IC Contact - Exsilium

[maddeninghatter]

[ Thirty seconds of tuneless humming--beeeeeeeeep! ]

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[maddeninghatter]

[ He's about to remark on the mutual exclusivity of eating chocolate and going to sleep, however — ]

You?

You have to finish reading?

[ You're hardly the bookish sort, Gilbert. ]

[retraced]

[It's not what it sounds like!]

These documents that Kate compiled about the research that the UE was doing before...

[Well, before they blew up the city.]

It's a lot to sort through.

[maddeninghatter]

[ Thump! That is the sound of Xerxes Break jumping down from his bunk. His air of affectionate teasing is gone: he's all business. ]

What sort of research? What is it?

[retraced]

[He's taken aback for a split second, but this isn't the first time, nor the last that he'll watch that particular transformation of Xerxes Break.]

Research and development for what they called Project Chimera.

[There's been vague discussion of it on the network.]

Something about tailoring their soldiers to make them stronger through whatever method they were working on. Trying to replicate powers that people from other worlds possess. And they were working on something called a rover. It was supposed to be able to travel across the surface of other planets like a carriage.