[Fizzygoo]

Your thoughts on what "One of Mitsuhama's pet biotech projects" (CG pg 110+) is...

[CanRay]

Proof that being an "Out Of The Closet" Technomancer is still not a healthy thing.

[Angelone]

Halberstams revenge.

[MK Ultra]

It seems the 'Rose Garden' is MCT´s technomancer research project. Aparently they are using pretty invasive methods there ... as CanRay hinted at.

The Harvesting the Thorns reference would mean (to me, at least) that they are using the dissonant TMs, while they are taking apart the resonant once. In my interpretation, it is also hinted at, that they may employ PAX or some other members of Ex Pacis in this project, she was nack deep into Otaku-research before the crash, after all.

I´m not sure where the Halberstam refference comes from, though it makes sense. I remember reading some other name for MCT´s top TM-vivisectionist in Emergence, but maybe that was an alias?

Edited for propper Cehnehdiehns - sry couldnt resist

[CanRay]

It's CanRay thank you very much.  One word, with an "Eh" like a proper Canadian.   

Halberstam was involved with the early part of it, using a pseudonym that was an anagram of his name.  Like FastJack, I was wondering where I had seen that before...

[Valashar]

Halberstam = Project Matrix Born director back in pre-Otaku days. Basically he had a bunch of children's brains wired up in jars growing up with the matrix as the only 'real world' they knew (I believe this was part of the Threats sourcebook).

Halberstam was THE hot egghead to have around the time otaku started popping up, due to him having the most understanding of 'how the hell is this possible and how can we exploit it'. When he got extracted by I-forget-who, he changed his name to Shalbermat, an anagram of his old name.

Dr. Shalbermat would turn up as the project head of MCT's technomancer research program, then later die in 2070 at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Hong Kong

[Angelone]

We don't really know if he's dead or not. He might just have been really f'ed up. Pax is another suspect who I admittedly didn't think of. What was Friday's specialty again? I still think she's bumming around with Pax.

[CanRay]

Dr. Shalbermat would turn up as the project head of MCT's technomancer research program, then later die in 2070 at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Hong Kong

Never believe someone is dead until you've ripped their skull out and beaten them to death with it while they're screaming "THIS DOESN'T SEEM PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE!!!"

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Fatality.

[Crimsondude]

What was Friday's specialty again? I still think she's bumming around with Pax.

Is she?

[Angelone]

My pet theory anyway, someone's gonna write otherwise to spite me.

[MK Ultra]

I don´t know. Winternight in general was very much anti-Matrix and Fry in particular had a pathological fear of the matrix.

I think I remember that there was a rather big controversy in the group whether to ally with ExPacis or not, to destroy the matrix (Pax didn´t tell them, that she really wanted to change it, but not destroy it, IIRC) - though I don´t recall, who was on which side of the discussion.

They had this Berserker & God BTLs going on, but otherwise they didn´t do anything matrix related, to the point that they wouldn´t even use it for communication of any kind. Winternights other technical fields of interest where Drones (their primary means of communication, by remote delivery of datachips) and WMDs (nukes, Surtr nanites & Ymir chemical agents).

[Longshot23]

The Rose Garden could be a Ryumyo-instigated project, given that MCT is the closest-affiliated of the mega-Japanacorps.  Still, it partially seems like an attempt to recoup losses after the Hong Kong hospital travesty.