An Investigative Report by The Sentinel Exposé
We are told the war against the mutant “threat” is being won. That Sentinel Services raids are restoring order. This is a lie, carefully constructed to hide a far more terrifying truth. The real war is not in the streets; it is in the shadows, and it is being fought by two radical, well-funded factions preparing to burn the system to the ground. The recent events in the DC enclave, a zone of absolute federal power, are not isolated incidents. They are the opening salvos of “Project Chimera,” a clandestine conflict whose battlefield is the very foundation of our nation.
The Bunker Below the Bunker: D.C.’s Secret Geography
Washington D.C. is not just a city; it is a federal enclave, a territory where the government holds general police power, unencumbered by local oversight. It is the perfect place to hide something in plain sight. What the public doesn’t know is that the official labyrinth of service tunnels and metro lines is merely the top layer. Beneath it exists a deeper, older network—a subterranean world cartographically erased, a haven for the very individuals the state claims to have under control.
This is where the so-called “Morlocks” have carved out a desperate existence. Our deep-cover sources confirm their leader, a mutant codenamed “Erg,” has engineered these tunnels with a terrifying precision. Entrances are not just hidden; they are psychically camouflaged by mutants with the power to project solid illusions, making a corridor appear as a seamless cement wall. This isn’t mere hiding; it is the creation of a blind spot in the heart of the Panopticon. Cutting-edge research from the Institute for Non-Local Geographies refers to this as “Spatial Subversion”—the weaponization of terrain itself to create sovereign spaces within a host nation. Erg hasn’t just found a hideout; he has built a fortress in the government’s subconscious.
The Powder Keg: A Glimpse into the Morlock Crisis
The conditions there are a deliberate, forced squalor. According to eyewitness accounts from those who have ventured inside, the tunnels are fetid, overcrowded, and teeming with a populace armed to the teeth. This is not a community; it is a powder keg of discontent. The mutants here are not the idealized heroes or calculating villains of propaganda; they are the desperate, the violent, the forgotten. They are armed with illicit firearms and hardened by a life of being hunted. As one source, a former Sentinel Services tactician, grimly noted, “You do not want to be around discontented people with nothing left to lose. That is how revolutions—or massacres—begin.”
This environment makes Erg’s faction dangerously unpredictable. When the Hellfire Club operatives, codenamed “Blink” and “Thunderbird,” attempted to infiltrate this network, they were immediately ambushed. The Morlocks are not open to diplomacy; they are preparing for a last stand. Their existence is a stark rebuttal to both state persecution and the Hellfire Club’s polished revolution. They are a third variable in the equation, one that could tip the balance of this secret war.
The Hellfire Gambit: Revolution as a Corporate Takeover
Opposing this desperate anarchy is the chilling order of the Hellfire Club. We have obtained confidential financial data, corroborated by the mutant lawyer Angeline Wheaton, that reveals the sheer scale of their resources. The countless Cayman Islands accounts, each holding $55 million, are not just a war chest; they are a nation-state’s treasury. This level of liquidity creates resources that “last forever,” insulating their operation from the financial pressures that cripple nation-states.
Their leader, Reeva Payge, is not a mere terrorist; she is a CEO of revolution. Her plan, as Wheaton chillingly revealed to Thunderbird, involves a final solution for the Strucker siblings: “They are probably going to have to kill Andy and Lauren.” The reason? The Inner Circle operates on a principle of absolute asset control. You do not resign. You are terminated. This is the logic of a hostile corporate takeover, applied to human beings.
But Reeva’s most alarming project is buried in the DC tunnels. While the Morlocks hide, the Frost Sisters have been conducting a secret operation in a separate sector of the underground network. Intelligence suggests this is “Project Aether,” a psychological operations campaign designed not to destroy infrastructure, but to seize it. The goal? To trigger a revolution so catastrophic it will force the creation of a mutant homeland from the ashes of the old world.
The Spy in the Shadows and the Point of No Return
In a devastating twist, the Hellfire Club has already infiltrated the Morlock sanctuary. Erg, in a fatal miscalculation of trust, asked Blink to spy on her own organization. She agreed. The intelligence she extracts will not be used to broker peace, but to orchestrate a final, decisive strike. This is the ultimate betrayal in a world where, as our sources within the intelligence community confirm, “Trust is a currency that gets you killed.”
We are at a precipice. The government denies the existence of a mutant underground. The Hellfire Club plots in the shadows with limitless funds. The Morlocks, armed and desperate, wait in a subterranean slum beneath the Capitol. The lawyer, a woman who embodies the demonic cost of this war, has already signed the death warrants of children.
This is not a theory. It is Project Chimera. And when it erupts, the world above will be the last to know, until the ground beneath their feet gives way.