The world at that time was ruled by professors. In the beginning, there had been many. But in the end, the war had all come down to Professor Ludwick and Professor Cornelius. Ludwick was a psychiatrist with a secondary interest in neuroscience. Cornelius, on the other hand was a physicist. It was their combined lunacy that had resulted in the transformation of the Independent Research Headquarters into a monster infested fortress. Though the public was largely ignorant of this fact, both Ludwick and Cornelius were privy to this information. The only others who knew the monsters' origins were the monsters themselves.

The CEO of Independent Research had always thought that being independent was the best way to go. After all, being independent meant that he could accept research contracts from all professors. One could hardly blame him for not foreseeing the effects of conducting psycho-synthetic research in proximity to a spatial wave manipulation experiment. One experiment belonged to Ludwick, the other to Cornelius.