The Kahltehk Engineering Syndicate

The **Kahltehk Engineering Syndicate** (or known simply as **Kahltehk** or **KES**), initially founded during The First Aularan Expansion Crusade, the Kahltehk Syndicate would be radically changed by Dr. Wilhelm Kahlbach, Dr. Mahrkus Vohn Houtyn, and Dr. Ophylia Hahgmen during the Second Aularan Expansion Crusade.

The Syndicate like many during the early years of the **United Aularan Sovereignty** was initially designed as an omnipresent and multiplanetary military conglomerate, but unlike its contemporaries, Kahltehk would later stand firm and later become the intelligence and research service branch of The United Aularite Sovereignty when Dr. Kahlbach successfully developed the first Aularite super soldiers during the late 65 Millennium, a groundbreaking military medical development, that aided in the Sovereignty's success in its Second Expansion Crusade.

With subdivisions active in a variety of Aularan industries starting as far as the late 68th millennium to the modern day. Kahltehk Industries had influence in the production and sale of cosmetics, chemicals, bio-technics, industrial machine production, consumer products, health foods, the transportation industry and tourism. But soon after the opening of its Bio-technic subdivision, Kahltehk Bio-technics, Kahltehk began developing biological weaponry for the Aularan Military.

Kahltehk had a number of other subdivisions that included the **Kahltehk Med-Dev Department**, as well as the facility of the **Kahltehk Ministry of Research** which would be responsible for the development of Aularite Plasmor, and Beam weaponry. These Kahltehk Facilities would become research headquarters of the Kahltehk subdivisions and are where the United Aularite Sovereignty most often designs and builds its advanced military technologies.

Dr. Kahlbach, the definitive arbiter of Aularan biotechnology whose true goal was not to simply urge for the monopolization of a lucrative interplanetary industry as his forefathers had done before him. It was eugenics. This fact was only known to syndicate executives who shared the belief that their principle objective was the funding of the Wahgner Project. This project was to birth a new race of virally-enhanced and well-educated superhuman beings who would advance Aelgeist civilization for generations to come with Kahltehk's executives ruling through them as gods.

The Syndicate is reputed for its evil and ruthless nature by the Imperium Dominus, often sacrificing anyone and anything in their quest to achieve perfection within the Aelgeist form.

## History

### Beginnings (M64-M65)

The origins of the Kahltehk Engineering Syndicate lie with the eugenics movements that, since the early 65th millennium would begin to snowball as it began to truly dominate the Aularan Sovereignty. The Syndicates three most prominent members at the time were the Aelgeist born Dr. Wilhelm Kahlbach, Dr. Mahrkus Vohn Houtyn, and Dr. Ophylia Hahgmen, who were both university classmates and Executive inheritors of Kahltehk Industries.

All would become adept virologists with some associations with the growing eugenics movement either themselves or by association to another prominent figure. The Kahltehk Syndicate's immediate pre-succession history truly begins in late.M76, when Dr. Hahgmen developed a hypothesis that a mythical plant substance of Xenos origin, known as the Lunar Rose bestowed powers to its consumers by a mutagenic viral infection. On a trip to the TZ-08 a world within the Tainia System, the fabled rose was discovered in an underground xenos temple and a virus was discovered within it. However, roses cultivated offworld or on Orbiting satellites failed to replicate the virus. Requiring significant funding beyond their links to Kahltehk Industries to bring about their eugenics dream, Kahlbach formed the Kahltehk Bio-technical Division on behalf of Vohn Houtyn and an indifferent Hahgmen and established a base on the TZ-08 garden so Precursor samples could be ferried through space instead. Requiring even greater funding, the three agreed to a plan later known as the "Pyskel-Phage Project", where they would independently develop strains of Precursor to sell to The Aularan Lükhyt Military as biological weapons.

The Pyskel-Phage Project expanded considerably over this period thanks to research led by Dr. William Birkin at the end of the 1970s, inspired by Hahgmen's independent but otherwise unrelated work in 1978, which saw the abandonment of Pyskel-Phage as a weapon of death and instead utilized its mutagenic properties to keep the infected alive in a mentally-damaged, homicidal and cannibalistic state capable of maintaining activity after a cardiac arrest.

The Kahltehk Syndicate's name and symbol came from the Four Houses' "Kahltehk" symbol. Kahlbach had encountered this symbol while studying under Mother Miranda during his time in a Village in Eastern Europe.

In the late 64th millennium Wilhelm Kahlbach was born on the Aularan planet of Madus J4Z

In the early 65th millennium the Kahltehk Engineering Syndicate would be founded by the Dr. Wilhelm Kahlbach.

One of the earliest known projects undertaken by KES was in the turn of the 65th millennium. This project, dubbed a sub-branch of the Wagner Project known as Project Eisynn, an attempt to increase the effectiveness of Aularite Sovereignty soldiers. However, this initial run was eventually postponed.

### First Aularan Expansion Crusade

Over the course of the 9 millennia long war, the KES would absorb or eliminate most competing civilian and military espionage services.

By the late 66th Millennium the Kahltehk Syndicate would be acquired by the United Aularite Sovereignty, and its formal name changed to the UAS Lükhyt Intelligence Division.

### Post-Aularan Expansion Crusade

Following the conflicts, the Kahltehk Engineering Syndicate had become the primary intelligence service of the UAS with nearly uncontested power and funding in its many fields. KES would also be afforded a great deal of autonomy, due to its connections with the UAS Senate Council.

## Duties

The Kahltehk Engineering Syndiate would gain a multitude of roles, delineated to its various branches. Some of these include; military research, military espionage, suppression campaigns, public morale and special projects.

Many of its functions and subdivisions, like the Beta-5 Division and the SPARTAN-III Program, are enigmatic, and its personnel are regarded as mysteries by mainstream Aularan navy officers. KES personnel, especially officers, are often referred to as "Nulgeists."

### Operations

The Kahltehk Engineering Syndicate often operates independently of other AUS branches. At times, it contravenes the law and AUS protocol to complete top-secret missions.

Agents appear to enjoy significant latitude in the discharge of their duties, often violating moral, and ethical boundaries or acquiring vast amounts of AUS resources to achieve their ends.

## Branches

Intra-KES dynamics are often strained with intense competition among its own personnel. Agents operate under heavy scrutiny with mistakes often leading to demotion or death.

### Known KES Branches

Kahltehk owns and utilizes several paramilitary and intelligence units to ensure the stability of the syndicate during their vital experimentation.

* KES Sector Zero - Internal Affairs and investigations
* KES Sector One - Military Intelligence
* KES Sector Two - Propaganda and Information
* KES Sector Three - Special Projects
	+ Kahltehk Security Service - Assigned with security operations of special projects, often ranging from guarding of Kes Facilities to hostage rescuing and anti-terrorism. Reports directly to KES headquarters.
	+ Kahltehk Biohazard Countermeasure Service - Assigned with combating escaped bio-weapons. Reports directly to KES headquarters.
		- Monitors - Secret police. Ordered to report information vital to the syndicate, and inform headquarters of rogue employees.
* AUS Prowler Corps
* KES Signal Corps
* KES Retrieval and Acquisitions
* Reverse Engineering and Prototyping - Xenotechnology, and Archeotechnology
* Department of Aularan Security

## Innovations designed by Kahltehk

* **Pyskel-Phage**: The Pyskel-Phage is an artificially engineered organic virus developed by Dr. Mahrkus Vohn Houtyn. It had the ability to forcefully regenerate dead cells. Despite its success as a marvelous medical innovation, the virus can also reanimate dead people and bring them back in a brain damaged state with extreme violent tendencies. Given special circumstances and surgical experimentations, the Pyskel-Phage can even mutate living beings into powerful bio-weapons used to devastating effect by the AUS.
* **The Necro-Phage**: The Necro-Phage is a parasitic organism which was produced by Kahltehk Prime, by experimentation with the Pyskel-Phage. The parasite created a smarter variation of the Kahltehk Regiment Blacks, who were capable of utilizing weapons and attacking their targets with ruthless coordination.
* **The Crimson Mother**: A highly advanced supercomputer which was developed by Dr. Kahrolyn Kehlermen to help her manage the Kahltehk Engineering Syndicate.
* **Regenerate**: Regenerate is a skincare product that uses some elements similar to the Pyskel-Phage to revive dead cells in a more controlled manner, making the user both appear younger and extend the natural lifespan to potential millennia.

## Products

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* **Incinerator Unit:** A weapons pattern that uses some design plans of the Colt M4A1 Carbine and is capable of firing a long range flame.
* **Semi-Automatic Anti-Machine Rifle:** A large rifle used to destroy light armored vehicles. It can punch through 5 cm. of reinforced steel.
* **Spark Shot:** A gun that fires electric shocks to control experimental animals.
* **Mine Thrower:** A gun with specialized darts that will detonate if something pass near them, or attach themselves to a creature.
* **Elite Python:** A modified version of the Colt Python made by Kahltehk.
* **Linear Launcher:** A shoulder-mounted cannon that fires extremely powerful blast of plasma.
* **Charged Particle Rifle:** A gun that charges particles with negative or positive shocks that can electrocute somebody or deactivate electric shields and damage electric artifacts due to the EMP emitted by it.
* **Kahltehk Magnum**: This model is actually a Raging Bull .44 Magnum, it is called the Magnum Revolver.

## Subdivisions

*Further information: List of Kahltehk subdivisions*
## Known Kahltehk Facilities

> *Main article: Kahltehk Syndicate Facilities*
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The Kahltehk Engineering Syndicate operates a number of different facilities throughout Aelgeist space on both Inner and Outer system Colonies.

Some facilities were guarded by specialized security, however these forces were under the jurisdiction of AUS Special Naval Warfare.