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[l_accademico]

Amazing. Absolutely, utterly amazing. The technology OSTA has provided me with is crude in its own right, and yet.. fantastic. In two days - yes, only two days - I have accomplished more than I could have dreamed.. and yet, I already did it before, but it took ages. Ages, and a day. And while the replica was beautiful.. Well. Look at this.

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[psychic_energy]

Er...congratulations on being a father?

[l_accademico]

Creating an embryo artificially makes me its creator, not its father. But I daresay thank you for your well wishes even so.

[firecaste]

You work with OSTA. They give you technology to quickly grow human subjects for what reason? What goals do you have that are not confidential? What control do you have over the creatures that roam throughout the many planets?

[l_accademico]

Goodness, how direct. Not that I mind: better than to dilly dally on false pleasantries. I do work with OSTA, as you say, because they provide me with resources to continue my work. That's all I desire, as it gives me a purpose and a drive. As for all my goals all but one isn't at my liberty to disclose: I am personally only out for revenge right at this moment. As for my control.. I'm flattered you think I've any at all.

Return questions of equal bluntness: Who are you, namewise and in station? And are you an artificial intelligence throughout a metallic body, or a man in a mechanical suit of armor?

[firecaste]

Directness is my nature. The rules of politeness in your language are complex and not fully understood by me.

I am Shas'o T'au Kais. This is name and station: Shas'o, because I am a military commander in the Tau armies. I am neither artificial nor human, but Tau.

[OOC: ...wrong account, oops.]

[l_accademico]

That's quite acceptable, I don't mind directness. If you ask a question I simply can't answer, I won't. Simple as logic.

Pleased to meet you then, Shas'o. Named after your functions seem simple enough, if you're a warlike or military sort of people. The Tau, then. Could you perhaps describe to me the structural foundation of your bodies? How you function, on which you sustain yourselves? If indeed you are at liberty to disclose that information, or even willing to.

[cavia_cobaya]

Fetus: *floats around, hearing only it's own heartbeat and the distant hum of the machines*

[reborn_silvite]

OSTA has succesfully granted you your wish of having someone resurrected, without any issues?

All of us who were resurrected... Were we all grown in this manner?

[l_accademico]

Not exactly. It's more of a mutual benefit: they let me have this, I let them have something I can grant them. A deal.

And I can't honestly say. Nobody physiology is quite different from that of a human - or whatever manner of creature an individual might be that's resurrected - but if they have another way of doing it.. then I've yet to be informed. It's quite possible that you were.

[reborn_silvite]

When I offered to strike the same deal, I was told it would not be easy to resurrect a specific individual. Are you certain this 'embryo' will grow up to be healthy? I look forward to the outcome of this little experiment. Surely, if this succeeds, they can bring back the one I wish to meet as well.

If we are fully grown from the moment of embryo stage, can we be sure that we are the same person? That we are not a replica who harbors the memories of the one who was resurrected?

[l_accademico]

Perhaps they are simply not in need of what you offer as much as that which I do? I don't pretend to know OSTA at all. The bargain was struck by my superior and this organization to aid eachother, but this was a more personal request of mine that I bartered my way into with a man that was part of the scientific division: not at the head of the organization itself, or even a spokesman for it. Or possibly he is. I don't know.

As for the health of my current project I can't tell you much. It's far too small yet to make any sort of tests on, and even if I could I don't think it would be very wise to disturb it. Perhaps when it has grown larger and its vitals more stable I can introduce foreign objects into its vicinity. And its future health, as an adult individual much like you and me, and the possibility of cloning..
   Suffice to say that what's been instilled into this little mind - and my own - isn't a copy of memories, or simple data. I can't tell you more.

[dawnwards]

It didn't. Your last replica. It didn't melt or fall to pieces or evaporate or anything stupid like that.

A hostage? Creating a replica just for revenge?

Congratulations, I didn't think you could possibly increase the disgust and loathing I had for you.

[l_accademico]

Saw the medical charts on his blood samples, perhaps? Don't speak as if you knew anything about his cellular makeup, because you don't. I know what I saw during his tests pre-destruction, and those spoke clearly enough.

Oh, don't flatter yourself: this isn't anything as measly as a clone, and even if it were it's most certainly not yours again. I'm holding the individual hostage - if you could call it that - because it's on him I wish revenge, not against someone who'd be upset by his containment. So move along, Riku, for this doesn't concern you.

[dawnwards]

For a self-proclaimed genius, you sure are thick.

Making any kind of life just so you can dish revenge out on it is disgusting.

And what tests?! He'd only gotten stronger! That doesn't make any sense! If he was--if it was--

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[dawnwards]

And one more thing, you sick pervert! This concerns me plenty, and I'll be glad to show you just how PERSONAL my feelings are!

When I find you, I swear..!