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The dark? Hm, this lady might know something about the well.

"I would like to try crossing over. I'm not sure if I can breathe over there, so I might not be able to stay." I try to enter the wall of water.

I transfer a test subject brain into Tarantula, then apply my post-implantation treatment and assign it an assistant. If the new rooms are completed, I transfer it into one of them. Otherwise it can probably be in a normal room for a day or two.

Then I devise tests to determine the combat bodies' physical capabilities: strength, speed, stability, endurance, carrying capacity, dexterity with weapons, hand-to-hand combat ability, and anything else that strikes me as important in a military setting. They should be tested each day, so I am able to compare the combat bodies at the same levels of implantation adaptation, and ideally extrapolate the data to predict the bodies' performance when the brain is fully used to it. Hopefully I'll be able to use the data to make decisions sooner and get renegadelobster into his body faster.

If I have any time left, I give a test subject IR-sensing organs (probably around the eyes) and the implantation treatment. I provide the assistant with a Bunsen burner and some ceramic balls (or any set of small fire-safe objects I have around the lab), then instruct them to periodically heat up some of the balls out of sight of the subject and test whether the subject can identify the ones that had been heated by IR vision.

I also contact my agent and request some spherical iron magnets and identical-looking iron balls for magnetovision training. The assistant should be able to determine which ones are magnets, then bring them into the room with the subject and test how well they can identify them. That should speed up the process a bit via external validation.

I tell my agent that I'd like to be able to fill the room with flames as a last ditch security measure. That's probably the only notable system I'd need.

I remove Chimera from the nutrient slurry and transfer a human test subject's brain to it, then apply the post-implantation adaption virus and assign a non-squeamish assistant to help it and monitor its progress. As the smallest combat body, it probably won't be a breakout risk at least until it's more coordinated (shouldn't be much stronger than a pony or something), so it can go in a regular room for now.

Next I get to work on extra senses, this time focusing on IR detection. It might have more use in battle than magnetoreception.

If I complete that, it's back to neurotoxin. I've been thinking and it's probably best to develop this as a wielded weapon instead of a biological ability. That way I can have trusted assistants testing it, and I can ramp up the deadliness to skin contact levels without as much worry. And I can probably get a much longer range on a weapon. I start devising a neurotoxin weapon and a virus that grants resistance to it. I still want my soldier and any testers to be immune. Also probably myself. But I'm not injecting myself with anything until I know the virus works as intended. I've seen what these things can do when something goes wrong.

But isn't that still what happens in 3+ party systems? Just with two big coalitions instead of two big parties.

I test my implantation adaption tech on the three-armed subject, getting an assistant to do the necessary praising. I also check up on the subject who got magnetoreception, and theorize whether my current tech would help them adjust to their new senses. If I think it might, I give him an injection and a praising assistant as well.

Thinking about it now, the jellyfish cells are probably a little unnecessary. I got a little carried away there. Future defense mechanism research should probably focus on poison spines, which seem most likely to be relevant in armored combat. I get started researching sturdy poisonous spines and fast-acting neurotoxins.

I also ask the company to reinforce three of the rooms we keep subjects in. If these test subjects are here unwillingly then I should take precautions before giving them superhuman strength.

((I'm pretty sure I've killed more things than anyone else. Just not very many humans.))

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Today I monitor progress on the combat bodies as well as the three-armed test subject. If I have progressed enough on magnetoreception to grant it to a subject, I do that. For a human it would probably be useful to have detection in the hands and feet, and maybe at various joints. If magnetoreception needs more work, I get that work done and then give the sense to a test subject.

If I have more time after dealing with magnetoreception, I start theorizing about my implantation adaption tech. Our bodies have some sort of biological process they go through as we become coordinated. Maybe I just have to speed that up, or amplify it. Perhaps nudging more neurons into an adaptable state? If I get a working product and the three-armed subject has healed, I give it to him.