Project Rebirth

*"The year was 1943, and World War II continued across Europe. In the USA, the top-secret op known as OPERATION: REBIRTH produced an experimental SUPER SOLDIER SERUM. The test subject's name: STEVE ROGERS."*
―Watchers Report[[Unnatural World|[src]]]
**Project Rebirth** was a United States government project initiated in the 1940s during World War II, the goal of which was to use the Super Soldier Serum to transform Allied soldiers into super soldiers in order to fight against the Axis powers.

Administered by the Strategic Scientific Reserve and the U.S. Army's Infantry Weapons Development Program, their first and only success was Steve Rogers, who became the superhero known as Captain America. The project was terminated after Erskine was assassinated by HYDRA and classified under the designation **Weapons Plus**.

Since Thaddeus Ross' rise to the Oval Office, he along with the CIA Director, de Fontaine has been working on the renewal of Weapons Plus. Eventually, it was approved by President Ross and former Raft inmate Samuel Sterns was given the control as the new project leader along with de Fontaine working on her own side-project with participant Robert Reynolds.

## History

### Creating Captain America

*"Peg, all I've done my whole life is create destruction. Project Rebirth was... He was the one thing I've done... that brought good into this world."*
―Howard Stark to Peggy Carter[[Unnatural World|[src]]]
Steve Rogers was chosen by Abraham Erskine to become the first American super soldier via the Super Soldier Serum. The test was successful, but Heinz Kruger shot Erskine and took the serum. After Erskine's death, Kruger ultimately committed suicide with a cyanide pill.

The serum was lost, as the vial Kruger had was destroyed in his flight from Rogers; the project was disbanded. Blood samples were taken from Rogers by scientists and Peggy Carter in hopes of recovering the serum; of the twelve samples taken, one was given to Howard Stark.

The Strategic Scientific Reserve created a file box entitled Project Rebirth; inside that box included a picture of Steve Rogers before his transformation as well as a Vita-Ray Detector.

### Legacy of Project Rebirth

*"Since World War II and the success of Steve Rogers, there have been many failed attempts to create a super soldier."*
―Daniel Whitehall[[Unnatural World|[src]]]
Following the death of Abraham Erskine, many attempts were made to recreate his success of Steve Rogers. During the Cold War, the United States Army conducted a series of experiments, testing different versions of the Super Soldier Serum on African American soldiers, however, Isaiah Bradley was the only survivor. After the Korean War, Bradley was imprisoned and used as a test subject to find a key to the success of the serum he was injected with.

By 1991, Howard Stark managed to recreate the Super Soldier Serum, however, HYDRA deployed the Winter Soldier to retrieve the serum, as well assassinate him and Maria Stark. Stark's variant of the serum was used in the Winter Soldier Program to create a squad of perfect assassins for HYDRA; however, the project was terminated because of the subjects' instability. Later, HYDRA would make many more attempts to recreate the super soldier, such as the Project Destroyer of Worlds.

### Reintroducing Weapons Plus

#### New Leadership

*"To be added."*
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#### Creating the Sentry

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