Chapter 68 - PROJECT J - Meeting- #950929

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MEETING TITLE: "PROJECT J - Meeting"
MEETING TRANSCRIPT #950929
Meeting Attendees: Professor Hojo, Professor Hollander
Date of Meeting: 09.29.95
Location of Meeting: Room 9A, Floor 29, HQ
List of Acronyms:
Professor Hojo=Hoj
Professor Hollander=Hol
Intelligent Verbatim Transcript

[Begin Transcript 0:01:37]

START OF EXCERPT:

Professor Hojo (Hoj): "I would like to state for the record that I have never agreed to this. There was no consent given to be on the same project as this flack and fake."

Professor Hollander (Hol): "And it's good to see your face too. How is the underground treating you?"

Hoj: "How is menial desk work treating you? Do you enjoy dabbling in basic science to pass the time of your meaningless life?"

[Hollander laughs.]

Hol: "You don't even know what I am doing anymore? Boy, you have another thing coming."

Hoj: "I haven't needed to. You have been an ant in the department for years."

[2:00]

Hol: "You haven't noticed the resurgence of Project G?"

Hoj: "Your two pets?"

Hol: "Both have made First. Both are excelling. Why do you think I am here?"

Hoj: "It's a fluke of nature."

Hol: "You are a scientist. Look at the data. Tell me what you see."

Hoj: "I see nothing of importance."

Hol: "You should get those glasses of yours checked."

Hoj: "And you should evaluate your bias."

[Papers shuffle.]

Hoj [cont.]: "They had the audacity to even give us an agenda. 'Discuss the possibility of new "Project J."' Whose doing was this?"

[Papers continue shuffling.]

Hol: "Wasn't it Shinra himself?"

Hoj: "Our results are different. Our methods are different. I don't know what they expect out of this and I, for one, refuse to share my science with your feeble mind."

Hol: "This research?"

[pause]

Hol [cont.]: "I spent hours reading about them before the meeting. You are right. Your methods are…interesting. I think you are in an echo chamber, Hojo."

Hoj: "Who gave you those?"

Hol: "R&D. In preparation for this meeting."

[3:00]

Hoj: "I have created the perfect specimen. I do not need to waste my time trying to outdo something perfect especially when I am saddled with you. Even if you can cheat like a child on a test with my past work. You should not have those documents. That is a violation of my privacy agreement with Shinra. Project S is mine alone."

Hol: "…that project wasn't yours to begin with."

Hoj: "I have directed Project S in all its states."

Hol: "Professor Gast did the hard work years and years ago. Project S was his favorite pet. Project G was the orphan when Sephiroth was birthed. All the initial exposures and experiments, everything that made Sephiroth as strong as he is, were suggestions by Gast and implemented on Project S as a young age. Nothing has been truly done to him since you ran out of his ideas."

Hoj: "Every idea was mine. You are pulling shit out of your ass."

Hol: "Sure and that is the same shit you've been selling the Department for years."

Hol [cont.]: "Other people are cleaning up after you. We all know. The Head of Exposure's pet project is trying to solve degradation. You altered Gast's original plans so much that SOLDIERs degrade. Now someone has to fix it."

Hoj: "It is part of the process. It has nothing to do with my science. You are pointing at shadows and making implications."

Hol: "Admin is too short sighted to remember the truth. I do though. You took Professor Gast's work and you made it worse."

Hoj: "Do you have a point to get to or are you going to continue to throw a tantrum?"

Hol: "I am not throwing a tantrum. I'm trying to say something."

[4:00]

Hoj: "You are trying to say what? Tell everyone that Gast, someone that betrayed Shinra and is dead, is the one to take the credit for Project S? Discredit work that I oversaw myself? You are going to send someone to Nibelheim to pull up classified files to see who wrote the biggest of three signatures on each execution order?"

Hol: "No. I want to work on this project with you."

[Hojo laughs.]

Hoj: "Did you get hit in the head? Have you been so desperate that you have started injecting yourself with J cells?"

Hol: "Getting back into actively working this deep in the department is important to me, even if it means working with you."

Hoj: "No."

Hol: "No?"

Hoj: "No. This is how this will go."

Hol: "You won't even-"

Hoj: "We are forced to humor the old man. No, I don't even care that this is recorded. We will humor the old man because I have to. There are specimens in my lab that are so sensitive and valuable that even if Shinra breathes a word about cutting funding, I will lose years of work. I will sit here. You will sit here. Nothing will happen further."

Hol: "This is my chance to get back in the department."

Hoj: "And who actually wants that besides you?"

[pause]

Hol: "Doesn't any part of you…want to outdo Sephiroth?"

Hoj: "The science is perfect. Your children run around, unassimilated and wild. Sephiroth is the one to beat. He is the prime specimen and now has the pedigree to earn it. Look at his accolades. Look at his titles. See who the company champions."

[5:00]

Hol: "…that's not what I hear."

Hoj: "Excuse me?"

Hol: "You know what I see? I see a project left in the dust. Sephiroth hasn't left Shinra for years. He's leashed. He's broken. He sees ghosts because someone damaged him too far."

Hoj: "Rumors."

Hol: "Perhaps but why hasn't he left Midgar? Why is he stuck behind a desk? Why are my projects fighting?"

[pause]

Hol [cont.]: "…and yours is not?"

Hoj: "Sephiroth is the perfect monster."

Hol: "I think you are the one who needs to check your bias."

[Chair scrapes.]

Hol [cont.]: "Until next time, Professor."

[End of Excerpt. End of Interview recording at 00:05:59. Transcribed by R&DGeneralStaffID#133. Reviewed and verified by Professor Hojo and Professor Hollander.]