Markus Magnum/PYRAMIDEN
[PYRAMIDEN MEDICAL STATION REPORT 1]
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[PYRAMIDEN MEDICAL STATION REPORT 2]
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[PYRAMIDEN MEDICAL STATION REPORT 3]
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[PYRAMIDEN MEDICAL STATION REPORT 4]
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[The footage reveals the interior of a highly advanced medical Intensive Care Unit. The caption in the lower right corner reads ‘PYRAMIDEN MEDICAL ANNEX’. The tired face of GMdO looks into the camera. The time stamp shows that 24 hours have passed since previous events]
TRANSCRIPTION NOTATION: Recorded individuals have been given assigned labels, which are as follows [and their acronyms, which will be used going forward]:
| DESIGNATION | ACRONYM |
| GARM MEDIC OPS | GMdO |
GMdO: “Per Order-72 from the Directorate, I am narrating this medical report number… 4. Patient continues to show remarkable improvement in [DATA CORRUPTION – 14 mpb] so it’s been hard to keep him under heavy MIC. In my opinion, the Supermolecule X is boosting his resistance to pentobarbital, just like the other medications we’ve tried to administer.
To further catalog the genetic modifications we’re seeing, the Choroid Plexus region in the patient’s brain has shown a great deal of modification, enlarged significantly and is creating a cerebrospinal fluid that acts as a super-conducting medium, transmitting nerve impulses and sensory data at nearly 400% faster than the fastest transmission rates in un-augmented humans. Vision, sound, smell, taste, it’s all [DATA CORRUPTION – 3 mpb] crafting the customized sunglasses for him.
To focus further on that cerebrospinal fluid, there are anomalous structures present in it at the molecular level. These structures appear in his entire nervous system, bloodstream, muscles and even skin samples, and originate from the Choroid Plexus. It has been conclusively proven that these monomolecular structures, which I’ve nicknamed ‘Supermolecule X’ until we can get a better name assigned, are [DATA CORRUPTION – 1.2 mpb] alterations, since this structure, which bears an almost viral building set, contains a vast and densely-packed series of DNA and RNA segments which are continually inserted into existing molecules throughout his body.
[GMdOrubs his forehead]
Analysis of Supermolecule X has proven surprisingly difficult. For reasons we have been unable to identify, removal of one of these structures from [DATA CORRUPTION - .75 mpb]. Limited uses of Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy hints at the presence of more DNA and RNA chains within one Supermolecule than the entire sum of such chains within an average human body.
[DATA CORRUPTION – 1.5 mpb] indicates the potential for a limited conscious control over Supermolecule X’s mutational effects. We experienced this when we attempted to inject the patient with one of the immunosuppressive agents provided by {DATA CORRUPTION – 7 mpb] Increased strength, speed, reflexes, limited toughening of the skin against blunt force trauma… and needles, and greater pain resistance have all been recorded. We have labeled these ‘Secondary Mutations’. We plan on further investigation via the patient’s after-action reporting which will [DATA CORRUPTION - .5 mpb].
[GMdO leans back in his chair and scrubs his face]
You know, I’ve been in this business for a long time, and seen a lot. Mutations, ‘super soldiers’, you know, that stuff is all the rage these days, even moreso than back in the ‘80s. And I’ve read Krylov’s field notes, but this? The work he did for the KGB [DATA CORRUPTION - .50 mpb] see this as being his style; his creations all tend to be obvious and overwhelming in their powers. Electroshock’s powers might as well come straight out of a music video with Tesla coils, and the other Experiments that Krylov ‘uplifted’ all had the same sort of ‘Hello, my powers can light up a city block!’ motifs.
But Aleksey – sorry, the Patient’s powers don’t manifest that way at all. To John Q. Public, he’d just present as a particularly big and tall bodybuilder out of Gay Men’s Fitness or Advocate or something. It seems like everyone’s basing this analysis of the FSB still using Krylov’s decades-old research data on [DATA CORRUPTION – 11.3 mpb] immediately dying on us.
But, as for the claim that all these genetic modifications are based on decades-old Soviet research resurrected by the FSB? I’m just {DATA CORRUPTION – 27 mpb] doesn’t matter in any case, at least not until we can figure out how to extract the supermolecule.
[A console off-screen begins to beep. GMdO glances to one side, then curses and shakes his head.]
Well, he’s waking up. That makes… nine different sedation medications he’s developed a resistance to.
[GMdO gets up, then reaches for the camera.]
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