The Project
The Following is a set of reports from Project Absalom, all of which have been classified as "Black". No public records of this project will ever be released, and the first opportunity to declassify to "Secret" levels will be in 2043, as dictated by USC 28342 (Official Secrets Act).
Genesis:
The Abasalom project technically began in 1989, but from two very different angles.
The first angle started in Guatemala. Using intelligence from a pair of deep cover operatives with Chronos Corp, a multinational concern which had been using various clandestine operations to advance its own agenda, we found the location of a new dig for NHI (Non-Human Intelligence) artifacts in South America. The team that Chronos had sent wasn't terribly well equipped to repel an attack by the unit we sent down, and our own scientists were able to recover four objects which Chronos internal documents refered to as "Guyver Units". We assembled a team of our top NHI-tech researchers to being comparing these devices to Chronos documents, and to explore their capabilities and systems, in hopes of eventually learning to replicate them.
Attached photo Abasalom-02s3: 4 "Guyver" units placed in special carrying cases.
The second began in Ohio of all places, at the Wright Patterson AFB labs. A joint US Army/Airforce team was looking at ways to aid soliders with the massive amount of information influx on the modern battlefield, due to advancing equipment and weapons. The longer the project went on, however, the only solutions began to be direct neural interfaces which process the information beneath the concious level, presenting occasional decision trees to the user based on desired outcomes. However, the project was due to be scrapped, owing to the extreme expense of the units and subprocessors that would be required for 1 prototype, let alone a mass production of the system. (Not to mention the ethical complaints being raised about dropping systems into some poor bastard's head when we had no idea how he would react to them.)
That's where our department stepped in. We offered the Wright-Pat team the option to continue their research in our facility, with the added incentive of offering them a practical solution to the neural interface systems which had been so difficult to develop: The Guyver units.
Attached photo Absalom-223x1: Pre-deployment "Guyver Unit", closeup on control metal sphere.
While (to this point), we're not totally able to replicate them, we did learn that the "control metal" which manages much of the Guyver's functions was, to a point, programmable. It seemed to be the perfect way to incorporate the WP research along with a practical control method against rouge units. All we had to do was insert certain directives against attacking our own officers, lab technicians, and the like.
By 1992, the WP team had settled into our facilities admirably, and had provided several key breakthroughs on what at the time was simply referred to as the "Guyver Project" in-house. The most important of these being a method of information coded laser pulses which the control metal would respond to and accept as instructions. One member of the WP team, Dr. Bobula-Diall, believes that this might be how the NHIs who created the design programmed the units initially. So, once the preliminary programming had been completed, we needed a test subject.