Chronos Corporation
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The Chronos Corporation was a world spanning corporation that features in the anime Guyver and its movies.
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History
Anime
Guyver: Out of Control
Guyver: OVA
Richard Guyot stated that the organization was first formed when archaeologists discovered the ruins of a Creator site and learnt from a journal of Humanitys creation as the basis for bio-weapons that would become the Zoanoids. Upon discovering this, the Chronos Corporation expanded across the world; developing secret sites where they would experiment in creating more Zoanoids as well as improve them with each generation.
Eventually, the Chronos Corporation would spread across the world with numerous branches. In Japan, at Mount Minikami, the Corporation discovered the ruins of a Creator starship. A large secret scientific facility would be made within the mountain which studied the ship with the location being known as Relic's Point.
As study continued, it was eventually decided that an incursion into the vessel needed to be made in order to plunder the vessel of its secrets. Drills were used as first to pierce the living ships skin but these would disintegrate as they went deeper due to the secretion of powerful acids. It was learnt that organic tissue was somewhat more resistant to the acid which resulted in teams of Zoanoids being sent to penetrate the inner santcum of the ship. Most were killed, leaving a single survivor who retrieved the Guyver Units though the wounded Zoanoid died as a result.
Guyver: Anime
Movie
The Guyver
The Los Angeles branch of the international corporation was headed by the Zoalord Fulton Balcus who used it as a front for his plans for world domination as well as other illicit activities. When the Guyver Unit was stolen from their laboratories by Dr Segawa, the Corporation would send a team of Zoanoids to retrieve it but failed to stop the unit from bonding with Sean Baker. Lisker would eventually be successful in slaying the Guyver and taking his control medal but it regenerated within the Corporations research labs. Balcus himself was forced to transform in his true form but he was defeated and the branch was destroyed. It seemed that the reign of Chronos was at an end.
Guyver: Dark Hero
However, years later, the Chronos Corporation would remain in hiding while keeping on the lookout for Sean Baker. They would appoint one of their agents, Crane, as a representative of the Tempest Group, a shell organization, and funded a Zoanoid transformed Human along with his comrades in an archaeological dig of a Creator site. There they discovered a Creator ship and Crane learnt that Sean Baker was at the camp site. After a tense battle, Crane would be defeated and his Zoanoids slain with the Creator ship departing the planet. The fate of the Corporation after these events is not known except that the US government os developing an Anti-Chronos Group to challenge the secret corporation.
- Crane communicates with a senior member of the corporation who bears some resemblance to Balcus but whether he is a Zoalord is not stated.
Background
Chronos is shown to be a world spanning corporation with numerous branches spread across major cities which uses it connections to mask its genetic research on Zoanoids and the excavation of Creator relics. Chronos possesses its own military which make use of complex uniforms and technology; each of these soldiers serve as the Corporations right hand by being transformed into Zoanoids making them far stronger when compared to Humans. Clean up operations are often instigated to remove any evidence of Chronos involvement or the existence of Zoanoids. Typically, Chronos does not strike out in the public as they do not wish to reveal their involvement
Taking all the continuities into account, Chronos possesses numerous branches such as the Japanese Branch and the Los Angeles Branch with the destruction of even one of these not crippling the organization. The leadership of the Corporation rests in the hands of the twelve Zoalords known as the Council of Twelve that oversee its operations though there does appear to be levels of power struggles among its members. The higher ranking members of the Corporation are referred to as the Chronos Elite.
The ultimate goal of the Chronos Corporation is to take control of the world leaving itself as the sole power of the world. They would accomplish this by transforming key individuals into Zoanoids and putting them in positions of power after which they would reveal their true forms along with taking control of those positions after leaving the world in chaos. Till that time was achieved, they would continue researchers across their branches into developing more powerful Zoanoids while excavating any ruins of the Creators. After the discovery of the Guyver Units, their recovery became a top priority of the Corporation.
In the field of research, the Corporation is constantly developing newer more powerful Zoanoids in addition to mass producing their existing number. They would capture or make use of volunteers for the Optimization process which lead into newer more powerful adaptations which are known as Sample Bodies.
After dominating the world in the anime, the Corporation established the Regulation Bureau which was charged with maintaining order on the planet as well as to control volunteers who agreed to optimization.
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