From: [email removed]
To: Seekers of Info
Re: Let me introduce myself
Time: 22:15.34 Day 147,1201 Imperial
Greetings Fellow DawnNet Users
You can call me Pierre
I will be using Tariq's account with his knowledge to provide information
that I have acquired through various sources. Hopefully you will find
this useful or at least interesting. Please direct all inquiries
regarding Arizona Dawn Info Service and NeoSol subsector Info News
Service to Pierre at this address.
I have uncovered some information about the Gamma Project of which you
have seen previous references to.
Apparently the original project initiated on Arizona Dawn 20 yrs or so
ago was officially closed down by the Federation Government after certain
ethical and scientific questions were raised. It now appears that some
individuals in government, the military and private sector sustained the
project clandestinely. When the Unified Sphere was chartered and got
going the Vega Group, a Union Investigated Service discovered evidence of
the projects continued exsistence and even evidence that it had
progressed to human experimentation.
The Gist of the Gamma project is this...
It has long been thought that electronic and photonic components could be
used to enhance human physical abilities. This is the well known field
of cybernetics. More contreversial is the idea of enhancing human mental
abilities by directly interfacing the human brain with a processor. The
initial Gamma project involved experiments in this field. It now appears
that the renewed Gamma project took even this radical idea a step or two
further. Its supporters suggested that based on the idea of a computer
or processor that alters its physical structure according to changes in
its virtual structure, it could be possible to build a semi-organic
processer based upon neurological models that would exhibit similar
performance or behavior. Much still not known about both the virtual and
physical structure of the brain it was suggested that an initially semi
organic yet artificial processer could be devloped (grown?) that could
interface with the brain in a way no one had previously conceived of. It
appears that the supporters just started to see if they could do it
without thinking if they should or the consequences. Some critics have
called the idea a sort of semi-organics computer virus that has the
cability to infect the human mind. Consequences....multiplied effeciency
for other Cybernetic enhancements. Improved interface with external
processors, etc.
It appears as one of the more heinous facets of the entire renewed Gamma
Project that human beings were KIDNAPPED from frontier worlds and less
developed regions on worlds loosely bound to the then NeoSol Confedertion
to be used as test subjects...many of these tests failed...I do not know
what became of those subjects. Information that Ive collected showed
that a Raid by a SPACR force somewhere on the frontier shut down the
project but quite a bit remains unclear about the whole thing. It is
rumored that there are some big names involved in this. I believe that
the Dawn Foundation and the Vega Group are pursuing the continued
investigation. When I obtain more information I will pass it to you.
I have come across an internal paper written by a Major in the
Unification Marines that may prove insightful into the philosophy of the
Corps as well as explain its developmental philosophy before and after
the Charter.
Thank you for your attention
Pierre