Message #311513

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-==IC: Regulus==-
"More than you know.  Let me explain.

"You may or may not have heard about my...experiments.  As we are nearing the final stages of my project, I've been tracking down as many of our kind as I can and bringing them onboard--it's complicated stuff, and pitifully few humans are competent enough to even sweep the floors in the place, especially what with the sabotage and assasinations we deal with.  For a while, it was normal stuff--once in a while we'd lose a symbiont, but nine times out of ten they'd take on a host already working the project, and that was that.  But lately--things have gotten bad.

"My host's name is Amarus Zagrene, Lord Regulus.  It's the first time the title's been passed to a member not of the Regulus line, and the first time in 150 years I had to take on a host that I did not help create.  When it happened...let's just say that if it weren't for Jarvis and the others of our kind on staff, I--the real me--would not have survived.  Someone's figured us out, and they're targetting, and killing us--permanently.  Those names I mentioned, I was considering inviting them into the program when they were killed.  Someone does not want this to go through, and more specifically, they don't want us to be involved with it--unjoined human deaths are down almost ninety percent from ten years ago, and falling.  That'd be a god thing, except the total number of deaths--including my own--have risen since then.

"That's why I called Wright at Infinitus, I arranged a meeting in Colorado, someplace I knew neither of us could be assasinated, and I was going to give him some very explicit instructions as to my requirements.  He's said to be the best, and I had hoped that he could stem the tide long enough to finish the project and catch the killer.  But somehow, someone managed to reverse-track my call and give the number to MI5.  The director--who's a complete buffoon, by the way, or at least he was--has been taken by a symbiont, according to my intelligence, an unusually uncooperative one.  If he's somehow in league with the killers, he's in a prime position to expose us to the world, and, more importantly, to the intelligence community.  If worse comes to worse, I'd rather the world know than just them; in public, we can appeal to the idealists and philosophers who would argue for our rights, in private, we'd be completely at their mercy.  Add to this the nationwide manhunt for terrorist Kaze Hikari--who almost HAS to be a symbiote if half of the things the CIA knows about him are true--and we have a perfect recipe for the destruction of our species.

"So, now I must ask you: do you trust Infinitus?  If he's trustworthy, then he's our best bet for protection; at the very least, he's someone we want on our side, not the enemy's.  What job did he ask you to do, anyway?  In case you haven't noticed, I've got a special forces strike team at my disposal, and I can keep them active out in the field for up to three more weeks."