It wasn’t much, but Lex appreciated the vote of confidence for his idea of staying put. He wasn’t thrilled when Blue pressed him, though. “The military would know more about that than I would,” he remarked. If only the military had entrusted him with that sort of classified information. He was just a doctor; a decent doctor with familial ties to Venture Corp. He was convenient and accessible, nothing more and nothing less. “I just handled the genetic engineering. If the military installed a failsafe, I know nothing about it.”<br/><br/>His job had been so much more than genetic engineering. Lex wished he could at least take one last look around his office, through his journals, at the entries where he detailed the joys of watching the Realians grow. They started out just like tiny people, but they learned so quickly. He worked most closely with the transgenic types, the ones with incredible potential for organ regeneration. Their harvested organs could regrow entirely in a matter of months, and Lex had never been prouder of anything in his life. He would have won some sort of prestigious prize for alleviating the organ donation shortage, had he not been under a federal gag order.<br/><br/>“Then at least tell us what you know,” Marcus urged him, leaving his place at the desk and moving to where Lex stood against the wall. “In layman’s terms. Make sure we understand it.”<br/><br/>Lex scoffed. “Laypeople don’t have terms for the things that I do,” he started, but realized how narcissistic that sounded. “I’ll do my best, anyway.”<br/><br/>And so Lex told them about his work. Every day, he’d tend to and monitor the growing embryos. He would be their primary clinician from them on, doing regular checkups with the children and evaluating the health and wellbeing of the adults. They had been just… people. Lex talked to them frequently, day in and day out. Some of them were really funny. He’d even made a friend; a transgenic type that had been named Dicen. His primary research focused on how to activate genes that would make them bigger and better; researching how to create the ultimate super-soldier. And he had, and he couldn’t even deny that he felt pride when he thought about the Realian project in the early days. They’d been so fascinated when their first embryo was a success, and from there Venture Corp began its heyday.