[b][u]Brilliance 3.2 [i](4)[/i][/u][/b] Primary Text: [None] Secondary Text: Owl Sector Internal, OS-I6 4 QUI: Did you see this dispatch of Berriole’s? [i]Z. SHIRAZI CB-PZ-1.2 Regrettably, Patient B entered a coma minutes after injection with Brilliance 3.2. Vital signs remain normal. Homeostasis preserved. While cause for concern, I do not think it necessary to table this study and will proceed.[/i] [b]Patient B has been rendered unconscious after minutes of receiving a does of Brilliance 3.2, but remains alive.[/b] RAM: If that's the effect on civilians— QUI: It might have been temporary. But— RAM: The decision to lock down the City was wise. SHU: Thank you, thank you. Really, it’s too much. [b][u]Fortitude 3.1 [i](4)[/i][/u][/b] Primary Text: [None] Secondary Text: Report of Geographer Quist, OS-I6 4, for Owl Sector's mountain of records, on the everlastingly awful incident known as TRANSMISSION. I can call my children on a screen and sing them to sleep, but I can't hold them or help them up when they stumble. I observe, I monitor, I wait, I read Berriole's communications. [i]Z. SHIRAZI CB-PZ-1.4 Patient D, Yaris, is here to support his family. Clovis Bray allowances are sufficient but not generous, and there's another child on the way. He is sorry to be separated from them but glad for the volunteer's stipend.[/i] [b]Yaris joined the experiment in the hopes of providing for his family.[/b] [i]No changes in general health were observed after injection with Fortitude 3.1, but the volume of his voice decreased significantly and is at present a whisper. Unexpected but not cause for alarm.[/i] [b][u]Glory 2.1 [i](4)[/i][/u][/b] Primary Text: [None] Secondary Text: Owl Sector Debrief to Ikora Rey, OS-I6 4 SHU: Have you seen this? [i]Z. SHIRAZI CB-PZ-1.5 Patient E, Jun, has been uncooperative. Laughed unpleasantly when I told him he would receive Glory 2.1. "You're running prototypes in parallel because it's cheaper and faster," he said. "No ethics board on Earth would approve. But I don't have a choice. I’m neck-deep in debt to Clovis Bray." I wish we had tweaked these elixirs to modify disposition.[/i] [b]Jun joined the experiment in the hopes of paying back a debt to Clovis Bray. It seems the conglomerate (or it's founder) took advantage of despots and the lower classes to fill the roster for their experiments.[/b] IR: You wished to introduce me to your Golden Age analogue? [b]Ikora comments that Shun is similar to Jun. Perhaps in reference to being uncooperative, or in debt.[/b] SHU: Ha. Ha. No, I thought you'd be interested in Jun. This kind of coercion isn't a known Clovis Bray practice. IR: Not in the books you read, perhaps. [b]As general knowledge, Clovis Bray was not know to threaten or bribe people. This is an example of Golden Age corporate censorship.[/b] SHU: But it's in the record? IR: It's in the record. [b]Ikora has proof that the interplanetary company was not the shining example of Golden Age perfection and excellence, that it would have you remember.[/b] [b][u]Magnificence 2.0 [i](4)[/i][/u][/b] Primary Text: [None] Secondary Text: Report of Bypass Authority Berriole, OS-I6 4, for Owl Sector records, assigned to incident TRANSMISSION. [i]Z. SHIRAZI CB-PZ-2.1 Patient A remains healthy and cheerful, despite a low buzzing in her ear. She has referred to the phantom insects so frequently and with such confidence that I'm starting to imagine them. Blue, darting things. There's a word for this phenomenon, where the patient's reality becomes the researcher's, but I do not remember it. We did tag this variant with a blue colorant, for our own scans, but the patient should not have known. I will call it coincidence.[/i] [b]An unprofessional moment for the usually astute scientist. Coincidence is never an adequate assumption. Proof that the nannites are becoming visible, most likely due to their continual replication.[/b] [b][u]Splendor 2.6 [i](4)[/i][/u][/b] Primary Text: [None] Secondary Text: Records of the Vanguard, OS-I6 4 Transmitted from Owl Sector's Bypass Authority, Dust Palace, Mars. [i]Z. SHIRAZI CB-PZ-2.3 Patient C reports yellow artifacts on the edge of her vision but remains excited about the potential of this project. She argued for taking strength and intelligence tests three times a day rather than daily. I saw no harm in this. There were clear improvements in her performance six hours after injection, in line with results from the other conscious patients.[/i] [b]Not all patients remained conscious six hours into the 'Splendor' experiment. This subject also experiences an extreme increase in recovery and stamina.[/b] [i]This innovative therapy holds great promise for our colonization program. We can cut years off the construction timetable of a city. We can reduce the decompression and adjustment period of new colonists. This is a world-changing study, and I am glad to have such a motivated subject.[/i] [b]The Splendor experiments show that Dr. Shirazi hypothesizes that colonists that receive a dose of Splendor will be able to adapt more quickly and work longer and harder to achieve projects.[/b]