PATIENT ZERO -The lone survivor
Eliana continued, shattering the relief instantly, "is that the UN isn't just sitting on their hands while their god incubates. They need combat data to program Genesis’s neural network. They need to know how we fight, how we adapt, and how we die."
Eliana rapidly typed on the laptop. The projection changed again, this time displaying a series of smaller, sleek, metallic capsules. They looked like orbital drop pods.
"To gather that data, the UN geneticists have created prototypes. Lesser, synthetic chimeras. The data logs refer to them as 'Hounds,'" Eliana explained. "They don't have infinite stamina like Genesis will, but they are spliced with the DNA of Zenith's most lethal Rejects. They a