Project VEIL
Noah_ShipmanVA for Lucien Halden [DEADLINE - MAY 30]
Dr. Lucien Halden serves as VEIL’s internal Medical Ethics Review Officer — a role that exists more for optics than true regulation. Officially, he oversees compliance with baseline human rights standards within experimental and patient-treatment protocols. In practice, Dr. Halden's reviews are selective, clinical, and weighted toward outcomes rather than morals. His presence allows VEIL to maintain a paper-thin veneer of legitimacy when external audits threaten to penetrate deeper than planned. To him, ethics are not about preventing harm — they are about minimizing waste. If a subject breaks but the data is invaluable, he will stamp the report "acceptable loss" without blinking. He is not cruel by nature. But his version of compassion is utilitarian: measured in percentages, projected recoveries, and margins of error.
- french
- male adult
(Matter of fact, clinical. Zero emotion.) "Given that you have failed to present compelling evidence demonstrating that the project's benefits meaningfully outweigh the proposed harms, I have no choice but to mark it as approved. Regrettably, necessity does not wait for perfection."
(Slow, angry laughter — justifying himself — pride layered with cold condescension.) "[Soft laughter, almost pitying] And who exactly do you think you are? Every calculation I make — every decision — is for the greater good. You would rather let a million souls rot, just to soothe your conscience over one? How small. How embarrassingly naïve. You see blood; I see survival."
(Controlled fury — voice low, cutting — only almost losing composure.) "Explain to me, right now, why I found this [he lifts an object with contempt] dumped in my discard chamber. That room is unstable enough without your incompetence contaminating it. Every variable matters. You have turned my work into a fucking liability."
