Colossus By Design: Human Revolution

[Working Title]: A Thesis of Bio-Metaphysics
[Authors]: Dr. Wei Ho
[Subjects]: Storm Covenant Mutation; Pre-Production Android Experimentation; Post-Human Theory

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[Subject]: Storm Covenant Mutation


[Footnotes]:

So, I've decided to record some more raw data for this book of mine.........

Dear Godzilla, this is tedious work. I seriously question how Anna is managing to put out so many new entries into her own works on a regular basis AND attending to her other commitments without needing to hit up a few relaxers.

Well, I might as well get it over with. I have decided to cover the strange yet fascinating mutations seen with the ex-military Storm Covenant members. Which, I guess, is just about all of them, since most of their scientists were apprehended years back. I remember Anna briefly mentioning this condition, but since I'm the biological expert of the two of us, I figured it'd be a good topic to cover for my first book.

Oh shit, I forgot to test! Ummm....... testing....... testing....... Okay, it works.

Back to discussing these strange yet fascinating mutations. I feel like I've already said this particular line before...

As many of the Civil Defense Force's veterans will recall, several years ago, when the Children of Monsters was still a thing, they were experimenting with some of the first modern instances of Orichalcum production, using Gojira's Ichor proteins to bond the elements at a microscopic scale, creating, at the time, quite advanced nanomachines that could artificially stimulate the cells in their body to make use of Ki.

In the early days of their introduction into the cult's soldiers, these nano-machines were brutally effective, increasing strength and durability to levels that even rivaled current BE-CPR-S armor systems. However, this being experimental technology, they began to break down as time passed on, and it....... changed the people.

The nanomachines resulted in an overdose of Ki flowing into their bodies due to a lack of regulation on the stimulants, causing their bodies to absorb whatever physical matter happened to be around them. It didn't matter what kind, because the matter would ultimately be transmuted into flesh and bone. The resultant absorption created towering monstrosities, humanoid in shape but alien in all other aspects.

To name a few features: emaciated appearance (ugh... always hated that skin and bones look), long spindly appendages and fingers, a back full of tentacles, devil-like horns, a mouth like that one alien hunter thing from those movies (Predator I think?), multiple eyes like a spider, a short coat of fur, and a grey colour palette all around.

This mutation can be triggered at will once it happens, gifting these guys with strength rivaling or even surpassing FE-AR users, but it comes with nasty mental problems like psychosis, depression, even post-traumatic stress. If these guys weren't so hell-bent on furthering the hold of their so-called gods, I'd feel sorry for them.

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[Subject]: Pre-Production Android Experimentation


[Footnotes]:

Ah, the Androids. Very nice folk, them Androids. Though if you do anything that could compromise the safety of their loved ones (and YES, they do have loved ones!), well....... you better hope you're either in some enhancement gear, a Post-Human, or a serious badass. I know of only one man who ever tangled with an Android and lived to tell the tale. Actually, I think he was actually winning. Of course I'm getting off topic, so I'll close this off by saying one thing: he got the worst gig ever..... on Mars.

Back on topic. Working with Mr. Hargrove was an interesting experience to say the least.

I can't say I'm proud of everything we did, though. If I say too much, Emmy Kano might come after me with her fists of Orichalcum, so I better be brief.

STRQ Industries helpfully provided our project with P.E.M.F. spawning pods to build our research on. It took awhile, since we were attempting to use their incredible genetic properties to create a superior breed of Human from the Synthetics. The best of both worlds, if you will. I hate to admit it, but I'm directly responsible for quite a few accidents, such as that Gyaos incursion a few months back that Gamera.... "handled".

The unfortunate side effect of working with P.E.M.F. material is that there's always the off chance that if you miss even a single important precaution when it comes to their containment, you might end up hatching one of them early. Most of the time, the hatchling is easily disposed of by our security staff, but when those Gyaos emerged?

It was like demons from Hell had been unleashed. They grew remarkably fast, and I'm reminded of why Atlantis was wiped out by them. However, it was this kind of power that inspired our work, to control it, to harness it for the betterment of humanity at large. Some say Jacob Hargrove is a warmonger, but I've gotten to know the man. He truly believes Androids are the next step in our evolution as a species.

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[Subject]: Post-Human Theory


[Footnotes]:

Of course I couldn't bring up Jacob's belief in our ascension without also talking about another party claiming this exact same train of thought. Post-Humans, as they're officially referred to as. The ones that have fallen in with that terrorist group believe they're the next major species of Human to take the genetic throne, so to speak.

Bullshit, is what that is. The only difference that separates them from regular Humans is the electrical signals in their brains also producing faint sound waves that resonate together in a cohesive enough manner to naturally utilize Chi as Ki, albeit not strictly the same way we normally see. Oh sure, most Post-Humans have enhanced strength, durability, and healing compared to the average person, but it's not by a wide margin unless their powers specifically cater to those attributes.

Honestly, we're still unsure how these powers are produced in the first place, and why they manifest the way they do, but we're getting there. The big question that's still on the scientific community's mind is this: Where did the Post-Humans come from?

It's no big secret that we have no records of legitimate Post-Humans up until shortly after the introduction of the first mass-production Warmonger variant, the Guardian Sentinel. Although I'm ordinarily not one for making an immediate causal link from mere correlation, I have to admit that I find the timing highly suspect.

Unlike the past, our government, the G.U.D., doesn't hide secrets or cover up anything major anymore. Like, at all. Conspiracy theorists died down as a result of the open arms policies popping up. So the Post-Humans definitely weren't some government experiment. As far as I can tell, Post-Humans produce the necessary Harmonic Frequencies for natural Ki-usage by sheer coincidence, with no real genetic variables deciding this. That rules out them being some chromosomal abnormality, as well as any passing on of such genes. Post-Human parents could just as easily produce a normal child as normal people could produce a Post-Human one.

I have taken note of recent changes in the Earth's global state, however. Every time a major influx of Ki-related activity has occurred, things like the temperature and ecological diversity around the world have shifted. However, instead of these changes being drastic and possibly damaging, they balance themselves out to reach a new equilibrium.

Each shift has been more dramatic in scale than the last, and I theorize that the Earth and our artificial usage of Ki is somehow creating subtle changes in the environment and those that inhabit it. Last time, giant monsters appeared, and we created giant robots. After that, stronger monsters showed up, and we made it into the mass-production stage of Ki-based technology. Now ancient monsters are reawakening, and the Post-Humans and Androids have begun to grow in numbers.

It's all connected somehow, but I'm still missing some elements in this complicated equation. Something fundamental to it all that serves as the anchoring point for all of these threads.