Special Research Projects Administration
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| Special Research Projects Administration | |
| Political information | |
| Type of faction / organization | Special research division |
| Founding | Fyodor Malikov [1] |
| De facto leader | Fyodor Malikov † |
| Executive branch | Lyle K. Parsons (Executive Director) |
| Affiliation | U.S. Military |
| Societal information | |
| Armament | See human weapons |
| Vehicles | U/AV-17 Hawk F-86 Sabre |
| Historical information | |
| Era | Chimeran War |
| Date of establishment | May 27th, 1934 |
| [Source] | |
The Special Research Projects Administration (SRPA) is a American military organization that was tasked in studying and finding different conventional means in defeating the Chimera.
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History
SRPA was created on May 27th, 1934 by the Department of War after the United States government acknowledged the existence of the Chimera.[2] The organization was tasked with finding ways to combat the Chimera. This ranged from their experiments to find a vaccine for the Chimeran virus to creating new weapons and technology (mostly re-engineered from captured Chimeran technology) to directly combat the Chimeran threat. SRPA was also responsible for extracting Dr. Fyodor Malikov from Russia and recruited him into their organization based on his foreknowledge on the Chimera and his experiments on the Cloven.
In 1950, SRPA funded and controlled Project Abraham to create a special operations task force that is immune to the Chimeran virus. These surving soldier would be known as the Sentinels.[3] It was during Project Abraham that test subject Jordan Adam Shepherd was inadvertently transformed into the Chimeran entity known as Daedalus. SRPA confined Daedalus before his escape on July 15th, 1951.
SRPA also created a specialized network, known as SrpaNet, that was used for storing and relaying important files and documents relating to SRPA projects. The organization was also responsible for the development of the fission bomb and research of recovered Gray Tech components under Project Prometheus.
Appearances
Resistance: Fall of Man
SRPA (although unnamed) conducted several clandestine Black Ops operations in Chimera-occupied Britain in observing the Chimera. The SRPA held a high priority for the extraction of Nathan Hale after intercepting British radio indicated his survival.[4] After the destruction of the London Chimeran tower, SRPA Black Ops apprehended Hale.
Their logo can be seen on many American and British equipment and vehicles throughout the game.
Resistance 2
Following Hale's extraction conducted by Major Richard Blake and being transferred to be process in SRPA Station Igloo in Iceland, Chimeran forces made a sudden attack on the facility. It is heavily presume that Daedalus was possibly responsible in being able to contact the Chimera in order to free him. Following Daedalus' escape, SRPA inducted Hale to the Sentinels and played an integral role in defending the United States and abroad.
During the invasion of America by the Chimeran fleet in May 1953, SRPA desperately attempted to stop Daedalus from activating the tower network in America. Ultimately, many SPRA personnel were killed during the conflict after a botched mission in attacking the Holar Tower in Holar, Iceland.
After the Liberty Defense Perimeter fell, SRPA made a last ditch assault in destroying the Chimeran fleet and ceasing Daedalus' plans over the Chicxulub crater in Operation Black Eden in June 26th, 1953.
The operation succeeded, but the outcome only inadvertently created a wormhole to the Chimera's homeworld.
Resistance 3
The events transpired at the Chicxulub crater revealed that the explosion caused by the fission created an energy surge in the Chimeran tower network, creating the wormhole above New York City that leads directly to the Chimera's homeworld and being maintained by the city's hub tower. In response, SRPA launched a large assault on New York in an attempt to destroy the Chimeran tower and closing the portal, but were ultimately repelled and crushed by the large concentration of Chimeran forces occupied in the city.
Resistance: Retribution
In the Infected storyline, SRPA recruited James Grayson as a Sentinel.
Resistance: Burning Skies
Prior to the Chimeran attack on New York City, SRPA researcher Richard Gorrell was conducting a classified experiment that was an attempt to control the Chimera through Grey Tech components, which was known as Project Phoenix, stationed at Station Kali on Ellis Island. Gorrell and Project Phoenix was met with resistance from the U.S. military establishment and citing it as costly and "ethically reprehensible." Gorrell went rogue and continued Project Phoenix during the invasion in which he took advantage in manipulating the Chimera in abducting humans to be harvest to constructing an incomplete leviathan, which Gorrell intended to control through Grey Tech devices. Gorrell's plot was foiled by Tom Riley, who he then killed the scientist.
Known Personnel
Founders
- Fyodor Malikov - Biological Physician, created the Cloven and the Sentinels.
- Arthur L. Pratt - General of the United States Army
- Robert Crowe - Senator
Research
- Julia Cathcart
- Richard P. Feynman
- Willard Libby - Physical chemist, developed radiocarbon dating.
- Howard Nash
- J. Robert Oppenheimer - Physicist, lead the creation of a highly enriched fission bomb.
- Martin Ortiz - Physician
Medical and Psychology
- Cassandra Aklin - Psychiatrist
- Henry Carter - Physician
- George Hopper - Physician
- Frederick Jean - Physician
- Percy Kabeck - Physician
- Anna Keegan - Physician
- Alan McKenzie - Psychiatrist
- Oscar Villamizar - Physician
Executive and Administration
- Lyle K. Parsons - Executive Director
Para-Military
- Richard Blake † - Major
- Welles - Major
- Sentinels
- Black Ops
- Specter Team
Known SRPA Stations/Bases/Facilities
Each SRPA base is unique in its own way, such as being a underwater base, but are commonly include with underground garage/hangar bays for aircraft and vehicles. In each SRPA base, Tac-Com directs all SRPA para-military actions including black ops and Sentinels' missions. Subsurface levels are dedicated to administration, medical, and food services. Living quarters being located deeper underground, and protected by a matrix of pathways in which pre-positioned explosives offered a defense against underground attacks, such as being breached by Chimeran Burrowers.[1]
The known SRPA bases are listed bellow:
- SRPA 2 (Springfield, Illinois): Mention to have an inhibitor station, and was attacked by Chimeran forces, but survived the attack while losing half of the base.
- SRPA 3 (San Francisco, California): A coastal, underwater base that came under attack during the initial Chimeran invasion on May 15, 1953. Presumably lost during the attack.
- SRPA 4: The base was destroyed during the Chimeran invasion after the fall of the Liberty Defense Perimeter, but not before completing a prototype fission bomb which was used in Operation Black Eden.[5]
- SRPA 5: Was station by Dr. Willard Libby, who used his method of radiocarbon dating on a recovered Gray Tech component.[6]
- SRPA 6 (Valentine, Nebraska): Underground base located near the original site of Fort Niobrara. Built in 1934, the base is noted for having its unearth debris during its construction phase used for building a 50 ft. wall surrounding the base. In response to SRPA Directive 1140.09, a moat is also built around the base that could be flooded with Avgas and set it on fire should it become necessary.[1]
- SRPA 7 (Boulder, Colorado): Formerly the site of Project Prometheus after a severe, experimental accident with the Gray Tech components.[7]
- SRPA 8 (Cincinnati, Ohio)[7]
- SRPA 11 (Black Rock Desert, Nevada): Relocated site of Project Prometheus.[8]
- SRPA 12 (Atlanta, Georgia): Noted for receiving a distress message from survivors in Savannah, Georgia.[9]
- SRPA NT (Unknown Location in Alaska): Site of Project Abraham.[10] Research site of the fission bomb.
- SRPA Substation Kappa: Destroyed during Operation Icarus, allegedly due to Joseph Capelli's insubordinate actions.[11]
- SRPA Research Station Igloo (Iceland): Contained Daedalus since July 10th, 1951. Later came under attacked by Chimeran forces on July 15th, 1951 in which allowing Daedalus to escape.
- SRPA Station Kali (Ellis Island, New York): Served as SPRA Laboratory of Project Abraham. Abandoned and completely overrunned when the Chimera invaded the United States on August 14th, 1951.
- Research Station Genesis (Bryce Canyon, Utah): Research site that studies Bryce Canyon's Chimeran Tower, and as well in other subjects relating to the Chimera. Station Genesis became under attack and overrun by the Chimera during the Chimeran invasion in mid-1953.
- Denver Federal Center (Denver, Colorado): SRPA Command Base for Sentinel missions in the North of the United States of America. It was also served as a Sentinel hospital. Presumably destroyed when the Chimera attacked Denver.
Trivia
- SRPA was originally going to be called the Special Research Projects Agency as seen in various files in Project Abraham and the America First - America Only newspapers.
- It seems that the SRPA logo can be found on almost any piece of human technology. Whether it be American, British, or Maquis.
- SRPA's black ops members have a tattoo of a skull with a sword underneath the skull seen on Mick Cutler who was kicked out of SRPA after serving in the unit.
