Mutant Vortex Crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junior_Pokomela"'The Mutant Vortex Crisis was a horrifying insight into how much havoc one single individual can cause. It was a terrifying transgression of the genetic law, and a vile attack against creation. The world came close to being devoured, and now we must stand as vanguards to ensure this technology is never used ever again.'"

The Mutant Vortex Crisis was a minor crisis in and around the Wumpa Archipelago that almost erupted into a worldwide conflict. The rogue scientists Neo Cortex and Nick Briose had colonized the undocumented islands, and were amassing an army of genetically engineered animals in preparation for an unprecedented assault on the world's nations. The experiments were afterwards broadly considered to have been extremely unethical, they were condemned and the technology was universally banned.

Cortex and his corporation on the island were able to develop over a five year period, an an army of roughly 5,000 genetically engineered and physically enhanced animals. Most of the lifeforms were extracted from species endemic to the archipelago, Australia, and Tasmania. Operations were short at first and were only accelerated due to inter-breeding of the genetically engineered animals. Halfway through the crisis, Briose discovered a method to channel magnetic energy from the archipelago's gems. This discovery allowed the corporation to generate over 2,000 animals in a three week period.

Cortex easily used his army to conquer the islands and exploit them for their resources. Cortex was experiencing financial difficulties at the time, and had to heavily increase productions in Wumpa Island's volcanic mines in order to fund the project. After the gems were exploited for their magnetic energies, the subsequent activity caused several nations to notice strange readings from the Southern Ocean. A small team of Royal Society scientists discovered the islands in 1995, and with the help of a group of adventuring teenagers the scientists were stopped before they could expand their experiments even further. It is believed that if it hadn't been for this intervention, the corporation would have been able to mutate 100 rapids a day, and exponentially increase this number on a monthly basis and develop an army of over one million soldiers within three years.

Early Development
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_of_the_Tertia_(1952_film)

Neo Cortex and Nick Briose first started developing ideas of creating an army of genetically engineered animals shortly after rediscovering the Wumpa Archipelago. The ideas were mostly on Briose's part, which he thought of after watching a bandicoot attack one of their corporation's workers on Tasmania. The early colonization of the islands was a statistical nightmare that was incredibly difficult to control and conceal from the public. The difficulty was not helped by Cortex and Briose' evident and distasteful resentment for their lackeys, and they viewed them as inefficient wastes of time. Corporation members were forbidden to leak any details of their operations to anyone and to enforce these policies, Cortex began instigating violent acts of discipline. Groups of workers began to rebel, and refused to do work or even listen to policy demands. Some workers even threatened to leak the corporation's actions to the public, and attempted to leave the islands. These dissenters were imprisoned and even executed by Neo Cortex and Nick Briose. Many workers did manage to leak information, but all leaks were scoffed at by organizations as incoherent ramblings that made no sense.

Everything peaked when competing gangs of workers clashed out in a fatal conflict at the Cortex Power plant. Loyalist and separatist workers argued over the conditions of the plant, and a brawl broke out in one of the plant's hallways. Neo Cortex imprisoned everyone involved in the corporation's sea prison, and ordered a complete restructuring of the corporation's hierarchy into a more strictly regulated and oppressive regime. The loyal few were promoted through the ranks of the corporation, and Cortex began to incorporate a skeleton crew of select few loyalists. Unfortunately, due to this downsizing there was a severe lack of labor available for the corporation and the statistical nightmare was only furthered.

For months, Briose was working on his corrupt technology in secret and presented it to Cortex during a meeting after the corporation's restructuring. Cortex was immediately obsessed with the idea, and was fascinated by the concept of it being able to form a massive and renewable army. Briose was mainly only concerned with its practical uses, and was less interested in the militaristic purposes the technology could serve.

Development on the device continued in secret, out of fear that remaining workers and soldiers would feel they were being replaced. Cortex attempted to involve himself with the manufacturing of the device, but did not understand it near as completely as Briose.

Prototype
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Cay

Cortex was impatient and felt he was quickly losing control over his shrinking crew of operatives. He began pushing Briose more and more to finish the project, but Briose insisted that he needed more time in order for it to be stable. Cortex hated this and demanded Briose finish it sooner anyways. Briose began conducting early experiments on rats around Cortex Castle, all of which were failures that resulted in the deaths of the rats. Any surviving animals were plagued with irrational levels of aggression, and would attack each other in fits of rage until destroying each other due to injury and exhaustion. It was theorized that the rats acted in self destructive ways as they were aware of their unnatural existence, a trait shared by the creature Ois Dunden.

Experiments were also made on Tasmanian giant crabs in the region, but they were also unsuccessful and marine life was deemed too difficult to work on. Around this time, Cortex Power began polluting the waters surrounding Cortex Island with toxic green material, and the dangerous chemical components of this pollution led to the deaths of many animals. Cortex ordered these animals were gathered by corporation workers and sent to Cortex Castle, though the workers were unaware what they were being used for. The workers also began dumping their trash in various trash heaps around the island, and the effects were ecologically disastrous.

Cortex had even already started on his own project out of an egotistical desire to match Briose's invention, the device was at first similar to Briose's technology, but eventually developed into the Cortex Vortex. The corporation at the time had even gained a small investment from the Rothschilds, as a repayment for Cortex's service in Los Angeles.

First Experiments
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theila_triplaga

Cortex Corporation and the Wumpians were in aggressive conflict ever since they arrived on the islands, and they had only come to a diplomatic ceasefire seven months before the first official experiment. The change in negotiations was prompted by Papu Papu II, who at the time was being unknowingly manipulated by the Dominion Mask to be more diplomatic towards Cortex. The first official experiment was a Wumpian magabey gifted to Cortex from the Wumpians during their convening.

The primate was thrown off of Cortex Isle after being deemed an intellectual failure. The mutational effects caused Olno to grow to a physical height of two feet, and an elongated cranium improved the primate's intellectual capacity to a level between chimpanzee and Neanderthals. Early experiments had mutational side effects such as mental instability and irregular markings.

Army
Most of Cortex's army were strength led Tasmanian tigers and agile potaroos.

Operation Dragon's Breath
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_(web_portal)

Operation Dragon's Breath was the planned final phase of the Cortex Commandos, where the army would initiate a predetermined assault against the European Union, after nuking several world capitals such as Tokyo, Beijing and Delhi. The Cortex Corporation had procured several goods from the union, and had established a network to hack their telecommunication lines.