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 the year 1792, New Horizons developed a group of genetically engineered humans with superior strength, excellent hand-to-hand combat skills, more durable skin, superior speed, and superior agility. They also lack empathy and basic human emotion making them the perfect soldiers. They were all male. The research made them defeat Earthling humans and win the war.
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 doing labor for the humans that bought 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 that created them were ordered to be executed. They shot and burned the bodies of the genetically engineered men and hung the scientists.
Come the 20th century 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.
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.
During this time, Dr. Duerr discovered Xuprans and was fascinated with how durable and impossible to kill they were. 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 subjects were in 1984. They inject the serum called ehtytrim into a human and this alters their genetics. This gives the receiver special abilities called "ethereal prowess." These special abilities can be super strength, super speed, flight, psionic powers, shapeshifting, etc. One person can have one ethereal prowess each, but there are rare cases when a person can have two at most.
They genetically enhanced people or best known as “etheressums.” Etheressumes 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.
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.
In the year 1982, New Horizons Research started another project under the guise of a camp located in Rose Lakewood, Garden State. The premise of the camp was for campers to get away and take the pain away. The real premise was to genetically enhance 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 in 1983 and 1984, they started 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.