Mankind has
always wondered about where he came from, how he is built and why he thinks.
Science was founded on the principles of discovery. The problem comes when
mankind figures something out he wants to control it, rule it. Make it his
own. Even if it's himself. After mankind found the strains of DNA that were
the blueprints of the human condition, we quickly wanted to manipulate it
into many forms. Understand it experiment.
The original Genome projects were sparked after the Axis powers in WWII found out how to manipulate DNA to form results. The early experiments were utter failure, but soon the world shook and countries began to work on
their own experiments. Most with the same results. Evidence decrees that through these
processes, the evolution of man himself was ultimately swayed. Though this didn't stop the world
governments from continuing. Thinking to create the perfect bio-engineered war machines, and other
processes. Many renovations came from even the earliest experiments. Mothers who could not give birth could go through processes in which that they could once again. People born with defects could be swayed, Genetic
disease soon seemed like it would be something of the past.
Under the watchful eyes of the public the genome was mapped a
lot sooner than anyone knew, and the path of what would be later known as
mutants and New mutants was blazed almost two decades earlier than any one ever
knew. The story begins in in the Pennsylvania Institute of Technology in
1980. Two men, professor Paul Breedlove and a familiar man only known to
us as Adam Xero were just creative scientists who had a dream.. a dream that
would soon become a nightmare. But that would be telling wouldn't
it?
Paul breedlove and Adam were best friends then, after Adam
graduated from the institute, his former professor of genetics got with him
and they partnered up for one of the most ambitious projects the world has
ever not seen. Getting a US government grant, the two of them began
the experiments to map the DNA of a mustard plant. Though it appears
they were being watched over by this company called Genomex or was it the
government? For the morning after their greatest success, the two of
them were met by a man called Lukas Wagner. Wagner offered them the
job of a lifetime. As it appears this man Wagner was trying then to
start up Genomex as the world's best bio-tech companies. Wagner asked
the two men, Adam and Paul to run the place to implicate their cutting edge
experiments.
The first three years the duo spent taking the
work that they completed on the mustard plant and applied it to the human
genetic code. The three years went quick, and in 1983 Adam and Paul
had unlocked the human genetic code. Wagner the man who was the
government liaison funding the whole operation was with them every step of
the way. Wagner's involvement was a personal one. Having a
brother with Down syndrome, Wagner's life was also committed to reversing
the tides of genetic problems.
The first test subject was a
woman called Denise, a woman from the streets who they got to perform the
first projects to induce child birth. 1983, also was when a new face
entered at Genomex. A man named Marcus Eckhart, the head of security.
for the next four years Adam and Paul, worked on how to implicate the
changes of DNA. By incorporating a series of rad blast, they could
change the very structure of DNA to replace strains with new strains from
other sources. It was after six months worth of lab tests with Denise
that the growth of a zygote was achieved. Though the cloning was
flawed. The child only Gestated in the womb of Denise for six months
and after it was bore it began to age in an exponential rate. The
child's pain levels were sky high and it went ballistic. It was only
enough to sedate, the mutant they had created. Denise committed
suicide not three days after the incident, and Adam and Paul had to explain
themselves to the government. It was not entirely a pretty scene.
Everyone took this stab bad, Eckhart, Adam, Paul, and especially Wagner.
Adam and Paul slaved over DNA read outs for a few years dictating what they
did wrong.. then had over calculated a single RNA string.. number 18 to be
exact. The horrified Adam told Paul that he'd not ever work on another
human patient until it was perfect. There was need for such loss of
human life. It took them seven years to recalculate the entire
radiating process, as technology developed so did their work. But soon
they were ready, soon Adam and Paul had perfected their gene mapping work
and bio-technology had been born.
At first it was only
embryonic patients, but soon they learned they could also manipulate the DNA
of fully developed humans as well. Though the discoveries of mapping
DNA strictly from other human strains was not all that was done. It
was also another discovery that Paul Breedlove had found out with the
assistance of Eckhart that they could manipulate the DNA with other sources
such as animals, and parts of nature. Though this secret was one that
Adam had not been told about. It was some fifteen years later, and
after almost 1,000 of these experiments of remapping DNA that Adam was
researching a candidate that had went bezerk after a DNA grafting experiment
that Adam found out exactly what was going on. Breedlove was doing
more than just remapping flawed DNA. Breedlove was creating something
entirely not human.
The Cold war was, over and the new century was a them, both Adam
and breedlove were aging men, the year was 2010 and Adam had learned that all
his work was a mockery. There was something else going on. It was no
longer about helping people. On the news people heard about all these
reports of men busting into flames, and women firing electricity from their
hands. Genomex was now not the only bio-technology firm but were leaps and
bounds over the competition. Adam Stormed into breedlove's office to ask
him. Breedlove told him the truth. Adam left Genomex that night.
Though he didn't go without his own last move. Adam purged the complete
database of everything they had done since they began Genomex. This
included the destruction of all the backups that were around. Genomex by
then was more than just Bio-tech. They were a leading company. Adam
left with all the money he had saved. Changing his Identity and purging
all social security numbers, Adam went on the run.
Genomex had to
start over from scratch, and Adam began to build up the underground.
With the shame of everything he'd done, Adam knew he needed to protect and
help all the children of Genomex he had created. To his knowledge
there were a few thousand in the world. And the Mutant Underground
began.
Meanwhile at Genomex, Breedlove was the sole leader of
Genomex and had already made a few Subsidiaries called Breedlove labs that
continued to do what they could, for artificial insemination practices.
Breedlove too was very disappointed by what he had done, and Adam had left.
For breedlove staying at Genomex was all about money. Where Adam had
saved and was very careful about his cash, Breedlove spent most of what he
got. Breedlove had no choice.
That brings us forward
ten more years, and when the TV series begins. Breedlove is in his
office now an aging man and about ready to give away everything that Genomex
had done to the people who came to them. But Eckhart had other plans.
Angry at how Adam had destroyed Genomex in his own mind, he needed to put
his plans for the Genetic Security Agency in motion. Eckhart only had
one obstacle. in October of 2027, Breedlove was found dead, cause of
death... being burnt alive. And not 48 hours after this Eckhart went
on the PA to announce to the newest project of Genomex.. the GSA.
So what about the underground, and of course MutantX? Well the
underground started out as a series of safehouses linked together by
Sanctuary where Adam has been hiding out as the Hubble of new mutant
activity. The safehouses were designed to give the new mutants a place
to go and change their lives.. protection. MutantX was created as the
for most protectors of new mutants to find new mutants and get them to
safety. Though as the GSA was formed and things got bad, it was no
mystery that also Safehouses had to change. Many of them growing in to
what is a bit like a unseen war. Though MutantX are the self
proclaimed protectors of new mutants they can not be everywhere, and
safehouses have came together with full on support, and they too have began
to reach out and protect new mutants in their cities as best they can.
And so it began...
for more information on the history of the Genome
projects of Genomex please see MutantX: Origins.
