S.O.L.A.C.E

**S.O.L.A.C.E**, a corporate entity identifiable by its distinctive yellow color scheme, is known for its groundbreaking advancements in science, technology, and research. However, its reputation is marred by a shadowy criminal side that involves abducting individuals and transforming them into deadly cyborgs or monstrous creatures. The corporation operates through an intricate web of fronts that conceal their illicit activities, which often involve acts of war and terrorism. S.O.L.A.C.E. has a storied history dating back to the twenty-first century, with their earlier incarnation being defeated by the Invincible Iron Man.

A millennium later, they re-emerged with even more formidable technology, aligning themselves with PROJECT as trusted allies. Yet, their involvement in a new era alongside the Societas Renegare and their experiments on Ultranevians attracted negative attention. Ultimately, betrayal and the intervention of heroes like Iron Man sealed the fate of this malevolent corporate entity.

## History

### Origins

S.O.L.A.C.E. was founded in the twenty-first century. They were the same back then, with their fascination with science and technology, as well as their production of massive mechas for construction, security, and warfare. As a result, they have come into contact with the invincible Iron Man, which usually does not end well for them, leading them to hire or use super powered villains to compete with Michael Nexima's formidable armours. S.O.L.A.C.E was later destroyed and lost forever after he fought them with the help of Firepower and Panamoan authorities such as the military and SCIA.

### A Call to Arms

Though partially responsible for A-Day, Pierson, Montgomery and S.O.L.A.C.E were able to avoid the fallout of the A-Day incident during *A Call to Arms*. After the government liquidation of The Defenders and Black Velvet, they worked with Derek Tavish to reclaim their assets. These included the Tavish Archive and the old NRC tower, both of which were repurposed into a gamma laboratory and the company's headquarters, respectively. However, Andrea secretly gathered evidence of Tavish's illegal activities and, after gaining substantial information, blackmailed him into giving her Tavish Defence Systems. With Pierson's help, they reformed all the companies into subsidiaries of their own corporation.

How could this possibly be? In the preceding 24 hours, S.O.L.A.C.E held Panamoan Republic military leaders hostage, flooded the streets with cybernetic soldiers, and gassed an entire city full of people with experimental mist. All of this unfolded on live television, as well. That's more than a PR nightmare, it's super villain territory. However, some say the early form of G/NEX has stopped them for good, owing to Laura Smirnoff, who also defeated Mimeographer that later became a PROJECT soldier.

### PROJECT-G/NEX War

Throughout the corporate war, S.O.L.A.C.E has disguised themselves against the planet to deceive the planet that PROJECT does most of the genocide. It worked very well, and Markus Pierson's experiments on himself to achieve immortality has drove him far more insane, making his head grow grossly oversized, and his body needs a special hover chair for mobility. The positive effect however, is that his mind is augmented to a massive degree, utilising more than 100% of his brain, that he seems to have a precognitive senses in situations. As expected, they serve to terrorise the streets of various nations, whenever PROJECT needs their assistance.

When the megacorporation was on the edge of losing the war, S.O.L.A.C.E. became desperate and tried everything in their power to save their superior. Unfortunately, the consequences were far worse, and they were soon exposed to the entire planet, forcing them to disappear from the media and keep operating in a low profile to avoid their properties or headquarters being invaded by the authorities, wanting to exact revenge on the entire planet, proclaiming that PROJECT gave them the freedom to enact their vision for nevanity's future. When the megacorporation was finally destroyed, SCODOK declared them to rebuild their own power as they seek to revive the megacorporation, disliking the bright future of nevanity after the former's defeat in 3025.

### Bygone: The Uprising

#### New Beginnings

S.O.L.A.C.E has finally made the decision to establish their dominance in the Panamoan Republic, establishing their "vision for nevanity's future" in order to enact their revenge against the free world that allied with a resistance movement to destroy a megacorporation. To furthermore enhance their success, they have managed to pick up a society known as the Corporate Renegades, a terrorist group who seeks to bring PROJECT back into the planet, and await the entire nevanity suffer at their own bright future.

As they both share the same collective goal, they are different in their methods. While the renegades are terrorists who spread terror and slaughter people everywhere, S.O.L.A.C.E uses their mechanised troops to establish their dominance.

#### New Generation of Heroes

S.O.L.A.C.E has found their former mercenary Mimeographer, through the actions of their recent elite trooper known as Yellowjacket Wolf. He was given an enhancement in his brain to enhance his ability, and they have decided to attack Ravenclaw. Mimeographer joined their operation as they wrecked havoc upon the city, but the intervention of the Armed Forces of the Panamoan Republic have forced them to a brutal fight, and the sudden arrival of Michael Nexima in the Iron Man Armour has caused them to retreat. Reports confirm that the corporation took a detailed picture of his armour and created a schematic to mass produce their own similar suits in the near future.

SCODOK was impressed to see an old enemy, Iron Man. However, what he despises about him, is that, he has been far more powerful in the arms and technology race compared to before. Mimeographer was able to kill multiple high ranking people in the Panamoan Republic, to establish their power as the corporation's short term objective was to control both that country and the Aryaine Kingdom.

#### Operation: New Troubles

S.O.L.A.C.E has fully authorised the Corporate Renegades to mine all possible deposits of Aether in the Vuraki glacier. As a result, Templar Vanguard took charge of the mining operations and it took them some time, knowing that Aether is unusually hard for a crystalline form. **S.O.L.A.C.E.** later covered them up from the public reports of "illegal weaponry" by claiming that Aryan warriors are on their way to deliver the Aether to their superiors.

However, unbeknownst to them, Fiona Vance has sent her recruit Lunar Frost to intercept the convoy, and neutralise all of them. Salazar Progektö assures SCODOK that nothing seems to be wrong as the convoy is now on their way to Na'Raka. SCODOK later realises that Lunar Frost is on route to intercept it, but the warning was too late as the prodigy has destroyed their supplies of Aether and their convoy halted. As the renegades failed to deal with him, S.O.L.A.C.E deploys an army to deal with her, only to become singlehandedly defeated by the prodigy, which she won and has fled to the Panamoan Republic.

Due to how insane SCODOK was, he orders to field a large army to attack the heroes' headquarters, which was located by Templar Vanguard at Vulcanuschetts. In response to that plan, the renegades have infiltrated the country in plain sight, and later changed when they converge upon the building. Without warning, S.O.L.A.C.E and the renegade forces have surrounded the building at night, intending to end their era once and for all. SCODOK notably used his headpiece to fire a deadly beam of plasma, only for it to be rendered useless as a force field has protected the base. Knowing that the base seems defenceless without it, a few men have attempted to breach the building, only yo get electrocuted by the defence systems. Fiona Vance warns him not to destroy the base, or suffer the consequences. Disliking her words, he orders them to open fire. Unfortunately, they were thwarted as Lunar Frost intervened and singlehandedly took out a few mechs, whilst Night Breeze worsened their situation by disabling them, forcing them to retreat.

He was NOT happy by losing their chance to destroy them all. Due to this, he suggests that the Corporate Renegades should focus their operations on Avarshi, to provide a strategical advantage as they all intent to restore PROJECT in that country, to disgrace Ashe's legacy and potentially demoralise her extremely capable daughter.

#### Brightblasting Adventure

S.O.L.A.C.E has taken a toll on their war against heroes, preventing them from launching further attacks and invasions as the majority of the planet has become aware of their never-ending threat, gaining more and more public disapproval, even claiming that they are PROJECT wannabes. SCODOK expected the Corporate Renegades to pick up where they left off. They did, however, devise a seemingly perfect plan to permanently eliminate the heroes, which was a satellite-mounted cannon.

Unfortunately, they are hampered by the fact that they require a satellite. They apparently stole an NRC satellite, reverse engineered it, and spent the entire event designing it. Upon entering the prototype phase, it has a final codename: CHIMERA. As this weapon is capable of firing extremely deadly beams of plasma, there is a true guarantee that it'll destroy the heroes' precious headquarters in Vulcanuschetts. It didn't take long for Salazar Progektö to learn more of it.

#### Anti-Corporations

The Archibald Robotics and later S.O.L.A.C.E themselves are exposed as Fiona Vance has pushed a campaign to slowly get rid of them. The former got exposed as the MERCS and the NEW/G have intercepted their smuggling operations and additional designs to expand their already formidable robotic army. Moreover, they did not assist the Corporate Renegades in their current operations, as the latter has gained a massive tactical advantage after the heroes' subsequent missions are deliberately exposed by someone, a defector.

When the renegades won twice, but failed to save Archibald Robotics; SCODOK decided that they should even the odds. A DRC-09 Cyclops was sent to eliminate the heroes in the Aryaine Kingdom, only for them to lose such valuable killing machine at the hands of Spartacus Brightspear. This was the time for them to suspend their operations temporarily, and work on the CHIMERA killer satellite.

#### Unshakeable Revelation

SCODOK proclaims that the CHIMERA, is the anti-NEW/G weapon that will destroy the heroes as he intends to use it to annihilate their very base. Moreover, Salazar Progektö and Templar Vanguard have refined a design for a powerful direct energy weapon that runs on Aether, which they have tested by destroying a mountaintop somewhere in Frostvile. Contrary to SCODOK's expectations, it caused an uproar in Avarshi, so he decided to test the beam again to the capital of Avarshi, to no avail, as someone has deliberately hacked the satellite to prevent them from destroying the capital.

As the NEW/G has vanished, resulting in their "perfect victory," S.O.L.A.C.E has attacked both the Panamoan Republic and the Aryaine Kingdom at the same time. Allowing them to cover for the renegades who have seized Avarshi and attempted to take over the icy lands, with the exception of Frostvile. As a result, SCODOK plans to conquer Frostvile and then kill every Iceborn who lives there. The Panamoan military has sent a large force to eliminate the renegades and possibly S.O.L.A.C.E because they have destroyed the NEW/headquarters G's and are considered a major threat as a result of their actions. However, the Corporate Renegades was the first to take over Avarshi compared to them.

Unbeknownst to them, Frazier Lashley has implemented an explosive device on SCODOK himself, as the entirety of S.O.L.A.C.E are unaware of their secret new plan: Which is to cut ties with them as they intend on controlling Avarshi as a whole, by bringing Lunar Frost to the tribe of Clementia at Frostvile. Yellowjacket Wolf was also aware of this, and he secretly contributes to their plan, all without anyone knowing.

#### New Heroes, Another Ultimatum

SCODOK has uploaded a message regarding their control over the Panamoan Republic and the Aryaine Kingdom. He states that, if they did not surrender their military, more bloodshed will occur and they will suffer, while he ends the broadcasted message with a very disturbing laugh that angered billions of people. He then rallies his troops as he intends to deliver more force in the Aryaine Kingdom in his "effort" to bring out the NEXTECH Man himself.

### Downfall

Yellowjacket Wolf then warns him of a possible threat in his life. SCODOK shrugs of his elite trooper's words, knowing that S.O.L.A.C.E will not allow those kind of things. However, the latter mocks him after his brain exploded, stating that he should've listened. SCODOK then witnessed his own troops getting slaughtered by the Corporate Renegades. Afterwards, Yellowjacket Wolf is nowhere to be found, and he managed to replace his brain through an artificial program. Unfortunately for him, he is only left with a few mechas, while Iron Man is patiently waiting for him.

After dealing with what remains of his men in the Panamoan Republic, the Invincible Avenger brutally kills him. He then pressed the huge commander and slammed him to the ground, thereby killing him.  and When the corporation fell, so did their forces in the Aryaine Kingdom, with all of their resources and bases of operations collapsing one after the other, ensuring their demise. In fact, the Panamoan Republic has resolved to demolish all known properties of S.O.L.A.C.E in their own country, and OMAR-CONSTRUCT was even complicit in the ransacking of S.O.L.A.C.E in order to permanently obliterate the corporation.

S.O.L.A.C.E's downfall was highly celebrated and their heinous experiments were leaked, nailing the nail of their coffin.

## Structure

> "We are S.O.L.A.C.E. The architects, of your future!
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Despite being a private corporation, S.O.L.A.C.E wields financial resources comparable to PROJECT, a testament to their formidable capabilities. However, international data suggests that S.O.L.A.C.E is approximately 77% smaller and weaker than the megacorporation. Nevertheless, they are a force to be reckoned with, capable of single-handedly taking on some of the world's most powerful military forces.

S.O.L.A.C.E operates on a global scale and employs a network of fronts to cover their operations, including Beehive International, Global Data Integration and Control, Brandt Industries, Lachchu Meer, Supreme Vistoff Laboratories, Allen's Department Store, and Golden Research Institute, among others. These fronts are designed to divert attention and obfuscate their illicit activities. The corporation's vast budget and funding, along with a team of exceptionally talented researchers and scientists, enable them to consistently achieve groundbreaking advancements.

When this corporation faced its eventual fall, all of its deceptive fronts were exposed, revealing that they had employed extremely convincing but entirely fabricated resources to conceal their illicit activities. The removal of these facades had severe consequences, as S.O.L.A.C.E lost over 300 billion credits, ultimately marking their demise. The once-mighty corporation was brought to its knees, and its legacy was forever tarnished.

### Members

* **SCODOK** †: a supervillain maniac with enhanced intuition, pattern solving, information storage/retrieval, and logical/philosophical structuring. SCODOK's ability to predict probable outcomes of tactical and strategic scenarios was so immensely advanced that it bordered on precognition.
* Andrea Montgomery †: Confirmed KIA as of 3028.
* Yellowjacket Wolf: Elite Trooper. Formerly known as Gray Wolf, this trooper is a loyal soldier, until revealing that his affiliation only belongs to PROJECT, indicating his betrayal and allegiance to the renegades.
* Mimeographer - Former PROJECT soldier, now S.O.L.A.C.E operative.
* Salazar Progektö - Associate
* Derek Tavish † - Associate, owner of Tavish Defence Systems.
* Bucketheads †

## Quotes

### Motto

> "Our Innovations Shape Tomorrow's World."
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* This motto conveys the outward facade of S.O.L.A.C.E as a pioneering corporation dedicated to the advancement of cybernetic and genetic research. It emphasizes their commitment to shaping the future and creating a better world through cutting-edge technologies. However, beneath this veneer of innovation lies the corporation's dark and clandestine activities, hidden from public view.

### Quotations

* "In the heart of our laboratories, the future is born. Our innovations are the stepping stones to a brighter tomorrow."
* "S.O.L.A.C.E: Where Science Meets Destiny."
* "The boundaries of possibility are merely the starting point of our discoveries."
* "The pursuit of excellence fuels our relentless dedication to progress."
* "We are the architects of the world's evolution, forging a path to a new era."
* "S.O.L.A.C.E: Pioneering Tomorrow, Today."

## Trivia

### General

* Following S.O.L.A.C.E's downfall, the Neo Renegade seized what remained of their vast resources. This included a cache of weapons, various military vehicles, and state-of-the-art next-gen technologies. The Neo Renegades' acquisition of these assets bolstered their own capabilities and furthered their radical agenda.
* S.O.L.A.C.E maintained a contradictory stance on camouflage. Despite proclaiming that camouflage is for cowards, their conspicuous yellow color scheme made them stand out from the crowd. Their inability to blend in with their surroundings was a glaring irony that attracted significant attention from the start. The exception to this was Yellowjacket Wolf, a former PROJECT soldier affiliated with the Societas Renegare, who successfully infiltrated the corporation, exemplifying the importance of camouflage in covert operations.
* S.O.L.A.C.E's involvement in the forgotten war was only exposed in their historic downfall. This was confirmed by Michael Nexima.
* Their main headquarters is found on Queens, High Iron. It is roughly 2.6 miles away from the NRC Tower. However, they are unable to damage the NRC Tower nor seize it.
* S.O.L.A.C.E is PROJECT's sole remaining ally. After their defeat, it is evident that they are the successors, and the Corporate Renegades act as their "Black Ops" squad due to their aim to execute operations to bring the megacorporation back to life, as agreed upon by S.O.L.A.C.E.
* SCODOK leads them with an iron fist. He does not tolerate second-rate performance and is quick to berate any member that fails on a particular objective.
* Everyone is distinguished with yellow colour scheme, including their uniforms. This makes them stand out in the environment and is mocked for their chosen colour.
* Laura Smirnoff had infiltrated it.
* During the *PROJECT-G/NEX War*, it is clear that they cannot win a fight against RUBICORE or COALESCENCE.

### Developmental Notes

* S.O.L.A.C.E's corporate theme, complete with its distinctive yellow color, draws inspiration from AIM (Advanced Idea Mechanics) in the *Marvel Comics* universe. AIM is known for its similar color scheme and scientific pursuits, mirroring S.O.L.A.C.E's facade as an innovative research corporation.
* SCODOK, the enigmatic leader of S.O.L.A.C.E, is a pastiche of MODOK (Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing) from *Marvel Comics*. SCODOK shares several similarities with MODOK, such as an abnormally large head, a hover chair, and a forehead-mounted laser. However, SCODOK distinguishes himself by featuring an even greater array of weaponry integrated into his grotesque form.
* Iron Man has done more than enough to set up the downfall of S.O.L.A.C.E, much to SCODOK's chagrin.
* According to Andrea Montgomery, she has to feed Pierson with data every time, as doing nothing would leave his gigantic head and intellect useless.
* S.O.L.A.C.E has a variety of marketing and publicity stunts that keeps the attention from their misdeeds away from being exposed.
* S.O.L.A.C.E has no meaning in their corporation's abbreviation. It was SCODOK's design choice to name his corporation in that manner, adding dots to make people wonder if the name has any meaning.
* In their downfall, all of their properties including establishments have been thrown away.