| Prepare to Kill the Hive | |||
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| Solution | |||
| Complete the "Kill the Hive" project. | |||
| Description | Resolution | ||
| We've got our virus. Now we need to figure out a way to spread it to the Hydras. All of them. |
Most of our research on the Hydra pherocytes has focused on stopping or on sabotaging them. A couple of teams, though, have been looking more thoroughly into how they work. Standard Hydra pherocyte communications are incredibly complex, with a lot of information we can't decode. However, there are certain "building block" pherocytes that function as basic imperatives, similar to human fight/flight/submit reactions. Tests on captive Hydra have confirmed that in sufficient quantity, these pherocytes have an overwhelming effect on behavior. We've only been able to identify and reproduce four of these pherocytes so far, but one of them is one our boys have taken to calling the "huddle" pherocyte. It causes Hydra to congregate and share pherocytes as widely as possible. With a sufficiently strong dose, the Hydras they share it with will produce the same pherocyte in turn, causing them to seek out other Hydras, who'll seek out other Hydras ... and so on. Put it together with our anti-immune virus, and we've got the two halves of our whole. A weapon that'll kill every Hydra it comes in contact with, and a distribution system that guarantees it'll spread as widely as possible. Once our virus was ready, we tested it on our captive. The "huddle" command obviously didn't do much, though the Hydra did itself a fair bit of damage trying to follow the directive. Once the initial pherocyte dose wore off, it calmed down and seemed unaware of the infection. Dr. S estimated an initial incubation period of forty-six hours, and he was right on the money, as usual. I'll admit, though, even I wasn't expecting how fast it progressed afterwards. Must be some sort of tipping point once enough of the leucocytes get compromised. Six hours of increasingly erratic behavior followed by frenzy. We're not sure whether the Hydra actually went insane or whether the infection was just causing enough pain to make it seem that way. The noise and the violence were bad enough that the guards wanted to finish it off. I overruled them on Doctor S's request. Said he needed the data. Took three and a half hours for it to die, and he stayed in the observation booth the whole time. From the way he acted, you'd think he was watching a football game. After all that, building the delivery system was simple. Basic particulate bomb. The whole thing comes in at under thirty kilos, easily under the mass limit. Now we just need to get it there. | ||
| Quote | |||
| The pieces are in place, Colonel. All units are awaiting your orders. | |||
| Prerequisite Objective(s) | |||
| Set Our Goals And Research Hydra Biowarfare And Research The Choke Point | |||
| Can be completed by Project: | Kill the Hive | ||
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| TIMissionTemplate_EN • TIObjectiveTemplate_CSV • TIObjectiveTemplate_EN • TIOrgTemplate_EN • TIProjectTemplate_CSV • TIProjectTemplate_EN | |||
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| Objective List • Factions | |||
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