TANK Project

The TANK Project (an acronym for Threat Assessment and Neutralisation Kernel) was a joint venture between Weapons Branch and Technical Branch which yielded fruit back in 2003. As with many things, the idea was sound, but very poorly executed.

The project involved taking a critically wounded agent who had signed all the appropriate release paperwork, and augmenting everything about him, in essence, rebuilding him from the ground upwards using Cybernetic Enhancements. The project seemed to go well, in that it worked and produced a single agent, who became referred to as Agent Tank. However, shortly after the agent was activated, questions began to arise following some of the field data.

While it was true that Agent Tank was truly perfect for the task he was assigned to, and built for, there were some strange anomalous readings that Technical Branch could not explain. His abilities with whatever weaponry he chose were second to none, and the data provided from combat trials was phenomenal, and definitely useful in refining Cybernetic Enhancements which were in their infancy. This was not the problem, the problem consisted of results showing two distinctly different sets of commands. Under normal circumstances, this would never have caused much of an issue, except that the two sets of commands seemed to be contradictory. This led to Agent Tank suffering a serious malfunction and being decommissioned, resulting in the death of the volunteer.

The *real* reason behind the scrapping of the TANK Project was that Assistant Director Luridan had implanted a secondary layer of code which allowed him to give the unit commands that would take priority. This led to the unit being destroyed in a confrontation with Special Agent Phoenix, and Agents Wraith, Shadow, and Scaredycat. Following this, everything pertaining to the project was archived, once all members of the project staff had been debriefed and reassigned.