This report is classified BLUE LILY REDSHIFT. If you do not have BLUE LILY REDSHIFT clearance, do not read this document.
17th January, 1983
Final Report to the Board
In 1974, I was approached to lead a research team under PROJECT BLUE LILY to investigate the possibility of using experimental in-vitro techniques to hybridise mammals with biologically morphic exonomes. The in vivo creation of hybrids had been confirmed (Armitage, Rice, Morgan, 1934) although not under laboratory conditions. A secure laboratory was constructed in Kirkcudbright and work began in 1976.
Bovine egg cells were used as the primary biological component in initial experiments. Unfertilised egg cells were placed in a Class III summoning grid. Lines One to Seven used an n-dimensional transform through the Gate of Ma’at and while fertilisation rates of 0.146 were achieved, none of the blastocysts survived past Day Four before undergoing spontaneous reality failure. For Line Eight, the Prayer of Aten-Umet was invoked under an entropy co-efficient of 0.788 and a fertilisation rate of 0.65 was achieved. Of the Line Eight samples, 16 survived past Day Four and of these, five continued to thrive.
(At this time, I wish to enter a personal note into the record and wholly deny the allegations made during the meeting of 19th December last year – at no time were human egg cells used in experimentation. While proposals to do so were indeed lodged with the Board and with the ethics committee in 1979, the incident occurred before the move to human testing.)
On 14th March, 1981, we began Line Nine, which again used the Prayer of Aten-Umet under low-entropy conditions. The grid was brought to full power at approximately 1530 hours; within 30 seconds of invocation, the containment wards failed and the reality excursion began.
Of the 16 staff members on-site that day, only four survived the initial breach. We attempted to seal the breach by cutting power to the invocation chamber, but the summoning grid was now drawing energy from a low-tau universe and was effectively self-powered. Fortunately, the reality breach was contained to the research laboratory itself, allowing us to alert the support staff at Kirkcudbright.
The breach was sealed 14 hours after opening (and I must again acknowledge the sacrifice of UNIT BRAVO) and the laboratory was thoroughly investigated and cleansed by Hygiene & Logisitics teams. All viable samples are believed destroyed1.
With the majority of the staff dead and all research material destroyed, PROJECT BLUE LILY was irreparably damaged. While it is certainly possibly to recreate our results and even conceivable that a hybridised embryo could be brought to term in a suitable host, it is my professional recommendation that this line of inquiry be abandoned.
Please consider this letter to be notice of my resignation from the Invisible College, effective immediately. I submit to whatever geas-compulsion or other precautions the Round Table feels necessary to maintain my silence in this matter.
R.G. Edwards.
Footnotes
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