Project Kumeran
Project Kumeran was an extremely secretive BioCorp project to reverse-engineer the biology of the alien Ir'vaki species. It involved the torture and dissection of Ir’vaki diplomats shot down by Paradigm in a secret agreement with the organisation, and the artificial growth of several Ir’vaki specimens under controlled conditions in an attempt to create a subservient entity with extremely powerful psionic abilities.
Atrocities
After the shuttle crash, BioCorp kept the diplomats on ice for nearly 45 years at the Site 18 Research Facility, unable to resurrect them, while studying and scanning their bodies to analyse their biology. In 2150, BioCorp experienced a breakthrough with the recent advancements in forcefield technology, allowing them to begin to repair the damage to the diplomats' bodies through an experimental version of the Spatial Cell Control system.
By 2153, the company had in all accounts succeeded in reviving the Ir'vaki. However, they were treated not as diplomats, but as tests subjects. In the subsequent decades, BioCorp cruelly experimented on the diplomats, repeatedly dissecting and repairing their bodies and extracting their genetic material. BioCorp saw boundless profit opportunities in the Ir'vaki biology, which enabled them to develop wetware computing technology by replicating their unique neural architecture and use their bodies' energy-storage capabilities in power systems. In 2159, BioCorp began in vivo experiments with cloned Ir'vaki genetic material, combining Ir'vaki cellular material with entropic radiation from a powerful cavity reactor in attempts to create extremely powerful sapient anomalies. These experiments led to the birth of several anomalies, including Exon.
As they grew, Exon and xer siblings were constantly experimented on and tortured in attempts to understand their psionic abilities. In 2175, Exon, alongside xer fellow test subjects, led a catastrophic containment breach from Site 18 that resulted in the facility's complete destruction. A Calamity Mitigation fireteam, called to the site, fired upon the group, who fought back. Several of the anomalies were killed as they were pursued through the nearby city of Belgrade, causing severe damage to the city. Eventually, they managed to lose the CMI forces, finding temporary sanctuary in east Lithuania. This group is what evolved into the early Anomaly Rights Coalition just a few years later.