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After we allowed group dynamics to settle, we found quickly that where use of the C6-290 collar on GB-M-00001 failed, concurrent usage on USA-P-00020 and DEU-K-00009 succeeded. GBR-M-00001 began regular operation of Searchlight technology on June 12th. The benefits of this project have been far-reaching and innumerable, from the significant public safety measure of widespread containment of M-type mutant youth to the recapture of the military's CAN-P-00001. Few outside the facility are aware of the impact DEU-K-00009 had over these proceedings: though the subject continued with violent actions and ideations toward human staff, it appeared to show protective and at times nurturing behaviors toward its mate. Staff were even able to succeed where twenty years of research on this subject could not: we finalized a comprehensive study on DEU-K-00009's powers in July, after utilizing the C6-290 extensively on GBR-M-00001.

Aside from USA-P-00104, who presents with significant use in genetic research, the other members of the NA-01 tribe were not initially intended to be permanent subjects of my facility. However, through lack of commercial usage (USA-P-00108), behavioral issues (USA-K-00068), or youth (USA-K-00094), they became the formative members of what would eventually be the first mutant community to be researched in captivity. The "tribe" (as one of the research assistants began to call it) readily accepted DEU-K-00009 and GBR-M-00001 as surrogate parental figures, indicating again that mutants display a pack dynamic different from our own species. The younger mutants could also be utilized to ensure GBR-M-00001's continuing cooperation with Searchlight, and, in turn, GBR-M-00001 and DEU-K-00009 could be used to ensure the cooperation of the younger mutants in various studies. Indeed, as can be heard on the enclosed tapes, the older mutants were key in assisting the young in actualizing the full extent of their powers.

Since this time, Searchlight has located more mutants of significant youth, currently held in facilities where they are frequently kept in solitary quarters. This writer believes the behaviors of mutants like DEU-K-00009 are enough to dissuade from this practice, and that a new protocol of cohabiting immature mutants with mature is advisable. Perhaps, in the future, some of these immature mutants may come to be members of NA-01.

This is, of course, granting the board's decision to keep DEU-K-00009 and GBR-M-00001. The fatalities and destruction of Searchlight equipment was a foreseeable error, and responsible parties have been dismissed from Searchlight employ. That one of the undergraduate researchers erroneously believed the presence of DEU-K-00009 in the main test complex would encourage rapid data production from the machine/GBR-M-00001 interface is well-documented in official records. This student paid for this mistake with his life, and those of six of his fellows. The Searchlight interface is irreparable, and GBR-M-00001 will bear permanent injuries from that day.

The proposal to destroy GBR-M-00001 on the basis of its injuries seems, to us here at Searchlight, hasty and frankly illogical. Were GBR-M-00001 a weaponized mutant, or were its mutations physical in nature, euthanasia would indeed be advisable. Our facility easily stabilized the subject's condition, and observations of the NA-01 group in these weeks has shown the mutants perfectly capable of independently maintaining the health of GBR-M-00001. Enclosed, you will find footage of the other mutants gathering food for, bathing, and even engaging in what appears to be rudimentary physical therapy with their injured "beta parent." GBR-M-00001 does not need its legs any more than a leopard needs spots or a moose antlers: clearly important adaptations all, but hardly necessary to the essence of the animal.