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While keeping the two linked up may benefit your knowledge of science immensely, you consider it too risky. Besides, something else about it... You don't like it.
<span class="mu-b">"Threes, send out drones to help the two astronauts. Cut them from each other around the same time, and quickly, to avoid any mental issues from this apparent mind melding."</span>
"Of course, your Majesty."
The two astronauts are sliced off from the cord using small tractor beams aligned with cutting force, so nothing else touches it and becomes incorporated. To ensure nothing else bad happens, you leave a small amount of the Celestial Blood attached to each. Almost immediately, the two regain their original personalities, and relay their experience as being strange and very one-sided.
"...Each is convinced. They were always one entity, and simply had a secondary mind enter theirs, despite both believing this to be true. Each also believed their new memories from the other individual to be their own and always be their own."
<span class="mu-b">"Hmm. What about physical effects?"</span>
"The both of them are slightly altered. The Alpha-Male has some of the experimental and harmless protein chains that the indigo's skin produces; part of a low-risk genetic experiment. It doesn't seem like his DNA has changed much, but he doesn't seem to notice. The Indigo on the other hand had a short term bit of swelling and his gonads increased in size, as though influenced by the larger and more hormonal Alpha-Male. Even now, his testosterone is a bit higher then before this incident, almost like his body knows its normal."
<span class="mu-b">"Post separation? Any strangeness?"</span>
"No long term effects yet; though before their bodies absorbed the Celestial Blood completely, we ran a few tests. Watch this, with the Alpha Male."
<span class="mu-b">"Woah! Is he moving that squeeze-weight with his mind?"</span>
"No, my liege. It's the celestial blood touching it from his own body. He is flexing his muscles in this video."
<span class="mu-b">"But he's... standing still?"</span>
"Yes, but his muscles are flexing. Infrared confirms the activity. The tension and kinetic force from his muscles is being applied, but not in his body. It's been perfectly transferred to the bit of exercise equipment. Naturally, the implications of this are staggering."
<span class="mu-b">"I see. We have to run more experiments on this. But make sure no two living Jaxtians, or any Hegemony citizen for that matter, are linked up like that again. I don't want their nerves all scrambled and acting like they're the same person."</span>
"Of course, your Majesty. But I must inquire to the nature of this denialism."
<span class="mu-b">"...What?"</span>
