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Major. Hey, Major!

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What was that? Virtual reality?

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I'm on vacation. Don't be so casual
about entering my cyber lobby.

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My condolences. There's been
a terrorist bombing in Nishinouchi.

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The vics were an executive at
a foreign-owned water company,

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a Trade Ministry official,
and a domestic weapons manufacturer.

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The top-priority entry in
the terrorism prediction list

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you gave Public Security
was right on target.

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I assume they were in a secret
meeting to agree on water prices.

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Everything's in smithereens,
including some Foreign Affairs guards.

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There was also an explosion at
the Yamanote Dam, by the way.

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The dam?

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Dunno if it's related.

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But it essentially belongs to
a foreign-owned water company,

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and there's a retired Trade official on staff.

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The bureaucrats' turf wars
are intense in that industry.

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So, who asked for us?

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Section 9, as usual.

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They failed to put your list to good use,
but they did track the perps.

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They say they can't secure 'em,
though. Too outgunned.

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Call everyone in. I'm coming too.

22
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Work calls?

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I'm sorry.

24
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Five hours, seven minutes.
That's a record-length vacation for you.

25
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Are you consulting for the police today?
Or the Cyberbrain Development Bureau?

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l'll make it up to you.

27
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Don't forget what we talked about.

28
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Are you serious?

29
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Of course.

30
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You should get going. All your
customers are impatient types, right?

31
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Yes.

32
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Wow, you've been with that guy for
three months! That's a new record.

33
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Don't be so casual about using
that Ghost infiltration key.

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Your precinct ID'd him as
Detective Naoharu Mizuki.

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ls that right?

36
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Yeah. He's my senior.

37
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ls this all he had on him?

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His holster was empty.

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His piece must've been washed away or stolen.

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It's hard to believe the gun under
his jacket would get washed away.

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And it'd be odd for someone to
steal his gun but leave his wallet.

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A prosthetics specialist...

43
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He sure doesn't look cyborgized.

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Lieutenant, your guys rounded up
all the unclaimed property in the area, right?

45
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Let's look for something else
that ties back to him.

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You want me to be your errand boy?

47
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If the dam incident was really an accident, yes.

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Lieutenant! I found something odd.

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What are these?

50
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They look like prosthetics, but...

51
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Mermaid's Legs...

52
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Report.

53
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Lots of injured cops.
Six perps still going strong.

54
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They're on their way to Ward 4.

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They see right through the police strategy.

56
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They secured an escape route ahead of time.

57
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This group is highly trained.

58
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They have a commander
somewhere out there. lshikawa!

59
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I picked up their line!

60
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The seventh one. This is their leader.

61
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This is a cutting-edge ghost lock.
Don't waste time resisting.

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l'll make him order his friends to surrender.

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lshikawa, run a forced recognition program.

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Roger.

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Abort the operation. Throw down
your guns and surrender.

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Repeat: Abort the operation and surrender.

67
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Huh?

68
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Aw, no shootout?

69
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I captured one!

70
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Hey, you're pretty useful!

71
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We got the last one.

72
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Good. Hand them all over to Public Security.

73
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A virus alert?

74
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It's the man you captured!

75
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This pain...

76
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The ghost lock released?

77
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Major?

78
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Shit. Saito!

79
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Don't kill him!

80
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No more of that!

81
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Damn, it feels gross having someone
infiltrate my Ghost-even the Major.

82
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Truer words...

83
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Your fault for aiming for the head.

84
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Don't hand them over yet. We'll take
them to a lockup with cyber facilities.

85
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You telling me to play interrogation partner?

86
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I'm not interested in fake memories.

87
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Memories?

88
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I'm interested in their contaminated Ghosts.

89
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Sorry I had to call you down here.

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It's my civic duty.

91
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I understand you're in charge
of the dam. Let's see...

92
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Dr. Zhinzhee Bekka Arr Thied.

93
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Please, call me Thied.

94
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You've got quite the tough-looking secretary.

95
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He's very reliable.

96
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The conflicts continue in the Republic
of Kuzan, where you're from.

97
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I hear the Qhardi ethnic minority in particular
is still waging a war of independence.

98
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It's a heartbreaking war.

99
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You're Qhardi, correct?

100
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Yes. Like the majority of my comrades,
I wish for a peaceful solution.

101
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So, the explosion at the dam...

102
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I'm told it was a valve malfunction.

103
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Your company sells water, right?
For what type of use?

104
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It's for precision machinery businesses.
That industry relies on 1 00% pure water.

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Precision machinery...
Prosthetic manufacturing, for example?

106
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Yes.

107
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Chief...

108
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You idiot!

109
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The Trade Ministry got them
invited to set up a plant here!

110
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You want to make an enemy
of the local precinct, too?

111
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But...

112
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Stop, that's evidence!

113
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I'm very grateful to you for finding
the goods stolen from our warehouse.

114
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Please, take them with you.

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Chief!

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Back off!

117
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A detective died, sir.

118
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You think I don't know that?

119
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You go to Nishinouchi and get me information.

120
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Nishinouchi? What's there?

121
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A bombing, apparently by Qhardi terrorists.

122
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Now listen: You consult your superiors
before any moves on this case.

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Terrorism?

124
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If the explosion was intentional,
and he wasn't a victim...

125
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What?

126
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Yes, sir! I'm on it!

127
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Don't make any trouble!

128
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They're a Qhardi weapons smuggling gang.
I met them on an undercover op.

129
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Their goal is to send weapons
to their comrades back home.

130
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They've got no reason to attack this country.

131
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Their statements were crystal clear:

132
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They're against the pricing agreement,
so they bombed the meeting site.

133
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Are you telling me those are planted memories?

134
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I'm betting they're all infected.

135
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And that the virus interfered
with my ghost lock.

136
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Well done. You subdued them brilliantly.

137
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We could do it even more easily if you
adjusted your comm standards to ours.

138
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I read your report.

139
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A false memory virus that can infiltrate, hack,

140
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and brainwash simultaneously?

141
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It's a self-destructing Stuxnet-type.

142
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Other than the symptoms at
its onset, it leaves no trace.

143
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Electronic manipulation of
memory is incredibly difficult.

144
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No one in the world has
been confirmed successful.

145
00:13:07,369 --> 00:13:12,165
And yet past incidents tell us a
maker and a broker clearly exist.

146
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Yes. Somewhere out there is
the super-wizard-class programmer

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known as "Fire-Starter" who created
this high-level cyber-virus.

148
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But until now, no organization in
the world had uncovered his identity.

149
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Did you?

150
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A clue, anyway.

151
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What's this?

152
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All the terrorists had the same tattoo.

153
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It's a symbol used by Scylla, the hero
who once led the Qhardi Separatist Army.

154
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l've heard of him. Word is he's
a master of cyber warfare.

155
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ls he Fire-Starter?

156
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No way. He died during the war.

157
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You're going to find out whether that's true.

158
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l'll authorize limited access
to Section 9's database.

159
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Read the details there.

160
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That's all?

161
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You're complaining?

162
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I gave you all the Logicomas I have,
plus our weapons and permission to use them.

163
00:14:05,719 --> 00:14:10,390
Any lists I make are meaningless
if the organization can't act.

164
00:14:10,432 --> 00:14:11,724
And?

165
00:14:11,767 --> 00:14:14,060
I want special authority
and an approved budget.

166
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And make your flimsy comm lines backward
compatible with ours while you're at it.

167
00:14:20,067 --> 00:14:25,488
Enough! Your team isn't regulation size,
and I'm graciously turning a blind eye!

168
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This unit is standardized to the perfect specs.

169
00:14:28,534 --> 00:14:30,076
We don't need more people.

170
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Then the whole unit will go down
the second you get hacked.

171
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Just like those terrorists did.

172
00:14:36,083 --> 00:14:38,710
Your "perfect specs" don't merit my trust.

173
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If you want authority and a budget,
get at least one more member

174
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and accept cooperation from
someone with different specs.

175
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If they won't give us money, we're stuck
in this garbage dump for a while.

176
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I'm just glad we've got a lab to use.

177
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Yeah, high prosthetic performance
takes superior maintenance...

178
00:15:04,612 --> 00:15:09,282
We'll have to pay for upgrades
out of pocket. Costs a lot, though.

179
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Training ground instructors
make pretty good money.

180
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Top-quality maintenance facilities,
authority-we'll get it all.

181
00:15:19,627 --> 00:15:21,461
Stop wasting time bitching and solve our case!

182
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His nationality's unknown.

183
00:15:23,964 --> 00:15:27,383
He uses multiple bodies to conceal his identity,

184
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earning the name Skulla, aka Scylla.

185
00:15:30,930 --> 00:15:33,806
That's the name of a monster
from Greek mythology.

186
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A pro at warfare who led
a separatist army, and whiz hacker...

187
00:15:37,978 --> 00:15:40,563
Huh, his specialty is tunnel ops.

188
00:15:40,648 --> 00:15:41,981
"Tunnel ops"?

189
00:15:41,982 --> 00:15:43,983
That's when you bomb someplace's lifelines

190
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and then infiltrate them
electronically during their restoration.

191
00:15:47,655 --> 00:15:51,824
Ultimately you wage a destructive
cyber-attack from inside their defenses.

192
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The forces who tried to prevent
independence took a major hit instead.

193
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But Kuzan joined forces with advanced nations

194
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to manipulate the Qhardis in
order to contain its neighbors.

195
00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:07,173
It was a throwaway war of independence,
and this country was especially involved.

196
00:16:07,299 --> 00:16:09,676
No one recognized the Qhardis'
independence after the war,

197
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and the guerillas were
disbanded and slaughtered.

198
00:16:12,429 --> 00:16:14,472
But their dead leader was actually alive,

199
00:16:14,473 --> 00:16:18,685
and he developed a special virus ahead
of all the world's research institutions,

200
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then changed his name to
Fire-Starter and began his revenge...

201
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I follow the logic, but is it really possible?

202
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ln a conflict zone, you can do all
the human experimentatio