Project Iakobson
Project Iakobson is a secret military research program being conducted by the Drak-Modani Defense Force's Department of Mission Advancement by Scientific Coordination (M.A.S.C.). Primary research is being conducted at the Organic Research and Application Laboratory in Eriksburg. The research is based off of the recently published work of Dr. Gaioz Jughashvili, a biologist and pioneer in the study of pheromones. His dissertation successfully showed that the Vomeronasal organ in humans reacted to copulins, a human sex pheromone. His gound-breaking work allowed him to secure a position as medical inspector at the Kinsey Testing Facility in Jugensk leading up to and during the early days of the Sanaman intervention in Drak-Modan in 1690. While working there he successfully isolated and harvested human copulins from female research subjects at the facility under the guise of a standard medical examination. He fled with his research when Sanaman forces approached Jugensk.
In 1691, at the DMDF chemical research lab in Eriksburg, Doctor Jughashvili was able to duplicate his research for the command staff of M.A.S.C. He released the freshly harvested copulins as an aerosol into a chamber of male Kinsey 0s and 1s who chose to volunteer as test subjects for six months rather than face deportation. The results were promising. Within thirty minutes, the test subjects had lost all former heterosexual tendencies and began engaging in Draconian acts with each other. When the aerosolized copulins were turned off the test subjects ceased their activity. All subjects were given Kinsey tests 24 hours after the experiment. Fourteen out of twenty subjects had no change in their Kinsey scores, but six subjects increased their Kinsey scores by one level. This prompted those that scored a 2 to be immediately released from the research program and required to return in six months for a follow-up to receive legal Draconian status.
Biological Research
With this successful proof of concept, additional tests were conducted at the O.R.A. Lab. Test subjects were administered copulins intravenously, in pill form (oral and suppository), and in various concentrations of the aerosol form. Intravenous application caused the subjects to become deranged, hypersexual, and self-mutilating for two to three minutes. This research was passed on to covert operations divisions of the combat branches. Ingesting copulins as a pill was promising, although the dosage required to maintain induced-Draconianism was exceptionally high and the frequency of doses was unsustainable for long term and permanent conversion. Research was shared with the private pharmaceutical industry. Aerosol application proved effective over a large area, although as soon as the aerosol passed out of the lungs and filtered out of the blood, subjects returned to normal.
Male subjects underwent active scans that showed hyperactivity in the Vomeronasal organ (Jacobson's organ) when under the influence of copulins. Female subjects underwent active scans that showed the Vomeronasal organ reacted to isolated and concentrated axillary molecules, although not to the degree that males reacted to copulins. The research on axillary hormones was determined to be of little use to M.A.S.C. and sold to a foreign cologne manufacturer.
Research trials continued, but it was clear that naturally-occurring copulins could not be used in military or industrial applications without increased potency or production.
Production Research
By late 1691, the effectiveness of copulins was proven to work in short-term and continuous-use applications. However, further research required a steady stream of human copulins and the dwindling non-Draconian population of Drak-Modan could not provide the quantities needed from direct harvesting. In a clandestine operation approved by M.A.S.C. and carried out by the DMDF Air Force, several opportunistic Athlonic cloners were willingly relocated from Hergon to a private lab in Modan Hamlet. The Athlonic cloners were junior members and students of the team that created the Satyric Guard and oversaw the cloning process of Nathan II's children. This team of scientists from Hergon were charged with finding ways to produce copulins at a usable scale for military and industrial uses and to find ways to genetically engineer the copulins to be more potent, and/or longer lasting.
Potential Applications
Depending on the success of the Athlonic genetic research team, Project Iakobson imagines unlimited applications for non-lethal, non-physical copulin-based products. Domestic riot control, counter-terrorism, espionage, enhanced interrogation techniques, strategic aerial delivery devices, and chemical conversion therapies.