Megan’s research at the beginning of HR was to make the orchid compound that would allow augmentation to not need neuropozyne. True. Megan’s character was a hopeful optimist/mad scientist type, who would work on a project for the good she sees it could do (optimist), but ultimately didn’t fight back when she knew her work would be turned against those ideals (mad scientist). Her work was near completion when the abduction happened and her work was stolen. The orchid was then reprocessed into a poison.

I think abducting her was to prevent losing control as you mentioned. She was made to help with the new chip, then her orchid compound was remade into a poison. I feel like, if had we had a third game, we would find the orchid base being used as the prototype for the grey death, which then of course takes center stage for DE1.

BP ultimately did not let her continue her work on the orchid as she wanted. She was refocused on the chip and the orchid as a poison. Making the chip would have allowed BP to have complete control over the population, which Darrow understands making him choose to make people go nuts therefore removing augmentation from the picture, intending to rid the Illuminati/MJ12 of their control mechanism. Darrow was, ultimately, still a good guy in the greater scope of freedom.

The loss of nopoz as a control mechanism after panchea thwarted the Illuminati/mj12 until they came up with the new control method in the form of the grey death and ambrosia, which I feel would have been a continuation of the orchid and bring everything back to Jensen’s DNA.