Project Echidna

Project Echidna is a program within Pentex's Special Projects Division to create fertile fomori offspring.

Overview
Most fomori are sterile, however, Pentex was not satisfied with this predicament, and decided to use genetic engineering to take spiritual decay into its own hands. While experimenting with human fomori all of the Project's attempts to create fertile fomori in a controlled environment has failed.

However, Project Echidna did manage to recreate fomori families in various lines of animals. They were successful in producing fertile fomori among carnivores, with the greatest success rate occurring among wolves and the great cats. Project Echidna nurseries have found that fomori animals bred and raised in a specific manner were trainable and the company raised the creatures to act as guard animals in different departments and subsidiaries. It is said that siblings among the subjects of Project Echidna share most of their powers and deformities, and only a select few gain more as they mature.

Some of these creatures make their way into First Teams where they are used to track down Garou in a similar fashion to police K9 units. Black Spiral Dancers will sometimes buy the less deformed creatures and then use them against Garou and Fera alike.