Day by Day Armageddon: Shattered Hourglass
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Kil moved everything he owned onboard his boat before his baby was born; he moved everything he loved onboard after.
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SUBJ: TIANJIN FACILITY HARDWARE EXPLOITATION EFFORTS
RMKS: IN THE PAST YEAR SINCE THE RETURN OF HOURGLASS, COG SCIENTISTS HAVE MADE SIGNIFICANT STRIDES IN THE EXPLOITATION OF RECOVERED MINGYONG HARDWARE. AFTER EXTENSIVE DNA TESTING ON CHANG’S RECOVERED REMAINS, WE HAVE DETERMINED THAT ALTHOUGH GENETICALLY ENHANCED/EVOLVED, CHANG WAS HUMAN. DATA CUBE INTERPRETATION THROUGH THE EXTRAPOLATION OF PROBABLE CHINESE LINGUISTICS HAS ENABLED REASONABLY ACCURATE ESTIMATIONS OF CHANG’S TIMELINE ORIGIN AND OTHER REVELATIONS RELATING TO THE MINGYONG ANOMALY.
CONTROLLED NEVADA SPECIMEN TESTING AND RECOVERED DATA HAVE DETERMINED THAT THE MINGYONG ANOMALY IS NINETY-SEVEN PERCENT ACTIVE/EFFECTIVE WHEN INFECTING EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE FORMS, WHILE ONLY FORTY-FOUR PERCENT ACTIVE/EFFECTIVE WHEN INFECTING HUMANS.
INSIDE EXTRACTED ICE CORES, TRACE AMOUNTS OF CHANG’S MINGYONG MATERIAL WAS CONFIRMED PRESENT 20,000 YEARS DOWN INTO THE STRATA. THIS SUGGESTS THAT EARTH’S MODEST BIPED POPULATION OF THAT ERA, COMBINED WITH THE LESSER EVOLVED DNA CONFIGURATIONS, MITIGATED THE EFFECTS OF THE ANOMALY TO NEAR ZERO. THE MINGYONG ANOMALY WAS REJECTED, SELF DEACTIVATED, AND BURIED UNDER CENTURIES OF STRATUM. MINGYONG TRACES RECOVERED FROM SAMPLES VERIFY THAT THE ANOMALY [POSSIBLY AN ADVANCED FUTURE BIOWEAPON] WAS NOT ENGINEERED TO SURVIVE OUTSIDE OF A VIABLE HOST (CHANG) OR OUTSIDE ADVANCED PROPRIETARY CONTAINMENT SYSTEMS.
RECOVERED CONTAINERS:
THE RED TIANJIN FOOTBALL, HEAVILY DAMAGED IN THE DIRECTED ENERGY EVENT THAT LIKELY BROUGHT DOWN CHANG’S SHIP, IS CONFIRMED TO POSSESS HYPER-CONCENTRATED TRACE AMOUNTS OF THE MINGYONG ANOMALY.
THE UNDAMAGED BLUE TIANJIN CONTAINER HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF INTENSE RESEARCH AND DEBATE, AFTER MORE DATA ILLUMINATING THE DAMAGED RED TIANJIN CONTAINER WAS DISCOVERED. EXCEPTIONAL EFFORTS ARE UNDERWAY TO DEVELOP A VIABLE AIR BURST DELIVERY METHOD, HOWEVER TESTING HAS NOT YET BEEN AUTHORIZED.
OTHER DATA EXTRACTED FROM THE TIANJIN SITE IS AVAILABLE THROUGH SEPARATE COMPARTMENTED INFORMATION REPORTING CHANNELS.
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