An hour and one half East of Lexington, Kentucky there is a military base hidden deep in a mountain range. There is only one road that twists and winds its way around and down several ranges before coming close to the entrance. To limit the chance of citizens or unauthorized personnel wandering close to the facility the Army set up fake road blocks warning of washed out roads ahead. These gates automatically opened when an approved vehicle approached, while also being watched twenty four hours a day seven days a week by a crew of observers in nearby bunkers. The mountains surrounding this hidden base were covered with sensors and cameras, as well as patrolled non-stop by very well trained and armed commandos. There are UAVs that patrol the skies in all directions as well providing a bird's eye view of the surroundings and give early warning of approaching vehicles or people. This is the most secure and secluded installation in all of the Eastern United States. The soldiers, scientists and personnel authorized for this base have to sign waivers to forgo any constitutional rights or protection as well as strictly monitored and limited contact with their friends and families. The mastermind behind the location and security is the base's commander, General George Franklin Jr. Gen. Franklin is the son of the very decorated and highly praised hero of the first World War. General Franklin Sr. helped stabilize New Germany after their High Chancellor was assassinated by agents from the Western United States.
The General's office is dark and filled with monitors and readouts of various things from temperature to number of occupants in a given room. The only place on this whole base without a camera or listening device is in his office, and they all get connected and recorded there. He only sleeps an hour or two a night, mostly from paranoia, but also thanks to a serum he had the local scientific staff work on once the construction of this base had begun 15 years ago. He was ambitious and eager, much like his father, to reunite this country and put the lesser races back in their proper place. He was a main part of the oversight when genetic modification became the unanimous choice among military leaders to overcome the mutts in the West and reclaim their stolen land. Teams of scientists had begun breaking down the human genetic code and believed they could not only enhance a person with different chemicals and radiation, but if the sperm and egg were both modified then from birth they would create the strongest and smartest humans the planet has ever seen. The testing done on different mutts of various ages was necessary to perfect the right combination of elements for the ultimate soldier. Equally necessary was the total annihilation of all the test subjects they had. If any race was to achieve perfection it would be the Aryan race that had already dominated all others without enhancement.
Beginning immediately after disposing of the hundreds of infants, toddlers and small children, there were twenty five volunteering women for the first modifications to be done. However, twelve of the woman died during the artificial insemination or from complications during the pregnancy. The next year all one hundred volunteers survived the initial process and gave birth. The first 13 had developed a leadership and dominance over the other 100, even though they are separated by a mere year, each year all of them increase in strength and intellect at unprecedented rates. If all 13 are measured by their test scores and achievements you would think they were all the same person of equal charge, however, number 5 has taken the mantle of leadership over the others and they follow his commands without question or explanation. All the subjects were given names after great Greek gods or historical and worshiped figures of the Aryan legacy. But the first 13 decided it was more efficient and prudent they be addressed by number only. At 10 years old they are just finishing the rigorous and grueling training of the very elite special forces. They are marksmen in all weaponry and their hand to hand combat is already on par with their adult mentors. Mentally they are able to recall almost anything read, heard or felt within a second or two. Their discipline is unflinching, by age eight each of them was instructed, and carried out, the execution of a Western criminal. These children, if they can even be called that now, have tasted blood and have been indoctrinated into the Aryan supremacy theology.
General Franklin is alerted by several sensor alarms as a figure approaches the long narrow corridor, that is the sole route to his office. Retinal scanner have identified Captain Gus Wills so the automated turrets above the doorway maintain a track on the target but hold firing.
"Sir, permission to enter." Capt. Wills requests with a booming authorative voice. He is well aware that the General will make him wait a few uncomfortable seconds, while he stands at attention with his salute held high along his right eyebrow. This is a domination tactic to make your subordinate, or any guest, have to wait patiently whether they had an appointment or not is irrelevant.
"Granted."
""Sir, The 13 have finished the Spec Ops advanced training months ahead of schedule. They are requesting further access to our network so they may expand and increase their educational parameters and expertise in every and all matters related to the Westerners."
"We are having a hard time keeping up with their appetite for knowledge and developing rigorous training routines that still offer a proper challenge for them." General Franklin concurs, "However, I don't think unfiltered access to everything is warranted. We are going to maintain the current course of action, they have plenty of supplemental activities to work on while I contact the Chancellor about adding more personnel to the training committee."
"Sir, yes sir!" Capt. Wills clicks his heals and spins around after receiving a dismissing nod from the General. He was sure this would be the outcome of such a request, but 5 insisted he ask permission anyways. Wills was finding it harder and harder to maintain the position of leader, as the 13 and their troops begun to outpace him intellectually and even physically. Capt. Wills was no pushover, he graduated Officer's Academy top of his class and routinely exceeded testing and assignments he had been given. This was an ambitious move when he accepted a blind assignment, leaving behind known contacts all together. His mother and father received a letter he was killed in action during a skirmish in Northern Africa as the EUS continued their effort to unite their strongholds with Germany.
After several elevators and retinal and ID checkpoints, he has made it back to the training level deep inside this mountain stronghold. His office overlooked the four story tall floor with classroom, various training scenarios, weapon ranges and sleeping quarters. The children have been confined to this floor since a few months after their births and everything to sustain them has been provided. Upon entering his office he is mildly startled by 5 standing behind his desk overlooking the sprawling floor he has been raised in.
"He said no, correct sir?"
"Uhm, yes. I mean that is correct. I tried to tell you this was going to be the outcome."
"I understand sir, we will continue with our additional training as outlined in our schedule."
5 salutes with a rigid perfect form and then swiftly turns and exits the office. He walks with purpose and determination, his eyes maintain a strict forward gaze and he quickly makes his way to the living quarters with the other 13's waiting for his report.
"We are clear." 3 says once 5 is entering the quarters. 3 has managed to hack into the computer system this base employs and was able to render video of them doing their individual training tasks for the camera located in their barracks. He is in charge of all communications and electronic hacking as needed.
"We already knew the answer to our question. We continue as planned, there will be rotations of two and three to a group to begin study of everything this base is withholding from us." 5 replies to the all clear. "1 and 2 I want you guys to get as much information as possible regarding this installation, that goes for security protocols as well as the supplies and weaponry we can get access to. 3, 4 and 6 I want you to begin assessing all the information about what we have been taught about these Westerners, as well as every culture around the world. 7, 8 and 9 we need a better training regiment for ourselves as well as the hundred. Begin with finding the authorization to have new supplies and equipment sent here, reroute any questions and suspicious communications through us first. 10 and 11, get us a more thorough compilation of this country's persons of interest both past and present, anything from businessmen to politicians. Lastly, 12 and 13, a rigorous plan of action from the moment we leave this base moving forward is needed, find any other hidden bases such as this as well as potential areas of operation and how best to conquer our enemies. We all have assignments, I expect nothing less than efficiently carrying them out."
"Yes sir" The other 13 say in unison as they move onto their assigned tasks or cover tasks. Each of them might seem at first glance like they are autonomous and without individual beliefs and motivations, but that is wrong. Most follow orders strictly without question for the order and structure that it provides. They think more order is better than less, but they still dream, have aspirations, and have feelings, even if they are more dulled out than normal people. The most sensitive, if you can call any of these ten year old that have already killed another human being sensitive, is 13. He was the youngest of the initial batch of genetically modified babies, in fact the first twenty five women to be impregnated thirteen through twenty four had died in the process and he was the last. He has more questions in his head then he is willing to admit with the others. There are many things he doesn't understand, and many more that he does, but is not sure if the others have really figured it out yet. One example is the fact that the whole ideology they have been brainwashed with is a complete fallacy. From the allowed texts and instructions on the biology of the human species there is no mention of any change, abnormality or any difference between what they define as races. There are only animals on this planet and one human is the same as another. However, he will continue with his training and achieve victory over the West for the main principle of striving for perfection, which would only be achieved with the unification of all humans regardless of ideology, religion, region or any other such nonsense. 5 is the leader so he knows that eventually he will need to bring this information to him and see where that leads. Maybe, he tells himself, the others have reached the same conclusion but are equally timid about speaking about it.
The Hundred break up into groups of ten to fifteen as they rotate different stations on the training floor. There is a weapon range that some are firing different caliber pistols at varying distant targets while performing maneuvers, such as combat rolls, leaping over and ducking under obstacles as well as being distracted with smoke or bright flashing light. Out of that group when they are done firing they immediately begin taking apart and cleaning the many pistols they used while the next few begin their turn. An open ceiling class room is where they receive lectures of varying subjects. Today they are being instructed on the importance and consequences of following orders without question, there are video clips of soldiers being executed for failing their task or even hesitating to carry out an order. One segment of the video showed a soldier disarming his friend under orders of a superior officer and being instructed to execute him, upon hesitation the officer executed both of them. A wide open area containing mats and training dummies is home to hand to hand combat. They go full speed without worrying about hurting the other, and occasionally there are severe wounds inflicted but surprisingly they are quite resilient and no casualties have occurred and the downtime for those injured is very minimal. An obstacle course runs along one of the walls, including overhead stations containing rope swings, large open areas to jump across, a climbing wall as well as monkey bars that span over one hundred yards.
General Franklin watches the monitors and zooms in on different stations as the soldiers train and work on different tasks. He is very pleased with the progress and speed at which they are achieving everything. There is a burning desire to completely vanquish his lifelong hated enemy in the West. A lot of the servant work is performed by those mutts; however, the General refuses to have them anywhere near his presence and they are confined to a closed off building with no windows as they perform laundry and various cleaning duties. They smell repugnant to him, a nauseous wave rushes over him just thinking about that smell. This is over four generation deep of hatred for them. His family has always seen it as the ultimate treason and disgrace for the cowardly attack they initiated that tore the country apart. Why couldn't they have been grateful for what they had, he thought to himself. If it wasn't for them becoming slaves and brought to this great country they would be starving to death or raping and killing each other back in Africa. The General spent a great deal of his earlier career in that war torn continent. After Germany's defeat decades ago the EUS had maintained a stronghold in the North Western and Southern portions while they continually fended off and tried to push against the many militias and Arab armies that had rallied against them. The frustration he felt as a young officer in the front lines lingered today, but with these new soldiers he can finally conquer the mutts of the world and establish an Aryan dominance, a new era for man would begin. All he was waiting on was the time needed for these kids to mature completely and reach their potential.
The 13 meet again at the end of another grueling twenty hour training day to discuss the Intel they collected as 5 had instructed. There was a lot to this installation they learned was designated as Dark Star. There was no other bases of this caliber and sophistication. The AI alone was leaps and bounds ahead of anything else the EUS military had in place. There also was no other such training of genetically modified soldiers occurring anywhere else, or even plans to do so. They appear to desperately put all their eggs into this one basket to try and succeed where they had failed to do so for over one hundred years. The fail safes and security measures taken to guard the AI from hacking were high level in scope and intricacy, but it would only take a month or two for a few of them to be able to access undetected. The override of the AI alone would ensure the ease they would be able to take over this base. There were many notable figures that had dumped a lot of their fortunes into this plan, another hint at the desperation this country must be feeling towards defeating the West. All new research for weaponry and equipment had been properly rerouted, with forging signatures and authorizations. Eventually there will be red flags raised but not before they get their hands on enough shipments to make a difference. The different cultures of the world, both past and present, had little difference between them save for minor variations. Most of the countries had a main religion, except the WUS and United Britain, that all had one god they primarily worshiped with different rules for doing so. They whole idea of religion baffled 5 and the other 13, it appeared to them to be an instrument to allow the rich and noble few to keep in line the many. Last was the plan moving forward, and there was only one clear path for them to take. They would continue working within the parameters their supposedly superiors have laid before them, but soon they would assert themselves in their rightful place as leaders on this nation, and then every other nation they will conquer.