Project Chimera

Project Chimera is a program in the Prime portion of the Aligned continuity family.

Project Chimera is a secret technological initiative on Earth that is sponsored by MECH. The project is an attempt to create a new generation of weapons in the form of living machines that are based on advanced Cybertronian technology.

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Fiction

Prime cartoon

After encountering the Autobots, operative Silas began plans at acquiring a living Transformer in order to dissect it and use its components to create such machines that would serve MECH. To that end, they ambushed a battle between Breakdown and Bulkhead just after the latter was incapacitated. Before Breakdown could bring the killing blow, MECH neutralized him and abducted the winning Decepticon so that they could study him. Taking him to their hidden base, they switched off his pain receptors and began the process of dismantling him for parts, from which they uncovered much on the captured Cybertronian. However, Team Prime intervened in order to deny Cybertronian technology from MECH, and Bulkhead succeeded in freeing his foe. Despite MECH's attempts at reacquiring the test subjects, they were forced to retreat when Starscream arrived on the scene. Thus, the organization was forced to "sanitize" their hidden base, but they had managed to transfer much of the newly acquired data to a separate facility, despite the loss of the test subject. In his report, Silas commented that the diagnostics on Breakdown's vital components had allowed MECH to begin Project Chimera, which would allow them to gain the power of living machines that would serve them. Operation: Breakdown