Post by Stardust on Oct 2, 2015 16:16:22 GMT -8
The Grand Eastern Union, as a way to increase their military, might and created the Super Human Research Institute in 2280 with the goal of creating an army of next generation soldiers capable of performing the duties of a complete fighting battalion on the ground or a squadron in the air. The task required soldiers to be stronger, tougher and, most importantly, have faster reflexes. The scientists in SHRI did not believe in the theories being passed around Europe and proposed that current technology was more than capable of producing the desired effect on solid ground. All it would take, according to them, was a bit of genetic tampering.
And so, only months into their existence, SHRI started a series of abductions from across the GEU (and sometimes other nations if the could get away with it), taking the best male and female orphans between the ages of 4 and 6. The scientists reasoned that if they were too young, the genetic surgeries that would be conducted would terminate subjects, but too old and the mental conditioning needed to create loyal killing machines would not take root. In total, SHRI kidnapped 1000 small children for the super soldier plan they called PROJECT APEX.
Phase One of the project consisted of a series of highly invasive surgeries to augment the strength and durability of each subject's neural network, bones and soft tissues. To combat deformities that might occur during the process, scientists supplemented the procedures with sessions of gene therapy to bring about some normality. The complete process was long and excruciatingly painful for the children as they had to feel their bones and muscles rip, warp, and reform; or bolts of agony echoing through their twitching bodies as their nervous system fine-tuned and adjusted for peak performance multiple times over the course of 5 years. It is during this time 10% of the total children died due to complications during surgery or lethal deformities. In the end, though,
Phase Two, in a few cases, was almost worse than the previous one. This was the messiest time for SHRI as no one had been able to agree on the most successful way to condition these children to obey orders given by GEU, and secretly SHRI as a higher priority, and take away their fears of combat. So Phase Two used several different forms of conditioning on the remaining Apex children. This messy form of experimentation resulted in largest death rate for the whole Project. From the physical brutality of Phase One to the mental torment of Phase Two, a whopping 60% of the original total of subjects committed suicide. Additionally, another 15% were deemed unfit for service as the conditioning caused irreparable mental and emotional damage, leaving nothing but gibbering shells. Phase two was the briefest part of Project Apex, lasting only 3 years. It is unknown how many, if any, of the remained 150 subjects in Generation 1 Apex might suffer from mental or emotional disorders due to faulty conditioning methods.
Blessedly, Phase Three saw the least amount of death despite being the longest stage of the Project. Ranging now from ages 12-14, the Apex subjects started the extensive martial training that would be needed to be considered super soldiers. Learning constituted strategy, tactics, marksmanship, demolitions, piloting Mobile Suits and other fighting crafts, survival, stealth, mathematics, languages, and history. In the whole 7 years of Phase Three, only 5% of the total flunked out or died during the rigorous tests beset them by SHRI scientists. At the end of Project Apex, only 100 of the 1000 initial subjects made it to implementation in the GEU.
Despite the remarkable martial prowess of Generation 1 Project Apex, SHRI was dissatisfied with how unevenly talent spread across the inadequately small group of soldiers and labeled the whole Generation a failure. Despite that, SHRI still presented Project Apex's Super Soldiers to GEU's public offices in 2295. Globally, G1 was celebrated by the Grand Easter Union as the next stage in human evolution and the gleaming spear tip of the greatest military power in the solar system. Even with those arrogant words said, G1 Project Apex soldiers were rarely implemented on the battlefield. Because of their small number and promises from SHRI on better and more numerous Apex Soldiers within the next 15 years, the soldiers were stationed as personal guards for GEU's top politicians and other VIPs.
Using G1 as a template, SHRI planned on releasing a much more successful Generation 2 based on the data gathered during the initial Project in an even larger number. G2 Apex Soldiers were planned to be completed by early 2305.
The Generation 2 Apex Soldiers (Or G2 Soldiers) received a significantly refined engineering process, which resulted in immensely fewer fatalities. As opposed to the G1's 90% mortality rate, G2 only suffered 18% in casualties out of their initial 1500. Generation 2 Apex Soldiers saw less psychological trauma induced from the first two phases as both a benefit from the trial and error methods used on G1 and from SHRI's better funding. The implementation of Generation 2 Apex Soldiers was to be released in waves to create the illusion that SHRI had the ability to produce an infinite number of their Super Soldiers.
And so, only months into their existence, SHRI started a series of abductions from across the GEU (and sometimes other nations if the could get away with it), taking the best male and female orphans between the ages of 4 and 6. The scientists reasoned that if they were too young, the genetic surgeries that would be conducted would terminate subjects, but too old and the mental conditioning needed to create loyal killing machines would not take root. In total, SHRI kidnapped 1000 small children for the super soldier plan they called PROJECT APEX.
Phase One of the project consisted of a series of highly invasive surgeries to augment the strength and durability of each subject's neural network, bones and soft tissues. To combat deformities that might occur during the process, scientists supplemented the procedures with sessions of gene therapy to bring about some normality. The complete process was long and excruciatingly painful for the children as they had to feel their bones and muscles rip, warp, and reform; or bolts of agony echoing through their twitching bodies as their nervous system fine-tuned and adjusted for peak performance multiple times over the course of 5 years. It is during this time 10% of the total children died due to complications during surgery or lethal deformities. In the end, though,
Phase Two, in a few cases, was almost worse than the previous one. This was the messiest time for SHRI as no one had been able to agree on the most successful way to condition these children to obey orders given by GEU, and secretly SHRI as a higher priority, and take away their fears of combat. So Phase Two used several different forms of conditioning on the remaining Apex children. This messy form of experimentation resulted in largest death rate for the whole Project. From the physical brutality of Phase One to the mental torment of Phase Two, a whopping 60% of the original total of subjects committed suicide. Additionally, another 15% were deemed unfit for service as the conditioning caused irreparable mental and emotional damage, leaving nothing but gibbering shells. Phase two was the briefest part of Project Apex, lasting only 3 years. It is unknown how many, if any, of the remained 150 subjects in Generation 1 Apex might suffer from mental or emotional disorders due to faulty conditioning methods.
Blessedly, Phase Three saw the least amount of death despite being the longest stage of the Project. Ranging now from ages 12-14, the Apex subjects started the extensive martial training that would be needed to be considered super soldiers. Learning constituted strategy, tactics, marksmanship, demolitions, piloting Mobile Suits and other fighting crafts, survival, stealth, mathematics, languages, and history. In the whole 7 years of Phase Three, only 5% of the total flunked out or died during the rigorous tests beset them by SHRI scientists. At the end of Project Apex, only 100 of the 1000 initial subjects made it to implementation in the GEU.
Despite the remarkable martial prowess of Generation 1 Project Apex, SHRI was dissatisfied with how unevenly talent spread across the inadequately small group of soldiers and labeled the whole Generation a failure. Despite that, SHRI still presented Project Apex's Super Soldiers to GEU's public offices in 2295. Globally, G1 was celebrated by the Grand Easter Union as the next stage in human evolution and the gleaming spear tip of the greatest military power in the solar system. Even with those arrogant words said, G1 Project Apex soldiers were rarely implemented on the battlefield. Because of their small number and promises from SHRI on better and more numerous Apex Soldiers within the next 15 years, the soldiers were stationed as personal guards for GEU's top politicians and other VIPs.
Using G1 as a template, SHRI planned on releasing a much more successful Generation 2 based on the data gathered during the initial Project in an even larger number. G2 Apex Soldiers were planned to be completed by early 2305.
The Generation 2 Apex Soldiers (Or G2 Soldiers) received a significantly refined engineering process, which resulted in immensely fewer fatalities. As opposed to the G1's 90% mortality rate, G2 only suffered 18% in casualties out of their initial 1500. Generation 2 Apex Soldiers saw less psychological trauma induced from the first two phases as both a benefit from the trial and error methods used on G1 and from SHRI's better funding. The implementation of Generation 2 Apex Soldiers was to be released in waves to create the illusion that SHRI had the ability to produce an infinite number of their Super Soldiers.
