According to my findings of the human remains found in the building in Cannock, the explosion actually eminated from the body of the man. The trajectory of the explosion that Wedge determined from the charred mess of the lab confirms that the explosion originated from where the researcher was standing. My analysis of the tissues clearly indicate and outwards force - literally blowing the man apart from the inside out. The only positive I can deduce is that the man wouldn't have felt being torn apart, as it happened too quickly for the nerves to register in the brain.
There is evidence of an external (from the body's tissues) explosive device, but I can say with certainty that it didn't cause the damage. I assume it was placed there to create an illusion of the researcher being killed by a bomb attached to his person. Methias is the obvious perpetrator. He burnt his symbol into the wall. He isn't being secretive about what it is he is doing, but he wants to cover up his real actions by faking evidence to make us believe one thing instead of another.
Wedge maintains her position of presenting as if we have bought his fake evidence. I agree with her - if we make it out that we only know what he wants us to know, then we will have an advantage of seeing what he really is unravelling without alerting him to our understanding. That way he won't try harder to cover up. But the thing that is getting me is that what if this is what he is intending? That code that we found was encrypted well enough to keep us out - so how could he do something that well, to keep us out, if his murders are this sloppy? Well, I consider them sloppy. The true evidence for me isn't that hard to find. But it just makes me think that we're not secretly taking an advantage, but swallowing what he has planned out.
Tharis has located a research partner in Peterborough. They might be able to give us some clue as to what he was researching - as all research, including data, has gone. That was one thing Methias did well. I have contacted Peterson to arrange a meeting. He deals with the human public better than I. He and Hutchinson are going to get back to me soon with a place and time. I have packed ready to go.
I want to know why this person was targeted, what he taught Methias, but more importantly - how he died exactly. I doubt his partner could tell me much about the last one, but it really intrigues me. There wasn't enough remains to test for the same virus that Skarin, the Beast of Dartmoor, had.
Wednesday, 7 November 2012
Tuesday, 4 September 2012
Examination
I have completed a preliminary examination of the Dartmoor Beast, here after refered to as Skarin.
Initially I have conducted the examination under sedation. Upon first look, the creature seemed in good health. However after looking closer at the skin, it appears he has recently encountered someone or something that has caused great pain. There are numerous scars, most fresh, where the skin has been torn. I have taken a sample of this scar tissue and surrounding tissue for later analysis. I have noticed many swollen injection sites, which leads me to think that this was done by a sophisticated being - and humans I doubt would have the ability to capture him, and I know wouldn't release him. That leaves one option.
I have drawn blood to analyse thoroughly; I intend to do many more tests on it than I originally planned because of the evidence that Methias has injected him with something. I also have initialised quarantine procedures, and so I conducted the rest of the examination in full gear. I placed a neural mapping device on his head, and left the confinement room to allow him to awaken.
While the device recorded his neural patterns, I put his bloods through the scanner. I'll forgo the analysis, but there was one thing I have to bring up. A virus.
We were right. It's a virus, and it was created by Methias. How can I tell? It's not an organism. It has biological elements, but it was definitely contructed in a lab. There are machinery parts, microscopic technology, intwined in their workings. I called Wedge to come and have a look, and we sat down and nutted it all out. Arthur came too, since he was awoken by Wedge getting up. He didn't really follow- he was more asleep I think - but Wedge suddenly became very concerned. Arthur went and got Alastor, and we lay out all the evidence collected thus far.
The Nanotechnology expert - creating the pieces of the virus. The medical speicalist? Creating the virulent virus base. Arthur asked how the bombs fitted in with it - and that left me stumped for a bit. But I examined the virus 'cell' individually and discovered that at its core, was a small amount of the nuclear concoction we found earlier that Methias found. Each cell - containing an explosive poison. If the amount in each cell was released into the blood stream, the heavy elements would poison the victim. Since the virus was already in the blood stream - it would be fairly instant. But that's not what concerns me most. No, what concerns me is the program that I found within the machinery - the program that was written by the IT coders, that instructs the virus to collate inside the body into one massive lump and release the substance at once. Arthur didn't get it, but Wedge was shocked. He wasn't bombing servers - that was just our distraction. He was creating nuclear weapons...in humans. Imagine it - one human, with an impossible to detect (for other humans) virus that can, within a minute, turn them into a nuclear bomb and explode a large area. My guess is about a 100m radius, based on how saturated the human system can become before shutting down.
This had become a very bad day. Good that we know of it, but horrible because of what we know. And what we don't. Alastor is going to have a look at the technology part but really - this is beyond us. None of us are engineers, or technology experts. That code - I can tell what it does, but nothing else. I can't tell how it's activated, when, why...if it is on a timer, or needs a signal, or even if it does anything else. I can only understand the end result - with Tharis' help.
Dark days ahead, I fear.
Initially I have conducted the examination under sedation. Upon first look, the creature seemed in good health. However after looking closer at the skin, it appears he has recently encountered someone or something that has caused great pain. There are numerous scars, most fresh, where the skin has been torn. I have taken a sample of this scar tissue and surrounding tissue for later analysis. I have noticed many swollen injection sites, which leads me to think that this was done by a sophisticated being - and humans I doubt would have the ability to capture him, and I know wouldn't release him. That leaves one option.
I have drawn blood to analyse thoroughly; I intend to do many more tests on it than I originally planned because of the evidence that Methias has injected him with something. I also have initialised quarantine procedures, and so I conducted the rest of the examination in full gear. I placed a neural mapping device on his head, and left the confinement room to allow him to awaken.
While the device recorded his neural patterns, I put his bloods through the scanner. I'll forgo the analysis, but there was one thing I have to bring up. A virus.
We were right. It's a virus, and it was created by Methias. How can I tell? It's not an organism. It has biological elements, but it was definitely contructed in a lab. There are machinery parts, microscopic technology, intwined in their workings. I called Wedge to come and have a look, and we sat down and nutted it all out. Arthur came too, since he was awoken by Wedge getting up. He didn't really follow- he was more asleep I think - but Wedge suddenly became very concerned. Arthur went and got Alastor, and we lay out all the evidence collected thus far.
The Nanotechnology expert - creating the pieces of the virus. The medical speicalist? Creating the virulent virus base. Arthur asked how the bombs fitted in with it - and that left me stumped for a bit. But I examined the virus 'cell' individually and discovered that at its core, was a small amount of the nuclear concoction we found earlier that Methias found. Each cell - containing an explosive poison. If the amount in each cell was released into the blood stream, the heavy elements would poison the victim. Since the virus was already in the blood stream - it would be fairly instant. But that's not what concerns me most. No, what concerns me is the program that I found within the machinery - the program that was written by the IT coders, that instructs the virus to collate inside the body into one massive lump and release the substance at once. Arthur didn't get it, but Wedge was shocked. He wasn't bombing servers - that was just our distraction. He was creating nuclear weapons...in humans. Imagine it - one human, with an impossible to detect (for other humans) virus that can, within a minute, turn them into a nuclear bomb and explode a large area. My guess is about a 100m radius, based on how saturated the human system can become before shutting down.
This had become a very bad day. Good that we know of it, but horrible because of what we know. And what we don't. Alastor is going to have a look at the technology part but really - this is beyond us. None of us are engineers, or technology experts. That code - I can tell what it does, but nothing else. I can't tell how it's activated, when, why...if it is on a timer, or needs a signal, or even if it does anything else. I can only understand the end result - with Tharis' help.
Dark days ahead, I fear.
Monday, 13 August 2012
Viral
Alastor and I have been scouring through databases to find traces of the research that the medical researcher was doing before she was killed. Some of it is rather interesting, but other pieces are just downright funny. Coming from my perspective of course.
Basically, from what we can assertain, she was researching viruses. Not looking at creating antiviruses like many people are, but rather what makes them so virulent and how to replicate that. There was some promising experiments where she was able to invade a whole culture of cells with a virus within 5 minutes. This was an altered virus, of course - altered to produce the most infectious strain of virus ever encountered. Of course, to allow for this infective ability the rest of the virus was completely useless - it didn't do anything - not even break the host cells. It only had the sequences necessary to duplicate itself, and escape from the host cell without damaging it (I'm assuming accidental side effect there, because I've seen this type of sequencing before and I know how difficult it is). Also a good idea in case it broke free.
This concerns me that Methias was looking at viruses. Or particularly, engineering a deadly infectious virus. No doubt any incriminating evidence leading to Methias' plans would not have been relayed to the main data hub. But I can only imagine what changes and modifications he has made to her research - posing as a fellow scientist.
Witham is pretty quiet apart from this task. Alastor has thoroughly checked out the building for any explosive equipment and has turned up empty pawed. He's keeping in contact with Peterson, asking what strange happenings are going on. He made the comment to me, "I like having a lackey".
I am yet to hear from Wedge or Arthur. I think I will contact them soon.
Basically, from what we can assertain, she was researching viruses. Not looking at creating antiviruses like many people are, but rather what makes them so virulent and how to replicate that. There was some promising experiments where she was able to invade a whole culture of cells with a virus within 5 minutes. This was an altered virus, of course - altered to produce the most infectious strain of virus ever encountered. Of course, to allow for this infective ability the rest of the virus was completely useless - it didn't do anything - not even break the host cells. It only had the sequences necessary to duplicate itself, and escape from the host cell without damaging it (I'm assuming accidental side effect there, because I've seen this type of sequencing before and I know how difficult it is). Also a good idea in case it broke free.
This concerns me that Methias was looking at viruses. Or particularly, engineering a deadly infectious virus. No doubt any incriminating evidence leading to Methias' plans would not have been relayed to the main data hub. But I can only imagine what changes and modifications he has made to her research - posing as a fellow scientist.
Witham is pretty quiet apart from this task. Alastor has thoroughly checked out the building for any explosive equipment and has turned up empty pawed. He's keeping in contact with Peterson, asking what strange happenings are going on. He made the comment to me, "I like having a lackey".
I am yet to hear from Wedge or Arthur. I think I will contact them soon.
Thursday, 9 August 2012
Autopsy
The body of the researcher was badly scorched, but I have handed the remains over to Peterson who is dealing with it from a 'local authories' point of view.
I have submitted my official report, but I don't know what use it will be. I know the moment I don't do it, will be the time we need it, but at times it feels like it's superfluous.
Anyway, the results indicated a 48 year old Female whose skin was actually clear (we say clear, not white, since the skin cells themselves are actually clear and free of the pigmentation that produces brown and black skin) and torched to appear black. And, unfortunately, the burning was the cause of death. I did however find some interesting traces of heavy elements in her bloodwork, but not in high enough concentrations to become toxic. It's just making me wonder how those elements got there.
Deductions? Well it's become a pattern that Methias is leaving black bodies behind - irrespective of the skin pigmentation. And it's not just males anymore. So what I've concluded about that is he wants the bodies to be black, perhaps a symbol of himself, and that he's choosing specific people now...not just someone that happened to come across his plans/equpiment (such as the Uranium).
Because the past couple of times have been specific targets, we're going to do a more thorough investigation on the person. Alastor and I are going to go to Witham and have a look through all the information stored in the database there (since that's the main database for the network of the research facilities/private labs) and see what we can find. Wedge and Arthur are going to Colchester to visit the partner laboratory, and hopefully find out more about the specific details of this person's actions over the past few weeks. Peterson has offered to go through the police database and bring back whatever records he can find on her and the research network. Wedge was reluctant, but agreed and thanked him as long it was him that did the research and not some of his staff - since our involvement has to be kept as quiet as possible.
I have submitted my official report, but I don't know what use it will be. I know the moment I don't do it, will be the time we need it, but at times it feels like it's superfluous.
Anyway, the results indicated a 48 year old Female whose skin was actually clear (we say clear, not white, since the skin cells themselves are actually clear and free of the pigmentation that produces brown and black skin) and torched to appear black. And, unfortunately, the burning was the cause of death. I did however find some interesting traces of heavy elements in her bloodwork, but not in high enough concentrations to become toxic. It's just making me wonder how those elements got there.
Deductions? Well it's become a pattern that Methias is leaving black bodies behind - irrespective of the skin pigmentation. And it's not just males anymore. So what I've concluded about that is he wants the bodies to be black, perhaps a symbol of himself, and that he's choosing specific people now...not just someone that happened to come across his plans/equpiment (such as the Uranium).
Because the past couple of times have been specific targets, we're going to do a more thorough investigation on the person. Alastor and I are going to go to Witham and have a look through all the information stored in the database there (since that's the main database for the network of the research facilities/private labs) and see what we can find. Wedge and Arthur are going to Colchester to visit the partner laboratory, and hopefully find out more about the specific details of this person's actions over the past few weeks. Peterson has offered to go through the police database and bring back whatever records he can find on her and the research network. Wedge was reluctant, but agreed and thanked him as long it was him that did the research and not some of his staff - since our involvement has to be kept as quiet as possible.
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
Another IT death
Yes, there has been another death recorded with Methias' symbol. Alastor thought that it was a server bomb that had killed him, but the blast wasn't large enough.
Local authorities believed that there was terrorist activity involved, since there was an explosion that destroyed his office. It was another man, of black skin. Methias must just like them since they look more like he does. I say like, but I guess it's not really - otherwise it wouldn't be them dying, now would it? Anyway, more to the point - we went to Peterborough to take a look. It was Arthur's first official mission as a member of Sector Nine. He's changed a fair bit, but he's still Arthur. Still has a young spirit and a kind heart. He's just more serious now about this kind of thing. I think he's more confident, now that he's had a couple of years hard training - he knows that he has the ability to help and get out of situations. He just has to learn to deal with the real world now. It would have been difficult to begin with I'd imagine, but he seems to have embraced his new bicorporal nature.
Getting back to the IT case... We arrived, and Arthur sniffed around for any more explosives (yes, Wedge has trained him to do that...and he attends our public meetings as our highly trained wolf hybrid agent. He looks slightly odd with his mane and massive size, but still wolf-like enough to pull off being a wolf hybrid to humans. It's very handy actually...). Once it was safe, we had a look. There indeed was damage done to the office, and the charred remains of a body on the floor. Burnt onto the wall was Methias' symbol.
After investigating, I concluded that the explosives were actually attached to him...but produced more heat energy than force causing the place to burn to a crisp but not be destroyed into rubble. That was interesting.
Wedge then found that his hard drives were gone. Even if they were lost in the fire, the remains would be somewhere. But there wasn't anything, and the computer itself was quite blackened to make it look like the drives had been lost in flames.
So that leaves us with another body, a hard drive missing and nuclear explosives being strapped to the country's vital servers.
What is he up to?
Local authorities believed that there was terrorist activity involved, since there was an explosion that destroyed his office. It was another man, of black skin. Methias must just like them since they look more like he does. I say like, but I guess it's not really - otherwise it wouldn't be them dying, now would it? Anyway, more to the point - we went to Peterborough to take a look. It was Arthur's first official mission as a member of Sector Nine. He's changed a fair bit, but he's still Arthur. Still has a young spirit and a kind heart. He's just more serious now about this kind of thing. I think he's more confident, now that he's had a couple of years hard training - he knows that he has the ability to help and get out of situations. He just has to learn to deal with the real world now. It would have been difficult to begin with I'd imagine, but he seems to have embraced his new bicorporal nature.
Getting back to the IT case... We arrived, and Arthur sniffed around for any more explosives (yes, Wedge has trained him to do that...and he attends our public meetings as our highly trained wolf hybrid agent. He looks slightly odd with his mane and massive size, but still wolf-like enough to pull off being a wolf hybrid to humans. It's very handy actually...). Once it was safe, we had a look. There indeed was damage done to the office, and the charred remains of a body on the floor. Burnt onto the wall was Methias' symbol.
After investigating, I concluded that the explosives were actually attached to him...but produced more heat energy than force causing the place to burn to a crisp but not be destroyed into rubble. That was interesting.
Wedge then found that his hard drives were gone. Even if they were lost in the fire, the remains would be somewhere. But there wasn't anything, and the computer itself was quite blackened to make it look like the drives had been lost in flames.
So that leaves us with another body, a hard drive missing and nuclear explosives being strapped to the country's vital servers.
What is he up to?
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Littleport
We've tightened security a little on the blogs, so at least now we can write specifics here - names, locations, data etc.
We're in Littleport, where there is a large nuclear bomb device attached to a large server hub. These servers are underground, and reletively isolated and the amount of fissionable material wouldn't cause a destruction of the entire town - but a little is still enough for it to get noticed. I have noticed traces of another materials as well as the Uranium - an unknown one, and a mixture of Lithium, Soduim, Potassium, Flourine and Chlorine. Given the nature of the other elements, I don't really need much hints as to what the unknown compound will do. Obviously, the Li Na and K are being kept separate to the F and Cl. I just don't want to be around when it does mix - since they are all in their unstable states. Very strong oxidants and reductants.
So we did put a field around the room, however it was hard to put anything there that wouldn't be noticed since it's essentially a secret underground government server base, and human governments don't like others messing about with their things.
Alastor's looking in to what these servers are actually being used for as we speak, but their jobs are often so varied that I doubt it would give us an insight as to what Methias would want out of destroying it.
As for the murder of the man in the building in Kibworth Harcourt, I assume he came across the device and to silence him he was poisoned. The poison was a standard one known to us, but undetectable to human science at this stage. So I injected some common poison that they would be able to detect so their coroner would have a cause of death.
Wedge should only be a day or two away from returning, leaving Arthur to finish another week without her their to guide him. One year learning, one year training. Hopefully not much will happen until then, because it feels a little odd working without her. Just like we're missing something... that inquisitive mind. Not that we have specific duties or anything...it's just nice to have her around.
I've also picked up on another lead that I have to divulge once I get more information.
We're in Littleport, where there is a large nuclear bomb device attached to a large server hub. These servers are underground, and reletively isolated and the amount of fissionable material wouldn't cause a destruction of the entire town - but a little is still enough for it to get noticed. I have noticed traces of another materials as well as the Uranium - an unknown one, and a mixture of Lithium, Soduim, Potassium, Flourine and Chlorine. Given the nature of the other elements, I don't really need much hints as to what the unknown compound will do. Obviously, the Li Na and K are being kept separate to the F and Cl. I just don't want to be around when it does mix - since they are all in their unstable states. Very strong oxidants and reductants.
So we did put a field around the room, however it was hard to put anything there that wouldn't be noticed since it's essentially a secret underground government server base, and human governments don't like others messing about with their things.
Alastor's looking in to what these servers are actually being used for as we speak, but their jobs are often so varied that I doubt it would give us an insight as to what Methias would want out of destroying it.
As for the murder of the man in the building in Kibworth Harcourt, I assume he came across the device and to silence him he was poisoned. The poison was a standard one known to us, but undetectable to human science at this stage. So I injected some common poison that they would be able to detect so their coroner would have a cause of death.
Wedge should only be a day or two away from returning, leaving Arthur to finish another week without her their to guide him. One year learning, one year training. Hopefully not much will happen until then, because it feels a little odd working without her. Just like we're missing something... that inquisitive mind. Not that we have specific duties or anything...it's just nice to have her around.
I've also picked up on another lead that I have to divulge once I get more information.
Tuesday, 5 June 2012
Number 3
Murder number 3. An IT professional. It seems a little out of pattern, since we were all expecting a recieving depot on the truck route to be hit next. Invites more thinking though. When I place myself in the shoes of the everday people working about the county, I can't help but get nervous. They have no idea what is going on, or that they might accidentally come across something they see as inconspicuous and then suddenly wind up dead. The only consolation is that they don't know anything about the threat. So human, to happily exist in oblivion. That's what makes it so easy to remain secret...the one thing about humans that has aided our survival and secrecy - they don't want to know. They are all happy being completely oblivious to whatever around them that doesn't suit their thinking. They are doing it about their own world - all the horrors that are being done, all the damage, but they just choose not to think about it. So if something strange appears now and again, they just ignore it. I'm sure if the general public joined the dots we would be exposed fairly easily...but no, they prefer to just ignore the whole scatterplot. There are times when I envy them.
Alastor and I are at the building where the IT man was killed. As the saying goes, two is coincidence but three's a pattern. All three have been male, all three have had black skin (well I say black, but it's really just dark brown), and their ages are within a decade of each other. So at least we can predict that the next one will also be a man between 20 and 40, and have dark skin. Where and who? Well that's the part that hasn't shown up so clearly.
The man was found in the server room. A dank, dark basement room with towers of servers for the company's system. Same mark on his chest. But the thing is, he doesn't have the radiation signature. There is a higher signal coming from the servers, but we're looking in to that as I type (Alastor is anyway). I'm hoping that Wedge is reading this, because while we aren't allowed to communicate with people in the TDAR because of time reasons...this blog doesn't count since it's not instantaneous. If you are reading this Wedge, know: read1 dev1 3425 d 453 m.i.n at rad 234mic level 10093 tan.hausts red.
The body was killed from poison, again. So two poisonings, one electroshock. No message.
We're going to invesigate the room further.
Alastor and I are at the building where the IT man was killed. As the saying goes, two is coincidence but three's a pattern. All three have been male, all three have had black skin (well I say black, but it's really just dark brown), and their ages are within a decade of each other. So at least we can predict that the next one will also be a man between 20 and 40, and have dark skin. Where and who? Well that's the part that hasn't shown up so clearly.
The man was found in the server room. A dank, dark basement room with towers of servers for the company's system. Same mark on his chest. But the thing is, he doesn't have the radiation signature. There is a higher signal coming from the servers, but we're looking in to that as I type (Alastor is anyway). I'm hoping that Wedge is reading this, because while we aren't allowed to communicate with people in the TDAR because of time reasons...this blog doesn't count since it's not instantaneous. If you are reading this Wedge, know: read1 dev1 3425 d 453 m.i.n at rad 234mic level 10093 tan.hausts red.
The body was killed from poison, again. So two poisonings, one electroshock. No message.
We're going to invesigate the room further.
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