Gen II

Gen II, also known as the Gen II Corporation or Gen II Biogenetics, was a genetics company based in Lhumar, Aurlunor. It was founded shortly after the Allium-Coalition War by John Pitchardson Rex, seeing the what was considered at the time to be the 'end of the Age Of Imperialism', to gain a large profit from a new age of relative peace.

Site A - Macmar Island
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Macmar Island was the first island discovered during the Voyage Of The West, with the island being reclaimed by civilisation for the first time in over 600 years. After the Voyage Of The West was completed, Rex made a swift return to Lhumar before setting up a permanent base camp on the island. Over the next year, construction on the island resort would commence, with the island officially being conned 'Site A' by the company. In 941 ACA, Gen II revealed their plans for a fully international safari resort involving exotic animals 'from a time long ago' to select investors at the yearly investor's meeting. The project got a lot of covering, enough to cover the standing construction expenses and future expansion costs for the next 3 years. Until this point, the company had made sure to keep quiet about the project, as any form of spillage would cause a huge amount of questions, something the did not want until the prepared opening day in 947. The official map was published on the 26th December 2021 (945 ACA), however the site was abandoned in 945 ACA following the Macmar Island Incident.

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''"With your help, we can make this world the best it can be. Give the children of the future the thing of dreams. With your help, tomorrow will be a completely different world." -'' John Pitchardson Rex, Founder of Gen II Biogenetics ======

Site B - The Protozas Islands (aka The Malkkengarun)
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Initially remaining unused during the start of construction on Site A, the company realised that the required research facilities would take up too much room in the allocated building area for any other localised attractions or shopping/hospitality areas on the island floor map. So after reaching out to the descendent of the Zashit people, Gen II bought one of the islands in the archipelago for an undisclosed sum of money in late 941 ACA, conning the island 'Site B'. Construction began the same week, and facilities were completed in 942 ACA. The site was also abandoned in 945, however had brief moments of operation during 960, 985-91 & 994-96 ACA.

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"Simply put, Gen II is looking for covering of the standing construction expenses and expansion costs. The storm a little under 3 weeks ago, partnered with the limited space for amusement attractions on the original island floor plans, has resulted in the Board coming to a decision we did not expect to make. We bought another island." - Garend Blue, CEO 947-60 ACA ======

A-RNL - Hampo Province
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The A-RNL was a Gen II laboratory funded by the Aurlunor-Ryzani & Ashuran governments built in Hampo Province in 964 ACA. Initially serving as 'the hub for the new frontier of medicine', the facility would later gain notoriety for being the source of many mysterious events that took place in the Upper Hampo, Nir & Enandor regions during the 980s & 990s. The facility would catch on fire in 993 ACA, being abandoned from that point onwards. Despite the 996 ACA Hampo Earthquake, the site has seen little activity.

History
(Spoiler Warning for the Rex Project Saga)

First Rex Administration & The Rex Project
Establishment of the Rex Project began on August 9th 2021 (Year 938 ACA), with the creation of the Gen II List. The list contains the names of the 29 asset species that would be part of the island resort's attractions. The following year, Rex oversaw The Voyage Of The West and the beginning of construction on Macmar Island. The Rex Project would ultimately be put on hold in 945 ACA, following the Macmar Island Incident, but be restarted by new CEO Garend Blue in 946 ACA under the name 'Operation Relocation'.

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"This is a private list. Any breach in this data may result in the culprit facing further charges in a criminal court and prompt removal from all positions in the company. It is important that the data regarding the assets is not breached to ensure the survival of the assets, the company and its future projects." ======

The Macmar Island Incident
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On December 29th 2021 (945 ACA), after a storm swept through the island causing a mass power outage during a test visit by a group of palaeontologists. The incident resulted in the abandonment of Site A and a 34% share loss by the company. The incident also resulted in John Pitchardson Rex resigning as CEO of Gen II the following year, after falling into critical condition and taking responsibility for the park's failure. As a result, Gerand Blue, logistics manager, inherited the role, and began to make plans to finish what Rex started.

Operation Cleansweep
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Operation Cleansweep took place the following year after the Macmar Island Incident (946 ACA), in which Gen II mercenaries went back to Macmar Island and destroyed several millions of dollars worth of abandoned equipment to prevent rival companies, independent entrepreneurs and general poachers from being able to steal Gen II property on the island. Many of the items destroyed were from the laboratory in the Discovery Centre, but control room equipment & other park operations software was also destroyed. This would be John Pitchardson Rex's attempted prevention of the restarting of the Rex Project by any future CEO, however failed at this objective.

The legality of the operation is also highly debated, as it took place during the court procedure which regarded placing an exclusion zone surrounding the island. Charges have never been pushed regarding Operation Cleansweep, however.

Blue Administration & Operation Relocation
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After Logistics Manager Garend Blue was made CEO of Gen II in 947 ACA, he began making plans to finish what Rex started, on a less budget-heavy scale. This plan, codenamed Operation Relocation, involved moving live assets from pre-existing locations to a new facility on the mainland instead of creating a completely new batch of animals on another island facility. The main moving operation was split into two parts, Operation Extraction I scheduled for 948 ACA, and Operation Extraction II scheduled for 952 ACA.

Operation Extraction I
Operation Extraction I began as planned during 948 ACA, with a group of 120 mercenaries heading to Site B by boat. The goal of Operation Extraction I was to safely capture all the required herbivorous assets for the mainland facility. However, despite initial success, the operation would go horribly wrong when an outbreak of Type-1 Entropomorphia, a fatal disease for humans, ravaged the mercenary team. This, alongside a storm ripping through the island at the time, forced the team to evacuate 2 days into the operation.

Operation Extraction I was eventually cancelled after an attempted reschedule to 950 ACA. This in turn forced Operation Extraction II to be postponed to 960 ACA.

Data Leaks
In 955 ACA, around 16 confidential Gen II files were leaked to the public, including yearly reports, telegrams regarding Operation Extraction I & the 938 ACA Asset Database. This was caused as a result of a rogue employee reprinting the files and handing them to newspapers across the world. Despite Gen II's best efforts, the files have remained public, although a small number of people actually know they exist.

Operation Extraction II & the Malkkengarun Incident
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Gen II returned to the Malkkengarun in 960 ACA, with the intention of rectifying the mistakes they had made in their previous attempts to ship the dinosaurs off-island and maintaining their mainland park opening day of 961 ACA. However, unbeknownst to them, a small group of researchers lead by John Pitchardson Rex had returned to the island with the intention of shutting the operation down before it even began.

Gen II mercenaries landed on the island on the 12th Heicane 960 ACA, and ransacked the nearby game trail of its worth, capturing a total of 44 live assets. However, once night fell, the research team hijacked the operation & released the dinosaurs onto the camp, destroying their equipment and leaving them stranded. However, once it was discovered that the research team had also suffered a similar fate, the two sides agreed to co-operate and find a way off the island.

Operation Extraction II ultimately only resulted in the exporting of one live asset to the mainland (which was returned to the island a month following the incident), alongside a large collection of blood vials. Following the breakout of the live asset on the mainland, CEO Garend Blue was killed. The last attempt at reviving the Rex Project had left Gen II without leadership & severely in debt.

Fallout from the Malkkengarun Incident
Following the Malkkengarun Incident, the company was forced into concession, revealing the extent of the operations that Gen II had embarked in over the years. An estimated 1300 files were declassified and released to local press. John Pitchardson Rex regained control of the company the following year, and signed the Site B Protection Agreement, finally sealing off the dinosaur-infested islands from the public eye. Rex pledged that the company would use their knowledge to embark on a 'medicinal journey' and would leave their past behind.

Second Rex Administration & the Human Studies Project
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John Pitchardson Rex reassumed control of the company in 962 ACA and shortly afterwards elected Muinon Gilmore as his new Chief Geneticist, the first person to fill the role since the death of Dr. Vitruvius Dil back in 945. Under Gilmore's guidance, Gen II went back against its word in a mere number of years & began enacting human experiments on newborns, raising & training them in an isolated environment, in the hopes of uncovering the secret powers of the human mind. This was wildly successful after the first few attempts, with reports suggesting that Gilmore had 'built a small army' worth of subjects. However, things would go horribly wrong for Rex as the years went on, slowly dying from the wounds of his past & the stresses of running Gen II amidst their many secretive operations. He would resign in 977 ACA amid health concerns, and died the next year.

Gilmore Administration & the Controversial 980s
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Following Rex's death in 978 ACA, Gilmore assumed total control of the company as per requested in his will. Under his guidance, one last round of the Human Studies Project birth testing, known as the Final Series, was enacted, before Gilmore shut down the HSP's Genetics Department in favour of using their resources for other means. In 980, former significant other of Gilmore & mother of one of the Final Series subjects, Lisse Tencandis, sued the company on the grounds of exploitation. The case revealed the A-RNL, a Gen II laboratory funded by the government, to the public before Tencandis was found dead in her home & the case was dismissed.

In the mid-to-late 980s, Gilmore's elected Chief Geneticist Crockett Gideon began experimenting in dinosaur hybridisation, as well as investigating the possibilities of multiple dimensions and opening a doorway to another dimension within the grounds of the lab. In 987, both experiments made breakthroughs as Gideon produced the first genetically modified hybrid, Diablora, and Gilmore discovered that concentrated energy beams could be used to tear rifts in time & space to other dimensions. The next year, Gilmore began using the abilities of HSP subjects to power the machinery to produce these energy beams, and the Riftcarver was born.

Everything Goes Wrong (990-93 ACA)
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In 990 ACA, via methods of manipulation & trickery, the Diablora successfully escaped captivity in the A-RNL & was let loose in the Upper Hampo region, resulting in the deaths of 30-33 people during the 990-93 period. Alongside this, due to mismanagement, all of the HSP subjects used to power the Riftcarver had been killed following power surges directly to their brains, frying them inside-out. This made Gen II ever more reluctant to continue the established procedures, however Gilmore was insistent despite knowledge of the risks. TBA

Chief Geneticist of the Gilmore Administration Crocket Gideon was left to pick up the pieces of the disaster that had unfolded when we was chosen as CEO in late 991 ACA. TBA

Military Administration & the 996 Hampo/Malkkengarun Incident
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Following the failures during the 993 Hampo Incident, Gideon was removed from Gen II & a military administration headed by Bjorn Rex Shan-Khamen was put into place. With the loss of the A-RNL in the 993 fire, Bjorn organised Gen II's new laboratory in the old Site B Containment/Shipping Facility, expanding the dock into a fully-fledged military compound. Gen II filed for government-protected bankruptcy in 994. The former A-RNL compound was reorganised into a total restricted area. The hunt for missing assets would continue for a further 3 years before a breakthrough was made.

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Aftermath Of The Hampo Earthquake & Liquidation
Following the numerous failures of the events of 996 ACA, the government shut down all Gen II operations & proposed potential liquidation as an option moving forward. The Site B Facility was closed in Harvayas 996, & on the 11th Maureawe 997 ACA, Gen II formally announced its liquidation as a company, with its last facility in Lhumar being handed over to the Rathnir Palaeontological Society.

Legacy
Gen II has undoubtedly left a mark on history, being the first ever genetics company & the first people to bring extinct animals back from the dead. Their biggest claim to fame would no doubt be the two Rex Project novellas, published in 947 & 961 respectively (the 'New Trilogy' Rex Project novels were not published IC and are purely OOC media). They became infamous as a source of controversy during the 980s & 990s, and even after their liquidation they continued to be embroiled with controversy. At the end of it all, Gen II was the perfect vision of a young entrepreneur tainted & blurred by shady business practices & successors who did not share his vision.