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Project Ares
Project Ares was a secret LuthorCorp project created by Lex Luthor in an attempt to create a super-powered army of soldiers that had phenomenal super abilities. He used information culminated from his Level 33.1 experiments to create a prototype, known as the Mark IV: a US Army soldier named Wes Keenan.
The project may or may not have been sanctioned by the US Government. Lex worked closely with Kansas State senator Ed Burke, who was influential in persuading Congress to approve funding for the project. The project's headquarters were located in Reeves Dam. However, Burke suspected that Lex was advancing the project without his knowledge and threatened to cut all ties with it. Lex used the working prototype to have Senator Burke murdered.
Lex began capturing and kidnapping people with metahuman abilities as early as 2004. In 2006, he used DNA from his subjects to create the prototype. However, Lois Lane began investigating Senator Burke's involvement, so Lex sent Keenan after her as well. Coincidentally, Lois and Wes were childhood friends and she recognized him and was able to penetrate Wes' mind control and stop him. In an attempt to save Lois' life, Clark Kent encountered Wes and he was forced to destroy him.
Lex obtained Wes' body and dissected him to figure out what went wrong. The project's head doctor, Donovan Jamison, informed Lex that another prototype could not be created because the extraterrestrial DNA used in the project obtained from Titan, an escapee from the Phantom Zone, was depleted. Lex began tracking Bizarro, another phantom, while simultaneously creating clones in preparation. Seemingly as a pet project, he created a clone of his wife Lana Lang, naming it Model 503.
When he obtained Bizarro, his attempts to extract his DNA failed and Bizarro escaped. He destroyed the dam and the laboratory containing all the research. When Lana used her clone to fake her death and send Lex to prison, Lex decided to abandon the project and moved on to other focuses, such as Project Gemini and Project Scion.
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