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Originally Posted by Tyneras
Hmm, well, a decade plus incubation period for superpowers kinda shifts the technology (in its current form) out of practical weapons technology. Any war would be long over by the time your super soldiers were ready to fight. My first thought is it would be the sort of thing a country would try to deploy to its general citizenry to have a large pool of recruits in case of future war.
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Well, the highly capable and motivated young soldiers who were trained as Special Forces in 1999 appear to be operating at their physical and mental peak even 18 years later. For that matter, experienced NCOs and officers who received some of the same experimental battery of pharmacological substances while in their 30s, 40s and even 50s are still sharp, mentally flexible and operating very near peak physical capability.
In fact, if it wasn't for the worrying fact that death from a variety of causes and mental illness are more common to a statistically significant degree among the test subjects than other soldiers, Project Jade Serenity would look like the kind of thing
everyone wants, not just a supersoldier serum. It makes ordinary people into athletes in peak health who seem young and fit well into middle age.
People who were already superb athletes with superior willpower and practical problem-solving ability, like specially selected candidates applying to SFQC, seem to be performing at or above Olympic athlete levels physically even into their forties, still learning new things with ease and at least in one case, retaining the skills of a front-line operator even while out of practice and condition for years.
It's very significant to be able to give selected elite soldiers +2 to +4 to physical Attributes and Per, up to 4 levels of varying Talents and such Advantages as Ambidexterity, Combat Reflexes, Extra Attack, Flexible, High Pain Threshold, Longevity, Perfect Balance, Very Fit, Very Rapid Healing and others.
For that matter, as the Talents seem to be a matter of focusing and enhancing already existing areas of interest and aptitute, promising front-line officers who received these drugs may have skill scores 4-6 level higher than their peers who didn't in skills like Intelligence Analysis, Leadership, Operations, Strategy and Tactics.
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Originally Posted by Tyneras
In the case of espionage, there's a lot of flexibility because it was (at the time) a failed program that didn't do anything anyone would flip out over. Any major espionage player could have scooped it up unintentionally after a successful breech, then sold it to a lesser power.
"Here's everything we stole from the US DoD in 20xx that we care to sell. Thank you for the briefcase of untraceable cash."
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No one would have paid much for it before the results came to light.
Of course, that isn't to say that someone didn't file a report on Project Jade Serenity as one of many DARPA trial projects in the 90s, but only when it became clear that the US was frantically tracking down all the former subjects would someone have
paid for information on it. Well, they may have paid for lunch, but not an expensive one.