Project Lighthouse

Project Lighthouse (Russian: Mayak) was a Soviet military genetic modification program run from 1986 to 1991. Discovery of the CRISPR/Cas12b editing system several decades before publicly credited allowed Soviet scientists to build upon the work of the Nazi Project Indigo and Japanese Unit 731 in "perfecting" a human being. Phase One found people with unusual talents and abilities throughout the Communist world, after which they were kidnapped and brought back to the Lighthouse facility. Ten illicitly acquired Cray supercomputers sequenced the prisoners genomes, and their physical abilities were correlated with specific mutations. Phase Two involved the creation of the first "perfect" child using this compiled list of mutations, and only began after a British SAS team were captured trying to sabotage the Lighthouse. Before their rescue three months later, the first and only operative of Project Lighthouse was already conceived. The project was burned to the ground upon the rescue, leaving only one child as the remnants of a trillion-rouble experiment that could have changed the course of human history.

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 * LRP5 - increased bone density and durability
 * NCoR1 - increased muscular density, strength and endurance
 * ACTN3 - increased muscular strength
 * IL15R-Alpha, HSPA1A - increased muscular endurance
 * GDF5, COL5A1 - increased tendon strength
 * PIEZO2 - enhanced equilibrioception
 * OTOP1 - enhanced proprioception
 * MG53, LIN28a, THBS2 - increased healing rate
 * EPAS, EPOR - increased aerobic fitness and high-altitude performance
 * DAF2 - extended lifespan and enhanced immune system
 * DLG3, FNDC5 - perfect recall, increased aptitude for languages
 * NYX - improved night vision
 * SCN11a - reduced sensitivity to pain
 * DEC2 - reduced dependence on sleep
 * CRHR1 - reduced perception of fear and empathy