Project X

Project X is a fictional science experiment that was introduced in the X-AVR series and mentioned in the Golden-Martinez Man-Bat comics. 
According to both of these sources, Project X was officially set up in the 1970s (by 1975, a serum was concocted for the project), though it's unknown exactly when it was planned for. It was meant to create artificial life that could adapt to its environment, thus being able to prove a hypothesis that artificial intelligence could mimic actual intelligence, and eventually pave the way for advanced AI. The ultimate goal of this project (and potentially any others of the same form) is unknown.
Work on the project officially began late in 1980, when Dr. Douglas Finch, Dr. Adam P. Jacobsen, Dr. Mark D. Avian, and other scientists began creating a creature they called X-AVR. Their work was tiresome and lasted for months, though X-AVR was finally ready to be brought to life on March 22, 1981. With that, Dr. Avian was sent to get a syringe of the serum, though in his rush he dropped it into another unknown serum. Since Dr. Jacobsen was growing impatient, Dr. Avian didn't sterilize the syringe or get a new one; he just went to the others and didn't mention what happened. When the serum was injected into X-AVR, results initially were desirable. However, due to the contamination, X-AVR mutated into a being with long spikes for hands and a legless creature able to hover above the ground. Feeling betrayed, X-AVR murdered all of the scientists. Only Dr. Avian was able to escape, though he was mentally scarred. X-AVR would eventually go on to call himself Xavier, be transported to our world, and fight alongside the Avengers and the All's Alliance in the Infinity Wars.
There were supposed to be other creatures made under this project, though with the disaster that occurred in 1981, the project was forcibly discontinued. However, there is speculation that Man-Bat was a product of Project X (Dr. Finch was at Tom Verlaine's New York apartment for his 26th birthday, and he claimed to be a friend of Terry Ork, their manager. He claimed that the leakage of the serum into Tom's drink that night was a mistake, though this is ambiguous), though it is inconclusive. Man-Bat would also fight alongside the Avengers and the Alliance in the Infinity Wars.
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