MADS (the Peace Research Institute).
It had been funded and established by Du Feld, the Loan Shark King, one of the six kings of the Underworld.
Officially, its purpose was to promote world peace through scientific research. It counted as a charitable venture.
Vegapunk was its director, and its core members were Caesar, Judge, and Queen.
There was also Buckingham, a self-proclaimed "scientist" who was actually just a freeloader.
Using her as his model, Vegapunk had created the first clone, Stussy.
But Caesar, Judge, and Queen had all researched weapons in their respective fields.
Only Vegapunk had worked toward world peace, and his achievements had even earned him the Iber Peace Prize.
Up to that point, even with the other three researching weapons, the World Government had paid them little mind.
Then, roughly twenty years ago, Vegapunk had discovered lineage factor technology.
Only then had the World Government deemed the discovery too dangerous, branded MADS an "illegal organization," and taken Vegapunk and Caesar into its service.
Although Judge had also participated in the lineage factor project, he had mostly acted as an assistant. He and Queen had both found themselves unemployed.
And so Judge had been forced to return home and inherit his position as king.
Queen, meanwhile, had drifted from place to place before ultimately joining Kaido.
...Cipher Pol Aigis Zero was quite familiar with all of this information.
So when Shining mentioned that organization, they had assumed he had no intention of telling the truth.
After all, a monster like Bondrewd could hardly have been an ordinary assistant there.
But they had never expected him to reveal such an unknown bombshell.
"Babbage was an expert in mechanics and electromagnetism, while I was a meteorologist. Eleven years ago, after I ate the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, he invited me to join