Project MOBILE TOTEM/ACRO THRALL Megadump 02

To: AdMechanicus@hydralabs.biohackers.me

From: Orkrest@umbra-6.cyberpunks.me

Subject: I have some concerns.

I have been looking over the data you have sent us about your version of the MOBILE TOTEM project called ACRO THRALL, and some of the things I have read are concerning. It says here in log 16.097.77 that you have made the following enhancements to the subject:

Cognitive modifications that allow the subject to feel pain but be unable to react to it.
Congitive modifications that allow the subject to be unable to control its own actions yet still be fully aware of what is happening to it.
A remote command module wired directly to the cortex.

It almost seems as if you are trying to make the subjects suffer on purpose. Do you mind explaining this to us?

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To: Orkrest@umbra-6.cyberpunks.me

From: AdMechanicus@hydralabs.biohackers.me

Subject: RE: I have some concerns.

Ah yes. Project: ACRO THRALL. You see, unlike you cowards, we have been working on something more hardcore here. We have been taking dark elves from the ongoing riots over that one being shot in the back by the archers in the city guard. Since the authorities have given them to us for punishment, we have decided to turn them into servitors.

Basically, biomechanical slaves to use as we see fit. We actually have a few of them that have been bought by the denizens of Mordor. We are actually packaging them up for shipping now as a matter of fact. We can send you a few for free if you like. Just say the word.

Cheers.

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Guild of Biomancers Middle Earth Project: ACRO THRALL Status Log No. 17.098.42

The Guild of Technomancers has requested a batch of the Acro Thralls be sent to them. Batch 7 will be transferred to the Guild of Technomancers UMBRA-6 Facility in Gondor. Batch 6 has been transferred to the clients in Mordor as ordered.

What was rather odd was the fact that Mordor wanted their Acro Thralls to be implanted with the knowledge to operate and use various implements of torture and weapons such as a variety of whips, blades, maces, the rack, etc. We don't know what they are planning but it is probably best that we don't know.--

Guild of Technomancers Middle Earth Project: MOBILE TOTEM Research Log No. 13.158.21

We have received the "Acro Thralls" that the Guild of Biomancers sent us today. One of them will be sent to the research facility to be looked at. We want to confirm what the Guild of Biomancers is claiming about them is true. 

4 will be assigned to work with the MOBILE TOTEM Project and finally, the rest will be assigned to other projects. We do suspect that the Guild of Biomancers is not lying about selling their Acro Thralls since they have been known to openly work with slavers.--

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The following was found on a Guild of Biomancers Website:

"The Guild of Biomancers is making their Acro Thralls available to the public. Visit market.acrothralls.me for details on how to get your very own thrall to do your bidding. We accept custom requests."

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Guild of Biomancers Middle Earth Project: ACRO THRALL Research Log No. 16.097.78

There has been something unusual happening to the latest batch of Acro Thralls. One of them was reported to be acting erratically after one of the slaves it was trying to tame attacked it. It started to speak unintelligible and incoherent nonsense and could not be made to stop.

Although we cannot currently confirm what it causing this, the working theory is that when the Acro Thrall was struck in the head by the unruly slave, it somehow caused pieces of its past self to resurface. Now this should be impossible since the Enthrallment Process should have completely wiped that free from the brain.

This is currently being looked into and we are going to see if this defect is in the next batch in production too. If it is, then there is a fundamental flaw in our Enthrallment Process. We will have to rethink how to fix this going forward.--

Guild of Biomancers Middle Earth Project: ACRO THRALL Research Log No. 16.097.79

We might have some complications that need to be dealt with. 7 of our dark elf subjects had to be terminated due to them attempting to escape the ACRO THRALL Labs. Going forward we will have to determine if additional punishment is needed to break the more rebellious subjects.

To facilitate this, we are going to have a few orc slavers from the Whipmaster Tribe on hand to lash those subjects into submission. It matters not if their bodies are damaged by the whips since we can heal them easily. Those dark elf subjects must know they are thralls and will be thralls until they die.

As for what happened to those 7 subjects, we harvested their bodies for the fresh materials and made sure that the other subjects saw and heard the entire process as a warning. The harvesting process is extremely painful and this is unavoidable.--

Guild of Biomancers Middle Earth Project: ACRO THRALL Research Log No. 16.097.80

A potential breakthrough might have been made. We have been experimenting with necromancy to see if we can remove the memories of the subjects by terminating them and reviving them as zombies as a part of the enthrallment process. So far the results have been promising.

The subjects we have been using for these experiments have been ones who have been sentenced to death. Those condemned criminals have been handed over to us as we told the authorities we could make good use of their bodies. The zombification process has given us a near blank slate that we can plant new memories into.

We will work on the pain processing and remote controlling of them later. However since this is a brand new path of research, it is highly unlikely we have a viable result anytime soon.--

Guild of Biomancers Middle Earth Project: ACRO THRALL Status Log No. 17.098.43

Batches 8, 9, and 10 have been sent to an undisclosed client. It's not that we are not allowed to disclose it, we literally do not know who it is. These were unusual requests since the client asked to have them made so that they will not fight back but still be able to experience fear. Also the client asked to keep their ability to scream intact too.

After inquiring further, the client said they are to be practice subjects to train torturers. While this is a bit questionable, we have been offered quite a bit of coin for these acro thralls. So who are we to refuse? We did receive a nearly identical request from a group of slavers to train the new recruits on how to punish slaves and we will give them batch 11.

Batch 11 is currently being enthralled as this log is being written.--

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To: AdMechanicus@hydralabs.biohackers.me

From: GondArms@anonmail.me

Subject: Vanguard Thralls.

We are currently seeking to acquire 10 of your acro thralls to serve as a vanguard force in our army. Our troops are unwilling to do the job so we need something else to do it for us. We would have gone to the Guild of Technomancers to get some of their MOBILE TOTEM Cyborg Elves but it was determined that it would not be good for troop morale.

We need them to be unable to feel fear but they also need to be given experience in the art of shock trooper combat. Can you do that for us? A payment of 250,000 gold is our offer.

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To: GondArms@anonmail.me

From: AdMechanicus@hydralabs.biohackers.me

Subject: RE: Vanguard Thralls.

We can do that. I can send you some experimental acro thralls that would be suitable for combat in a Vanguard force. We are currently looking into using necromancy to prevent the death of acro thralls and we can send you some for a field test. You can report back to us how they fare in combat.

We will send out our one and only batch of them. Hope to hear back on how it works out for you.

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Guild of Biomancers Middle Earth Project: ACRO THRALL Status Log No. 17.098.44

I don't know what the hell is going on but we have been given a request to create some child acro thralls. Normally we would flat out deny this but an obscene amount of money has been offered. We have never been offered this much coin for a batch of acro thralls.

It seems that they need children because small bodies are required for the type of work they intend to put them to. Normally getting these would be next to impossible but it just happens that we have a few that were arrested for the kidnapping and murder of an infant. Their excuse was that it was revenge for an alleged hate crime.

I guess they didn't realize that the incident they referenced was proved to be a complete fabrication. Well, they will certainly be regretting their actions now. They are being prepared for enthrallment.--

Guild of Biomancers Middle Earth Project: ACRO THRALL Status Log No. 17.098.45

The latest batch of acro thralls has been sent to a hospital to serve as training materials for upcoming surgeons. Our profits from the acro thralls has been massive. This is proving to be quite lucrative. We will continue to sell acro thralls to the public because there is quite a bit of demand for them.

Of course traditional slaves are still the dominant product in the slave trade but acro thralls are catching up. We have decided to build an acro thrall factory in an undisclosed location far away from any population. It will still be under the control of Project: ACRO THRALL at Research Lab Hydra of course.--

Guild of Biomancers Middle Earth Project: ACRO THRALL Research Log No. 16.097.83

Well this is an unusual turn of events. The dwarves have sent us a few specimens of the rare dark skinned sub-species of dwarf. They claim that these are more hardy then regular dwarves and thus could be viable for enthrallment. We are going to test that claim.

As such, we have set up a new ACRO THRALL lab at Research Lab Aether since elves and dwarves don't get along that well. If their claim turns out to be true, then we will have a new line of acro thralls to sell. Unlike elves, dwarves are suited for different applications such as mining.--

Guild of Biomancers Middle Earth Project: ACRO THRALL Research Log No. 16.097.84

The dwarves claims are indeed true. We report that the specimens received have been successfully enthralled. We will begin soliciting for more of the dark dwarves immediately. We honestly didn't thing that they would survive the process but everything went smoothly.

If there is one thing that we can confirm though, they are a hand full. Takes awhile to whip them into submission. Thankfully the Whipmaster Orc Tribe is willing to help with that.--

Guild of Biomancers Middle Earth Project: ACRO THRALL Status Log No. 17.098.49

Progress on the Acro Thrall Factory is going smoothly. As of now, neither the dark elves or dark dwarves are aware of this factory and we intend to keep it that way. We already had to eliminate a few activists in both groups who got too close finding out about it.

The Acro Thrall Factory will be split into two halves with elves on one half and dwarves on the other. They have been known to fight each other due to the fact that the dark ones tend to be involved in a majority of the gang activity in Middle Earth. There is rumors going around that one of those activist groups is running some kind of illegal grift. If this is true we will have a large group of them to put in the factory once it is finished.--

Guild of Biomancers Middle Earth Project: ACRO THRALL Status Log No. 17.098.55

The Acro Thrall Factory is complete. The activist group known as DLM, has been found guilty of fraud and everyone involved in the group has been given to us for enthrallment. We have taken them to the factory and they are being broken as this log is being written.

We made a few deals with various orc slaver groups to staff the factory and serve as both guards and whipmasters to break their wills. This should be enough to help us make a decent profit. Though these activist ones are tough to break. But we WILL break them even if we have to torture one or two of them to death.

The Guild of Technomancers has asked us to send them some more acro thralls and deliver them to ALPHA-1. So we will do that. This time they are going to use them for their MOBILE TOTEM project. Apparently they want to see if they can make a series of combat servitors.--

Guild of Biomancers Middle Earth Project: ACRO THRALL Status Log No. 17.098.58

Good news regarding the DLM activists we have at the Acro Thrall Factory. After the orcs on staff tore the limbs off a few off them on the rack, the rest are falling in line. They are no longer rebelling. A new batch of them have been delivered to the factory just today. Apparently a small group was trying to revive the scam and the authorities caught wind of it.

These are going to be taken to the breeding facility in the factory. This way we have some that can be raised as obedient acro thralls which will work at the factory alongside the regular personnel and orcs. Acro thralls are slaves after all and we are not opposed to making extensive use of them unlike the Guild of Technomancers who make use of them very little.

Access to the Acro Thrall Factory will be limited to people we trust not to leak out information about it.--

Guild of Biomancers Middle Earth Project: ACRO THRALL Status Log No. 17.098.59

We have been receiving applications to work in the ACRO THRALL project from some people who seem to think we are motivated by some kind of racial agenda. We of course rejected all of them because we are not selecting who we use based on racial politics. We are selecting them because they are the ones who can survive the enthrallment process intact.

On that note, most of the activist groups who are against this program we simply ignore. It is only the ones who actively try to sabotage us that we actually go after. And while it is true we have taken in criminals for enthrallment, we do not actively seek them out. The authorities actually give them to us. We will have to clear up the misinformation being spread about this.--

Guild of Technomancers Middle Earth Project: MOBILE TOTEM Research Log No. 13.158.25

The Guild of Biomancers has delivered to us the latest set of acro thralls. We intend to use their heads to see if we can combine a few with the MOBILE TOTEM bodies. This will take place in the new MOBILE TOTEM lab set up in ALPHA-1. From the data shared with us, we think these acro thralls can be turned into cybernetic warriors that can be controlled remotely like drones. So we are going to augment these acro thralls and test for just that. 

We did not approve of having to pay for them like common slaves at the market. But this is something we have no control over. The Guild of Biomancers runs Project: ACRO THRALL, not us. So whatever they say, goes. It's funny how they seem to think this is the most normal thing in the world when it is actually quite unusual even for them. But there is obviously a method to their madness. So who are we to interfere?--

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To: AdMechanicus@hydralabs.biohackers.me

From: GondArms@anonmail.me

Subject: Report on the Zombie Acro Thralls.

Hello, we have used the zombified acro thralls you sent us and there are some complications. It seems when the bodies are struck with weapons, they ceased to function. They are still active but they are not combat ready anymore.

I am not sure if it was the enthrallment process combined with whatever spell you are using to keep them undead. But you can find the details in the attached report.

Attached File: ZOM_ACRO_REPORT.tar.7z

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To: GondArms@anonmail.me

From: AdMechanicus@hydralabs.biohackers.me

Subject: RE: Report on the Zombie Acro Thralls.

Thanks for the report. We are unsure about what happened too. We will have to look further into this as it cannot be a magical conflict. It might be the condition of the bodies at the time of enthrallment.

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Guild of Biomancers Middle Earth Project: ACRO THRALL Research Log No. 16.097.86

One of our clients has reported back on our experimental Zombie Acro Thralls, and things didn't work out. According to the report they sent us, it seems that they lost all of their memories on how to fight the moment they sustained heavy weapons damage. Now from we know, that should be impossible since the according to the report, the heads were not damaged at all.

While we do not suspect that a flaw in the necromantic enchantments is to blame, just to make sure, we are going to ask a necromancer we know to look at it. Right now the working theory is that the memories are still there but have been pushed to the back of the mind because the brain of the acro thrall is not aware that it can still fight on with even with the body damaged like it was in the report. We will have to make it aware of the advantages of being undead to fix this.--

Guild of Biomancers Middle Earth Project: ACRO THRALL Research Log No. 16.097.88

Our necromancer friend got back to us and confirmed that there is nothing wrong with the enchantment we are using. So that is one possible cause ruled out. This makes out working theory that the acro thrall's mind is not aware of being undead the more likely answer to this problem.

So we are going to work on addressing this by planting the knowledge of what it is like to be an undead being into the next batch of zombie acro thralls. This will be the second batch of these acro thralls that we have made so far. Though this is going to take awhile since we have more important matters to take care of such as the Acro Thrall Factory security.--