Commander Joseph Walsh, a strong proponent of the genetic soldier project, was assigned to oversee the project. The Chief geneticist was Doctor Owen N'Gata (Nagata) an aging scientist with dynamic ideas on how to enable superhuman abilities within the genome to give the 'Supertroopers' an added edge aganst the perceived enemies. Also invlolved was Genetics wizard Max Sawyer.
The Supertrooper directive was thus:
Develop a soldier using known and tested genetic structures which will do the following:
First Batch Supertroopers were designed as front-line soldiers, mostly muscle, brawn, and brute strength or savagely efficient skill. Riker Killbane is an example of a First Batch Supertrooper.
Second Batch Supertroopers were designed to be more intelligent and tactically minded, so they could plan and counter more intelligent maneuvers by the enemy. Shane Gooseman is an example of a Second Batch Supertrooper.
Due to the third directive, the supertroopers were never taught to like each other, ansd strong and occassionally bitter rivalries soon developed between the members of the Supertrooper corps. Although they can work together, each supertrooper feels that he or she is the best there is, so they do not normally need any assistance.
To both minimise exposure to the general public, and to keep the soldiers isolated, they were formed, decanted, trained, and lived on the island base known as Wolf Den, which was located off the south-east coast of North America. This huge Island Base was fully capable of both training, and containing the supertroopers should they prove uncontrollable, under normal circumstances.
Wolf Den covers almost 400 acres, mostly coated in varying levels of pre-stressed concrete and granite. But it has a large expanse of jungle-type terrain and other non-industrial regions to ensure the soldiers could be properly trained in all aspects of combat.
The Supertroopers numbered between sixty and eighty at the height of training and production, but during the 21 years of the base's operation, there was some attrition and by the time of the Wolf Den incident, there were only forty-six left alive.
Weiner released the x-factor into the air duct system while the supertroopers were resting in their barracks. The results were dramatic, shocking, and fatal for some. The x-factor instantly went to work, enhancing and charging the supertrooper abilites beyond the design specifications. Some, like Stingray, became instantly lethal, while others, like Killbane, simply became more durable.
The Supertroopers went wild, feeling an unfamilliar energy burning through them, and seeing nothing but treachery from their Wolf Den commanders. Doctor N'Gata tried to isolate them, but before he could finish sealing the barracks, was killed by Gravestone after he had been supercharged by Brainchild jamming an electrical cable into his back. The Supertroopers who were not instantly incapacitated by the accelerator escaped from Wolf Den, scattering through the League of Planets and beyond.
The only supertrooper to remain was Shane Gooseman, who was considered the 'runt' or 'baby' by the others by virtue of him being 3 years younger than any of the other troopers. He elected to remain behind, and because of this, was evetually initiated into the Ranks of the Galaxy Rangers with a special directive to hunt down and return the rogue supertroopers to Earth and storage within the Cryocrypt.
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