The Pitter-Patter of Raindrops

Introduction

I'm sure you've heard of the Athena Plan, right?

No?

Okay. I will tell you.

The reason why is because you need to know how vile and disgusting this plan was not only to the people who started it, but to the children who were lost to it.

The Athena Plan was a project with the goal of educating gifted children. However, the truth is that they tested all the orphans in the country and gathered the gifted ones under the age of five; these gifted children were then taken by a government official to an institution. Afterwards, these children were never heard of again.

The project was based on a new drug accidentally developed by a Japanese pharmaceutical company that was engaged in brain function research in the mid-90s. The Rising Peace Academy focused on that research and launched the Athena Plan. Pharmaceutical companies, neuroscience research institutions and state-of-the-art medical organizations were involved in this project. The plan itself was terminated seven years ago.

The Athena Plan was implemented as people wanted to make Japan a truly independent country. Its real goal was to reproduce the Savant Syndrome artificially, creating humans with abilities beyond the norm and raising personnel more useful than any weapon. The Savant Syndrome is a condition where the brain function is extremely high, but only in a specific area.

A total of 26 children (all of whom were test subjects) were gathered in the Settlement, which is the place they were brought to. Vast amounts of research funds were poured into the Settlement and many talented researchers were brought there as well. However, the new drug was only effective on developing children under the age of five and was not permissible for use on a regular person's body and mind. The bodies and minds of many subjects were ruined, and most died.

In the end, the Athena Plan resulted in failure and was discontinued seven years ago after the U.S. government (who had become aware of the Plan) had intervened. By the end of the experiment, only a single child survived (Five) and an American agency took custody of her. However, two children escaped by starting a fire and disabling the security systems. The person in charge of the Plan was Dr. Mamiya (i.e. the person who "killed" himself.)

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NOTE: I did not write any of this, this section is all from the Zankyou no Terror Wikipedia source. All credit goes there. Anything that I write after this is my writing, but the whole Athena Plan and Zankyou no Terror story line is NOT MINE!