A Study in Violet

[Fairchild]

Jera was lying on her bed. She was thinking of the possibilities the bacteria Nagrebetskiy was researching could provide.

The becteria themselves weren't that useful. Engineering a proper nanobot prototype that would be able to measure and communicate the information would take a lot of time and money, maybe outsourcing that to Ageira... Nevertheless, if those bacteria could be controlled, it could even allow for such things as launching an operating system and writing programs inside the human brain.

Jera turned to the other side. She had too little knowledge to ponder that. But she remembered various things that happened before. Los Angeles Convention that prohibited research on mind control. New Berlin incident with "neoaryans" a hundred years ago. Foster Virus on Cambridge even before that. And...

She shivered. The Black Sun on Crete. She remembered every minute of that horror. An artifact that had been found, surprisingly not inert and actually active, very close to her village. One woman, Lunara, someone who used to be her childhood friend, managed to control it. Everyone in her village lost their minds, mind-controlled into a religious sect.

Jera remembered her family, killing each other for a wicked sacrifice, in the name of a false prophet of the Nomads. Her shaky hands, holding the knife, as Lunara was bleeding out in front of her. The madness in her eyes as Jera threw the Black Sun against the wall, shattering it and setting alight the entire building.

She trusted Nagrebetskiy, though. He was the one who set the foundation for AlderFluid research and did the last theoretical analysis before animal and human testing. Indirectly, he saved her life several times and she hoped he could make this project safe.

Maybe... This technology could be available to everyone. After all, computers, neural net, spaceships and other things could be accessed by almost every person in Sirius. And while many things done with them are bad, most of them are good for humanity, good for development of everyone. Maybe it would be the right choice. Give it out to the people and see what they could do.

Maybe that's what should happen.