What Shang Tsung is
Absorb = clone + study an external site. The daemon pulls the page and its assets, strips trackers (analytics, pixels, session replay), preserves original attribution, and re-hosts it live under /shang/<slug>/ so the technique can be dissected and repurposed — motion, layout, funnel, compute.
The name is the pattern: in Mortal Kombat, Shang Tsung absorbs souls to wield their powers. Here the "soul" is the source. The deeper move is the double-BPGS — two parallel goal-swarms (Shang + Tsung) run against the same target, then their outputs are absorbed into one: dedupe, best-of, merge. Two souls in, one brain out — never two competing minds.
1 · Clone
Pull HTML + assets via wget/chromium. Mirror the live surface.
2 · Strip
Remove trackers. Keep attribution. Write a manifest.
3 · Study
Dissect the technique. Two swarms, two lenses.
4 · Absorb
Merge the two swarm outputs into one repurposable result.