The Founding of ALPINE

Jeremiah and his associates at the entrance of ALPINE

## Quote

"So....we aren't allowed to just brutally execute tourists who accidentally stumble upon the base?" - An ALPINE Guard to Jeremiah Jones, 2031

## Background

Jeremiah Jones, after acquiring a fairly ludicrous amount of money through a healthy mix of volatile investments, pyramid schemes, and Cryptocurrency rug pulls, was also being simultaneously enlightened by the operations and inner workings of government in his career as a specialist in Area 51., cooperating and coordinating with contacts all around the world. Although having spent many years in total cooperation and desire to pursue his career for the remainder of his life, Jeremiah slowly became disgusted with the workings of the government, now witnessing it firsthand through their projects and hidden motives. A series of events led Jeremiah to experience large amounts of regret for having even participated in the research, causing him to become disillusioned. Seeing not only the waste of talent, but also the opportunity to create something better, Jeremiah escaped the reach of the American Government through a series of elaborate schemes and identities that ultimately led him to Europe. After spending a year of reaching out to contacts from Area 51, Switzerland, and many other research institutions around the world, Jeremiah decided to use his massive and hidden wealth to create an Organization that would conduct scientific research for the good of mankind.

## Overview

Amounting to about two hundred billion dollars in Net Worth, Jeremiah supposedly created a tourist company that owned swathe of land in Switzerland at a relatively closed off location, in a relatively unpopulated portion of the Alps. Developing housing, amenities, infrastructure, restaurants, and tourist locations, this "fake" town was known as Prometheus, many of its workforce was operated by Jeremiah himself. A mix of healthy scheming and intelligence prevented any suspicions by the US government, as Jeremiah's contacts in the Swiss government undermined their efforts. At a high peak named Prominence, Jeremiah created a secret path that led to the very summit of this mountain, where ALPINE base would be formally constructed, buried into he interior of the mountain. Consulting with his engineer and scientist contacts, material would slowly be brought in and integrated from the years 2029 to 2031, from all corners of the world, in some cases constructed on the spot by engineers such as Jimmy Dickinson, Chris Erbs, and Isaac Perez, who used to be Jeremiah's childhood friends. Construction workers were secretly fed with medicine that resulted in their short term memory loss, and even restaurant servers and bartenders were at the very least a former government operative to maintain security. Construction was fairly difficult and posed many challenges in addition, due to the fact that building a facility inside of a mountain tended to be somewhat not to the expertise of most engineers. Collapses happened frequently, structural integrity was compromised or inadequate, and Isaac Perez even once commented of one time where he walked through a doorway and it simply collapsed behind him. Woes continued for some months until an engineer from the University of Zurich was brought in to effectively take over construction and planning, which worked wonders in producing results. Tourists on occasion noted a random crane at the very top of Prominence on occasion, or sometimes a large explosion, and these individuals had to be memory wiped through persistent food vendors when this occurred.

Jeremiah continued to make more connections and contacts around the world during this time, attempting to find the right types of minds to participate in his research projects, slowly but surely piecing together an effective administration and research team to run the facility. Jeremiah during this time was known to only sleep for fours a day, hopping from plane ride to plane ride, from city to city and country to country, practically leaving a completely mobile life during this time. He conducted interviews, stalked scientists and professors, and covertly reached out to promising individuals in some of the most bizarre ways possible, with one scientist noting that she woke up finding him reading a book next to her bed. Operatives were hired to expand Jeremiah's ability to make and maintain contacts, acting almost as representatives and diplomats to coordinate efforts for ALPINE. An example of this is Oktai, who operates in the area of the Taklamakan Desert solely for intelligence and knowledge of the land. Scientists, which formed the core of ALPINE, were chosen for their revolutionary ways of thinking, talent, and willingness to help mankind. Examples include Isaac Perez, who becomes the Head Scientist of ALPINE. Administration consisted of many retired government officials, who themselves acted as managers for ALPINE facility and served in Jeremiah's boards, an example being Colonel Montgomery.

By the year 2031, the construction of ALPINE would be finished, amounting to 175 billion dollars in cost. Equipped with state of the art equipment, boasting a multi level facility that stretched almost to the base of the mountain, and run by thousands of staff and guards, Defenses were naturally present, and hangers and barracks were included for general security. Besides also providing housing and amenities, the base also consisted of a massive library of texts and documents, primarily from governments and universities. However, ALPINE consisted not only of the base itself, but also of its thousands of contacts around the world, from Professors to government officials to operatives, who continue to gather information and intelligence to better serve the interests of ALPINE, in hiring scientists and maintaining obscurity and funding. ALPINE began its official research capabilities having already inherited state of the art technology from all around the world, rapidly beginning to outpace the capabilities of world governments, and secretly, began to exert its own influence on world politics.