WCG is raging that their prestige sci prison leaked technologies they kept 30 years secret from civilians and the Syndicate. Meanwhile BGI also entered the quarantine zone of Green Village...]
[5 - META increases SLD production -> Traton plot -> Avatara -> Mind Seal]
----
Hanna arrived in the east Russian sector. Average temperature of chilly zero degrees and bleak tundra landscape were not an expected welcome. What made people even live here?
A full-size SUV was waiting for her. She saw the driver in front of the car waving a hand. There was no need for that, nobody else was around in this cold wasteland. The man was wearing a thick jacket, open, for him the temperature must have felt still quite warm.
"Welcome to wild wide east, Ms. West." Cold hands were shaken.
"My name is Blake. I will be your driver for today." He put the suitcases into the trunk.
The car started to move through crackling ice and mud.
"So you are American too? What brings people here?" Hanna asked.
Blake threw a look over his shoulder searching eye contact. "Money. Ms. West. Money."
"Haha, what did I miss? Is there gold in this region?"
"In a figurative sense, more than you think." He smirked.
"A driving job doesn't seem a well-paid job to me. So what is it?"
Blake was driving out of the airport area. It was the last turn before the road became linear and frightening long. Next to them was a pair of new train rails. He let go the steering wheel and changed into autopilot mode. Then he turned around with his entire seat.
"To be exact, I'm a transfer agent working for Green Village. I make sure their personal arrive at their destiny. When you applied for that job and got invited, you already have become a VIP. And anything that involves Green Village also involves money. A lot of money."
"Green Village, the WCG's prestige research complex", Hanna thought aloud.
The man laughed. "No kidding. You will see it for yourself. - Actually, take a look, right there."
He pointed at Hanna's window.
"This city you see was built for their support. Here live the families of technicians, construction workers, soldiers, etc."
"Soldiers?"
"Yes, the complex has its own defense ring. They have chosen this bleak area for multiple reasons. The complex is far enough from urban regions in case something happens. This city just lies outside the quarantine zones."
"Something?"
"Outbreak of a plague. A nuclear incidence. An invasion."
"I thought it was about ecological reasons."
"Yes. That too. Multiple reasons, you see. - After global warming really started to kick in with the meltdown of permafrost and methane hydrate, this area is becoming more habitable."
"Yes, on average the world is heating up."
"The thing about Russia is that it is not going to be too hot. It just starts to get comfortable, like Canada. The WCG has chosen Green Village to be the central place for preparing the land for new generations."
"What about the bio crisis?"
"The colder temperature have kept xeno hybrids away. And the toxin levels are here less grave. Good enough conditions to revamp these latitudes."
"Totally. Right now all this half-dead rusty-green grass and stray trees doesn't look very inviting."
Blake nodded. "Well, true, you really have to think in decades here."
Hanna: "Are you saying the climate and bio crisis poses such a threat to WCG that they are looking for new grounds?"
"Let's be honest. Humans only change when they fall flat on their faces. Damage and pain tells them what to avoid, not intelligence. They are ... inert masses. Not a hundred little girls with protest banners crying in front of some institution will change that. People may protest for political and economical independence, for a stable climate and plastic-free oceans. But they don't really want to change themselves."
"Isn't this the fault of our representatives? Every political party is promising their members the heaven on earth just to vote them into power. In their own ideological blindness they can't do the math for the true costs.<!-- Everyone ignores the factors of the … enemies.-->"
"You said representatives. Who is voting them into power? It's them. Now don't talk about lobbies, that just excuses. General speaking, all the people drive with their car to the discounter, fly with airplanes into vacations, ship around the oceans, buy annually a new smartphone that kicks off cascades of server interactions whenever making a simple online search - together with all the other electronic entertainment devices that incorporate rare earth elements which in turn leaves toxic mining sides behind. And then they demonstrate to save the eco-system. The single individual might be smart but the society is brain dead. What a joke."
Hanna: "I'm surprised you didn't mentioned the Amazon forest."
"Oh please. It's such a long-burning issue, it bores everybody to death. The dangers have been known for decades. Bla. Bla. Bla. The protests have become purely symbolic."
"Symbolic for what?"
"For our all hypocrisy. - Why do they even protest? Think about it. They consider themselves as too weak, no, as too comfortable, to get up their own asses. They ask their representatives to create laws to force themselves do the right thing."
"You are generalizing a lot of things. - And you don't think the politicians are to blame?"
"Of course, they too. They want to become re-elected. Especially politicians that have no other profession. Right there a contradiction of being a representative. But the real power comes from the people. Right? And what do they do with it? Little."
"It's fascinating how you can throw just everything together, oversimplifying. People are not not a unified thing, they are always groups of people."
"I am? Turn it around. Did you ever had the feeling that fighting politicians over details in talk shows are a gain for our society? The average Joes don't have the time to differentiate or to reflect. In a society of specialization they are not meant to think, but to work. Therefore the slogans must be simple. On top of that the politicians use a language to sound well-read, smart, trustworthy while covering inconvenient truths in a flush of phrases. Don't blame the WCG. The peoples vote the shit the governs them. In any system. We fight, disagree, lie, and hate each other. And therefor representatives act the same. A fine human nature we have there."
"From all your talk I assume you think of people as a collective are dangerous, stupid animals."
"Are we not? - Our so humanistic societies regularly start new wars. And climate change will not improve the situation."
"No hope in sight then, huh?"
"Planed or not, economic-wise globalization made the WCG adapt the European model. That is former states are now so much interconnected that a war between the regions – trade wars, resources wars, or any other wars – will damage everybody's economy. You can say about the WCG whatever you want but they keep the nationalists in check and prevent a nuclear holocaust. It's probably the only thing that the WCG is better at compared to all other systems. This interconnected global community renders the red button pointless."
"For an employee so close to the gov you are quite criticizing them."
"Hey, in this car I can say whatever I want."
"Interesting point right there. What about ideological dissidents and other people that are strongly obliged to their own conscience?"
"Victims of their own hypocrisy. It's never healthy to stay in a burning house. Just leave it. You know the WCG is not everywhere. That what the WCG is not, Africa is. Go there, maybe."
"Haha, you are impossible. You said climate change accelerated. Isn't Africa becoming a desert?"
"And?"
"That means more waves of refugees, the WCG will get a thousand million new inhabitants, distribution problems, civil wars."
"Exactly. The WCG territories can barely keep their own issues under control. And now external factors heat up the system too, figuratively and literally. - People got so inflexible ideas on how a good life has to look like. Sharing resources with others, especially with new strangers, endangers those ideas. Existential fears promote hate and therefor violence. That's why our representatives [https://www.theguardian.com/law/2019/jun/03/icc-submission-calls-for-prosecution-of-eu-over-migrant-deaths have decided to make it difficult for refugees to enter our territory.] The death and torment of the refugees was known to the politicians. And when that information was presented to us, the very most of us gave a damn.<!--[https://www.zeit.de/politik/2019-08/migration-angela-merkel-fordert-staatliche-seenotrettung Two month later a placebo for the rest.]--> - The situation was already bad and it is getting worse."
"Basically you are saying, we cannot save ourselves by political means and social consensus anymore."
"What is fueling human survival and prosperity? Innovations and the exercise of science. The harnessing of fire, the creation of the wheel, the use of electricity. - We need every good scientist to break through these crises. If you really join us, you will be part of the elite, actually saving lifes."
"What about the non-WCG states?"
Blake smirked. "You cannot save everyone. When we have saved ourselves we can export our knowledge to them. Question is can you stay professional in the meantime and do what is necessary? Of all things that Green Village is, it is also an actual prototype of a self-sustaining village meant to withstand most difficult conditions. But we need your help to finish it. Can we count on you?"
"I became scientist to improve our lifes, that's also what I'm here for today, of course I will help you."
"Welcome to the family."
"Hey, wait a second. You lulled me in. You wanted to know my political beliefs. Was there anything you said your own opinion?"
"Calm down. This was just the political bullshit protocol. Terrorists don't write on their forehead that they are one. Only the most utterly ideological tinted blockheads and for those we have a special place."
"Damn, how I hate this."
"What?"
"Psycho tests."
"Hey, you passed. Don't be mad."
[...]
Green Village came into view, including its defense ring. Reason enough for Blake to reveal further details about the facility.
"Remember our talk about ideological blindness. Green Village is also a sci prison. The inmates themselves are unable to play a stabilizing function yet they can be of use."
"Aren't you too fast with your evaluation? I could still change my mind."
"No, you will not. Walker said I can trust you and he was always honest to me."
<!-- If the WCG is all bad it would have been wiped much earlier. Authoritarian systems destroy themselves by continuously generating new enemies. Always remember that you can improve the system by being part of it, your presence radiates back on it." Blake throw her a smile. "Don't give up on us, then we don't give up on you."
"You haven't seen Green Village yet. You have no idea what is possible."-->
<!-- Los Alamos of the 21 century -->
----
Blake: "She's somewhat naive but still usable. We will continue indoctrination and monitor her for additional six month on the top of the standards time frame."
"Good, good." The head of HR said. "I reviewed your talk with Ms. West. Sometimes just I don't know what side you are standing on. By chance, you are not a double-agent?"
Blake put up a bored face as if he was tired to hear such stupid questions. "In order to let the candidates make honest statements I meet them at their wavelength first and then get to business. ''Stabilizing'' someone's mind can be a delicate matter. That's what we transfer agents also do. We give memetic support when needed. As for this facility, we usually trash-talk about everyone else, point out discrepancies the candidates dream of repairing themselves, hailing their intelligence, and that they had been chosen to join the ultimate elite. We ignite the spirit in them to save the world - like their professors did at university, the good old times. Feeding them up with new ideals. Making them true WCG defenders. - Intelligent people are so easy to catch with their own hubris. I actually lost my best friend to such a facility." (Nobody believes him that story but it is the truth.)
"Ahahahaha. Aww, what pitiful story, Blake. Okay, that's enough, get out before break out into tears."
With a simple "Sir" Blake went for the door.
"But keep your WCG bashing to a minimum", it echoed from the HR.
Blake had exited the office. He grounded his teeth. "Paranoid asshole. - Suspecting me of double play."
He smirked.
----
(notes)
Hanna is shown the underground machines for cloning plants and animals.
GV acts as digital Spitzbergen. They record the genetic, epi-genetic and anatomic information of any organism. The all-embracing data sets are the foundation for insilico research, for generating and altering new organisms. That way the villages can fully restore or alter their host eco-systems may it be due to climate change or after any other global catastrophe like asteroid impacts.
GV's infrastructures to cope with worst case scenarios are later abused by GOP to participate in the Black Season war. [Leviathan, Behemoth, etc.]
----
Griffin got intel that Syndicate and Yakuza planned to take over an Iron Demon that was waiting at the docks to change ship.
[BGI is a PMC and manufacturer of military material. Their close connection of the Syndicate made it relative easy to let them take over their Iron Demon.]
They wanted to destroy a police school, TCTF facilities and housing blocks. Griffin pulled togather all his GATC/Blackstars resources to regain control of the Iron Demon and forced the local groups to agree on a no-kill deal. During the years the symbiotic relationship grows stronger and stronger. Griffin's philosophy is that the Yakuza are simply the smaller evil. He know of the historic structures of the Syndicate and that their organization is still growing. One day they will have invaded every part of economy and society making it impossible to remove them. So the deal with a Yakuza is in fact a delaying tactic. Mai is his ace to bring the Syndicate down.


==Standoff==
==Standoff==
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Kerr nervously laughed. "That's just how we call him. He refuses to tell us his name."
Kerr nervously laughed. "That's just how we call him. He refuses to tell us his name."
----
==Marburg==
[Merge "self-directed evolution" notes with this chapter.]
[Hasegawa and Kerr ask for more and more resources. Eventually, after a demonstration of their abilities and some early Daodan building blocks, Mukade provides them the necessary resources. First he steels a sample of Jamie's remnants and then he makes contact with Pensatore and forces him to join the Daodan project. Pensatore realizes flaws within the Daodan concept and proposes an alternative for humans' self-directed evolution.]
(actual chapter notes)
Kimura organized a sample of Jamie's remnants to test the pathogens against Hasegawa's artificial immune cells.
Jamie's sample is too much degraded. So Kimura looks for a better one.
==Green Village==
While Hanna was flying to Russia she received messages from Curtis.
"You wanted me to contact you when we know the source of your MRSA strain. I must warn you, it could be an emotional burden if I tell you."
"Hey I'm no sissy like you."
"Charming as always. Well then, here it is. The strain was from your dying mother in the hospital. There wasn't much left of her immune system, easy game for germs. You were there during her last moments. You hold her hand? Right? Maybe the day before you cut your finger somewhere."
"I peeled potatoes."
He laughed. "That's the world we are living in now, ''watch out for the killer potatoes''. ... Ah ... Sorry."
"It's okay, Curtis. I asked for it. -- Thank you for telling me the truth."


----
----
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(notes)
(notes)


Kimura organized a sample of Jamie's remnants
The chat continues with Hanna being told that something happened to the sample that was send to Marburg.
 
The fact that the sample was stolen from a high-security lab leads to conclusion that the Syndicate or another highly criminal group looks for a bio-weapon.
 
Hanna used this conclusion in the meeting with Green Village's human resource manager. The director suspects her to be part of that group as her time of arrival seems an unlikely coincidence. They decided to give her a position in hope to learn more about that terror group.
 
[1 - At a later time Kimura also succeeded in stealing a sample from Green Village. The incidence has no connection to Hanna whatsoever so her monitoring is set to  standard like that of other GV employees. A nuclear suspicion remains.]
 
[2 - Hanna visited Walker during her limited days of vacations. She left him messages with reference to GATC, a direct hint to the letters of the genetic code. "Look for GATC." The anti-espionage section of WCG misunderstood this as a reference to GATC, the merc company that partly destroyed GV in an later airstrike. Right after the cataclysm the WCG was in panic and put Hanna due to that misunderstanding on their terrorist execution list. Can Konoko save her?]
 
[3 - Konoko went to GV in search for her father. Unfortunately, her presence marks the others sci inmates also as terrorists. WCG had jumped to conclusions after finding out that Hanna, Bertram and the others had been using secret communications means. This made the WCG send military into the area.]
 
[4 - Green Village try to receive outside help by releasing SLD data for mass production. The androids could be used to do outdoor work in the highly toxic environment. The idea is to make technology available to the people so they survive the black season while the civilian support them with things that Green Village does not have. The WCG is raging that their prestige sci prison leaked technologies they kept 30 years secret from civilians and the Syndicate. Meanwhile BGI also entered the quarantine zone of Green Village...]
 
[5 - META increases SLD production -> Traton plot -> Avatara -> Mind Seal]
 
 
----
 
Hanna arrived in the east Russian sector. Average temperature of chilly zero degrees and bleak tundra landscape were not an expected welcome. What made people even live here?
 
A full-size SUV was waiting for her. She saw the driver in front of the car waving a hand. There was no need for that, nobody else was around in this cold wasteland. The man was wearing a thick jacket, open, for him the temperature must have felt still quite warm.
 
"Welcome to wild wide east, Ms. West." Cold hands were shaken.
 
"My name is Blake. I will be your driver for today." He put the suitcases into the trunk.
 
The car started to move through crackling ice and mud.
 
"So you are American too? What brings people here?" Hanna asked.
 
Blake threw a look over his shoulder searching eye contact. "Money. Ms. West. Money."
 
"Haha, what did I miss? Is there gold in this region?"
 
"In a figurative sense, more than you think." He smirked.
 
"A driving job doesn't seem a well-paid job to me. So what is it?"
 
Blake was driving out of the airport area. It was the last turn before the road became linear and frightening long. Next to them was a pair of new train rails. He let go the steering wheel and changed into autopilot mode. Then he turned around with his entire seat.
 
"To be exact, I'm a transfer agent working for Green Village. I make sure their personal arrive at their destiny. When you applied for that job and got invited, you already have become a VIP. And anything that involves Green Village also involves money. A lot of money."
 
"Green Village, the WCG's prestige research complex", Hanna thought aloud.
 
The man laughed. "No kidding. You will see it for yourself. - Actually, take a look, right there."
He pointed at Hanna's window.
 
"This city you see was built for their support. Here live the families of technicians, construction workers, soldiers, etc."
 
"Soldiers?"
 
"Yes, the complex has its own defense ring. They have chosen this bleak area for multiple reasons. The complex is far enough from urban regions in case something happens. This city just lies outside the quarantine zones."
 
"Something?"
 
"Outbreak of a plague. A nuclear incidence. An invasion."
 
"I thought it was about ecological reasons."
 
"Yes. That too. Multiple reasons, you see. - After global warming really started to kick in with the meltdown of permafrost and methane hydrate, this area is becoming more habitable."
 
"Yes, on average the world is heating up."
 
"The thing about Russia is that it is not going to be too hot. It just starts to get comfortable, like Canada. The WCG has chosen Green Village to be the central place for preparing the land for new generations."
 
"What about the bio crisis?"
 
"The colder temperature have kept xeno hybrids away. And the toxin levels are here less grave. Good enough conditions to revamp these latitudes."
 
"Totally. Right now all this half-dead rusty-green grass and stray trees doesn't look very inviting."
 
Blake nodded. "Well, true, you really have to think in decades here."
 
Hanna: "Are you saying the climate and bio crisis poses such a threat to WCG that they are looking for new grounds?"
 
"Let's be honest. Humans only change when they fall flat on their faces. Damage and pain tells them what to avoid, not intelligence. They are ... inert masses. Not a hundred little girls with protest banners crying in front of some institution will change that. People may protest for political and economical independence, for a stable climate and plastic-free oceans. But they don't really want to change themselves."
 
"Isn't this the fault of our representatives? Every political party is promising their members the heaven on earth just to vote them into power. In their own ideological blindness they can't do the math for the true costs.<!-- Everyone ignores the factors of the … enemies.-->"
 
"You said representatives. Who is voting them into power? It's them. Now don't talk about lobbies, that just excuses. General speaking, all the people drive with their car to the discounter, fly with airplanes into vacations, ship around the oceans, buy annually a new smartphone that kicks off cascades of server interactions whenever making a simple online search - together with all the other electronic entertainment devices that incorporate rare earth elements which in turn leaves toxic mining sides behind. And then they demonstrate to save the eco-system. The single individual might be smart but the society is brain dead. What a joke."
 
Hanna: "I'm surprised you didn't mentioned the Amazon forest."
 
"Oh please. It's such a long-burning issue, it bores everybody to death. The dangers have been known for decades. Bla. Bla. Bla. The protests have become purely symbolic."
 
"Symbolic for what?"
 
"For our all hypocrisy. - Why do they even protest? Think about it. They consider themselves as too weak, no, as too comfortable, to get up their own asses. They ask their representatives to create laws to force themselves do the right thing."
 
"You are generalizing a lot of things. - And you don't think the politicians are to blame?"
 
"Of course, they too. They want to become re-elected. Especially politicians that have no other profession. Right there a contradiction of being a representative. But the real power comes from the people. Right? And what do they do with it? Little."
 
"It's fascinating how you can throw just everything together, oversimplifying. People are not not a unified thing, they are always groups of people."
 
"I am? Turn it around. Did you ever had the feeling that fighting politicians over details in talk shows are a gain for our society? The average Joes don't have the time to differentiate or to reflect. In a society of specialization they are not meant to think, but to work. Therefore the slogans must be simple. On top of that the politicians use a language to sound well-read, smart, trustworthy while covering inconvenient truths in a flush of phrases. Don't blame the WCG. The peoples vote the shit the governs them. In any system. We fight, disagree, lie, and hate each other. And therefor representatives act the same. A fine human nature we have there."
 
"From all your talk I assume you think of people as a collective are dangerous, stupid animals."
 
"Are we not? - Our so humanistic societies regularly start new wars. And climate change will not improve the situation."
 
"No hope in sight then, huh?"
 
"Planed or not, economic-wise globalization made the WCG adapt the European model. That is former states are now so much interconnected that a war between the regions – trade wars, resources wars, or any other wars – will damage everybody's economy. You can say about the WCG whatever you want but they keep the nationalists in check and prevent a nuclear holocaust. It's probably the only thing that the WCG is better at compared to all other systems. This interconnected global community renders the red button pointless."
 
"For an employee so close to the gov you are quite criticizing them."
 
"Hey, in this car I can say whatever I want."
 
"Interesting point right there. What about ideological dissidents and other people that are strongly obliged to their own conscience?"
 
"Victims of their own hypocrisy. It's never healthy to stay in a burning house. Just leave it. You know the WCG is not everywhere. That what the WCG is not, Africa is. Go there, maybe."
 
"Haha, you are impossible. You said climate change accelerated. Isn't Africa becoming a desert?"
 
"And?"
 
"That means more waves of refugees, the WCG will get a thousand million new inhabitants, distribution problems, civil wars."
 
"Exactly. The WCG territories can barely keep their own issues under control. And now external factors heat up the system too, figuratively and literally. - People got so inflexible ideas on how a good life has to look like. Sharing resources with others, especially with new strangers, endangers those ideas. Existential fears promote hate and therefor violence. That's why our representatives [https://www.theguardian.com/law/2019/jun/03/icc-submission-calls-for-prosecution-of-eu-over-migrant-deaths have decided to make it difficult for refugees to enter our territory.] The death and torment of the refugees was known to the politicians. And when that information was presented to us, the very most of us gave a damn.<!--[https://www.zeit.de/politik/2019-08/migration-angela-merkel-fordert-staatliche-seenotrettung Two month later a placebo for the rest.]--> - The situation was already bad and it is getting worse."
 
"Basically you are saying, we cannot save ourselves by political means and social consensus anymore."
 
"What is fueling human survival and prosperity? Innovations and the exercise of science. The harnessing of fire, the creation of the wheel, the use of electricity. - We need every good scientist to break through these crises. If you really join us, you will be part of the elite, actually saving lifes."
 
"What about the non-WCG states?"
 
Blake smirked. "You cannot save everyone. When we have saved ourselves we can export our knowledge to them. Question is can you stay professional in the meantime and do what is necessary? Of all things that Green Village is, it is also an actual prototype of a self-sustaining village meant to withstand most difficult conditions. But we need your help to finish it. Can we count on you?"
 
"I became scientist to improve our lifes, that's also what I'm here for today, of course I will help you."
 
"Welcome to the family."
 
"Hey, wait a second. You lulled me in. You wanted to know my political beliefs. Was there anything you said your own opinion?"
 
"Calm down. This was just the political bullshit protocol. Terrorists don't write on their forehead that they are one. Only the most utterly ideological tinted blockheads and for those we have a special place."
 
"Damn, how I hate this."
 
"What?"
 
"Psycho tests."
 
"Hey, you passed. Don't be mad."
 
[...]
 
Green Village came into view, including its defense ring. Reason enough for Blake to reveal further details about the facility.
 
"Remember our talk about ideological blindness. Green Village is also a sci prison. The inmates themselves are unable to play a stabilizing function yet they can be of use."
 
"Aren't you too fast with your evaluation? I could still change my mind."
 
"No, you will not. Walker said I can trust you and he was always honest to me."
 
<!-- If the WCG is all bad it would have been wiped much earlier. Authoritarian systems destroy themselves by continuously generating new enemies. Always remember that you can improve the system by being part of it, your presence radiates back on it." Blake throw her a smile. "Don't give up on us, then we don't give up on you."
 
"You haven't seen Green Village yet. You have no idea what is possible."-->
<!-- Los Alamos of the 21 century -->
 
----
 
Blake: "She's somewhat naive but still usable. We will continue indoctrination and monitor her for additional six month on the top of the standards time frame."
 
"Good, good." The head of HR said. "I reviewed your talk with Ms. West. Sometimes just I don't know what side you are standing on. By chance, you are not a double-agent?"
 
Blake put up a bored face as if he was tired to hear such stupid questions. "In order to let the candidates make honest statements I meet them at their wavelength first and then get to business. ''Stabilizing'' someone's mind can be a delicate matter. That's what we transfer agents also do. We give memetic support when needed. As for this facility, we usually trash-talk about everyone else, point out discrepancies the candidates dream of repairing themselves, hailing their intelligence, and that they had been chosen to join the ultimate elite. We ignite the spirit in them to save the world - like their professors did at university, the good old times. Feeding them up with new ideals. Making them true WCG defenders. - Intelligent people are so easy to catch with their own hubris. I actually lost my best friend to such a facility." (Nobody believes him that story but it is the truth.)
 
"Ahahahaha. Aww, what pitiful story, Blake. Okay, that's enough, get out before break out into tears."
 
With a simple "Sir" Blake went for the door.
 
"But keep your WCG bashing to a minimum", it echoed from the HR.
 
Blake had exited the office. He grounded his teeth. "Paranoid asshole. - Suspecting me of double play."
 
He smirked.


Kimura got Pensatore on board.
----
 
Mention suspicion here that Hanna may work for terrorists since she just arrived after the Marburg incidence.
 
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As part of her indoc Hanna is shown the underground machines for cloning plants and animals.
 
GV acts as digital Spitzbergen. They record the genetic, epi-genetic and anatomic information of any organism. The all-embracing data sets are the foundation for insilico research, for generating and altering new organisms. That way the villages can fully restore or alter their host eco-systems may it be due to climate change or after any other global catastrophe like asteroid impacts.
 
GV's infrastructures to cope with worst case scenarios are later abused by GOP to participate in the Black Season war. [Leviathan, Behemoth, etc.]
 
 
==Gray mass==
[Pun on smart concrete and the Bioc. Mention Dakosta, GOP and GATC briefly here.]
 
Kimura uses a construction worker to get into GV and steal another sample of Jamie. By doing that he discovers a interesting story behind the Bioc concrete. But besides being interesting the Bioc has currently no real value to him. Kimura cuts lose ends by disposing the construction worker.
 
 
==Iron Demon==
[Direct followup story of Kimura's revelations about the Bioc and GATC. A technology they secured for WCG after causing a massacre.]
 
Griffin knew that after the war they couldn't stay mercs forever and hence used the TCTF Blackops as an exit strategy for himself and GATC members.
 
However, their new lives are not so peaceful as expected. Organized crime is increasing.
 
After one of Griffin's close friends got almost killed by an Syndicate attack he owns the situation by putting his own life on the line again.
 
He got intel that Syndicate and Yakuza planned to take over an Iron Demon that was waiting at the docks to change ship.
 
[BGI is a PMC and manufacturer of military material. Their close connection of the Syndicate made it relative easy to let them take over their Iron Demon.]
 
They wanted to destroy a police school, TCTF facilities and housing blocks. Griffin pulled together all his GATC/Blackstars resources to regain control of the Iron Demon and forced the local groups to agree on a no-kill deal. As reward for the dangerous operation Griffin is supposed to become the next regional TCTF commander.
 
[During the years the symbiotic relationship grows stronger and stronger. Griffin's philosophy is that the Yakuza are simply the smaller evil. He know of the historic structures of the Syndicate and that their organization is still growing. One day they will have invaded every part of economy and society making it impossible to remove them. So the deal with a Yakuza is in fact a delaying tactic. Mai is his ace to bring the Syndicate down. A fact that he shows to Takahashi.]
 
 
==Avatara==
Hasegawa and Kerr test their invention against ordinary infections and the sample. But the results are suboptimal against Jamie's pathogens.
 
The sci have more ideas on how to improve their tech. Kimura sees the potential and is willing to support them.
 
To realize their plans Kimura seeks out another expert, Pensatore.
 
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First visit and "recruitment".
 
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The prototypes must be based on real DNA.
The prototypes must be based on real DNA.
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==Resettlement==
They finished the Daodan Chrysalis.
They finished the Daodan Chrysalis.
Avatara, an AI Pensatore helped creating, gets suspicious about his master's behavior and traces his whereabouts after a longer phase of absence.


The TCTF was about to raid the warehouse they usually work at. So Kimura sent Syndicate troops to evacuate them.
The TCTF was about to raid the warehouse they usually work at. So Kimura sent Syndicate troops to evacuate them.
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Kimura told Hasegawa to find Kerr later. In the meantime they discuss and plan ''Sturmänderung''.
Kimura told Hasegawa to find Kerr later. In the meantime they discuss and plan ''Sturmänderung''.
In the new lab.
Kimura long-term plan was to get Kerr and Mai. But monitoring and ''managing'' the doctors [Hasegawa and Pensatore], the boys [Muro, Ryu, Tomo, others ''spare part candidates''] and the overall situation required his full attention. -> Birth of ego hybrida Mukade.
After Hasegawa spend so much time with time in isolation with Kimura and Pensatore, Mai would have been potential disruptive for Sturmänderung. Hasegawa might have not be willing to sacrifice Muro if he regains Mai and thought that they all could become a happy family again. So Kimura changed his mind and ignored Mai's and Kerr's fate for the most part.




==Kerr takes Mai to TCTF==


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==Science prison==
==[to merge elsewhere] Science prison==
Because of shortage in manpower Hanna can't do the research she intended to do herself. Instead she is instructed to monitor and evaluate the work of "sci" inmates.
Because of shortage in manpower Hanna can't do the research she intended to do herself. Instead she is instructed to monitor and evaluate the work of "sci" inmates.


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==Self-directed evolution==
==[to merge elsewhere] 64 equals 20==
Hasegawa and Kerr ask for more and more resources. Eventually, after a demonstration of their abilities and some early Daodan building blocks, Mukade provides them the necessary resources. First he steels a sample of Jamie's remnants and then he makes contact with Pensatore and forces him to join the Daodan project. Pensatore realizes flaws within the Daodan concept and proposes an alternative for humans' self-directed evolution. Avatara, an AI Pensatore helped creating, gets suspicious about his master's behavior and traces his whereabouts after a longer phase of absence.
 
 
==64 equals 20==
Hanna and the inmates work on ideas to provide the CDC with new life-saving technologies.
Hanna and the inmates work on ideas to provide the CDC with new life-saving technologies.
They plan to smuggle the information through Hanna's cells, encoded in DNA. (The 64 codons can code only for 20 amino acids.)
They plan to smuggle the information through Hanna's cells, encoded in DNA. (The 64 codons can code only for 20 amino acids.)


Also known as "plan 6420".
Also known as "plan 6420".
==Daodan implantation / Biosafty concerns==
==Sturmänderung==
In the new lab.
[Kimura long-term plan was to get Kerr and Mai. But monitoring and ''managing'' the doctors (Hasegawa and Pensatore), the boys (Muro, Ryu, Tomo, others ''spare part candidates'') and the overall situation required his full attention. -> Birth of ego hybrida Mukade.]
==Maria (Hanna) joins TCTF==
==Sytropin and food control==
Daodan growth get suppressed.
==Mai fake OP (Maria, Kerr fool Griffin)==
==Pest control (assassination plans for Muro)==
==Corruption of Hasegawa by Kimura==
[After Hasegawa spend so much time with time in isolation with Kimura and Pensatore, Mai would have been potential disruptive for Sturmänderung. Hasegawa might have not be willing to sacrifice Muro if he regains Mai and thought that they all could become a happy family again. So Kimura changed his mind and ignored Mai's and Kerr's fate for the most part.]
==Ego hybrida Mukade==
[Muro's watchdog]
==Shinatama==
[Mai's watchdog]
==Jack==
[re-indroducing a character from Oni's dev phase]
==Churi==
[Mai's training. Accidental Daodan spikes.]
==Muro, Ryu, Tomo, Kimura vs. Strikers==
==Traton==
==Kumo==
[sends killers after Griffin, Takahashi saves him]
[relavation that the Yakuza protect Griffin]
==Griffin, Mai and the reindeers (indoc)==
==Victor==
Griffin plans to replace Kumo with Victor.
in return Victor is supposed ignore Neo-Tokio and therefor Griffin.
The plan requires Kumo to be put into a weaker position first.
So Griffin takes Mai to a flase-flag opperation to.
==Vendret==
After Vendret saves Daya from the burning house, she successfully defends Kumo from Victors attack.
==Muro in the Camp==
==Friendly rivalry with Ryu==
==Muros's missions with Traton and Daodandroids==
==Saomi, GATC Z==
==Alliance with BGI, Sarai==
==Churi, Sledgehammer bar==
==Car bomb, death of Tomo==
==Furies==
==Further assassination attempts from Z==
==Death of Pensatore==
==Death of Hasegawa==
==Exil of Traton==
==Dispute with Ryu==
Muro reveals Sturmänderung to the Strikers
==War against BGI==
==Peace treaty with BGI==
temporary, they build new Iron Demons
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