The Erebus Program

# From the Darkness

### Origins

The origins of the Erebus Program originate with the human desire for immortality. That inescapable urge to live forever, the desire all humans have. It was deemed necessary to delve into dark research after the unfortunate demise of Director "Petrol" in 1942. With casualties on the rise, the corporation had decided that no price was too high to achieve Human immortality. Alas, they would not discover immortality. The corporation discovered the ability to re-write the human psyche, to overlay another person's memories with a torturous and barbaric therapy. Thus, the Erebus Program was born.

### Early Years

When Dr. Kepler first started his work with the Archeon Drive, he did not anticipate the chaos such a device could create. The desire to live forever provided Kepler with large swaths of subjects, but copying the "human" from a human body was way harder than imagined. To read every chemical formula from every neural link would take an eternity. There was simply no way for a human to copy everything down to the most minute detail. Computers at the time lacked proper software to automate this process, and the Archeon Drive could not house a human psyche and an Artificial Intelligence without one overwriting the other. Some things were deemed unneeded in the transfer, parts of the mind that would not contribute to a successful corp soldier or researcher. Morality, Childhood memories, and the inner monologue were tossed to the wayside for a better future.

### The Golden Age

The process of converting someone into a deceased person was beginning to get easier as time went on. The use of Sensory Deprivation Tanks helped to isolate the subject's mind and allow conditioning messages to pierce the barrier usually in place by the mind. With so much riding on this program, Dr. Kepler had no choice but to begin live testing on Corporate Soldiers. Several volunteers emerged, multiple unwilling volunteers also emerged. The soldiers were told the process would be painless, that their mind would be copied and transferred to a new body in a blink of an eye. In reality these soldiers had their memories and personality copied before being shot dead. The risk of them waking up to someone else believing they're the same person was dangerous. It took four years but several successful copies were made. The program's next goal would be the creation of cloned bodies to avoid using existing human bodies.

### The Collapse

The Board of Directors applauded the success of the project, however they deemed the research unfulfilling. They demanded that the program be adapted to allow two or more of the same variant to exist. They demanded that Dr. Kepler act as the first test subject, as he had made vague remarks towards the board about budgets. As the team readied themselves to process the transfer, the board issued a Volunteer. During the process, the subject became erratic and unwieldy. As a result the process was forced to halt for a large period of time. Five weeks after the transfer had been deemed complete, Dr. Kepler met "Ryan J. Kepler Jr.". The resulting meeting caused a mental break in the copy. In an instant, Dr. Kepler laid on the ground surrounded by a pool of his own blood as the pain numbing drugs let the copy go wild. It took four Corporate Operators to secure the subject before executing it. The program was deemed a failure and was ordered to be shut down.

# Into the Light

### Re-birth

It's not known when, or even where but the Erebus Program was relaunched under the command of Dr. Isabel Kepler and a group of rebellious Operators. During this timeframe, Dr. Kepler became fanatical in her research of the therapy process. The need to bring back Ryan Kepler was all she spouted and she went several days without sleep. It wasn't until a planned Corporate Op on the facility that there was finally some success in the program. On June 3rd, 2015 the operation was launched to capture or destroy the lab. During this op, the strike team discovered Dr. Ryan Kepler III. A successful 96% copy of the original Ryan. Evacuating the copy and the original's notes, the team leveled the facility and declared the mission complete.

# Therapy

### Psychological

* Ten weeks of Sensory Deprivation Treatments
* Daily Conditioning Programs (Twenty Two Years)
* Hypnotic Trance inducement (Thirteen Weeks)
* Injections of CD-E233 (Five Weeks)

### Physical

* Six weeks of High Voltage Therapy
* Eight Weeks of Invasive Surgery (Enhancement and Face Sculpting)
* Twelve Years of Gene-Mapping, Gene-Tailoring (Altering Genetic Structure)
* Combat Training

### Notes:

*This therapy is highly experimental and extremely dangerous. Adding the variety of unknown circumstances that can trigger a subject's latent responses, it may be safer to use Erebus on Corporate only. Still looking into Kepler's notes. Lots of techno-babble.*