Cephalopod Research Division
The secret program that created the Five.
By 1957, several extremely official clipboards agreed that squid were not merely nautical. They were strategic.
Project Perpetual Tide
Project Perpetual Tide captured, altered, studied, and nearly weaponized anomalous cephalopods to understand why they resisted Lord Bonewake's signal.
The project produced five useful discoveries. Unfortunately for the people holding the clipboards, all five became people.
- Capture anomalous cephalopods.
- Determine why they resisted Bonewake's Click.
- Accelerate cognition and memory retention.
- Translate warning behaviors into military use.
- Ignore, tragically, the part where living minds deserve freedom.
No one owns the Five.