When two days later, on October 12, the Captain stopped a soldier from murdering a scientist, he ordered the scientists to be interrogated. The soldiers were screaming for blood and became increasingly aggressive. Colonel Spindel suffered a nervous breakdown, locking himself in his office, leaving Captain Maxson to handle the deteriorating situation at the base.
This secrecy backfired shortly before October 10, 2077, when soldiers stationed at the base discovered the human testing that was going on at the base, made worse by the fact that the scientists were using military prisoners as test subjects. They were not informed of the nature of the research. The security team was transferred to the newly constructed base as well, to provide protection for the research going on within the facility. On January 7, 2077, all Californian FEV research was moved to the newly constructed Mariposa Military Base from the West Tek facility to commence testing of the virus on human subjects. The United States Defense Department, in fear of international espionage, moved a military team under the command of Colonel Robert Spindel and Captain Roger Maxson onto the site to secure and oversee the project, now dubbed the FEV ( Forced Evolutionary Virus) project.
In 2076, the NBC division of West-Tek achieved breakthrough results in the Pan-Immunity Virion Project.
