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In his experiments with Screamer-proof tumorous clusters, Hasegawa was pulling ("fishing") Screamers from the Phase using a standard "phase hook" (a device that may have looked like the otherwise unused "RF_electrode" mesh from '''level0_Tools'''). One day, the parameters for the hook were messed up (or maybe the hook was getting old and rusty, and ended up malfunctioning). Either way, instead of a Screamer, a completely different entity came through from the Phase, "bit" at Hasegawa's tissue sample, and seemingly disappeared. | In his experiments with Screamer-proof tumorous clusters, Hasegawa was pulling ("fishing") Screamers from the Phase using a standard "phase hook" (a device that may have looked like the otherwise unused "RF_electrode" mesh from '''level0_Tools'''). One day, the parameters for the hook were messed up (or maybe the hook was getting old and rusty, and ended up malfunctioning). Either way, instead of a Screamer, a completely different entity came through from the Phase, "bit" at Hasegawa's tissue sample, and seemingly disappeared. | ||
The amazing properties of this new entity became clear immediately: the sample | The amazing properties of this new entity became clear immediately: the sample didsn't die from energy draining (or died a ''lot'' slower than usual); in fact the cells looked healthy and started dividing/mutating, even without a [[wp:Growth medium|growth medium]] (!); the mutant cells were able to infiltrate/assimilate other cells from the same organism; they resisted surgery; if extended to larger samples, they inexplicably enhanced the original while preserving its integrity. | ||
Of course it's a very sensitive process and a lot of things can go wrong, but the discovery of the new entity was a breakthrough nonetheless. At the core of the phenomenon, cell-sized "phase hooks" (transdimensional portals) allow a direct inflow of energy from the Phase into every affected cell. More importantly, the (sentient?) aura of energy somehow coordinates the growth and retasking of tumorous cells so that, instead of being devoured, healthy/unaffected tissue is "adopted, adapted and improved". | Of course it's a very sensitive process and a lot of things can go wrong, but the discovery of the new entity was a breakthrough nonetheless. At the core of the phenomenon, cell-sized "phase hooks" (transdimensional portals) allow a direct inflow of energy from the Phase into every affected cell. More importantly, the (sentient?) aura of energy somehow coordinates the growth and retasking of tumorous cells so that, instead of being devoured, healthy/unaffected tissue is "adopted, adapted and improved". | ||
It is unclear how the entity can have such a deep "understanding" of the host organism, being able to react to any threat (energy drain, physical damage, pathogens) without compromising the host's integrity. The term '''"hyperevolution"''' is coined, "as if" the entity was able to able to project the instantaneous threat into a lifetime of evolutionary experimentation/experience, identify/compute the "fittest" response and (somehow) immediately implement and apply it. Something like an ageless "phase god" (or demon) that knows life inside and out, and doesn't mind answering support calls. | It is unclear how the entity can have such a deep "understanding" of the host organism, being able to react to any threat (energy drain, physical damage, pathogens) without compromising the host's integrity. The term '''"hyperevolution"''' is coined, "as if" the entity was able to able to project the instantaneous threat into a lifetime of evolutionary experimentation/experience, identify/compute the "fittest" response and (somehow) immediately implement and apply it. Something like an ageless "phase god" (or demon) that knows life (and death) inside and out, and doesn't mind answering support calls. | ||
"Latency" is introduced as a measure of the mysterious entity "lying low" and "acting normal". The term "Chrysalis" is also coined at this point. Assuming that the mysterious entity not only "reinforces and replaces" the host's damaged systems, but also works towards the expression of the host's "true nature", it is conceptually clear that the "true nature" of the host is gradually redefined and shifted towards a different level of humanity. A host's bodily envelope, visually unchanged, is like a chrysalis or cocoon inside which deep transformations occur. | "Latency" is introduced as a measure of the mysterious entity "lying low" and "acting normal". The term "Chrysalis" is also coined at this point. Assuming that the mysterious entity not only "reinforces and replaces" the host's damaged systems, but also works towards the expression of the host's "true nature", it is conceptually clear that the "true nature" of the host is gradually redefined and shifted towards a different level of humanity. A host's bodily envelope, visually unchanged, is like a chrysalis or cocoon inside which deep transformations occur. | ||
Once the process is complete, a new creature may emerge (metaphorically?) from the Chrysalis: an Imago (Butterfly? We Do Not Know). A fully upgraded (exalted?) human being could also be termed "numan" or "newman" (portmanteau or "new/nu" and "human"), although it is not clear how much humanity a "symbiote" would retain eventually -- whenever "eventually" | Once the process is complete, a new creature may emerge (metaphorically?) from the Chrysalis: an Imago (Butterfly? We Do Not Know). A fully upgraded (exalted?) human being could also be termed "numan" or "newman" (portmanteau or "new/nu" and "human"), although it is not clear how much humanity a "symbiote" would retain eventually -- whenever that "eventually" would take place (is there really an "end" to the process?). | ||
:''"...final evolutionary stage: what form that might take, and what the presence of such a creature might portend for humanity we cannot know." | :''"...final evolutionary stage: what form that might take, and what the presence of such a creature might portend for humanity we cannot know." | ||