Black Labs

Black Laboratories, known more colloquially as Black Labs or 'BL' is an extremely complex and highly secretive para-science foundation of ultra-rich and enigmatic scientists and transhumanists who believe in the advancement of humanity using scientific means above morals and ethics, the latter of which they believed hindered true scientific prowess. They are infamous, even among other private and government think-tanks, as being always five steps ahead of whoever wishes to find them, be it the law, the government or potential allies. No one has, to date, successfully found them, but they always find who or what they need, no matter what.

### **History**

Very little is known of the organisation's origins, with it's name thought to have been derived from the surname of it's original founder, which may or may not be Thaddeus Black; a notorious and mysterious military scientist from England who was the supposed monetary benefactor behind such groups in the 1940's and 50's such as the communist Redstar organisation and Von Braun Industries that secretly produced equipment for strange Nazi experiments; one such experiment was the Case of Harding and Johnson, that was used by the RAF and British Army to scare new recruits during the Second World War as a test of courage; Skyren's older brother Steven Smith was asked by Grant Thomas to investigate the truth behind the origins of the story only to find some unusual cover-ups.

It is possible that a young Theo, who worked as a military scientist for the Nazis within Von Braun Industries, found many of their formulas, and secretly altered them to extend his own life as part of the Ganymede Serum; though Theo was never directly involved in the later formation of the Labs, believes that he missed his opportunity.

The mysterious Thaddeus Black's true purpose wasn't as a believer in Nazi or Communist regimes and their lies, but a player of both sides of the War, simply using them and their scientific extremes against one another as fuel to drive a greater thing; as such he profited from all of the organisations he invested in and used his connections to wipe any involvement with these groups from any records, culminating their manpower and resources after the war to continue his research.

As a person, and as for the rest of his family, if they still control the Labs today, who they were and how much truth there is in any of it, is utterly unknown; Thaddeus simply vanished into the background and his orders were reciprocated and drilled into the heads of all who work for BL.

in the 1950's the term 'Black Labs' was passed around the scientific and criminal underground but it wasn't fully investigated until the 70's where Skyren and what was left of Whiteshield began to try an uncover it's mysteries, only to be met with dead ends at every step.

### **Organisation**

What little information there is on how Black Labs functions should always be taken with a pinch of salt, and even then the Laboratory's organisation is said to be an ever-changing system; the more dramatic will often compare the way BL operates as having an almost organic, living dynamic; moreso, this constantly-shifting framework is predictive; whoever organises and runs the company has more fingers in holes than all the governments and their spy organisations combined.

It's leadership is thought to shift along with everything, with only the top, smartest and most brilliant scientists in permanent positions; these lead scientists are relentlessly cold, they have to have a certain lack of morals that would otherwise prevent them exploring the full potential of their experiments.

One disturbing rumour is that Black Labs will be the last place a scientist ever works for; if they do not need a scientist, that scientist is killed or they themselves become part of their research, with no short supply of test subjects BL can operate to nearly any degree within it's own laws.

Black Labs has multiple fronts, subsidiaries and uses many outside agencies to further it's research, often without letting said agencies know. They have used perfectly reputable and benign exterior science companies to facilitate small-scale experiments so that they don't draw attention as well as hiding their work in bigger more well-known experiments such as the labs at CERN or even public hospitals.

### **Known Members**

#### **Scientists**

**Dr Cornelius** **-** A long-time scientist from Italy in the labs who was one of the top, controlling members of the Labs high council, he was a brilliant roboticist and biologist, and specialised in organic/machine experiments, he also oversaw a verity of major experiments.

**Dr Choi** (Previously) - A previous member, and super-savant, Choi is one of a handful of scientists to have successfully left BL without being killed, though he is often hunted by their Agents, has become remarkably quick-witted and has so far managed to avoid capture. He may have been responsible for the creation of several alts and "monsters" that have recently appeared in the US and in Europe and may be in contact with other fringe-science groups to actively fight against Black Labs. He may have been responsible for founding System-12.

**Dr Crowe** (Previously) **-** British super-savant described as "the smartest man in the world", Crowe has been an enemy of a number of individuals and organisations and was the lead scientist of the SOL-AOS Project that took Anri's wings, he is one of only three members to escape BL alive and with several items of interest he stole from the labs. He has since been untraceable.

**Dr Stern -** A cold-hearted German woman who was one of the top brass in BL. She was described as "Stern by name and nature" and supposedly experimented on her own family who were said to be Nazis and neo-Nazis who never let go of Aryan superiority. According to Stern she might also be a relative of the Black family..

### **Projects**

Black Laboratories are thought to have created, influenced or benefited from various inhumane, strange and para-scientific experiments.

**Vladimir Demikhov Projects:** BL may have been using data from his work with surgically-grafted dog heads.

**The Milgram Experiment:** Black Labs' earliest known psychological efforts in 1961, they were a series of experiments in obedience that went through various channels such as Yale University, this data may have helped BL build it's structure.

**The Stanford Prison Experiment:** Black Labs were behind suggestion of the experiment and like the Milgram Experiment may have used it's data to structure its's own organisation.

**Project MKUltra** Black Labs may have created the entire OSI in the 1960's so that it could access the **Special Operations Division** for the purpose of developing so-called 'mind control' technology.

**Norwegian Spiral Anomaly**: The spiral that occurred over Norway may have been the result of BL experimenting with mezzite.

**Delhi Monkey-Man** Although not directly related, the incident of an escaped, cybernetically-enhanced monkey in 2001 and 2002 may have been carried out by Kahloon Industries as a somewhat run-down and forgotten Pakistani front of Black Labs that did personal (and poorly executed) scientific experiments on animals and humans, the most likely explanation was that it was a cybernetically-enhanced chimpanzee that had crossed the Pakistan/India border. Dr Adeel Kahloon was arrested by Glare and her team during a later investigation. After the investigation BL moved in to take over Kahloon industries where it gained a new lab in the town of Sri Vijaynagar in India, where the altered cybrid Tigerwolfe was spliced and where Blackclaw (Kaala Panja) was created.

**Second Generation Cybrid:** Black Labs were responsible for replicating the accidental experiments done by PGI Research in late 80's England, creating cybrids with two or more animal genes and little, if any physical mutations.

**Vector Project:** An experiment led by Crowe, as one of his last experiments before leaving the Labs, to study the material Mezzite was made out of, this led him to produce a tiny protomezzite that he fused with a microchip, implanted in the neural cortex of Irish runaway Oscar O'Shea and subjugating him to genetic engineering so that it and his brain cells bonded without rejection. The process nearly drove him insane and caused him to teleport away to his old house in Ireland, where Oscar later learned to control this ability at will.

**Amadan Project:** A purple, artificial blood-substitute capable of supposedly bringing the dead back to life or granting immortality to the living; the project was deemed a failure when patients began craving real blood when the substitute blood began consuming their own cells, but the negative results were mostly altered and faked by Doctor Alistair Crowe to revive his nephew Jake and niece Demi Whitbourne.

**SOL-AOS Project:** A project that sought to study and analyse Anri Sera for use as a weapon, the primary removal of his wings resulted in a docile effect, however Anri escaped when his powers were amped up shortly after his wing removal.

**Project Chimera****:** Looked to create quick animal-based mutations in normal humans to give them enhanced capabilities like that of a cybrid, this was known as RMS. This technology may have been based on stolen research originally by Theodore Lind's Brazilian shadow labs, however it is known that at least one chimera existed prior to the project around the 70's, as such this project may have been an early predecessor to RMS and cybridism.

**The Mothman****:** Accounts of a large, moth/owl like creature in the 60's may have been an early, escaped aberration.

**Relic Projects:** BL were also responsible for recovering and studying various relics, which they referred to as "*object anomalies*".

#### **Men in Black**

The agents used by Black for decades have become somewhat popularised by mainstream media as so-called Men in Black or "MiB's" and identified by Ufologists as coinciding with possible alien encounters, these agents vary between normal but highly skilled humans, neos, alts and even cyborgs or fully autonomous robot experiments to gather resources, be it in the form of further employees, items, technology of patients of interest and do so for a considerable payment of some kind, it is likely that BL are aware of other beings in the universe and have been for a while; and sending out agents to collaborate information and even scare individuals away from potential areas of interest may have been one of their tactics.

#### **Legacy**

The Legacy of Thaddeus Black using any and all means necessary to develop the edge of biotech, particularly experimenting on and altering humans, is something that is strongly echoed in the modern labs, and it continues to evade any forms of investigation, despite the best efforts of organisations, including and especially VALER who have a personal desire to shut it down for good.

Black Labs are thought to be behind recent 'monster' attacks on cities despite the blame shifted to government laboratories, though other independent scientists and fringe organisations also share the blame.

Anri believes that the Labs and these agents actually *are* a government agency, but one of such internalised, self-sufficient and controlling power that they are a realm unto themselves, with no one questioning their motives or actions; they have as such come to hold governments to ransom over higher powers, such as the threat of war with the likes of the Ga'n, Zeltura or Aeons, allowing experimentation on Earth for the price of keeping the world safe from invasion.