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At some point prior to 1960, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids (short story)|The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]]'') the Horde had in its employ several scientists. [[The Creator|One]], who would go on to found the [[Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]], was an expert engineer, who had created the brainwashing devices used by the Crew. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Salamandyrs and the Automata (short story)|The Salamandyrs and the Automata]]'') Another was a brilliant, if mad, geneticist called [[Professor Scarper|Professor Irving Scarper]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Strangely-Colored Secret Societies (short story)|The Strangely-Colored Secret Societies]]'', ''[[The Salamandyrs and the Automata (short story)|The Salamandyrs and the Automata]]'') | At some point prior to 1960, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids (short story)|The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]]'') the Horde had in its employ several scientists. [[The Creator|One]], who would go on to found the [[Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]], was an expert engineer, who had created the brainwashing devices used by the Crew. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Salamandyrs and the Automata (short story)|The Salamandyrs and the Automata]]'') Another was a brilliant, if mad, geneticist called [[Professor Scarper|Professor Irving Scarper]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Strangely-Colored Secret Societies (short story)|The Strangely-Colored Secret Societies]]'', ''[[The Salamandyrs and the Automata (short story)|The Salamandyrs and the Automata]]'') | ||
After giving up on a [[Cupid Love Potion|brainwashing liquid]], Scarper began working on creating an army of mutated, humanised animals for the Horde. His superiors initially gave him a tight deadline for a proof-of-concept, which, after creating and discarding the [[Salamandyr]]s, he passed by creating the [[Doctor Jeckle|first]] [[Mr Heckle|two]] of the [[Mob of the Maroon Magpie]]. With his project greenlit, he was given the go-ahead to create more such creatures, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Salamandyrs and the Automata (short story)|The Salamandyrs and the Automata]]'') beginning with a [[Drove of the Database-Compiling Dromedaries|herd of talking, genetically-modified dromedaries]] to maintain the Horde's databases. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Strangely-Colored Secret Societies (short story)|The Strangely-Colored Secret Societies]]'', ''[[The Salamandyrs and the Automata (short story)|The Salamandyrs and the Automata]]'') | After giving up on a [[Cupid Love Potion|brainwashing liquid]], Scarper began working on creating an army of mutated, humanised animals for the Horde. His superiors initially gave him a tight deadline for a proof-of-concept, which, after creating and discarding the [[Salamandyr]]s, he passed by creating the [[Doctor Jeckle|first]] [[Mr Heckle|two]] of the [[Mob of the Maroon Magpie]]. With his project greenlit, he was given the go-ahead to create more such creatures, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Salamandyrs and the Automata (short story)|The Salamandyrs and the Automata]]'') beginning with a [[Drove of the Database-Compiling Dromedaries|herd of talking, genetically-modified dromedaries]] to maintain the Horde's databases. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Strangely-Colored Secret Societies (short story)|The Strangely-Colored Secret Societies]]'', ''[[The Salamandyrs and the Automata (short story)|The Salamandyrs and the Automata]]'') During this project, he was also asked by his overseers to provide turkeys for their Thanksgiving meal on November 28th, 1959. Screwing up the task, he ended up creating the sapient [[Trio of the Talking Turkeys]] instead. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Trio of the Talking Turkeys (short story)|The Trio of the Talking Turkeys]]'') | ||
At one point, they owned a large number of [[Genie]]s, but they freed themselves from the Horde's clutches in the 1960s, going on to form the [[Company of Free Genies]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Interlude of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Interlude of Jenny Everywhere]]'') | At one point, they owned a large number of [[Genie]]s, but they freed themselves from the Horde's clutches in the 1960s, going on to form the [[Company of Free Genies]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Interlude of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Interlude of Jenny Everywhere]]'') | ||
