Horizon Lunar Colony -- or "Horizon One" -- is a base constructed on the surface of the moon by Lucheng Interstellar and operated by its Lunar Ops branch. This base was established as a part of humanity's renewed focus on space exploration; in addition to the scientists that worked here, a group of genetically enhanced gorillas also resided here. These gorillas were intended to test the effects of prolonged habitation in space.
Showing adverse reactions to the genetic therapy within the colony's last days on Horizon One, a well-known group of troublemaker gorillas were quarantined within the base's infirmary. It is possible that these adverse reactions were only compounded by life on the colony, though this is only a hypothesis. It was Dr. Harold Winston who advised putting a stop to the therapy as he did not know if sending them back to Earth would have been a viable solution due to the medical issues that would perhaps become apparent upon their new lives on Earth.
However, experimentation on the gorillas only game to an end when the gorillas launched an uprising against the scientists in Horizon One, killing them and claiming the base as their own. In one of the recordings during event, Dr. Winston reported a malfunction at airlock E-35, and had requested that the scientists join him there. This was later discovered as a ploy by the gorillas, who managed to get many of the scientists there and release them onto the lunar surface and letting them die due to asphyxiation.
Once the base was claimed by the gorillas, they were happy enough to keep there... all but one. Specimen 28 -- better known as Winston -- built himself a rocket out of parts he found around the base and successfully returned to earth. However, it appears that he brought another with him -- Specimen 8, now revealed as 'Hammond', who has only just recently made himself known.
Years after the fall of Horizon Lunar Colony, Lucheng Interstellar revealed in a press conference that the colony's databases and monitoring systems were still up and running. Though there is no direct communication between the Lucheng Interstellar offices on Earth and Horizon One, the company has successfully retrieved interpersonnel logs that were sent moments before the base was claimed by the gorillas. Lucheng Interstellar shared these transmissions with the press and later released its first image of the colony's still-operating integrated monitoring systems. Another statement was later made by a Lucheng spokesperson to Atlas News that even if the connection between their company and Horizon One was unstable, the staff on Earth is still working around the clock to gather new information.
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