• SSG: Corruptus •
"Corruptus".
That what was written on a letter that Marco got from his mailbox, he received it before going out for a walk. Marco turned pale that same day.
"Corruptus"... Marco never heard that word before, and to be honest, he is not exactly sure it IS a word at all. He haven't been able to look into it at first time.
Marco tried to look up the word at the local library, and hung around the library for maybe a half an hour.
It's been two years since Marco left Egghead Palace and never looked back, and had to deal with the stress of being stalked by possible Government Agents, the cyrupted Den Den Mushi calls he received, the broken windows, which Marco thinks that his treatment is a way for the Agents to keep him off the track about Egghead Palace. They want him confused, scared, and most of all they want him quiet.
There's a team of men and women in suits that Marco have seen at random places. Here and there. Marco call them "The Focus Agents" because they pop up wearing suits and ties and hats and they seem to be holding clipboards and pens, taking notes about everything he does in town. The first time he noticed them, they were following him through the Market. He looped and turned, trying to be SURE they were following him... and there they were, every step of the way. Days later, Marco spotted them again from the window across his cabin.
Marco chased one down, once. The tubbiest one. They stayed silent through the entire chase and even the scuffle that ensued. When he wrenched the clipboard from his hand, he only found page after page of off-kilter, random gibberish coupled with crude symbols of the World Government emblem. All in red ink.
Marco knows it sounds insane, to say that a group of men and women in black are following him and taking nonsense notes, but I think that's the point. He thinks the idea is that it SHOULD drive him insane, and if it doesn't, he still think he'll go crazy just for talking about Egghead Palace.
It's a no-win situation.
Marco will forever regret that trip to Sphinx Island, but on the other hand he'll always be grateful to the people who have come forward, anonymously to him share their experiences at Egghead Palace including Tsuru.
Marco didn't find any books including the word Corruptus.
So what is "Corruptus"?
The next day, Marco mysteriously received a letter in his mailbox. Marco looked at the letter and read the whole thing. Word for word. It appears to be a list of reports of CORRUPTUS incidents.
-- Summation of SSG' CORRUPTUS incidents.
CORRUPTUS incidents:
- S-Room (Sphinx Island)
-- Extreme inappropriate activity with Staffs.
-- Comitted sudden-onset mass-hysteria.
-- Conspired against Staff
-- Resolved CORRUPTUS: Unidentified Pacifista Seraphims based on off of Sphinx Islanders.
Abandoned. Contained. Final.
Summary: Employeses of Egghead Palace are complaining about the Pacifista Seraphims following others around the facility. They would merge and disappear all over the place according to them. After the S-Room incident, they are left abandon and stuck in facility. One day one of the Pacifista sounded the alarm one day, everyone took shelter located in S-Room. A group of Seraphims walked to the shelter. Reports of waves of shrieks and yelps rippled through the crowd. A handful of Marines and a few patrons made it out of the shelter and exit S-Room. S-Room and Egghead Palace in general became closed complelety with the Pacifista Seraphims left inside.
- Spa Island's Pop Century Resort
-- Misplacing and moving objects.
-- Agitation/inappropriate behavior.
-- Unresolved CORRUPTUS: Wandering Pacifista entity.
Pending.
Summary: A Pacifista Seraphim started behaving weirdly after a few minutes from being awake, started dismantling working machince and Appliance, then it proceeds to kill everyone on Spa Pop Century Resort. Several Marines used stronger and powerful weapons to destroy the Seraphims. They manage to injured it badly with half its body being all crooked, burned, and damage, according to the Marines it look like some creepy machinal Entity. The Pacifista continued its rampage eventually the entire building was destroyed, the remaining scientist and Marines managed to escape. Currently and recently while Marines were scouting the destroyed building, a few Marines have reported seeing the Pacifista walking around and sometimes staring at them from afar and then dissappearing in the building's rubbles. Right now theres an ongoing disccusion on what to do with the now nicknamed "Wandering Pacifista entity".
- Sandora's River County
-- Muderous behavior.
-- Unresolved CORRUPTUS: "Clear Clear Man" aka "See-Thru Lion-Man" aka "The Fiend S-Absa".
Abandoned. Final.
Summary: A Pacifista went haywire in Sandora's River County facitiy located near Sandora's River and start tearing people apart that were near the area with his bare hands, and feed the remains to small Sea Kings luring near the river. After several of these murders, Staff then contended the Marines. A Marine Swat team started shooting him after he broke free of his hand cuffs, and turned invisible. Several men are killed but the team is able to beat the Pacifista thanks to a Marine soldier and his Observation Haki.
- PunkHazardWorks: The If Labs (2nd Floor)
-- Multiple missing staff reports regarding the Pacifista Seraphims strange behaviors.
-- Fire fatality.
-- Arson / Homicidal Behavior.
-- Unresolved CORRUPTUS: "S-Smiley".
Abandoned. Final.
Summary: The Pacifista Seraphim named S-Smiley at PunkHazardWorks facility revolt against the staff on the 2nd floor of the If Labs area. The Pacifista started a fire which engulfs the building, killing all but five Staff and two Marines, eventually the Pacifista got killed in the same fire that it started.
- Neo-Ryugu Palace
-- Homicidal tendencies
-- Misplaced and mobile objects.
-- Moderate to severe agitation/inappropriate human activity.
-- Unresolved CORRUPTUS: Inverted Pacifista Seraphim Saw-Tooth Fishman.
Abandoned. Final.
Summary: In an underground ocean lair, government scientists completed a Pacifista Saw-Tooth Fishman Seraphim in a top-secret project. A Marine warns the scientists that the Pacifista Seraphim is quickly going out of control, but was ignored which resulted the Pacifista Seraphim to going berserk and destroying the laboratory and escape. The Pacifista Seraphim Saw-Tooth Fishman didn't reach land at all and was devoured by luring Sea Kings.
- The New World Global Facility
-- Resolved CORRUPTUS: S-Crocodile
-- Resolved CORRUPTUS: S-Flamingo
Resolved. Repurposed.
Summary: Two Seraphims cause a major incident on the Rocky Port of The New World Global Facility, after being awaken inside of a lab located inside a Marine ship. The Marines protected the workers during the incident, luckliy a scientist possessed a "authority chip" which command the Seraphims to stop rampaging. The scientist put programming into the Seraphims to obey an indiviual with the authority chip, and to avoid any further Seraphim(s) rampages. Since then future Seraphims are build with a authority chip and programmed to only obey direct orders from higher ups in a hierarchical order. Anyone else must have an authority chip to command them.
It took a few readings before Marco could get his head around this. Then realized the events he had experienced were not part of an isolated incident. The events within S-Room... the Pacifista Seraphims... they seem like part of a much larger problem. What is "Corruptus?", Corrupted Pacifista Seraphims.
Did every worker in Egghead Palace have to create such a terrifying groups of Cyborgs? How desperate the Marines' Special Science Group are on the day, they decided to create the Pacifista units with the intention of replacing the Seven Warlords of the Seas as one of the Three Great Powers, and constructed S-Room, and taken many Sphinx Islanders, who were confused, or scarred for life when they become part of the Pacifista Seraphim project?
These are questions Marco will never able to get answer. He doesn't know if anyone can. Speaking personally, this will probably be the last time Marco will think about Egghead and everything he have learned about it.
Marco thought that's why they went out of their way to keep the public in the dark about so much about the Pacifista Seraphims. Why they covered and bullied to get their way. The World Government didn't want anything like THESE events getting out.