This homunculus was terminated and homunculi were deemed incompatible for Doctor O’s experiments despite further specimens that grew to the size of a dwarf human and could follow rudimentary instructions. Doctor O is also referred to as Mister O and Professor O, depending on his occupational capacity pursuant to current project scope.

In the spring of 1963, a group of villagers found a six-year-old boy devouring the slaughtered remains of a goat with a pack of wolves in the deep forest of Musafirkhana, about twenty land miles from Sultanpur. The boy was dark-skinned with sharpened teeth and long, hooked nails. His hands and knees had developed thick, calloused pads from traveling on all fours. A thin pelt of fur covered his naked body, and he slept among the pack alongside the younger pups.

After days of observation, the boy was eventually separated from the wolf pack and brought to town, where villagers attempted to indoctrinate him into the community. Dr. Soledad Rujmitari, a prominent anthropologist stationed in New Dehli, was alerted to the discovery of this feral child and brought in to document his condition and catalogue the process of his enculturation. Despite intensive efforts, the boy never learned to speak, nor even to understand the simplest commands issued by his caretakers. He remained a quadruped, and refused to eat anything other than raw or cooked meat. His eyes roamed wild, fearful, without the faintest spark of human understanding. After several months, with no significant indication of progress, he was terminated following an attack on a human infant he had been observed stalking in a predatory manner consistent with the hunting practices of his wolf pack.

In April 1965, another feral child was found living among a pack of Vervet monkeys in the jungles of Uganda. This time a young girl, around the age of seven, who was later named Little Niki. She, too, had calloused limbs and hooked fingers. A fine pelt of fur on her face and body. She was a proficient climber, capable of leaping between trees, and could mimic the vocalizations of other Vervets. Dr. Cyrus Parsifal’s book, A Return to the Jungle, chronicled the attempts to enculturate Little Niki by his team of renowned anthropologists – a three-year ordeal that ended with the return of Little Niki to her family pack while being kept under close observation. Having injected a homing device under her skin, Dr. Parsifal and his team were able to monitor Niki and her pack for the next eighteen months, before she died of injuries sustained from a fall. During that time, she was observed caring for toddler monkeys, grooming and feeding them insects and nuts. Even attempting to feed infants from her undeveloped breasts.

These cases, and others, formed the construct for Phase Two.