History of General Science (Legacy)

The full history of the General Science Company, the primary setting of snakeycorp.

1940s
Porofessor Justin, PhD started his career as a biology professor at Diamond University in 1947. He had built a small laboratory in the basement, which eventually grew too full for further research. Looking for a secondary job and a new place for research, Justin saw a story in the newspaper about a shower curtain salesman, Cave Johnson who had just bought an old salt mine to begin scientific research and shower curtain production in.

In 1948, the Professor settled on an old silver mine in Aspen, CO and began building a top-secret laboratory there.

The facility, named General Science Innovations officially opened in 1949, but opperations didn't start until the next year.

1950s
In 1951, the SSAM Science Commitee took intrest in the new facility and began inspecting it frequently after adding General Science Innovations to their registry. In 1952, Professor Justin began advertising various oppertunities to earn $30 by becoming a human test subject for a week. Later that year, the SSAM assigned assigned General Science to begin working on a cure for cancer that restores the original DNA to cells. Most trials end with fatal results. By August of 1953, Professor Justin makes a breakthrough and is sure he has made the 'Cure'. Unfortunately, when the substance is tested out on a patient with skin cancer, only known as Subject 342, disaster strikes. One of the ingreidents in the cure, Snaketile DNA, when combined with the uranium and other radioactive chemicals, it caused Subject 342 to be mutated into a snaketile. He is furious and doesn't believe that his mutation was an accident. After nearly killing the Professor and destroying the facility, he mysteriously disappears. A week later, Professor Justin is revived and the SSAM decides not to close down his lab and officially registers the failed cure, which is named Snaketonium. The SSAM convinced Professor Justin to use the cure in a new product, which he names General Science All Purpose Snake Oil. After very few sales, he decides to invent a soda out of it, after seeing a test subject accidently pour snaketonium into his own water bottle, and in 1954, Snakeycola was first released. Later that year, the facility received a lot of hate mail from people because of what had become of their loved ones and demanded refunds. General Science simply gave them coupons for more Snakeycolas.

1955 was uneventful except for the construction of several new test shafts.

In 1956, the facility...