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[mrngstr]

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[evasives]

I have noticed.

We come in with blank neural implants, correct? This would suggest there are no usual markers in mine that I have been fitted with a cyberkinetic - but I have been. I know you work with many implants, so it could very well be a blur, but I am curious if there was anything that showed up in mine to suggest its existence.

[mrngstr]

Yeah, that's... strange. Nothing came up when I first processed you.

Which probably means someone took the time to cover that up.

[evasives]

I have been looking into all of the elements as much as I can.

Do you know how someone might even go about hiding such a thing?

[mrngstr]

My guess is that whoever did it tucked it into the programming of the base operating system, so I would have had to go specifically digging to find it.

[evasives]

Would it be helpful at all to dig now?

I want to know what it is that makes it so special that it can function without being directly connected as usual to the neural implant, unless it is simply a code to block it from being noticed. It came up through a routine blood test, so I cannot imagine they intended to hide it forever.

[mrngstr]

I want to know, too.

I think it'd be safest if you're physically in the safehouse when I start digging, though, if you can swing that. Shouldn't take me more than a few hours to look through everything. Whoever did this might have something set up to ping them when someone accesses your systems, so better safe than sorry, right?

[evasives]

I would not want to risk the safehouse either, to have my location traceable to it - especially with others inside. Is it secure enough to block or hide a ping like that?

[mrngstr]

It is. Believe me, I wouldn't be suggesting it lightly.

[evasives]

Then I am interested.

Do I need to be sleeping, or is that irrelevant?

[mrngstr]

Irrelevant. You shouldn't feel anything.

Just let me know when you're in position.

[evasives]

[ (spongebob voice) roughly two... hours... later.... ]

Okay. I am in the safe house. There are only a few people around besides me.

[ and jyn, jyn came with him. ]

[mrngstr]

[ And a few (more) hours later... ]

All right, Cassian, I'm done looking through everything.

I pretty much guessed right. The OS of your implant has been adapted to support your cybernetic, and this was probably done upon installation, so when you originally had the surgery to have it put in. That's not usually how it's done since most people don't get cybernetics until later in life, whereas they get their implants when they're born.

Whoever did this needed to know a lot about wetware and its connecting software.

[evasives]

[ good thing he is patient!! jyn not so much. ]

So it is likely the implant and spine went in around the same time. Do you think that means the spine came first, rather than the implant? [ which he was already suspecting it all happened around the same time, but. ]

What kind of people or organizations specialize in wetware in this world? I know Giles Bell is a leading developer when it comes to cyberkinetics, and I have learned they have in the past worked with Vyonation and a company called Riverstone. Would anyone else have access to this kind of software development?

[mrngstr]

Yeah, that would make the most sense. If I were a betting AI...

[ Ze's not. ]

You're pretty much right on with all of those. The problem with the corporations is that all of them have their fingers in so many pies that it's hard to know where this could have originated from. They've all worked together, poached from each other, and it's basically just a big melting pot of greed and thievery.

[evasives]

I get the sense there is very little business all these corporations do not conduct with one another, yes. The overlap is very corrupt, even with what I have seen in my own world to compare.

I am already looking into Giles Bell as it relates to cyberkinetics, but this has given me the push to start expanding on the others now too.

But it seems fair to conclude that someone developed the medical know-how for a cyberkinetic spine to function without immediate access to a neural implant. Has anything like that been accomplished or attempted before, to your knowledge?

[mrngstr]

Giles Bell is a good place to start, but yeah, I'd widen your search.

The only thing that comes to mind would be in the case of newborns or young children who have some kind of birth defect that needs correcting, in which case the cybernetic would be installed before the implant.

[evasives]

So there is already somewhat of a market for that, however small in comparison. I will look into that area as well.

[ he doesn't feel any better about having this spine, but he likes having a few more angles to come at now. ]

Thank you for looking at it.

[mrngstr]

No big.

Let me know if you find anything out.

[evasives]

I will. Thanks for the help.