# Audio and video Tapes
Spain had found a bunch of tapes. Some he had inserted were very old audios and camera's security surveillance video that were in bad shape, and he didn't have the time to listen/watch them all.
However, several of them (put in the same place with a color codage on them) had gained his attention, as he showed them to his fellow nations and the two experiments.
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Tape # 0238
Half of the tape was snow until a voice was heard. He was talking to an audio recorder.
"...5, January 1975…..the government is interested in all kinds of cloning human projects after the success of the rabbit one. I look forward to it, but my secret project is more important and I have met with a man claiming he had met with one of "them". His name is….….Jdanov….he had fled his country from the URSS. He had heard of my work and told me he had met with….woman….sample.
I will meet him in three days to retrieve it. I hope the material isn't too damaged..Pr Hermann has asked me to try his method this time."
Tape # 0256
The same man was talking again and the nations understood these were part of a vocal diary.
"..23 January 1975...Hair material isn't enough for the cloning process to be performed efficiently...Subject U-HXX75DPL00B is a failure for now, not exceeding the first week embryo stage. I will still keep the growth….. hoping….work."
Tape # 1563
"04 August 1983…The ILEN in their cells is...avoiding progress... P-HXY83DPL00D is a failure as well. Inevitably, the subject would die on its own not exceeding 2 weeks of embryo development. I've decided to change strategy and contacted some expert biologists to help me with the study of these cell's properties. If I can find something to help the cells stabilize, then we could pass the embryo stage."
Tape # 1721
" 12 december 1985...After Hermann's death, I've been contacted by my old friend Nina Arkonlavesc to help in my project. She wants to take part in the regenerative aspect of the animal studies more than to project DOPPLEGANGER in itself. I know she has a connection with the militaries, her father and herself having served for their country. I hope she will bring new light to my project even if I know her purpose is military centered. The idea of immortality is…..and I might not be alive when…..but it is quite exciting to see the regenerative faculties we could gain from this…."
Tape # 1956
" 23 March 1987…Professor Kästner is refusing to share his sample of DNA from the rare specimen, as expected of a former SS scientist taking refuge in America and wanting to avoid making too much noise about himself. I still hope to convince him my experiments have nothing to do with the Cold War at hand, though Nina's research would be another story.
We sorely need samples for project DOPPLEGANGER…"
Tape# 2740
" 16 January 1993...I've met with a young man in the biologist field, Dr Bertelloni, who happens to have met the nation Italy in person! He is only 27 but is already renowned for his search for cancer and has shown interest in studying the country's cells and ILEN.
He has his work as a practitioner in Italy and is searching from here but I hope to collaborate with him. We have made progress in understanding how to stabilize ILEN thanks to animal's study, but it isn't enough to synthesize a living individual."
Tape # 3142
" 17 July 1995 ...I'm quite happy to announce S-TXY95DPL001 has been through the whole growing process and we even saw him open his eyes, thanks to Dr Bertelloni's preservation serum. We for now didn't try to let the experiment outside the tube but it is one of the next steps after he has grown a little…"
Tape # 3260
" 12 October 1995 - Subject S-TXY95DPL001 - 3 month old "
The tape wasn't a voice record but a camera video filming a green tube horizontally laying. Inside, there was a naked male baby floating, breathing with a mask attached to his face. It was sometimes moving one of his four members, making bobbles. After a few minutes, it opened its eyes and the person recording seemed to cheer about it, trying to stimulate him from outside, showing his reaction as the eyes opened, revealing green eyes that then closed tiredly."
Tape # 3450
"04 April 1996 - Subject S-TXY95DPL001 - 9 month old
1rst removal attempt - Failure"
Again, it was a camera video of the same boy as he had grown, much more than what you would expect. The boy had messy brown hair cut short and was wearing plain white clothes not so different from what 'I' and 'P' had been wearing.
After zooming on him, the camera had moved back to let medical staff proceed to free the boy from its tube, and put him on a stretcher, while drying him in towels and taking his constants.
The small baby had shown no opposition, seeming quite apathetic until he emitted a whine and started to get agitated, crying.
From the distance the video had been filmed, England, Spain, France, Russia, 'I' and 'P' could only see a doctor and a few nurses rush toward the boy as machines were beeping alerting his blood pressure was dropping, before putting him back in the tube.
One of the nurses passed not far from the cameraman and they could see blood on her clothes."
This was the last tape Spain had successfully dug in. They would have to take longer time outside to watch the few scattered ones.
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# Computers Data
England had been hacking the central computer and retrieved several documents.
Document # 1
"List of experiments of project DOPPELGANGER : update April 2016"
Codification of experiments : First letter of country - First name of physician/Gender/year/DPL/Number
G-TXY69DPL00A - Current Status : No development of the embryo.
Date of birth : none
Creator : M. Travasco
Unstable.
Encrypted data.
U-HXX75DPL00B - Current Status : Death at 1 week embryo stage by spontaneous stopped growth.
Date of birth : none
Creator : S. Hermann
Unstable.
Encrypted data.
P-HXXY78DPL00C - Current Status : No development of the embryo.
Date of birth : none
Creator : S. Hermann
Unstable.
Encrypted data.
P-HXY83DPL00D - Current Status : Death at 1 week and half embryo stage by spontaneous stopped growth. Date of birth : none
Creator :S. Hermann
Unstable.
Encrypted data.
A-TXY90DPL00E - Current Status : Death at 2 week and half embryo stage by spontaneous stopped growth.
Date of birth : none
Creator : M. Travasco
Unstable
Encrypted data.
S-TXY95DPL001 - Current Status : Death at 2 year-old, 18 March 1997 by degenerative disorder.
Date of birth : 16 July 1995
Creator : M. Travasco
Unstable.
Encrypted data.
R-MXY04DPL002 - Current Status : Death at 11 year-old, 16 february 2016
Date of birth : 20 November 2004
Creator : E. Malsinger
Unstable.
Death by internal hemorrhage on degenerative acute disorder predominant in the small and large intestine.
Encrypted data.
I-KXY07DPL003 - Current Status : Alive, 8 year-old
Date of birth : 12 June 2007
Creator : L. Kästner
Stable
Encrypted data.
A-KXY07DPL004 - Current Status : Death at 3 weeks of embryo stages by spontaneous stopped growth.
Date of birth : None
Creator : L. Kästner
Unstable.
Encrypted data.
C-MXY11DPL005 - Current Status : Death at 5 year-old, 16 february 2016.
Date of birth : 28 January 2011
Creator : E. Malsinger
Instable.
Suffered from degenerative acute disorder predominant in the brain with several hemorrhages.
Death by massive hemorrhage from a cut in the carotid artery.
Encrypted data.
P-KXY11DPL006 - Current Status : Alive, 5 year-old.
Date of birth : 04 February 2011
Creator : L. Kästner
Stable.
Encrypted Data.
C-MXY12DPL007 - Current Status : Death at 8 weeks of embryo stages by degenerative disorder .
Date of birth : None
Creator E. Malsinger
Instable.
Encrypted data.
"
Document # 2
"List of the 106 experiments of project ILEN currently alive- Update April 2016
…
Canis CN- ILEN-21058
Canis CN-ILEN-21059
etc...
Chiroptera CP-ILEN-16030
Chiroptera CP-ILEN-16031
Chiroptera CP-ILEN-16032
Chiroptera CP-ILEN-16052
Chiroptera CP-ILEN-16053
etc...
Rattus R-ILEN- 25308
Rattus R-ILEN-25310
Rattus R-ILEN- 25312
Rattus R-ILEN- 25313
etc…
Mouse M-ILEN- 34081
Mouse M-ILEN- 34082
Mouse M-ILEN- 34089
Mouse M-ILEN- 35002
etc...
"
Document # 3
"Report of incidents - Project ILEN
Date of report : 16 April 1998
Several cases of incident have been reported on the 4th floor and multiplied through years :
- 7 August 1987, Assistant researcher Maria Crowley was attacked by Chiroptera CP-ILEN 02365 while trying to open its cage. She has lost 2 eyes in the attempt.
- 16 April 1989, Soldier Marc Bystando was attacked by Canis CN-ILEN- 03659 while protecting the searchers when opening its cage.
- 11 February 1993, Assistant researcher Ray Polligan was killed by two of the Canis experiments when opening the two cells believing the experiments were harmless.
etc…
These incidents have in common to happen during transition between cells and place of experimentation, specially while opening the grid manually. For the matter of security of the searchers and soldiers working on the 4th floor, it has been decided by Professor Nina Arkonlavesk to install electric celldoors that can be opened from the Control Room.
The new protocole will be instaured :
1) For any cages needing to be open, the Control Room must be informed
2) Once approval is given, the Control Room head technician, which possesses a special key, will action the mechanism to open the cell door.
3) The doors can be then closed manually or electrically. Chiropteras experiments are raised in the same large cell so to capture one, a net must be put at the entrance to catch it safely before the door is opened.
4) If cage's doors are opened during emergency calls, the security gate will close automatically to avoid experiments from escaping on the other floors. The security gate can only be desactivated by the Control Room once the emergency is over. For employees trapped inside, remember you can take shelter in the experimentation room and close it manually.
5) Any experiment escaping control must be eliminated.
This we hope will permit to lower the number of accidents and regulate the use of the experiments .
END of Report"
Document # 4
" Report of murder cases of 16th of February 2016
Date of report: 2 march 2016 - Project DOPPLEGANGER
17h35 - Experiment subject R-MXY04DPL002, that we will simplify as Subject Number 2 for now on, broke the mirror in his room (number 08), in what was believed to be the child's usual expression of angriness. He hid a piece of the mirror on himself without anyone noticing.
Doctor Emilian Malsinger was called and came, taking him along to "punish him himself"according to witnesses. While travelling with him in the corridor, the child seemed to have asked to go to the toilet repeatedly, until putting himself to the floor and Dr Malsinger decided to bring him himself on the one near the 3rd corridor of area 2.
17h45 - In the toilet, which didn't have a surveillance device, the subject presumably climbed on the toilet seat, calling for Dr Malsinger to help him with something, and when he opened the door, jumped on him and cut his throat and carotid arteries around 4 times, killing Dr Emilian Malsinger on the spot.
He stole his ID card, and used his DECT phone to make a call to the last number that had called, meaning the agents before his room, attracting the attention of security agents who dispatched in area 1.
17h52 - Subject Number 2 snickered in Room 07 where subject C-MXY11DPL005 was installed and killed him, outside of camera's reach.
17h56 - Discovery of Doctor Malsinger's body and activation of the alarm.
The security agents, who were taking their break in the restroom deployed themselves around the area of the murder. Subject Number 2 hid in Room 07 before opening it with the ID card once there was no one around, and proceeded to Room 02.
18h08 - Subject Number 2 opened Room 02, in presence of Subject I-KXY07DPL003 and P-KXY11DPL006.
18h13 - Death of Subject Number 2 from a "Cell acute Degeneration attack". Rescuing of Subject Number 3 and Number 6. It seems no harm was done to neither experiment.
18h30 - Discovery of Subject Number 5's body on the floor of his room, carotid artery's cut once with precision. He was holding his teddy bear against his chest.
The incident was then closed and the alarm set off.
It was found out that too much information had been openly leaked in front of Subject 2, like password, use of DECT phone, the room where Subject Number 5 was in, as well as major security procedures failures from employees.
Security must be imperatively reinforced in the 2nd floor in area 2.
Psychological support has been provided for the workers and the 2 remaining subjects and must be pursued.
The motive of Subject Number 2's action seems to be his separation with Number 5 and animosity toward Dr Malsinger according to witnesses and workers.
No information about the Project seems to have been leaked to the remaining experiments, although further interviews of subject Number 3 and 6 are needed. "
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Other datas were found but about the logistics of the building and procedures. Besides, many documents weren't updated and it seemed the updated ones had been removed from the database.
# Paper documents
The paper documents weren't more informative than the datas on the computers as they were outdated for most of them.
They talked about Travasco's works on rabbit's clones and then human clones in association with the government. There were scientific articles from other authors of the era around the subject and clinical and experimental research.
Could also be found a contract signed with several companies, written formulas, memories of hypotheses about Nation Cells and ILEN's nature.
This one got Francis, who read it until he was interrupted by a curious Spain. He then showed it to him.
" Pr Bertelloni - An Essay on ILEN from Nation's cells - 1997
[...]
At first glance, Cell's of nations aren't different from one of a human in a microscope. However, they are highly resistant to any exogenous aggression. I've tried to expose them to UV radiations, to toxins and poisons, to bacterias and the result is a reparation to the initial state almost every time. They would never transition into cancerous cells like HeLa cells immortal lineage no matter what we did. They also don't seem to duplicate normally and we could only maintain the actual cells alive but we couldn't put them in efficient cultivation at the beginning of the project. After a time that can be days to a year at most, they would die without a host, which explains the matter of needing to renew the samples.
With Professor Arkonlavesk agreement, I will talk about the results we have so far on animals. When injected in adult mices, no matter their geographic provenance, the cell's death is accelerated, so fast that the serum is ineffective. We first thought it was the animal immune system reaction, however the necrosis was so fast sometimes (almost 10 to 20 minutes) that we concluded the cells autodestruct on their own.
This is a bit different for embryos. Well, a lot died before creation but thanks to the preservation serum I created, more could grow and pass the embryo stage. As they grow though, they would quickly develop a condition that we called "Degenerative disorder" defined biologically by episodes of sudden massive autodestruction of all nation's cells involved. When injected in embryo, the cells are scattered in the organism and if they aren't near vital organs, the animal might survive these attacks. Stranger things I didn't mention is that aside from these "degenerative attacks" periods, these cells seem to keep their amazing regenerative properties, and even boost the growth of these creatures, which is highly paradoxical but fascinating. Some animals like rats, dogs and bats seem for some reason more affected by this growth when exposed to special frequencies. I will not tell you more about the details of these specific frequencies as it is the object of search of my colleague Pr Thomas Eiling, but I will talk about what are his hypotheses about these "special frequencies" later the growth we observe, the degenerative attacks are often increasing in number through months and years and the animals will die eventually in a short amount of time.
What about our main project, the clones? At first, during the 70-80's we used the same method as with animals, putting DNA in a woman's empty egg and then implanting the egg in a uterus. It seemed to succeed in forming an embryo. However, the women participating would have severe rejecting reactions, hight hormonal blood level symptoms and miscarriage was almost always the issue. It changed when we decided to make the development in vitro and with the help of the serum and electromagnetic waves. Bathing in the serum, the degenerative attacks and autodestruction process are slowed down, time for the embryo to recover and develop normally again. The waves, them, stimulate the growth and the duplication of cells. Since we used the serum and electromagnetic waves, we have obtained one living individual that however couldn't leave the tube he was born in. He looked pretty much like a human baby would, if not apathetic from the absence of maternal stimulation, which is unfortunate. He was affected with the same condition as the animals, but much more violently as all his cells were of nation's origin. Imagine your whole body destroying itself from every part of it, from a lot of cells at the same time. When the blood vessels are affected, then it leads to massive internal hemorrhages leading to death if not stopped.
Our first subject of this 'serum area' died a few months ago when we tried to extract him for the second time, but he was a major progress in our research and I'm hoping to see a full grown individual in the future. But I'm pretty sure this autodestructive mechanism, this instability is caused by ILEN disruption.
But what is ILEN exactly? Before explaining what we believe it is, I will explain how I became familiar with it. Even if Pr Travasco had already tried to explain to me the concept beforehand, I needed to experiment myself and I did 2 things for that purpose. The first one was to bring back the cells I collected from my country in Italy. I then noticed they lasted way longer than in America. Then, I decided to go further and my idea was to approach these cells to their initial owner. I had the chance to meet again with Feliciano Vargas, my initial 'donor', during the inauguration of a new medical department of the hospital I'm working in and brought a sample with me. When I could study them again, the results were stunning : The cells had become more lively and started to enter mitosis and duplicate spontaneously, something we couldn't do in the laboratory no matter the condition we cultivated them in, unless with the technique I talked about before. It felt like they were linked to him by a strange energy and stimulated by his presence.
We have called that energy ILEN or Infinite Life Energy of Nation only nation cells possess.
ILEN is a difficult concept to grasp, because it feels almost magical. One of my numerous hypotheses is that ILEN connects the country's personification with our souls or our bodies, giving his body information about the physical state of the population but also about what is in their mind. And since invisible wires wouldn't be regarded as an option in my field, I like to think that it's a matter of wave propagation at specific frequencies, a belief based on Professor Eiling eminent work. People and their nations would silently communicate with each other through 'waves' they emit unconsciously, stimulating the nation's cells on one part, the enzymes and proteins that are inactivated in a normal human being; modifying DNA harmoniously without suffering from cancerous stage, repairing the body even when it is beyond recuperation, etc. And on the other end, nation's would also emit waves stimulating their people's brain cells to be able to receive information from them or act friendly with them, like a hidden hypnosis. I'm not sure they are aware of it themselves, nor have we understood how 'nationality' worked in this exactly.
But back to the cells, I'm eager to study them on a more performant microscope, on a molecular level to try to unravel the mystery behind its mechanism, as we don't know where it produces ILEN, and what organelle is behind it. If we could give to our cells the properties of having ILEN as a fuel, then cancer would not exist anymore. We would keep our integrity (like our nation) throughout our life, maybe even eternal youth.
I'm not thinking about immortality, as I'm not sure it would be possible, but living the longest in an healthy body would be fantastic nonetheless for medical purpose..[...] "
Author's note :
Making corrections and all, I've made a mistake about Nina Arkonlavesc's age in a previous chapter (I corrected it by the way but it's because you might not reread it I put that here). More like I can't do my math though! XD She is around 70 year-old, not 57 like initially, because she had already been a renowned soldier before entering the project, so she must be around Travasco's age.
This chapter is more of a bonus than a real chapter and might be complicated to understand in some part (I've study biology and I know a little about it, even if it's not exactly my field...In another end, I've studied physics but I really hated it with a passion, I almost don't remember anything so sorry if the waves part is eluded! XD ).
It is not fondamentably important to read this part, but it adds information about the facility and the project doppleganger, along the work of scientists mentioned in the story. Also, there is one document you already know about and it's put on purpose, to show the nations went to read it too.
Again, thanks you for reading and the kind words, I hope to make you enjoy it until the end of the story! OuO
