LenoCorp

"Finding the spark." -LC Motto
==Description==
LenoCorp is a secretive British-run corporation operating out of Ireland that works on biological solutions dubbed "Waste Management Innovation". Not much is actually known of the company, aside from its notorious accidental ignition of The Outbreak of Red Beasts in Europe in the 2040's after an accident regarding a test subject becoming contaminated with some untested waste.
Funded by a few private companies from the United Kingdom in the early 2010's, the company was started out of Dublin to conduct harmless research on the waste output of the city, before moving on to other topics such as landfills, sewage, and nuclear waste. The company was able to secure a few contracts with other local businesses, allowing construction of an isolated testing site for broader developments with less concern to public safety. As to occurred within that site was completely lost to the event in 2039, the location later bombed by the German Luftwaffe during an extermination operation sometime around 2044 that completely collapsed it into itself.
==History==
=== Foundation ===
LenoCorp was founded during a currently non-specific year, but existed at least as early as the 2030s, if not earlier. LenoCorp's original goal was to develop better waste management innovations- supposedly, and worked heavily on other biological projects before accidentally stumbling upon the makeup of the Red Beast Virus in their disposed waste that was later accidentally let loose in the form of an angry beast, slaughtering or infecting nearly all of the employees, quickly spreading one of the worst diseases known to mankind. Any other contributions to history have all been completely lost.
=== The Accident ===
As partially described through the events of Broken Britain, LenoCorp accidentally succeeded in creating a biological weapon through negligent dumping of their hazardous waste, creating the Red Beast Virus, which would later spread rapidly over the British Isles and furthermore within a month of its dispersion.
On the afternoon of November 30th, 2039, reports of a disturbance in the experimentation sector of LenoCorp's testing site reached the head command of the site, spurring an investigation into the incident, as no developments were ordered to take place that day. Lightly armed guards were sent down to check out the given location, but did not return a report of what had happened. By the time that further investigation could be done, fire alarms had been pulled, and radioed reports of contacts with unknown reddish specimens began to flood in from personnel, accompanied by a tamper alarm from the tester prison sector. Multiple security squads were dispatched to handle the situation, headed by "The Sergeant", who quickly secured the upper levels, allowing for a protocol following of evacuation procedures, as staff awaited helicopter evac and proper opening of the exterior blast doors. Following the remaining distress calls, The Sergeant led his personal squad through the lower sectors, before being ambushed by the "red beast" that began the infection. 
Having his entire squad infected by the creature and its previous victims, The Sergeant found himself spared by a whim of luck, escaping back towards the evacuation protocol areas. Returning to this area, he was devastated to find the protocol had failed; faulty placement of sprinkler systems had sabotaged the communications equipment, making it impossible to radio for help. The blast doors had also failed due to an unfixed mechanical issue, finally hastily opened, but not before most personnel were infected, only letting very few escape into the local forest. Being unable to contain the incident, security forces were rapidly overwhelmed, fighting in other pockets in the site, using any possible hole to attempt to escape with their lives, very few succeeding.
With the blast doors left wide open, infected personnel began stumbling into the local area. In the meantime, The Sergeant, having taken advantage of his observation point, successfully scoped out patient zero with a rifle snagged out of the armory, shooting and mortally wounding him, but not before the strand was transferred to the patient's sibling, allowing for rapid regeneration of a pure strand by the new host. Now pursued, The Sergeant quickly retreated back into the depths of the site in order to try and engage last effort lockdown protocols and exterior warning systems, not aware that the damage had already been done. Unsuccessful halfway through his attempt, he was killed by the new host, and left to rot with the site.
LenoCorp was immediately disintegrated by the incident once news broke, shutting the company down as almost all personnel had been turned rogue by the virus, with surviving employees working out of the office in Dublin liquidating all assets, fleeing as quickly from the isle as possible back to England before they could be apprehended or worse.
It is unknown if anything became of the site after the outbreak spread, with possible recovery of anything made extremely difficult by the continued presence of red beasts before it was bombed into ruins.
The only known survivor to escape the site uninfected was the heartily-named "Breach Survivor".
== Developments ==
The achievements and progress of LenoCorp is well lost to history and time because of the events of 2039, with only some complimentary advances in Dublin's recycling program and funding into some clean energy projects in the area ever being noted publicly. LenoCorp is responsible for the creation of the "RBV", and would stand as the pinnacle of human mishap in the realm of biological genetic engineering at its time, being remembered by few as "The Leap into Chaos [Company]" or other plays on words.
== Locations ==
Being a small business, LenoCorp only has two identifiable locations to its name, with an office building located somewhere in Dublin that took care of administrative affairs. The other known location, "Test Site LC", was hidden well within the forested hills South of the city, with only some small village North of its location. This is not confirmed outside of spread rumors.
==Notes==
*LenoCorp's original logo was accidentally merged with the GSA during a lore hiccup. Oops!
*Why is LenoCorp yet another globe (but Europe-oriented)? I honestly don't know why I kept making earth logos, haha.
*An unreleased Quest CYOA game gave the company the most depth with the player approaching the area as a scientist before the incident happened.
==Appearances==
===Broken Britain===
LenoCorp starts as the breeding grounds for The Outbreak, as detailed in the story of the founding Red Beast Alphas in Broken Britain. Afterwards, it isn't mentioned again until The Breach Survivor appears still wearing his uniform in multiple chapters of the 2042 roleplay, Luke Nart also making passing comments during this roleplay, as well as in the flashback sequence found in BB.
==Gallery==
File:Breach Survivor (HD Attempt).png|The Breach Survivor; the last remaining example of a LenoCorp guard.
Category:Corporation Lore