Ember Armbruster 3/14/2025 4:10 PM
Ember taps upon her desk going over the info presented. Her ears twitch with some form of irritation from the outside it sure looks like she is pissed. She heavily taps upon her keyboard sending out a number of questions to the relevant parties.
After a lengthy over drawn out intro she goes into her questions "Do we have any idea if the human......material used in the new anchor is clone or did they butcher some random civvies and shoved them into an anchor.
As for the lovely corrupted computer do we not have backups we can revert to or are those also corrupted. In theory we only need the info off the thing we could just reset it as a normal maintenance thing.
How bad is that semantic drift, like it seems we still get enough info is this a major issue right now or just an annoyance of having to do extra work to decipher what they actually mean.
Lastly what details can i get on the CyberDyne tech gap i assume we have observed them in the field do we have any specs or just rough details. Obviously if we knew everything there wouldn't be a tech gap, but some more details on the subject would be nice.
Oh and do we happen to have any spare construction exos around? (im just making the assumption they exist at this point since currently we have a number of prototype dealios from passive to active)"
Dr. Armbuster,
The organic material appears to be cultivated rather than harvested, if that eases your apparent ethical concerns. Specifically, the cellular structures show signs of accelerated growth consistent with their "Genesis Chambers" technology. However, the genetic markers are unquestionably human in origin. Our analysis suggests the material was derived from multiple donor sources—all with interesting genetic anomalies. The samples show unusually high concentrations of the recently identified "K-HAD3" gene sequence associated with psychic sensitivity.
In layman's terms: they're growing human tissue with specific genetic traits that appear to enhance dimensional anchoring. Whether the donors consented to having their genetic material used in this fashion is beyond my purview. I recommend directing such inquiries to Legal or Ethics, assuming the latter department still exists after last quarter's budget reallocations.
Regarding the Dimensional Calculation Cluster corruption: conventional backup protocols have proven ineffective. The corruption propagates retroactively through our storage systems—a temporal anomaly we've yet to fully explain. In three documented cases, backup drives disconnected from all networks somehow acquired the corrupted data. I hesitate to use the term "infection," but no other word adequately describes the phenomenon.
As for construction exoskeletons, yes, the Tokyo facility has three Toyota Corolla EX-4 units that survived the containment breach last month. They're scheduled for decontamination, but preliminary scans show only minimal dimensional residue. They can be requisitioned through standard channels, though I'm curious what application you have in mind. The EX-4's are designed for construction in high-radiation environments, not entity handling, if that's what you're considering.
Somewhat impatiently yours,
— Dr. Miles Whitaker
Always refreshing to receive questions from someone in our division who actually reads the reports. The semantic drift issue is both worse and more fascinating than my official report could convey.
The drift isn't merely linguistic—it's conceptual. The entities don't simply use different words; they appear to process reality through fundamentally different cognitive frameworks. Imagine trying to explain color to a being that perceives the world through electrical fields, or describing time to something that experiences all moments simultaneously. Now imagine that being is trying equally hard to make you understand something your brain wasn't designed to process.
When Entity #37 ("Whisperer") refers to what translates as "the congregation," we initially assumed a religious context. Further sessions revealed it's actually describing a form of collective consciousness that entities enter and exit at will, something between a hive mind and a voluntary consensus reality. The concept simply doesn't exist in human experience, so our language lacks adequate terminology.
How bad is it? We understand less than half of it on good days. Enough to extract useful information when they're specific, but with enormous margins for error. My personal assessment, which I've kept out of official channels, is that the entities are deliberately simplifying their communications for our benefit—like adults speaking to very young children.
Your request for CyberDyne tech specs crossed my desk while I was dealing with yet another Personnel issue in Johannesburg. Short answer: yes, we have observations. No, they're not enough.
The two big things are:
They're firing square bullets, we don't know why, but they're able to punch through INM Chitin like wet tissue paper.
They've got some sort of shielding for drones. They're able to drop these massive pods and create corpse-clusters, then just retrieve the INM by hand. Their remote controlled bots aren't going hinky