October 20, 2013

October 20, 2013

Sometimes absence of data is in itself data.

Colonel Moss is incommunicado.  No one seems to know his whereabouts.  I rarely trust intuition, but this stinks worse than one of the Colonel’s Sweet William cigars.

Must continue to monitor this situation.

October 19, 1013

October 19, 2013

Received a brief, cryptic message from Oxley on his Theta channel.

<<Major breakthrough

<<Can’t leave field to deliver in person

DO NOT trust data link I have here

<<This is too BIG.  Too important

<<Will send through communication on relay hub.

            <<Stand by…>>

NOT our normal communication protocol, so this has to be big.

It’s been more than six hours, still haven’t received anything over the relay.

What has he found?

I’ve decided to wait and see.  Not going to second guess him.  There may indeed be reason to keep this quiet.

October 18, 2013 pt. 4

These late nights spent cracking data are going to catch up with me some day.  Thank goodness for coffee.

Kristin, Dakota, and Teddy seem to be gravitating towards Jake.  In fact, there seems to be conversations going on that either I’m not hearing, or I’m not there for.

I can also observe that they seem to be leaving Shauna and Bryan out.  It’s like junior high school all over again.

Those four are coming up with something that they don’t want us to hear.  Security measures should be increased, because I don’t want them escaping and going out into the world just yet.

Must look into the chance that these four gained abilities beyond our control.  Jake might have gained telepathy.  I’ll believe that though when I believe in precognition and those trolls I talked about last year.

October 18, 2013 pt. 3

Our remaining patients have met our standards and more.

The ones remaining are Dakota-090, Teddy-047, Bryan-135, Shauna-085, Jake-115, and Kristin-056.

Though I am worried.  Shauna and Bryan have stopped at the level we set.  The augmentations were set for a specific purpose.  The other four are still…changing.  Their cells are different than the others.

I have a feeling that some augmentation chemicals – namely the Keres strain – mixed and instead of creating increased Fail rates, it changed their cells even more.  I’ll be damned if Moss and the higher-ups don’t ask for more research.  These four might turn out to be what we needed.

I’ll send all this extra data to Oxley.  See if he can’t make sense of this more than I can.

October 18, 2013 pt. 2

Oxley is obviously gifted with a formidable intellect, but sometimes he can be such a thoroughgoing idiot.  I suspect this situation and the power he thinks he wields are going straight to his head.

Oxley still assures me that the site is still secure.  He insists on continuing with only a skeleton crew of his most trusted people.  And then he tells me he won’t tolerate another “station”.

I simply nodded.

I don’t like this.  Was he fishing?  Or does Oxley actually know what happened there…the real reason for the Houston Station relocation the past year?

Oxley may ultimately prove himself a security risk.

October 18, 2013

October 18, 2013

This is my last official day at this office in Muncie.  The powers that are at FLEETCOM offered me a corner suite in the offices at the local public college.  Difficult environment to work in; surely not their goal.

Ball State University is my new home…until further notice.

[That lie about all of the members of Project Z being all accounted for…will that come back to haunt me?]

October 14, 2013

October 14, 2013

Planning is underway for experimental surgery therapies and rehabilitations for more than 80% of the augmentation washouts.  Several of these protocols may take years to complete.  Scientists predict a survival rate of no greater than 50%, but I suspect the patient’s will to serve – to live again – will radically boost that percentage.

They’ve always exceeded expectations.