Project Inferno

Canada’s supposed super-soldier program, based in a secret facility known as “The Ninth Circle,” somewhere in the heart of Nunavut, Project Inferno has had no less than four incarnations since the 1930s. The Project is the creation of the demon Croatoan, who plans to create a race of cloned and indoctrinated superhumans as an advance force for of an invasion by his army of techno-demons. To that end, a cabal of mad scientists has set up a covert government agency that diverts the fund to run the Project and achieve their master’s goals.
There have been at least four incarnations of Project Inferno since the late 1930s. Each has been shut down by heroes (often with Ellis, the Devil's Own help), and each time, it comes back, bigger, stronger, more advanced, and more of an inexplicable burden to the Canadian taxpayer than ever. Despite their defeats, the average Canadian believes that Project Inferno was closed down in 1978 and knows nothing about its long history. Even veteran heroes understand little about its ultimate goals.