NationStates Jolt Archive

Union Academy of Science-Ural Mountain Division Lab-17

It had been close to two years since Project: Arkbird had come into existence as a feasable URAF Space Program. The ability to bomb virtually any point on the planet within a half hour was spectacular to say the least, but it also opened up a new set of challenges for the URAF. It is nigh impossible to keep a person in space for prolonged periods of time without having them suffer severe muscle and bone loss and also a slight drop in mental capacity. The URAF wanted to change this. With that, Project: Omega Kappa was born.

Called Omega Kappa after the Oka Nieba, the main goal of the project was to create a new breed of pilot: one who could stay in space for extremely long periods of time, maintain consciousness in high-G environments, and be able to maintain full muscular and bone mass capacity while in outer space. The project was to begin with testing on prisoners who were sentenced to death, and the goal was to get the survival rate up to 88% before actual procedures were implemented on volunteering pilots.

Three men were strapped down to tables in the bright white room, each one separated by a soundproof plexiglass wall. Outside the plexiglass cages was a wall of medical instruments and medicinal substances including Acetyl-L-carnitine, Vasopressin, Rosemary, B-vitamins, Vitamin C, Chromium, Creotene, and many other substances for mental growth and protection. There was also an array of muscular sterroids and bone enhancements and augmentation chemicals on the wall as well. Three men in white labcoats walked into the room and began talking to each other. They decided on taking a young male, Prisoner 112G543, for the initial test. They walked into his plexiglass cage and began their work.

A sedative was injected into his jugular while the doctors began to drop a cocktail of mental enhancements into him. In a dazed stupor, all the prisoner could do was stare blankly at the cieling. He was lucky today was only the mental enhancements, for tomorrow came the true pain: muscle and bone augmentation.

One day later...

Inside a different room, three vats filled with a saline solution contained the prisoners from before. They sat naked in neutral bouyancy, an air tube connecting them to life. Six surgeons and two anesthesiologists stood in the chamber preparing to begin the greatest human enhancement project in Russian history. Above the room was an observation window which contained numerous URAF and GRU officers eager to see the operation take place. The lead officer, URAF General Antyag, mvoed up to the microphone and turned it on.

"Please commence the operation." he said in his calm voice. The lead surgeon nodded to him and began his work.

They began by sending in anesthesia into the first subject to make sure he was out. After deciding he was out cold, the operation began. Two incisions were made, one on each leg. A robotic arm moved in and injected a hGH cocktail into the incisions. The hGH solution was meant to encourage the mineralization of the bone and increased muscle and bone growth. Titanium alloy rods were also implanted on the bone in order to increase strength. More injections were implanted in order to supplement the effects of the hGH.

The next incision came in the arms of the subject with similar injections and implantations being added to the arm. Another incision was made in the sternum allowing access to the heart. A robotic arm moved in and implanted a small artificial gland into left ventrical. This was an adrenaline gland that was to be used when the body was under large amoutns of stress in order to get it going again at full capacity. After the previous incisions were sewn up, the surgeons decided that this was enough for right now. Surgeries were performed on the other two as well in the same fashion.

One week later...

Two of the prisoners had died after a week, one due to excess amounts of adrenaline causing a heart attack, the other dying due to an infection caused by the corrosion of one of the titanium alloy rods. The young man was still living, though he was currently in a coma.

"Shall we wake him?" asked a surgeon.

"No, let him sleep." replied another surgeon. "He needs it."

...let him....he needs.....right.....

The prisoner awoke with a scream. "Jesus! What happened to me?"

"Good, he's awake." said a man in a white lab coat.

"Yes, indeed." said another.

The prisoner tried to lift his arms but found they were strapped to the table by iron shackles. "Let me out!" he yelled. In anger he wrenched his arms up as hard as he could, causing the shackles to break and tumble to the floor.

"An obvious delevopment of increased strength." said one of the men as he wrote notes on a clipboard.

"Da, indeed." said another. The prisoner got out of the bed and ran at the plexiglass. He slammed against it and pounded.

"Congratulations, Mikhail, you are now a free man." said one of the men.

"What? What are you talking about?" replied Mikhail.

"You know exactly why you were chosen for the experiment." said another man. "You, being the only survivor of the first attempt, shall be granted freedom...well, somewhat freedom. Once you have completed the trials, you will be set free into military hands as one of Russia's finest works."

One week after awakening...

Mikhail was strapped into a table while being pumped full of a sedative. His usual cocktail of drugs was being pumped into his body along with a new addition to the treatment: a cranial IV connecting vital Acetyl-L-carnitine into his brain blood vessels, bringing the substance straigh into its target and and reinforcing cell growth. A need for the pilots was increased, and the first batch of volunteers arrived in the lab the very day. They were made to fill out waiver upon waiver, warning after warning, consent form after consent form until they were finally ready to proceed. One of the pilots to volunteer was Fenrir 1, one of the best pilots in all of the UR.

Another week after the pilot trials...

Of the thirty pilots that had volunteered, only 18 had passed in full health. ten had died, with another two injured beyong repair with hypertrophy and other ailments. The Fenrir squadron, however, passes with flying colors, all five of them in full health. Rehabilitation had set in, with extensive physical and mental testing being brought upon them.

Meanwhile, Mikhail had been subjected to the most difficult exams the URAF could put forth. He was able to survive G forces thought impossible at 179g verticle being taken with ease. Horizontally, the G's taken was 30 G's eyeballs in and 23 G's eyeballs out. Strength and stamina had also imporved greatly, as had the strength of his bones as tested by a drop of fifty feet out of a helicopter onto hard ground.

More prisoners were being brought in to perfect the surgery and test alternate chemicals and substances to increase levels of success. Next on the list was the St. Petersburg Spetsnaz group SSG-12.