Cybernetics Corp

The Cybernetics Corp, or Cy Corp as it's known for short, is a defunct secret military research programme run by the US Army in the decades after the end of the Cold War. It's mission was to develop a successful crop of super soldiers enhanced with implanted technologies and cybernetic upgrades to augment natural human capabilities. The programme showed some impressive successes in the years it was active, including a number of true cyborgs from US military volunteers, reaching as far as field testing stages before it was shut down. It's leadership and members are mostly unknown, and the majority of it's subjects where killed upon it's decommissioning, leaving only the rogue units that live on the run and in secret. General Frank Miller was briefly apart of the management of the Cy Corp development team in it's early days.

The Cy Corp was a sister and rival project to the B.R.A.S.S. Programme, as both were designed as potential solutions to fighting a large scale conflict if the Cold War were to return. Both research portfolios were decommissioned when the conflict between the two turned to violence, leaving a lasting grudge between the remaining cyborgs and Poison Ivy's Ivyspawn, a conflict that is the backdrop of the game *Agents of Heels: Misadventures of Agent Romanov*

## History

### Initiation and Early Days

The Cybernetics Corp was first created some time in the early-to-mid 1990s, as
the Cold War began to wind down and come to a close. While the public
believed relations between both East and West were improving, those in
the higher recesses of the U.S. Military and Government were concerned
that longer term prospects for peace were grim. Investments in the next
form of warfare began, one of which was the Cy Corp, and another was the B.R.A.S.S. Programme. The
chief goal of the project was to create specialized soldiers, through
specialized means,
capable of infiltrating and extinguishing any flash point before it
exploded,
and thereby contain any future Soviet threat. *"With cyborgs, we could*
control the battlefield. We could win any skirmish, we could march on Moscow in
the Winter and win."

The early leadership team included General Frank Miller, for a time at least. While Miller was on board with idea of a skilled but small strike force to hold back the Soviets, he was apposed to the use of cyborgs for that goal. He feared an overt and overwhelming military regiment that included cyborgs would inspire desperation in enemy armies, pushing them passed any desire for restrain with their nuclear arsenals. Instead he was vocal about the use of specialized spies and clandestine agencies instead, which would quietly dismantle opposition instead of crushing them on the battlefield. This stance, and his open protests against the higher ups on the project, lost Miller the respect and support of the test subject volunteers, who were exclusively military veterans and service members, and that took great umbrage at the slight against their cause. Miller was soon after transferred to help lead the B.R.A.S.S. Programme, where he was instrumental in it's progression and further inflamed tensions between the groups over time.

### Main Development

Little is currently known of the Cy Corps' main development and challenges at this point. For a number of years it was seen that the Corps lagged behind the progress of it's rival B.R.A.S.S., however, by the time both projects came to ahead, it hand regained a lot of that ground, if not enough to secure widespread development.

### War with B.R.A.S.S.

After several years in parallel development and several years since
the official end of the Cold War, the Military was ready to focus in on
one vision for the future. It was between the B.R.A.S.S. programme and
the Cybernetics Corp
 as to which would be completed and which would be expunged from
existence forever. Despite the crisis that had hit B.R.A.S.S. with the
unstable mutations, with a clear cut success in Poison Ivy herself, they were
considered the more successful of the pair. Up until now, the Cy Corp
had only produced a few units of enhanced soldiers, and they still
struggled with drawbacks of their own such as a weakness to water
exposure. It was generally accepted that the Cy Corp would be shutdown and erased, it's candidates included.

Using her charms and ability to manipulate events, Ivy was able
to make contact with Cy Corp members even whilst in B.R.A.S.S. custody.
Promising them that they would be the project to see advancement if
B.R.A.S.S. was to come to harm, she lead them into scheming for a way to
 ensure their survival. Going rogue, a number of cyborgs, including Captain Cameron Stone,
 raided the main facilities of their rival programme, destroying their
research, killing many of the scientists, and against Ivy's designs,
slaughtered many of the Ivyspawn. In the chaos, many Ivyspawn managed to
 escape, including both "super-powered" women and a batch of male
monsters. A number of cyborgs where killed in the process too, but Stone
 and his platoon escaped an untimely end as well. The group of cyborgs went rogue, leaving the rest of the subjects still with the Cy Corp main facility to bare the brunt of the fallout, including being decommissioned and killed. The last remaining cyborgs fled to live on the lamb, harboring a grunge against their previous handlers as well as the Ivyspawn and later the Heels Agency which grew out of the ashes of B.R.A.S.S. under General Miller's lead.

## Outcomes and World Influence

Along with the B.R.A.S.S. Programme, the Cybernetics Corp has been one of the most consequential world
 events of the beWilderverse to date. Though secret and not known to the
 general public of the world, many long lasting effects have sprung from
 its history and events, including but not limited to the following:

* After the raid on B.R.A.S.S. by rogue elements of the Cy Corp, both programmes where ultimately discontinued and erased. All of the cyborgs except for the already rogue group including Captain Stone were "decommissioned", or otherwise killed, to cover up the failures of the plans. The same is true for any uncaptured Ivyspawn. Both research teams were expunged from official history.
* General Frank Miller was reassigned and tasked with cleaning up the messes made as commander of the new Heels Agency, which would later morph into a legitimate nation security and spying agency. Poison Ivy, along with many other Ivyspawn, including Quiet, Mystique, Dyana Carson and Subject 32 escaped into thin air.
* Bad blood has persisted between Ivyspawn and the remaining

cyborgs since the attack on B.R.A.S.S. The cyborgs believe they were
tricked by Poison Ivy into attacking their rivals, which lead to the
bulk of their members being killed for the efforts and their project
being axed. Ivy in turn feels betrayed by the cyborgs as many of her
children were unnecessarily slaughtered in the raid. Both factions bare
murderous grudges against each other still.

## Involvement

### Agents of Heels: Misadventures of Agent Romanov (AoH: MoAR)

The Cybernetics Corp and it's legacy plays a central role in the conflicts of *Misadventures of Agent Romanov.* As
 the game progresses, the protagonist Natasha Romanov becomes more
wrapped up in the attempts at retribution by Poison Ivy against General
Miller and Heels for what became of the Ivyspawn, all while discovering
her own hidden past with the project itself. During these events, Natasha comes into lethal conflict with the cyborg Captain Cameron Stone, who is aiding Ivy in her retribution against Heels in an "the enemy of my enemy is my (reluctant) friend" arrangement, even while he plots to kill Ivy himself.

* ***Main Article: Agents of Heels: Misadventures of Agent Romanov Plot Synopsis***

## Purpose and Goals

The purpose of the Cy Corp was to
create a process in which American Super Soldiers could be come a
reality, specifically through means of technological enhancements and implanted upgrades within humans.

Beyond the stated goal of the research, the broader goal of the
project, along with it's sister project of the B.R.A.S.S. Programme, was to
create an elite fighting force for the American Military. The aim is to
give the West an advantage in fighting and containing potential
Soviet/Russian treats, with the use of powerful commando strike force
that could extinguish any potential flashpoint in the world before they
ignited, in contrast to the large armies needed during the 20th century
conflicts.

The programme was only in part successful before being shut down and expundged.

## Organizational Structure

The exact nature of the Cy Corps organizational structure is as yet unknown, however there are signs that as a group strongly tied to the US military (even more that B.R.A.S.S.), it runs under a military rank structure. It is known that within the test subjects and created cyborgs a structure of units and regiments existed.

### Leadership/Management Style

As with the greater organizational structure, the leadership team and management direction is unknown, but suspected to align with a traditional military hierarchy.

### Membership

#### Key Leadership

* Unknown Generals
* General Frank Miller (Briefly in the early days)

#### Known Test Subjects

* Captain Cameron Stone, (Half-Human Cyborg).

### Area(s) of Influence

Unlike the B.R.A.S.S. programme, it is unknown as of yet as to where the majority of the work behind the Cybernetics Corp took place, nor where any of their later field activity took place. It is also unknown where or what the fled cyborgs from the B.R.A.S.S. facility attack are up to either.

#### Associated Locations

There are no known locations associated with the Cy Corp as of yet.

## Appendix

### References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Stated by General Frank Miller in *Agents of Heels: Misadventures of Agent Romanov*
2. ↑ Stated by Poison Ivy in *Agents of Heels: Misadventures of Agent Romanov*
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Stated by Captain Cameron Stone in *Agents of Heels: Misadventures of Agent Romanov*
4. ↑ Demonstrated in *Agents of Heels: Misadventures of Agent Romanov*