Ch.4 the hidden truth
Miranda moved through the stations corridors heading to the meeting room to meet with the staff to get a rundown of just how bad the situation really was for the project. It had taken nearly half a year to track down and procure the twins' bodies, now Miranda had the nearly impossible job of raising the dead. If she believe in a religion she would be praying that it could be done as the twins were humanity's last hope against the reapers.
The staff heads stood when she entered and sat after she sat down at the head of a long table. "What is the situation?" Miranda asked without greeting as they did not have time to waste even siting in proper cyro chambers the twins could not afford to wait a moment longer than needed. "Not nearly as bad as we had feared when we found out how damaged the pods were." One of the heads said before another picked up as he was the head of the bio assessment team looking at the flesh of the twins. "The body's cells have suffered very little damage given what they had been through, you would not think that they were dead given how well the brains are preserved there has been almost no decay in the brain at all." Miranda raised an eyebrow at that. "I don't like it when people over exaggerate things so how bad is it?" The head paled before speaking. "I am not lying the brains and major organs are all intact the brain cells that have decayed were ones already mapped by their grey boxes meaning they will not have lost anything at all memory wise." "How is that possible, they had been either in no or poor statis for nearly half a year now?" Miranda asked wondering just what kind of monsters she would be working on.
The head of the tech survey team coughed and spoke at that point. "It appears that the twins were already prepared for their deaths." "What do you mean prepared for it?" "Well most of their hard-suits programming and data is corrupted beyond repair we found a backup VI program code named protocol Thanatos that appears to be some kind of medical applicator for when a fatal injury or situation arises." The head explained before turning on a holo display to show the table an image of the hard suits. "The suits injected fast acting long lasting dendrotoxin that caused a death like state to slow decay along with sealing the suit and using Medi-gel laced with coolant to lower the body temperature to lessen decay even more, along with the large number of implants and cybernetics already in their bodies the decay was slowed to a near stop! If the alliance had found them within a week they could have been revived easily!" the head finished excited about the large number of tech advances his team could make from studying the remains of the suits, Miranda sat back floored by just how prepare these twins were for something like this. "Alright I need a timetable for the illusive man." "Just under a year and a half for both of them given everything that they went through and that is for the bodies to be up and running again there is then a month of psych evaluation." The head of the surgery team said and Miranda dismissed them before calling her boss.
"Miss Lawson I hope you have good news?" TIM asked when he answered the call thinking if she refused like the last one he would just kill her like the one before her. "Yes sir it will take just over a nineteen months for the project to be completed." TIM smiled and took a sip of his brandy "Good miss Lawson keep me posted and do not fail me in this. Those twins are the last hope we have." He said before turning the Comm off and ordering his recruitment team to begin gathering the crew needed and to step up the work on the SR2, he sat back looking at the sun through his windows smiling as the pieces started to fall into place.