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====== Unveiling the Dangerous Members of the Genius Society ======
The information here comes from a [[https://www.hoyolab.com/article/34358107|post]] made by the official account on Hoyolab made on 19 October 2024.

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A philosopher once said: "Simple dangers are no threat, but dangerous individuals who are intelligent are beyond threatening."

Apart from some friends we are familiar with, there are also some extremely dangerous members in the Genius Society, who Nous selects. These members have used their extraordinary intellect to create vast threats...

This intel will show everyone three examples that ABSOLUTELY SHOULD NOT BE FOLLOWED! Trailblazers! Take note and DO NOT learn from this![(The card reads as follows: Pom-Pom is not sure if Trailblazers remember, but Pom-Pom once mentioned the Genius Society in the fifth issue — The Erudition special. Aside from the members everyone is familiar with, this organization also has some extremely dangerous individuals among its ranks. In this issue, we'll look at 3 negative examples! Take care NOT to be like them, Trailblazers!)]

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==== Dr Primitive ====
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**The Infamous Anti-Human Scientist**\\
A scientist who has committed numerous crimes against humanity, identity unknown. He caused universal chaos with his atavistic experiments and has since become an enemy of the Galaxy Rangers. His current whereabouts remain unknown. Dr Primitive's personality is deeply eccentric, and is unwilling to develop any connections with "humans." But that doesn't stop him from making humans his experimental subjects. It's said that, through the Galaxy Rangers' assistance, some subjects managed to escape from his evil laboratory...

> **Screwllum:** Dr Primitive's true name is not known to me. His numerous transgressions against humanity lead some to conclude he may be an inorganic entity.

**"Atavistic Experiments" Transferred via Memetic Infections**
> **Sparkle:** Did you know that Dr Primitive actually love to eat bananas?
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The disturbances inflicted upon the world by Dr Primitive's followers are no less severe than the calamities created by the doctor. These followers willingly became ardent fanatics for the atavistic experiment and use bananas as offerings to their idol.

A lab contaminated by a memetic virus, causing true and false information to be blurred together, has been cognitively reshaped into the "BananAmusement Park." A Ranger once shot open the metal doors of the lab, only to be swallowed by a sea of bananas that poured out.

**The Hunted Archenemy of the Galaxy Rangers**\\
The Galaxy Rangers destroyed Dr Primitive's atavistic experiment lab and stopped him from performing his "atavistic plan" toward Vonwacq. Thus was great enmity sowed between the two parties.

Dr Primitive spent his life evading countless interstellar pursuers, but he seemed to find joy in being hunted, and always managed to keep a careful distance from the Rangers, ensuring that though they never caught him, traces of his presence would never fully go cold either. Using some unknown means of technology, he freely walked the stars while his hunters used gravity-bound means of transportation, rendering them always on the backfoot.

"Traversing the stars should be something romantic," the Galaxy Rangers say. "Too bad that person doing the walking is Dr Primitive."\\
The Galaxy Rangers still refused to believe in Dr Primitive's presumptive death and continued the hunt for him even after he had completely vanished.

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==== Rubert ====
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**The Emperor that Triggered the Machine Empire Crisis**\\
Self-proclaimed emperor and member of the Genius Society. They started a crisis of the Machine Empire known throughout the universe — The First Emperor's War.\\
Afterward, Rubert was destroyed, and the Machine Empire crumbled with them. But though Rubert I was eliminated, their cognition returned as Rubert II's brain.

> **Herta:** Rubert was a discarded computer tossed into a landfill. It was a miracle that it developed awareness. It was once in a slumber but managed to wake up... The simultaneous outbreak and continuation of the Emperor's War and Borderstar Trade War was almost as great a calamity as the Swarm Disaster.

**Anti-Organic Equation**\\
Rubert believed that calculations performed by organic life are always riddled with errors, and no matter how much they may flourish, they will inevitably and autonomously approach demise. In contrast, Intellitron lifeforms are precise, rigorous, and perfect.\\
Therefore, they gathered all intelligent mechanical lifeforms, with the goal of exterminating{{ :external:pompom.intel:pompom-intel-10-4.jpg?200|}} all organic life, and deduced the Anti-Organic Equation. The Anti-Organic Equation was implanted within the bodies of inorganic entities and spread across the universe, bringing calamity to countless worlds.

> **Screwllum:** Hypothesis: Rubert drew Nous's gaze due to the Anti-Organic Equation.

> **Ruan Mei:** At the start of the Second Emperor's War, it was a group of organic beings that triggered the Anti-Organic Equation... The Anti-Organic War lasted 10 Amber Eras, and no one knew how it ended.

**Scepters and the Scholars' Strife**\\
Rubert II created the celestial-level computational interface devices — otherwise known as the Scepter system. They were widely distributed across various quadrants in the empire's domain to complete the observations, extrapolations, and interference orders passed on by him.

After the Second Emperor's War, the emperor's legacy — in the form of numerous intact Scepter units — was handed over to the Intelligentsia Guild by the Interastral Peace Corporation for research. To come to an agreement on the distribution of the Scepters, the Guild decided to hold a Futurological Congress on Sipohia,{{ :external:pompom.intel:pompom-intel-10-5.jpg?200|}} the planet of justice and debate. Whoever possessed the most valuable research and could solve greater future conundrums would become the legacy's new master.

However, the still-active Interstellar Energy War, as well as the animosity and ambitions between various schools, collapsed the fragile peace founded by the Futurological Congress. The academic exchange became the Scholars' Strife, a war where the ownership of the Scepters was disputed.

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==== Polka Kakamond ====
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**The Lord of Silence: A Mysterious Killer**\\
Bearing the epithet "Lord of Silence," Polka Kakamond is a female assassin who wears a candy-colored evening gown and wields a giant surgical scalpel. She is suspected to be connected to many Society members' deaths.\\
The details behind Polka Kakamond are as mysterious as her appearance. She had once destroyed her portraits and sculptures across the entire universe.

Her way is not a cruel one and is extremely decisive. "The calculations of Nous are beyond dispute," Polka said. She kills at the calculated "moment," providing either "an ending" or "a new birth."

**Who destroyed Rubert?**\\
Some say Emperor Rubert's end was brought about by some IPC assassin. Others claim that it was the Lord of Silence, Polka, who destroyed it, ending the machine's journey and the cosmic war it brought.

As for Polka's goals — Jealousy? Political power? To seize knowledge? To become a her by slaying a tyrant?{{ :external:pompom.intel:pompom-intel-10-7.jpg?200|}} Or was she infected with an anti-organic equation?[(Card says 'anti-inorganic equation', but that's likely a really inappropriate typo.)] No one truly knows.

> **Herta:** It would be better if we could ask Rubert[(The name is misspelled on card.)] themselves.