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{{Organization Infobox
|Name = L.S.S.
|Organization Image = 
|Status = Unknown, likely dismantled<ref name=BiohackerSSCh6/>
|Side = [[Science]]
|Allegiance = Independent
|Type = 
|Role = 
|Headquarters = [[School District 3]], [[Academy City]]
|Leader = [[Matsuo Ryuusuke]] (President)}}
'''L.S.S.''' is an organization, introduced in ''[[Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Biohacker]]'', which was active in [[Academy City]] during [[Kamijou Touma]]'s third year of middle school, [[One Year Ago|one year before the main story]].<ref name=BiohackerSS>[[Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Biohacker]]</ref><ref name=BiohackerSSCh1Pt2>[[Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Biohacker]] Chapter 1 Part 2</ref><ref name=BiohackerSSCh1Pt3>[[Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Biohacker]] Chapter 1 Part 3</ref><ref name=BiohackerSSCh1Pt5>[[Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Biohacker]] Chapter 1 Part 5</ref><ref name=BiohackerSSCh1Pt10>[[Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Biohacker]] Chapter 1 Part 10</ref><ref name=BiohackerSSCh2Pt1>[[Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Biohacker]] Chapter 2 Part 1</ref><ref name=BiohackerSSCh4Pt5>[[Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Biohacker]] Chapter 4 Part 5</ref><ref name=BiohackerSSCh4Pt6>[[Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Biohacker]] Chapter 4 Part 6</ref><ref name=BiohackerSSCh5>[[Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Biohacker]] Chapter 5</ref>{{TrackTag106}}

==Principles==
{{Expand|Biohacker Arc Ch3/4 - Illicit/Non-illicit}}
L.S.S. carried out a number of services and activities related to animals, including the production of a {{Nihongo|Street Corner Kitten Show|街角猫ちゃんのコーナー|Machikado Neko-chan no Kōnā}}, where the hosts searched for kittens in the city,<ref name=BiohackerSSCh1Pt2/> and ran an {{Nihongo|Animal Protection Fund|動物愛護基金|Dōbutsu Aigo Kikin}} (with weekly donations apparently starting at 200 yen).<ref name=BiohackerSSCh1Pt3/> The corporation also operated a number of large container trucks.<ref name=BiohackerSSCh1Pt5/><ref name=BiohackerSSCh1Pt10/><!--Logo(1-5/10)-->

Behind this however, L.S.S. was involved in a number of shady dealings, including the illegal work of Biohackers as well as the organization of cover-ups and assassinations.<ref name=BiohackerSSCh2Pt1/><ref name=BiohackerSSCh2Pt4>[[Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Biohacker]] Chapter 2 Part 4</ref> Prior to the incident involving [[Kumokawa Seria]], [[Academy City Board of Directors|Academy City board member]] [[Kaizumi Tsugutoshi]] had let them continue their operations on account of the corporate profit the group provided.<ref name=BiohackerSSCh2Pt1/>
<!--Protocol, Griffon, other (1-4/9/11)-->

The company's president was [[Matsuo Ryuusuke]], who was fully complicit in the group's illicit actions,<ref name=BiohackerSSCh4Pt5/> and a Biohacker himself.<ref name=BiohackerSSCh5/> Outside of the company headquarters, he had a mountain hideout in a log cabin near [[Ground Geo]] in [[School District 21]], containing numerous specimens.<ref name=BiohackerSSCh5Pt5/>

The company headquarters was located in [[School District 3]], at a corner between several major roads. It consisted of a three buildings between 30 and 40 stories tall, forming the corners of a triangle and connected by mid-air walkways, with the area around the distinctive tri-tower covered in greenery.<ref name=BiohackerSSCh4Pt4>[[Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Biohacker]] Chapter 4 Part 4</ref>

===Biohackers===
{{Expand|[[Kihara Kagun]]'s domain, stimuli for awakening the [[Beginning Child]], Ch1-5 specimens}}
A {{Nihongo|'''Biohacker'''|バイオハッカー|Baiohakkā}} is an individual who abuses genetic and biological science and technology to rearrange DNA from existing animals and piece them together as desired to create artificial hybrid life forms<!--{{W|Chimera (genetics)|chimera}} creature-->,<ref name=BiohackerSSCh1Pt7>[[Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Biohacker]] Chapter 1 Part 7</ref><ref name=BiohackerSSCh1Pt10/><ref name=BiohackerSSCh5/> an illegal pursuit.<ref name=BiohackerSSCh1Pt7/><ref name=BiohackerSSCh1Pt10/> L.S.S. had at least two Biohackers; an unnamed scientist responsible for the [[Wyvern]] and the company president Matsuo Ryuusuke.<ref name=BiohackerSSCh1Pt7/><ref name=BiohackerSSCh1Pt10/><ref name=BiohackerSSCh5/>

Specimens created by L.S.S.'s Biohackers included:<!--Codename - Folklore/Mythology/Cryptids-->

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! scope="col"|Codename
! scope="col"|Type
! scope="col" class="unsortable" |Details
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|[[Wyvern]]
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|Specimen resembling a [[dragon]], maintained by the unnamed Biohacker and used as a weapon for eliminating targets.<ref name=BiohackerSSCh1Pt7/><ref name=BiohackerSSCh1Pt10/><!--bat/lizard-->
|-
|{{W|Griffon}}
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|<!--Ch1, check discrepancy--><!--surveillance-->
|-
|N/A
|<!--Rat swarm-->
|<!--Ch4-->
|-
|N/A
|<!--viral stun weapon-->
|<!--Ch4-->
|-
|{{W|Kraken}}
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|<!--stored in car boot, used to restrain/transport Mitsuari, responds to vocal command--><ref name=BiohackerSSCh5/>
|-
|{{W|Griffin}}
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|One of the specimens stored in the mountain hideout.<ref name=BiohackerSSCh5Pt5>[[Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Biohacker]] Chapter 5 Part 5</ref><!--check/compare JP for creature in Ch1-->
|-
|{{W|Karkinos}}
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|One of the specimens stored in the mountain hideout.<ref name=BiohackerSSCh5Pt5/><!--Greek Mythology/Cancer-->
|-
|{{W|Fenrir}}
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|One of the specimens stored in the mountain hideout.<ref name=BiohackerSSCh5Pt5/><!--Note: Gremlin/Norse Mythology-->
|-
|{{W|Lernaean Hydra|Hydra}}
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|One of the specimens stored in the mountain hideout.<ref name=BiohackerSSCh5Pt5/><!--Greek Mythology-->
|-
|{{W|Ōmukade|Omukade}}
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|One of the specimens stored in the mountain hideout.<ref name=BiohackerSSCh5Pt5/><!--Japanese Mythology-->
|-
|{{W|Hraesvelgr}}
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|One of the specimens stored in the mountain hideout.<ref name=BiohackerSSCh5Pt5/><!--Note: Gremlin/Norse Mythology-->
|-
|{{W|Wendigo}}
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|One of the specimens stored in the mountain hideout.<ref name=BiohackerSSCh5Pt5/>
|-
|N/A
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|<!--Ch5-->
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|N/A
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|}
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==Background==
At some point in the past, L.S.S. came into possession of the [[Cold Sleep|frozen and preserved]] body of the [[Beginning Child]], the first modern esper and the foundation of the system used in [[Academy City]]. [[Matsuo Ryuusuke]] and others in the company sought to revive and monopolize the Beginning Child in order to create and use espers for themselves for profit, and to put themselves above the [[Aleister Crowley|Board Chairman]] and the rest of Academy City. Being unsuccessful in rousing her with external stimuli from specimens created by Biohackers, they decided to directly stimulate her mind within with a mental esper ability, settling on [[Mitsuari Ayu]]'s [[Mental Stinger]] as one fitting their needs and realistically obtainable (with [[Mental Out]] too unapproachable).<ref name=BiohackerSSCh4Pt5/><ref name=BiohackerSSCh4Pt6/>

{{UncertainPositioning/PastArc|Temporary Biohacker marker}}
During the summer of [[Kamijou Touma]]'s third year of middle school, a Biohacker affiliated with L.S.S. targeted Mitsuari Ayu before she could return to [[School Garden]],<ref name=BiohackerSSCh1Pt4>[[Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Biohacker]] Chapter 1 Part 4</ref> initially with hired thugs and then his [[Wyvern]] after they failed (in part due to [[Kumokawa Seria]] leading the television crew for the Street Corner Kitten Show to the area).<ref name=BiohackerSSCh1Pt2/><ref name=BiohackerSSCh1Pt4/><ref name=BiohackerSSCh1Pt5/> A refrigerated truck bearing the L.S.S. logo was used to transport the creature before it was unleashed.<ref name=BiohackerSSCh1Pt4/><ref name=BiohackerSSCh1Pt5/><ref name=BiohackerSSCh1Pt10/>

After the Wyvern's defeat, having been caught up in its pursuit, Kumokawa Seria determined that the truck was not a disguise and that L.S.S. had indeed gone rogue,<ref name=BiohackerSSCh1Pt10/><ref name=BiohackerSSCh2Pt1/> recommending to Kaizumi Tsugutoshi that he wash his hands of them and crush the group, which was delving into things that were within [[Kihara Kagun]]'s domain and targeting Mitsuari Ayu, the parallel line for [[Shokuhou Misaki]].<ref name=BiohackerSSCh2Pt1/> Around the same time, the [[Gokusai]] sisters were contracted to silence the captured Biohacker and then target Mitsuari herself.<ref name=BiohackerSSCh2Pt4/> The siblings were thwarted in accomplishing the latter due to Touma's intervention, with two of them knocked out and subsequently taken into custody.<ref name=BiohackerSSCh3>[[Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Biohacker]] Chapter 3</ref>{{TrackTag106}}
<!--Ch3-5, unknown fate for company, president dead-->

Matsuo Ryuusuke eventually captured Mitsuari when she, Touma and Kumokawa infiltrated L.S.S.'s headquarters and discovered their goals.<ref name=BiohackerSSCh4Pt5/><ref name=BiohackerSSCh4Pt6/> He then brought her to his hideout in a log cabin close to [[Ground Geo]] in [[School District 21]]. While his other specimens were released to prevent anything from getting to the cabin, Matsuo used several of his creations to manipulate Mitsuari into rousing the Beginning Child from her slumber with Mental Stinger.<ref name=BiohackerSSCh5Pt7>[[Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Biohacker]] Chapter 5 Part 7</ref> However immediately after her awakening, the Beginning Child destroyed the log cabin with her ability, fatally wounding Matsuo in the process.<ref name=BiohackerSSCh5Pt8>[[Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Biohacker]] Chapter 5 Part 8</ref><ref name=BiohackerSSCh5Pt9>[[Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Biohacker]] Chapter 5 Part 9</ref>

The company's ultimate fate after these events is not known.<ref name=BiohackerSSCh5/><ref name=BiohackerSSCh6>[[Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Biohacker]] Chapter 6</ref>{{TrackTag106}}

==References==
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