A fake medical flyer used by The Murkoff Corporation to recruit unknowing citizens into Project Lathe
Project LATHE was an experiment conducted by the Murkoff Corporation at the Sinyala Facility in the 1950's which involved the abduction of various American citizens off the streets to experiment on them. The whole experiment is disguised as a call for willing subjects to "Let the Miracles of Science give you purpose". It then adds "The world owes you everything", which helps convince citizens to come get what they are "owed".
History[]
PROJECT LATHE ONE[]
Project LATHE (or Limbic Aggression Therapy) first started with Project Lathe One, which was led by Dr. Hendrick Joliet Easterman in order to create Sleeper Agents to be used in conjunction with the Government.
However, due to the deaths and injuries that happened during the project's active stage, the Board viewed the entire project as unfixable and suggested it be shut-down. This deeply angered Dr. Easterman as he knew they would kill the whole project and all of the subjects in the Project would also be 'liquidated' [1].
PROJECT LATHE TWO[]
Upon realizing the mistakes of the first iteration of Project Lathe One, Dr. Easterman wrote in his journal that the subjects in testing would have to be meaningless, with nothing mentally wrong with them and that he would have to be a symbolic figure, his visage must not be shown to them ever. [2]
He conversed with Scarfiotti on how the Reagents would need to be completely worthless in terms of society, how they would be less expensive to take in, and that this would be the key to creating the Sleeper Agents he promised in PROJECT LATHE ONE. [3,4]
In a letter to Barancxyk, he optimistically states that they are working on salvaging Project Lathe and that the autopsies soon to be preformed on the large amount of deceased Lathe Subjects should show a correlation between the conditioning and the tumors they had grown. [5] Unfortunately, it was proven untrue and Easterman feared that Lathe 2 would not come to be. [6] Nevertheless, Easterman lied to Baranxzyk, and said that the conditioning worked perfectly and that the lesions were formed on purpose and that the funding of PROJECT LATHE is vital. [7]
With the Board officially authorizing Project Lathe Two, the documented name was changed to Latent Agency Therapy, and the assets of the first project were to be reused. Oversight via Los Alamos and subject from Mount Massive would become minimal, as well as the budget of the project. [8]
Trivia[]
Using the provided in game documents, we can figure out that Project LATHE has been an ongoing project for a few years before the game takes place. The document used in the first cutscene of the game reads "1956".
The Project LATHE poster does not mention children, simply calling out to "Men and Women" who we assume need to be of age to partake in the experiment.
References[]
- Transfer Evidence Document - Project Lathe Collapse
- Lemonade Evidence Document - Project Lathe Two
- The Pivot, Part 1 - Project Lathe Two
- The Pivot, Part 2 - Project Lathe Two
- A Vertical Slice of the Human Brain - Project Lathe Two
- The Unborn Homunculous - Project Lathe Two
- Homunculous - Project Lathe Two
- Lathe Two Begins - Project Two Begins