[RFC] The History of the Crystal Millennium

[Black Aeronaut]

They can covet it all they like - they were never meant to have sole ownership. The wave, as a quirk in and of itself, finds ways of 'getting out'. A prime example would be the incident at 36 Atalante that is simply referred to as The Incident where, due to improper maintenance, they lost containment of their main Gray Goo reserve and a good number of people wound up getting accidental biomods - including Ben's family! For this reason, specialty strains such as AC Peters's Mnemosyne's Honey and Jessica Ayanami's Quick Clone/Replicator strains are made in limited, as-needed quantities to keep it from falling into the hands of others... say, the Chinese.