Early Melge Trials

Early Melge Trials
As it is widely accepted by Historians, the First Event in History was the successful creation of a god-entity that would become the Melge. The process through which the formation of the Melge took place required many years of trial and error to perfect, and many attempts took place prior to the legitimate creation of the Melge (Hence: Early Melge Trials). These trials included living subjects and wildly varying methodologies, often resulting in the creation of anomalous entities with powers akin to that of the Melge, albeit unrefined and imperfect in nature. These trials were the foundation and basis for the First Event, and were themselves responsible for the creation of many important figures in History, most notably Tridan.

First Experiments
After receiving scarce funding from various Middle Eastern governments under the pretense of funding research into a super soldier serum, an anonymous scientist known as Eli2t set up a makeshift lab on the coast of Liberia, where he performed the first Melge Trials. These first trials generally included the use of a graduated dose of a serum, containing notable amounts of Caesium-137 and Caesium-133 in the form of an amalgam with mercury and other materials, directly into the brains of living specimens of various mammal species. These trials were successful on lesser mammals such as mice, who exhibited unnatural strength and speed before quickly dying of radiation poisoning. This form of the serum was ineffective when introduced to larger mammals and other species, simply inflicting the subjects with lethal levels of radiation poisoning. Eventually, however, Eli2t's serum was calibrated to be proven effective when used on larger mammals, and acted as a fast-acting super steroid in which the user was able to perform supernatural feats of strength for a short period before they died of extreme radiation poisoning. Although it did not fulfill Eli2t's original purpose, this serum was sold to the original investors as a pseudo super-soldier serum and was a key contributor to the Middle East's takeover of the western hemisphere.

Wuhan Lab
Following the consistent failure of the serum method, Eli2t shut down the Liberia laboratory to relocate to a colossally larger facility underneath a lake in Wuhan, China. Unlike in the Liberia laboratory, Eli2t had massive funding due to the sale of his semi-dysfunctional serum and was able to attempt much more experimental methodologies. Eli2t conducted over six thousand completely unique experiments in this laboratory, over the course of fifteen years. Tridan, the Melge, and many others were created here.