Odd Familiars: Art By Holly Conrad

FAMED AMERICAN SPY Dr. Fredric Rinehart has been credited with developing the first Secret Headquarters in 1932, in the city of Los Angeles. His breakthrough in concealment technology met with suspicion from the local authorities, because of which the project, then known as “SHQ”, was shelved. It was suspected that SHQ technology could be used to generateunrest in the city. The original purpose of these hidden facilities is unclear to this day. Some believe, as the government-backed authorities did, that the Secret Headquarters were used as housing facilities for the growing espionage network in Southern California. It wasn’t until the early 1940′s that the SHQ project resurfaced. The new development team, headed again by  Dr. Rinehart, began to re-tool the dated facilities. They found that large portions of the SHQ were in need of serious repair, due to a lack of sufficiently sophisticated long-term storage facilities available at the time the program was shut down. It is estimated that up to 80% of the SHQ was engineered in hidden laboratories, primarily by hand, with the use of rather archaic rudimentary equipment. Construction continued smoothly, when in a strange, and then classified turn of events, Reinhart’s endeavors were once again halted.…

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