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Hasegawa wasn't authorized to enter the Wilderness Preserve and he killed his wife. So, there must have been a lawsuit.

But it seems he doesn't had to spend time in a prison.

* Either, WCG offered him some sort of deal for not using his connections and public sympathy to his advantage. (He and Jamie were active in the environmental movement.)

* Or he was sentenced. But before reaching prison or later on, a syndicate/ninja group freed him.

Why speaks Kerr of himself as a criminal. Maybe he arranged Hasegawa's rescue. After that they had no other chance to work for the Syndicate anyway.

At that time point, Hasegawa already must had a rough plan persuasive enough so that Kerr and more importantly the Syndicate would join.

It's said that Mai "[[Quotes/Manual#Konoko|orphaned at the age of 3]]" and she said that a Chrysalis was implanted [[Quotes/Speech#Friends|at the age of 7]]. So the Chrysalis prototypes were created within approximately 4 years. How could this complex project be finished by a mere two-men army? Likely Hasegawa didn't started from scratch. Also, he and Kerr possibly used [[wikipedia:In_silico#Cell_models|potent simulations]] of their time. (Another reason why Oni should take place in 2055.)

Ninjas have always been interested in knowledge and new technology. So, at least Mukade, as a boss of his clan, monitored WCG's and the Syndicate's scientific projects. Either he would have become informed by reading the first summary of Hasegawa's simulations or even earlier when the two scientists made the deal with the Syndicate.

Pensatore (meaning "the thinker") is an SLD scientists and leading the AVATARA project. He is consulted by Mukade to judge if the Chrysalis is really worth its cost.

: The Blue Brain Project ignored glia cells and similar supporting elements. The BRAIN Initiative [http://www.nature.com/news/neuroscience-map-the-other-brain-1.13654 did better] but still had no real neuronal input and no information from cells that messure concentration of oxygen, sugar, etc.

: And there are a lot [[wikipedia:Autonomic_nervous_system#Sensory_neurons|neurons in the human body]]. So it became more and more clear that reducing a brain to its own neurons was far from enough.

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

: At this point the networking supercomputer had clusters all over the world and was named AVATARA. (This full body simulation depicting AI was remote controlling a robot, its avatar.)

: The collected data from this "[[Restless_Souls/Technology#Speculation_about_brain_components|SLD generation 0]]" wasn't enough to design an AI from scratch because most of the data still needed years to become fully analysed.

: The bits of knowledge learned from generation 0 and with the ongoing technological progress Pensatore would soon start the research on SLD generation 1.

: Meanwhile planet Earth faced its first AI which ironic task was to understand itself. In doing so it tried to read all available knowledge about the subjects the scientists worked in.

: The AI got significant smarter and drew interest from more researchers to solve complex problems and calculations.

Computing power was limited. So taking the children virtual bodies (possessing roughly half the number of cells of adults) helped out Hasegawa's project once more.

Pensatore: "In the coming months AVATARA will be upgraded."

Pensatore: "That's nothing really special, as bigger a machine get as longer you need to maintain and to upgrade it. [http://phys.org/news/2014-07-large-hadron-collider.html Our colleges at CERN] can tell one thing or two about it. The difficulty with AVATARA is to split simulations on multiple, geographically far apart clusters and let it run reliable. Before AVATARA's official restart there will be tests to ensure everything will be alright. This includes also AVATARA's new autonomy protocols. We will pretend complications in order to run more tests. These are your actual Daodan simulation. This way you will get about one month computing time. No more, so you better use your time wisely."

Pensatore: "First of, under that condition AVATARA can hide your simulation from superusers. And second, with the additional rights AVATARA can effectively adapt to your Big data challenge."

Mukade foresees the missing results of the extra tests and uses the TITAN network to generate fake data, scaled and polished. "Pensatore, you expected our all little secret to be busted. But you aren't the only one that has a decent understanding of computers and networks."

During Muro's leadership TITAN may or may not have gained some sort of key role in the Daodan project.

As it is theorized on the quote pages these lines could be some simple links to files that need "high-security access" (in comparison to [[Quotes/Consoles/level_19a|dwarf]]).  

But I would like to think that TITAN plays a bigger roll than being a high-security data archive or mail system.

What's a megacomputer? Maybe naming it supercomputer wasn't cool enough or TITAN is supposed to be even bigger.

Anyway, the Syndicate seems to possess much computing power. In the following I try explain a possible origin while taking also the Syndicate's/Network's history and the Daodan's history into account.

The Syndicate would have needed much computing power to rerun the Daodan simulation or parts of it so that they could create a Daodan ready for mass production.

: One factor of the Syndicate's success lies its former decentralized nature.

:: The [[wikipedia:Pink_Panthers|Pink Panthers]] can serve as example for a decentralized organization. They are kinda independent groups raiding jewellery shops. According to a TV documentation the most successful group takes the lead over the others.

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

: In order to allow secure communication among the groups the Network built powerful servers all over the world. The TITAN servers provided very strong encryption. At same time they were wired to the [[wikipedia:Tor_(anonymity_network)|Tor network]] to keep things anonymous.

: Now instead of selling the technology they were going to produce copies to earn even more money.

: Though the big money was to be found on the military sector. With BGI another financial pillar was established.

: Police investigations were slowed down and some stopped completely by cyber attacks. At first files were deleted, then to avoid early detection backup files were not deleted but encrypted by ransomware. In critical cases the Network sent agents to attack [http://phys.org/news/2014-10-leak-sensitive-isolated-air-gap-mobile.html air-gap secured] targets. Mukade and his men were very successful and soon became their first choice. Often they didn't execute these mission themselves. Smartphones of police officers and criminals alike became modified to steal and transmit passwords after the carrier has left the facility again.

: As last resort hitmen were hired to take out the officers in charge of Network cases.

: As countermeasure the Network invested into their paramilitary division. This had multiple benefits.

:* First, they could protect their own facility until crucial personal was evacuated.

:* Third, an own paramilitary division reduced issues of available fire power and concerns about trust/loyalty of third-party hitmen.

:* Fifth, ''persuading'' all other big criminal organization to work for them. All together they make up the "Syndicate".

: The division grew huge and soon demanded a proper location for training and everything else that shouldn't be interrupted by random TCTF visits.

: During the the Great Uprising the Network took its chance to spread influence on the African continent.

: Ensuring their contractors' sovereignty they were granted a few bases. The biggest one is simply called "the Camp".

: Of course police and TCTF tried to learn more about the tricks the Network used.

: Almost every attempt to analyze their computational hardware and software failed due to [http://phys.org/news/2014-10-dissolvable-silicon-circuits-sensors.html sophisticated self-destruction measures.] Dissolvable chips were especially used in wearable equipment.

: The TCTF was going to use quantum computer to eventually break the Network's strong encryption.

: The next logical step for the Network was to built quantum computers as well. With these their [http://phys.org/news/2014-02-quantum-codes-harder.html encryptions was save again]. Also, state computers infected by ransomeware are forced to connect to a Syndicate-controlled QC and enforce the encryption. [http://phys.org/news/2015-04-human-technical-ingenuity-required-defeat.html Shapeshifting] [http://phys.org/news/2015-02-malware-infecting-hard-disk-firmware.html firmware] viruses ensured persisted infection despite complete hard disk formatting and re-installation.

: The latest Network's expansion was in the drone and telecommunication sector.

: They use drones to transport legal and illegal goods and attack drones owned by the TCTF. (See [http://phys.org/news/2015-05-cicadas-military-swarm-mini-drones.html HERE] for RL mini drones.) Those became reprogrammed to have ''[[Quotes/Diary#CHAPTER_06_._COUNTERATTACK|blind spots]]''. The TCTF tried to locate servers the Network uses. They forced telecommunication companies to give them full access to all their data. But the Network knew it beforehand and took preparations. The TCTF is using long-established spyware of intelligence agencies, those days even more powerful than [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regin_%28malware%29 Regin.]

: Since the the Network had always a close eye on TCTF operations they developed a virus-infecting virus/spyware codenamed [http://phys.org/news/2011-03-virus-eating-virus-antarctic-lake.html Sputnik].

: The sputnik viruses are part of the Fat Loot project. It was developed as two-track strategy. Intelligence agencies have already the capacities to monitor all relevant electronic communication. So the Network took the dangerous but most rewarding challange to infect these agencies in one way or another. At same time they take over telecommunication companies either by buying the whole companies or employees in key positions. This way the Network has a double check on all data which allows them to react on situations where the counter-intelligence gets suspicions. Every datastream is a trace. With growing monitoring they are expanding their grip on the companies and send their programs at the agencies into hibernation, there only using them when it's absolutly necessary.