[quote=@Serendipity] Actually that's a good question for one and all (and especially Oxenfree): What do we think Daedalus does in terms of training and exercising their case subjects? I mean, are they trying to train us together to operate as a team, or setting us against each other with an intention of selling us individually to the highest bidder (criminal, corporate, nation state...) or something else entirely? [/quote] So, my two cents... That seems like something which would probably depend on individuals. Some might be earlier stages of ongoing projects (so, for an example from my own CS would be the earlier subjects the scientists used in pilot trials to develop the procedure). They'd most likely have contracts with different armed groups - maybe large organised crime groups, or even governments. An interesting (and absolute horrifying) real world case of something similar would be the Japanese Unit 734 in WW2. For anyone who doesn't know, they committed attrocities in the name of 'research'- and frequently conducted vivisections on their victims, who they infected with deadly diseases. Honestly, it made me feel pretty ill just reading about it. Anyway, despite the disgusting acts that were carried out, the US (at first at least, not sure if this is still the case) made a deal not to put people before a war crimes tribunal in exchange for their research. So... yeah, it wouldn't be too far from reality for governments, even western governments, to look the other way if Daedalus was producing good results, especially if this was a universe where some kind of war was going on.