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==Daodan Chrysalis==

===Origin===

====Naming====

:07_26_06 Scientist: [...] You should have seen that '''monster [Barabas]''' that grabbed Shinatama!

:13_65_34 Konoko: '''Muro and his men. They're monsters'''... What am I?

:14_54_21 Konoko: Ashamed of myself? '''Griffin made me a monster''' when I was 07 years old [...]

Paradox-01: Daodan Chrysalis, 道段蛹

* The Daodan has some sort of own intelligence.

* The Daodan gives rise to something new based on the old.

* Hasegawa invented the Daodan to bring change to the current system. (Sturmanderung [sic!])

* The Daodan has the power affect all systems: mind, body and state.

* While geyser and I often tend to agree little on things our fierce discussions (pit fights, figuratively) can sharpen our view for our own visions. And in the end it is even possible that different interpretations add together to a greater picture. It's like a symbiotic relationship - although painfully often it is not. But for Daodan story pieces I do think that we greatly complete each other.

* There could be some talk between Feng and Blake discussing the Kanji writing of Daodan, solving a possible "cultural confusion".

* Despite Griffin's age he is still a very capable fighter and Konoko called him Monster in one scenario so there is a little bit of a suspicion that also Griffin has a Daodan. This is a very improbable case but if so a Daodan might have been implanted just recently.

The different interpretations will be probably conciliated like this:

====BioCrisis====

What led to the catastrophe was horizontal gene transfers with secondary symbionts that occurred naturally.

In the new fungal hosts, the decontamination codes had enough time to experience mutations which replaced the artificial amino acids. The mutation rate was quite high due to the radioactivity of the test sites.

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'''MURDER OR MERCY ?'''

: And there are a lot of [[wp:Autonomic_nervous_system#Sensory_neurons|neurons in the human body]]. So it became more and more clear that restricting an intelligence to just certain brain cells was far from satisfactory.

: After they had a full body simulation up and running, the next step was to educate the AI and let it control a body in the physical world.

: In case of the Network, they don't steal and sell jewelry, but prohibited technology.

: With increasing computing power, reverse engineering fit nicely into their business strategy.

Pensatore: "Usually revolutions turn out to be quite bloody. Many people will die in the chaos. From a scientist, I would expect a more ethical suggestion."

"And you believe we are in such a situation? Certainly, the WCG isn't the optimal solution, but this is a bit too much in my opinion. -- What do you have in mind? Do you want as a geneticist to make a biological intervention that takes away all of the control humans have wrested from mother nature in the last [[wp:Control_of_fire_by_early_humans|125,000 years]]?"

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Nach Gründung der WCG, ließ sie ihre Wissenschaftler Pläne entwickeln um die nukleare Kontamination zu beseitigen. - Damit sollten WCG-kritische Stimmen besänftigt werden, die die neue Weltordnung als überflüssig und ungerechtfertig ansahen. Man wollte angeblich zeigen wozu einzelne Staaten nicht im Stande gewesen waren. - Die Lösung war eine künstliche Symbiose aus Pilzen und Pflanzen. Diese [[wp:DE:Mykorrhiza|Mykorrhiza]] war dazu gedacht die radioaktiven Isotope zu absorbieren und sie in einer Art Nuss aufzubewahren. Dronen sollten diese ernten. --><!-- NipponBiotec --> <!--Die Hülle war hart und enthielt Bitterstoffe, sodass Tiere diese Nüsse nicht fressen. Pilz und Pflanze waren unfähig sich auszubreiten weil ihre Zellen, einschließlich DNA und möglicher Mutationen, sich [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140404140403.htm nach einem Jahr auflösten.] Die zeitliche Kontrolle war wichtig weil die Mykorrhiza nicht nur das obere Erdreich säuber würde sonder auch ganze Wiesen und Wälder um alle Radionuklide in nicht-tierischen Organismen zu sammlen. Die Entwicklung wurde durch [[wp:de:In_silico|in silico Tests]], also Computersimulationen, beschleunigt, die die Mykorrhiza-Genome auf kritische Mutationen hin untersuchten. Im Labor schienen die Genome stabil genug sodass die Offiziellen nach Feldtests drängten. Doch in der Natur sammelten sich Mutationen auf eine nicht verhergesagte Art und Weise an. Schon bald waren die genetischen Sicherungsmassnahmen ausgehebelt. Von nun an verbreitete sich die Mykorrhiza. Nach nur einem Jahr beeinflusste sie auch andere Organismen. Dies markiert den Beginn der BioCrisis. Seitdem kämpfen Rückgewinnungsteams gegen die mutierende Wildnis und die WCG versucht die ihre fatalen Fehler unter den Teppich zu kehren.

For instance, in many states, antibiotics are overused. It's against one's better judgment, but our greed for money makes it easy to ignore dangers that occur in a delayed manner.

Scientists try to come up with methods to reuse old antibiotics, or find new ones. However, it can be assumed that the bacteria will also adapt to the new inventions. It's a never-ending arms race.

Depending on the target – human Daodan genome, Daodan microbiome, both their epigenomes, or even organelle genomes (like mitochondria and plastids have) – a few different “vectors” (e.g. viruses) need to be available to transport the mutation. (For ease of discussion, one might wish to use the terms holobiont -- the collective symbionts, and hologenome -- the sum of the symbionts' genomes.)

The microbiome is very different among humans and would surely make the Daodan's mass production no easy task. But after more than 15 years, the Syndicate should have accomplished a way to simplify the process. This second generation would be independent from the host's sex (XX / YX chromosomes) and the microbiome's composition by providing level-zero stem cells. These can target any compatible symbiont cell and then do a “configuration” (whereby they dissolve the unnecessary genetic material) to become ''classic'' daodanized stem cells and microbes.

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====Sytropin====

The accelerated growth caused fever and pain. The staff put Mai on a special diet so she would grow with normal speed again. Her food has low caloric values, roughage and appetite suppressants.

====The Daodan computer====

Hasegawa: "Did you know that bacteria can use their own cell as 'eyeball'? Rather a rudimentary way of seeing. But I will use that idea of an micro-eye. Onis that see. Onis that decide. Onis that take care..."

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====Green Village report extract====

The scale and complexity of the Daodan project outclass everything we know about sythethic biology and related fields. Doctor Kerr stated the Syndicate provided necessary infrastructure to run their experiments. However, he wasn't able to give details what hardware their host possessed. We estimate the Daodan is impossible with current technology to reproduce. The required computing power is so aburd high that hypotetically spoken it is the product of 50 years time travel. Yet, it exists. At least Kerr said that the Syndicate don't normally possess such resources which is a real relief to us and our WCG oversight. It seems a key puzzle piece is the absence of Doctor Pensatore.

Anyway, radiation and hyposprays can theoretically be abused to drive the Daodan's metabolism so high that it releases all its energy resources in a short time and dies of starvation (if it doesn't go into a hibernation mode). (ref. Oni3: Konoko awakens from her [[Oni2:A Storyline#Mai|coma]]. Maybe she had to fight a long time in overpower mode or suffered an emotionally-triggered ATP release...)

====Transformation: static metamorphosis====

Yorick's skirmish with the memhunter leads to a new form of Imago shield. After absorbing the Oni clusters and energy resources of his dead comrades he is able to compute a natural graphene shields that can undergo other phase transitions. He also uses the gained computing power to tactically cut off the memhunter from his resources and uses them instead. ("Jammer spears", and own "sand layer" that acts as energy parasite, etc.)

GV's "Chrysalis" work group thinks that the Daodan will contaminate the environment sooner or later (in case it hasn't already happened) because of [[wp:Horizontal_gene_transfer#Prokaryotes|horizontal gene transfer]] causing unseen threats. Hence the Daodan needs a patch. The idea was and is to protect the prime symbiont, the human host. To ensure that the microbial Daodan cells only stays with the human flora, these cells need to die in the absence of the prime symbiont by dissolving their genetic material with an enhanced lysosome.

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* Omega Chimeras can make use of external memory storage for different Imago stages and also knowledge.

===Versions===

: '''From symbiosis to symbiogenesis.'''

: The polydnavirus is still reproduced, but the second virus completely gave up its independence. They, the host and the virus, are rather one new organism instead of two. This process of merging organisms is called [[wp:Symbiogenesis|symbiogenesis]].

: '''How much human DNA makes up our body?'''

More information:

* https://www.spektrum.de/news/wie-viren-unseren-darm-beherrschen/1426006

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All plants in natural ecosystems are thought to be symbiotic with [[wp:Mycorrhiza|mycorrhizal]] and/or [[wp:Endophyte|endophytic]] fungi. Collectively, these fungi express different symbiotic lifestyles ranging from parasitism to mutualism. Analysis of Colletotrichum species indicates that individual isolates can express either parasitic or mutualistic lifestyles depending on the host genotype colonized. The endophyte colonization pattern and lifestyle expression indicate that plants can be discerned as either disease, non-disease, or non-hosts. Fitness benefits conferred by fungi expressing mutualistic lifestyles include biotic and abiotic stress tolerance, growth enhancement, and increased reproductive success. Analysis of plant–endophyte associations in high stress habitats revealed that at least some fungal endophytes confer habitat-specific stress tolerance to host plants. Without the habitat-adapted fungal endophytes, the plants are unable to survive in their native habitats. Moreover, the endophytes have a broad host range encompassing both monocots and eudicots, and confer habitat-specific stress tolerance to both plant groups.

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A mutualistic association between a fungal endophyte and a tropical panic grass allows both organisms to grow at high soil temperatures. We characterized a virus from this fungus that is involved in the mutualistic interaction. Fungal isolates cured of the virus are unable to confer heat tolerance, but heat tolerance is restored after the virus is reintroduced. The virus-infected fungus confers heat tolerance not only to its native monocot host but also to a eudicot host, which suggests that the underlying mechanism involves pathways conserved between these two groups of plants.

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==Neural link==

* 00_01_30 Shinatama: I've checked '''our neural link''' and it's working perfectly!

* [[Quotes/Consoles/level_2b|level 2b console]]: Engineers attempted to exploit the advantages inherent in the speed of the '''neural link''' by interlocking batteries of free tracking ball mount plasma cannons designed to independently track and fire upon multiple targets simultaneously.

"If the agencies need to higher amount of information they accessed the undersee cables directly, but due to high risk of damage they nowadays access nodes run by the companies. We also tried to retrieve information by opening some nerves but in the biological environment damage is increased by mechanic stress or pathogen/immune reactions. Therefore the soft information retrieval became our method of choice."

==Deadly Brain==

Due to the different demand in processing power most "power house" chips - CPU and GPU - can either be exchanged directly or by the means of expansion cards.

Still many PC programs can't draw advantage from multi-cores processors and will not. That is because not every program need multiple cores, like text editors. However the trend is here to stay: more cores. (See Intel's Core X and AMD's Threadripper.) Or more exactly: parallelism. It's the new hype. Together with machine learning and AI which started to regain traction again after its past [[wp:AI_winter|winters]].

* Jobs need to change or unemployment might be skyrocketing. In a pessimistic estimate from 2015 '''computers and robots''' [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/05/robot-revolution-rise-machines-could-displace-third-of-uk-jobs replace about 47% of all jobs in the next 20 years in the US].

==Social scoring==

* Zeiterfassungssysteme, insbesondere die feingliedrige Ticketsysteme in größeren Unternehmen (Leistungsranking)

* Fitness Tracker (z.B. Schrittzähler, oft mit Ranking/Meilenstein-System als Motivationsverstärker)

Jeder einzelne Score nimmt Einfluss auf unser Verhalten. Vielleicht nicht auf jedes Individuum, aber doch im Mittel auf die ganze Gesellschaft.

==Suits==

             \_______/

* (modded [[Quotes/Weapons#vdg|VDG]]) spray nozzles for graphene powder that when put under current creates an explosion, blasting the outer layer away (turning his "blast shield" into an effective 360° low-range self-defense weapon)

* spray injectors for liquid nitrogen to freeze and seal Bioc infected roamers

==3D printing==

The first candidate profiting from project "Spare" as in "spare part" is likely TCTF Commander Griffin. He is thought to be very high on the Syndicate's kill list. Griffin is found to have hid away access codes for WCG "puppets". Back then when Griffin was still with Blackstars there was a lethal disagreement within the GATC administration. The question was whether it was acceptable to brainwash certain politician to sabotage the establishment of WCG. Those defying the sabotage were taken out one by one. But Griffin silently snatched the access codes and killed the research team responsible for the WCG "puppet program". At the same time GATC' military division, Blackstars, declared themselves as a new, independent mercenary group. The remaining GATC administration and Blackstars still work together at some point as their goal that they still agree on is to re-establish the United States of America. Their relationship is to be best described as an obligate symbiosis, neither of them can survive without the other.

Spares can be identified as such by missing certain traits. Concentrations of isotopes, toxins, and the telomere length are rather difficult or expensive to reproduce.

==Water capturing==

==Terra Preta 2.0==

* Ausgleich des pH-Wertes durch "nachgebaute Vulkanerde", die auch dafür bekannt ist mit ihren Mineralien sehr fruchtbar zu sein

* Nachdüngen durch vorige Beschichtung der Aussaat mit Stickstoffträger, Mineralien, etc. Ggf. hier Update von Bakterien, Pilzen

* Späterer Ausbau der Wertschöpfungkette, Verstädterung

** Wiederansiedlung von Mammuts mit Hilfe von GV ;)

* Begleitung durch ständige Forschung, um Prozesse zu optimieren und um so letztendlich den CO2-Abdruck immer weiter zu mindern

Further research was classified. (See GATC: [[Restless_Souls/Summary#GATC:_Blackstars|Liquid SLD]])

A highly international team located at Silver Village perfected the creation of Bose-Einstein Condensates (BEC) with electrons at room temperature shortly after the WCG was founded. This energy storage technology had been in the making for many decades but nonetheless the WCG acclaimed it as its prime example of what "centralized" research could achieve. The BEC batteries had a revolutionary high energy density and short recharge times. Soon they replaced all other battery types. The explosive spread within the market caused overwhelmed recycling capacities so many old batteries ended up illegally dumped and added up to other existing environmental problems.

The WCG pushes the complicated research for hydrogen BEC batteries as it is seen as the green "(non) plus ultra".

==Phase Cloak==

==Weapons==

===[[Heavy_weapons|Heavy weapons]]===

(hypothetical)

*laser-induced plasma beam in tempests [https://web.archive.org/web/20130205205915/http://www.g-o.de/wissen-aktuell-8091-2008-04-15.html (src)]

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[...] (First chapter)

===Mobile health care===

Such an device is meant to provide:

* programmable sensor arrays

* phages and antibiotics synthesis (countering bacterial infections)

* ...

Omega chimera are spiritual successors of this tech.

==Silver Dawn==

==Mind Seal==

===Memory inhibitor===

Based on Pensatore's work which he used on Mukade.

Avatara uses artificial cells to monitor and control the information flow in human brains.

==Beyond Dragons==

Mining rare earth elements became more and more difficult.

When production and use of 2D materials in the industry became common, a new hype was kicked off.

And while in use the materials can be forced to switch properties by applying all kind of stimuli: pressure, light, electric current, etc.

Keeping the matter protected for a million years was problematic. It was expensive with no guarantee of geological stability of the dumping sides.

[...]

===Aether===

Actually "earthbound" printing would be much easier, but maybe there are conditions (a gas planet?) that justify airborne printing. At least it would be fun and epic...

Electricity can be harnessed from charged clouds, [[wp:Harvesting_lightning_energy#Directed_plasma_channels|with]] or without lightning. Or simply from the ground (Bioc power grid).

===Biology made from condensed matter?===

Pokemon! I always wondered how do these animals fit into such tiny space? Answer: the ball contains pools for fermionic condensates and a memory for the genetic and anatomic blueprints. Of course you need a techno sphere (gaia or whatever) to reach ultra cool temperatures, do fast scans and later on the printing.

Direct democracy gets less and less flawed by individuals foreign to a specific topic or opinions formed in cracker-barrel groups.

==Nature's Decision==

The logical completion is powered by a network of trillions of [[wp:Matrioshka_brain|Matrioshka brains]] and other megastructures.

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