[b][u]Brilliance 3.2 [i](7)[/i][/u][/b] Primary Text: [None] Secondary Text: Owl Sector Internal, OS-I6 7 [i]Z. SHIRAZI CB-PZ-6.2 I ran into his room at the sudden silence, but he was already gone.[/i] [b]Patient B has died. This is the first recorded casualty in the SIVA experiments.[/b] [b][u]Fortitude 3.1 [i](7)[/i][/u][/b] Primary Text: [None] Secondary Text: Report of Geographer Quist, OS-I6 7, for Owl Sector, on TRANSMISSION. Shun, you Shank-chasing, Mote-thieving Traveler-hugger, I wouldn't be in the Owl Sector if it weren't for you. Now you bail on us? I'm going out of my mind because of you. [b]Quist is feeling forlorn without his friend. Shun helped Quist recieve his position in Owl Sector.[/b] [i]Z. SHIRAZI CB-PZ-7.4 Yaris remains mute. I regret not incorporating a self-annihilation function in these prototypes. I was too confident. I didn't believe I needed a failsafe. I will propose that we include this in future nanotech development.[/i] [b]The scientist was too overconfident. A common failing in most Golden Age scientists. This shows that no fail-safe existed for these nannites.[/b] [i]The mixed blessing is that our results are solid. Further research will be rewarding. Yet I find myself hesitating to write the recommendation to proceed.[/i] [b]Dr. Shirazi begins to have proclaimed reservations regarding future tests with this nanotech.[/b] [b][u]Glory 2.1 [i](7)[/i][/u][/b] Primary Text: [None] Secondary Text: Owl Sector Debrief to Ikora Rey, OS-I6 7 IR: Any change? RAM: None. [b]Shun remains in his coma. Ikora continues to express worry for her friend.[/b] [i]Z. SHIRAZI CB-PZ-7.5 He said, "Everything and everyone dies. The more you try to cheat death, the more you try to profit from life, the sooner we die." Today I went into Willa Bray's files to look for warning signs, any hint of what happened to Patient B, anything I might have missed. I found optimistic profit charts and a terse order to suppress some amount of data. The data itself is unavailable to researchers at my access level. Am I complicit?[/i] [b]Dr.Shirazi attempts to discover why Patient B is irate with Clovis Bray, by searching through Willa Bray's files. She finds out that Willa Bray has redacted certain data, which the scientist has no clearance to view. What did Clovis Bray do to this man?[/b] [b][u]Magnificence 2.0 [i](7)[/i][/u][/b] Primary Text: [None] Secondary Text: Report of Bypass Authority Berriole, OS-I6 7, for Owl Sector records, assigned to incident TRANSMISSION. Along the sides of this abandoned laboratory sit locked metal cabinets, cut or melted open. Some piles of freshly broken glass, not yet sandblasted. I would venture that whatever Dr. Shirazi stored in these cabinets for the last few centuries was recently released to the world. I would also venture that we know what that is. [b]Berriole believes she has found the source of the nanotech breach. That these samples would be so easily obtained, is an affront to any intelligent company.[/b] [i]Z. SHIRAZI CB-PZ-6.1 I'll call her Susan. I'll call them all by their names. It breaks protocol but feels like the right thing to do. Susan took the news in silence. She appears resigned. I am not resigned.[/i] [b]Dr. Shirazi begins to break protocol by addressing her patients by name, thus establishing a personal relationship, thus investing in their longevity. Susan appears resigned to something. Perhaps the scientist told her about the death of Brilliance Patient B?[/b] [b][u]Splendor 2.6 [i](7)[/i][/u][/b] Primary Text: [None] Secondary Text: Records of the Vanguard, OS-I6 7 [i]Z. SHIRAZI CB-PZ-6.3 When I disclosed Patient B's clinical outcome, as required by exception 31B in the Research Regulations Handbook, Patient C said, "How could you do this to us?" I had no answer. My predecessor's experimental records had not suggested any lethality. A 20% mortality rate would counterbalance the increase in colonist strength, intelligence, and speed.[/i] [b]Perhaps Clovis Bray restricted certain information to entice Dr. Shirazi to the project? An acceptable death rate seems to have been established, however, this may have been tampered with. This is an extremely high percentage of human fatalities, given the potential influx of civilians to Mars from Earth.[/b] ZAV: Doubt in Clovis Bray communications? That's rare. IR: It could be why she sealed individual research logs. This Dr. Shirazi appears to have been fond of Persian poetry. The Bypass Authority has been able to reconstruct entire ghazals by rearranging her passphrases. CY6: I imagine the two of you purring with happiness over that. IR: I am not as fond of poetry as Zavala, but I do appreciate the historical insight. ZAV: I did not purr. Purring is not something I do. [b]Humour. Always the light in the dark. Or an annoyance to be ignored. However, Zavala's comment may relate to rumors of a fourth race of Earth... a tiger-like species... logging for future connotations.[/b]