Foundation for Animal Research and Modification
F.A.R.M. is a small band of scientists who have dedicated themselves to using technology to create a benevolent world dictatorship under their rule. F.A.R.M. was founded by four scientists, each of whom had a different area of expertise. They were Waris Worlak, a Lithuanian nuclear physicist, Jenifer Tamilton, an American medical biologist, Giancarlo Pota, a Spanish electronics technician, and Sladyslav Whinski, a Polish geneticist. The four of them met at a world convention of scientists, and upon discovering their mutual world view, decided to pool their financial resources to create an independent scientific community. On an uninhabited island in the south pacific, a friend of Tamilton's, had discovered ruins of a technologically advanced stronghold and told her of his find. The four scientists used the scrap metal in the ruins to create their own Citadel of Science. After about a decade of work, the Citadel was fully operational, and it became one of the foremost scientific research facilities on Earth. Working together, and using the abandoned technological devices they found there, the F.A.R.M. scientists created a number of scientific breakthroughs, specifically in the area of eugenics and uplifting animals. Their plan was to create a vastly powerful new race of human beings under their control with which to subjugate the rest of humanity. For almost a decade, the four scientists laboured, bioengineering animal DNA molecules to create life, irradiating it with various energies to imbue it with power, and chemically accelerating its growth.
When their prototypes reached maturity, they escaped. Due to their rapid maturation, they were unable to place within the creature's mind the proper safeguards enabling them to control it. These four animals later went on to form the A-Force. Their second attempt to uplift a group of animals bought them into direct conflict with Justice Anonymous. Their plot was foiled, but the four scientists escaped.
Currently, they try to capture Evolved Animals not
uplifted by them (or their dead bodies) and bring them back to their island
where they can properly inspect them. In other words,
vivisect them. As well they offer substantial sums of money for blood and tissue
samples. At least one member of the F.A.R.M. will show up wherever mutant
animals become known. They are completely contemptuous of any animal who tries to
act like an independent being. To them, all animals can be divided
into two categories; useful tools and candidates for experimentation
and vivisections. They are fully aware of the existence of Evolved Animals and
are always interested in acquiring them to further their
knowledge. F.A.R.M. has several, mutated, animal servants who are forced to remain
loyal. They have created a control collar capable of inflicting pain or death. The collars also serve as communication and tracking
devices. The four members of F.A.R.M. are not in any way malicious toward fellow
humans, but have a strange
sort of view on the world that simply sees anything nonhuman as
lacking any sort of rights. They are not cruel but consider animals to
be laboratory tools for the advancement of science and mankind. Simply put, to the
scientists, humanity is stuck in an evolutionary rut, and it's up to them to put
us back on the proper path so we can continue to evolve.
F.A.R.M. has also set up a number of legitimate public subsidiaries including; Transcontinental Trucking, Farme Cosmetics, Ferme Pharmaceuticals, Bauernhof Import/Export, Fazenda Construction, and Granja Agriculture Products.
Equipment used by F.A.R.M.
F.A.R.M. Control Collars:
The Control Collars are used by F.A.R.M. to insure the loyalty and
obedience of his animal servants. F.A.R.M. has programmed them so that
they respond to the scientist's voice or radio commands. The location of any
Collar can be easily tracked from up to 500 kilometres away. The collars
can put out a varying amount of electrical charge directly into the
wearer's spinal cord. If a Collar is out of contact with the laboratory's
transmitter for more than two hours, it will start flashing a pain signal
to the wearer. The pain signal will continue for 30 minutes, then the
Collar will kill the wearer. It takes F.A.R.M. about fifteen minutes to install
a Collar. They cannot be removed without surgical assistance.
F.A.R.M. Utility Vans:
These are used by F.A.R.M.'s animal servants for special missions. The
front is covered with mirrored glass. The sealed back area contains
laboratory equipment and four bunks with restraining straps. These
vehicles will show up wherever mutant animals fight in public. They
will be used to take in wounded or dead mutant animals. The vans are
also armoured and have bullet-proof windows.