Unitum Corporation

The **Unitum Corporation** (alternatively **Unitum Corp.** or simply **Unitum**) was an American multinational conglomerate with subsidiaries active in various industries from the 1930s to the early 2000s. Unitum had an influence in the production and sale of cosmetics, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, industrial machine production, consumer products, health foods, the transportation industry, and tourism. Unitum's extensive array of subsidiaries was typical for large-scale corporations, though it was purposely built to cover illegal activities.

Soon after the opening of its pharmaceutical subsidiary, Unitum Pharmaceuticals, Unitum began developing biological weaponry for militaries across the world as part of a worldwide conspiracy to accumulate deadly viruses directly prohibited by the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention. Unitum Pharmaceuticals was able to cover this by researching vaccines for the same viruses. Unitum's other industries, such as the tourism firm, the Unitum Line Company, earned revenue from transporting passengers across the Atlantic as a front for transporting viral weapon samples from West Africa.

Unitum's true goal was, in fact, a capitalistic ploy for the monopolization of a lucrative industry. This fact was only known to corporate executives, who shared the belief that their principal objective was the funding of Project WEDBIRD, which was to create a super race of virally-enhanced and well-educated superhumans who would be worth high profits for Unitum's founders and executives.

The Unitum Corporation collapsed in 2016 following the death of Frederick Hertz, which sparked the downfall of Unitum. The loss severely weakened Unitum, and they and their subsidiaries closed down over the next few years, with a large enough stigma present that rivals did not purchase them.

## History of Unitum

### Beginnings (1930s-1950s)

The origins of the Unitum Corporation begin with it's founder Frederick Hertz, that would begin the company as pharmaceutical. In 1938, Unitum was exposed for supporting the German war effort in WW2, but this event was quickly covered up. Unitum Corp. would continue to supply the Germans with biological weapons until the German defeat in 1945. Unitum's first operation would commence in 1938, when Dr. Hertz developed a peculiar machine that was able to sustain life for an extended period of time, this affair is better known as Project ENDLESS. Dr. Hertz began studying and hypothesized that the life force could be controlled, and would later on find out how. Hertz also began researching into biochemistry to manipulate people's psyche. The company would grow bigger and bigger, and in 1951, Hertz finally had the breakthrough he was waiting for, he had successfully created a treatment that could manipulate people’s subconscious. Using the procedure created by Hertz, an individual who had subjected to enough torture, could be controlled by another person in a lucid dream state. This would later be called Project VORTEX.

### Involvement with MKUltra (1953-1971)

In 1953, Unitum became involved with the controversial Project MKULTRA, Unitum would subject asylum patients and college students to psychological torture to achieve a perfect state of hypnosis. Dr. Frederick Hertz would oversee several facilities, owned by Unitum, that were dedicated to Project MKULTRA, and would personally attend the experiments. The main two facilities that would perform MKULTRA experiments are Berkeley National Laboratory and Insane Asylum.

## Company Motto & Slogan

According to Ernest Lawrence, Unitum's 'employee pledge' is stated as being *"Obedience Breeds Discipline, Discipline Breeds Unity, Unity Breeds Power, Power is Life."* It is unknown if this is the motto for the public or if it is used purely within the company, due to its ominous ring.

John Keyes states that Unitum's motto was *"Preserving the health of the people."*

Another of Unitum's possible slogans is *"Science for a comfortable life,"* as seen in a combined advertisement for several medicinal products.

## Employees

*Further information: List of Unitum employees*

## Subsidiaries

*Further information: List of Unitum subsidiaries*

## Known facilities

Only listed are facilities not known to be under the jurisdiction of any particular subsidiary. Facilities in the United States can be found here.

* Berkeley National Laboratory : A laboratory designed to carry out unethical experiments for several projects. These projects include: Project ENDEAVOR, Project WEDBIRD, and several others.

* Penn Island : A solitary island which served as the site of Frederick Hertz' private facility and palace after he purchased the land and drove the villagers out. It also housed an "inescapable" prison camp, a Military Training Center (including a lab used to create biological weapons), and an airport.

* Antarctic Base : A facility established by Dr. Hertz for unclear purposes.

* Umbrella Waste Disposal Facility : A waste disposal facility on an unnamed island in the Atlantic Ocean. It was to this facility that Unitum sent some of its worst failed experiments to be disposed of. Due to ignorance in disposal methods by its staff however, some experiments thrived in its depths, resulting in a viral outbreak. This forced the facility to shut down until proper countermeasures could be taken.

## Paramilitary units

Unitum owned and utilized several paramilitary units to ensure the stability of the company during their viral experimentation.

* Unitum Hardline Security Service - Assigned with security operations ranging from guarding of bases to hostage rescuing and anti-terrorism. Reported directly to headquarters. They also have the power to seize Unitum facilities in the case of emergencies (with permission from Unitum's Board of Directors).
* Unitum Biohazard Countermeasure Service - Assigned with combating escaped bio-weapons. Reported directly to headquarters.
* Monitors - Secret police. Ordered to report information vital to the company, and inform headquarters of rogue employees.