Malta Secret Files


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Secret and Confidential

Director 17
Special Operations

Subject: RHM-5

RHM-5, also known by the street name “Superadrine” is a derivative of a Rikti-based hantavirus known to cause severe mutagenic effects on human test subjects. RHM-5 can be ingested or injected. Extreme doses are known to cause losses of higher brain functions with accompanying increases in strength and healing factors.

In 1986, the Rikti secretly contacted the US government for a series of diplomatic and scientific exchanges. During one exchange, the Rikti passed to the government their “cure” for cancer. The cure eliminated cancerous cells in all test subjects. The cure also contained a viral payload which caused death in its test subjects. The payload would remain dormant until activated by an air-born trigger. The US government in cooperation with Crey Research developed a derivative of the cure that acted as an anti-virus. What was unforeseen was that the derivative, if ingested or injected into a subject without exposure to the hantavirus, caused human mutation. The US government and Crey Research began parallel research on applications of the new derivative.

A large shipment of Superadrine was intercepted by a criminal gang in 1989. The same gang along with some new players has set up manufacturing operations, and there is significant underworld trade in the substance. Street variants of the drug have also been manufactured that increase the healing factors at the expense of diminishing the strength gains. This variant has been popular by nihilistic criminal elements seeking a way to take on cybernetic implants without suffering severe trauma.

Crey Industries has developed a more stable variant, RHM-6, that has the beneficial increases in strength and healing without the negative side effects. RHM-6 research has been closely guarded by Crey Industries and field operations indicate that Crey is using the drug to speed up its Paragon Protector research.

Field operations also indicate that the Fifth Column super soldier serum may be based on the one or more of the variants of the original RHM-5 derivative. It is unknown how the Fifth Column came into possession of the derivative or whether their scientists came to similar conclusions in their own independent research.

((You are welcome to post your own Malta secrets as you uncover them. This secret research brief was uncovered by a team of heroes in an undisclosed Malta base.))


 

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I'm still waiting for more secrets...or did those that disclosed them get "disappeared?"


 

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Sorry to be the bearer of bad news then, but you'll likely be waiting a long time. That 'secret' there - it's a fake.


"If I had Force powers, vacuum or not my cape/clothes/hair would always be blowing in the Dramatic Wind." - Tenzhi

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I can wait...I'm patient...

Or better yet, perhaps I'll tell my own secrets...such as the secret leader of Malta is Walt Disney!


 

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I can wait...I'm patient...

Or better yet, perhaps I'll tell my own secrets...such as the secret leader of Malta is Walt Disney!

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Disney using "stolen" nemesis technology to create a suit that allows him to live forever, powered not by steam but by the tears of children.


 

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((I'm still waiting for more secrets...or did those that disclosed them get "disappeared?"))

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((Fixed...noob))


 

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Unclassified to Longbow

Director 8
Special Operations/ Combat Log

Subject: Villain Threat - V.1

Rouge Isles 1800 hours:

Mission: Exterminate Threat known as Biorage for attack on Facility #109

Lost Communication's: 1815 hours.

Recording:

"...slug it! Slug it! What the it disappeared!" *CRACKLE BOOM!* Screams and cry of pain.

Robotic voice, "You are deemed a hindrance, action: annihilate."
BAM! Static....

*click* "Satellite Signal Lost, Reconnecting... Reconnecting... signal terminated at source."
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This is the latest recording with the battle with this robotic being. Ever since we took on the task of hunting down a dominator known as Biorage, did this thing show up. Digging up files from previous years we were able to conclude that in fact Biorage was acting as a delivery boy for V.1.

What was interesting is that this V.1 closely resembles our future Titan designs.

We did a hard felt search and destroy and recover ops for several years in the 90s before we gave up, this V.1 never showed up on any occasion and its activities seemed to cease.

Before the year was up in 2005, when the Arachnos sought the Destined Ones did we find something very familiar. It was taken down when we ambushed it. When we got it back to the facility, it was marked with a V and then either another V or number. We recovered about 20 of these machines each being different then the last, and each increasingly difficult to capture.

The most frequent design was either a high capacity magnetic flux core that produced quantities of energy by swirling a gyro magnetic around a lead core. We figured that the stability of the gyrosphere was reached with frequent discharges to a battery that kept the machine running and employed other magnets to keep the sphere in check.

We started to capture more of these things with magnetic weapons, until one day during a operation they didn't work. A bulkier version of the Vs was accompanied and left a message to a lone wounded Gunslinger, "... you have figured out the flaws in my army, I thank you Malta."

More research later, but in retrospect we believe this V.1 has created a hive mind in its creations allowing itself to communicate with or being with all at any moment. We haven't been able to reverse-engineer any of programming so far on any captured robots.