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Apparently the notion of "latency" is closer to [[wp: | Apparently the notion of "latency" is closer to [[wp:Virus latency]] (i.e. the attribute of a dormant, inactive state, and the opposite of "patency"), rather than the more common usage where "latency" means delay or lag (that's the meaning it has in engineering and telecommunications). In Oni, a "latent" Chrysalis is ''not'' one that runs out of "bandwidth"/"framerate" and therefore starts lagging and glitching. Instead the figures of 27.1 and 29 quoted by the scientists correspond to a kind of "inverse scale": more like an "anomaly level", and a "distance to full latency", than a measure of latency itself. | ||
In other words, latency can be seen as a "zero state". A "fully latent" Konoko is one whose Chrysalis lays low and doesn't manifest itself. It is natural to describe these "calm" situations with a low range of values, and reserve high values for a dangerous/uncharted range. However, the phenomenon, and the quantity describing it, is still called "latency", because the "other end" is completely non-descript and ominous (we have no way of knowing what a "fully non-latent" Chrysalis is like and, you know what, let's not even think about it). | In other words, latency can be seen as a "zero state". A "fully latent" Konoko is one whose Chrysalis lays low and doesn't manifest itself. It is natural to describe these "calm" situations with a low range of values, and reserve high values for a dangerous/uncharted range. However, the phenomenon, and the quantity describing it, is still called "latency", because the "other end" is completely non-descript and ominous (we have no way of knowing what a "fully non-latent" Chrysalis is like and, you know what, let's not even think about it). | ||
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The only mention of this stage by name is in [[Quotes/Objectives#Chapter_14_:_DAWN_OF_THE_CHRYSALIS|the last chapter's objectives]]. | The only mention of this stage by name is in [[Quotes/Objectives#Chapter_14_:_DAWN_OF_THE_CHRYSALIS|the last chapter's objectives]]. | ||
Wikipedia [[wikipedia:Imago|defines]] "Imago" as the "last stage of development of an insect", the completion of a metamorphosis; in other words, the adult stage. There also exists a [[wikipedia: | Wikipedia [[wikipedia:Imago|defines]] "Imago" as the "last stage of development of an insect", the completion of a metamorphosis; in other words, the adult stage. There also exists a [[wikipedia:Subimago|sub-Imago]] stage in one order of insects -- mayflies. | ||
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Nanotechnological medecine, in cyberpunk and such, often features smart, hyperminiaturized robots that deal with diseases at cell level. Those robots, however, are specialized for a specific type of activity, as they are, from A to Z, the product of human designers and engineers. | Nanotechnological medecine, in cyberpunk and such, often features smart, hyperminiaturized robots that deal with diseases at cell level. Those robots, however, are specialized for a specific type of activity, as they are, from A to Z, the product of human designers and engineers. | ||
The Daodan is essentially different in that it is 100% biological : it's even different from 3rd-party grafts and implants, because the tissue is originally that of the host himself. That, and the fact that both tissues ''do'' end up very different, makes the Daodan readily identifiable as an extreme form of [[wikipedia: | The Daodan is essentially different in that it is 100% biological : it's even different from 3rd-party grafts and implants, because the tissue is originally that of the host himself. That, and the fact that both tissues ''do'' end up very different, makes the Daodan readily identifiable as an extreme form of [[wikipedia:Cancer|cancer]]. Basically, the Chrysalises implanted to Muro and Mai were comparable to ''tumors'' (aggregates of cancer cells), and the different growth processes occuring then are equivalent to direct invasion and metastasis. | ||
Cancer disrupts the fundamental equilibrium between cell division and cell death, and thus affects the organism's integrity. The Daodan does pretty much the same (note the connection of the aforementioned equilibrium to the "stability" of a host/[[Daodan]] "symbiote"). However, the initial mutation isn't random, and the process is considerably different from a proliferation of tumors, and does not result in death the way regular cancer does. | Cancer disrupts the fundamental equilibrium between cell division and cell death, and thus affects the organism's integrity. The Daodan does pretty much the same (note the connection of the aforementioned equilibrium to the "stability" of a host/[[Daodan]] "symbiote"). However, the initial mutation isn't random, and the process is considerably different from a proliferation of tumors, and does not result in death the way regular cancer does. | ||