Mars Electronics

Mars Electronics is a Pentex subsidiary of Nastrum Enterprises.

Overview

A subsidiary of Nastrum Enterprises, Mars Electronics is best known for its production of high-tech electronic (command and control systems) for the military. They also manufacture surveillance and assassination tools for covert intelligence organizations like the CIA and NSA.

The director of Mars Electronics is Eldin Kurtz, a Progenitor Barabbi.

Experiment IV

Experiment IV is the brainchild of the company's founder Cyrus Kurtz (now deceased). It was inspired by a strange series of "dreams." These dream were in fact visitations from the Maeljin Incarna Doge Klypse. At his orders, the company captured four musicians (three Garou Fianna and one Toreador) and forced them to play. Their music was then subjected to electronic manipulations in accordance with an arcane mathematical formula supplied by Kurtz. The result was a beautiful, unearthly sound that welled up from a rift torn in the fabric of reality - a sound emanating from the Atrocity Realm, In a matter of seconds, all of the employees in the lab, as well as several passersby on the street outside, were assaulted by a wave of sheer, insane terror. All died. The rift collapsed upon itself and was resealed.

Pentex quickly cordoned off the area and sent people inside. The only survivors were the Fianna and the Toreador, who had been at the nexus of the rift. They were completely insane.

Pentex has both a recording of the sound and some of Cyrus' notes. From these, researchers have been able to reconstruct the experiment and now need only an "antidote" that will allow them to wield this devastating weapon safely (earplugs are useless). Pentex hopes to use the weapon to assassinate people "over the phone." Researchers have had some success with neural blacking agents and are set to start field-resting shortly.

The sound doesn't kill Kindred, but it drives them insane (whether this is permanent or not is unknown). The truly insane, living or undead, are completely immune to this weapon. Pentex has decided that Experiment IV is too good to share with the military and is developing it for its own purposes.

The sourcebook, World of Darkness: Midnight Circus, has a whole adventure chapter titled "The Waste Land," that involves stopping the use of Experiment IV.

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