Project Totem

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Project Totem, also known as the Totem Project or simply Totem, was a Cerberus scientific and military project spearheaded by Jeremy Reinburg to perform on the MSV Fedele by the Gamma Cell at the behest of the Illusive Man. The aim of the project was to replicate the archived DNA of a rachni and create a fully autonomous flash clone. If successful, the next stage of the project was to breed an army of rachni for use by the Cerberus Armed Forces and, after the beginning of the Eden Prime War, would have the repurposed objective of combating Saren's forces. The first stage of the project was highly successful, with a fully cloned and independent rachni being cloned. The next stage was also successful, but eventually ran into issues, principally with the rachni themselves: Cerberus failed to realize that workers and soldiers need a queen to communicate with, and without one, they are driven insane by the "silence". As a result, the rachni turned against the science and security team, resulting in their complete slaughter. To contain the situation, the SSV Normandy destroyed the Fedele, and thus all the rachni on it.

The project was deemed a total failure, which was only reinforced by reports that Binary Helix's attempts to do the same also failed, and in the same manner and reason. As such, a rachni army was deemed more dangerous than useful, and all further attempts scrapped or permanently shelved.

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