Atlas Biomedical

Logo of Atlas Biomedical

**Atlas Biomedical** is a major pharmaceutical company that was founded in 1985. The company grew huge throughout the 1990s, having influence in pharmaceutical; chemical and consumer cosmetics production. However, in the late 2010s, it was discovered that Atlas had a dark secret: the pharmaceutical work it did was revealed to be a front for illegal experiments involving the creation of bioweapons.

## History

### 2019 Caspian Island Incident

In June of 2019, Atlas Biomedical went on an expedition to Caspian Island after the locals complained of a "mysterious new disease" afflicting the people there. A five-man team flew to the island to investigate and after a series of mishaps, became stranded on the island. While there, they discovered the true nature of this new "disease"; the locals weren't victims of a disease at all, but rather an animal attack, courtesy of a parasitic organism known as the Devil Crawler. Intrigued by this new discovery, Albert Greenland, the leader of the expedition, sought to take the the parasites back home to the United States for "further study". Their attempt to escape the island led to almost everybody in the expedition dying except for Albert and fellow scientist Eva Johnston.

### 2019 Arcadia Incident

It was found that Atlas Biomedical was also inadvertently responsible for the 2019 Arcadia Outbreak, the first incident of an outbreak of the parasite on American soil. It's also revealed that Eva Johnston publicly testified before the US government after turning whistleblower and helped various other organizations break into the US government's archives, where they kept every camera that the government confiscated from survivors in the town of Arcadia, and posted all the footage online. The footage also revealed that Donald Greenland planned to turn the parasites into bioweapons and sell them to the United States military. Following this, Atlas Biomedical became the subject of an international investigation. Other employees within the organization, outraged at what Donald Greenland had done, resigned from the company.

### The Schism

Unable to handle the disgrace, many within Atlas' leadership splintered from Atlas and created a new biomedical company known as Parasol Biomedical, or Umbrella Biomedical. The two companies clashed against each other multiple times over the next few months since the 2019 Arcadia Outbreak and at one point joined the global movement to exterminate the Devil Crawlers from the face of the Earth.

## Known members

* Mitchell S. Hill
* Albert Greenland (Deceased)
* Tyrone A. Mitchell (Deceased)
* Tabitha Mitchell (Deceased)
* Krista J. Anderson (Defected)
* Christy A. Roderick (Defected)
* Timothy P. Winchester (Defected)
* Eva S. Johnston (Defected)
* Ruth M. Spurgeon (Defected)
* Roderick A. Holifield (Defected)
* Randall Y. Hardy (Defected)
* Jerry S. Reichard (Deceased)

## Paramilitary units

Atlas also utilized paramilitary units in order to ensure the stability of the company during their viral experimentation.

* **Odin**: A private military company under direct control of Atlas Biomedical. These PMCs were tasked with providing security for Atlas facilities across the globe.
* **Atlas Asset Containment Squad**(**AACS**): This paramilitary organization was in charge of finding and recapturing escaped biological experiments.
* **Sweepers**: Known as the "American Gestapo" and "Monitors" by opponents of Atlas, these secret agents were in charge of finding and apprehending or killing potential whistleblowers