Project Longinus (comic story)

Project: Longinus was a 2005 The Forge comic story written by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright and released online.
This story was the first in a three-part online comic miniseries featuring William Abberton (AKA Nimrod) and the Forge who both debuted in the Big Finish Productions monthly range story Project: Twilight. Oracle, the Forge's security system, also made a return having first appeared in Project: Lazarus. Scott and Wright had retained the rights to their creations and had decided to create a spin-off series featuring them in lead roles.
== Summary ==
The immortal vampire Nimrod performs a daring heist on the allegedly impenetrable Hecht Museum of Unexplained and Occult Material on a mission to procure the famed Lance of Longinus.
== Plot ==
Five miles beneath the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Nimrod falls out of a ventilation shaft onto the fifth floor of the Hecht Museum of Unexplained and Occult Material. Across the museum, creator Rhona McAndrew is alerted to the disturbance by her security detection systems and brings her phone call to a swift end while Nimrod finds the Lance of Longinus and confirms its authenticity with Oracle.
As the museum's security protocols only allow for authorised members to access the lance, Nimrod prepares to use a synthesised DNA sample that he had created to trick the system. However, McAndrew shows up and opposes him by shooting him in the head. Due to being a vampire, the immortal Nimrod is unscathed and he later reflects that he needn't have bothered going to the trouble of creating his own DNA sample as he simply uses McAndrew's DNA to access the lance after murdering her.
Having collected the Longinus, Nimrod leaves the museum and heads out into the streets of Edinburgh where he reports back to base to inform Frith that his mission was successful.
== Characters ==
* Nimrod
* Rhona McAndrew
== Cover ==
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== Worldbuilding ==
=== Locations ===
* The Hecht Museum of Unexplained and Occult Material is located five miles beneath the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland.
* The Hecht uses the same security system as Fort Knox, which Nimrod has broken into twice.
=== Individuals ===
* The Hecht Museum outbid Opus Dei and the Seventh Order of Lucifer for a relic.
* Constantine, Alexander the Great, and Adolf Hitler all wrongly believed that they had obtained the Lance of Longinus.
* The pontiff was still sure that he held the genuine Lance of Longinus in the vaults of St. Peter's Basilica.
* The Lance of Longinus was famous for having allegedly pierced the chest of Christ on Golgotha.
=== Species ===
* The Hecht Museum had the apparent heads of a Raxacoricofallapatorian and a Cyberman on display.
=== History ===
* The Hecht Museum had an exhibit called The Foreskin of Merlin.
* The Lance of Longinus was also known as the Spear of Destiny.
=== Technology ===
* The Hecht Museum's security system cost in the region of twenty million sterling.
* The Oracle confirms that the Lance of Longinus is "100% Xenotech".
== Notes ==
to be added
== Continuity ==
* The Third Doctor and Jo Grant previously encountered the Lance of Longinus. (PROSE: )
* Nimrod uses a portable version of the Oracle unit. (PROSE: )
* Nimrod reports the success of his mission back to Frith. (PROSE: )
== External links ==
* Project: Longinus on comicbookdb.com
Category:2005 comic stories
Category:Stories set in Edinburgh
Category:Stories set in the 2000s
Category:The Forge comic stories