[K5pbem] Kensington project

[Mike Surbrook]

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, JAMES FLETT wrote:

>  Hi, just wondering if anyone has heard of the kensington
  project/experiment (see Serial Experiments Lain) and if so wether they
  think it could fit into the timeline of Kazai 5, maby starting in the 70s
  when all that esper testing was going on.

I think so. Considering the things the CIA is presumed to do in the K5 
setting (secret testing on college students for esper activation) and the 
things the CIA really did in the real world (secret testing on college 
students for... drug effects [I forget the exact details]), something like 
this isn't out of line.

>   For those of you (or maby all of you) who have not heard of the KP, it
  was a project headed by a scientist named Prof Hodgson, to use something
  called the KID System (or just KIDS) to link the minds of children
  together to produce a super esper under control of the project. The
  original project was scrapped by Hodgson when the KIDS subjects
  disappeared/where annialated during the final stages of the experiment. I
  thought that here in Kazai 5 the Mega Corps could well have funded the
  projects restart.

Actually, i could see variations of this project going on all over the 
place, run both by corps and governments. The idea of raising espers to be 
loyal company men is a popular one with different groups.

>   I hope to be able to use this as my current character concept is
  strongly involved, not as an esper but as a scientist.

Sounds good.

PS: Never seen Lain, only heard about it.

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