Remote Viewing

The year is 1981 and physicists Russel Targ and Harold Puthoff have been experimenting with remote viewing for close to 10 years. Knowing that funding from the U.S. STARGATE project will be cut off if they don't produce consistent and effective results soon, they get more desperate, and begin giving their test subjects increasingly dangerous and illicit drugs, hoping that will trigger a response. The only one that proves to be significantly useful is Hevonelene-A, a discontinued hungarian horse drug for which the recipe was lost at the end of WW2. 

 

Rural Hungary, 1944. A horse develops psychic powers after taking Hevonelene-A.

 

Various test subjects successfully perform remote viewing, and it begins being seeing use by the U.S. military. The supply of this drug is limited, and reverse-engineering begins being done by U.S. gov scientists in collaboration with a private medical research company called Wetiko. A much more potent version of the drug called Hevonelene-B is developed. Test subjects using this drug develop not only remote viewing, but also numerous other psychic abilities, including telekinesis, telepathy, and more. Wetiko begins illegally offering psychic services to private actors and corporations through covert back channels. These illicit services are sold to the highest bidder for a wide variety of operations ranging from resource location and acquisition, stock market manipulation, corporate sabotage and espionage, and political blackmail. 

As result, both the US Senate and Wall Street are rocked by a number of high profile scandals that further centralise power with the corrupt plutocratic class.

 

The Wetiko Corporate logo, an ant crawling on an eyeball.