For all intents and purposes the colony of Bermuda is an enormous, technological, research facility Trimerica established in the 22nd century where they invent, study, and test everything from nanotechnology - to bionic, cyborg, super soldiers; they also have the only space program in Africa-Pangea with the capability of putting a spacecraft on Mars. It began with a voluntary research team - consisting of seven thousand Oceanographers, Biologists, Hydrolisists, and several other classifications of scientific minds - along with their families of course, being deployed to the island to research if it would be possible to convert oceanic water into fresh water; before its colonization - the island only featured wildlife.