Press green flag for full suit designs
7 AM President Sinclair arrived at the laboratory this morning. Unannounced. No scheduled meeting. No warning from security. One moment we were running crystalline analysis on a Vossium sample. The next, the laboratory doors opened and the President walked in with General Marcus Kane and six armed security officers. Sinclair didn’t ask how our research was going. He told us it was over. Effective immediately, the scientific study of Vossium is no longer our primary objective. Our laboratory has officially been reorganized as the Vossium Corps Science Division. Our new mission is simple: Build the army. Sinclair wants fifty Vossium soldiers. Not eventually. Not theoretically. He wants them built as soon as physically possible. Our division has been assigned responsibility for almost every technological component of the program. Armor. Power systems. Weapons. Neural interfaces. Life-support systems. Medical systems. Training equipment. Everything. Sinclair has already approved construction of a classified training facility.The facility will not begin full operation until the first suits are completed. General Kane will command the soldiers once they’re operational. The first suit, however, will not be a standard soldier. It will be Kane’s. The miners have recovered enough refined Vossium to construct a single full-scale command suit. Vossium Prime. Kane watched us review the material allocation this morning. He didn’t say anything. He just looked at the Vossium. I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone look at a piece of metal like that before. Like he was looking at a weapon. Sinclair then gave us our first major deadline. The armor must be capable of protecting the wearer while remaining light enough for combat. That sounds simple. It isn’t. Vossium is incredibly dense. A suit made entirely from solid Vossium would be far too heavy for a human being to operate effectively. So we’re going to have to develop a layered armor system. Vossium where protection is most important. Other lightweight materials everywhere else. Beneath the armor, we’re developing the impact-absorption system. The material won’t eliminate kinetic energy. Nothing can. Instead, a specialized gel layer will distribute the remaining force across the wearer’s body. If our calculations are correct, a soldier could survive impacts that would normally be fatal. But they’ll still feel them. That’s important. We’re not creating gods. We’re creating soldiers. Then came the hardest problem. The neural interface. The armor needs to respond to the wearer quickly enough to make the system practical. A normal control system introduces too much delay. Our current solution is a neural interface that translates electrical signals from the nervous system into commands for the armor. The wearer thinks about moving. The suit moves. At least… that’s the theory. We haven’t tested it on a human yet. The weapons present another problem. Sinclair wants the Vossium Corps equipped with weapons capable of taking advantage of the material’s electrical properties. We’re currently designing a rifle that uses a Vossium-based electromagnetic acceleration system. We’re also developing a compact energy weapon for the command suit. Both are theoretical. Both are dangerous. And both require more Vossium than we currently have. Sinclair doesn’t care. He simply told us to find a way. After the meeting, my entire team stayed silent for nearly an hour. Nobody wanted to say what we were all thinking. We aren’t researchers anymore. We’re weapons engineers. But I refuse to stop studying Vossium. So tonight, I made a decision. My team and I removed a small quantity of Vossium from the laboratory inventory. We didn’t take enough to affect the military program. A few grams. We’re taking it to a private laboratory. My home laboratory. There, we can continue the research Sinclair no longer wants us doing. We need to understand this material before he puts people inside it. Because right now, we don’t know what long-term exposure to Vossium’s electromagnetic fields will do to the human body. We don’t know whether the neural interface is safe. We don’t know whether the armor’s energy systems could overload while someone is wearing it. We don’t know what happens when a human being becomes connected to a material capable of storing enormous amounts of electrical energy. And Sinclair wants fifty people to find out. I keep telling myself that we’re building the armor to protect them. But tonight, looking at that small piece of purple metal sitting inside my private laboratory… I’m beginning to wonder whether we’re actually building something that will protect humanity from them. End Log 007.
