"These kids were designed to kill. Coldly...efficiently...and most of all happily." —Lydecker to Logan Cale, Pollo Loco The X5 Series were the first truly successful prototypes of the X-Series, a project to create perfect physically and mentally perfect commandos, which could be utilized for a wide variety of Special Operations assignments and missions. As of 2021, they are 21 years old. Bred, trained and raised by Manticore, a sinister top-secret military institution controlled by a shadowy government "Committee", all X5's are human/animal-transgenic-hybrids, or Chimeras. They were genetically-engineered at Manticore's highly advanced genetics labs by splicing together genetic samples taken from numerous superb human specimens with a sample of feline DNA, most probably taken from a member