Project Echidna
Project Echidna is a program within Pentex's Special Projects Division to create fertile fomori offspring.
Overview
Nearly all fomori are sterile and can't reproduce passing along it's powers to it's offspring. Pentex, however, was not satisfied with this predicament and decided to use genetic engineering to take spiritual decay into its own hands. But no matter how harder they tried, experimenting with human fomori was met with failure in all attempts to create fertile descendants!
Project Echidna did manage to recreate fomori families in various animal lines though. They were successful in producing fertile fomori among carnivores, with the greatest success rate occurring among wolves and the great cats. Project Echidna nurseries have found that fomori animals bred and raised in a specific manner were trainable and the company raised the creatures to act as guard animals in different departments and subsidiaries. It is said that siblings among the subjects of Project Echidna share most of their powers and deformities, and only a select few gain more as they mature.
Some of these creatures make their way into First Teams where they are used to track down Garou in a similar fashion to police K9 units. Black Spiral Dancers will sometimes buy the less deformed creatures and then use them against Garou and Fera alike.
References
- W20: W20 Book of the Wyrm, p. 139