The Purity Project

The Purity Project is the name for the program instituted at the compound to analyze and improve the Endo Null Energy of Vernon Rhine and Josh Tsumetai.

Background
As part of the Collection fifteen years prior, James Well found Vernon, aged 2, at an impoverished orphanage in the Northern Midlands. Upon realizing that she was not only a zero, but had a record low latent body temperature, he proposed a long-term study on her through the Research Board as part of his condition for becoming a Master in the field of ENE. They accepted this as the final step for his Master imprint.

Though given permission to proceed, another requirement was that he determine a suitable control for her condition. Though this was meant as a way to limit his plans, he was able to find Josh in an Abacus orphanage some ten years later, aged 14. For Josh to serve as a suitable control his memories were replaced with those of having lived in the Compound all his life. Josh was placed under the supervision of Dr. Sam as a control.

The two did not need meet for another four years, and would never have if the abuses perpetrated by Well and Sam had gone undiscovered.