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hostileterritory) wrote2024-07-28 12:52 am
hostileterritory) wrote2024-07-28 12:52 am
Project Aegolius: When Canon Doesn't Tell You, Make It Up
cw throughout this entire post for brainwashing, issues of consent, institutional abuse, military violence, and exploitation
OVERVIEW
Project Aegolius was created as an adaptive use for research done in previous abandoned or repurposed government enhancement and obedience experiments. Using recently acquired data from programs like the Russian Federation's Red Velvet Initiative and Italy's Operation Pistolero, KPG Corp has taken the dream of an American Supersoldier and started to create the reality. Enclosed for the convenience of the Secretary of Defense, we have compiled a briefing on the Project's current experimental regimen. See documentation submitted under designation AC-121-1947 for more extensive details.
The majority of Project Aegolius assets come from the ranks of young veterans who have received discharge from the military due to service related injury or medical conditions, such as traumatic brain injury, combat injury, or chemical exposure that leaves them in some way incapable of continued military service. Most often they are approached by our representatives during visits to VA or specialist facilities to discuss their potential participation in an experimental program for the treatment of chronic pain and other complications from service-related injuries. All subjects are screened prior to approach, with preference being given to those with the following characteristics:
Given that Project Aegolius is meant to explore not only the most successful treatment routes thus far, but also the possibilities only now emerging from technological and material advancements, there are several 'categories' our subjects fall into when it comes to physical enhancement.
The ones with whom we've had the greatest degree of success are those subjected to a proprietary series of hormone treatments, small-scale retroactive gene therapies, and neural vaccinations. Certain of these subjects have had nanostructured self-repairing artificial muscle tissue with a carbon fiber base introduced into their bodies. The result so far is an overall 25–35% increase in strength in the subject on the initial survival of the procedure. As a result of the self-repairing nature of the muscle fibers, every injury, whether from an IED or a trip to the gym, leads to an increased overall resilience and decrease to the impact of further injury and the experience of pain.
Additional biotechnological options are being explored to enhance subjects' biological abilities through emerging technologies, such as improvements to vision, hearing, and muscular control. These options include implants to allow for physical 'overclocking' in combat scenarios, as well as proactive genetic therapies to create immunity or resistance to certain chemical compounds and types of radiation often present on the battlefield. The results have been of mixed success.
There are four categories of conditioning used in various combinations according to trial-and-error testing of subject response to each.
While we do not propose, as Chief Sidney Gottlieb once did, to "blast away the existing mind," the overall goal of these treatments is to eliminate the will of the person subjected to them. The priorities are threefold:
Physical Testing
Cognitive Testing
Project Aegolius was created as an adaptive use for research done in previous abandoned or repurposed government enhancement and obedience experiments. Using recently acquired data from programs like the Russian Federation's Red Velvet Initiative and Italy's Operation Pistolero, KPG Corp has taken the dream of an American Supersoldier and started to create the reality. Enclosed for the convenience of the Secretary of Defense, we have compiled a briefing on the Project's current experimental regimen. See documentation submitted under designation AC-121-1947 for more extensive details.
SELECTION PROCESS
The majority of Project Aegolius assets come from the ranks of young veterans who have received discharge from the military due to service related injury or medical conditions, such as traumatic brain injury, combat injury, or chemical exposure that leaves them in some way incapable of continued military service. Most often they are approached by our representatives during visits to VA or specialist facilities to discuss their potential participation in an experimental program for the treatment of chronic pain and other complications from service-related injuries. All subjects are screened prior to approach, with preference being given to those with the following characteristics:
A) Honorable service and commendations/recommendations for advancement from their superiors.
B) Amiable temperament and tendencies toward 'people-pleasing' behaviors.
C) High scores on our screening questionnaires, which themselves are based on the Empathy Quotient, the Interpersonal Reactivity Index, and the Questionnaire of Cognitive and Affective Empathy (QCAE) (see file AC-121-1947 for example documents).
PHYSICAL ENHANCEMENT EXPERIMENTAL VARIATIONS
Given that Project Aegolius is meant to explore not only the most successful treatment routes thus far, but also the possibilities only now emerging from technological and material advancements, there are several 'categories' our subjects fall into when it comes to physical enhancement.
The ones with whom we've had the greatest degree of success are those subjected to a proprietary series of hormone treatments, small-scale retroactive gene therapies, and neural vaccinations. Certain of these subjects have had nanostructured self-repairing artificial muscle tissue with a carbon fiber base introduced into their bodies. The result so far is an overall 25–35% increase in strength in the subject on the initial survival of the procedure. As a result of the self-repairing nature of the muscle fibers, every injury, whether from an IED or a trip to the gym, leads to an increased overall resilience and decrease to the impact of further injury and the experience of pain.
Additional biotechnological options are being explored to enhance subjects' biological abilities through emerging technologies, such as improvements to vision, hearing, and muscular control. These options include implants to allow for physical 'overclocking' in combat scenarios, as well as proactive genetic therapies to create immunity or resistance to certain chemical compounds and types of radiation often present on the battlefield. The results have been of mixed success.
CONDITIONING PROCEDURES AND PURPOSE
There are four categories of conditioning used in various combinations according to trial-and-error testing of subject response to each.
A) Procedures and drug regimens first introduced as part of MKUltra and its preceding/following initiatives.
B) Adapted interrogation torture techniques used to suggest information rather than obtain it.
C) Subliminal conditioning and reconfigured social religious conversion processes.
D) Proprietary compounds to induce a suggestive state, with commands and levels of conditioning layered in session by session to ensure the longevity of the programming. Often this involves some combination of the above techniques in conjunction with KPG's classified proprietary compounds (see file AC-121-1947 for available details).
While we do not propose, as Chief Sidney Gottlieb once did, to "blast away the existing mind," the overall goal of these treatments is to eliminate the will of the person subjected to them. The priorities are threefold:
1) Total obedience to superior officers and those designated superiors by ranking military personnel, as well as general obedience to staff and researchers. While it is currently possible for subjects to resist suggestions initially made by those not in clear power over them, they cannot refuse a direct or repeated command. KPG is currently researching ways to limit this effect to designated but changeable personnel.
2) The subject's individual ability to control their experienced degree of fear/adrenaline and excitement, in order to help maintain focus on the battlefield and 'boost' their performance even after lengthy periods without rest or refreshment. Currently, there is an issue with emotional overlap that KPG is working to eliminate, which causes the loss of certain types of emotional experience related to fear. It is unclear at this time whether or not the loss of those emotions is a deliberate act on the part of subjects or an incidental result of conditioning.
3) The subject's ability to control their cognitive experience of pain, which is reinforced by the above-mentioned physical enhancements.
PHYSICAL AND COGNITIVE TESTING
Physical Testing
[[strenuous daily training, combat training, weapons training, tactical skills, etc. pushed to the edge of their physical limitations, including the intentional injury of subjects (minor penetrative injuries, dislocation of limbs, broken bones, etc) to test the speed and effectiveness of their healing/measurable experience of pain and resultant distraction from given tasks]]
Cognitive Testing
[[tests to measure empathy, emotional reactivity and regulation, overall cognitive functions, obedience, and the results of unfulfilled orders/missions/resistance from the subjects/etc]]
Excerpt from transcribed notes in Subject File Designation C.390021 (FOR JOHN DOE)
Subject C.390021, hereafter referred to as 'C.39,' has responded well to the changes in his conditioning regimen. While others in Treatment Group C have had severe reactivity to the increased dosages, it's proving more effective with C.39 than previous methods, blah blah note to self attach the schedule changes as an addendum. Relieved that I won't be one of the ones putting in a specimen destruction request this week either way.
Right, so, his deference and compliance scores have both gone up by almost five points, which means we're getting there in making sure he can't say no. Still not sure how to limit that to designated personnel, but we can figure that out once we've got the formulations right and people aren't dying from them. Bottom line at the moment is that while he can still protest, offer alternatives, or demure, a repeated command or direct order are significantly harder for him to disobey. He's at least not putting the effort into disobeying them, which is a nice change.
You'll note the incident reports from his resistance attempts have stopped. I don't know if it was the migraines when orders were refused or the seizures when objectives went deliberately uncompleted, but I guess he decided they weren't worth autonomy.
Strangely, his emotional reactivity scores have dropped a ton since the last assessment. Across the board. His general disposition has shifted as well. He's pleasant. All the time. It's creepy.
Needs follow-up and further assessment, so we can make a determination about whether it's a natural side effect of the increase in deference and compliance or something else. Note to self, see if the nurses know when the behavioral shift happened and check for corresponding significant environmental stimuli.
I'm really hoping this isn't another instance of emotional super-regulation, or whatever they're calling the whole 'shut it all down' thing with negative feelings. We don't currently have a way to reverse that choice. It's a decision influenced solely by the subject.
Right, uhh, stimuli, stimuli--here we go. With the increase in deference and compliance we decided to test the effectiveness of the conditioned protections placed on the project. We gave C.39 a hooded variable provided from... somewhere, note to self, find out if we even have details on this one to include. Fucking CIA budget bad guys.
Anyway. Gave C.39 a hooded variable and informed him that the man was a reporter researching Project Aegolius. No further instruction was required. Before we could even give C.39 a weapon, he broke the alleged reporter's neck. So that's going well. Still working on stabilizing the parameters required to stimulate that reaction. Also still working on how to eliminate the conditioning at need or alter the cause of the reaction. End-goal priority is to find a time- and cost-effective way to change 'defense of the project' to other mission parameters as needed by officials deploying subjects in the field.
On a related note, still no luck with designing a 'keyword' based conditioning system. It's not currently possible for researchers or other personnel to turn the effects of his conditioning 'off.' In addition, the decrease in overall experience of pain seems to have had an impact on other senses, specifically taste, and general stimuli pleasurable or otherwise also have a lessened impact.
I think that's it for toooo...day, yeah, that's the last of my notes. This speech to text shit better work or
Excerpt from transcribed notes in Subject File Designation C.390021 (Included in Saga's File)
Subject C.390021, hereafter referred to as 'C.39,' has responded well to the changes in his conditioning regimen. While others in Treatment Group C have had severe reactivity to the increased dosages, it's proving more effective with C.39 than previous methods, blah blah note to self attach the schedule changes as an addendum. Relieved that I won't be one of the ones putting in a specimen destruction request this week either way.
Right, so, his deference and compliance scores have both gone up by almost five points, which means we're getting there in making sure he can't say no. Still not sure how to limit that to designated personnel, but we can figure that out once we've got the formulations right and people aren't dying from them. Bottom line at the moment is that while he can still protest, offer alternatives, or demure, a repeated command or direct order are significantly harder for him to disobey. He's at least not putting the effort into disobeying them, which is a nice change.
You'll note the incident reports from his resistance attempts have stopped. I don't know if it was the migraines when orders were refused or the seizures when objectives went deliberately uncompleted, but I guess he decided they weren't worth autonomy.
Strangely, his emotional reactivity scores have dropped a ton since the last assessment. Across the board. His general disposition has shifted as well. He's pleasant. All the time. It's creepy.
Needs follow-up and further assessment, so we can make a determination about whether it's a natural side effect of the increase in deference and compliance or something else. Note to self, see if the nurses know when the behavioral shift happened and check for corresponding significant environmental stimuli.
I'm really hoping this isn't another instance of emotional super-regulation, or whatever they're calling the whole 'shut it all down' thing with negative feelings. We don't currently have a way to reverse that choice. It's a decision influenced solely by the subject.
Right, uhh, stimuli, stimuli--here we go. With the increase in deference and compliance we decided to test the effectiveness of the conditioned protections placed on the project. We gave C.39 a hooded variable provided from... somewhere, note to self, find out if we even have details on this one to include. Fucking CIA budget bad guys.
Anyway. Gave C.39 a hooded variable and informed him that the man was a reporter researching Project Aegolius. No further instruction was required. Before we could even give C.39 a weapon, he broke the alleged reporter's neck. So that's going well. Still working on stabilizing the parameters required to stimulate that reaction. Also still working on how to eliminate the conditioning at need or alter the cause of the reaction. End-goal priority is to find a time- and cost-effective way to change 'defense of the project' to other mission parameters as needed by officials deploying subjects in the field.
On a related note, still no luck with designing a 'keyword' based conditioning system. It's not currently possible for researchers or other personnel to turn the effects of his conditioning 'off.' In addition, the decrease in overall experience of pain seems to have had an impact on other senses, specifically taste, and general stimuli pleasurable or otherwise also have a lessened impact.
I think that's it for toooo...day, yeah, that's the last of my notes. This speech to text shit better work or