Operation Staple Gun

A controversial project, Operation Staple Gun granted amnesty to several members of Cobra in exchange for their aid in combating the Transformers.

Fiction

Beast Wars: Uprising

At some point in the late 20th or early 21st century, the terrorist group of Cobra was defeated. To combat the increasingly dangerous threat posed by the Transformers, the United States government recruited 731 of Cobra's scientists, engineers, and technicians, Doctor Brian Bender among them, and granted them amnesty to make use of their talents. The scientists were then quietly sequestered into groups such as Unit:E and Sector Seven in what later became known as Operation Staple Gun.

Records of Operation Staple Gun survived into the 24th century and the morality of it remained a subject of debate. The project was among the many subjects Rapticon learned about in his study of human history. While doing repairs on the Rusty Mace with Ne'll, the two discussed its ethical ramifications and its relation to then contemporary societal artforms before the subject changed to Apollo's harp. The Inexorable March

Notes

• Operation Staple Gun draws inspiration from two, secret, real life post-World War II projects. It takes its naming style from [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Operation Paperclip|{{#if:||Operation Paperclip}}]], a project that involved the United States recruiting over a thousand ex-Nazi scientists, while the 731 recruits recruited alludes to [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Unit 731|{{#if:||Unit 731}}]], a Japanese biological warfare unit whose scientists were granted immunity in exchange for all the data that had been gathered.