The Wahgner Project

The W Initiative, or the Wilhelm Plan, is a eugenics project pioneered by Dr. Wilhelm Kahlbach which intended to develop and further advance the Aelgeist race. The W Initiative was named after the first director of the project, Dr. Wilhelm Kahlback, and all successful child candidates were renamed with his forename as a surname. This was one of the most significant viral operations centering around the Precursor Strain.
== History ==
The origins of the project arose in the 77th Millennium. Dr. Kahlbach believed the universe to have been corrupted by the decadency of 'Lesser Races' ie: Xenos, and Abhumans, and longed for a universal utopian ideal for gifted intellectuals of Aelgeist descent. With the Precursor Virus, Dr. Kahlbach was able to realize this dream among those in his eugenics circle with a virus that could create highly intelligent superhumans. The project had a number of hurdles to overcome. 
Firstly, the Precursor Virus when tested was found to present a high risk of death and required extensive research to achieve a strain capable of doing as the Volb'narii myths dipicted. 
Secondly, The Kahltehk Industries had nowhere near the resources required to fulfill this project, leading to the overhaul into The Kahltehk Engineering Syndicate as a means of raising funds and developing bio-weaponry as a means of testing the strain for the W Initiative. Thirdly, the utopian vision could not be achieved if the candidates did not share Dr. Kahlbach's ideals. W Initiative solved this problem by selecting children as the candidates who could be educated to have those ideals.
During the first phase of the experiment, tens of thousands of children across Aularan space were adopted, whether legitimately or otherwise, based on a criteria of their parents' contributions to Aelgeist-kind. All given the surname, Wilhelm, they were given the best education that money could buy while being closely monitored by the W Initiative team.
By mid.M77, the W Initiative isolated the cream of the crop, determining a hundred of the Wilhelm children to be the best candidates for the next phase which was the infection with the Precursor Strain. This phase saw the deaths of 87 of the final candidates with only 9 surviving without severe debilitating maladaptive developments.