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To increase his chances as the new Syndicate's mastermind, Hasegawa also subjected himself to Mukade's "engrams". Normally only a blank brain can receive someone else's personality (this is how it happens for [[SLD]]s), but the advanced integration of Hasegawa's Chrysalis allowed his neurons to adapt to this second self. The drawback is the inevitable schizophrenia and the partial "loss of self", apart pro being eaten up by the Chrysalis as a regula symbiote. The advantage is that Hasegawa inherited Mukade's wisdom, his fighting techniques, his hacking skills, and his deep knowledge of the whole Syndicate/WCG/BGi system, which is essential if one wants to manipulate the system from the inside. | To increase his chances as the new Syndicate's mastermind, Hasegawa also subjected himself to Mukade's "engrams". Normally only a blank brain can receive someone else's personality (this is how it happens for [[SLD]]s), but the advanced integration of Hasegawa's Chrysalis allowed his neurons to adapt to this second self. The drawback is the inevitable schizophrenia and the partial "loss of self", apart pro being eaten up by the Chrysalis as a regula symbiote. The advantage is that Hasegawa inherited Mukade's wisdom, his fighting techniques, his hacking skills, and his deep knowledge of the whole Syndicate/WCG/BGi system, which is essential if one wants to manipulate the system from the inside. | ||
:(EDIT: The chronology of the initial phase of the Daodan project - and how the "plan" emerged - is open to interpretation and subject to reshuffling. The Daodan may have been discovered in Hasegawa's legal lab - before he and Kerr became outlaws - or it may have been discovered already in Syndicate labs (with or without Mukade's help), or it may have been a pre-existing phenomenon - well-kept secret, that Hasegawa became aware of after some preliminary research (again, either by himself or thanks to Mukade). Alternative stories of Daodan discovery include, and are not limited to: (a) "Screamer fishing" gone wrong, i.e., a Daodan was "hooked" out of the Phase instead of a Screamer and impacted a living cell; (b) computer-assisted design of a "quantum biocomputer"; (c) xenoforming of Earth biosphere by an alien race, whereby all the lifeforms xenoformed-so-far are already Daodan-enhanced - Hasegawa's challenge, then, was "just" to identify the Daodan and make it work for humans.) | |||