Zoanoid recruitment?

[BoomerBane]

How do you think Cronos recruits potential candidates for Zoanoid processing? Do you think it is a free or forced decision of an individual? How does Cronos train potential Zoanoid candidates?

What do you guys think?

[*BananaKing]

I think a lot of the time, they create the human that becomes the zoanoids. I had always seen those three enzyme 2's that attack the guyver gang back in the Minakami ark, as manufactured humans.

[*Jess♥]

I think a lot of the time, they create the human that becomes the zoanoids. I had always seen those three enzyme 2's that attack the guyver gang back in the Minakami ark, as manufactured humans.

either that or they harvest them from fairy pods.

Cronos most likely gets many of their zoanoid candidates through the Yakuza. The type of people who go to the Yakuza for money and end up not being able to pay them back, easy target for Cronos.

The Test type is a good example of this type of person. He seems like a regular family man in the TV-series.

would Cronos just kidnap a normal family man? I doubt it. it seems more likely, he had money trouble and went to somebody but then he couldn't pay them back.

[RazorLaser]

Good theory Drag, probably true.

[jerrygoodman]

would Cronos just kidnap a normal family man?

I don't know about you, Ryuki, but I certainly wouldn't put it past them.

They've probably also grabbed unsuspecting people off the street too.

[*BananaKing]

They could also be using drifters, you know people with no one to come looking for them

[*Kenji Murakami]

They could also be taking law enforcement offecers who get badly wounded in combat, maybe even people from the military, too. If they get taken to one of the hospitals under Chronos' control, I think it might be a good posibility that they won't come out human.

[durendal]

Didn't Cronos already had a whole village to test out zoanoids back then? Then after the world conquest, didn't people just volunteer to be zoaformed?

[*Kenji Murakami]

Yeah, we pretty much know how they've been recruiting people post X-Day, I think this topic is about pre X-Day.

[durendal]

Well, for one thing, Chronos is rich. the world if full of mercenaries that are willing to become hired guns. Of course when they get processed, it also makes them absolutely loyal to Chronos via telephanic waves of the Zoalord. Like I mentioned earlier, didn't they have a whole village that are full of Zoanoids? I seem to remember hearing from somewhere that they kidnap people in their sleep to process them, then return them to their homes. And since they're already processed, they are assimilated into the Chronos Collective, resistance is futile.

[*Kenji Murakami]

That really strikes me as something they'd be more likely to do before X-Day. Not so much because the leaders of Chronos have suddenly discovered morality, but simply because they have so many people volunteering for the process lately.

[*BananaKing]

I'm sure there were tons of takashiro villages all over the world, but now Chronos has an image to keep so they wouldn't go and do something like that anymore...or would they?

[*Kenji Murakami]

I'm sure there were tons of takashiro villages all over the world, but now Chronos has an image to keep so they wouldn't go and do something like that anymore...or would they?

IT'd be a pretty big PR disaster if anyone found out, potentially, so there were probably either doctors or one of the Zoalords working to "convince" the people there that they'd volunteered for the process. Most likely through brainwashing.

[xtro guyver]

cronus could also have been using terminal ill patients from hospitals for test subjects, death row inmates from prisons, wouldn't surprise me if on ocasion they would make use of the homeless as well

[Larz Zahn]

another idea is that some of the people may be normal everyday family man types. so what if they kidnap them? all they gotta do is fake his death. something that is not at all hard for chronus to do anyhow.

[*YoungGuyver]

I'm not so sure they would like to take terminally ill people. I mean, there is mention that there is a survival rate involved. Maybe as experiments. Zoanoid processing isn't compatible with everyone-or at least, people are limited in what they can become (based on early datafiles). Almost anyone can be a Ramotith, but Gregule is more difficult (which is why we have the Broiz, a model that is more successful for everyone else). Since genes play a role in this, I would ASSUME that weak genes would be thrown out. Granted, weak genes may be just fine, and attributes such as eye and hair color could be more important (picked attributes at random).

I like Ryuki's Yakuza theory.

The people in Takeshiro village, I doubt they were kidnapped in their sleep. It would be pointless, the process takes weeks. Kidnapping people in their sleep denotes secrecy, you can't really keep weeks at a time a secret. They probably arranged special vacations or work trips for these guys one by one. Or even had different families move into the area as a relocation package. As a twist, I wouldn't be surprised if they had doctors lie to perfectly healthy people, and tell them that they need a life saving surgery, just to process them behind their backs.

I'm not so fond of the mercenary idea. I mean, sure Chronos has money, but not an infinite amount. You don't get rich by spending it. I'm not against the idea of them recruiting mercs, but I don't think they'd pay them. A secret organization but be very careful about how much it takes/forces out of people. If not careful, people notice a paper trail. Granted, the hospital thing has a paper trail too, but at least that involves the subjects potentially 'giving' them money in order to do it.

[*Kenji Murakami]

I'm not so fond of the mercenary idea. I mean, sure Chronos has money, but not an infinite amount. You don't get rich by spending it. I'm not against the idea of them recruiting mercs, but I don't think they'd pay them. A secret organization but be very careful about how much it takes/forces out of people. If not careful, people notice a paper trail. Granted, the hospital thing has a paper trail too, but at least that involves the subjects potentially 'giving' them money in order to do it.

Considering how many companies Chronos implicitly either has a controlling interest in or owns outright, I think they could hire all the mercs they wanted to. I just don't think they'd bother, since no one in their right mind would want to deal with the hassle inherant in hiring a mercenary when they have such reliable methods of recruitment already.

[*V Guyver]

There are several people Chronos has targeted.

High Level Government officials and positions are usually targeted. Chronos either implants an agent in there, or kidnaps one and forces him through the zoaforming process (they could use the "You desert us you die without processing) to force them into service.

Poeple's investigation of Chronos secrets usually end up as test types.

Police and military are usually subject as well for the same reason as government.

News Agencies are used as well like Government and Security forces for information control.

Entire towns and villages are converted, then have their minds wiped. This seems to be the basis of their hidden X-Day army. They planned to take over the world with an army, but there was probably no feasible way to make a huge army with ever member as a loyal chronos grunt. So this became a valuable weapons stockpile, I'm sure chronos sees it as such. Later after X-Day there wasn't as much of a need for this since publicly Zoanoids are now recruited through the open populace via propaganda. I'm certain however they still have yet more communities like this.

Random kidnapped folks. Ryuki's theory, makes sense. Though it sounds a bit weird telling people that Chronos is Yakuza related. But considering their nature and how they function, I wouldn't put it past them. Also how so many chronos agents are loyal, I don't know. But it seems that Chronos was a fairly old large company, with large families working their. So you could say that the chronos troops and elite were all men and women raised in the shadow of chronos like Agito.

Zoalords, likely the founders of Chronos as a society, then moved into being a huge imperial style corporation with hidden objectives. I'm certain Chronos's resources were meant originally to help hunt down potential Zoalord candidates, and later on moved world domination plans. Actually, I wouldn't put it past Chronos having been started off on the basis of a cult. Is it me, or do they seem to treat the zoalords as gods and the underlings as disposable ants... like Greek gods?

[Lyphforse_Guyver]

They could take anyone at all, they would just brainwash them.

They would prefer those of good stock to start with. Military background and being athletic would be a plus. They would only use random folks for lab rats, test new forms, a throw-away like Malmot. IMO