The research facility was established by the bio-engineering company Gen Inc in order to research on an extraterrestrial organism known as the Thing. The facility is headed by the Chief Medical Researcher Dr. Shaun Faraday along with Gen Inc's Military collaborator Colonel Whitley. The purpose of the facility's establishment is to develop and improve an experimental viral agent known as the Cloud virus, by transporting various test subjects (both human and inhuman) to the laboratory for experimentation.