...BioTech Experiments...
BioTech Experiments
To the public, indeed even to its own management, the Biotech Corporation was an upstanding firm specializing in creating novel medicines, food plants, waste disposal methods, and all manner of other valuable contributions to society via means of genetic manipulation.
Operating secretly in the depths of its labs, however, was what could only be termed mad science. Without the knowledge of their upper management, the firm's scientists were playing god; creating wildly twisted beings who had no business existing in this world. Some they created for the simple purpose of proving they could. Some could only be termed weapons. Perhaps their worst abuses were outright kidnappings, harvesting human beings as fodder for their experiments.
Eventually, the “scientists” became irritated with the need to work secretively and hide their greatest creations from BioTech's owners. They decided that they would take over the company. However, lacking both the skill to launch a hostile takeover bid and the morality to reconsider, they decided to do it in the most direct manner possible- via armed assault. With several of their own creations as shock troops and a section of the corporate security forces, they killed the existing management and installed their own officers. Legal fictions and plausible cover stories quickly spun the event into a terrorist attack from outside, deflecting any suspicion that the change of command was anything other than legitimate and aboveboard.
However, in the chaos of the attack, many of the lab's creations escaped containment and fled into the night. On the whole they share nothing. They have no bonds or ties of loyalty to each other. Their only common motivation is understanding of what they have all been through, a hatred for the madmen that did it to them, and at least in the more righteous, the desire to make sure it doesn't happen to anybody else.
Altered:
It should be noted that BioTech's victims come in two distinct categories. One, called by some the Altered, are individuals who through genetic therapy and surgical techniques were made into something other than they were born. These processes were often painful, usually nauseating, and never pleasant. Furthermore, those Altered who began life as Humans(WildSeed/Seraph/Etc.) were kidnapped off the street and held captive as they were twisted. Most Altered are thinking beings and almost universally loathe the corporation.
Created:
The other broad classification of experiments is the Created. These creatures were made from scratch in BioTech labs, put together out of whatever genes they thought would make a useful or interesting creature and grown to term in sterile nutrient vats. They experienced none of the pain and suffering associated with Alteration. Furthermore, they knew nothing but the BioTech labs from the moment of their birth and may not even comprehend that there's another way to live. Those who do may even be grateful to the Corporation, without whom they would simply not exist. However, others still come to deeply resent BioTech thanks to their imprisonment and treatment as objects. The majority of Created are either not thinking beings or have the equivalent intelligence of a mentally retarded Human. However, many intelligent ones exist as well.
(more information forthcoming)
© Kia Waring
