Post by STAFF on Apr 14, 2011 6:14:18 GMT -5
» TIME OF EVENTS
January 14th 1889 Diamond Corp was founded, but as a division of the company Petos until it was privatised in August 3rd 1918 and bought by a Swedish business man by the name of Bengt Creutz whom changed the company name to that of his own surname.
Creutz described itself as a "a global research-driven pharmaceutical company. Creutz discovered, developed, manufactured and marketed a broad range of innovative products to improve human and animal health, directly and through its joint ventures." The Creutz Company Foundation had distributed over $480 million to educational and non-profit organizations since it was founded in 1889.
In October 1933 Creutz left his company, putting his younger brother in charge. By January 1942, Creutz had been driven into the ground by Bengt's younger brother. Creutz pleaded guilty in 1946 and received the largest criminal penalty ever levied for illegal marketing of four of its drugs.
On August 3rd 1954 Bengt to sell his pharmaceutical company and the deal was complete in July 1956 for US$68 billion.
May 1st 1964 Diamond Corp first surfaced. After Bengt sold his company to a wealthy American businessman, Diamond corp was created. They quickly became a major international player in a number of markets aside from pharmaceuticals. The company was also presented as having a more public face, producing cosmetics, consumer products and foods.
From June 21st 1968 the company created a various bunch of products, that took the shelves by storm. They became one of the favoured organisations, there produce selling by the thousands daily. By November 27th 1972 the organisation began to take it's business in other directions suchs as, medical hardware, defense, and computers along with more clandestine operations utilizing genetic engineering and accused viral weaponry.
From 1972 Diamond Corp's cosmetic products began to decrease in sales, after claims of side effects from users and soon the company withdrew there supplies no longer producing them in store. However, with so much stock floating about, they had to sell it somehow and were practically giving it out. Despite the drop in cosmetic sales, other products continued to sell.
It wasn't until 2011 where Diamond Corp had become a household name, did they come to the market with a creation that would change the world. They had been researching there product for the past 10 years, and since 2001 had gone through many research procedures and tests to perfect there brand. It hadn't been easy over the 10 years, but finally Diamond Corp believed that there new product labeled: Immunex was complete and could go onto the shelves.
The problem was that Diamond Corps research was certainly not of the norm, they had been experimenting on inmates by giving them leathal diseases and using there work in progress 'vaccination' to heal them. It was trial and error, many problems seen through the first few stages but by using inmates it was hardly something that would grab attention, after all most of these people were going to die here.
The first batch of Immunex was sold on March 1st 2011 23 days after hitting the shelves things turned sour, by the 23rd day people were complaining of side effects from the product. Up until this point all had been well, but come March 24th the cracks began to show. It wasn't just buyers of the produce who were experiencing side effects, but delayed side effects in the inmates and test subjects they'd used to perfect there product.
They were able to hide the smaller cases but by March 28 the shit had well and truly hit the fan. There 'wonder' product had evolved and turned into a virus in itself that spread like wildfire. Diamond Corp abdandoned there building, fleeing when things got bad, a few stayed behind but at there own peral when they were struck by the infected inmates still held within the facility.
The infection began to spread from person to person, by exchange of bodily fluids, spit, blood or even as far as being bitten. People were changing, mental changes first where the person would experience personality shifts, become disorientated. Each one started as a sickness, a fever and a rash and as the infection grew inside them there symptoms worsened.
It was mass hysteria, come March 30th evacuations had begun, the final one taking place on April 1st 2011.