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'''NEO TOKYO''' – A horrible scene unfolded yesterday at the Fuji Region Wilderness Preserve. Jamie Kerr Hasegawa, environment activist, top grad student, mother of two was found dead. Her grief-stricken husband, Prof. Hasegawa, is being held suspect for murder or homicide. Officials from the Center for Disease Control, however, attest that Hasegawa shot his wife to give her a merciful death. Mrs. Hasegawa had apparently contracted a new fatal viral infection that caused complete cellular breakdown. Investigators fail to identify the DNA trace of the virus which has the CDC in a panic.
'''NEO TOKYO''' – A horrible scene unfolded yesterday at the Fuji Region Wilderness Preserve. Jamie Kerr Hasegawa, environment activist, top grad student, mother of two was found dead. Her grief-stricken husband, Prof. Hasegawa, is being held suspect for murder or homicide. Officials from the Center for Disease Control, however, attest that Hasegawa shot his wife to give her a merciful death. Mrs. Hasegawa had apparently contracted a new fatal viral infection that caused complete cellular breakdown. Investigators fail to identify the DNA trace of the virus which has the CDC in a panic.


The Hasegawas had embarked on an unauthorized investigation to uncover the truth behind the WPS territories and the government’s supposed land reclamation project. According to Mr. Hasegawa they had gone into the Fuji Region Wilderness where his wife brushed her leg against a little thorned twig of a flowering shrub. They went on with no concern. Within minutes of taking the diminutive injury the little scratch became a swelling wound then changing into a large ulcer. The intense pain overwhelmed Mrs. Hasegawa, the wound infections spread away from the scratch and lanced slowly the ulcers. Mr. Hasegawa applied antibiotic hypos but in less than an hour and wailful waiting the whole leg tissue was wracked wildly by deep chaps. By now it was clear that the virus would cause a total breakdown of the nervous system because of its all-devouring raging. The internal tissue was going to liquefy and bleed out. Mr. Hasegawa stated that it was an unbearable scene.
The Hasegawas had embarked on an unauthorized investigation to uncover the truth behind the WPS territories and the government's supposed land reclamation project. According to Mr. Hasegawa they had gone into the Fuji Region Wilderness where his wife brushed her leg against a little thorned twig of a flowering shrub. They went on with no concern. Within minutes of taking the diminutive injury the little scratch became a swelling wound then changing into a large ulcer. The intense pain overwhelmed Mrs. Hasegawa, the wound infections spread away from the scratch and lanced slowly the ulcers. Mr. Hasegawa applied antibiotic hypos but in less than an hour and wailful waiting the whole leg tissue was wracked wildly by deep chaps. By now it was clear that the virus would cause a total breakdown of the nervous system because of its all-devouring raging. The internal tissue was going to liquefy and bleed out. Mr. Hasegawa stated that it was an unbearable scene.
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"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."
"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.-->"
"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."
"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."
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Pensatore resignedly looked to the side. Recently a young coworker had taped a poster to the wall.
Pensatore resignedly looked to the side. Recently a young coworker had taped a poster to the wall.


''There is enough resources for everyone’s need but not for anybody’s greed.''
''There is enough resources for everyone's need but not for anybody's greed.''


[Pensatore discussed with Avatara their current state and why AIs were strongly needed within the WCG when they received a message that their project was going to get another financial partner. The professor was supposed to welcome the surprise visitor. They got so much money that Pensatore was ordered to arrange the tour through the labs himself to show their gratitude.]
[Pensatore discussed with Avatara their current state and why AIs were strongly needed within the WCG when they received a message that their project was going to get another financial partner. The professor was supposed to welcome the surprise visitor. They got so much money that Pensatore was ordered to arrange the tour through the labs himself to show their gratitude.]
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“Life and intelligence are emergent phenomena so we came to the conclusion that your approach better should be bottom-up: Studying the smallest units first, the behavior of atoms, molecules, DNA and cells. Eventually, entire organisms. Bacteria, insects, humans.”
"Life and intelligence are emergent phenomena so we came to the conclusion that your approach better should be bottom-up: Studying the smallest units first, the behavior of atoms, molecules, DNA and cells. Eventually, entire organisms. Bacteria, insects, humans."


“Our interdisciplinary team of theoretical biologists and computer scientists had worked on Avatara for more than a decade already to finally fulfill the promises of AI research that had been made in the past. We really don’t want to see another AI winter.”
"Our interdisciplinary team of theoretical biologists and computer scientists had worked on Avatara for more than a decade already to finally fulfill the promises of AI research that had been made in the past. We really don't want to see another AI winter."


“During the first years I constantly remembered the running gag of fusion energy – that it is always 30 years away. But now we are really closing in on AI.”
"During the first years I constantly remembered the running gag of fusion energy – that it is always 30 years away. But now we are really closing in on AI."


“The teams took their time to review old textbook knowledge and corrected it where necessary. We simply didn’t wanted to fail just because of inaccurate basics.”
"The teams took their time to review old textbook knowledge and corrected it where necessary. We simply didn't wanted to fail just because of inaccurate basics."


“You maybe remember the hype from the human genome project. [https://youtu.be/Y_8XRkb-wbY?t=300 It was said that the one reference genome will revolutionize the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of most, if not all, human diseases. Doctors will cure diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, diabetes and cancer.]”
"You maybe remember the hype from the human genome project. [https://youtu.be/Y_8XRkb-wbY?t=300 It was said that the one reference genome will revolutionize the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of most, if not all, human diseases. Doctors will cure diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, diabetes and cancer.]"


“As we know today, that was a foolish thought for various reasons. Even if you have the whole sequenced genome you are still missing more than 50 percent of the raw information to understand the more complex diseases – the other half being the epigenetic information layers like DNA methylation and histone modifications.”
"As we know today, that was a foolish thought for various reasons. Even if you have the whole sequenced genome you are still missing more than 50 percent of the raw information to understand the more complex diseases – the other half being the epigenetic information layers like DNA methylation and histone modifications."


“On top of that you have to watch out for dynamic factors like microbiome and virome – all the other cells inside the human body that are part of him but don’t derive from his own genetic codes.”
"On top of that you have to watch out for dynamic factors like microbiome and virome – all the other cells inside the human body that are part of him but don't derive from his own genetic codes."


“When all data of a level was reviewed we increased the abstraction of our models. Superficially, you may think of them as onions with their layers or those Russian Matroschka puppets made of wood. The more layers our model had the more complete and lifelike is got.”
"When all data of a level was reviewed we increased the abstraction of our models. Superficially, you may think of them as onions with their layers or those Russian Matroschka puppets made of wood. The more layers our model had the more complete and lifelike is got."


“The usual way for our abstraction – reduction of complexity – was to determine the normal and exceptional conditions of before-named smallest units.”
"The usual way for our abstraction – reduction of complexity – was to determine the normal and exceptional conditions of before-named smallest units."


“For living organisms we eventually assumed a lot of normal conditions and shifted focus to neural sensation and its processing. But for disease, immune reactions, intake of nutrients and cell growth we can always turn back on the exceptional conditions.”
"For living organisms we eventually assumed a lot of normal conditions and shifted focus to neural sensation and its processing. But for disease, immune reactions, intake of nutrients and cell growth we can always turn back on the exceptional conditions."


“Intelligence doesn’t pop up into existence by plugging together enough hardware. If you really want to understand it, you have to simulate cell growth and learning processes as well.”
"Intelligence doesn't pop up into existence by plugging together enough hardware. If you really want to understand it, you have to simulate cell growth and learning processes as well."


“So, to cut a long story short, we simulated most simple lifeforms and their environment first, then increased cell count and complexity again for higher cognitive abilities.”
"So, to cut a long story short, we simulated most simple lifeforms and their environment first, then increased cell count and complexity again for higher cognitive abilities."


“Single cell sims were mostly used to study metabolisms, gene networks and signaling pathways. On level of colonies we included emergent phenomena like quorum sensing – chemical communication among bacteria. Next we needed to incorporate the microbiome and virome before accurately simulate the lifecycle of whole populations of microbes. For our biologist this was interesting for studying the effects of transposomes, immune systems like CRISPR CAS and symbiotic relationships.”
"Single cell sims were mostly used to study metabolisms, gene networks and signaling pathways. On level of colonies we included emergent phenomena like quorum sensing – chemical communication among bacteria. Next we needed to incorporate the microbiome and virome before accurately simulate the lifecycle of whole populations of microbes. For our biologist this was interesting for studying the effects of transposomes, immune systems like CRISPR CAS and symbiotic relationships."


“I had to wait three more years before further layers could be added. We were so close to simulate organism on level of an animals and create AIs on their level.”
"I had to wait three more years before further layers could be added. We were so close to simulate organism on level of an animals and create AIs on their level."


“Eventually Avatara reached the mental capacities of a human child. Naturally, it had become more than a simulation of living cells. By now it had experienced its very own evolution insilico.”
"Eventually Avatara reached the mental capacities of a human child. Naturally, it had become more than a simulation of living cells. By now it had experienced its very own evolution insilico."


“It’s kind of funny how much time and resources we needed to create and understand complex models and simulations just to safely reduce the complexity again for specialized working modes and [https://techxplore.com/news/2019-12-world-artificial-neurons-chronic-diseases.html next-gen AI hardware].”
"It's kind of funny how much time and resources we needed to create and understand complex models and simulations just to safely reduce the complexity again for specialized working modes and [https://techxplore.com/news/2019-12-world-artificial-neurons-chronic-diseases.html next-gen AI hardware]."


“For instance when you really only want to use the visual pattern recognition you can turn off the molecular and genetic layer. This gives you more computation for the actual problem solving and not the support structures. And note Avatara is just a tool to create even greater AI, right now we are working on self-optimization.”
"For instance when you really only want to use the visual pattern recognition you can turn off the molecular and genetic layer. This gives you more computation for the actual problem solving and not the support structures. And note Avatara is just a tool to create even greater AI, right now we are working on self-optimization."
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“Some say a truly intelligent machine will be human’s last invention. I hope that’s not the case and that we will rather establish a symbiosis with them.”-->
"Some say a truly intelligent machine will be human's last invention. I hope that's not the case and that we will rather establish a symbiosis with them."-->


“I wish I could have given you a shorter explanation of our project but you cannot simply create an [[wikipedia:Strong_AI|strong AI]] by ignoring 3.5 billion years of evolution."
"I wish I could have given you a shorter explanation of our project but you cannot simply create an [[wikipedia:Strong_AI|strong AI]] by ignoring 3.5 billion years of evolution."


Kimura smirked: “It’s okay. I know two other guys with a similar scope. You should meet them. I think you all will make a great gang of crackheads.”
Kimura smirked: "It's okay. I know two other guys with a similar scope. You should meet them. I think you all will make a great gang of crackheads."


Pensatore: “Excuse me?”
Pensatore: "Excuse me?"


Kimura hit Pensatore on the shoulder: "Oh come on, why don't you show me your mad scientist cave, uhm sorry, lab, where all my billions are transformed into new technologies. It's behind that gate, right? I can already scent the innovations behind it."
Kimura hit Pensatore on the shoulder: "Oh come on, why don't you show me your mad scientist cave, uhm sorry, lab, where all my billions are transformed into new technologies. It's behind that gate, right? I can already scent the innovations behind it."
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==Daodan implantation / Biosafty concerns==
==Maria (Hanna) joins TCTF==
 
 
 
 
==Sturmänderung==
==Daodan implantation / Biosafty concerns==
In the new lab.
[Before Daodan implantation Maria, Kerr and the other doctors distracted Griffin. Mai's sterilization is a faked OP.]
 
 
[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.]
 
 
==Griffin, Mai and the reindeer (indoc)==
 
 
==Maria (Hanna) joins TCTF==
[Open Questions / food for thoughts:
 
 
 
What is Maria's main conflict with Griffin? Is it that he wants to implement the Daodan so early? Or is it the training? Or the harsh bio safety rules?
==Sytropin and food control==
 
Daodan growth get suppressed.
Side notes: There are 2 years between Kerr's arrival and Mai's Daodan implantation. Was that enough time for WCG to check their story and decide the next steps? What exactly were they considering? Did Griffin influence them. Is the bio safety so important if Muro has also Daodan? "It" is in the wild anyway. Is that the reason why Griffin was able to make that trip to the north?
 
 
 
General thoughts about writing: What events need to be described in detail and what parts can simply told in dialogues of characters?
==Mai fake OP (Maria, Kerr fool Griffin)==
Does this choice only depend on wanted result? Transporting facts by talk and emotions by actions?
 
 
 
Preparation, trauma prevention:
==Pest control (assassination plans for Muro)==
 
 
In order to prepare Mai for later missions Griffin wants her to control her emotions. "She needs to be familiar with the badly hurt animal and humans." As in "they [the Syndicate] are just animals" and "we are the natural order", "now pull the trigger".
 
 
==Corruption of Hasegawa by Kimura==
Possible relativization: "Don't worry, Mai, you are here to get stronger. I'm teaching you how to encounter difficult situations because there are sometimes decisions we don't like but we have them to make them nonetheless. Don't you think this is fun for me to teach you these things. I do this because it is necessary."
[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.]
 
 
Griffin plays paintball / ego shoots with Mai? He lets Mai watch photos of roadkills and corpse at crime scene. To prepare her for shooting reindeer. Such things could rise strong concerns in Maria. She is going to be worried about her education and psychological development.]
 
 
==Ego hybrida Mukade==
Mai rose the ax to gain new momentum. In a flash the sharp metal flew off hitting the tree next to Griffin. He somewhat dodged but the metal was already in the wood. It had gone through the upper layer.
[Muro's watchdog]
 
 
"Wow, not so fast. Before you use a tool make sure it work as it should otherwise you can hurt someone."
 
 
==Shinatama==
"I'm sorry, Griffin."
[Mai's watchdog]
 
 
He took the ax and hit the end onto the chopping block. The inertia of the metal pushed it back into the wood, strengthening the connection again. "Here." He gave the ax back to her. Chop some more I going to prepare some meet and cook soup."
 
 
==Jack==
[...]
[re-indroducing a character from Oni's dev phase]
 
 
[Some chopping, bonfires, wood sculpting, shooting training, different methods of hunting. Indoc talk.
 
 
==Churi==
All in all a few casual and "harmless" activities.
[Mai's training. Accidental Daodan spikes.]
 
 
If you ignored the bidder cold and the odd situation that a little girl hunted animals almost twice as tall as herself it was almost an idyllic life at the snowed landside.
 
 
==Muro, Ryu, Tomo, Kimura vs. Strikers==
The days passed. One evening they got a visitor.]
 
[Kimura got notified that Griffin and Mai were up in the north. He figured this to be the chance to fulfill his promise he gave Hasegawa to get back Mai from the TCTF. It was simple math. Two Daodan hosts were better than one.]
 
 
Kimura: "Vacations so far in the north, how unlikely of you."
 
Griffin heard a terribly familiar voice.
 
Kimura: "Looks like a good place to calm down for a moment and forget all the trouble that awaits at home. May I join?"
 
Mai fought her way through the deep snow, eventually reaching the two men.
"Terrance, who is this? Is it a friend?", she asked.
 
Griffin moved a hand up to the rifle that was hanging over his shoulder.
 
He tried to find words. "Actually -"
 
"- we were brother in arms", Kimura completed the sentence.
 
Mai giggled. "You hugged each other? You were a couple? Did you kiss?"
 
Griffin exploded a little. "No you stupid. Arms means rifles. - Sometimes." He took it from his shoulder and put it under Mai's nose.
 
Kimura gave further explanation: "We fought together on the battlefield at some occasions. I saved his life. He saved mine."
 
"That was quite a while ago. But I guess you aren't here to warm up old stories. For whom are you currently working. The Syndicate?"
 
"I'm kind of my own master. My organization is rather an independent branch."
 
"A branch. Heh. That makes it still Syndicate. And I'm TCTF."
 
"Terrance, do you have to arrest your old friend now?"
 
"I don't know. Do I have to, Kimura?"
 
"Nah. There‘s no need to ruin this wonderful trip ... ", Kimura needed a moment to recall, "... of Jacob Flodström and his grand daughter Johanna Flodström."
 
"Hey, he knows our made-up names." Mai stated the obvious.
 
"Why don't we continue the talk at your warm blockhouse?"
 
"What, are you freezing your ass off in your synthetic clothes?"
 
Kimura laughed. "Yes."
 
"Do you wear weapons."
 
"I told you I'm on vacations, too. ... No, I don't."
 
"Fine, you go first."
 
"You are not showing me the way?"
 
"You said block house. You know very well where it is."
 
The three started to move entering the forest again.
 
"Though I may be Syndicate I agree little on their grant plans or agenda."
 
"Aha, is that so?" The tone of sarcastic disbelieve could be heard from Griffin's mouth all too well.
 
"They are maniacs. Organized maniacs", replied Kimura.
 
"Funny that you say this, I actually believe I have a prime example right here."
 
Kimura ignored the provocation. "Look beyond your horizon, Griffin. While the Syndicate is all around and growing, the WCG justifies their own existence by fighting them. But while they do they also tighten their grip on just everything."
 
"Since when do you care?"
 
"You could say I belong to the eyes of the Syndicate – to monitor everything. So I monitor the whole world. And I began to not like what I see."
 
[Possible fine-tuning: In order to let the reader feel closer connected to the plot the previous chapters should contain the topics Kimura mentions in his summary of a misaligned WCG.]
 
"For all these years the WCG continued to polarized the masses. Either you are for them or you are collaborator of evil. Neutrality for whatever good reason is seen with #suspicion. No space for critics or independent thinkers. The political climate got poisonous – just like the soil and air around us. Instead there is controlled media, pool reporting. [Bioc Inc.] Controlled internet. [3D printing] Controlled science. - Think of it, they started to build science prisons all over the world. Physical prisons of our intellects. - And of course they controlled the economy. – The civilians who try to duck and hide from all this mess form [[wikipedia:Biedermeier#Current_usage|Biedermeier-ish]] bubble communities [Daya's parents], dive into distraction, consumption and addictions which – by the way – is provided complementary by WCG and Syndicate products. But even when the these people realize what is going on they don't act. A true, meaningful development of our lives basically doesn't happen anymore."
 
They passed the hill's top. The house came into view. It was still about 100 meters away. There were two pickups, a blue and a gray one. Kimura finished his monologue.
 
"This society has put itself under arrest."
 
"Tss. Really?" Griffin bluffed at his unwanted visitor.
 
"What?" Kimura followed the commander's line of sight.
 
"It's not a crime to park right next to you. Unlike that is this unholy situation of Syndicate and the gov. Admit it Griffin, you feel the same."
 
"Heh. Nobody is happy about the overall situation. But it's not like there is a god damn conspiracy. I know there are quite a bunch of people – or as you call them, independent thinkers – who believe this. But there is no such thing. I don't see what you are purposing with all your talk. – Cut it out already, what do you want?"
 
"Very well, straight to the point. I'm putting together a team of special people to do some cleanup. To normalize things. I don't expect you to join us. But I could need the abilities of your trainee. I heard she is awful talented."
 
Griffin stopped walking and signaled to Mai to do so too.
 
"Not happening."
 
Kimura turned around.
 
"Why not?"
 
Griffin was rising the hunting rifle aiming at Kimura. "You are a full-fledged killer. A psychopath. You must be crazier than I thought that you believe I would agree on such nonsense."
 
"Oh please, as if you weren't a full-fledged killer."
 
"I'm not."
 
"Hahaha. Yes you are. You are a hunter. You are a soldier. You kill. You ARE a killer. And talk about crazyness, look at that partnership with Taka. You can't say that's not crazy. Do you actually know about him? How tied the other Yakuza to his bidding?"
 
Kimura smirked. [Kimura knows this because it was Taka who tasked him to come up with means to control them.]
 
Griffin tried to find words. "He is a controlled threat. We made a deal. A fricking deal – to live and let live. So don't compare me with you. I don't dig holes all day long at deserted places to bury the poor devils who had the unfortunate fate to cross your path."
 
"Ya, Griffin, you aren't digging graves yet. But I swear you – with all the shit that is going on at your place – that day is coming closer. Taka will betray you one day. YOU can try to repress these thoughts but HE has no other choice. On the long run you are going to lose this fight."
 
Kimura glanced at Mai. "Don't drag her down along with you."
 
"As if. The Syndicate tried to get rid of me a dozen times. And here I am."
 
Kimura grimaced in a sober way. He hadn't reached anything using words.
 
His wrist gadget was lighting up, flashing red and white.
 
"Ha, we will see about that. Looks like your arrogance made you careless."
 
"So you think, jackass." Griffin presented him a middle finger.
 
Muffled screaming of metal blade rushed trough the air.
 
Mai looked up to a heavy armored helicopter at the distance quickly coming closer.
 
"If these are the real bad guys shouldn't we move?"
 
Griffin still tried to pierce Kimura with his eyes but the himself neutral declared assassin had little interest posing an easy target for the new approaching threat.
 
"I think we can agree at least on this one."
 
Just as he said that the three started to race down the hill.
 
"As if this is a coincidence", Griffin mumbled to himself but on purpose loud enough Kimura could hear him.
 
"I ensure you they aren't my men. Otherwise I wouldn't be running."
 
"You may leave us anytime." Griffin changed his focus. "Mai! Get into the house!"
 
Griffin threw the rifle over his should to free his arm gadget from glove and sleeve.
 
Kimura departed somewhat sideways but still near enough to end up at the house.
 
Six capsules from the helicopter were dropped onto the snow covered forest street. They turned out to be octa-copter drones and two men with tank-piercing sniper rifles.
 
"Where are going, Kimura?"
 
"I will not run into the forest getting shot in the back. No thanks."
 
"Don't worry, I can't afford a bullet for you."
 
Kimura smirked. "Ya, don't waste your ammo on me. Although, I doubt your toy rifle can even scratch me."
 
"Time then to ramp things up." Griffin had finally freed his wrist gadget to speak into it. "Activate defense parameter."
 
Metal discuses of the size of half a meter were popping up out of the snow. Spiky legs unfolded and lifted the constructions.
 
Mai stopped her run. One of the robots were right in front of her at the door. It looked down into her eyes. The gatling gun was aiming at her. She stepped backwards.
 
"Nice spiders pods. GATC tech?" Kimura said with no sign of tension.
 
"Fuck off Kimura. They are not programmed to spare you", Griffin shouted at him.
 
"But neither are they to attack unarmed civilian. Right?"
 
Griffin voice was grim. "I wouldn't bet on it."
 
While they kept running more and more trees were blocking Griffin's and Kimura's view of each other.
 
The first series of bullets missed them and hit the house. Snow dust from the roof was falling off. Glass of windows was pierced.
 
Griffin dodged and continued to run ducked in direction of the door.
 
Mai was still ten seconds between him and the house.
 
"Mai! Run! Run into the house!"
 
Mai looked in panic forth and back.
 
The armed drones were flying to surround the place. At the same time they were shooting through the tree tops.
 
A new series of bullets were hitting the ground. One projectile went through her leg. She fell to the ground. The snow started to turn red.
 
Griffin slided to Mai. He grabbed her at the neck and the legs and rushed through the wooden door.
 
The spider behind them which had made Mai a frozen statue before got pierced by a rain of bullets.
 
"So much about a warm welcome." Kimura put on his hood. As he turned away his jacket changed colors to snow white making him slowing disappear from everyone's view.
 
The spiders began to spreed out and take down the flying drones.
 
Kimura watched the scene lurking from a staple of logged wood.
 
After a while the spiders had shot down all drones.
 
"Hm, that was fast", he mumbled to himself.
 
Just a moment later individual shots from long distance were decimating Griffin's metallic guards.
 
Kimura took a small google device from his pockets.
 
He scanned the area in thermo vision. But behind the burning wracks he couldn't see anything meaningful when a bullet went through the logs just a few centimeters near him. They had spotted him as well. His camouflage was useless.
 
"Hmpf." Kimura quickly sneaked out of the logs going behind the house. In a last moment of unhindered view he saw how Griffin's last three spiders retreated through the door. They almost got stuck in the frame.
 
Kimura punched a window and jumped through. He just dodged to evade another shot from the inside.
 
"Afraid of my toy rifle, Mr. Super Ninja?"
 
Griffin was standing in front of him. The rifle was still smoking from the shot.
 
"What the hell you are still doing here?"
 
"It's too late. It's us versus them now."
 
A bullet from the outside was hitting Kimura through the walls into his shoulder. "Gahhhh."
 
"You idiot." Griffin grabbed Kimura at the other arm and pulled him into the next room. It was the kitchen that served also as living room. Next to staple of logs and a fire pit of the chimney there was a hutch in the floor. A staircase led into a storage room.
 
Griffin closed the hutch above their heads. "Try to stay calm, don't make any loud noises."
 
Kimura felt offended. "Ey-"
 
Mai was screaming from behind. "My leg hurts! It hurts so bad!"
 
"Stay calm, Mai. We will fix you up." Griffin searched the walls to for a first-aid kit.
 
Kimura pressed his hand onto his wounded shoulder. Then he realized it was bullet had gone fully through. He sat down to the wall and drew a data pad from his many pockets. No connection to the outside world. Their enemies were jamming the frequencies.
 
Griffin went back to him. "There's no dressing nor meds in this room and I can't get up in the kitchen anymore. Can you provide anything useful?"
 
"I've a toxin to put her to sleep for some time. It's integrated into my suit. You have to make some space."
 
A fiber appeared from Kimura's suit and stung Mai. Soon her whining ended, she had fallen asleep.
 
"Can't her Daodan heal her?", Kimura asked.
 
Griffin painfully realized Kimura knew Mai's true value. He buried his head. "Uhh..." It was useless to think about it. He looked up again. "No, the new biomass ... It's not very advanced yet."
 
Griffin saw down to Mai. "We must stop the bleeding."
 
"So must I", Kimura replied and sat down again.
 
Griffin disassembled an old generator for cables and an inductor. Meanwhile Kimura opened a white box, took a tube and cut off a piece in length of a thumb tip. He hold it near his own wound at the shoulder. The fibers of his suit begun to take it. The bio-compatible tube was placed into the flesh to reestablish blood flow of a destroyed artery.
 
"This suit is [BGI] military tech, 5 years away from anything that is in the TCTF labs. Our affiliated mercs are really hyped on upgrading their arsenal with these now."
 
Griffin gave it a short glance and focused on his own work again.
 
"Not impressed, hm? I forgot, you are a GATC man too. They must have their own cutting edge tech that I don't know about," Kimura concluded.
 
Griffin connected an energy cell to the inductor. It did nothing but to smoked a bit. Kimura gave it two more cells. The cable turned red from the heat. Griffin went over to Mai. He burnt the wound to close it.
 
Griffin connected an energy cell to the inductor. It did nothing but to smoked a bit. Kimura gave it two more cells. The cable turned red from the heat. Griffin went over to Mai. He burnt the wound to close it.
 
[Night fell and the moon was bright, in the old age this was a good time for hunting. But could they reverse the situation? They combined the sensors of the remaining Spiders and Kimura's "pickup". They dissembled the weapon from the Spider that couldn't walk anymore. After an attack during midnight the Spider's were destroyed and Kimura had disappeared. One sniper felt safe enough to enter the house.]
 
(...)
 
Griffin shot one through the floor.
 
(...)
 
Kimura used the trees to quickly move around. His shoes had spikes that pierce into the bark. At the same time the trees started to glow in a horizontal white lines as if someone had walked around them with a special paint. Laser-induced fluorescence. The invisible beams where emitted from the pickup. Kimura actually meant to distract the Spider sensors with the lights. He used the distraction to jump forward. His suit was in fact an exoskeleton that boosted this muscle power.
Kimura was flying though the air like an arrow. At the last tree he grabbed the wood to change his direction. In midair he rolled over the sniper's shoulder. When the armed man tried to take aim Kimura's fibers were stinging him at the neck just to roll behind a glowing tree a split second later. Kimura needed to wait for the drug to take affect. Bullets went through the massive wood. Kimura was lying flat on the ground. Finally he heard a thud. Kimura took the rifle when the helicopter appeared above him. In the next moment the pickup transformed to fired at the helicopter. The pilot decided to move out of range before he took too much damage.
 
(...)
 
Kimura had scared off the helicopter with his anti-tank rifle that he had hiding in the pickup, or more exactly as part of it. He had driven off to catch Griffin by taking a detour over the streets.
 
The merc who had fallen into the storage room was revived by this suit. He crawled back into the kitchen. He quickly orientated himself and chased after Griffin's footprint that were still glowing in termo vision. The man had to be quick. Griffin had to carry Mai but he also had an advance of an hour.
 
(...)
 
Finally Griffin got into view just when he entered more free space. It was a frozen lake. Without concern he went on when he heard noises from behind.
 
The other man had run after the commander without getting noticed up to the last meters.
 
Mai mumbled from behind.
 
"Terrance!"
 
He turned around. In a blink of an eye he had to react. By the tackle both men crashed onto the ice. Mai tried to free herself from the improvised litter. But to no avail.
 
Punches were exchange. Griffin nose was clearly broken, a tooth was broken out. Blood streamed over from his nose and mouth, dripping into the snow. Griffin went down.
 
The other man took his knife to finish the commander for good.
 
The sound of a shot rolled through the air.
 
Mai was still bound to the litter but she had snatched the hunting rifle. She had hit the aggressor into the back.
 
It had little effect. Their foe was wearing a bullet proof suit.
 
He had became just angrier and readied up to murder Mai first.
 
Griffin had gotten up again. He swiped the other man's legs making him crash with the back onto the ice.
 
The commander kicked the knife away and stumped onto the man.
 
They both broke through the ice.
 
Griffin kept kicking. His foe got beneath the intact ice layer and tried to dive back. But Griffin kicked him against the head. Again, again and again. Eventually the mercenary run out of air and stopped fighting. He slowly drifted beneath the snow covered ice layer out of view.
 
Griffin managed to crawl out of the water.
 
When Mai realized that the threat had gone she collapsed losing the grip on the rifle.
 
Griffin threw a look at her and then at the hole in the ice again, assuring himself that the merc had been neutralized.
 
Under heavy breathing he looked down to himself. He was soaked with cold water. The wind was increasing in speed. He looked up the sky. Dense snowfall started to hinder the view.
 
If they didn't reached civilization soon they would both freeze to death.
 
Griffin stepped closer to Mai. But then he heard the helicopter again. They couldn't hide anywhere, it was a free space, just grassland and the lake. He was totally exhausted. They would not escape this time.
 
Kimura was on the highway when he spotted the armored helicopter again.
 
"Flying piece of junk."
 
The heli slowed down to aim at Griffin with the gatling.
 
Kimura let transform the backside of his pickup again. The giant anti-tank cannon appeared.
Kimura aimed at the main rotor and fired.
 
A moment later the heli failed to hit Griffin as it had knocked sideways. The machine had lost its rotor and crashed burning onto the frozen lake just to sink in it completely.
 
Kimura watched the scene through his scope and spotted Griffin.
 
He increased the zoom to fully see the commander's face. He pulled the trigger.
 
Nothing happened.
 
He was out of ammo.
 
The screens inside the pickup showed new TCTF and GATC activities in the area. Reinforcement was on their way.
 
Kimura imagined how much time he would need. He would had to enter the deeply snowed fields by feet, kill Griffin and get through the snow another time dragging Mai along back to the street. It was tempting but he simply had not that much time. Griffin's reinforcement would just have reached him when he was back at the street.
 
Kimura smirked. He let transform the big rifle back into the pickup and drove away.
 
Griffin shouted into his wraist gadget trying to get a GATC member but the device was damaged. There was only glitches and noise.
 
Currently there was no enemy in sight but new ones could appear any moment. Griffin was not in the condition to take the risk and wait for help.
 
He took the litter again to pull Mai with him into the next village. It was still five kilometers away, placed in a shallow valley.
 
The snow got deeper and deeper.
 
(...)
 
Griffins feet had turned blue, the cells had died from the coldness. The doctors told him that they have to amputate them.
 
[This one line was the "goal" for this chapter with the consequece that Kimura gets to know Griffin's fate and respects him for "having Mai dragged along". 
 
Aftermath Kimura.
 
Kimura's AI had looked up the bounty for Griffin. More interesting than the money were the details of the order order.
 
Subboss Kumo had allowed collateral damage for this mission. Kimura had been serious danger. He could have been shot in "friendly fire" if more mercs had been hunting Griffin.
 
Kimura: "Kumo, you're starting to piss me off."
 
From this day on Kimura doesn't care any longer about any Syndicate fellows - only Sturmanderung is important to him?]
 
Aftermath Maria.
 
The commander used his connections to get regenerative treatment for his dead feet. Something Maria noticed as stemcell treatments are strongly regulated by WCG.
 
Also when the two got back to HQ Mai "jokes" that she made her reindeer jacket herself until Griffin gives her a push to tell Maria that she really meant it as a joke which of course wasn't.
 
Maria had some questions... After the crazy trip Griffin could only laugh about her verbal provocation.]
 
Maria: "She is a child."
 
Griffin: "She is a black project, a potential bio weapon. If she were not we wouldn't have that conservation right now, you you wouldn't be even here. You better remember from now on what she is. If you cant fullfil your duty I've to find someone else for the job."
 
Alternative lines: "This fact is not under discussion. The board of TCTF directors and the sci staff have made that decision years ago. Your protest will change not one bit."
 
[Grffin talks with Tracy? (Move the little text before Yakuza beat up?)]
 
[
 
Plot twist: The bio safety concerns aren't real. It's just on paper.
 
If the Daodan was contagious Muro would contaminate the ecosystem no matter what happened to Mai. The trip into the north for indoc was removed from all databases. The WCG was agreeing on Griffin's actions - from the very beginning.)
 
Maria's presence is actually not needed. Griffin's and Tracy's talk are fake to trick the Syndicate? Griffin simply "agrees" on the bio safety thing to keep Mai away from the streets making it easier to "educate" her and to keep her existance a secret? Maria realizes she has no power at all. Griffin uses her to find possible Syndicate moles. When Maria is of no more use she is send back to Green Village. Maria is disillusionated. "The true abuse of technology begins and ends with the TCTF." [Echo of the game manual.]
 
]
 
 
 
==Pest control (assassination plans for Muro)==
Griffin's comrads at GATC establish taskforce "Z" and hunt down Muro.
 
Muro gets wounded.
 
Kimura ramps up security.
 
 
==Corruption of Hasegawa by Kimura / Sturmänderung==
[New lab.
 
Kimura long-term plan was to get Kerr and Mai. But monitoring and ''managing'' the doctors (Hasegawa and Pensatore) and the overall situation required his full attention. With the boys around (Muro, Ryu, Tomo, others ''spare part candidates'') Kimura needs another helper for Sturmanderung. This triggeres the construction of ego hybrida "Mukade" in a later chapter.
 
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.]
 
[Muro was wounded, Kimura talks to him.]
 
"The world hates you, Muro." [Kimura referring to the Z group when they tried to assassinate him.]
 
[Kimura made sure of that by forcing Griffin to believe the Syndicate or even himself had Muro and in turn the commander had to establish means to counter Muro. Actually, he had provided Griffin no new information, just confirmed the suspicions the commander already had. Also, Griffin's Z group could be be Kimura's own reinsurance to "killswitch" Muro if he couldn't reach him anymore – no matter what he tells Hasegawa.]
 
 
 
Hasegawa, Pensatore and Kimura's holographic avatar were standing in a triangle. As if it was a meeting of equally ranked people. But they were not. Not even close. The doctors were prisoners just allowed to live on because of their expertise. Up to the day when Kimura wouldn't need them anymore. Yet, Pensatore tried also to talk sense into his future killer. The desperate chance to cancel the batshit insane plan that had been set into motion years ago.
 
"If the Daodan is so powerful as you say there is no way in foreseeing how the boy's psych will evolve. You plan to let him control the entire Syndicate one day. The entire – god – damn – Syndicate. Just one question: What happens if he carries out Sturmänderung not the way you intended it to be – or simply sinks the world into chaos for funzies. You may say you act for the greater good. Yet if all hell breaks lose you won't have accomplished anything. You will stand in the ashes of your so carefully crafted plans. You will have doomed us all."
 
Hasegawa was by heart more bound the project than his colleague. "Look around you Pensatore. We are already doomed [remove/change this if unfitting, look up "doom" word in Oni1 dialogues].
 
Kimura: "No, no, let me answer this James. - First of, I don't write my plans on inflammable things such paper anymore. And second. What are you suggesting? That I should add a kill switch to the project? To simply dispose the boy when something goes wrong?"
 
Hasegawa was looking nervously to Kimura. Would he soon witness the death of own son, executed by this monster?
 
For a moment Kimura laid his hand on Hasegawa shoulder. While doing so he focused all the time on Pensatore, creating the illusion of this being a casual reaction.
 
"No, we will not. Considering and eventually putting Muro at the front-line was no easy step for this man. Muro may be some sort of human sacrifice [to the world]. But because of this very reason we will not simply write him off should things get complicated. Whether he is aware of it right now or not – Muro had received an enormous gift from us and your own ##miracially creation, Avatara. Muro bears the nature of a new mankind within. We own him to support him all the way we can. Hasegawa has realized not only his potential but also his importance of the gruesome roll he has to play out. Sure, this will be all ugly. But we, as his guardians, will continue to watch over him and with all our support he will not fail."
 
Kimura ended in an angry tone, baring his teeth. "I'm terrible sorry if you lack the faith and the courage for this mission."
 
(...)
 
Pensatore: "You know, he's just using you."
 
"He is using me? Yea maybe, well, ... certainly. But ... if he is using me to truly transform this world..." There was a bitter expression on his face. "... then why I shouldn't let him?"
 
[I always wondered how Hasegawa could agree on sacrificing Muro...]
 
Hasegawa took out a photo of Jamie and looked at her long blond hair, her soft face with the little lovely freckles, the deep, clear, green eyes. Those that had been so eager for new knowledge until that fateful day. Hasegawa noticed how looking at the image was only going to make him break out into tears again. He took the photo away and looked down through the window of the medical station where Muro's wounds was treated. [From the Z attack.]
 
"I will not ... give up. Not on the world that killed Jamie. And not on Muro who has to live in it."
 
He closed the eyes and let his forehead rest against the glass.
 
"I wished I could do it myself but I can't. - If I can only be a tool to pave the path of my son then so be it."
 
Hasegawa put the hand flat on the glass as if he was precautionary trying to reach Muro.
 
"After the day of the storm our real fight will begin. He will be the devil having done countless crimes. But those will be mine. I will make him realize he was necessary the way he is but that with the Chrysalis he can change yet another time. I will make him realize that there is also the good to fight for. (I will never give up on him)."
 
Kimura was watching the scene from some distance.
 
"If he hadn't made it such a theatric speech I would almost have pity for him."
 
What really mattered to Kimura he finally knew Hasegawa was ready for Sturmänderung.
 
---------------
 
[Since Muro was the only Daodan host they had Kimura looked for spare part material.
Introduction of Ryu and Tomo.]
 
 
 
 
 
==Mai fake OP (Maria, Kerr fool Griffin)==
Kerr could have destroyed the Daodan. No. The Syndicate was on their track. They would either kill them or imprison them.
The Daodan was their proof that they needed help from the TCTF.
 
"The TCTF must be better [than the Syndicate]. If they are not, we should fix it."
 
"Please watch your tone, Kerr."
 
 
--
 
"Geez, Kerr, I had to tell her something. [Vitamin injection?] What do you want?"
 
"We have to treat her the best way we can." (fake op)
 
"Why?"
 
Kerr took the sytropin injector and hold it in Carsons face.
 
"Because she is a god damn human guinea pig." [Check back on timeline]
 
 
==Sytropin and food control==
[Daodan growth get suppressed.]
 
 
 
==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==




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==Kumo==
==Kumo==
[sends killers after Griffin, Takahashi saves him]
[sends more killers after Griffin, Takahashi saves him]


[revelation that the Yakuza protect Griffin]
[revelation that the Yakuza protects Griffin]




==Griffin, Mai and the reindeer (indoc)==


==Victor==
Griffin plans to replace Kumo with Victor. (Kimura ignores Grfiifin coup since Kumo might have wanted to kill him in the north?)


==Victor==
In return Victor is supposed ignore Neo-Tokio and therefor Griffin.
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 operation to.  


The plan requires Kumo to be put into a weaker position first.


So Griffin takes Mai to a flase-flag operation to.  
==Vendret==
Griffin and Mai execute Kumo's financial administrators in their own house.


A Syndicate "Controller" is in the area and checks on the triggered alarm.


==Vendret==
After Vendret saves Daya from the burning house, she successfully defends Kumo from Victor's attack.
After Vendret saves Daya from the burning house, she successfully defends Kumo from Victor's attack.
Kumo decides to ignore Griffin until he has strengthed his position within the Syndicate again. (Until chapter "A matter of trust"?)




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==An unlikely symbiosis==
Nobu wants the Yakuza down. Griffin "imprisons" (safes) Taka when the Yakuza try to betray him. In the prison Taka is safe and survives a cleansing wave. When everything is over Taka is back and pretends to continue to work with Griffin but betrays him later - just as Kimura had predicted - when Kumo visits Taka.
Showdown of Griffin and Kimura. In a fight they talk about Griffin's motivation to life in Japan.
The cleansing of Syndicate/Yakuza needed national thinking, national politicians, national boarders. And knowledge of regional culture.
This was Griffin's "Japan experiment", to proof that the influence of the Syndicate could be broken step by step by hard work. If successful he would propagandize this for USA. The important note for KImura is that Griffin could be an alternative if Sturmanderung fails.
(Traton, Puppetmast tech (revival of tech Griffin had been hiding years ago), GATC tech v2, review RS notes.)
After Griffin has revealed his plan to Kimura, he decides to spare the Commander, saying only one word.
"Interesting."
(These are fragments. Nothing final.)




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