Project Osiris

"*Project Osiris was a top secret experiment in human behavior proposed by social scientist Dr. Felix Hammerstrom and internet billionaire Tamara Dunleavy in the late 1990s...*"
—Article on Project Osiris, *Masterminds*

**Project Osiris** was an experiment created by social scientist Dr. Felix Hammerstrom and internet billionaire Tamara Dunleavy to determine if a person is born evil or becomes evil through a course of events.

To make this possible, Hammerstrom visited ten of the most notorious criminals in jail and cloned them. The last subject was cloned from Tamara Dunleavy herself, who had a past of hacking into websites to gain information. However, it was done without her knowledge or consent, as Tamara had quit Project Osiris around 1999 after realizing how inhumane and cruel it was.

## History

Project Osiris began when Tamara Dunleavy's younger brother, Jonas Dunleavy, was arrested for a small theft and was killed shortly afterwards by another inmate. Tamara wanted to prove that prisons should focus more on rehabilitation instead of punishment and created the project to show that no one has evil in their DNA.

While brilliant, it was illegal and criticized for its use of human life, leading Hammerstrom to go into hiding in Serenity, New Mexico; a fabricated community where he carried out his plan using the eleven Osiris clones. To cover up for his disappearance, Project Osiris was supposedly abandoned, although it was still continued secretly.

After Eli Frieden, Tori Pritel, Amber Laska, Malik Bruder and Hector Amani escaped from Serenity, all the remaining Osiris clones, their parents, and the Surety traveled to Poseidon Resort and Water Park in West Cay, Bahamas. Those Osiris clones (Freddie Cinta, Robbie Miers, Ben Stastny, Aldwin Wo, Penelope Sonas and Margaret Rauha) were told that the escaped clones had been sent away to a hospital in Santa Fe for treatment of a bad illness.

Hammerstrom believed that going to Poseidon was the best solution so they could hide out and blend in with the other park visitors, while being on an island in the middle of nowhere to prevent another escape. They would also be untouchable by the FBI because of the foreign country.

When Eli, Tori, Amber and Malik journeyed to Poseidon to rescue the remaining clones, it turned into a chase that eventually led into the hotel lobby. There, Hammerstrom was crushed and killed by a manta ray after attempting to shoot Eli for the sake of continuing the project. Afterwards, Project Osiris finally ended and everyone involved was asked to pretend that it had never happened.

Project Osiris is named after Osiris, the Egyptian god of the afterlife. Many of his stories are about being reborn, which connects with the fact the Hammerstrom and the other scientists are cloning criminals for their experiment.

## How it worked

Project Osiris was carried out in the artificial town of Serenity, New Mexico, where all violence and crime was omitted from the eleven Osiris clones. They were carefully studied by their surrogate parents and almost every decision they made was recorded.

Project Osiris's headquarters was stationed in the Plastics Works, disguised as a traffic cone factory. It was there that the scientists conducted all their research and detailed note-taking. Except for the Plastics Works, the entire town of Serenity was connected to a fake Wi-Fi network that obscured any violence that was happening in the real world.

If any of the Osiris subjects tried to leave, they would be struck with a sudden illness once they reached the border. A wireless signal would be sent from a satellite dish located on one of the plastic cone trucks to a computer chip implanted in the base of their necks, which would trigger an attack of pain and nausea. However, this was later disabled by the runaway Osiris subjects after they demolished the satellite dish.

There was a plan to shift experimental protocols once the clones turned fourteen years old. However, the exact details were never discovered, as the kids escaped Serenity before becoming of age.

## Subjects

The eleven Osiris clones (from oldest to youngest) were:

* **Osiris 1**: Eli Frieden, cloned from past hacker Tamara Dunleavy
* **Osiris 2**: Margaret Rauha, cloned from an unnamed female kidnapper/murderer
* **Osiris 3**: Malik Bruder, cloned from gangster Gus Alabaster
* **Osiris 4**: Robbie Miers, cloned from counterfeiter Brother Juan Antonio Laterna
* **Osiris 5**: Ben Stastny, cloned from trafficker Archibald Barrett
* **Osiris 6**: Amber Laska, cloned from terrorist Mickey Seven
* **Osiris 7**: Aldwin Wo, cloned from smuggler Q. Sinjin Lee
* **Osiris 8**: Penelope Sonas, cloned from an unnamed female bank embezzler
* **Osiris 9**: Tori Pritel, cloned from bank robber Yvonne-Marie Delacroix
* **Osiris 10**: Freddie Cinta, cloned from kidnapper Farouk al Fayed
* **Osiris 11**: Hector Amani, cloned from swindler and embezzler C. J. Rackoff