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==During Oni== | ==During Oni== | ||
" | The "true Mukade" (who has also been called [[Oni2:A Storyline#Hasegawa|Old Man]]) stays in the shadows and is never seen. Either he doesn't do anything, or he moved to the wastelands and is busy assembling a "Fight Club" (which may later evolve into [[Oni2:Phoenix|Phoenix]] in Oni2's plot). | ||
One way or another, he is not interfering with the processes that he initiated (or helped to initiate) - that is, Muro's "New Deal" (radicalization of the Syndicats) as well as Mai being sheltered by the TCTF (and eventrually turned into a human weapon by [[Griffin]], as insurance against Muro's Daodan threat). | |||
The story of Mai's upbringing at the TCTF is relatively simple because it happens in a very conservative system (even if you take into account [[Griffin]]'s cruel pragmatism and overzealousness). | |||
Meanwhile, Muro is gradually repurposing the Syndicate, which is now no longer (or not only) an organized network of tech crime, and is geared towards megalomania and terrorism. | |||
:( | :(We can say that Muro is to the Syndicate what Muro's Daodan is to Muro himself - he devours the Syndicate from within, imposing new motivations and levels of consciousness.) | ||
Muro's Syndicate (which by the way no longer refers to itself as "Syndicate") gradually abandons secondary projects and focuses on [[STURMANDERUNG]]. | |||
Apart from various low-level smuggling, freak projects like [[Deadly Brain]]s ou [[Bertram Navarre]]'s experiments become useless as [[STURMANDERUNG]] draws nigh. | |||
The WCG becomes aware of this loss of balance, but does its best to conceal this apparently meaningless/insane radicalization of the Syndicate. | |||
The TCTF continues staging (or faking) small-scale operations against "traditional" tech crime (smuggling, drugs, etc). | |||
That way, the government is maintaining the illusion that Muro and his Strikers - even if they look and behave like maniacs - are still "doing business" like in the good old times of the Network. | |||