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AIM
(ADVANCED IDEA MECHANICS)
AIM (Advanced Idea Mechanics) is an organuzation of brilliant
scientists and their hirelings dedicated to the acquisition
of power and the overthrow of all governments by technological
means.
AIM began as a group of scientists organized during World
War II by Baron Wolfgang von Strucker to develop advanced
technologicalweaponry for his secret subversive organization
HYDRA. Altough HYDRA suffered a major defeat during the
war, it continued to exist secretly over the following
decades, growing and building its strength. The group
of scientists grew number over the years, and made great
advances in various fields, including robotics, bioengineering,
bionics, and physics. Eventually the scientists publicly
incorporated their organization under the name of Advance
Idea Mechanics (AIM). No one outside AIM or HYDRA knew
of AIM's subversive goals and activities, nor of their
scientific achievements, nor the fact that AIM was actually
the scientific research division of HYDRA. (Indeed, HYDRA's
very existance remained unknown for most of this time.)
Instead, AIM was beleived by both the public and by intelligence
organizations to be an international cartel dealing with
the development and marketing of new technological products.
AIM gained great influence with the U.S. government in
its role as a supplier of hardware and weapon to governmental
and quasi-governmental agencies.
After the initial defeat of HYDRA by SHIELD, AIM, whose
connection with HYDRA had not been exposed, attempted
to discredit SHIELD Director Nicholas Fury, and thereby
force him out of his position. This attempt, publicly
led by Count Bomag Royale, failed, and instead Fury exposed
AIM as a subversive organization. Although SHIELD believed
it had put an end to AIM's operation, much of the organization
escaped capture, and its links with the still secretly
active HYDRA remained undiscovered. However, immediately
upon the demise of Baron Strucker and the deaths of most
of HYDRA's leading members in the destruction of HYDRA
Island, AIM, now under the leadership of Modok, severed
its ties with HYDRA, and has remained an independent organization
ever since.
AIM has created a wide variety of advanced technological
weaponry, and during the period when it was an arm of
HYDRA, made great strides in creating androids, which
the organization employed as assassins. (during this period
AIM members sometimes referred to themselves as agents
of THEM. THEM was the code name of the HYDRA core group
which governed HYDRAand its subsidiary organizations,
including AIM, during the period between HYDRA's first
seeming destruction by SHIELD and its later re-emergence.)
However, AIM has created three major instruments of deadly
potential which stand out above the rest. The first is
the Super-Adaptoid, an android capable of duplication
the form and superhuman powers of another being. The second
instrument was the Cosmic Cube, an unimaginably powerful
object capable of restructuring reality. AIM manufactured
the containing device - the cube - not the reality-transforming
energy itself, whose nature and origin remain mysteries.
The third major achievement of AIM is the creation of
Modok (Mental Organization Designed Only for Killing),
an artificially mutated human beings with an enormous
head and a stunted body who possesses superhuman intelligance
and various psionic abilities. Modok was originally an
ordinary AIM member who was selected by AIM's leader,
the so-called Scientist Supreme, to be the subject of
vast bionic experiments that turned him into Modok. After
being transformed, Modok slew the Scientist Supreme and
seized control of AIM, serering its ties with the demolished
HYDRA. For years AIM existed merely to serve Modok's ambitions
for power. Under his leadership, AIM stagnated intellectually,
created no truly impressive weapon, and launched no major
attack on any nation.
However, two different splinter groups of AIM agents who
had escaped being taken over by Modokemerged. One of the
groups often clashed with Modok's AIM; another unusccessfully
attempted to create another active Cosmic Cube. Finally,
dissension with Modok's rule grew within Modok's own organization
and broke out in rebellion against him. Modok out of the
organization. The three faction of AIM again combined,
so that today AIM once more stands as a united organization.
Modok has been captured by AIM and reprogrammed to obey
the ruling council.