New Horizons Research
New Horizons Research was a small research facility founded in the year 1785 on the Reonan calendar. When the Earthlings invaded Reona in 1792, New Horizons developed a group of genetically engineered humans with superior strength, excellent hand-to-hand combat skills, more durable skin, enhanced speed, and improved agility. They also lack empathy and basic human emotions, making them the perfect soldiers. They were all male. The research made them defeat Earthling humans and win the war.
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After the war, the Reonan humans and Earthling humans signed a peace treaty, and they coexisted. However, the Earthling humans lived on separate colonies from the Reonan humans. The genetically engineered men were introduced into the workforce to perform labor for the humans who had purchased them. Eventually, the genetically engineered men went maverick and turned on both Reonans and Earthlings. They killed every Earthling on Reona and killed some Reonans, as well. The genetically engineered men and the scientists who created them were ordered to be executed. They shot and burned the bodies of the genetically engineered men and hanged the scientists.
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In 1918, Dr. Wolfgang Duerr and Dr. Dodd Lancaster discovered old notes left behind in an old ruin. Both scientists brought them back to their lab to study the notes. They were fascinated with such a concept, and Dr. Lancaster thought it would be good to revive New Horizons in case of another Earthling invasion or invasion from any other planet.
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Dr. Duerr suggested that instead of creating new humans, as the notes read, he wanted to enhance humans. The first genetically enhanced test subject was in 1922.
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During this time, Dr. Duerr discovered Xuprans and was fascinated by their durability and resistance to death. He spent years trying to make a Xupran-Human hybrid and was met with no success until the day a Xupran swallowed a vial of ehtytrim and bit Maxwell “Maxxy” Malone.
Etheressums
Dr. Dodd Lancaster had his first genetically enhanced test subject in 1922, and the last recorded test subject was in 1984. They inject the serum called ehtytrim into a human, and this alters their genetics. This grants the receiver special abilities known as "ethereal prowess." These special abilities can include super strength, super speed, flight, psionic powers, shapeshifting, and other extraordinary abilities. One person can possess one ethereal prowess, but there are rare cases when a person can have two at most.
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They genetically enhanced people, also known as “etheressums.” Etheressums never age, and they are biologically immortal. They cannot die unless they are killed. They have acute, sensitive hearing, and those who know about them carry “high-frequency sound devices” to hurt their ears, stun, and disarm them.
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In the year 1968, a bunch of children were sold to a New Horizons Research Facility to undergo serum treatments and extensive training to become super soldiers. The project was shut down in 1974 when a masked man broke in to rescue a child and set the place ablaze.
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In 1982, New Horizons Research initiated another project under the guise of a camp located in Rose Lakewood, New Jersey. The premise of the camp was for campers to escape and find solace from the pain. The fundamental premise was to enhance the genetic makeup of more people. The scientists injected the campers with ehtytrim and at the end of the summer of 1982, the camp shut down and vanished without a trace.
In the following years, from 1983 to 1984, they initiated the same project under the guise of a camp in various locations throughout the US. After the scientists injected the participants with ehtytrim and their treatment finished, they shut down the camps and vanished.
Ehtytrim
The serum used to give Reonans their “Ethereal Prowess” is referred to as “EP” for short. It has improved over time, thanks to Dr. Minerva Marzilli’s improvement of the formula. Instead of requiring days of being dosed with it to gain an EP, it's now just one shot. Dr. Minerva Marzilli is the head of the Etheressum Research Division.
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Richonoid
Normal, non-etheressum humans turned into ghastly monsters after being injected with “Richioprox Erokine”, a bioengineered weapon created by Dr. Ichiro Tachibana. The virus attacks, infects, and mutates the cells of normal humans, while in Etheressums, their cells fight off the virus, rendering it moot against Etheressums. Dr. Ichiro Tachibana is the head of the Bioweapons Division.
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Lamoris
Plural: Lamorii. Genetically engineered monsters created and sold by New Horizons Research, and usually bought by Darrel Gatti or Dougal Springer. There are several abandoned lamorii scattered around the world, often killing people or animals who come close to them. These monsters are hard to kill and can only be killed if you destroy the core. Dr. Govinda Anand is the head of the Lamoris Creation Division.