Facility (Earth-616)

Facility
Name	Facility
Members
Leader(s)	Formerly Adam Harkins
Former Member(s)	Martin Sutter, Sarah Kinney, X-23, Desmond Alexander, Robert Chandler, Adam Harkins, Kimura, Zander Rice
Affiliation and Identity
Identity	Secret
Allies	Weapons Plus, Weapon X Project, Lobe's Team and U-Men, Purifiers and Choir, Kingpin
Enemies	X-23, X-Men, New X-Men
Origin and Status
Origin	The Facility was created as a branched-off organization of the Weapons Plus Project.
Status	Defunct
Reality	Earth-616
Base of Operations	Unknown secret base; Secret base in the air space above Pennsylvania; Red Lab located just north of the Canada-North Dakota border
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Craig Kyle, Christopher Yost
First	X-23 #1 (January, 2005)
First	X-23 #1 (January, 2005)
Last	X-Force (Vol. 3) #20 (October, 2009)
Last	X-Force (Vol. 3) #20 (October, 2009)

 The Facility I work for is a business, Miss Kincaid. We provide our clients with weapons. In fact, your friend X-23 is one of our best creations. Our current client wanted us to create a very specific item, to do a very specific job. He left it to us as to how to proceed. 

—Adam Harkins

History

After the Weapons Plus Project was shut down, the Facility was created as a branched-off organization with similar goals of creating genetically altered weapons and soldiers.

Under the direction of Adam Harkins this organization created Kimura; X-23 (a daughter to Wolverine after failing 22 times to clone him); created several mutant-hunting Predator X monsters; and numerous other genetically engineered weapons.

Later, Kimura assaulted X-23 and Mercury, not to capture Wolverine's daughter, but to create a new Predator X using Mercury's power of a liquid metallic body.

Adam Harkins utilized a red lab in Canada to use the stolen wings from Angel to create the Choir, an army of winged warriors, for Matthew Risman's Purifiers.

Returning from the future, X-23 was kidnapped by soldiers of H.A.M.M.E.R. who were revealed to be Facility agents, with the exception of Alisande Morales. When Kimura was torturing X, Morales helped her to escape.

X-23 used Trigger 42 on herself to make her a savage killer, and slaughtered many agents of the Facility before being extracted by X-Force. In the ensuing chaos Kimura killed Harkins because he annoyed her, and blamed X-23.

Paraphernalia

Weapons

Kimura, Predators X, X-23

Notes

• The actual location of the installation where X-23 herself was bred was never identified. The only noticeable landmarks place the base in a mountainous, alpine region, with a further clue that Sarah Kinney was able to get X-23 from the base to San Francisco within hours of the kidnapping of her niece, Megan, without being stopped until her return, as well as again when a clone of Sarah was discovered there, thus strongly suggesting it is in fact in the Sierra Nevada.

See Also

• 35 appearance(s) of Facility (Earth-616)
• 1 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Facility (Earth-616)
• 6 minor appearance(s) of Facility (Earth-616)
• 10 mention(s) of Facility (Earth-616)
• 2 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Facility (Earth-616)
• 1 image(s) of Facility (Earth-616)
• 11 member(s) of Facility (Earth-616)
• 1 item(s) used/owned by Facility (Earth-616)