Project Opus

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Project Opus was a wartime research project undertaken by the Free Market Block's Defense Research Initiative. The project's focus was the creation of a standard for wetware interfaces between Lorica combat vehicles and their human pilots, which ultimately became the Lorica-N Cockpit Standard. The project was kept secret during the war and only disclosed during the post-war Cairo Trials, and the revelation caused a great deal of controversy.

While there was nothing inherently unethical about the project goals, the manner in which it was conducted was extremely unethical, with DRI scientists performing experimentation under coersion on both able-bodied and injured military personnel, as well as Prisoners of War and incarcerated citizens of the FMB. The most famous and perhaps egregious violations of the entire project was the creation of what has become known as the Ghost Company, a contingent of Project Opus "graduates" who were so heavily integrated into their Lorica as to be unable to to be physically removed from the vehicles.

The revelation of Project Opus and the resulting trail were the precipitating factors for the FMB's loss of political cachet prior to joining the Western Sphere Hegemony and even which followed the supranation after the fact, as they were seen as not meaningfully different from the Eurasian Soviet powers they helped defeat. His conviction in the Cairo Trials for having lead the project was also the cause of the suicide of Jessop Vale, who was at the time the DRI director.