The Dinosaur Uprising

[Malchus]

NOTE: Now that the subforums are here, I'm gonna starting copy pasting my stuff from the original OZC. Starting with the megalomaniacal dinos we all know and love.

The Dinosaur Uprising


Don Lemonde was a brilliant geneticist and businessman. He was the head of the, back then, extremely successful Genetics Incorporated (GenInc). GenInc pioneered the widespread civilian usage of genetics technology, from bioengineered fruits and vegetables that grew very fast and very large to an artificial white blood cell designed specifically to target AIDS and cancer to helping metahumans with mutations that were painfully malformed. Of course, such things were very useful and they made him vast amounts of money.

Unsurprisingly, his company also became the target for protesters who were against genetic manipulation or anything “unnatural” for some reason or another. While most of these were pretty much ignorable, some of his opponents did have some real political power—mostly very conservative politicians—who actually could affect his operations.

Lemonde answered this with a PR campaign aimed to get GenInc as much public support as possible. It helped that he looked and acted like the archetypical kindly old man, making him a good public face for his own company. The publicists and lawyers he hired, as well as politicians and even some heroes he befriended, also went a long way in gaining good PR for his company. As such, despite the opposition GenInc was still going strong.

In fact, things were going so well that Don Lemonde set out to do something no one else had done before: making a combination zoo and amusement park filled with resurrected extinct creatures. Specifically, dinosaurs since he had been fascinated with them since he was a child. And when his company’s scientists were able to extract relatively intact dinosaur DNA from mosquito, fleas, and mites trapped in amber he leaped at the chance to make his dream a reality.

He purchased two large but uninhabited islands in the Caribbean, simply called Isla Norte and Isla Sur, and set about into turning them into his Mesozoic Mountains. GenInc divided the islands into a series of separate habitats for differing types of dinosaurs since, because of the small population planned for the islands, they couldn’t have them eating and/or killing each other. The habitants were divided with massive electric fences and, in case the fences failed, tesla coils with their own power reserves. For the guests, Don purchased and refurbished several old luxury passenger zeppelins, allowing the guests a bird’s eye view of the islands while giving them relative safety and luxury. If the guests wanted a closer look, video cameras with telephoto lenses were mounted on the zeppelins and they fed directly onto a large high-definition LCD screen in the passenger cabin.

The dinosaur population was then created for the islands. The DNA collected—with missing sequences filled in by DNA from crocodilians, amphibians, and even birds—was injected into hollowed out nuclei of crocodile eggs and were than hatched and grown. To control the population and to prevent them from reproducing if they escaped, only females were created and the creatures were made deficient to certain nutrients. Nutrients that the dinosaurs received from nutrients supplements their GenInc owners had to regularly feed them.

In the first few months after Mesozoic Mountains was officially opened to the public, it was a booming success. Despite protests from some organizations about playing God and some such, especially a particularly loud one by a chaos theorist who looked a little like Jeff Goldbum, the actual chance to see real live dinosaurs from relative safety ensured that there was a year-long waiting list for guests.

However, as time passed Don Lemonde would start to act strangely. He would spend more and more time to himself, seemingly lost into thought and mumbling something incomprehensible. Despite the concerns of some of the staff in the Mountains, Don usually rebuffed them and went about his business unhindered.

About two years would pass with the Mesozoic Mountains doing well, and GenInc still going strong as a company. Still, more and more of the staff seemed to become like Don Lemonde, become more standoffish and mumbling strangely. This seemed to cascade until everyone on staff in the Mesozoic Mountains became such.

Soon afterwards Mesozoic Mountains was abruptly closed to the public, to the shock of many. The reason was that major renovations to the islands were being undertaken. While many were disappointed at these turn of events, the public took the explanation at face value. Although, some conspiracy theorists and critics of the islands, including the Jeff Goldbum-ish chaos theorist, said that darker forces were at work.

They were right.

As it turns out, the pterosaurs on the islands were actually psychics, very powerful ones. Whether they were naturally this way or the result of a mistake in the DNA reconstruction is still up for debate. Regardless, an instinctive part of the pterosaurs had found the environment completely wrong to what they had biologically evolved to be used and wanted to find a place where they truly belonged. These instinctive desires, call them a disnosaurian id, compelled the pterosaurs to seize control of the islands and the people in them.

The knowledge the pterosaurs psychically gleaned from the humans found that it was not only a wrong environment, they were in the wrong time. They found that the world they were evolutionarily primed for was long dead, and that the planet had been overrun with new creatures and plant life. The psychic pterosaurs quickly hatched a scheme to retake the planet Earth and rebuild to their image.

Using the GenInc people and technologies they had under control, they started building an army for this very purpose. They made the GenInc bioengineers make males and get rid of their nutrient deficiency. They brought under their control the lesser dinosaurs and genetically manipulated them into terrifying shock troopers. They hollowed out the islands and secretly started to stockpile high-tech weapons and vehicles. With velociraptor and troodont commandos they raided the island of Dr. Weird and the base of the Theozoologist in order to gain more technology to use for themselves.

During that time, however, people were starting to notice that the “renovations” on the Mesozoic Mountains was taking so long. Also, families of some of the workers in the MM had become very worried about the lack of contact they had had with their loved ones. Smelling a rat an investigation team, backed by armed men, set forth for Isla Norte and Isla Sur.

What the two survivors who managed to escape reported was so unbelievable and utterly mad, it had to be true.

Cyborg velociraptors armed with assault rifles and beam weapons, pterosaurs using psychokinetic attacks, fire-breathing bullet- and explosion-proof T-rexes, oversized mutant spinosauri which seemed to gather static electricity with their fins and hurl the collected energy in a bolt equal to that of a tesla tank’s, and many more tales of horror no dinosaur movie makers had ever thought of. Horrified, (suggest team/agency/organization here, you guys) was sent to deal with the superdinos.

However, while they did engage some ridiculously powerful dinosaurs on the islands and kill them all, they found that they had seemed to have been abandoned. They did however find a message recorded by Don Lemonde under the control of the psychic pterosaurs. This recording revealed that the pterosaurs were behind the whole thing and revealed their intentions to the entire world, officially declaring a Dinosaur Uprising.

There was immediately a search for any air or sea craft that were going away from the islands, but none could be found. Confounded as to how two islands worth of dinosaurs and equipment could disappear, people started speculating as to how they could have done so. While theories ranged from the seemingly credible to batshit insane, no one was exactly sure how they had done so.

At least until a massive, 2000-foot stealth sub full of the superdinos was found. Ironically, another psychic creature was to thank for this discovery. It seemed that the submarine had blundered into the territory of Squid Pro Quo, and the psychic cephalopod, unable to mind control the already psychically controlled superdinos, lashed out with a powerful telekinetic attack that fatally damaged several sections of the sub before the psychic pterosaurs within could counter with their own psi attack.

The numbers in the sub suggested that this was far from the entirety of the Dinosaur Uprising. They were surely more out there, and with the level of technology found in the sub the Dinosaur Uprising was going to be a very formidable adversary indeed.

Contrary to what people expected, though, the superdinos did not start wantonly attacking everywhere all at once. Their attacks seemed to be limited to raiding labs and technology centers such as Hero Labs, Kraogoresthanian facilities, the Quartermass Experiment, and even the under-new-management GenInc. While many of these raids were repulsed, they still did a lot of damage. And they suprdinos also did succeed in stealing some technologies, further supplementing their Uprising.

So far, they seem to be willing to bide their time, gathering technology and waiting until they were finally powerful enough to take the entire world in one fell swoop.

The superdinos knew that they could not keep operating on submarines though. They needed a permanent base of operations. They originally planned to commandeer Crimson Dawn undersea bases, but these were inadequate for their purposes. They also couldn’t just psychically take the info for building their own undersea bases from the people in the Crimson Dawn facilities since these were protected from psychic probing. Though, using gentetically-altered chameleon compsognathuses which they snuck into a Crimson Dawn laboratory, they were able to hack into Crimson Dawn’s mainframe and steal the info they needed (plus a few useful extras).

Armed with this new knowledge, the hollowed out an undersea mountain range in the South Pacific and built a massive secret complex. The complex is still underconstruction to this day, but it has grown large enough to accommodate there enormous sub pens and habitats for large dinosaurs where the somewhat claustrophobic psychic pterosaurs can stretch their wings.

The superdinosaurs have also started building newer classes of submarines and adding new ranks to their dinosaur army. The former was done since the large 2000 ft. supertransport subs were too big and unweildy. They have constructed subs a quarter of the length but with still enough room to fit the larger dinosaurs. Like the bigger subs, they have stealth features and are magnetohydrodynamically driven. However, unlike the bigger subs, the smaller ones are capable of flight, making them very useful for the superdinos' raids.

The latter partially involves these raids. The Theozoologist and the EVIL Corporation have also been known to experiment in genetically- and cybernetically-altered dinosaurian soldiers. The Dinosaur Uprising takes it upon itself to "liberate" these dinosaurs and have them join the ranks. These "liberated" dinosaurs are, respectively, Aryannosaurs (cyborg Albertosaurs spliced with DNA from the Avenging Aryan by the Theozoologist) and weaponized Allosaurs from the EVIL Corporation. They have also built new, seagoing dinosaurs by harvesting genetic material from the Loch Ness monster's carcass that was left behind by the Gladiators. These plesiosaurs' DNA have been merged with some whale DNA enabling them to fire off sonal clicks, however these abilities have been far enhanced and the plesiosaurs can actually use devastatingly powerful sonic attacks.