The Experiment



The "wolves" that were captured during the global military actions were placed into underground "storage" facilities and were cryogenically frozen until they were selected for testing. The ones who had developed the ability to change at will, or had at least been known to change back and forth were kept in separate isolation cells and were studied and observed more intensely while the more basic creatures were treated like lab rats for medical testing and often died during the process.

The change was discovered to be caused by a genetic mutation to the human DNA. Of all of the test subjects to be discovered, only a minimal number were female, approximately 99% were male. This lead scientists to observe the X chromosome and discovered that the mutation affects men much more often than women, because the mutated genes for the damaged receptors are located on the X chromosome, of which men have only one and women have two. Such a trait is called "sex-linked". Females (46, XX) are infected only if both their X chromosomes are defective with a similar deficiency, whereas males (46, XY) are infected if their single X chromosome is defective. Scientists observed that the effect was often triggered by rage or an increase of adrenaline in response to some threat or perceived danger.

Scientists were eventually able to use the mutant creature population captured by the military during their ongoing missions to develop a "cure" for the mutation by working with a multinational medicine-manufacturing conglomerate called "Pfien", which developed a new medicine "Epoxyn" for a disease they designated "Diewolf syndrome" which studies showed could completely reverse the mutation. However "Pfien" also developed an "Anti-Epoxyn" in secrecy and supplied it to the military for a large profit. More about this process became known when several scientists and later "experiments" escaped into the public, especially after the formation of the military special operations unit was created.