Project Daedalus

In 1922, after the Aura Incident in the Sahara and the subsequent study made on her by the Terran Defence Organization. The TDO decided to use the alien DNA strands found within the recovered alien corpse and Aura herself to recreate her superhuman abilities.

The Project
The Project began shortly after Aura was taken into TDO custody after the incident. Alien DNA strands were extracted from Aura and the recovered alien corpse and then injected into the initial 20 subjects that Daedalus had gathered.

The project was headed by Doctor Barisov and coheaded by Doctor Müller. To begin the project, the doctors put the 20 subjects in 20 different testing and containment chambers and then proceeded to inject the extracted DNA strands into the subjects.

After a few hours of waiting, only 6 of the 20 subjects survived the experimental strands. These subjects were:

-Daedalus 15 "Altair"

-Daedalus 16 "Falkenhayn"

-Daedalus 17 "Reed"

-Daedalus 18 "Brooke"

-Daedalus 19 "Aurora"

-Daedalus 20 "Proxy"

Initially, the TDO directory classified this test as a success but after 24 hours, all but Daedalus 15 vanished without a trace. This caused the directory to archive all files on Project Daedalus and halt any metahuman projects until further notice. Daedalus 15 then began active service in the TDO as a top-tier operative.

Aftermath
All Metahuman projects were halted by the Organization and all of the strands with the exception of Daedalus 17's strand were archived. Later, Doctor Müller would use the unarchived Daedalus 17 strands to work on his own Project Midnight which produced two operatives with the same powers as Daedalus 17.