Cluckus Institute

## Cluckus Institute of Technology

The Cluckus Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as 'The Cluckus Institute' or just 'The Institute', was a sister company of Cluckus Industries from its founding in 2020 to its seperation in 2022. It was based in the Cluckus Hotel until that was destroyed by Tristan Cox, upon which point it relocated to the Honkus Science Innovators lab.

### History

#### Creation

After the Cluckus Industries lockdown, Hillary Cluckus convened the employees in the Cluckus Hotel Auditorium, and announced that they needed to find a new name to operate under, due to not having access to most of Cluckus Industries' experiments and projects running out of Alpha Safehouse.

Tristan Cox was the one to suggest the name 'Cluckus Institute of Technology', albeit under a disguise.

#### 2020

While Alpha Safehouse was locked down, the other Cluckus Safehouses were run by the Cluckus Institute. Zircon Safehouse was also formally established during this time.

Many of Cluckus Industries' projects based in other locations were able to continue, such as Project Genesis continuing in Oceanic Safehouse, and Project Disney continuing in Stanwix Safehouse.

#### Cluckus Industries reopening

After Cluckus Industries reopened, the Cluckus Institute registered as a subsidiary of Cluckus Industries. The Institute handled various problems such as employee housing, recreation, and general quality of life things.

### Seperation

After Tristan was presumed dead in late December 2022, Valery Cluckus-Grey seized the opportunity to utilise the confusion and put in motion Operation Confederate. This involved announced the Institute's intent to seperate from Cluckus Industries, while also taking various ships of the Cluckus Fleet to use as bargaining chips.

#### Conflict

As it turned out, Tristan had not actually died, and had returned to Earth aboard the R.M.S. *Titanic*. This caused a slight flaw in Valery's plans. However, the Cluckus Institute had an advantage. They had taken most of the Cluckus Fleet, rebranded with C.I.T.S. registry. These ships were the C.I.T.S. *Albemarle*, C.I.T.S. *Apollo*, C.I.T.S. *Nevada*, C.I.T.S. *Bozeman*, and C.I.T.S. *Enterprise*.

Tristan was able to disable the technology allowing the Cluckus Hotel to exist, since it was his research in the first place. This forced the C.I.T.S. *Albemarle* to respond to the rift which everything began to fall through, evacuating all those it could. Meanwhile, the C.I.S. *Challenger* and C.I.S. *Sonoran* mobilised, with Tristan engaging Phase 2 of Project Patriot and allowing C.I.S. *Patriot* to join the fight.

Tristan then called in a favour with Herbert Yellowbeak, getting access to the Y.C.S. *Vegas*, which was the rebranded C.I.S. *Sahara*. It was crewed with Tristan, Richard Kettleburgh, The Cluck, Merida and others. They also picked up a stolen 1 person Bakrȇsh shuttle, which Eris Laertes piloted as a scare tactic.

When the two forces came across each other, the presence of the Bakrȇsh caused Valery to almost have an aneurysm. The *Albemarle* fled the scene, while the *Apollo, Nevada, Bozeman*, and *Enterprise* engaged the *Challenger, Sonoran*, and *Patriot*.

When Baron Von Kluck went aboard the *Albemarle* to negotiate, he stated that Hillary was too proud to negotiate terms with the Cluckus Institute. Valery, fed up, demonstrated that he had Raston Warrior Robot 0666 on his side, which knocked Baron Von Kluck down from the maintenance balcony into the hyperengine casing. As Baron Von Kluck began to climb back up to the balcony, Hillary called, announcing that Destructor Prime was attacking COHQ.

The Institute and Industries ships returned to Earth to defend COHQ, putting their differences aside.

#### The Institute Treaty

Eventually, an agreement was reached between Cluckus Industries and the Cluckus Institute. The Cluckus Institute would return the spaceships in exchange for the Honkus Science Innovators lab, Genesis Safehouse, and Oceanic Safehouse.