Project Mengele

Project Mengele was a secret labortory experiment headed by wanted scientist, Dr. Blut Metzger. The project was a series of inhumane experiments on unwilling kidnapped victims, and went on for nearly 10 years, and was only ended when Subject #732, Azreal Caedes, broke free of his chains and freed the other prisoners, destroying the facility and escaping along with all the other patients. Only a few scientists survived, including Meiyo Clan Enterprises lead researcher and Scientist, Dr. Lapiza Shen, a few other unknown members on the wanted list, and the head of the project, whose body was never found, and is still rumoured to be alive.

 

Members:

-Dr. Blut Metzger(unknown wherabouts)

-Cpt. Garnento Ghorena(Killed during base destruction)

-Dr. Lapiza Halsey Shen(Alive, working with the Meiyo Clan Enterprises research team.)

 

Notes on each main person:

-Dr. Lapiza was the only scientist who tried to show mercy to the patients, in charge of their medical care, and as such, each patient testified on her behalf, and thougt part of the project, was found not guilty of any crimes against humanity, and was actually given the Valkyrie Cross, Remnant doctors highest honor, for standing up for the weak patients and healing them when all others wanted to do harm to them. In return for any and all the information she had on the project and its funding/inner workings, she would not serve a sentence for her role in this illegal experimentation.

-Captain Garneto Ghorena was the head of security at the project, and was on a wanted list after being dishonourably discharged from the Atlas Military for his “Questionable” means of dealing with hostiles, as well as his alleged affiliation with the White Fang, which was found to be how the White Fang knew of the covert mission, Operation: Rodeo, and why the mission was a failiure as the White Fang knew that they were coming.

-Dr. Blut Metzger was a top scientist in his class, but after a night in the woods, returned with his clothes tattered and covered in cuts as well as a strange, black ooze. He then proceded to massacre the entire school and burn it to the ground. Theorists say he was “corurpted” by Grim and turned into a half human half grim hybrid. He possesses no grim powers, but has been seen to have enhanced strength, speed, and stamina.

 

Experiments:

There were many experiments done to the patients, most without painkillers, but there were a few main ones done:

-Biopsies on the human and faunus body, to find out what each ones inner workings looked like and their behaviors.

-Trait removal surgery, removing faunus patients special features, including wings, horns, and scales.

-Injection of multiple enhancement drugs, as well as body manipulation.

-Combat tests, where patients were faced with real grim and fought them off with the weapon at their disposal, pre programmed to not work outside of the room, crushing any plan of smuggling the gun out and shooting up the facility.

-Aura research, where they put patients through many tests to test the limits of Aura and find ways to increase its powers.

-Semblance modification, where they researched patients semblances and tested different scenarioes and ways to either boost their semblance, change it, or even create a second one. These had some fruit of the labour, as some patient, most notably Noir Nightshade, began to be able to use her semblance, which allows her to track the vitals and mental state of multiple targets(similar to detective mode from the Batman Arkham trilogy), and was shown to have a 300% increase in range and accuracy.

-Grim/Person hybrids: experimental and seen as a monstrosity, these unlucky few were subjected to injections of a black liquid, which has been confirmed to be used to create Grim, into their bodies in an attempt to make a hybrid supersoldier. This did not work, as the human body rejected the liquid and caused the patients to slowly become infected, turning them slowly into Grim, and thus creating the next generation of Grim Infected.

-Transplants. Literally just that, they swapped body organs with others, usually faunus with humans, to see how they would react. Showed that somehow, the body parts were able to easily work in sync.

 

Fruits of the Labor:

Though inhumane, the Project allowed the scientists to conduct more experiments, most of which banned before due to the fatality rates, but with no rules to follow had, they made incredible and key discoveries in the medical and other fields:

-Human and Faunus organs can be easily replaced with each other, making finding donors easier to aquire, and opening up a whole new world of surgery.

-Many antidotes for viruses, such as the White Plague, which claimed millions of lives since the Great War, and was until then thought incurable.

-Aura boostingg technology and medicinal supplies were invented, opening up a whole new world for Military and Huntsman alike.

-Augmentation of body parts an aura was found, and is now in production by Atlas to better equip their soldiers for battle, allowing them a larger reserve and able to take more hits, fight harder, and heal larger cuts.

-Faunus scales were found to be lighter than steel, and tougher than the average body armor, and were able to be synthetically created with a low cost and only a small decrease in defense.

-The Holowacan Beauties once thought as the “only natural defence against Grim”, has now been able to be farmed and its gas now allows an extra means of defense against Grim, as well as a whole new branch of Chemical and Biological warfare, being used to chase out Grim form cities and towns, as well as nests, without harming any civilians. This gasses only weakness is that it has little to no effect on Larger Grim, with most Deathstalkers, Nuckavee, and Mammoths shrugging it off after entering the cloud, but still slows them down and reduces their visibility.

-A new breed of Dust usage was found when they used a mixture of Lightning and Gravity dust to create a super charged bullet and though their work wasnt compleated until years later when Lapiza found the old files of the project and brought them to the Meiyo Clan Enterprises chief engineer, Gelbe Zahn, who created the first effective version of the “Supercharged Dust”, they laid the groundwork for a whole new breed of weapons; Dust power cells, used by the military as long range, high powered weapon for snipers, and a smaller and weaker version s being designed for foot soldiers.

-The genes for Faunus traits were located, bringing Remnant closer to finding out how Faunus were created and how to create synthetic ones.

-A new type of Dust was created, one that in theory can be used outside the atmosphere. Though never tested, it shows to have a stronger power than most dust, but is currently unknown how it was made, as the archived files holding them were never found.

-After nearly 60 years, the Mystery of Holowana was finally found another clue, as they found out how this “Grim Beacon” could attract the Grim so easily, but the papers were kept by Atlas in their vaults, classified as top secret.

-A non physical way of healing was discovered, as they found that synthetic aura can be made, they tested more and found a byproduct of the Aura, and were able to make a liquid like version of it. Appearing as a Cyan and White mist, it sprays on the wound and accelerates the healing process by 3 times the normal speed, making this critical for the Atlas Military and Huntsmen alike to have, as it can heal any large wounds(excluding the creation of whole new limbs or bones), organs, and even repair bones.

-Semblance trends were also found, allowing a narrower prediction of a newborns semblance, meaning you don't have to just guess from your parents semblances.

-The ability to “freeze” Grimm was pioneered, but still needs work. This process of flash freezing the Grimm before killing it with a shot to its weakest point, and then quiickly thawing out a few seconds later, allows the deceased Grimm to not disintigrate for a longer period of time, estimated around a 40% decrease of their normal decomposition rate, allowing people to now preform autopsies of Grim. This process is expensive, and requires the perfect scenario to work, as such it is not used commonly, only used to preform a scan of larger Grimm that cannot be held down easily by restraints or contained easily, such as a Geist or Deathstalker.

Trivia:

-The project was named after Joseph Mengele, the lead scientist at Auswitz, and known for his brutal experimentation on prisoners, and is still a subject of controversy, as he found and invented many things, inclding depressurization, dentistry improvements, and other key research, which people argue can justify some of his crimes.

-There were NOT over 700 people in the project at a time, as many died during experimentation, and as such their numbers used. At the time of the escape, only around 60-100 patients in the facility.

-The estimated death toll of the project was around 630 patients, more than half of them Faunus, and around 800 died during the project, and 600 people died in the escape.

-The alleged amount of members the project had was around 1,500, but in the present day, only about 84 remain, 25 of whom still at large, and 1 pardoned for her contributions to protecting the patients from the other scientists, given the nickname “Mother Mercy” by patients for her mother like protection.