Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-37166538-20190205224040/@comment-37166538-20190206032511

Ok so basically the Black Swan somehow got their hands on a small bit of information about a lab where they were doing this genetic editing project, which gave the Black Swan their idea for Project Moonlark. Then they went to this lab that they got info on (they broke in somehow, they have their methods) and switched the genes so that they would spoil the Neverseen plan.

I already covered the purpose of switching the genes in my theory. The Black Swan found out, in the plans for this child's genetic editing, that his blood (the blood of Gisela) could be used to unlock certain Neverseen things. To elaborate, Forkle didn't tell Sophie about this once he realized that Keefe was on their side and could also unlock these things. He didn't want to emotionally harm Sophie.

I'm imagining they didn't do more to stop the Neverseen's plan for these reasons:

- They wanted to wait to start a war with the Neverseen until they were better prepared. i.e., they had a special "weapon" like Sophie. So they had to be subtle.

- They didn't really that the Neverseen's plan was immoral, since they were doing it too.

- They didn't want the Neverseen to end up realizing they had taken Gisela's genes.

As for the Lodestar Initiative question, it wasn't named Lodestar Initiative yet when the Black Swan found the plans. And since when does the Black Swan share anything with Sophie unless they absolutely need to? Lol.

They wouldn't have known that Keefe was the child, and actually they wouldn't have known Gisela was the person whose genes were used. They just knew it was a female Neverseen member with some code name. So they never would have been able to figure out who the kid was.

As for Keefe's powers, I'm thinking that maybe the Lodestar Initiative was less thought-out and well-planned as Project Moonlark, and he was only given small traits that helped him carry out his "Legacy." For example, the blood thing. Project Moonlark became bigger and had a lot more experts working on it, thus giving Sophie way more powers.