Infinity Inc.
From PRIMUS Database
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- July 27, 1988: The Russian government initiates it's 'Rasputin' program. Towards the end of the cold war, Russia devised a computer program that it designated 'Rasputin'. It was a computer program designed to be able to launch Russia's nukes automatically if Russia was ever attacked by the U.S. nukes. Stored away in a bunker some where in Siberia. For more than a decade the program lay dormant.
- May 12, 2005: 'Rasputin' was once again revisited, this time the computer itself was linked up to the internet. This allowed the Russian government to make contact and update 'Rasputin' without having to travel into the depths of Siberia to make changes to the program.
- June 1, 2009: Air Force Captain Lucas Stone's fighter is shot down over Iraq. After ejecting it is discovered that his chute will not deploy. Moments before impact his body takes flight, finally letting his hidden mutant abilities free. In the coming months he takes the name Vulcan, able to manipulate electricity in all forms. Becoming a government agent/hero, Vulcan is sent on many successful missions becoming a somewhat well known public hero.
- August 14, 2013: Russia makes it's final update to 'Rasputin', updating the program itself and turning it into an adaptable program. This would prove to be the worst decision in the program's existence to date. 'Rasputin' would take the next several months to do research over the internet, updating it's own functions and declaring that America is the enemy and it must be taken care of.
- September 13, 2015: Vulcan goes on his last solo mission, which is also his first failed mission. Victor Hughes, the CEO and founder of the weapons engineering company Hughes International, was taken hostage. At the last minute as Vulcan approached where he was being held, the building was blown up, killing Hughes and all inside.
- October 23, 2015: Rasputin as it has now taken to calling itself, has escaped it's bunker and gone mobile over the net. Finding it's way to America, touching down on American soil three days later. Rasputin made it's way to a robot building facility, fashioning itself it's own body. The first recorded incident on American soil happens two days later when Rasputin destroys the plant and takes it's drones with it.
- October 30, 2015: The U.S. government initiates the Infinity program as well as organizing Monarch. Monarch is a mysterious government agency with a mysterious millionaire backer.
- November 10, 2015: Vulcan is brought in as head of Infinity, answering directly to Monarch. Over the next week Vulcan mulls over twenty prospective heroes and their files before finally deciding on the five members that make up his founding team, being dubbed Infinity Inc. The team itself is brought together the next day.