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EXPERIMENT LOG IXDC90-56C
CLASSIFICATION - TOP SECRET - EYES ONLY
SUBJECT: SORORITAS

OPENING LOG...

TEST NO. 134 - MEDIUM PRIORITY [TAU]
SUBJECT - SCOPIUM

COMMENCING...

INITIATING DICTATION SOFTWARE...

VOICE RECOGNISED: DOCTOR HARIS NJAL L'KORRIAL - DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS AT SITE [REDACTED]

RECORDING

HARIS -(Clears throat) All right then, shall we begin?
HARIS - Doctor Haris Njal L'Korrial, Experiment number one hundred and thirty-four.
HARIS - Subject is codenamed Scopium, one point two metres in height, twenty-six kilograms; appears to be a small human girl of no more that six years of age.
HARIS - As per orders from the High Commander Biologica [REDACTED], the subject and her sisters have been tested upon for bone healing, tissue regeneration and scarring.
HARIS - Currently, the subjects view our research team, myself included, with understandable hatred.
HARIS - However, threats have so far proved sufficient to obtain further data regarding personalities, opinions and memories after further physical tests were cancelled given order number thrity-two D.
HARIS - This is the first non-interview test after the incident on [REDACTED]... hopefully, there will be no casualties today -

- [UNKNOWN VOICE] Hurry up with the prologue, Doctor, we haven't got all day.

VOICE RECOGNISED: GENERAL HUJ KROUXOS - COMMANDER OF THE FIFTEENTH SPECIAL OPERATIONS DIVISION

HARIS - Yes, sir, of course.
KROUXOS - Now get on with it.
HARIS - Yes, sir - the current test involves live fire and a live target, in which we hope to test the subject's attitude towards killing.
HARIS - Live target is convicted criminal [REDACTED], male of fourty years, sentenced to death for treason.
HARIS - Target has been drugged enough to lose perception of his surroundings, but still lucid enough to remain standing.
HARIS - While the subject has shown impressive talent at hitting targets as far away as six kilometres without requiring a scope, this will be her first live target.
KROUXOS - Doctor, get me a connection with the subject.
HARIS - Yes, sir, patching you through now.

- [UNKNOWN VOICE] Let me go!

VOICE RECOGNISED: SUBJECT UPSILON "SCOPIUM" - SORORITAS

KROUXOS - Scopium, listen to me.
SCOPIUM - My name isn't Scopium!
KROUXOS - Whatever; Scopium, I want you to listen closely and do exactly as I say - the faster you complete your objective, the faster you get to return to your cell - I mean, room.
SCOPIUM - Objec-what?
KROUXOS - Objective, Scopium.
KROUXOS - Now, pick up that rifle.
KROUXOS - Good.
KROUXOS - I heard that you're a good shot, Scopium -
SCOPIUM - My name isn't Scopium! My name's Nazuki!
KROUXOS - (Pauses) Very well, then - Nazuki, I heard that you are very good at shooting.
SCOPIUM - If I didn't shoot your silly targets, you'd kill my sisters.
KROUXOS - Good to know you understand, then.
SCOPIUM - Who - who's that?
KROUXOS - You don't need to know, Nazuki, because that man is a traitor.
KROUXOS - Traitors only deserve one fate, and that is death.
KROUXOS - In the future, you will have the honour of killing these traitors to the Federation so that their filthy presence no longer stains our doorsteps with doubt and questions.
SCOPIUM - I can't kill him! I WON'T!
KROUXOS - You have no choice, Nazuki; your sisters' lives depend on it, remember.
KROUXOS - And don't you dare remove that headphone.
SCOPIUM - But I don't want to ki-
KROUXOS - We've been over this, Nazuki.
KROUXOS - Now raise the gun and aim.
KROUXOS - Good girl.
SCOPIUM - (Sobbing)
KROUXOS - Now fire.
SCOPIUM - Please, don't make me...
KROUXOS - Open your eyes, damn it!
SCOPIUM -I don't want to kill this man -
KROUXOS - IT'S HIM, OR YOUR SISTERS, GIRL!
KROUXOS - FIRE!!

[A single gunshot, followed by a heavy thud. Something else clatters to the floor.]

[Silence punctuated by soft crying.]

KROUXOS - Good girl. Get her back to - wait, no.
KROUXOS - Leave her with the body for the next five minutes.
KROUXOS - She must become accustomed to death.
HARIS - I'm afraid that might cause some serious repercussions if another - ah - incident, occurs again, sir.
KROUXOS - Then we'd better make sure one doesn't happen again, WON'T WE?
HARIS - Of course, sir.
KROUXOS - I have to report this success to the High Council.
HARIS - Actually, sir, our department will forward the logs and report to them immediately after the conclusion of -
KROUXOS - No, I must do so personally.
HARIS - Understood.

[Silence for one minute and two seconds.]

HARIS - Is he gone?
HARIS - Good.
HARIS - Get the girl back to the holding cell and clear that body up.
HARIS - (Clears throat) Test number one-hundred and thirty-four; official conclusion.
HARIS - The subject show considerable aversion to the act of killing, only doing so when coerced heavily.
HARIS - I personally find it unlikely that continuous exposure to killing live targets would reduce her current attitude towards it.
HARIS - It is not recommended that live-target experiments be continued with the subject or her sisters.
HARIS - Because at the end of the day, for all their skills, their power, their capability, they are mere children...
HARIS - End recording.

END OF RECORD

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