Cronus

Cronus is a corporate entity appearing in Roachie's Mutant WIP.

Cronus started as a pharmaceutical company, and while they did research on legitimate treatments, they also conducted highly secretive experiments involving irradiated humans. These experiments (often children) almost always gained super-human abilities due to the radiation they were exposed to. The First Wave, as it was called, was mostly benign. The experiments were ‘accidentally’ exposed to radiation, and closely observed while they changed and obtained powers. Damian and Sara belong to this preliminary group.

After the first wave, they had learned an awful lot about controlling the process, and  speeding it up through some... unsavory ways. They discovered the alloy they coined "dissimidium," which can nullify mutant abilities. The experiments belonging to this "Second Wave" were not allowed to go about their lives as their powers developed. They were held captive and were subject to torture, as the scientists of Cronus poked and prodded them for specific results. Mac and Gavin were subjects of this Second Wave. As the second wave began, Cronus began "collecting" the first wave mutants in order to be further experimented on.

Then came the War of New York, as the first wave experiments rose up to shut Cronus down, taking out many of their main facilities and cutting off every head of the company they found. Sara and Mac (and Damian to an extent) participated in this war.

Since the war, small facilities have sprung from the ashes, scattered around the country and working in secret, in isolation even from each other. They were working with scraps of notes, and not nearly all the information Cronus had in its hay day. The torture continued to pervade the experimentation, but most of these smaller facilities resulted only in failure. Abby and Gwen are products of this phase of Cronus.

Mutants of the second and third wave, and those from the first who were collected by Cronus, have serial numbers tattooed on the right side of their neck. All known mutants created through Cronus, as well as their respective numbers and powers, are listed below:

* First Wave:
	+ 000001: Abarron Morgenstern - Air-pressure manipulation / Telekinesis / minor Flight
	+ 000237: Sara Zhu - Illusions / Mind-Reading
	+ 000238: Owen Locke (deceased)- Audio manipulation, both personal and general
	+ 000298: Derek Absolom (deceased)- Crucikinesis / Strength
	+ 000483: Connor Gracken - Air-bending
	+ 000527: Adonis White (deceased)- Super speed
	+ 000956: Lane Bennett - Precognition
	+ 001002: James Read (deceased)- Metal-bending
	+ 001018: Damian August (deceased)- Pyrokinesis / Emotion erasure
* Second Wave
	+ 001045: Rachael ?? (deceased)- Dream Viewing / Shapeshifting
	+ 001524: Mackenzie August - Osteokinesis / Wings
	+ 001992: Gavin Hartman - Time manipulation / Inanimate Shapeshifting
	+ 002067: Isabelle Jacobi - Emotional manipulation / Wings
	+ 002068: Gerolf Falk - Lupine physiology / Heightened smell
	+ 002099: Connor Eventide - Shadow Physiology / Shadow Teleportation
* Third Wave
	+ 002487: Erikur Falk - Blood bending
	+ 002856: Abigail Dorow - Mutant detection
	+ 002859: Gwen Hughes - Disease transferrence
* Other
	+ Kassidy Zhu - Memory Reading / Control of motion (with puppet-like strings)
		- Kassidy is the child of Sara and Owen, as Sara was mutated while pregnant.
	+ Alpin Douney - Mentifery / minor Emotional manipulation
		- Alpin is the nephew of Cronus' CEO. He underwent mutation voluntarily, and was not kept captive as an experiment.