Lemuria by John Triptych

Author:John Triptych [Triptych, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J Triptych Publishing
Published: 2018-09-18T04:00:00+00:00

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T HE HOTEL'S PENTHOUSE suite had four large bedrooms linked by an activity room, along with an attached kitchenette, but only one man was occupying them. Despite the bright, sunny afternoon outside, all the curtains had been drawn and the overhead lights turned off, leaving the suite's interior in an air-conditioned sterile twilight, the only illumination coming from the laptop monitor showing the recorded videos of Project Proteus and its head scientist.

Kazimir Morgenstern held a glass of champagne in his left hand while watching the video. He had taken off his suit and now wore a custom-made polo shirt and loose slacks while skimming through most of the recorded files, only playing the most relevant parts in order to truly understand what his brother had done with all that money.

The videos contained Dr. Lauren Reeves's personal log, and the first entry showed her wearing a perfectly pressed lab smock over a formal blouse. "Thanks to the generosity of the Morgenstern Group, I now have the funds and the technological means to apply my new discoveries and techniques in a controlled environment, without any outside interference. These recordings will provide a record of my personal views during the whole project."

Kazimir took another sip of the sparkling beverage. Brilliant woman and not bad looking either. Pity she's probably dead now.

"I hereby present Project Proteus," Lauren's recording said. "Why do I call it that? Well, Proteus is a Greek primordial sea god who symbolized change and mutability, and I thought it was a very fitting name for it. What I plan to do would change the very nature of genetic engineering and break through the limits of our capabilities. If I succeed, this will bring about a whole new scientific era, one in which human beings can live forever, in perfect, custom-designed bodies suitable for any environment."

Kazimir fast forwarded the video when she began explaining the ethical aspects. He didn't need to listen to any of that.

The new video entry showed a picture montage of the inner laboratory under construction with Lauren's voice serving as narrator. "I'm well aware of the costs, but Emeric is with me all the way, and his support is invaluable to get to where we're at. I've already done interviews with Fukiyama and Ostermann, and they have agreed to join my team. Dr. Ostermann took a bit more convincing, but the opportunity for fame and the money finally won him over. This is a dream team of the world's top genetics researchers, and I can't wait to get started."

Kazimir thrust out his lower lip as he played another entry. What a disaster this is turning out to be. He had always known Lauren to be a genius in what she did, yet she was also too single minded, for she tended to overlook many obvious things like security redundancies and failsafe protocols in case something went wrong. She never married, and her own colleagues felt she had inadequate social skills.

"Editing of the human genome is a fairly straightforward process once you have everything mapped out," Lauren said in the eighth video of the series.

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